Shortcuts are abbreviations which are used to quickly find policy and 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.
Their nomenclature is pretty straightforward: SC:SHORTCUT IN ALL CAPS
Thus, the shortcut for Star Wars Fic Reference Wiki:Rules#Blocks is SC:BLOCK, the shortcut for Star Wars Fic Reference Wiki:Style guide is SC:STYLE, 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.
All shortcuts — which is to say all the redirect pages — should be placed in Category:Shortcuts for easy maintenance.
This is a list of pages using {{Shortcut}} on the wiki.
- Star Wars Fic Reference Wiki:Advanced editing: SC:ADV, SC:ADVANCED
- Star Wars Fic Reference Wiki:Advanced editing#Using templates: SC:TEMPLATE
- Star Wars Fic Reference Wiki:Basic editing: SC:BASIC
- Star Wars Fic Reference Wiki:Beginners' tutorial: SC:BEGIN, SC:TUT
- Star Wars Fic Reference Wiki:Cheatsheet: SC:CHEAT
- Star Wars Fic Reference Wiki:Discord: SC:DISCORD
- Star Wars Fic Reference Wiki:Linking: SC:LINK
- Star Wars Fic Reference Wiki:Requested articles: SC:REQUEST, SC:REQ, SC:WANTED
- Star Wars Fic Reference Wiki:Rules: SC:RULES
- Star Wars Fic Reference Wiki:Rules#Blocks: SC:BLOCK
- Star Wars Fic Reference Wiki:Shortcuts: SC:SHORTCUT
- Star Wars Fic Reference Wiki:Style guide: SC:STYLE
- Star Wars Fic Reference Wiki:Style guide#Citation: SC:REF, SC:CITE
- Star_Wars_Fic_Reference_Wiki:Welcome: SC:WELCOME, SC:WELC
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