User:Jaydiem/Notes

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Wikipedia resources and meta-articles[edit]

And this is cool...

...and this is super-cool!

Examples of stylized names ("trademarks")[edit]

This is a list of examples that are useful in evaluating the appropriateness, and analyzing the interplay, of Wikipedia editing policies and guidelines concerning how stylized names are to be rendered in article titles and in the text of articles. The relevant policies are MOS:TM and WP:AT (particularly WP:UCN and WP:TITLETM).

  • Deadmau5 ~ Deadmaus
  • TeX ~ Tex? Tech?
  • Face/Off ~ Face Off? FaceOff? Faceoff?
  • TidBITS ~ Tidbits
  • Se7en ~ Seven
  • Numb3rs ~ Numbers
  • InterTAN ~ InterTan?

Thoughts on the "Lightweight markup language" article[edit]

It seems to me that in this article, we aren't distinguishing sufficiently between markup languages per se and the software tools that parse and make use of them. Some of the MLs featured in this article are relatively independent, while others are all-but-unused outside of one particular software tool, making them seem more like a file format.

Q: What's the difference between the descriptions file format and markup language? Certainly not all FFs are MLs, but are all MLs also FFs? (In other words, are MLs a subset of FFs?) Are there (or could there be) MLs which are not also FFs? Consider FFs in which the (uncompressed and unencrypted) data is stored in plaintext — are they necessarily MLs? Examples/counterexamples?

Italicization of article titles[edit]

What exactly determines (from a technical standpoint) whether an article title is displayed in italics? It not based on markup within the title text itself.

Aha, here's the answer! Wikipedia:Article titles#Italics and other formatting (WP:ITALICTITLE)

Distance from Canada to Europe[edit]

The great-circle distance from Canada (as calculated by Google Maps) is:

(* I know Africa is not Europe, but what the heck?)

Westernmost point of Iceland[edit]

The following articles should probably be merged:

By way of analogy, these article topics equate to the longest finger, the tip of the longest finger, and the fingernail at the tip of the longest finger. A useful source that explains all this is here.

Interesting: According to Google Translate, Icelandic bjarg = 'cliff' or 'rock'; tangar = 'rod' or 'middle finger'; látra = 'false' or 'incorrect'.

Disambiguation pages and redirection[edit]

I just noticed that the article Lyme is a (pure) disambiguation page, and that Lyme (disambiguation) redirects to it. This puzzles me; it seems that the reverse should be true (and usually is, in my experience). I need to check the existing WP guidelines to see if this type of situation is addressed.

A little prehistory[edit]

In the week or so just before I became registered user "Jaydiem", I made a few edits as unregistered IP user "70.248.169.61" (talk).

Quote attributed to Masahiko Kimura (bonsai artist)[edit]

I came across the following attributed quotation today:

To quote the famous bonsai master Masahiko Kimura: "Very few understand the significance of imperfection in art."

— Source

I tried very hard to find any corroborating evidence of this quotation on the Web, but I was unsuccessful. It's a cool quote, and if I could find a reliable source to authenticate it, I'd be happy to post it to Wikiquote, and perhaps add it to the Wikipedia article about Mr. Kimura as well.

I'm going to post this to the talk page of Mr. Kimura's article in the hope of getting help with finding a reliable source for the quotation. — Jaydiem (talk) 04:06, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Inconsistencies among Coreidae-related articles[edit]

I've noted a number of inconsistencies in article naming, redirects, and common names given—and a possibly misidentified photo—among various articles on insects in the family Coreidae. (I have the details recorded off-Wiki.)

A good place to go for assistance with getting this cleaned up may be Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Insects.

Requests for permissions (July 2014)[edit]

Here are links to my recent requests to be granted the "Reviewer" and "Rollback" permissions:

Reviewer[edit]

 Done, please try to actually use this by visiting Special:PendingChanges often; if you're not sure of an edit just skip it. — xaosflux Talk 12:21, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Rollback[edit]

 Not done While you are reverting things, rollback applies to blatant vandalism. You do a fair amount of good faith reverting. I'm concerned that those good faith reverts will be hit now by the rollback button. I don't see enough reversion of blatant vandalism to grant the tools here. Please immerse yourself in anti-vandal work and familiarize yourself with WP:ROLLBACK and it's uses, and down the road I have no objection to a new request. -- DQ (ʞlɐʇ) 02:36, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

The Yogurt Principle[edit]

I just discovered User:Born2cycle's interesting—and apparently, very controversial—essay entitled, "The Yogurt Principle". I'd like to give it a careful reading and analysis when I have time.

AddPortletLink() vs. mw.util.AddPortletLink()[edit]

I need to read up on the documentation for the older, deprecated AddPortletLink() statement as well as the newer, favored mw.util.AddPortletLink() statement. How do they differ? Will syntax used with the former still work properly with the latter?

Related discussion: WP:Village pump (technical)/Archive 128#Customizing top-of-page navigation links

Links to the documentation for both the old and new statements were provided in the above discussion:

Redrose64 points out that the "mySandbox" gadget uses mw.util.addPortletLink() to do what it does. Tangentially related to this is the beta "Compact Personal Bar" gadget currently in development at MediaWiki. The project's discussion page is here: MW:Talk:Compact Personal Bar; a couple of particularly relevant threads are here and here.

2014 Wikipedia Workshop Facilitator Training coming up soon[edit]

Just saw this bulletin on my Watchlist page: There's a Wikipedia:2014 Workshop Facilitator Training coming up a month from now in Washington, DC. There are ten slots and, assuming funding is granted by the Wikimedia Foundation, all travel and lodging expenses will be paid for! You just have to apply; see the linked article for details.

Spanish-language translation/learning websites that lack WP articles[edit]

Wikipedia presently has no article on either of the following websites:

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