Tardis:Shortcuts
Shortcuts are abbreviations which are used to quickly find policy amd help pages. Such pages tend to have long names, which these prefixes effectively work around. These shortcuts are visible in the upper right hand corner of policy and help pages.
Shortcuts are also extremely useful in linking to particular sections of help and policy pages, as can be seen at Tardis:Manual of Style.
Their nomenclature is pretty straighforward:
T:SHORTCUT IN ALL CAPS
Thus, the shortcut for Tardis:blocking policy is T:BLOCK, the shortcut for Tardis:vandalism policy is T:VAN, and so on. The choice of shortcut is somewhat arbitrary, but the term should be as short as possible, without losing a clear sense of what the article or section is about. Names should also be chosen with other, similar pages in mind. For instance T:USER would probably not be a good shortcut because there are three different policies that apply to users.
All shortcuts — which is to say all the redirect pages — should be placed in category:shortcuts for easy maintenance.
Here is a temporary list of current shortcuts. The system is still being installed as of 07:17, October 13, 2011 (UTC). When the majority of shortcuts have been posted, this list will be better organised. It now serves mostly as a progress marker to help in the installation process.
- T:MOS
- T:VAN
- T:BLOCK
- T:SHORT
- T:CAN
- T:MARK
- T:LIST MARK
- T:URL
- T:PIPE
- T:SLASH
- T:INTERWIKI
- T:WIKI NAME
- T:FALSE BLUE
- T:POV
- T:USERNAME
- T:NOT
- T:ATTACKS
- T:K9
- T:LEADS
- T:WIKIFY
- T:NAMING
- T:MAGS
- T:DOCTORS
- T:ROMANA
- T:YEARS
- T:DATES
- T:CAST
- T:CREW
- T:PERSPECTIVE
- T:WIKIPEDIA
- T:QUOTATION MARKS
- T:TENSES
- T:CAPS
- T:HUMAN
- T:BOLD TEXT
- T:ITALICS
- T:QUOTES
- T:LINKS
- T:CITE
- T:SOURCES
- T:LIVING PEOPLE
- T:ASTRO
- T:SERIALS
- T:HONOURIFICS
- T:DAB
- T:HONOUR
- T:HONOR
- T:SPACING
- T:NO HTML
- T:MONK
- T:NOT WP
- T:NO FANFIC
- T:NOT HOST
- T:NOT SFW
- T:NOT BOARD
- T:NO WARS
- T:PREFIX
- T:LOP
- T:HOW ADMIN
- T:TO DO
- T:BFA TO DO
- T:EDA CHAR
- T:PDA CHAR
- T:MA CHAR
- T:NA CHAR
- T:CANON
- T:THEFT
- T:DON'T COPY
- T:WARN
- T:IUP
- T:WARN RULES
- T:DEL
- T:DELETE
- T:BLANK
- T:ILL
- T:SOCK
- T:NON-ENG USER
- T:OFF USER
- T:MISLEAD USER
- T:SPAM USER
- T:HEAD
- T:HEAD SC
- T:SPOIL
- T:SPOIL DEF
- T:SPOIL ALLOW
- T:OFF REL
- T:OFFICIAL INFO
- T:SPOIL CREW
- T:SPOIL FORUM
- T:RUMOUR
- T:RUMOR
- T:ADMIN GUIDE
- T:WIKI FORK
- T:GAL RULES
- T:GAL
- T:REDIRECT
- T:REDIR
- T:ITAL
- T:FULL SENT
- T:CHAT RULES
- T:CLEAN CODE
- T:MOS BOT
- T:MOVE LOCK
- T:PROTECT
- T:CREATE LOCK
- T:EDITING PROTECTED
- T:EDIT LOCK
- T:EDIT PROTECT
- T:ICC
- T:IMAGE CHEAT
- T:WHAT'S A CITATION
- T:CITE DEF
- T:DAB RULES
- T:SPELL CHEAT
- T:SCC
- T:DWUI
- T:IUP ADMIN
- T:IUP LIST
- T:IUP SS
- T:IUP IMAGES
- T:IUP FAIR
- T:IUP DWIA
- T:DWIA
- T:IUP UNUSED
- T:IUP DUP
- T:IUP NEW V
- T:IUP UNLICENSED
- T:UNLICENSED
- T:IUP APPROP
- T:IUP WHAT'S OK
- T:IUP NAMES
- T:IUP SIZE
- T:IUP WIKI
- T:CHAR NAMES
- T:SELF LINK
- T:OVER-WIKIFY
- T:SELF SEC LINK
- T:SEC LINK
- T:SELF HEAD LINK
- T:SIG LOOK
- T:VID
- T:VID LINK
- T:DIEGESIS
- T:DIE
- T:DAB TERM
- T:DCC
- T:GAL MARK
- T:QM
- T:BOLD
- T:LISTS
- T:USER VAN
- T:GTI
- T:SMW
- T:TARDIS
- T:VS
- T:VALID
- T:OOU SRC
- T:RW SRC
- T:RW SOURCES
- T:TABLES
- T:MATH
- T:ARCH
- T:DISCUSS
- T:NO RW
- T:MAC SPELL
- T:FF SPELL
- T:SAFARI ONLY
- T:MAC DICT
- T:CHROME SPELL
- T:OPERA SPELL
- T:THUMB SIZE
- T:RVID
- T:RVID HELP
- T:RED
- T:REDLINK
- T:HYPER
- T:CASTCREW
- T:BC/AD
- T:ERAS
- T:BRENG
- T:SBOT
- T:SBOT LIST
- T:SPELL CHECK
- T:THUMB
- T:SENT SPACE
- T:PRE
- T:TYPOG
- T:PUNC
- T:SEMI
- T:PERIOD
- T:COMMA
- T:APOS
- T:MAN
- T:IU
- T:OOU
- T:NPOV
- T:EVIL TWIN
- T:IPER
- T:OOUI
- T:IUI
- T:CHANGE
- T:POINT
- T:BOUND
- T:WRITE POLICY
- T:FOLLOW
- T:FOL
- T:NO TITLE
- T:UNOFF REF
- T:NO SELF REF
- T:DVAN
- T:FORUM
- T:COMIC SPOIL
- T:HUMANOID
- T:ISH
- T:CAT
- T:CAT DESC
- T:CAT NOT
- T:CAT NAMES
- T:FTRW
- T:TREE
- T:RECURSION
- T:OVER-CAT
- T:SPEEDY
- T:CAT GOR
- T:DAB LINKS
- T:APPEAR
- T:CAT NAME
- T:K9 CRED
- T:UPLOAD
- T:FORM TV
- T:UNIVERSE
- T:SIG HOW
- T:SIG WHEN
- T:GRAM
- T:BOT
- T:CBOT
- T:WBOT
- T:VREC
- T:FORM RW PEOPLE
- T:HOW BOT
- T:LINK TO US
- T:NO FANVID
- T:VE
- T:DATE LINKS
- T:DATE LINK
- T:FAITH
- T:DAB OTHER
- T:DAB STORY
- T:SPELL DISCUSS
- T:USER AUTO
- T:CAT USER
- T:SAFE USER
- T:USER GOOD
- T:USER IMG
- T:USER BAD
- T:USER CAT
- T:UBX
- T:USERBOX
- T:USER PAGE
- T:USER FANFIC
- T:USER OTHER
- T:PERIODS AND QUOTES
- T:DWM CHAR
- T:INT
- T:RULE OF 3
- T:3RULE
- T:OASIS WINS
- T:DESK WINS
- T:LOCAL WINS
- T:SOURCE
- T:FILE NAME
- T:EDIT CON
- T:HEADERS
- T:EDIT
- T:MAGIC
- T:IBOX
- T:IBOX CODE
- T:IBOX WARS
- T:IBOX PICS
- T:DECIMALS
- T:MISS EP PIC
- T:UNTRANS PIC
- T:ACTOR
- T:CAT RMV
- T:COPYRIGHT
- T:OGG
- T:HI
- T:HEADER IMG
- T:FORM NOVEL
- T:FORM AUD
- T:FORM COMIC
- T:FORM SS
- T:SPOIL AVOID
- T:AVOID SPOIL
- T:SPOIL NOT
- T:NOT SPOIL
- T:SENT CASE
- T:LOCAL RULES
- T:FANDOM WINS
- T:ADMIN HOW
- T:MERGE
- T:HOMEWORLD
- T:FALSE GOLD
- T:TF
- T:DAB IU
- T:GALLERIES
- T:TEMP ARCH
- T:WHERE ARCH
- Forum:PANOPTICON
- Forum:PANOP
- Forum:ID
- Forum:INCLUSION
- Forum:VALIDITY
- Forum:HELP
- Forum:HELP!
- Forum:ASSISTANCE
- Forum:WORKSHOP
- Forum:WORKSHOPS
- Forum:TECH
- Forum:TALES
- Forum:TFTT
- Forum:INCL
- Forum:HOWLING
- Forum:HOWL
- Forum:SPOIL
- Forum:DISCON
- Forum:DISCONTINUITY
- T:WELCOME
- T:RECLAIM
- T:FANDOM
- T:MIGRATE USER
- T:IMAGE DISCUSSIONS
- Tardis:Image discussions
- T:OTHER FORKS
- CSS:TABLET
- CSS:TIMELESS
- CSS:MOBILE
- CSS:INFOBOX
- CSS:INFOBOX MOBILE
- CSS:IBOX MOBILE
- Forum:ADVICE
- Forum:ASSIST
- T:MANUAL
- CSS:TARDIS
- CSS:LIGHT
- T:WR
- T:NOT FANDOM
- T:FORK
- T:DOXX
- T:DON'T SHARE
- T:COOKIES
- T:NO DOXX
- CSS:EDITING
- CSS:COMMON
- CSS:NAVBOX
- T:TIME LORDS
- T:K9 MODS
- T:VARIANT NAME
- Note that this list deliberately strips the pre-pending T: from all these shortcuts. This makes it easier to find prefixes. However all prefixes begin with T:. This, and the fact that every prefix is in ALL CAPS, will virtually eliminate the possibility of accidentally linking somewhere else by mistake.
