Peter Hitchmough

I have been contributing to Wikipedia in a small way since January 2005, but made forays in earlier years. You can see some of my old contributions at My Older Contributions. - Peter Hitchmough 22:45, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Send lawyers, guns and money... — Warren Zevon (1977)

Interests

My interests include:

Computer science Databases Oracle Grid computing Semantic web Wikis XML

Creative writing Poetry World_War_I_poetry Pub quizzes

Living out my Christian faith The Bible Prayer Humanitarianism not Humanism North West England

I live in Disley, England.

Current Wikipedia Active Contributions

See also: My Wiki to Do List

Poetry

• Category:World War I poets

The Bible

• Barnabas
• Bible citation, linking abbreviations to biblical books. E.g. Gen., Exd., 1Cr. 2Cr.
• The Books of the Bible, linking each book with a consistent link to read it at Bible Gateway.
  • E.g: {{biblegateway|1|Corinthians}}
  • Ensuring that the commonly searched-for Bible book names exist and redirect to the articles on those books.
  • Making the lists in External links sections appear fair and have the NPOV.

Other

• Capernwray Hall
• Disley
• Fact table, fact, dimension table
• Lancashire Mill Towns
• Macclesfield
• Oldham
• Pub quizzes

My Wikipedia Notes

How to link to Project Gutenberg

This is explained at http://www.gutenberg.org/howto-link

Example of a good way to link/cite from [Project Gutenberg]]:

• For an author, e.g:
  • Works by Mark Twain from Project Gutenberg
  • Typed as *[http://www.gutenberg.org/author/Mark_Twain Works by Mark Twain] from [[Project Gutenberg]].
• For a book, e.g:
  • Free e-Text of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain from Project Gutenberg
  • Typed as [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/76 Free e-Text of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain] from [[Project Gutenberg]].

How to link to Bible Gateway

This is explained at http://www.biblegateway.com/usage/

Examples

A book:	http://www.biblegateway.com/bible?language=English&Version=NIV&passage=John
A passage:	http://www.biblegateway.com/bible?language=English&Version=NIV&passage=John+3
Multiple passages:	http://www.biblegateway.com/bible?language=English&Version=NIV&passage=John+3:16-17;1John+3:16
Some verses:	http://www.biblegateway.com/bible?language=English&Version=NIV&passage=John+3:16-17
Multiple passages:	http://www.biblegateway.com/bible?language=English&Version=NIV&passage=John+3:16-17;1John+3:16
A search for ALL words:	http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?search=Jesus%20love&version1=31&searchtype=all&wholewordsonly=yes (Search for "Jesus" AND "love")

Using the biblegateway template

I have encapsulated linking to Bible Gateway in a Wikipedia template: see Template:biblegateway.

Note — the template has two pipes "|" in it. This allows the clean substitutions of book names with a space, e.g. 1 John.

Examples

{{biblegateway||John}}	{{biblegateway|John}}
{{biblegateway|1|John}}	{{biblegateway|1|John}}
{{biblegateway||John+3}}	{{biblegateway|John+3}}
{{biblegateway||John+3:16-17}}	{{biblegateway|John+3:16-17}}
{{biblegateway||John+3:16-17;1John+3:16}}	{{biblegateway|John+3:16-17;1John+3:16}}

Note — the template does not work for the Song of Solomon unless you refer to it as SongOfSolomon: {{biblegateway|SongOfSolomon}}.