Personal how to's

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Attack accounts: user talk:Primfeac.

[[Wikipedia:CSD#G13|G13]]: Abandoned draft or [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation|AfC]] submission – If you wish to retrieve it, make your request [[Wikipedia:REFUND/G13|here]]

drafli

WP:COPYREQ - best page to point people to re OTRS on images and especially Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission#When permission is confirmed.

Advice: no shouting. <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">[[user:RHaworth/moans#shh|shouting]]</span>

== Pointless ==
Please [[user:rHaworth/moans#noncomm|read this]]. ~~~~

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My rationale for using MiszaBot.

Useful: special:myPage · {{spa|username}} (apparently must be substed) to denounce SPAs at AfD, etc.

m:NTSAMR - the “nothing to tell about myself really” persistent spammer.

Student projects: the right way - Namibia and a not so good way - Hangzhou. In the latter, check the contribs history of Year 1 Class 1 to see what I mean.

If you see a vandal at work, slap {{test}} on to the culprit's Talk page as the first action. Simply realising that they are being watched may be enough to put them off.

Use a leading colon to create a link to a Category table instead of placing the article in that category. Thus: Category:Images of the Geograph British Isles project.

Likewise, use a leading colon to link to an image description page instead of putting the image into the article. Thus: File:Haworth houses.JPG. Similarly for other language links: nl:Wikings.

See Wikipedia:How to edit a page#Links and URLs for links to Special: pages.


<span style="white-space: nowrap"> is useful to avoid breaking up something like 2013 Oct 24.

Template {{xt}} creates pretty green text like this.

Wikipedia:Offline reports is a page I had difficulty finding - it is not in Special:Specialpages nor in Special:Statistics.

Pathoschild's check of eligibility for Wikimedia elections

Multiple deletions - d-batch link at top right of CAT:CSD page.

Commons and geo

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My Commons contribs. Now licensing own images with commons:user:RHaworth/mylic. {{self|cc-by-sa-3.0|GFDL|migration=redundant}} was recommended for own images but always to the Commons!

Magnus' Commons upload helper.

0.00001° of latitude ≈ 1 metre anywhere.
0.00001° of longitude ≈ 1 metre on the equator and ≈ 0.68 metre in UK.
0.000015° of longitude ≈ 1 metre in UK. So four decimal places of lat or long is ample for Wikipedia purposes.

For people still using Babylonian mathematics:
1" of latitude ≈ 31 metres anywhere.
1" of longitude ≈ 31 metres on the equator and ≈ 20 metres in UK.
So using whole numbers of arcseconds is ample for Wikipedia purposes.

YelloWikis - suggest move here if spam reposted

Grid refs

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Oxford Circus - 529050 181260 (TQ 291813) to:

  • SKYport - 508750 176870 (TQ 088769) - 20.77 Km = 12.906 miles
  • Lodge Hill - 537990 162780 (TQ 380 628) - 20.53 Km = 12.757 miles

1.609344 Km = 1 mile

This grid ref has non-breaking spaces: Sutton, West Sussex grid reference SU 976 153

Hull

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Compiler of the Hull list had never seen the official list. Check of split CG's:

  • Official name - Hull names
  • Knebworth - Stevenage & Ware
  • Iver - Slough, Staines & Uxbridge
  • Markyate - Luton & Hemel Hempstead
  • Colney Heath - Hatfield & St Albans
  • Stourbridge - Dudley and Kidderminster

Also Hull has:

  • 1761 Mendip s/b Temple Cloud
  • 1491 Cholsey not Nettlebed or Henley-on-Thames

Loveden is very interesting

Box sample

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Afbeelding:Ginkgo_biloba_avifauna_alphen_aan_den_rijn.jpg
de bladeren van de ginkgo
levend fossiel, zo groeit en overleeft Wikipedia
een schilderkunstige compositie
van een bijzondere stilte

De tekst op deze pagina valt uitdrukkelijk niet onder GFDL
Wiki CV:

wiktionary:lee

Purley

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Settlements on tops cos of flood-prone valleys.

Pretoria Terrace with Kimberley Place, the mews behind it.

Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a free host or webspace provider contains links to other Wiki hosts.

Multimap

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OS Grid Ref and map link
SE
039 383 Oakworth
032 354 Oxenhope


msoft no pin - msoft with pin

Why use templates

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  • Page widening of dif report, for example: [4] or [5].
  • Nother example - not a map [6].

OS_coord

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  60°48′45″N 0°48′25″W / 60.812590°N 0.807077°W / 60.812590; -0.807077 HP 65000 15000

60°46′07″N 0°54′02″W / 60.768493°N 0.900501°W / 60.768493; -0.900501 HP 60000 10000 - Unst - nearer to Bergen than to London

57°49′08″N 8°34′20″W / 57.818850°N 8.572209°W / 57.818850; -8.572209 NA 10000 00000 - Soay, St Kilda
55°30′34″N 5°38′43″W / 55.509418°N 5.645207°W / 55.509418; -5.645207 NR 70000 30000 - arbitrary point on Kintyre where back-conversion gives zero northing error 55°33′48″N 1°41′04″W / 55.563274°N 1.684456°W / 55.563274; -1.684456 NU 20000 30000 - same northings, east coast
54°23′35″N 2°46′18″W / 54.393009°N 2.771544°W / 54.393009; -2.771544 350000_500000 - "centre of gravity" of GB 53°57′10″N 1°15′17″W / 53.952784°N 1.254822°W / 53.952784; -1.254822 - SE 49000 51000 53°57′09″N 1°13′28″W / 53.952591°N 1.224349°W / 53.952591; -1.224349 - SE 51000 51000 Marston Moor
  53°56′05″N 1°15′19″W / 53.934810°N 1.255142°W / 53.934810; -1.255142 - 449000_449000 53°56′05″N 1°13′29″W / 53.934617°N 1.224682°W / 53.934617; -1.224682 - 451000_449000
      52°57′42″N 0°44′17″E / 52.961795°N 0.738087°E / 52.961795; 0.738087 TF 84000 44000 - near the Mill
  49°56′17″N 6°16′48″W / 49.938126°N 6.280068°W / 49.938126; -6.280068 SV 93000 13000

49°53′27″N 6°20′44″W / 49.890697°N 6.345502°W / 49.890697; -6.345502 SV 88000 08000 - St Agnes

    50°45′16″N 1°55′50″W / 50.754577°N 1.930485°W / 50.754577; -1.930485 SZ 050 950

  50°42′35″N 2°00′05″W / 50.709634°N 2.001364°W / 50.709634; -2.001364 SZ 000 900
50°39′53″N 2°04′20″W / 50.664648°N 2.072108°W / 50.664648; -2.072108 SY 950 850 - Poole

51°28′41″N 0°00′07″W / 51.477959°N 0.002000°W / 51.477959; -0.002000 TQ 38848 77337 - Airy's Transit Circle

51°28′40″N 0°00′05″W / 51.4778147°N 0.0014768°W / 51.4778147; -0.0014768 TQ 38885 77322 - Airy's Transit Circle - better coords

52°27′03″N 1°40′40″E / 52.450711°N 1.677786°E / 52.450711; 1.677786 TM 50000 90000 - Lowestoft

 

0.1 km 100 km 400 km 699.9 ← eastings
NW N centre N centre NE 1299.9 km north
NW N centre N centre NE 800 km north
NW N centre N centre NE 400 km north
SW S centre S centre SE 0.1 km

Conversion scripts

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Conversion? The maths, although tedious, is only algebra and trigonometry. Work your way through this lot:

  • Introduction - includes link to a spreadsheet
  • convert.c - both way conversions. This converted very easily into oscoor_a.htm (see next link) so would probably convert to other scripts equally easily
  • The javascript that template:OS coord calls - converts Grid Refs to lat/long. Includes links to more C code at York and the Ordnance Survey guide to conversion
  • Egil's code for what template:coord calls - transversemercator.php is the one of interest. Ie. converts lat/long to Grid Refs
  • Ordnance Survey spreadsheet - I have never got into this to understand it
  • Geotools - an open source Java GIS toolkit - only 5 Mbytes of source code for you to study - if you speak Java
  • My Furl may contain other stuff

Since you like to position your dots precisely, you need to be aware that "coord" and "OS coord" are both likely to give 140 metre discrepancies between their coordinates and those used in other places, eg. multimap - see note in this paragraph.

 
Map sources for RHaworth/sandbox at grid reference SD123456
 
 
Map sources for RHaworth/sandbox at grid reference SD123456


Feed

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It is sung by The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, KCB (First Lord of the Admiralty) with the female chorus of the First Lord's sisters, cousins and aunts echoing the last lines of each verse. (It is almost as though Gilbert anticipated that the operetta would become very popular with amateur companies - such a chorus can provide parts for all females in the company who have not been given a named part and can accommodate all ages!) In the first production George Grossmith played Sir Joseph.

The song viciously satirises William Henry Smith.

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Grim's Ditch

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http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Bradenham+Grim%27s+Ditch+Chambersgreen+Darvishill&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

  • Bradenham (SU831984) 0 posts
  • Grim's Ditch - Chambersgreen Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork (SP900073) 0 posts
  • Grim's Ditch - Darvishill (SU828995) 0 posts
  • Grim's Ditch - Great Hampden Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork (SP835023) 0 posts
  • Grim's Ditch - Lacey Green (SP826003) 0 posts
  • Grim's Ditch - Longcroft (SP917086) 0 posts
  • Grim's Ditch - Parslow's Hillock (SP830015) 0 posts
  • Grim's Ditch - Pitstone Hill Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork (SP949142) 0 posts
  • Grim's Ditch - Redland End (SP845026) 0 posts
  • Grim's Ditch - Woodlands Park (SP891035) 0 posts

Harrow

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The Pirates of Penzance (near start of Act II) Major General Stanley admits buying his ancestors. It was Frederick Goodall who brought the statue of Charles II to Grimsdyke - see [7] and this Grim's Dyke Hotel page.

knotted cord, rope stretcher, itrw, pes, Image:3kr.jpg

Whittet in ANE digest, Vol 1 #25

zopa

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What does the Zopa symbol mean?

This shows you whether your offer is in or out of the Zopa – the zone of possible agreement. If your offer is higher than the rate accepted by the last 5 borrowers in that market, then you are out of the Zopa. If your offer is lower than the highest rate accepted by the last 5 borrowers, you are in the Zopa. Being in the Zopa will mean your money gets lent out as fast as possible.

Ditcham / Denvilles

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york

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Woolly thinking

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You shot yourself in the foot by creating Thomas wooltorton and I assumed that Geogre's Law applied. Also, a specific rejection at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/2006-08-21 did not help.

Now why not try again. Create Thomas Wooltorton which already has one incoming link. Flesh the article out a bit more with simple things like his date of birth!, a couple of external links and a category. You will probably find that it sticks without any problem. -- RHaworth 18:49, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Molyneux

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1851 erections

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Here is a complete (I hope) list of the points where waterways or railways cross the Metropolitan Police District boundary. Nail numbers are found in this list.

Nail
No.
Type
*
Grid Ref. Status
? ? TQ 499 815 n/e? Mouth of the Beam River (or wherever the boundary met the Thames)
? ? TQ 501 827 n/e? Between Dagenham Dock and Rainham railway stations on the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, circa 1856
? ? TQ 517 855 n/e Between Dagenham East and Elm Park stations on the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway, circa 1892
3 4a TQ 490 878 RWH image
10 4c TQ 452 977 ? Loughton and Ongar Branch of the Great Eastern Railway
20 1 TL 373 050 RWH Lea Navigation
21 4c TL 369 051 RWH image
? ? TL 308 046 n/e The Hertford Loop Line did not open until 1871 or later (Nail No. 25, Type 2c is near where the obelisk would have been.)
31 4c TL 243 027 IoE
42 5 TL 161 007 ?
45 4 TQ 117 966 IoE repaired and relocated
50 5 TQ 123 922 ? Listed by IoE but no photo
52 5 TQ 092 921 IoE
60 1 TQ 047 932 IoE
69 1 TQ 048 807 RWH image
70 4a TQ 052 801 ?
71 5 TQ 052 800 ?
82 4d TQ 018 738 RWH
83 - TQ 032 715 RWH The London Stone (Staines) - image
87 4d TQ 036 713 RWH
97 1 TQ 116 689 IoE
102 4b TQ 140 658 RWH
111 5 TQ 148 618 RWH
121 4a TQ 193 597 IoE
? ? TQ 275 578 n/e The Tattenham Corner Line did not open until 1893 (Nail No. 160, Type 2* is near where an obelisk might have been.)
165 4 TQ 289 567 missing
170 4c TQ 340 581 RWH
173 5 TQ 353 570 missing
197 5 TQ 463 646 WSN
206 4b TQ 505 681 RWH
215 5 TQ 524 747 ?
216 4c TQ 531 751 IoE
217 1 TQ 540 781 IoE

Count
IoE
RWH
WSN
Recent images available: Images of England / RHaworth / Wheeler Systems
missing RHaworth has looked for these and failed to find them
? No information
n/e No obelisk expected - line built after 1861

Established

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The criterion for being an "established" Wikipedian appears to be: at least 150 mainspace edits. See this for example.

Available mentors

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To find an available mentor, click the arrows at the top of the first column (Number of mentees) to order the mentors by how many mentees they already have. That will make it easier to find mentors with available slots.

Number of mentees Mentor Name Profile Mentees
0 (max 1.2, for now)  
Copter of the WikiSkies Hello, my name is WikiCopter (talk · contribs). I have been editing the project for a couple of years, under two accounts: WikiCopter and AirplanePro (talk · contribs). AirplanePro is now retired, and WikiCopter carries his ancient banner onwards in the encyclopaedia, learning more and gaining experience along the way. I have written a couple of GAs,   CAM ship and     Arado E.381. So long!
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RHaworth (talk · contribs) I am Roger W Haworth from Croydon, south London. I have been an admin here for five years. I spend a lot of time on new page patrolling so I have a very good idea of what turns deletionists on - or I can advise people how to avoid those pitfalls. You can contact me on my user talk page or I am happy to be contacted by telephone.

Haweswater Aqueduct

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AfC purgation

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation

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id1RHaworth is
evaluating CSD:G13
eligible AfC drafts
id2

 

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ginny Weasley contains my "not an AfC submission" notice.

  • 2013 Oct 30 - 47,129
  • 2013 Nov 01 - 46,091
  • 2013 Nov 04 - 44,644
  • 2013 Nov 08 - 43,274
  • 2013 Nov 17 - 41,855
  • 2013 Nov 21 - 40,070
  • 2013 Nov 25 - 37,978
  • 2013 Dec 05 - 30,182
  • 2013 Dec 09 - 28,104
  • 2013 Dec 11 - 26,777
  • 2013 Dec 20 - 22,019
  • 2013 Dec 26 - 19,650
  • 2013 Dec 31 - 17,972
  • 2014 Jan 02 - 18,690
    losing ground
  • 2014 Jan 10 - 17,422
  • 2014 Jan 16 - 15,164
  • 2014 Jan 20 - 13,841
  • 2014 Jan 27 - 11,503
  • 2014 Jan 29 - 9,789
  • 2014 Feb 02 - 7,156
  • 2014 Feb 07 - 4,590
  • 2014 Feb 11 - 3,216
  • 2014 Feb 17 - 2,539
     
  • 2014 Mar 24 - 4,212
  • 2014 Apr 26 - 4,950

My personal coal face - as at 2014 Apr 26 contains ~330 entries. Max. per page appears to be 345 - I suspect this is a limit of 400 but applied before hideredirects is applied

Stale drafts

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Using this tool. See also MusikBot's stale drafts report.

  • 2016 Jun 02 ~ 4000
  • 2016 Jun 03 - 2500
  • 2016 Jun 03 - a lot more now I am using a proper last edit measure
  • 2016 Jun 12 ~ 6660 for 200+ days old
  • 2016 Jun 20 - completed scan of 600+ day items

H4 heading for CSS testing

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Nothing to say.

Browser comparison

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How does browser handle a link to a PDF?

Desktop Tablet
Chrome embeds downloads
Internet Explorer   embeds n/a
Firefox embeds downloads
Asus browser n/a downloads
Safari embeds n/a
Opera embeds downloads
Lynx downloads   n/a

But note that some websites may frustrate this. For example, this page sends an HTTP header of "Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=John Barlow.pdf" which forces Opera to try and save it. Firefox offers the choice of open with Adobe Reader or save it.

Jo Rowntree

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The current list gives:

** new - replacing:

who are still visible in this list.

Timanne

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