User:Earthlyreason

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[edit] About me

This page is mostly just some notes for my own use. Many of my Wikipedia contributions are light copy editing. But I'm getting bolder about adding substantive content, and page creation and deletion. Perhaps I'm a WikiGnome.

[edit] Personal notes

Wikipedia guidelines: Community Portal

Citation needed: { {Fact|date=February 2008} } (remove space in '{ {')

Neutrality / point of view: Template:NPOV-section

Merging_and_moving_pages#Proposing_a_merger

Redirect: #REDIRECT [[target article]]

< ! -- This is a comment (invisible). -- > (remove spaces)

Check out: English English, British English, Mesopotamia, Arab tribes in Iraq (removed bias under 'Tikrit Area')

Contribute:

List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom

Merge history of Yahoo into Yahoo Talk:History_of_Yahoo!#Merger_proposal

Finalise "Yet Another .." under Yahoo name

Revise 'Grog' etymology, based on Quinion, 15 Mar 08.other refs: http://www.google.com.hk/search?hl=en&q=%22Daniel+Defoe%22+grog&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f http://www.piratesinfo.com/mysql/phorum/read.php?1,155137,page=1 http://www.piratebrethren.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=1283&p=13899

$ and other currencies No mention of the ghastly 'USD' is found in anywhere in Wikipedia guidelines. Search more for discussion, and set to rights.

Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Formatting

Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)/Archive_29

Create 'Hong Kong (HK$?) billionaires category, or tycoons, or 'movers and shakers' or something, for Lee Ka Shing, Lee Shau Kee, the Kwoks et al.

User:Terraxos talks of:

adding { {Unreferenced} }

This article does not cite any references or sources. (May 2008) Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed.

to non-stubs without external links or references. Also, removing the template from articles that do have references. For articles with only inadequate sources, use { {Refimprove} }

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2008)

or { {Primarysources} }

This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of the article are generally not sufficient for a Wikipedia article. Please include more appropriate citations from reliable sources, or discuss the issue on the talk page. This article has been tagged since May 2008.

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Sometimes add { {Orphan} }

This article is orphaned as few or no other articles link to it. Please help introduce links in articles on related topics. (May 2008)

, if fewer than 2 or 3 incoming links.

Other activities: adding categories to pages that need them, particularly uncategorised articles, and biographies of living people lacking Cat:Living people. Adding WikiProject templates to Talk pages where relevant. Adding stub templates to short articles that obviously need them; a good list can be found at WP:WSS.