My user-name for many years has been user:John Maynard Friedman, which is a twist on an occasional urban myth about my home city, Milton Keynes. Despite the myth, MK is not named after Milton Friedman and John Maynard Keynes. The name is centuries old and comes from that of an ancient village, now part of the new city. Though it could be that JMK is descended from the de Cahaignes, the Anglo-Norman family who once owned these parts.
Such a long-winded name seemed like a good idea at the time but had become irritating and I had been abbreviating it to 𝕁𝕄𝔽 in my sig for some time. It is now my user name. "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair".
On 13 June 2019, Did you know was updated with ... that "one of the biggest concentrations of Bronze Age gold known from Britain" was found in archaeological investigations during the development of Milton Keynes?
On 15 September 2023, Did you know was updated with .. that John Ogilby saved the manuscript of his translation of the complete works of Virgil from destruction in a shipwreck by wrapping it in a waterproof cloth?
Getting a precise page citation from Google Books: see wp:GBOOKS.
use |display-authors=etal in cite books
Inflation: how to specify as of when: Equivalent to about £((inflation|UK-GDP|0.15|1700|r=0)) million in ((Inflation/year|UK-GDP)).((Inflation/fn|UK-GDP)) yields Equivalent to about £21 million in 2019.[1] Good practice is to include ((Inflation/fn)) in the note as it explains what index is being used.
using ((cite book)) in "further reading" can throw up false positives. Add ref=none to the string to avoid.
date=((season|summer|1989))
template:r is a quick way to shorten named refs and include chapter/section/page numbers.
Also used to combine a number of named citations. e.g., ((r|Hsu 2023|Paddison 2023|McCarthy 2023|Sethi 2023))
When a Wikipedia article makes reference to a work that contains multiple chapters by different authors, bibliographies and reference sections can look rather cluttered: the solution is ((harvc))
Poole, Robert (1995). "'Give us back our eleven days!': Calendar Reform in eighteenth-century England". Past & Present. 149 (1): 95–139. doi:10.1093/past/149.1.95. p. 117, footnote 77.
Got title, need ISBN, publisher etc
Following a link from an isbn= took me to worldcat.org and I found that it is far better than Google (or Amazon) when doing the reverse – I have a title but I need its ISBN. It also gives publisher, location, date, translator – just what one needs to complete a template:cite book.
Name of urban area and then Search ... Example: Bristol
Select the relevant built up area ... Example: Built-up area (villages, towns or cities), ...Bristol (in South West Region) (caution! not "Built-up area sub divisions (town or city sub divisions)").
Get the GSS E number from the response ... Example: "This report covers the characteristics of people and households in Bristol Built-up area in South West (GSS code E34004965)".
((subst:Xsign)) (wrapper for ((Unsigned)) and ((Unsigned IP))). Takes input copied and pasted directly from the history tab as the first unnamed parameter. Don't incude the talk|contribs bit.
((esp)) if responding to requests for changes to semi-protected pages. use subst:
Use–mention distinction Foundational concept of analytical philosophy, according to which it is necessary to make a distinction between using a word (or phrase) and mentioning it
((bots|deny=botname)) to fend off an overactive bot
Product placement concerns: WP:NOTHATNOTE Trivial does not get hatnote. Obscure probably does is my reading.
((GBP)) for simplified ((inflation/UK)): ((GBP|1000|1900|round=-2|about=yes|long=no)) => £1,000 (equivalent to about £136,700 in 2023) not for CapEx etc.
Pareidolia – Perception of meaningful patterns or images in random or vague stimuli
Veblen good – Luxury good for which the demand increases as the price increases
((set index)) midway between a bare disambig and a full list article.
((for multi)) hatnote template that produces a list of alternative uses for the title of the article
X v X (disambiguation): Judging by WP:DABNAME and WP:INTDABLINK, X(d) should redirect to X if X is also a disambig (no primary topic).
you can search any namespace - enter your search term in the search bar, choose "search for pages containing <search term>", then expand the "Search in" dropdown, where you can remove the article namespace and add the Wikipedia namespace instead. ─ Tollens
It just shouldn't rely on color and/or font alone; if it's marked up with <kbd>...</kbd> (which indicates keystrokes or other textual input, and is more loosely spec-defined than <code>...</code>), that's a sufficient HTML/CSS handle for anyone with a screen reader to tell their software to do something specific when encountering that element. But if there's no specific element, just some CSS coloring and/or font-family on a span, all screen readers will ignore it as irrelevant visual fluff. That would mostly be a problem when the content coincides with an English word like a or I, though it would probably also affect punctuation characters (we need them to be interpreted as characters in and of themselves in these cases, not as part of the regular flow of the sentence; I think by default most screen readers would just ignore it as mis-placed punctuation (a typo), though some might even do something more wrong, e.g. misinterpret a single-quote character being presented as a glyph, as instead indicating the beginning of a quotation. While not everyone with a screen reader will do something to distinguish <kbd> markup, at least they have the option, and it won't be dependent on using a unique-to-WP CSS class, either, so easier to deal with on their end.
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