User:MichaelMaggs
Retired UK and European patent attorney specialising in physics and computer-related inventions, with qualifications in physics and law; occasional Librivoxer and photographer; currently local museum chair. Past wiki roles have included admin and bureaucrat on Commons, chair of Wikimedia UK, organiser of Wiki Loves Monuments in the UK, and jury member for various Wiki Loves photo contests.
I am the operator of ShortDescBot, a bot to add and improve short descriptions.
- Gallery of photographs, by subject
- See my Commons photographs
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Useful Wiki pages
[edit]Templates
[edit]Links
[edit]- Template:Template link expanded {{tlx|xxxx}}
Problems
[edit]- Template:Unreferenced - for articles with no sources at all {{Unreferenced}}
- Template:Unreferenced - for sections with no sources {{Unreferenced section}}
- Template:More citations needed {{More citations needed}} or {{Refimprove}}
Layout
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- Can be used not only for poetry but also prose where the paragraph structure should be maintained
- Template:Section link {{Section link|pagename#sectionname}}
- Template:lang Early modern English {{lang|en-emodeng| text }}
Citation
[edit]- Help:Citation Style 1
- Template:Cite web
- Template:Cite book
- Template:Cite journal
- Template:Cite conference
- Template:Cite magazine
- Template:Cite news
- Template:Cite report
- Template:Cite techreport - manual only
- Template:Sfn
- Up to 4 authors can be included in the cite, eg {{sfn |Burnett |Nunes |2021 |loc=section 1}}
- To fix an error of the type "Harv warning: There is no link pointing to this citation. The anchor is named CITEREFChisholm1911", create an sfn inline reference like this: {{sfn |Chisholm |1911}}
- Template:Citation
- Template:Cite legislation UK
- Template:Cite OED {{Cite OED |xxxwordxxx |access-date= xxx }}
- Template:Cite ODNB {{Cite ODNB |title= ODNBarticlename |doi= |last= |first= |author-link= |freearticle= }}
- If doi is not present, use |id= ODNBarticlenumber instead
- |freearticle=y adds a green open padlock icon to the reference
- No need to record access date
External sources
[edit]- Template:Internet Archive {{Internet Archive|id= |name= }}
- Template:Internet Archive author {{Internet Archive author |sname= }} Best results using full name as sname
- Template:Gutenberg book {{Gutenberg |no= |name= }}
- Template:Gutenberg author {{Gutenberg author |id= |name= }}
- Template:Librivox book {{Librivox book |title= |author= }}
- Template:Librivox author {{Librivox author |id= |title= }} Title is author name; get id from URL
Policies and Guidelines
[edit]- Wikipedia:Policy Library
- Wikipedia:List of policies
- Wikipedia:List of guidelines
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view
- Wikipedia:Verifiability
- Wikipedia:Reliable sources
- Wikipedia:Shortcuts
- Wikipedia:Three-revert rule
- Wikipedia:External links
- WP:LINKSTOAVOID including pages that primarily exist to sell products or services
- Wikipedia:Etiquette
- Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not
- WP:NOTCOMPULSORY – no requirement to give more time and effort than you wish
Writing articles
[edit]- Wikipedia:The perfect article
- Wikipedia:Lead section
- Wikipedia:Guide to layout
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style
- Wikipedia:Footnotes
- Wikipedia:Citing sources
- Wikipedia:Citing sources/example style
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Novels
Images
[edit]- Wikipedia:Image use policy
- Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
- Wikipedia:Image description page
- Wikipedia:Non-free content
Other
[edit]Vandalism
[edit]Essays
[edit]- Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
- WP:OTHERCONTENT – shouldn't add bad content just because other content exists
- Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid on discussion pages
- WP:OTHERSTUFF – shouldn't keep a bad article just because it's similar to another article
Other
[edit]Articles for deletion
[edit]Pending changes review
[edit]Tools
[edit]- Run Javascript Wiki Browser (instructions; note that the generate options are OR, not AND)
- FindLink - add links to articles
- WikiGet - command line tool to get plain list of articles for bots
Other resources
[edit]Projects
[edit]- Wikipedia:Wikiproject Short description
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels
Personal
[edit]Being right isn't enough
[edit]Violations of Wikipedia's behavioral expectations are not excused on the grounds that the editor who violated those expectations has the correct position on an underlying substantive dispute or the interpretation of policies and guidelines within those disputes. Those expectations apply universally to all editors, and violations of those expectations are harmful to the functioning of the project, irrespective of the merits of an underlying substantive dispute.
(Part of the 2025 unanimous decision of the Arbitration Committee in WP:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Palestine-Israel articles 5#Being right isn't enough)
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