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This user prefers the Legacy version of the Vector skin to the 2022 version.

This user is a member of
WikiProject Bluelink patrol.

This user is a member of WikiProject Disambiguation.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

This user contributes using Firefox.

This user contributes using Ubuntu.

This user lives in the United Kingdom.

This user despises vandalism and reverts it with extreme pride.

Lua

This user can program in Lua.

Perl

This user is just another Perl hacker.

SQL

This user can program in SQL.

This user feels disappointed with the Wikimedia Foundation and with the censorship of their disappointment.

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Vanguard Editor
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the Neutronium Superstar hologram.

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This user is an inclusionist.

This user supports the right of anonymous users to edit Wikipedia.

This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know.

This user uses AutoWikiBrowser to quickly make repetitive edits.

This user uses JavaScript Wiki Browser to quickly make repetitive edits.

This user maintains Wikipedia with the help of Twinkle!

Things I do

As a gnome, I regularly solve some, all or none of the following problems in no particular order.

Typos highlighted by WP:Database reports/Linked misspellings‎, even when not linked, and by CTIOC
Links to pages listed in User:Certes/Backlinks which should lead elsewhere
Links to pages listed in WP:WikiProject Bluelink patrol/Places which lead to proper nouns but have lowercase initials
Templates with disambiguation links
Vandalism to numbers, years, portals, and whatever else happens to be on my watchlist this week
Missing short descriptions on GAs and FAs
Taxonomy templates which display a qualifier or other unwanted text in a link
Certain types of spam reappearing

I also create (or perhaps just discover) problems for others to solve, including:

WP:WikiProject Bluelink patrol/Works

Some useful links

Disambiguation

Wikilinks

WP:WikiProject Bluelink patrol
WP:WikiProject Red Link Recovery
Red link recovery live
WP:Database reports/Linked misspellings
Suspicious links to 9
WP:Complete diff and link guide
Backlinks count (IP) (append title to URL)
Transclusion count
Template linking and transclusion check
Misdirected links (full)
Redlinks (IP)
WikiNav Clickstream analysis

Geography

Transport

Templates, modules and scripts

Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls
Help:Magic words#Parser functions
mw:Extension:TemplateSandbox
Template linking and transclusion check
Module:Excerpt (T: lead, linked, list item, random, selected)
Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual
WP:Guide to Scribbling
Lua manual
WP:User scripts/Guide
mw:api (Help query)
m:TemplateScript includes regex editor

Vandalism

Tools

PetScan for category logic
WikiChecker
Earwig's Copyvio Detector
Special:ExpandTemplates
Quarry
Xtools
Pageviews, Massviews, Redirect views
WikiBlame
Edit summary search
Search help (limited regexp)
Search articletopic:
Special:Search++ (red but works with JS)
Wikidata Query Service
SPARQL tutorial

Miscellaneous

Some useful templates

<ref>((cite web|url=http://example.com/anypage.html|title=Whatever|access-date=2024-01-26))</ref>
((coord|dd|mm|ss|N|d|mm|ss|W|type:landmark_region:GB-EDH|display=title))
((English football updater|code))
((Update after|yyyy|mm|dd|reason=))
((wikibreak|Certes|on dd Month yyyy))

Phabricator

phab:T112325 Have one aggregated talk page for ipv6 /64
phab:T250937 Noinclude with the VisualEditor
phab:T253428 AWB inserts blank lines
phab:T253642 Offer "linksfrom:" in Advanced Search (inverted "linksto:")
phab:T256817 Replace Wikidata descriptions on enwiki with local descriptions
phab:T290146 Stuck Quarry queries

Metapages

Hidden portals

v t e Wikipedia technical help
Get personal technical help at the Teahouse, help desk, village pump (technical), talk pages or IRC.
General technical help	Browser notes Bypass cache Keyboard shortcuts Editing CharInsert Edit conflict Edit toolbar Reverting How to create a page IRC Tutorial Mobile access Multilingual support Page history Page information Page name Help Printing Software notices Editnotice Special Characters Entering User access levels VisualEditor Help
Special page-related	Special page help AllPages Edit filter Emailing users Logging in Reset passwords Logs Moving a page History merging Non-admin and admin-only page moves Notifications/Echo FAQ Page Curation Page import Pending changes Random pages Recent changes Related changes Searching Linksearch Tags User contributions Watchlist What links here
Wikitext	Wikitext Cheatsheet Columns Line-break handling Lists Magic words For beginners Conditional expressions Switch parser function Time function Redirects Sections and TOCs Tables Introduction Basics Advanced table formatting Collapsing Conditional tables Sortable tables Using colours
Links and diffs	Links Interlanguage Interwiki Permanent Diffs Simplest diff guide Simple diff and link guide Complete diff and link guide Colon trick Link color Pipe trick URLs
Media files: images, videos and sounds	Media help Files Creation and usage Moving files to Commons Images Introduction to images Picture tutorial Preparing images for upload Uploading images Options to hide an image Extended image syntax SVG help Gallery tag Graphics tutorials Basic bitmap image editing How to improve image quality Graphics Lab resources Sound file markup Visual file markup
Other graphics	Family trees Graphs and charts How to create Barcharts To scale charts Math formulas Math symbols Musical scores Musical symbols Timeline EasyTimeline syntax WikiHiero syntax
Templates and Lua modules	Templates Advanced template coding Template documentation Template index Template limits Template sandbox and test cases Citation templates Lua help Lua project Resources To do Substitution Purge Job queue Transclusion Labeled section Costs and benefits Guide to Scribbling
Data structure	Namespaces Main/Article Category Draft File File description page Help Portal Project/Wikipedia Talk Archiving Simple Template User User page design MediaWiki Bug reports and feature requests TimedMediaHandler extension Module Special
HTML and CSS	Cascading Style Sheets HTML in wikitext Catalogue of CSS classes Common.js and common.css User CSS for monospaced coding font Classes in microformats Markup validation Span tags Useful styles
Customisation and tools	Preferences Gadgets Skins Citation tools Cleaning up vandalism tools Customizing watchlists Hide pages IRC Scripts User scripts Guide List Techniques User style Tools Alternative browsing Browser tools Editing tools Navigation shortcuts Optimum tool set Wikimedia Cloud Services Beta Features at MediaWiki
Automated editing	AfC helper script AntiVandal AutoWikiBrowser Bots Creating history HotCat Huggle Navigation popups RedWarn Twinkle Ultraviolet WPCleaner Inactive igloo STiki
See also: Category:Wikipedia how-to Category:Wikipedia information pages Further navigation at: Help pages Administrators Accessibility Accounts Bots Referencing Citation metadata Templates User scripts

Rcat functional index

Grammar,
punctuation,
and spelling

Abbreviation	((R to acronym)) ((R from acronym)) ((R to initialism)) ((R from initialism)) ((R from numeronym)) ((R from Bluebook abbreviation)) ((R from ISO 4 abbreviation)) ((R from MathSciNet abbreviation)) ((R from NLM abbreviation))
Capitalisation	((R from CamelCase)) ((R from other capitalisation)) ((R from miscapitalisation))
Grammar & punctuation	((R from modification)) ((R from plural)) ((R to plural))
Parts of speech	((R from adjective)) ((R from adverb)) ((R from common noun)) ((R from gerund)) ((R from proper noun)) ((R from verb))
Spelling	((R from alternative spelling)) ((R from alternative transliteration)) ((R from American English)) ((R from ASCII-only)) ((R to ASCII-only)) ((R from British English)) ((R from diacritic)) ((R to diacritic)) ((R from ligature)) ((R to ligature)) ((R from misspelling)) ((R from stylization))

Alternative
names

General	((R from alternative language)) language codes ((R from alternative name)) ((R from ambiguous sort name)) ((R from antonym)) ((R from colloquial name)) ((R country data)) ((R from former name)) ((R from incomplete name)) ((R from incorrect name)) ((R from less specific name)) ((R from long name)) ((R from more specific name)) ((R from non-neutral name)) ((R to numerals)) ((R from numerals)) ((R to Roman numerals)) ((R from Roman numerals)) ((R from portmanteau)) ((R from short name)) ((R from sort name)) ((R from synonym))
People	((R from birth name)) ((R from given name)) ((R to joint biography)) ((R from married name)) ((R from name with title)) ((R from person)) ((R from personal name)) ((R from Eastern name)) ((R from pseudonym)) ((R from surname))
Technical	((R from CAS Registry Number)) ((R from court case)) ((R from drug trade name)) ((R from filename)) ((R from identifier)) ((R from Java package name)) ((R from chemical formula)) ((R from gene symbol)) ((R from technical name)) ((R to technical name)) ((R from radio frequency))
Organisms	((R to scientific name)) ((R from scientific name)) ((R from alternative scientific name)) ((R from scientific abbreviation)) ((R to monotypic taxon)) ((R from monotypic taxon)) ((R taxon with possibilities)) ((R from species to genus))
Geography	((R from name and country)) ((R from more specific geographic name)) ((R from postal code))

Navigation
aids

Navigation	((R to anchor)) ((R avoided double redirect)) ((R from category navigation)) ((R from file metadata link)) ((R to list entry)) ((R mentioned in hatnote)) ((R to section)) ((R from shortcut))
Disambiguation	((R from ambiguous term)) ((R to disambiguation page)) ((R from incomplete disambiguation)) ((R from incorrect disambiguation)) ((R from other disambiguation)) ((R from predictable disambiguation)) ((R from unnecessary disambiguation))
Merge, duplicate & move	((R from draft namespace)) ((R from duplicated article)) ((R with history)) ((R from merge)) ((R from move)) ((R with old history))
To namespaces	((R from remote talk page)) ((R to category namespace)) ((R to draft namespace)) ((R to help namespace)) ((R to main namespace)) ((R to portal namespace)) ((R to project namespace)) ((R to talk page)) ((R to template namespace)) ((R to user namespace))

Media

General

((R from book)) ((R from film)) ((R from upcoming film)) ((R from journal)) ((R from meme)) ((R from work)) ((R from creator)) ((R from radio frequency)) ((R from broadcast translator))
Music	((R from album)) ((R from lyric)) ((R from song)) ((R from cover song)) ((R from band name))
Television	((R from television episode)) ((R from television program))

Fiction

Comics

Miscellaneous

Related information	((R to article without mention)) ((R to decade)) ((R to century)) ((R from city and state)) ((R from domain name)) ((R from second-level domain)) ((R from top-level domain)) ((R from gender)) ((R from legislation)) ((R from list topic)) ((R from member)) ((R from phrase)) ((R from quotation)) ((R to related topic)) ((R from related word)) ((R from relative)) ((R from spouse)) ((R from school)) ((R from subtopic)) ((R to subtopic)) ((R from gap in series)) ((R from team)) ((R from Unicode character)) ((R from Unicode code)) ((R from emoji))
With possibilities	((R with possibilities)) Category:Template redirects with possibilities ((R category with possibilities))
ISO codes	((R from ISO 4 abbreviation)) ((R from ISO 639 code)) ((R from ISO 3166 code)) ((R from ISO 4217 code)) ((R from ISO 15924 code))
Printworthiness	Printability ((R printworthy)) ((R unprintworthy)) e.g. ((R with possibilities)) is printworthy by default; ((R from misspelling)) is unprintworthy by default; some have no default
Protection	((R extended-protected)) ((R fully protected)) ((R semi-protected)) ((R template-protected)) ((R from high-use template))
Tools	Category:Miscellaneous redirects Protection policy ((R from template-generated category)) ((Redirect category shell)) ((Talk page of redirect))
Wikidata	((R with Wikidata item)) ((Soft redirect with Wikidata item))

Complete alphanumeric index
- for the full list of rcat templates
Category
WikiProject Redirect
Categorizing redirects