Help:Procedures (简体中文)
A collection of check lists to be used when performing complex changes to articles.
Split section to a new subpage
This procedure is useful when moving a section of an article that has become too long to a subpage of that article.
- Open the origin article section in an editor.
- Copy the entire section content.
- Open the destination subpage in another editor.
- Paste the copied content in the destination editor without modifications.
- Save the destination subpage with an edit summary like "content split from 'Origin article#Section'", where 'Origin article#Section' is an internal link.
- In the origin editor, replace the split content with a link to the destination subpage either leaving the section heading in place, or adding a link to the Related articles box of the article.
- Save the origin page with an edit summary like "content moved to 'Destination subpage'" where 'Destination subpage' is an internal link.
- Re-open the destination subpage in an editor.
- Categorize the destination subpage like the origin article.
- Add a link to the origin article at the top, for example "See 'Origin article' for the main article", where 'Origin article' is an internal link.
- Adapt the levels of the headings of the new subpage to start from the second level.
- Save the destination subpage with a proper edit summary.
Further advanced additional steps:
- Check and fix any broken links to sections in both the origin and destination pages.
Fix double redirects
- Read this section to understand what redirects are.
- Check out Special:DoubleRedirects to see if there are any.
- For example, if you see
Pastebin Clients (Edit) → Common Applications → List of applications
, it means Pastebin Clients redirects to Common Applications, and Common Applications redirects to List of applications. Therefore, Pastebin Clients is a double redirect. - To fix it, edit Pastebin Clients and change
#REDIRECT [[Common Applications]]
to#REDIRECT [[List of applications]]
to skip the middleman. - Enter an edit summary such as
Fixed double redirect
and save.
Create a new page and its translation
See ArchWiki Translation Team#Create a new page and its translation.