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Paleorthid's (formerly Henge's) log of tutorial, help, and reference information.

May edit

May 26, 2006:

completed -- 05:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

  1. Wikipedia:Tutorial
  2. Your first article
  3. Sandbox
  4. Criteria for speedy deletion

completed -- 21:33, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

May 27, 2006:

  1. Citation >> Citing sources >> Citations of generic sources


June edit

{{Writing guides}}

Honorifics
Do not use honorifics or titles such as Mr, Ms, Rev, Doctor, etc.
Links
Link only one or a few instances of the same term; wikipedia:Links
Unimportant things are important, too
If you can add interesting links to fringe subjects, do.
Avoiding common mistakes
try to avoid.
Make a personal copy
advice re edit wars, revert wars, and staying cool. :Suggest make a personal copy as a subpage of your user page. Then you can carry on improving the article at your own pace. If you like, drop a note on the appropriate talk page to let people know what you're doing.

-- Paleorthid 18:17, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

November edit

Working on a statement edit

Based on the external links policy, with particular attention to No. 5 under "Links normally to be avoided", I moved the [:http://www.live.com commercial link] from the article to talk:article.

per 5: Commercial links can be constructive but not all that often; this situation only occurs when it provides an independent source of encyclopedic content about the subject at the site, but not when the primary purpose of the external site is to sell something related to the Wikipedia article.

Stubby articles tend to attract these types of links because it is far easier to add a link than to add encyclopedic content.

Tutorials edit

Copyright edit

...if you obtain special permission to use a copyrighted work from the copyright holder under the terms of our license, you must make a note of that fact (along with names and dates). Wikipedia:Copyrights#Using_copyrighted_work_from_others

...if you are granted permission post the details of the permission granted at Wikipedia:Successful requests for permission. You should also send a copy of your request and the response to "permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org" where it will be permanently archived. Wikipedia:Example requests for permission

The Professional Soil Scientists Association of California (PSSAC) has granted permission for use of materials at http://pssac.org in San Joaquin (soil) under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. Permission was conveyed November 17 2006 by Mary Reed, Executive Secretary. A copy of my request and PSSAC's response has been sent to to "permissions-en AT wikimedia DOT org" where it will be permanently archived. PSSAC will be credited for their work in the resulting article's references section by stating that it was based on PSSAC's work and is used with PSSAC's permission, and by providing a web link back to: The Professional Soil Scientists Association of California (PSSAC). -- Paleorthid 15:10, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

December 2007 edit

  1. Requests for adminship
  2. Centralised discussions
  3. MediaWiki:Recentchangestext
  4. Other places to visit

January 2008 edit

If you are unsure of how to create references, you may find this tool very useful, as it will create all the necessary reference code from just a few details you supply.

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[specify] Use this tag for information that needs citations to make it complete, or quotations that are used without citations, as per Wikipedia:Citing sources.

Do not use this tag in order to label text which appears doubtful or false, especially in the case of biographies of living people (see this section of WP:3RR as well). Otherwise please use {{verify source}}.

Regarding the unsourced or poorly sourced information:

  1. if it is likely true, but needs specificity, you may use {{specify}}
  2. if it is not doubtful, you may use {{fact}} or {{citequote}} tag to ask for better citation in order to make the article complete.
  3. if it is doubtful but not too harmful to the whole article, you may use {{verify source}} tag to ask for source verification.
  4. If it is doubtful and (quite) highly harmful, you may move it to the talk page and ask for a source.
  5. If it is very doubtful and very harmful, you may remove it directly without the need of moving it to the talk page first.

To find all the articles that use this template, please visit What links here. For articles which lack sources, please visit Category:Articles lacking sources.

This template is a self-reference and so is part of the Wikipedia project rather than the encyclopedic content.


July 2008 edit

Citation creation tools edit

The following tools can help put together a full citation.

Web-based template fillers

These are tools with a website interface that provide a complete formatted reference based on a few initial details.

(Requires at least part of the citation text, or a URL link, or any one of several article ID numbers: ISBN, DOI, PMID, PMC, SICI)

(Search Google Scholar via this webpage and if you find a source you can click to autofill its details back into the Universal Reference Formatter)

(Depending on type of source, requires at least some part of citation, or a URL link, or some form of reference ID number)

(Requires a URL link or any one of several article ID numbers: DrugBank ID, HGNC ID, ISBN, PubMed ID, PubMed Central ID, PubChem ID)

(For books only; requires ISBN number)

Browser Add-ons

These tools can be integrated into your internet browser.

(A firefox add-in allowing you to create a partial {{cite news}} template. See the developer's page for details.)

(A Javascript gadget, allowing you to format a reference during editing when you already have all the data.)

Article checkers

These tools can help you complete partial citations that are already in an article.

(Partial citations must either contain a DOI, or enough fields to be uniquely found.)

See also edit

  • {{Cite}} (deprecated)
  • {{Citequote}}, tagging a request for citation, used for quotaions that needs citations to make it complete, but not for seemingly doubtful or false texts
  • {{Request quote}}, tagging a request for quoting inaccessible source, used for requesting a direct quote from the cited source for verification
  • {{Verify source}}, tagging a request for source verification, used for information that is doubtful or appears false.
  • {{Verify credibility}}, tagging a request for source verification, used for information that is doubtful or appears false.
  • {{Citecheck}}, popping up a box saying an article or section may have inappropriate or misinterpreted citations
  • {{Not verified}}, popping up a box saying an article or section has not been verified and may not be reliable
  • {{Unreferenced}}, popping up a box saying an article or section has no citation or reference for its information

NRCS edit

From: http://mcdc.cas.psu.edu/FAQs.htm

The way to cite the digital data is like citing the published soil survey. Here is some examples. For a published copy <Author>. <date of issuance>. Soil Survey for <County, State>. United States Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service. U.S. Gov't Printing Off. pp. <###>.

NOTE: USDA-SCS changed their name after all the Pennsylvania published soil surveys were done. Any new publications will be the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

For a digital copy from the MC&DC/PASDA web site.

Pennsylvania Map Compilation and Digitizing Center Staff. <date of dataset>. Interim electronic spatial and tabular data of the Soil Survey for <County, State>. Version <#.#>. United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. Available URL: "http://mcdc.cas.psu.edu/" University Park, PA.

NOTE: All the data on our site is an interim copy subject to change before it is SSURGO certified, so therefore the difference with the bottom listing.

For our digital SSURGO certified copy found at the Soil Data Mart site.

Soil Survey Staff. <date of dataset download>. Spatial and tabular data of the Soil Survey for <County, State>. United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. Available URL: "http://soildatamartnrcs.usda.gov/" Fort Worth, TX.

For referncing the Web Soil Survey, an interactive web-based soil survey data exchange system:

Soil Survey Staff. Web Soil Survey of <<County or Area, State>>. Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Web Soil Survey [Online WWW]. Available URL: "http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/" [Accessed <<Access Date>>].

from: http://soils.usda.gov/technical/classification/osd/index.html When referencing the online Official Soil Series Description information in publications, the following citation is recommended:

Soil Survey Staff, Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Official Soil Series Descriptions [Online WWW]. Available URL: "http://soils.usda.gov/technical/classification/osd/index.html" [Accessed 10 February 2004]. USDA-NRCS, Lincoln, NE.

April 2009 edit

What is a stub edit

A stub is an article containing only a few sentences of text which is too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject, but not so short as to provide no useful information. Sizable articles are usually not considered stubs, even if they lack wikification or copy editing. With these articles, a cleanup templateis usually added instead of a stub template.

Many articles still marked as stubs have in fact been expanded beyond what is regarded as stub size. If an article is too large to be considered a stub but still needs expansion, replace the stub template with an {{expand}} template (no article should contain both a stub template and an expand template).

from WP:STUB.

.

. A small article on a relatively small or insignificant subject is far less likely to be considered a stub than the same sized article on a far larger or more important topic. There is simply likely to be far less that is noteworthy, say, about a small English village than about the nation's capital city. The article on Croughton, Northamptonshire runs to a handful of short paragraphs, but it is sufficient to regard it as a fairly comprehensive article about the village and therefore not a stub. If the article on London was the same size as this article, it would be another matter entirely. London is a national capital, has been of major importance for at least two thousand years, and was for some of its history the biggest and arguably most important city on the planet. An article of only three or four short paragraphs on London would be a stub of embarrassing proportions.

Thus, a stub is a stub not just by dint of its length, even taking into consideration whether it is an article and how much of that length is text. It also has to be judged in terms of the relative importance of the subject of the article. And that, sadly, is both an arbitrary process and one that cannot be done by bot alone.

from User:Grutness/Croughton-London_rule_of_stubs


February 2016 edit

Must be that Sediments thing again edit

According to a recent study, the total amount of soil and subsurface bacterial carbon is estimated as 5 x 1017 g.

University of Georgia (25 August 1998). "First-Ever Scientific Estimate Of Total Bacteria On Earth Shows Far Greater Numbers Than Ever Known Before". Science Daily. Retrieved 10 November 2014. ---- Which is 5 x 105 PgC vs 1.6 x 103 PgC for soil organic matter. How does that even make sense?-- Paleorthid (talk) 01:36, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

January 2019 edit

dashes edit

  1. Use a hyphen to combine words (compounds such as well-being and advanced-level)
  2. Use a hyphen to separate numbers that are not inclusive (phone numbers and Social Security numbers, for example).
  3. Use an en dash, not a hyphen, to indicate inclusive page numbers. The instructions were written on pages 33–47.
  4. Use an en dash, not a hyphen, to indicate inclusive dates. Do not space before or after dashes. The conference will be held June 30–July 2 on Hilton Head Island.
  5. Per Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Dashes an en dash is spaced (that is, with a space on each side) when used as sentence punctuation. Another "planet" was detected – but it was later found to be a moon of Saturn.
  6. Per Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Dashes the en dash in a range is always unspaced, except is spaced when either or both elements of the range include at least one space. 14 May – 2 August 2011 (not 14 May–2 August 2011).
  7. Per Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Compass_points use an en dash in cases such as north–south dialogue and east–west orientation
  8. Use em dashes, not hyphens, to indicate a break in thought. Juan tried begging, bribing, and even demanding cooperation from his staff—all of whom were swamped with other work—before he gave up and wrote the report himself.
  9. Use em dashes, not hyphens, to show a break in thought. Do not space before or after dashes. No one—not even the president—realized the company would have to dissolve so quickly.
  10. Per Manual_of_Style#Typographic_conformity, when choosing between unspaced em dash (proper) or spaced en dash (improper), "use the style chosen for the article".
  11. Suggestion from Manual_of_Style#Hyphens_vs._dashes_in_geographic_names, "the choice between hyphen and en dash should be guided by the grammatical/semantical meaning of the compound name in question—Austria–Hungary vs Austro-Hungary—instead of applying a hard and fast "always use hyphen" exception rule ... as seems to be superficially prescribed by MOS": Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Dashes Wrong: Austria–Hungary; the hyphenated Austria-Hungary was a single jurisdiction during its 1867–1918 existence

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