User:Mbeychok/MRB's storage sandbox

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This sandbox is for storing templates and other Wiki style reminders

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[edit] Miscellaneous

• #REDIRECT[[Article name]] This redirects a page to the named article
• {{fact}} or {{cn}} This embeds a "Citation needed" tag
• <!-- Comments inside this tag will not show -->
• Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism located here
• This article leads you to listings and explanations of many of the various message templates (tags) that can be placed on a page: Wikipedia:Template messages
• Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) and Wikipedia:Help desk for asking miscellaneous questions
• Template:Engineering-stub and Template:Engineer-stub
• List of all articles/images by Namespaces (Main, Image, Commons, etc.) at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Allpages/0
• & uarr; produces a vertical arrow like this ↑ ... also, & darr; produces a down arrow, & rarr; produces a right arrow and & larr; produces a left arrow. (Remove the space following the ampersands.)

[edit] Citation Templates

The empty template to use is: {{cite book|author=|title=|edition=|publisher=|year=|id=}}

Instead of an author's LastName, FirstName, you can enter an editor's LastName, FirstName followed by (Editor). In either case, the FirstName can be followed by a MiddleInitial.

• For books:
  

{{cite book|author=Beychok, Milton R.|title=Fundamentals Of Stack Gas Dispersion|edition=4th Edition|publisher=author-published|year=2005|id=ISBN 0964458802}}
produces this:
Beychok, Milton R. (2005). Fundamentals Of Stack Gas Dispersion, 4th Edition, author-published. ISBN 0964458802. 

• For conference proceedings:
  

{{cite book|author=Editors: Kretzschmar, J. G. and Cosemans, G.|title=Harmonization within atmospheric dispersion modelling for regulatory purposes (4th Workshop)|edition=|publisher=International Journal of Environment and Pollution, vol 8 no 3-6, Interscience Enterprises, 1997|year=1996|id=ISSN 0957-4352}}
produces this:
Editors: Kretzschmar, J. G. and Cosemans, G. (1996). Harmonization within atmospheric dispersion modelling for regulatory purposes (4th Workshop). International Journal of Environment and Pollution, vol 8 no 3-6, Interscience Enterprises, 1997. ISSN 0957-4352. 

• Journal articles

The empty template to use is:

{{cite journal|author= |year= |month= |title= |journal= |volume= |issue= |pages= |issn= }}

For example:

{{cite journal|author=Beychok, M.R.|year=1951|month= May|title=Algebraic Solution of McCabe-Thiele Diagram|journal=Chemical Engineering Progress|volume=15|issue=6|pages=|issn=0360-7275}}

produces this:

Beychok, M.R. (May 1951). "Algebraic Solution of McCabe-Thiele Diagram". Chemical Engineering Progress 15 (6). ISSN 0360-7275. 

[edit] Instructions on how to use a Discussion page

Placing this: {{HowtoTalk}} on a Discussion page will add this:

[edit] Template for an unsigned Discussion comment

Use the History page to find the IP and date of the unsigned comment. For example, the IP found was 24.63.106.230 and the date was June 25, 2006 (UTC). The using this:

<small>{{unsigned|24.63.106.230|25 June 2006 (UTC)}}</small>

produces this:

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.63.106.230 (talk • contribs) 25 June 2006 (UTC)

The time of the day, could also be included with the date if desired.

[edit] References and Reference Lists using the Cite.php method

(See Help:Footnotes)

[edit] Multiple insertion of the same reference

On the Edit page, this is placed at the first insertion point of citation:

<ref name=Perry>Perry's Handbook, Sixth Edition, McGraw-Hill Co., 1984.</ref>

This is placed at the second insertion point of citation:

<ref name=Perry/>

This is placed at the third insertion point of citation:

<ref name=Perry/> ..... and so forth for further insertion points

[edit] Single insertion of a reference

For the single insertion of a reference, the "name" parameter is not needed. On the Edit page, this is placed at the insertion point of citation:

<ref>Excel For Dummies, First Edition, Hungry Minds, Inc., 1980.</ref>

[edit] What is produced at the points of insertion

These are what is produced and note that the reference numbers in blue are automatically generated. Clicking on any one of the reference numbers causes the screen display to scroll down to that reference number in the Reference List section:

First ^[1] text word referenced to Perry's Handbook

Second ^[1] text word referenced to Perry's Handbook

Third ^[1] text word referenced to Perry's Handbook

The only ^[2] text word referenced to the Excel book.

[edit] Producing the reference or footnote list

On the Edit page, this is placed in the References or the Footnotes section:

<references/> or {{Reflist}}

This is what it produces and note that the list numbers are automatically generated:

[edit] Notes on the Cite.php method

• Clicking on the blue superscript a causes the screen display to scroll back up to the point where the first reference to Perry's Handbook was inserted. Clicking on the blue superscript b causes the screen display to scroll back up to the point where the the second reference to Perry's Handbook was inserted. Clicking on the blue superscript c causes the screen display to scroll back up to the point where the the third reference to Perry's Handbook was inserted ... and so forth.

• Clicking on any caret (^) that has no associated superscripts cause the screen display to scroll back up to the point where that single-use references was inserted.

• Decreasing the size of the font used in the Reference or Footnote section lists to smaller than 90% of the regular size will drastically change the appearance of the reference listings. For one thing, the arrows will change to daggers (†). At least that is what happens using my Internet Explorer browser.

• I don't like the faint, spindly, hard-to-see arrows for the single-use references. I think they should be just as bold and well defined as the arrows for the multiple-use references. And I don't like writing the actual citation details at the point of citation ... it clutters up the Edit page quite badly.

[edit] Typical use of Div Tags

<center><div style="align:center; width:470px; padding:1em; border:solid 2px black; background-color:#cedff2;"> This section on the history of '''industrial flue gas stacks''' needs to be developed. If you have any knowledge of this subject, please contribute whatever you can. </div></center>

produces this:

[edit] Table Template for lining up = signs

This is a template for a table that lines up = signs in a series of one line equations:

[edit] Image Syntax

[[Image:name.png|thumb|XXX px|right, left or center|caption]]

Image:Name.png must be the first parameter and it is the only required one. The other parameters may be in any order. Do not capitalize thumb, px, right or caption.

[edit] Requesting deletion of an image

• Go to Image page and add this tag: {{Ifd|Image:Name and extension}}
• Go to original uploaders Talk page and add this tag: {{subst:idw|Image:Name and extension}}
• Go to WP:IFD, scroll down to this link and click on it. Then at bottom of the Edit page, add this tag: {{subst:Ifd2|Image name and extension|Uploader= |Reason= }}

Valid reasons are Obsolete or Orphan or Unencylopedic or Low quality or Copyright violation

Be sure to do the first three steps above in the order listed.

[edit] Alternative spellings

Wikipedia policy regarding words that have alternative spellings is that the spelling used in the earliest chronological introduction of such words in an article shall be used in that article from then on.

Since the originator of this article used U.S. English spellings rather than British English spellings when choosing to use the words desulfurization, sulfur dioxide and sulfur in creating this article means that U.S. English spellings are always to be retained in this article. This does not mean that either spelling is "right" or "wrong". It simply means that it is Wikipedia policy.

[edit] Wikitables

See also:User:Dcljr/Tables ... it is very good!

• The use of ! instead of |, at the start of a cell, automatically produces a cell with text which is centered and bold.
  
  

• If the table starts with {| Class=wikitable, that automatically produces a table with a very light grayish background and with collapsed borders (i.e., single-line borders). And if a wikitable cell starts with a ! instead of a |, that automatically produces a cell with a more grayish background and with text which is centered and bold.
  
  

• In a wikitable, the text in a cell that does not start with a ! can be centered by starting the cell with align=center followed by a pipe, thus: align=center |... or by starting with two or more parameters followed by a pipe, thus: align=center width=20% |
  
  

• In a wikitable, style specifications, which apply to all of the table cells, may be used. For example, {| Class=wikitable style="font-style:italic; font-size:130%; border:3px" produces this:

[edit] Non-Wikitable using the "bg color" parameter to color a single row

Note that background color parameter (bgcolor=#xxxxxx) is placed after the row to be colored and before the next row:

and the color of the table border may be completely different if you wish:

[edit] Uploading a new version of an existing image

1. Goto to the image in question.
2. Click on the link that says "Upload a new version of this file".
3. Select source and destination file names.
4. Leave the Summary field blank.
5. Leave the Licensing field set to "none" and click on Upload.
6. If you chose a destination name that was the same as the original file name, click on upload anyway. Otherwise, you can ignore this step.
7. The new version is uploaded. Visit the new image page and notice that the original copyright tag is still in place (which is fine, since that is the appropriate license). Also notice that a link to the previous version of the image still shows up in the history, so it can be reverted to the original version if needed.
8. Edit the Summary on the Image's new version page and add a note saying that the latest revision was edited by user x on date x using program x for cropping.

[edit] Special Characters

• ▲ Black up-pointing arrow (Arial font)
• List of XML and HTML character entity references

[edit] Wikipedia:Manual of Style

This Manual of Style has the simple purpose of making the encyclopedia easy to read by following a consistent format — it is a style guide. The following rules do not claim to be the last word on Wikipedia style. One way is often as good as any other, but if everyone does it the same way, Wikipedia will be easier to read and use, not to mention easier to write and edit. In this regard, the following quotation from The Chicago Manual of Style deserves notice:

Rules and regulations such as these, in the nature of the case, cannot be endowed with the fixity of rock-ribbed law. They are meant for the average case, and must be applied with a certain degree of elasticity.

In this vein, editors of new and existing articles should strive to have their articles follow these guidelines.

Clear, informative, and unbiased writing is always more important than presentation and formatting. Wikipedia does not require writers to follow all or any of these rules, but their efforts will be more appreciated when they do so: the joy of wiki editing is that Wikipedia does not require perfection.

[The bolding in the above has been added by User:Mbeychok for emphasis.]

[edit] Names

Tom Harrison
Scientizzle
Phillippe
Kjkolb