Welcome
I am not a hierarchical thinker and rarely believe in absolutes. You and I both recognize blue because someone once pointed at a color and told us it was named blue. I have absolutely no idea whether your eyes see the same color as mine do, only that we call it the same thing. If you want an answer about right and wrong, higher or lower, worst or best, I am probably not the person to ask.
I don't compete, except with myself. I don't write to convey information as much as I write to learn something. Quantity will never be worth more than quality. With those caveats in mind, my personal challenge for 2024 is to see how many redlinks I can turn blue in a single chain from one article to the next. No daisy chain, linking back to a previous article. To make it even harder, I started in Africa.
Fathia Bettahar led to Pan-African Women's Organization and then to Ruth Neto, who led me to Maria Eugénia Neto, who took me to Marcela Pérez de Cuéllar, who led to Maria Pia Fanfani, who rescued Amelia Barbieri, who led to Fatuma Ndangiza...
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Tools
word count,
copyvio ck, copyright tags,
((infobox person)),
((cn|date=March 2015)),
Wikipedia:Personal user awards,
The_Wikipedia_Library
reflinks tool
Free Image Search Tool
((Authority control)),
((Image requested))
reference tool
book tool
isbn publishing codes
ores
((Template:In use))
((current))
harv-error gadget
public domain info
interlanguage link
percentage conversions for invalid URL text
to delete a page created in error tag it with ((Db-g7))
Newspapers, journals, books
After a <ref> tag and a citation template such as ((cite journal)), add:
then= |via = [[Newspapers.com]])) ((open access))</ref> "change "www-newspapers-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org" to "newspapers.com"
then= |via = [[Newspaperarchive.com]])) ((open access))</ref> sign on with the WP library, sign in with your free account log in once you are logged in. To save a clip, change "www-newspaperarchive-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org" to "newspaperarchive.com"
Links in multiple page articles can be inserted by placing [] around the link in the page field, i.e. http: link (space) #
To cite a "page" is an e-book use "|loc=Chapter x (Search phrase "blah blah")))
In cases where there is a different DOI for the book and a chapter, insert the book DOI in that field and under chapter render as |chapter=[[DOI:10.xxx|chapter name]]
Article history
To find a particular edit in an article, go to the article history. At the top, select "Find addition/removal". Input distinctive text in the "search for" box, "start" below, and wait.
Library projects
After citation
- ((subscription needed|via=[[Project MUSE]]))
- ((subscription needed|via=[[Cambridge University Press|Cambridge Core Orlando Project]]))
- ((subscription needed|via=[http://www.oxfordreference.com/ Oxford University Press]'s Reference Online))
- ((subscription needed| via=[[Alexander Street Press|ASP: Women and Social Movements]]}
- ((subscription needed|via=[[Cambridge University Press]]))
adding a note
((#tag:ref|Blah blah all the text I'd like to include in the note <ref>reference for that text</ref>|group="Note"))
- and then at the bottom of the page, above the usual ((reflist)), in a subsection called "Notes",
((reflist|group=Note))