Boruch Baum

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Wikipedia style

Book:Wikipedia Manual of Style Wikipedia:Manual of Style Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style Manual of Style tutorial—a quick introduction to the style guide for articles. Beginners' guide to the Manual of Style—a trimmed-down version of the main Manual of Style page Contributing to Wikipedia—a page that provides information and resources on the basics needed to use, comment on, and contribute to Wikipedia. Better articles—guidance on how to make articles better. Styletips—a list of advice for editors on writing style and formatting. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Reading schedule Category:Wikipedia content guidelines

Cite table

Short version of Citation templates, Citing sources, Footnotes

Do refer to the template for each, because there are many other possible parameters, to cover many other cases, and examples are often provided. This is a modified table based upon one from User:Humus sapiens.

template: {{cite book}} {{cite book  | last =  | first =  | authorlink =  | title =  | publisher =  | series =  | volume =  | edition =  | date =  | location =  | pages =  | language =  | url =  | doi =  | id =  | isbn =  | mr =  | zbl =  | jfm = }}

template: {{cite journal}} {{cite journal  | last =  | first =  | authorlink =  | title =  | journal =  | volume =  | issue =  | pages =  | publisher =  | location =  | date =  | language =  | url =  | jstor =  | issn =  | doi =  | id =  | mr =  | zbl =  | jfm =  | accessdate = }}

template: {{cite news}} {{cite news  | last =  | first =  | title =  | newspaper =  | location =  | pages =  | language =  | publisher =  | date =  | url =  | accessdate = }}

template: {{cite web}} {{cite web  | last =  | first =  | authorlink =  | title =  | work =  | website =  | publisher =  | date =  | url =  | format =  | doi =  | accessdate =  | archiveurl =  | archivedate = }}

template: {{cite encyclopedia}} {{cite encyclopedia  | title =  | encyclopedia =  | volume =  | pages =  | publisher =  | date =  | id =  | accessdate = }}

How to do editing stuff

dates and ranges	Shortcut to page in Manual of Style: MOS:NUM (Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers) Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist ... markup: 12{{nbsp}}February 1809{{snd}}19{{nbsp}}April 1882 or 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882 using templates: {{BCE|link|686}} → 686 BCE; {{CE|link|2015}} → 2015 CE {{Circa|2015}} → c. 2015 {{daterange|May 2014|April 2015}} → May 2014 to April 2015
quotations	{{quote}}, {{quote box}}, {{quote frame}}, {{pull quote}}, {{block indent}}
cite Tanakh	{{bibleverse-lb||book-name|ch:verse|HE}} separate link for wikipedia article for the sefer supports range of verses in format n-m first parm is used for multi-volume books (eg. Samuel, Chronicles)
link to Hebrew wikipedia	[[:he:מחיר יין|Mechir Yayin]] for this: Mechir Yayin If you want to link to other pages only if an English-language article doesn't exist: {{illm|Jokery|fr|Blague|hu|Vicc|de|Witz}} for this: Jokery To link to all other languages: {{illm|Jokery|WD=Q131138}} for this: Jokery Find the WD field by going to wikidata.org and searching for the term
foreign words	{{lang-he|'''אמונה'''}} yields: Hebrew: אמונה
symbols	non-breaking space = & nbsp;  ; ndash = & ndash;  ; mdash = & mdash;
proounciation	Help:IPA; Help:IPA for English WP:IPAE; Help:IPA for Hebrew {{IPA}} offers the complete phonetic set, an easy-to-fill single field, but no auto-link to the help page: {{IPA|/ˈkærəktɚz/}} for: /ˈkærəktɚz/ {{IPA|/[[Help:IPA for English|ˈkærəktɚz]]/}} for: /ˈkærəktɚz/ The localizations of the IPA template do auto-link to the help page, but also force the text into square brackets: {{IPA-he|ʃlɵ.mɵ bɛn jɛ.ˈhuː.də|pron}} for: pronounced [ʃlɵ.mɵ bɛn jɛ.ˈhuː.də] {{IPA-ar|ɑː.ˈbuː ɑːʕ.ˈʕuːb|pron}}) for: pronounced [ɑː.ˈbuː ɑːʕ.ˈʕuːb] (Arabic: أبوأيوب) {{IPAc-en}} offers variants for national versions of English, auto-inserts the "/" delimiter and help link, but is limited to English sounds and requires a separate field for each phonetic element. {{IPAc-en|,|d|aʊ|_|'|dʒ|əʊ|n|z}} for: /ˌdaʊ ˈdʒoʊnz/ ("Dow Jones")
remove <ref> clutter	In section "notes"   1. insert template {{reflist|refs=   2. insert <ref name=ref_name>{{cite .... }}</ref> for each <ref>   3. close the template with }} In the article   1. refer to the citations using format <ref name=ref_name/>   2. followed by {{rp|''page(s)''}}
display wikitext	<nowiki></nowiki>
maintain wysiwyg	<poem></poem>
superscript & color	<small><sup><span style="color:green;">text</span></sup></small> yields text
math	Help:Math {{math}} Rendering math $e=mc^{2}$ <math>e=mc^2</math> e = mc2 {{math|1=''e'' = ''mc<sup>2</sup>''}} f(x) = bx = y {{math|1=''f''(''x'') = ''b''<sup>''x''</sup> = ''y''}} (√2)2 = 2 {{math|1=({{sqrt|2}})<sup>2</sup> = 2}} sin π = 0 {{math|1=sin π = 0}} ∫+∞ 0 e−x dx = 1 {{math|1={{intmath|int|0|+∞}} ''e''<sup>−''x''</sup> d''x'' = 1}} 1/2 − 1/3 = 1/6 {{math|1={{sfrac|1|2}} − {{sfrac|1|3}} = {{sfrac|1|6}}}} |x| = |y| {{math|1={{mabs|x}} = {{!}}y{{!}} }}
convert units	{{Convert|14|m|ft}} → 14 metres (46 ft) {{Convert|14|km}} → 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) {{Convert|641|km2|ha sqmi}} → 641 square kilometres (64,100 ha; 247 sq mi)
edit only the lead section of an article	Click "edit" for any section and, in the resulting URL, replace the trailing &section=n with &section=0 before re-loading the page.
timeline histogram	see here
make columns	use tables, html, or use templates: newest & feature-est (try first): {{div col}} content {{Div col end}} floats around stuff: {{col-float}} text for column 1 {{col-float-break}} text for column 2 {{col-float-end}} an improvement over {{col}}: {{multicol-break}} text for column 1 {{multicol-break}} text for column 2 {{multicol-end}} oldest & primitive-est): {{col-begin}} {{col-break}} text for column 1 {{col-break}} text for column 2 {{col-end}}
avoid using HTML	<br><br> → {{break|2}} ; <pre></pre> → {{pre|text}}
substitution	{{cn|{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}}}} becomes {{cn|May, 2024}}

How to do other stuff

reply to someone	{{reply to|User1|User2-7|prefix=|c=}} Message text. ~~~~ prefix= custom prefix before first recipient (def: "@"; useful alt: "Hi, ") c= custom conjunction for final of multiple recipients (def: "and"; useful alt: "or"; when blank: ",")
perform a redirect	Place at the top of the page: "#REDIRECT [[target_page]]". select at least one Redirect Template (WP:TMR); see also WP:RCAT (Categorizing redirects) Use {{subst:long comment}} on very short articles (smaller than about 120 characters) which are legitimately that short, for example very short disambiguation pages or articles consisting only of {{wiktionary redirect}}.
make disabiguation page	see MOS:DISAMBIG. Use {{disambig}}
find a deleted page	Use deletionpedia or ask on wikipedia itself (forgot where)
outdent a discussion thread	use the {{Outdent}} template. For example indent 4 (using "::::") outdented (using {{outdent|4}})
see a user's contributions	See his/her contributions at: Special:Contributions/user_name
see a user's statistics	Use the following link: https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pcount/index.php?name=Boruch_Baum&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia but change the user name first!
find a specialist	search for a related WikiProject. eg. for accounting, search for WP:WikiProject Accounting, and then find Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Business/Accounting task force (courtesy:User:ColinFine)
get page traffic	http://stats.grok.se/ (Wikipedia article traffic statistics)
auto-cite from google books	https://reftag.appspot.com/ (Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books)

Wikipedia contributions

Articles created

Following is a list of articles which I've created (not including redirects), presented in alphabetical order. The most recent article I wrote is a short page for Tractate (it had existed prior, but as a disambiguation page).

1. History of the Jews in Kairouan
2. Primary direction
3. Tractate (it had existed, but only as a disambiguation page)

Articles improved

Following is a partial list of articles to which I contributed, presented in alphabetical order

1. Aflatoxin
2. Alice's Restaurant
3. Articles for deletion - added step-by-step instructions for "non-administrator close"
4. Azharot
5. Book of Isaiah - reverted. shame. Here was my version. Here was the short discussion surrounding the revert. I was/am too new at this to know whether the reverter was justified, and no one backed me up, so I let it slide, at least until I learn more of what's legit on Wikipedia. My sense, just from reading other articles, is that with a fight, my edits could have stuck.
6. Celestial longitude
7. City University of New York - e.g. sortable table of notable alumni
8. Cyrus the great
9. Dartmouth Medal
10. Djerba
11. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
12. Halukkah - major rewrite
13. Hawaii - There exists a mess of pages with overlapping content that could be combined, reorganized, renamed. I made a few incremental improvements.
14. Help:IPA - easy copy/paste column of symbols
15. History of the Jews in Bulgaria
16. History of the Jews in Croatia
17. Hylomorphism - inclusion of Neoplatonic notion of universal hylomorphism
18. List of conjunctions (astronomy) - page should be renamed to "List of planetary conjunctions"
19. Kapparot -major rewrite
20. Kaspiysk
21. Mimouna
22. Oescus - turned skeletal stub into real article
23. Office of Foreign Assets Control - e.g. table of targets for each sanctions program
24. Rabbit Hash, Kentucky
25. Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)‎
26. Senior Sachs
27. Solomon ibn Gabirol - major rewrite
28. Sullivan and Cromwell
29. Surgut
30. Tashlikh
31. Terefah
32. Tiergarten (park)‎
33. Tikkun Olam - but its still a mess
34. U.S. uniformed services pay grades - added tables of the actual salary $$$

work in progress

1. List of conjunctions (astronomy) - page should be renamed to List of planetary conjunctions
2. Draft:Andrew_Penson - Once / if accepted:

* add redirects

* link to it from other articles

1. possible deletion of page List of kosher restaurants. See my talk page.
2. continue learning at Wikipedia:Help_desk#.22policy.22_v._.22content_guideline.22_-_WP:NOT_v._WP:NOTE.2C_WP:NFT
3. continue clean-up ofHistory of the Jews in Bulgaria
4. continue clean-up ofHistory of the Jews in Croatia

Links to other Wikipedians

• Guild of Copy Editors (WP:GOCE)
• List_of_Wikipedians_by_article_count
• User page design center - Hall of Fame

• AKS.9955 - I copied elements (eg. scrollable info-boxes) from Arun's well designed user-pages.
• Humus sapiens - I copied elements and content from here (ie. citation table, template and policy table), but needed to heavily alter it to possiblly be useful to me.
• Largoplazo - The message box at the top of my talk page was copied from him.
• Zozoulia - Way too much personal information, and a userbox junkie.
• Carlossuarez46 - I came across him while browsing User page Hall of Fame, and his page Slavic toponyms for Greek places gave me the idea for a page of Jewish toponyms.
• Wugapodes - Fan of using offline resources. Introduced me to Worldcat to find a reference library. Don't forget wikipedia's own access to online resources, via WP:LIB
• GrammarFascist - I haven't put this user to the test to know whether the name is just bluster.
• Tony1 - "professional editor and research consultant". His pages include "Self-help writing tutorials", and content on MOS. See his position on what he calls "overlinking", with which I strongly disagree (the purpose of a link is NOT to attract the user's eye to a "high-value link"; it is to inform the user of the existence of a relevant page, and to simplify navigation there). His position seems to have gained enough traction on English wikipedia that he has an automated bot to troll pages and delete links that don't meet his criteria. Mindless destruction (ie. bot deleting links) and a destructive presence.
• Editor2020 - has a useful-looking toollbox and noticeboard section, but I haven't made time to look closely.
• Qwertyus - has "one and only one" user box! (∃!). Check out the pages that he started!
• Marek69 - has some very cool markup features incorporated in his user page. Near the top of his page, he creates a table which incorporates the content of cascades of other pages by reference (beginning with references to pages {{:User:Marek69/Left}} and {{:User:Marek69/Main}}) and he makes liberal use of the {{hidden}} template.
• Apcbg (Lyubomir Ivanov) - Bulgarian mathematician, green party activist, and Antarctic explorer.
• Sam Sailor - extensive, I mean really extensive, glossary, navigation guide, lists of templates & boilerplates

Userboxes

• This user thinks userboxes are silly.
• This user thinks userboxes are dumb.
• This user thinks userboxes are generally difficult to read.
• This user thinks userboxes are an inferior method of communicating information.
• This user would like to start an organization of like-minded wikipedians:
  • The Textual Order of Userbox Naysayers
  • The ASCII Knights of Vt101 Users
  • The CLI Brotherhood of Tty Emulators
• This user is a member of the Jewish History Wikiproject.
• This user is a member of WikiProject Judaism

Possibly useful

This was originally a table copied from User:Humus sapiens, being made useful for me as I have time and inclination

Area	Shortcuts	Description
Other
		Article tags: {{inuse}} for pages actively undergoing a major edit • {{under construction}} for pages actively undergoing construction • {{abbreviations}} • {{cleanup}} • {{external links}} • {{No footnotes}} • {{Citations missing}} • {{Citation needed}} • {{Cleanup}} • {{copy edit}} • {{copypaste}} • {{Confusing}} • {{Inappropriate tone}} • {{incoherent}} • {{multiple issues}} • {{Notability}} • {{Not verified}} • {{original research}} • {{overlinked}} • {{peacock}} • {{POV}} • {{primary sources}} • {{puffery}} • {{refimprove}} • {{tone}} • {{Unreferenced}} • {{inline citations}} • {{unreferenced}} • {{verify}} • {{weasel}} • {{Wikify}} Section tags: {{OR section}} • {{Disputed-section}} • {{expand section}} to mark sections needing expansion • {{hatnote|text (eg: See also [[page]]}} Hatnotes help readers locate a different article they might be seeking. • {{POV-section}} • {{copy edit-section}} • {{expand section}} • {{fictionrefs}} • {{off-topic}} • {{in popular culture}} • {{ref improve section}} • {{unreferenced section}} • {{trivia}} Inline tags: Category:Inline citation and verifiability dispute templates • {{citation needed}} • {{clarify}} • {{failed verification}} • {{or}} • {{request quotation}} • {{syn}} • {{verify credibility}} • {{who}} • {{whom?}} • {{dispute-inline}}
Indices
	WP:TM	index of templates used within Wikipedia
	WP:TUSER	index of user (warning) templates (also WP:WARN)
	WP:A-Z	Editor's index to Wikipedia (also WP:EIW)
	WP:PROJDIR	Directory of English WikiProjects
	WP:TOOLS	for Browsing and editing, Searching, Downloading, Diffs, Finding responsible user, etc.
	WP:DIR	Wikipedia:Department directory
	WP:TIPS	Tips on how to use Wikipedia more effectively
	WP:HELP, WP:HD	Wikipedia help resources and help desk
Jewish
	WP:JEW/New	WikiProject Judaism In order to add a page to the project, add {{WikiProject Judaism}} to its talk page
	WP:JEW/A	Wikipedia:WikiProject Judaism/Assessment
	WP:JH	WikiProject Jewish history
Basics
	WP:TMM	Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
	WP:ENC	Wikipedia self description
	WP:NOT	What Wikipedia is not, including WP:NOTE (notability guidelines) and WP:NFT (things made up one day)
Style
	WP:MOS	Manual of Style
	WP:ERAS	Style for Dates and numbers
	WP:CR	Cleanup resources. See box at left of that page, and the instructions at each link.
	WP:POV	Maintain a Neutral point of view,
	WP:POVFORK	Avoid Content forking (separate articles treating the same subject). A point of view (POV) fork is a content fork deliberately created to avoid neutral point of view guidelines, often to avoid or highlight negative or positive viewpoints or facts. All POV forks are undesirable on Wikipedia, as they avoid consensus building and therefore violate one of our most important policies. May be marked with {{Lopsided}}, {{POV-statement}}, {{POV-check inline}}, {{POV-lead}}, {{POV-section}}, {{povititle}} {{POV}} Article, {{Systemic bias}}, other
	WP:WEASEL, WP:PEACOCK	Words to watch - certain expressions should be used with care, because they may introduce bias. May be marked with {{weasel}}, {{peacock}}, other.
	WP:ADVERT	Content that is written like an advertisement should have promotional content and inappropriate external links removed. May be marked with {{advert}}, other.
Sources
	WP:CITE	Citing sources
	WP:RS	Identifying reliable sources (also WP:RELIABLE)
	WP:LIB	The Wikipedia Library - helps editors access reliable sources to improve Wikipedia. (also WP:TWL)
	WP:V WP:TMV	Verifiability, also see complete list of related templates {{cn}} - [citation needed] {{dead link}} - [dead link] {{refimprove}}, {{not verified}} - creates article infobox in place: "article needs additional citations" {{verify source}} - [verification needed] labels ostensibly sourced text which appears doubtful or false; requests source verification; places articles into [[Category:Wikipedia articles needing factual verification]]. {{Unreferenced}} - creates article infobox in place: "does not cite any references" {{cite quote}} - [this quote needs a citation]
	WP:IUP	Image use policy
	WP:BRP	boilerplate text for requesting permission to re-use somebody else's content in Wikipedia
Deletions
	WP:DR	dispute resolution policy
	WP:DELPRO	Deletion process
	WP:GD	Guide to deletion
	WP:SPEEDY, WP:CSD	Criteria for speedy deletion In your own user space: put "{{db-userreq}}" at the top of the page
	WP:VANDAL	identifying and dealing with vandalism User warnings may be put on the mis-behaving user's talk page using these templates: {{subst:uw-v1}}, {{subst:uw-v2}}, {{subst:uw-v3}}, {{subst:uw-v4}}, {{subst:uw-v4im}}. More specific templates exist! See WP:TUSER
	WP:COPYVIO	identifying and dealing with copyright violations
	WP:NOR	No original research allowed! Mat be marked with {{originalresearch}}, other.
Wikitext		Basic Markup: Help:Wiki markup; Tables: simple guide, detailed guide
	WP:TRANS	Transclusion - inclusion of the content of one document within another document by reference.
Behavior	WP:TEA	Comment favorably on others contributions
	WP:DE	Dealing with disruptive editing, personal attacks
	WP:COI	Conflict of interest, including WP:PE, paid editing
	WP:BRD	Bold, Revert, Discuss is an less-than-optimally-desirable process of reaching consensus
	WP:RFP	Requests for page protection

Unusual Favorite articles

• Wikipedia:Unusual articles
• Sokal Affair
• List of Ig Nobel Prize winners