User:Halcy/Rewrites

Since wiki syntax can be ballbreaking, I'm writing common problems with that shit. If you have more problems/questions ask me on my talk page or email me.

Quote/Template Troubles with symbols

When dealing with templates, you have to be careful with certain symbols within it.

This was a QOTN

This, of course, is not exclusive to the {{quote}} template but I shall simply use that as an example. Normally, any funny text that gets featured will be within the {{quote}} or {{squote}} templates. The latter is simply the former but with smaller text and more ideal for longer quotes.

Normally, featuring this quote would lead me to type the following:

{{quote|All You Women Calling Yourselves #DIVA'S! DIVA = DILDO'S IN VIGINA ALWAYS. U DYKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!|Robert E. Wilson}}

There is a problem with this. If I simply had that, then this would appear:

	“	Robert E. Wilson	„

The actual quote is gone because of the equal sign (=) within the text. In templates, the equal sign is used to indicate certain aspects of the template if there are. To fix this problem is to simply replace it with {{=}}:

{{quote|All You Women Calling Yourselves #DIVA'S! DIVA {{=}} DILDO'S IN VIGINA ALWAYS. U DYKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!|Robert E. Wilson}}

Now with the modified syntax, I can safely feature the quote properly.

	“	All You Women Calling Yourselves #DIVA'S! DIVA = DILDO'S IN VIGINA ALWAYS. U DYKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!	„
	—Robert E. Wilson

Important: the same is applied to vertical bars/pipes (|)

In links

You also have to be aware of equal signs in links.

{{quote|Example text|Author|[http://encyclopediadramatica.se/index.php?title=Encyclopedia_Dramatica:Thizzlehat_Junction_Center&action=history link]}}

Now I want you to pay attention to the link and notice that it does contain equal signs. With the unfixed syntax this will appear:

	“	Example text	„
	—Author

The link is gone. To fix this, you will need a URL shortner (bit.ly, tinyurl etc). I am going to use bit.ly and got this url: http://bit.ly/Ko9Fpz

So now the fixed syntax:

{{quote|Example text|Author|[http://bit.ly/Ko9Fpz link]}}

and the fixed template:

	“	Example text	„
	—Author, link