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Hi! I usually write about (the intersection of) computers, security, politics and history. I also focus on styleguide compliance, mostly MOS:ACROTITLE, MOS:SOB and MOS:AVOIDBOLD and rename pages based on WP:COMMONNAME.

I have my own TODO list and sandbox.

Quotes edit

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Actually Wikipedia has lots of stupid rules like this one, that no one knows how they came to be. Around here, we call that sort of thing "consensus".

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— Jorge Stolfi, taken from Templates that I sorely miss

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One of the things I most enjoy at Wikipedia is the stable environment — the "feel" of the place rarely changes. It feels like home, where even when you wake up in the middle of the night, with the lights out, you can still find your way to the bathroom without bumping into things and waking up the whole household.

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— Ottawahitech, Taken out of context from archive 112 of Village pump (technical)

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Wikipedia editor (n.)

Someone who will not leave a burning building until you show them the newspaper article documenting how many people were killed by the fire.

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— David Eppstein

Barnstars edit

	The Editor's Barnstar
	…for significantly improving Android Debug Bridge and for creating Bootloader unlocking. Elominius (talk) 13:03, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

Pages, policies and opinions edit

Style edit

MOS:AVOIDBOLD and MOS:REDUNDANCY: don't write weird sentences in the lead because you think the name must be bold and therefor can't contain links. If the article title is composed of words that have their own article, this is likely the case. Even some WP:FA don't adhere this policy. I try to fix this.
MOS:NOTES

Essays edit

WP:YWAB: Yes, Wikipedia is Biased
WP:AVOIDCYBER: an essay I wrote, arguing that you should avoid cyber

Other edit

WP:IPSOFACTO: the WP:GNG is not the only way that notability can be proven
WP:DTQ
WP:HANDLE
WP:SNOW

The word 'controversial' should be avoided on biographical articles describing democratically elected politicians. It's part of their job to be controversial, since they don't tend to get 100% of the vote.
On biographic articles, when years are used in section headers, they should be put in front of the rest of the section, not afterwards. Makes it easier to compare and skim through.
Librsvg bugs
WP:UNUSUAL: a lot of fun reads, including one of the articles that I wrote: Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial
I prefer using the word 'primarily' over stating that there are exceptions.

Useful things edit

Archive tool

Hatnotes edit

Template:For

Interlanguage links edit

{{Interlanguage link multi|Englishtitle|langcode|3=Foreigntitle}}

Sometimes this doesn't work in author-link= attributes or something like that, this is a workaround:

:lang:Article

Notes edit

{{efn|enternotehere}}

== Notes ==
{{Notelist}}

Display title edit

Note MOS:MAJORWORK and MOS:MINORWORK

Title changing or correcting templates + magic word
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Wiki markup Transclusion from template:	Involves	Correct name	Actual article name
{{Italic title}}	Title in italics	To Kill a Mockingbird	To Kill a Mockingbird
{{Italic title\|all=yes}}	Complete title in italics, including parentheses	Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)	Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
{{Italic title\|string=Ally McBeal}}	Phrase of `\|string=` in italics	List of Ally McBeal episodes	List of Ally McBeal episodes
{{Italic title\|all=yes\|string=Fringe}}	Phrase of `\|string=` in italics; also looks in parentheses	Peter (Fringe episode)	Peter (Fringe episode)
{{Italic disambiguation}}	Disambiguation in italics	The End (Lost)	The End (Lost)
{{Lowercase title}}	Lowercase first character	eBay	EBay
{{Lowercase title\|italic=yes}}	Lowercase first character and place title in italics, not including disambiguation	iCarly (soundtrack)	ICarly (soundtrack)
{{Lowercase title\|italic=yes\|force=yes}}	Lowercase first character and place title in italics, including disambiguation
{{Lowercase title\|dab=yes}}	Lowercase first character and place disambiguation in italics	iSpy (Modern Family)	ISpy (Modern Family)
{{Correct title\|reason=bracket}}	< > [ ] { }	Benzo[a]pyrene	Benzo(a)pyrene
{{Correct title\|reason=#}}	#	Pilot #5	Pilot No. 5
{{Correct title\|reason=:}}	:	DK: King of Swing	DK King of Swing
Magic word:
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}	Various	_NSAKEY	NSAKEY

Requested moves edit

Technical request: WP:RMT
Regular request on talk page: WP:RSPM:

{{subst:requested move|NewName|reason=}}

Quote box edit

{{Quotebox
| quote = 
| source =
| align = right
| width = 250px
| salign = right
}}

Other projects in infobox edit

Other projects in infobox

Language expansion edit

{{Expand Languagefull|topic=articlecategory|date=|Articletitle}}

Language expansion in reference edit

the author-link1 parameter cannot be interlanguage linked. However, author can. Example:

{{Cite book |author=[[:de:Erich Preuß|Preuß, Erich]]

Because it requires custom formatting (Last name comma first name), the regular interlanguage link template is not usable in this case.

Multiple images edit

If you don't mind the border, see the example at Obama tan suit controversy. Otherwise, use the one at Disney logo. There is also the possibility of combining both images into a single one and reuploading that to Wikimedia Commons, as done for the infobox in ANT catalog

{{multiple image
 | background color = #FFFFFF
 | align = right
 | direction=vertical
 | total_width = 320
 | image_style = border:none;
 | border = infobox

 | image1 = 
 | alt1 = 
 | caption1 = 

 | image2 = 
 | alt2 = 
 | caption2 = 

 | image3 = 
 | alt3 = 
 | caption3 = 
}}

Search queries edit

site:en.wikipedia.org "timeline" intitle:"of the" -redirect -"film" -"kingdom"

For others edit

This is wrong:

```
{{For|others|Abbr (disambiguation)}}
```

See Joke for correct examples

Non-completable list edit

{{dynamic list}}

References to pages in book edit

See Template:Sfn

SVG logos edit

How to get SVG logos:

Check the website
Search site:contoso.com filetype:pdf, "contoso corporation" filetype:pdf or some related query on your favorite search engine
Zoom in to check if it is a vector. PDF.js will stop rerendering after a certain zoom level, but it will be clear enough to distinguish between a vector and an obvious raster image.
Open that particular page with Inkscape
Select that part of the logo, paste it into new file
Optional: scale the image to a reasonable size
File -> Document -> Crop to content button
Maybe needed to remove <script></script> part with a text editor
During uploading on Wikimedia Commons, use {{PD-textlogo}} as the 'license'.