Tools

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Citing sources (from User:Gilliam)
  • ProveIt GT (Highly recommended!)
    • Enable ProveIt at your preferences under 'Gadgets'. It will appear thereafter in articles when you click Edit. Copy and paste items needed into the boxes, such as URL, page title, etc. Use Preview function for optimal results.
  • Citation Tool for Google Books (Highly recommended!)
    • Citation Tool works with digitized books at http://books.google.com/ Search Google Books for subject matter. Once you find a page containing relevant info, copy and past URL into the Citation Tool, and it will automatically generate a ref you can add directly to Wikipedia.
  • Google Newspaper Archive
    • The free Google Newspaper Archive is a searchable database of old newspapers. Once you find the article you need, copy/paste URL, date, author, etc. into ProveIt.
  • User:Dispenser/Reflinks
    • This is a tool that will automatically convert bare URLs into bot-generated inline refs.


Edit summaries

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  • Not a reliable source: publisher appears in our [[wp:List_of_companies_engaged_in_the_self-publishing_business]]
  • Roman vs italic for [[differential]], [[imaginary unit]], and [[Euler's number]], see [[MOS:MATH#Roman versus italic]] and [[MOS:STYLERET]].
  • Too broad - See [[Template:Infobox musical artist#associated acts]]: "for professional relationships with other notable musicians or bands that are significant to this artist's career."
  • Unneeded edit. Spaces are optional for section header markings. See usage with and without spaces in for instance [[MOS:SECTIONS]] and [[MOS:OVERSECTION]]
  • [[MOS:AT]]: "Do not use articles (a, an, or the) as the first word"
  • [[MOS:CAPTIONS]]: "Most captions are not complete sentences but merely sentence fragments which should not end with a period."
  • [[MOS:CIRCULAR]]: "Do not link to pages that redirect back to the page the link is on."
  • [[MOS:CONTEXTBIO]]: "Ethnicity, religion, or sexuality should generally not be in the lead unless it is relevant to the subject's notability."
  • [[MOS:CONTRACTION]]: Wikipedia avoids contractions.
  • [[MOS:CURLY]]: straight style is recommended in Wikipedia.
  • [[MOS:DATEVAR]] and [[wp:RETAIN]]
  • [[MOS:DOUBLESPACE]]: "Some editors place two spaces after a period/full stop; these are condensed to one space when the page is rendered, so it does not affect what readers see." No need to change, and see also [[MOS:STYLERET]].
  • [[MOS:EMDASH]]: "An em dash is always unspaced (without a space on either side)"
  • [[MOS:FORMULA]]: "For inline formulae, such as a2 − b2, the community of mathematical editors of English Wikipedia currently has no consensus about preferred formatting." See also [[MOS:STYLERET]].
  • [[MOS:HEADER]]s and titles take sentence case: "Only the first word in the caption or header should be capitalized"
  • [[MOS:HEADING]] and [[MOS:AT]]: "Do not use A, An, or The as the first word... "
  • [[MOS:HEADING]] as with [[MOS:AT]]: "Do not use articles (a, an, or the) as the first word"
  • [[MOS:LISTCAPS]]: "If the list items are sentence fragments, then capitalization should be consistent – sentence case should be applied to either all or none of the items". No need to change here, and see [[MOS:STYLERET]]
  • [[MOS:LQ]]: "If the quotation is a single word or fragment, place the terminal punctuation outside."
  • [[MOS:MATH#PUNC]]: "Just as in mathematics publications, a sentence which ends with a formula must have a period at the end of the formula."
  • [[MOS:MUHAMMAD]]: "Honorifics for Muhammad should generally not be used in articles."
  • [[MOS:NOSECTIONLINKS]]: "Section headings should not contain links, especially where only part of a heading is linked."
  • [[MOS:NUMERAL]]: "Generally, in article text Integers from zero to nine are spelled out in words."
  • [[MOS:NUMRANGE]]: "Like date ranges, number ranges and page ranges should state the full value of both the beginning and end of the range, separated by an en dash."
  • [[MOS:OVERLINK]]: "Unless a term is particularly relevant to the context in the article, the following are usually not linked..."
  • [[MOS:PBUH]]: "PBUH, or the fuller "peace be upon him", after Muhammad or other Islamic prophets — recommended action is to remove."
  • [[MOS:REFPUNCT]]: "All reference tags should immediately follow the text to which the footnote applies, with no intervening space."
  • [[MOS:REFPUNCT]]: "Ref tags are placed after adjacent punctuation, not before"
  • [[MOS:REPEATLINK]]: "Generally, a link should appear only once in an article..."
  • [[MOS:SECTIONSTYLE]]: "... section headings should:... Not redundantly refer back to the subject of the article."
  • [[MOS:SECTIONS]]: "For technical reasons, section headings should: ... * Not contain <math> markup."
  • [[MOS:SERIAL]]: "Editors may use either convention so long as each article is internally consistent." No need to alter serial comma style, ands see also [[MOS:STYLERET]].
  • [[MOS:STYLERET]]: "... it is inappropriate for a Wikipedia editor to change from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change."
  • [[MOS:SURNAME]]: "After the initial mention, a person should generally be referred to by surname"
  • [[Template:Infobox_scientist]]: "name: Insert name of scientist, mathematician or engineer. (Defaults to article title if left blank.) Note: Do not include honorifics, icons, or other images."
  • [[WP:BCE]]: "Do not change the established era style in an article unless there are reasons specific to..." See also [[MOS:STYLERET]].
  • [[WP:CITESTYLE]]: "... citations within any given article should follow a consistent style."
  • [[WP:EASTEREGG]] improper wikilink
  • [[WP:ELNO]] Links normally to be avoided: Item #11 "Blogs, personal web pages and most fansites (negative ones included), except those written by a recognized authority."
  • [[WP:ENGVAR]] and [[wp:RETAIN]]
  • [[WP:MOS#Wikilinks]]: "[...] capitalize the first letter [...] when specifically referring to the linked article by its name. Example: [[Snake]]s are often [[venomous]], but [[lizard]]s only rarely (see [[Poison]])."
  • [[WP:NOTSEEALSO]]: "See also section should not include red links or links to disambiguation pages."
  • [[WP:NOTSEEALSO]]: "See also section should not repeat links that appear in the article's body or its navigation boxes."
  • [[WP:PBUH]]: "recommended action is to remove."
  • [[WP:Reliable sources/Perennial sources]]: "arXiv is a self-published source, and is generally unreliable..."
  • [[WP:SDNONE]]: "...but some article titles are sufficiently detailed that an additional short description would not be helpful..."
  • [[WP:STYLERET]]: Undone, as a comma is not needed after a short prepositional phrase. See https://prowritingaid.com/grammar/1000157/Why-should-you-put-comma-after-prepositional-phrases : "For short introductory phrases (fewer than four words), you can choose to add a comma or not."
  • [[WP:TALK#REPLIED]]: "if anyone has already replied to or quoted your original comment, changing your comment may deprive any replies of their original context, and this should be avoided."
  • [[WP:TALKO]]: "Never edit or move someone's comment to change its meaning, even on your own talk page."
  • [[WP:Talk page guidelines]], removing talk page chat.

Edit summary searches

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Huggle

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Characters

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Paragraphs

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See Template:Paragraph break

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See User talk:88.109.172.167 and this revert.
And User talk:DVdm/Archive_2016#Your reversions
And at Einstein field equations: [1]+[2]

Autohotkey-mated Google searches

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template gsearch
quotes: Google Scholar, Google Books
noquotes: Google Scholar, Google Books
urlencode
quotes: Google Scholar, Google Books
noquotes: Google Scholar, Google Books
hardcoded
quotes: Google Scholar, Google Books, Google Web, Google Images
no quotes: Google Scholar, Google Books, Google Web, Google Images
tables
Google Search Scholar Books Web
"Ampere-Maxwell law" 1,480 (96.2%) 1,330 (81.8%) 12,700 (77.1%)
"modified Ampere's law" 56 (3.6%) 293 (18.0%) 3,670 (22.3%)
"Ampere's modified law" 3 (0.2%) 3 (0.2%) 102 (0.6%)
Google Search Scholar Books Web
"black hole horizon" 20,500 6,640 134,000
Google Search Scholar Books Web
"black hole" 1,500,000 (99.5%) 3,080,000 (99.0%) 67,200,000 (97.9%)
"white hole" 7,960 (0.5%) 30,100 (1.0%) 1,430,000 (2.1%)
Google Search Scholar Books Web
"luminiferous aether" 2,480 (26.3%) 9,040 (14.1%) 71,200 (38.2%)
"luminiferous ether" 6,960 (73.7%) 55,300 (85.9%) 115,000 (61.8%)
Google Search Scholar Books Web
"escape velocity" gravity planet 20,600 (87.6%) 44,100 (93.1%) 1,220,000 (93.0%)
"escape speed" gravity planet 2,910 (12.4%) 3,260 (6.9%) 91,400 (7.0%)
Google Search Scholar Books Web
"Fibonacci numbers" 42,300 (45.9%) 190,000 (54.9%) 1,250,000 (21.0%)
"Fibonacci sequence" 36,100 (39.2%) 110,000 (31.8%) 4,150,000 (69.7%)
"Fibonacci series" 13,700 (14.9%) 46,100 (13.3%) 555,000 (9.3%)
Google Search Scholar Books Web
"speed of light in vacuum" 66,900 (75.6%) 67,400 (56.6%) 980,000 (52.9%)
"speed of light in a vacuum" 21,600 (24.4%) 51,700 (43.4%) 872,000 (47.1%)
Google Scholar Books
Pastafarianism "Parody religion" 25 39


Google Scholar Books
"emigrated to" 105.000 1.950.000
"immigrated to" 107.000 693.000
Google Scholar Books
"in Principia Mathematica" 3400 at least 13 pages
"in the Principia Mathematica" 790 8 pages
Google Scholar Books
"an 1856 letter" 194 475
"a 1856 letter" 7 7
Google Scholar
"a hyperbola" 40500
"an hyperbola" 3490
Google Search Scholar Books Web
"mathematical formulas" 81,700 (31.7%) 245,000 (61.6%) 2,950,000 (64.0%)
"mathematical formulae" 176,000 (68.3%) 153,000 (38.4%) 1,660,000 (36.0%)
Google Search Scholar Books Web
"scientific formulas" 3,130 (52.0%) 12,800 (31.2%) 231,000 (36.3%)
"scientific formulae" 2,890 (48.0%) 28,200 (68.8%) 406,000 (63.7%)
Google Search Scholar Books Web
formulas 7,480,000 (75.5%) 26,600,000 (69.5%) 1,380,000,000 (87.8%)
formulae 2,430,000 (24.5%) 11,700,000 (30.5%) 192,000,000 (12.2%)
Google Scholar Books Web
"escape velocity" 37,900 93,000 505,000
"escape speed" 6,900 12,600 144,000
Google Scholar Google Books Sum
arcsinh 7440 5660 13100
asinh 5370 7890 13260
arsinh 2360 4710 7070
argsinh 479 838 1317
Google Scholar Google Books Sum
arctanh 8710 5340 14050
atanh 4630 6350 10980
artanh 2070 3630 5700
argtanh 187 381 568
Google Scholar Books Web
"coriolis force" 54,100 92,200 97,200
"coriolis effect" 15,800 35,700 408,000
coriolis force 112,000 160,000 458,000
coriolis effect 115,000 109,000 455,000
Google Scholar Books Web Fight
zeros 900,000 544,000 17,600,000 (200)
zeroes 122,000 249,000 7,170,000 (116)
wpsearch
quotes: "einstein predicted gravitational waves" – Wikipedia search | Google search | Bing search | DuckDuckGo search | Yahoo search
noquotes: einstein predicted gravitational waves – Wikipedia search | Google search | Bing search | DuckDuckGo search | Yahoo search

Reftests

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This is a test.[1] And this.[2]

  1. ^ Burak Kanber (2018). Hands-on Machine Learning with JavaScript: Solve complex computational web problems using machine learning. Packt Publishing Ltd. p. 148. ISBN 9781788990301. Extract of page 148
  2. ^ Vesselin Petkov (2009). Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime (2nd, illustrated ed.). Springer Science & Business Media. p. 87. ISBN 9783642019623. Extract of page 87

Templates

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Examples

Tables

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Title1 Title2 Title3 Title4
data1-1 data1-2 data1-3 data1-4
data2-1 data2-2 data2-3 data2-4
data3-1 data3-2 data3-3 data3-4

Converts

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Source Result
{{convert|11.186|km/s|mi/s km/h mph|abbr=on}} 11.186 km/s (6.951 mi/s; 40,270 km/h; 25,020 mph) ok
{{convert|11.19|km/s|mi/s km/h mph|abbr=on}} 11.19 km/s (6.95 mi/s; 40,300 km/h; 25,000 mph) ok
{{convert|11.2|km/s|mi/s km/h mph|abbr=on}} 11.2 km/s (7.0 mi/s; 40,000 km/h; 25,000 mph) ok
{{convert|11|km/s|mi/s km/h mph|abbr=on}} 11 km/s (6.8 mi/s; 40,000 km/h; 25,000 mph) ok
{{convert|11,186|km/s|mi/s km/h mph|abbr=on}} 11,186 km/s (6,951 mi/s; 40,270,000 km/h; 25,020,000 mph) nonsense
{{convert|11,19|km/s|mi/s km/h mph|abbr=on}} 1,119 km/s (695 mi/s; 4,030,000 km/h; 2,500,000 mph) nonsense
{{convert|11,2|km/s|mi/s km/h mph|abbr=on}} 112 km/s (70 mi/s; 400,000 km/h; 250,000 mph) nonsense

Charts

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from Template:Farseer family tree, used at Characters in the Realm of the Elderlings#The Royal Family, the Farseers.


Unnamed Woman
(a soldier)
King Bounty FarseerThe Wife of King Bounty
LaurelChade FallstarUnknown WomanConstance of ShoaksKing Shrewd FarseerDesire Mountwell of FarrowMerry Farseer
Lantern FallstarShine FallstarMountain WomanPrince Chivalry FarseerLady Patience
of Tradeford
King Verity FarseerKettricken of the MountainsKing Regal the PretenderAugust of Withywoods
FitzChivalry FarseerMolly ChandlerSacrifice Farseer (stillborn)King Dutiful FarseerElliania Blackwater
Hap Gladheart
(fostered)
RiddleNettle
Farseer
Bee
Farseer
Prince Prosper FarseerIntegrity FarseerPromise Farseer
(announced)
Hope

Indent Outdent tests

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Base

Indent 1
Indent 2
Indent 3

Base {{outdent|3}}

Indent 1
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Indent 3
Indent 4
Indent 5
Indent 6

Base {{outdent|6}}

Indent 1
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Indent 3
Indent 4
Indent 5
Indent 3 :::{{outdent|2}}
Indent 4
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Indent 6

Linkspam

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Notice board: MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist

Blacklist: MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist

blacklist declined
Search http://home.earthlink.net/~mmc1919
Tests

Math tests

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Overset / underset

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0.999...#Infinite series and sequences

 

Align tests

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  • Moot now, since working in MathML.

Referring to this edit:

This works in png, but not in MathJax (although during the math rendering problem week between 7-Feb-2014 and 15-Feb-2014 it also worked in MathJax, but with a slight vertical alignment problem):

 

Likewise (but here without the vertical aligment problem):

 

This works in png and in MathJax:

 

or, for instance:

 

and likewise

 

and

 
 
Producing an error in PNG mode
"(unknown function "\begin"): \begin{aligned}":
 

\cdot and \cdots

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Templated Italics

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a b c i a b c i

Math indent

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Problems with math rendering

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)

Image test

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Diffs test

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raw diff
unsubsted diff
substed diff

Table test

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Released[1] Title Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)
Year Date US
[2]
UK
[3]
GER
[4]
NOR
[5]
SWE
[6]
CH
[7]
AUT
[8]
1966 Jun 27 Freak Out!
  • Label: Verve
130
1967 May 26 Absolutely Free 41
Aug 7 Lumpy Gravy 159
1968 Mar 4 We're Only in It for the Money 30 31
Dec 2 Cruising with Ruben & the Jets 110
...
  1. ^ "> FZ Official Discography". Zappa.com.
  2. ^ "Frank Zappa > Charts & Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-12-04.
  3. ^ Warwick, 2004. p.1220
  4. ^ "Musicline.de - Chartverfolgung - Zappa,Frank". www.musicline.de. Retrieved 2012-04-05.
  5. ^ "norwegiancharts.com - Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free". norwegiancharts.com. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  6. ^ "swedishcharts.com - Frank Zappa - A Token Of My Extreme". swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  7. ^ "Frank Zappa - Bobby Brown - hitparade.ch". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 2009-05-22.
  8. ^ "Frank Zappa - Sharleena - austriancharts.at". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 2009-04-24.

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