User:JMF

1925 revisited

I sometimes fear that
  people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress
worn by grotesques and monsters
  as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.

Template:Mdash Michael Rosen

My user-name

My user-name for many years was user:John Maynard Friedman, which was my 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.

The typeface I have used is blackboard bold (which was created for mathematicians, so I am an interloper). For its use as an identifier, I assert prior art over Twitter 2.0.

Talk to me

Leave a message on my talk page ->

GAs and DYKs

Good Articles that I helped reach that status

• History of Milton Keynes
• Milton Keynes
• Calendar (New Style) Act 1750
• John Ogilby
• Robert Hooke

Did You Know features from these GAs

• 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 25 March 2021, Did you know was updated with ... that until the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 was passed, the new year began on 25 March in England, Wales, Ireland, and Britain's American colonies?
• 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?
• On 27 March 2024, Did you know was updated with ... that in addition to his work as a scientist, Robert Hooke was an architect who designed the Monument to the Great Fire of London so that it could also have a practical value as a scientific instrument?

My useful links

Citations

• Multiple pages in the same sourcebook - WP:IBID and WP:CITEPAGE (help), especially Help:Shortened footnotes (using Harvard citations).
• Template:Google books
• References and footnotes: WP:References, WP:Footnotes (use {{subst:Footnotes|100%}} )
  • Template:Refn and #tag:ref
  • templates: efn and notelist
• Use Refill to fix bare references see User:Zhaofeng Li/reFill
• Dead links restored using archive.org, archive.is or ghostarchive
• put longwinded cites in References section rather than embedded:
  • Template:Xt then
  • Template:Xt
• Chasing down all instances of an unreliable or WP:LINKVIO source: Template:Tl (e.g., Template:Duses )
• 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 Template:Tq Good practice is to include Template:Tl in the note as it explains what index is being used.
• link to other language WPs: Template:Tl
• using Template:Tl 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 Template:Tl
• User:SMcCandlish/How to use the sfnp family of templates

Bare URLs

• WP:REFILL
  • WP:ReFill#To use reFill yourself
• WP:REFLINKS
• IABot Management Interface

Footnotes

or

• 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 reverseTemplate:Snd I have a title but I need its ISBN. It also gives publisher, location, date, translatorTemplate:Snd just what one needs to complete a template:cite book.

Historic England

• eg: Template:NHLE

Statutes at large

• Resource: The Acts of Parliament at Alsatia

Geography

Maps and mapping

• NLoS Find maps by place, down to 1:2500.
• template:cite map
  • <ref>{{cite map |author = Ordnance Survey | title =OS Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952 |map = Buckinghamshire XV (includes: Bletchley; Bow Brickhill; Walton.) | map-url = https://maps.nls.uk/view/102340115 |date = 1885 |scale = 1:10,560 |publisher = Ordnance Survey |via=National Library of Scotland }}</ref>
• Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography/Archive 27#ordnancesurvey references re care to avoid WP:SYNTH

Getting metro area population from NOMIS

1. https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/ then section headed Local Area Report
2. Name of urban area and then Search ... Example: Bristol
3. 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)").
4. 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)".
5. Plug into template:NOMIS2011 ... Example {{NOMIS2011|id=E34004965|title=Bristol BUA}} produces Template:NOMIS2011 which reports "There were 617,280 usual residents as at Census day 2011".
6. Wrap in ref tags and attach to figure in table.

Book sources

• Wikipedia talk:Book sources
• fix harv errors for unused citations by moving them to a Further Reading and appending ref=none to the citation.

Finding CS1/2 and harv errors

• String CS1 maint:
• String = ignored
• User talk:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors

Wlinking to an older instance of a page

template

diff

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AReliable_sources%2FPerennial_sources&type=revision&diff=983827787&oldid=983690192

{{Diff|page|diff|oldid|label}}

with Template:Diff, xyz

template

oldid

"[ ... ] You can also use the Template:Tlx template: Template:Oldid or go through a special page my sandbox." Gospel according to Redrose64 🌹

Antivandalism and other warnings

• Wikipedia:WikiProject User warnings
  • Template:Tl is the non-existent Template:Tl
• Category:Standardised user warning templates
• Wikipedia:Requests for page protection
• Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism to request block
• Redaction: WP:REDACT (aka notcensored, go away); Wikipedia:Revision deletion for libel; WP:Oversight e.g. for outing or doxing (prob via an admin, I assume).

• Wikipedia:Disruptive editing
• WP:Advocacy
• WP:AOBF (Accusing others of bad faith)
• WP:BMB Bans apply to all editing, good or bad
• Request deletion of a page created solely for vandalism (eg talk page): put {{db-g3}} at the top of the page.
• Wikipedia:Guidance for younger editors
• Earwig's Copyvio Detector (Toolforge)

Editing talk pages

Template:Tl restart indent sequence Template:Tl for quotes in talk pages.

IP editors

• Template:Tl
• Template:Tl (wrapper for Template:Tl and Template:Tl). Takes input copied and pasted directly from the history tab as the first unnamed parameter. Don't incude the talk|contribs bit.
• Template:Tl if responding to requests for changes to semi-protected pages. use subst:
• Why create an account?

Obscure but useful links

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Character Table 1 Characters to avoid (and what to use instead)
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Icons generalised MOS:FLAGS esp wrt infoboxes
• Talk:Muhammad/FAQ images and honorifics
• Use–mention distinction Foundational concept of analytical philosophy, according to which it is necessary to make a distinction between Template:Em a word (or phrase) and Template:Em 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.
• Template:Tl for simplified Template:Tl: {{GBP|1000|1900|round=-2|about=yes|long=no}} => Template:GBP not for CapEx etc.
• Template:Anli
• Template:Anli
• Template:Tl midway between a bare disambig and a full list article.
• Template:Tl hatnote template that produces a list of alternative uses for the title of the article
• to flush the cache
• Template:Div col
• User:SD0001/easy-merge for merging articles
• Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1165#When writing an edit summary, is there a way to stop the enter key generating a "Publish"?

It works!

• 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).
• Template:Tq ─ Template:U
• WikiNav (where do visitors go next, useful to identify WP:PRIMARYTOPIC).
• Template:Emoji presentation
• Template:Tl for nbsp, thinspace, etc
• Template:Tl redirect to Wiktionary
• User:Cacycle/wikEd
• Template:Tl, e.g., Template:In title
• Template:Visible anchor
• Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Photography workshop for image clean-up, contrast/brightness issues etc.
• wp:No original research#What is not original research including WP:2+2=4
• Template:Unichar

Screen-reader ready

• MOS:PSEUDOHEAD
• "using Template:Tl instead of Template:Tl creates semantic and accessibility issues" Template:Mdash Template:U

Excerpt

Rather than outright copy the lead of another article, use Template:Tl to replicate it automagically.

Collapsible list

• Template:Collapsible list aka Template:Tl

Annotating 'See also' lists

• Template:Tl, appends the short description (aka Template:Tl
• {{subst:AnnotatedListOfLinks| etc etc}} to convert a long See Also to use ALs.

but... Wikipedia talk:Short description/Archive 9#Length – 40 or 90 characters??

Trouble at t'mill

• Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)
• Wikipedia talk:Short description/Archive 9#Length – 40 or 90 characters??
• Wikipedia:Requests for oversight for enhanced revdels

Things to follow up

• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 June 9#Category:Political correctness
• finish census ref in parishes (E)
• talk:Bracket
• Flesch–Kincaid readability tests
• Template:Tl at talk:A