Some stuff that I think is useful.

Special Characters

stolen from Zenswashbuckler

Handy string of interesting unicode characters: √ ☭ ☼ ☮ ☯ ♘ ☣ ☢ ☠ ★ ✰

Some Random Guy Who Vanished

I wonder who he or she was before.

The Oracle

My reply is no.

For the People

Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update
No current discussions. Recent RfAs, recent RfBs: (successful, unsuccessful)

Voting icons

Due to the death of those templates, it is advised that the following script be placed here. It accomplishes the same thing.

importScript('User:Ais523/votesymbols.js'); //User:Ais523/votesymbols.js

Support -

Oppose -

Neutral -

Keep -

Delete -

Comment -

Question -

Info -

Wait -

{{vote support}} {{vote support}}

{{vote oppose}} {{vote oppose}}

{{vote neutral}} {{vote neutral}}

{{vote keep}} {{vote keep}}

{{vote delete}} {{vote delete}}

{{vote comment}} {{vote comment}}

{{vote question}} {{vote question}}

{{vote info}} {{vote info}}

{{vote wait}} {{vote wait}}

Cheat sheet

Stolen from Ruhrfisch

This	is
a	table

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 1.2.3 (talk • contribs) date.

~~Strike out~~ or write it in small caps.

Superscripts and subscripts: X², H₂O

[http://www.wikipedia.org Text] Text

[[Wikipedia Article|Text]] Cheese or This

Add {{reflist}} at the bottom of a page to show references.

Invisible comments to editors () only appear while editing the page.

Big

Wikipedia vandals and boneheads like always stupidly looking at you!
	Typical appearance and pose of of a Wikipedia vandal. The stupid face says it all.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Sub-Humanus
Phylum:	Rectal Painum
Class:	Twatus
Order:	Cranium Absentium
Family:	Troglodytus

Smaller

Smallest

Smallerest

Quotation Styles

_{Stolen from Honette}

Style 1

“

Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here.

”

— Author

Style 2

Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here.
— Honette, Honette's Secret Source

Style 3

Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here.
— Honette's Secret Source

Style 4

Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here. Text goes here.
— Honette, Title, Publication

Style 5

Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war.

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

More Styles

Visit Category:Quotation templates.

Icons

Code	Result	Code	Result
{{doing}}	Doing...	{{TakeNote}}	Note:
{{done}}	Done	{{Duck}}	Looks like a duck to me
{{Checking}}	Checking...	{{2O\|1=Text. ~~~~}}	2nd opinion requested – Text. Honette ^(talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
{{Discussing}}	Discussion ongoing...	{{Already done}}	Already done
{{Added}}	Added	{{Resolved\|1=Text. ~~~~}}	Resolved – Text. Honette ^(talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
{{WikiThanks}}	Thank you	{{MoreInfo}}	Additional information needed
{{Fixed}}	Fixed	{{Inprogress}}	In progress
{{Not done-t}}	✗ Not done	{{Redflag}}	Redflag
{{Done-t}}	Done	{{Removed}}	Removed
{{Not sure}}	Not sure	{{Resolved mark}}	Resolved
{{Thank you}}	Thank you	{{Reverted}}	Reverted
{{not done}}	Not done	{{Thank}}	Thanks
{{Not done and will not be done}}	N Not done and not likely to be done	{{Thataway\|WP:DRV\|2=~~~~}}	Wrong venue. Please move to WP:DRV – Honette ^(talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
{{Isdoing}}	[[User:\|]] is doing...	{{Twomanrule}}	Review
{{Tobedone}}	Pending	{{Undone}}	Undone
{{Unlikely}}	Unlikely	{{Unnecessary}}	Unnecessary
{{Unrelated}}	Unrelated	{{subst:Verified}}	Verified
{{WPcrystalball}}	Wikipedia is not a crystal ball.	{{WQA in progress\|1=Text. ~~~~}}	Work in progress; comments welcome – Text. Honette ^(talk) 23:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
{{Works for me}}	Works for me	{{Working}}	Working
{{Agree}}	Agree	{{Accepted}}	Accepted
{{keypress\|Text goes here}}+{{keypress\|F2}}	`Text goes here`+`F2`

Check and cross marks v t e
Check marks		Cross marks
{{tick}} = {{tick\|20}} {{tick\|colour=purple}} {{tick\|color=cyan}} {{check mark}}	Y Y Y Y	{{cross}} = {{cross\|20}} {{Cross\|colour=orange}} {{Cross\|color=black}}	N N N
{{aye}} and {{Y}}	Y	{{nay}} and {{N}}	N
{{ya}}		{{na}}
{{yan}}		{{nan}}
{{check mark-n}}	Y	{{x mark-n}}	N
{{y&}}	✓	{{n&}}	✗
{{Chk}}	✓
{{yeac}}	Y	{{nayc}}	N
{{yeag}}	Yg	{{nayg}}	Ng
{{Mby}}	Y	{{nayd}}	N2
{{checked box}} {{ticked box}}		{{unchecked box}} {{unticked box}}
{{xed box}}		{{unexed box}}
{{question mark box}}	?
Other marks
{{n.b.}}	*	{{hmmm}}	?
{{bang}}		{{idkc}}	?
{{equc}}	=	{{cloc}}	clock
Most of the templates above are fully sortable in a `class="sortable"` table (each check mark is assigned an undisplayed "Y" and each cross mark an undisplayed "N").

Code	Result
{{Thankyou}}	Thank you
{{Thank You IP}}	A special thank you for your help in our battle against vandalism. Thank you so much for your efforts to improve this encyclopedia, and welcome to Wikipedia! Please consider creating an account for yourself!

Edit Semi-Protected

{{ESp}} is used for responding to requests for edits to semiprotected pages from Category:Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests.

Code	Result
:{{ESp\|d}} ~~~~	Done
:{{ESp\|pd}} ~~~~	Partly done:
:{{ESp\|n}} ~~~~	Not done:
:{{ESp\|nfn}} ~~~~	Not done for now:
:{{ESp\|rs}} ~~~~	Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made.
:{{ESp\|a}} ~~~~	Already done
:{{ESp\|?}} ~~~~	Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed.
:{{ESp\|q}} ~~~~	Question:
:{{ESp\|note}} ~~~~	Note:

Source

Inline messages

Code	Result	Code	Result
{{By whom}}	^{[by whom?]}	{{Examples}}	^{[example needed]}
{{Citequote}}	^{[This quote needs a citation]}	{{Full}}	^{[full citation needed]}
{{Citation broken}}	^{[full citation needed]}	{{Failed verification}}	^{[failed verification]}
{{Citation needed}}	^{[citation needed]}	{{Or}}	^{[original research?]}
{{Citation needed (lead)}}	^{[not verified in body]}	{{Season needed}}	^{[season and episode needed]}
{{Clarify}}	^{[clarification needed]}	{{Specify}}	^[specify]
{{Copyvio link}}	^{[infringing link?]}	{{Self-published inline}}	^{[self-published source?]}
{{Dead link}}	^{[dead link]}	{{Vague}}	^[vague]
{{Dubious}}	^{[dubious – discuss]}	{{Verify credibility}}	^{[unreliable source?]}
{{Elucidate}}	^{[further explanation needed]}	{{Verify source}}	^{[verification needed]}
{{Volume needed}}	^{[volume & issue needed]}	{{When}}	^[when?]
{{Where}}	^[where?]	{{Which}}	^[which?]
{{Who}}	^[who?]	{{Whom?}}	^{[according to whom?]}
{{Why}}	^[why?]	{{Year}}	^{[year needed]}
{{User:Honette/Template/Full_name}}	^{[full version needed]}

Smilies

Different smilies can be made using parameters. for instance, {{=)|sad}} produces . The full list of parameters is as follows. Default (no parameter) is a simple smile.

parameter	produces		parameter	produces
1, smile			2, sad, frown
3, wink			4, blush
5, grin			6, surprise
7, tongue			8, confused
9, shade, shades			10, cry, crying, tears
11, lightbulb, idea			12, wink2
13, wink3			14, big-grin, biggrin
15, devil-grin, devil, evil			16, kiss
17, smirk			18, big-cry, bigcry, sob
19, glasses, nerd			20, angel
21, ttth			22, awesome
23, vsmile

Source: Template: =)

Discussions

Code	Result
{{outdent}}
{{Outdent2}}	(←)
{{Outdent\|6}}
{{tps}}	(talk page stalker)
{{ec}}	(edit conflict)
{{hat}} and {{hab}}	Closing a discussion.
{{collapse top\|Text goes here}} and {{collapse bottom}}	Putting text in collapsible box.

Presenting templates

Code	Result
{{tl\|template}}	{{template}} (linked, normal text style)
{{tlx\|template}}	`{{template}}` (linked, teletype text style)
{{tld\|template}}	`{{template}}` (not linked, teletype text style)
{{tlf\|template}}	{{template}} (not linked, normal text style)