User:Auntof6/How to

This page describes how to do various things on Simple English Wikipedia.

Find the permanent link for a page on English Wikipedia

You need the permanent link for a page from English Wikipedia to give attribution.

Go to the article on English Wikipedia.
If the latest version of the page is the one that was used, click on "Permanent link". That's in the left-hand sidebar, in the toolbox section,
If an earlier version of the page was used, go to the history of the page, find the version that was used, and click on the date and time.

To give attribution using the URL that you just found:

Copy the URL that appeared from either of the steps above.
Go to the talk page of the Simple English Wikipedia page. Add an attribution template, using the URL that you copied. Two templates that can be used for this are {{enwp based}} and {{translated page}}.

Interwiki language links for new pages

This is a way connect a new page to the matching pages in other Wikipedias.

What you do	What you see	Notes
Create the page on Simple English. Don't include any interwikis.		The page can be an article, category, or template.
Get the name of the matching page on another Wikipedia (for example, English Wikipedia).		If the new page doesn't have a matching page on any other Wikipedia, then stop here -- you don't have to do any of this.
On the Simple English Wikipedia page, look in the left-hand sidebar for the section marked either "languages" or "in other languages". Click on the link that says "Add links".	A window will pop up with two boxes to fill in: "Language" and "Page".
In the "Language" box, enter the language code for the Wikipedia you want to link to.	Wikipedia will fill in the full name of the language as you type.	For example, the language code for English Wikipedia is "en".
In the "Page" box, enter the name of the page from the other Wikipedia.	As you type, Wikipedia will list pages from the other Wikipedia that start with the text you enter. Before going to the next step, make sure the one in the box is the one you want.	If you are linking a category or template, include "Category:" or "Template:" at the beginning of the name.
Click on "Link with page".	At this point, if the page on the other Wikipedia is already in Wikidata, a list of all the pages it is already linked to will be displayed. This lets you verify that the page is the one you want.
Click on "Confirm".	A window will pop up saying "The pages have been successfully linked."
Click on the button labelled "Close dialog and reload page".	The window will close. The page will reload and you should see the interwiki links in the sidebar.

Close an RFD

There are two main parts to closing an RFD. One is to change the RFD page to show that the RFD is closed. The other is to process the page(s) nominated in the RFD.

Changing the RFD page

Click on the "close request" link. This will open the RFD page.
Find the {{in progress}} template near the top of the page.

Remove the <noinclude> and </noinclude> tags from around the template.
Replace "in progress" with the correct template to show the result of the RFD. This is usually "kept" or "deleted".
Add your signature after the template. The line should now look something like this:

{{kept}} --~~~~

If desired, you can add an optional comment. Doing that would look something like one of these:

{{deleted|Quickly deleted}} --~~~~

{{kept|Redirected}} --~~~~

{{kept|Request withdrawn}} --~~~~

Add {{subst:archive top}} at the start of the page.
Add {{subst:archive bottom}} at the end of the page.
Preview the page to be sure all of the above looks right.
Save the page

Processing nominated pages that are being kept

On each page that was nominated in the RFD:

Remove the RFD template. If a template was nominated, there may also be <noinclude> and </noinclude> around the RFD template, and these should also be removed.
On the talk page for the nominated page, add an {{Oldrfdfull}} template. Copy the full syntax from the template documentation and follow the information in the template documentation for each parameter.

Processing nominated pages that are being deleted

If a template is being deleted, note the following:

The template's subpages, if any, should also be deleted. This could include a doc page, testcases page, sandbox, and functional subpages. If there are subpages, they should be deleted along with the main template. Use quick delete option G8 for this.
If the template is transcluded anywhere, those transclusions should be removed.
If the template is linked anywhere, those links might need to be removed. This should be decided on a case-by-case basis.

Before deleting, determine whether the deletion(s) will result in an empty category. If so, that category should probably be deleted. This is especially likely if multiple related pages are being deleted. Deleting such a category might result in yet another category being left empty, so check for that, and keep checking until no more categories will be left empty.

Check for redirects pointing to the page being deleted. Delete these with the quick delete option R1. However, if you forget to do this, the redirects will show up later at Special:BrokenRedirects.

Note: Categories using the {{category redirect}} template may not show up on the broken redirect page (to be confirmed), so be sure to check categories for things that link to them.

On each page that was nominated in the RFD:

Click on the "Delete" dropdown from a menu at the top of the page.
Click on "Other reason" and scroll to the bottom of the dropdown list. Click on the option near the bottom that shows a link to the RFD page.
If the page being deleted has a talk page, there will be a check box to delete the talk page at the same time as the main page. In most cases, the talk page should be deleted. The exception is if a user page is being deleted, because we don't delete user talk pages that have ever had any actual communication on them.
Click on the "Delete page" button.
If the page has a related talk page and you didn't delete it with the main page, that will be indicated on the resulting screen. Go to the talk page and delete it using the G8 quick delete option.

Exception: if the page being deleted is a user page, do not delete the talk page.