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When you go through the tutorial entitled Introduction to referencing with VisualEditor/reliable sources" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_referencing_with_VisualEditor/reliable_sources_quiz) and try the quiz, you get 10 questions as to whether a sourceis oris not "adequately supported by a reliable source." Although each source is complete as far as information, what the quiz directions don't tell you is that to answer questions correctly, you have to go to the online source and not merely look at the information about the source in the question. Otherwise, you'll miss important clues about the reliability of the source in that question and get marked wrong, but not understand why. For example, going to the onlince source could reveal an article writer's lack of professional status even in a widely respected journal that you'd never know about just from looking at the source in the question.Augnablik (talk)14:19, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just has a thought, there are tips regarding redirects and its creation, and also regarding AfC. Would a tip regarding the AfC/Redirects be useful? If there is support, I am willing to write the draft form of the tip. Please share your thoughts.
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How about indenting? You can indent in the source editor by usingCtrl}. I feel this would help a lot of users because indenting really helps readability, especially on complex templates. What do you think?This isn't the actual tip, just an idea (at least so far)element00:13, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Element10101: It doesn't seem to work for me. Can you be more specific? In what source editor? And how do you doCtrl-) without doingCtrl-0? You didn't actually meanCtrl-}, did you?(See your post). How does this differ from using colons in the source text in order to indent? Indenting using the tab key doesn't get rendered properly. —The Transhumanist11:18, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
ItisCtrl} or]. This indents the code but usually has no effect on the output; it's similar to how programmers indent code for readability. I am on the Vector-2022 skin and it works in the general wikitext source editor.Tab ↹ usually just moves my focus instead of indenting. Is it a different situation for you?element14:29, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
