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==My user-name==
My user-name for many years was [[user:John Maynard Friedman]], which was my twist on an occasional urban myth about my home city, [[Milton Keynes]]. Despite the myth, MK is not named after [[Milton Friedman]] and [[John Maynard Keynes]].  The name is centuries old and comes from [[Middleton, Milton Keynes|that]] of an ancient village, now part of the [[Milton Keynes#Birth of a 'new city'|new city]].  Though it could be that JMK is descended from the ''[[Keynes family#History|de Cahaignes]]'', the Anglo-Norman family who once owned these parts.

Such a long-winded name seemed like a good idea at the time but had become irritating and I had been abbreviating it to 𝕁𝕄𝔽 in my sig for some time. It is now my user name.

The typeface I have used is [[blackboard bold]] (which was created for mathematicians, so I am an interloper). For its use as an identifier, I assert [[prior art]] over Twitter 2.0.

==Talk to me==
[[user talk:John Maynard Friedman|Leave a message on my talk page ->]]

==GAs and DYKs==
===Good Articles that I helped reach that status===
{{main|wp:Good articles}}
* [[History of Milton Keynes]]
* [[Milton Keynes]]
* [[Calendar (New Style) Act 1750]]
* [[John Ogilby]]
* [[Robert Hooke]]

===Did You Know features from these GAs===
* On [[Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/June#13 June 2019|13 June 2019]], '''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know]]''' was updated with  ''... that "one of the biggest concentrations of Bronze Age gold known from Britain" was found in archaeological investigations during the development of '''[[Milton Keynes]]'''?'' 
* On [[Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2021/March#25 March 2021|25 March 2021]], '''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know]]''' was updated with ''... that until the '''[[Calendar (New Style) Act 1750]]''' was passed, the new year began on 25&nbsp;March in England, Wales, Ireland, and Britain's American colonies?''
* On [[Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/September#15 September 2023|15 September 2023]], '''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know]]''' was updated with ''.. that '''[[John Ogilby]]''' saved the manuscript of his translation of the complete works of Virgil from destruction in a shipwreck by wrapping it in a waterproof cloth?''
* On [[Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2024/March#27 March 2024|27 March 2024]], '''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know]]''' was updated with ''... that in addition to his work as a scientist, '''[[Robert Hooke]]''' was an architect who designed the [[Monument to the Great Fire of London]] so that it could also have [[Monument to the Great Fire of London#As a scientific instrument|a practical value as a scientific instrument]]?''

==My useful links==
===Citations===
{{main|Wikipedia:Citing sources#Citation generation tools}}
* Multiple pages in the same sourcebook - [[WP:IBID]] and [[WP:CITEPAGE]] (help), especially [[Help:Shortened footnotes]] (using Harvard citations).
* [[Template:Google books]]
* References and footnotes: [[WP:References]], [[WP:Footnotes]] (use <nowiki> {{subst:Footnotes|100%}} </nowiki> )
** Template:Refn and #tag:ref
** templates: efn and notelist
* Use Refill to fix bare references see [[User:Zhaofeng Li/reFill]]
* Dead links restored using archive.org, archive.is or ghostarchive
* put longwinded cites in References section rather than embedded:
**{{xt|<nowiki>{{reflist|refs= </nowiki>}} then
**{{xt|<nowiki><ref name=</nowiki>}}
* Chasing down all instances of an unreliable or [[WP:LINKVIO]] source: {{tl|duses}} (e.g., {{duses|answering-islam.org}} )
* Getting a precise page citation from Google Books: see [[wp:GBOOKS]].
* use <code>|display-authors=etal</code> in cite books
* Inflation: how to specify as of when: <nowiki>Equivalent to about £{{inflation|UK-GDP|0.15|1700|r=0}} million in {{Inflation/year|UK-GDP}}.{{Inflation/fn|UK-GDP}}</nowiki> yields {{tq|Equivalent to about £{{inflation|UK-GDP|0.15|1700|r=0}} million in {{Inflation/year|UK-GDP}}.{{Inflation/fn|UK-GDP}} }} Good practice is to include {{tl|Inflation/fn|UK}} in the note as it explains what index is being used.
* link to other language WPs: {{tl|ill}}
* using {{tl|cite book}} in "further reading" can throw up false positives. Add {{code|1= ref=none}} to the string to avoid.
* <nowiki>date={{season|summer|1989}}</nowiki>
* [[:template:r]] is a quick way to shorten named refs and include chapter/section/page numbers.
** Also used to combine a number of named citations. e.g., <nowiki>{{r|Hsu 2023|Paddison 2023|McCarthy 2023|Sethi 2023}}</nowiki>
* When a Wikipedia article makes reference to a work that contains multiple chapters by different authors, bibliographies and reference sections can look rather cluttered: the solution is {{tl|harvc}}
* [[User:SMcCandlish/How to use the sfnp family of templates]]

====Bare URLs====
* [[WP:REFILL]]
** [[WP:ReFill#To use reFill yourself]]
* [[WP:REFLINKS]]
* [https://iabot.toolforge.org/ IABot Management Interface]

====Footnotes====
*{{cite book| url = https://academic.oup.com/past/article/149/1/95/1460442 | title= Calendar Reform in eighteenth-century England | last= Poole | first= Robert | date= 1995 | series= Oxford Academic Past & Present | at = p. 117, footnote 77}}
or
*{{cite journal | title = 'Give us back our eleven days!': Calendar Reform in eighteenth-century England | last= Poole | first= Robert | date= 1995 | journal= Past & Present | volume = 149 | issue = 1 | pages = 95–139 | doi = 10.1093/past/149.1.95 }} p. 117, footnote 77.

====Got title, need ISBN, publisher etc====
Following a link from an isbn= took me to [https://www.worldcat.org worldcat.org] and I found that it is far better than Google (or Amazon) when doing the reverse{{snd}} I have a title but I need its ISBN. It also gives publisher, location, date, translator{{snd}} just what one needs to complete a [[template:cite book]].

====Historic England====
[[:template:NHLE]]
* eg: {{NHLE| num= 1011298 | desc= Bradwell Bury: a moated site and associated manor house remains at Moat House | date= 4 November 1993 | accessdate= 6 April 2020}}

====VCH====
* {{cite book| chapter-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol5/pp127-142 |editor= Philip Riden and Charles Insley |chapter = Parishes : Furtho |publisher= [[Victoria History of the Counties of England]] |title= A History of the County of Northampton |volume = 5. The Hundred of Cleley | date= 2002 |pages= 127{{ndash}}142 |mode=cs2 |accessdate = 28 June 2020}}

* {{cite book |chapter-url= https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4/pp323-327 | chapter = Parishes : Cold Brayfield |series = [[Victoria History of the Counties of England]] | title= A History of the County of Buckingham |  volume= 4 | date=1927 | pages = 323{{ndash}}327 |editor-first= William |editor-last=Page |publisher= [[Constable & Robinson|Constable & Co. Ltd.]] | location = London }}

====Statutes at large====
* [https://alsatia.org.uk/site/2014/02/resource-acts-of-parliament/ Resource: The Acts of Parliament] at Alsatia

====Geography====
* {{cite web |title=Key to English place names |url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk |publisher=Institute for Name-Studies, [[University of Nottingham]] |access-date=11 April 2022}}

Maps and mapping
* [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=5&lat=56.0000&lon=-4.0000&layers=102&b=1&z=1&point=0,0 NLoS Find maps by place], down to 1:2500. 
* [[:template:cite map]]
**<nowiki><ref>{{cite map |author = Ordnance Survey | title =OS Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952 |map = Buckinghamshire XV (includes: Bletchley; Bow Brickhill; Walton.) | map-url = https://maps.nls.uk/view/102340115 |date = 1885 |scale = 1:10,560 |publisher = Ordnance Survey |via=National Library of Scotland }}</ref>
</nowiki>
* [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography/Archive 27#ordnancesurvey references]] re care to avoid [[WP:SYNTH]]

Getting metro area population from NOMIS
# https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/  then section headed '''Local Area Report'''
# Name of urban area and then '''Search''' ... Example: ''Bristol''
# Select the relevant built up area   ... Example: ''Built-up area (villages, towns or cities)'', ...''Bristol (in South West Region)'' (caution! not "Built-up area sub divisions (town or city sub divisions)").
# Get the GSS E number from the response ... Example: ''"This report covers the characteristics of people and households in Bristol Built-up area in South West (GSS code '''E34004965''')".''
# Plug into [[:template:NOMIS2011]] ... Example <nowiki>{{NOMIS2011|id=E34004965|title=Bristol BUA}}</nowiki> produces {{NOMIS2011|id=E34004965|title=Bristol BUA}} which reports "There were 617,280 usual residents as at Census day 2011".
# Wrap in ref tags and attach to figure in table.

====Book sources====
* [[Wikipedia talk:Book sources]]
* fix harv errors for unused citations by moving them to a Further Reading and appending {{code|1=ref=none}} to the citation.

====Finding CS1/2 errors====
* String {{code|CS1 maint:}}
* String {{code|1= = ignored}}

===Wlinking to an older instance of a page===
; template:diff
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AReliable_sources%2FPerennial_sources&type=revision&diff=983827787&oldid=983690192
:<nowiki>{{Diff|page|diff|oldid|label}}</nowiki>
:with {{Diff|Wikipedia:Reliable sources#Perennial sources|983827787|983690192|this diff}}, xyz
; template:oldid
"[ ... ] You can also use the {{tlx|oldid}} template: {{oldid|User:John Maynard Friedman/sandbox|826946445|my sandbox}} or go through a special page [[Special:Permalink/826946445|my sandbox]]." Gospel according to [[User:Redrose64|<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64]] &#x1f339;

===Antivandalism and other warnings===
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject User warnings]]
* [[:Category:Standardised user warning templates]] 
* [[Wikipedia:Requests for page protection]]
* [[Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism]] to request block
* Redaction: [[WP:REDACT]] (aka notcensored, go away); [[Wikipedia:Revision deletion]] for libel; [[WP:Oversight]]  e.g. for [[outing]] or [[doxing]] (prob via an admin, I assume).

* [[Wikipedia:Disruptive editing]]
* [[WP:Advocacy]]
* [[WP:AOBF]] (Accusing others of bad faith)
* [[WP:BMB]] Bans apply to all editing, good or bad
* Request deletion of a page created solely for vandalism (eg talk page): put <code><nowiki>{{db-g3}}</nowiki></code> at the top of the page.
* [[Wikipedia:Guidance for younger editors]]
* [https://copyvios.toolforge.org/ Earwig's Copyvio Detector] (Toolforge)

===Editing talk pages===
{{tl|od}} restart indent sequence
{{tl|Talk quote block}} for quotes in talk pages.

====IP editors====
* {{tl|Shared IP advice}}
* {{tl|subst:Xsign}} (wrapper for {{tl|Unsigned}} and {{tl|Unsigned IP}}). Takes input copied and pasted directly from the history tab as the first unnamed parameter. Don't incude the ''talk''|''contribs'' bit.
* {{tl|esp}} if responding to requests for changes to semi-protected pages. use subst:
* [[Wikipedia:Why create an account?|Why create an account?]]

===Obscure but useful links===
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Character Table 1]] Characters to avoid (and what to use instead)
* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Icons]] generalised [[MOS:FLAGS]] esp wrt infoboxes
* [[Talk:Muhammad/FAQ]] images and honorifics
* [[Use–mention distinction]] Foundational concept of analytical philosophy, according to which it is necessary to make a [[Dichotomy|distinction]] between {{em|using}} a word (or phrase) and {{em|mentioning}} it
* <nowiki>{{bots|deny=botname}}</nowiki> to fend off an overactive bot
* Product placement concerns: [[WP:NOTHATNOTE]] Trivial does not get hatnote. Obscure probably does is my reading.
* {{tl|GBP}} for simplified {{tl|inflation/UK}}: <nowiki>{{GBP|1000|1900|round=-2|about=yes|long=no}}</nowiki> =>  {{GBP|1000|1900|round=-2|about=yes|long=no}} not for CapEx etc.
* {{anli|Pareidolia}}
* {{anli|Veblen good}}
* {{tl|set index}} midway between a bare disambig and a full list article.
* {{tl|for multi}} hatnote template that produces a list of alternative uses for the title of the article
*  {{purge}} to flush the cache
* [[Template:Div col]]
* [[User:SD0001/easy-merge]] for merging articles
* [[Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1165#When writing an edit summary, is there a way to stop the enter key generating a "Publish"?]]
:It works!
* X v X (disambiguation): Judging by [[WP:DABNAME]] and [[WP:INTDABLINK]], X(d) should redirect to X if X is also a disambig (no primary topic).
* {{tq|you can search any namespace - enter your search term in the search bar, choose "search for pages containing <search term>", then expand the "Search in" dropdown, where you can remove the article namespace and add the Wikipedia namespace instead.}} ─ {{u|Tollens}}
* [https://wikinav.toolforge.org/?language=en&title=Telford WikiNav] (where do visitors go next, useful to identify [[WP:PRIMARYTOPIC]]).
* [[:Template:Emoji presentation]]
* {{tl|spaces}} for nbsp, thinspace, etc
* {{tl|wiktionary redirect}} redirect to Wiktionary
* [[User:Cacycle/wikEd]]
* {{tl|in title}}, e.g., {{in title|Topic}}
* [[Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Photography workshop]] for image clean-up, contrast/brightness issues etc.
* [[wp:No original research#What is not original research]] including [[WP:2+2=4]]

===Screen-reader ready===
{{quote|It just shouldn't rely on color and/or font alone; if it's marked up with {{tag|kbd}} (which indicates keystrokes or other textual input, and is more loosely spec-defined than {{tag|code}}), that's a sufficient HTML/CSS handle for anyone with a screen reader to tell their software to do something specific when encountering that element. But if there's no specific element, just some CSS coloring and/or font-family on a span, all screen readers will ignore it as irrelevant visual fluff. That would mostly be a problem when the content coincides with an English word like ''a'' or ''I'', though it would probably also affect punctuation characters (we need them to be interpreted {{em|as characters}} in and of themselves in these cases, not as part of the regular flow of the sentence; I think by default most screen readers would just ignore it as mis-placed punctuation (a typo), though some might even do something more wrong, e.g. misinterpret a single-quote character being presented as a glyph, as instead indicating the beginning of a quotation.  While not everyone with a screen reader will do something to distinguish {{tag|kbd|o}} markup, at least they have the option, and it won't be dependent on using a unique-to-WP CSS class, either, so easier to deal with on their end.|source = [[User:SMcCandlish|SMcCandlish]]}}

* [[MOS:PSEUDOHEAD]]
* "using {{tl|abbr}} instead of {{tl|tooltip}} creates semantic and accessibility issues" {{mdash}} {{U|Aaron Liu}}

===Excerpt===
Rather than outright copy the lead of another article, use {{tl|excerpt}} to replicate it automagically.

===Collapsible list===
* [[Template:Collapsible list]] aka {{tl|clist}}

===Better disambiguation articles and See also lists===
* {{tl|anli}}, appends the short description (aka {{tl|annotated link}}
* <nowiki>{{subst:AnnotatedListOfLinks| etc etc}}</nowiki> to convert a long See Also to use ALs.
but... [[Wikipedia talk:Short description/Archive 9#Length – 40 or 90 characters??]]

===Trouble at t'mill===
* [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)]]
* [[Wikipedia talk:Short description/Archive 9#Length – 40 or 90 characters??]]
* [[Wikipedia:Requests for oversight]] for enhanced revdels

==Things to follow up==
*  [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 June 9#Category:Political correctness]]
* finish census ref in parishes (E)
* [[talk:Bracket]]
* [[Flesch–Kincaid readability tests]]
* {{tl|chartab}} at [[talk:A]]

== Footnotes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{reflist}}