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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair (wikiquote)

Pennsylvania Railroad
Overview
HeadquartersPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
Reporting markPRR
LocaleChicago and St. Louis to New York City and Washington, DC
Dates of operation1846–1968
Technical
Track gauge4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

Toolbox

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Trying something based on a Japanese organization system I read about: each time I use one of these templates, I move it to the top.

  • Official website: {{official|www.barnesfoundation.org}}
  • Redirects: #REDIRECT [[Yale University]]
  • IABot (auto-find archive pages for cites): Analyze a page
  • {{anchor|tennallytownrockville}}
  • Inflation template:
    • (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|amount|year|r=0}}}} today{{Inflation-fn|US}})
    • US$17 million (about ${{Format price|{{Inflation|US|17000000|1889|r=-6}}}} today{{Inflation-fn|US}}): US$17 million (about $576 million today[1])
  • "Wikimedia Commons has material relating to" template: {{Commons category|Toledo, Ohio}}
  • Linking from WM Commons to WP: "Works cast by the [[w:Bureau Brothers|Bureau Brothers]], a foundry established in Philadelphia in the 1970s."
  • Inline conversion:{{convert|2.7|mi|km|abbr=off}}: " 2.7 miles (4.3 kilometres)"
  • {{Years ago|1910}}
  • Frequently cited sources

Master Templates page

{{Quote|Quote goes here.|Attribution goes here<ref>Cite goes here</ref>}}

Citations

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  • Citation templates
  • Help:References and page numbers#Inline page numbers / Help:List-defined references / Help:Footnotes
  • <ref name="germantownhistory" />{{rp|189}} produces [2]: 189 
  • Books (documentation): <ref name="NAME">{{cite book |title= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |year= |publisher= |location= |isbn= |page= |pages= |url= |accessdate=}}</ref>
    • The brontosaurus is thin at one end.<ref name=elk1972>{{cite book |last=Elk |first=Anne |title=[[Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses]] |date=November 16, 1972}}</ref>{{rp|5}} Then it becomes much thicker in the middle.{{r|elk1972|p=6–7}}
    • The brontosaurus is thin at one end.{{sfn|Elk|1972a|p=5}} Then it becomes much thicker in the middle.{{sfn|Elk|1972a|p=6–7}} ==Notes== {{reflist}} ==References== {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |last=Elk |first=Anne |title=[[Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses]] |date=November 16, 1972a}} {{refend}}
  • Website (documentation): <ref name="NAME">{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | work = | publisher = | date = | url = | format = | doi = | accessdate = }} </ref>
  • Publication: <ref name="NAME"> {{cite journal | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | journal = | volume = | issue = | pages = | publisher = | location = | date = | url = | doi = | id = | accessdate = }} </ref>
  • News (documentation): <ref name="NAME"> {{cite news |title= |first= |last= |newspaper= |date= |url= |accessdate=}}</ref>
  • {{who|date=April 2012}}[who?]
  • Citation bot instructions

Location

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  • WP:USPLACE: WP style on U.S. place names
  • GeoLocator: Get digital lat/long by zooming in and alt-clicking on location, then copy the autogenerated {{location dec}}
  • Location:
    • Template:Coord: {{Coord|LAT|LONG|display=title}}
    • {{coord|43.315624|-70.564756|type:landmark_region:US|format=dms|display=title}}
    • {{Location map |New York |label = Seneca Army Depot |label_size = 100 |lat = 42.754367 |long = -76.865845 }} {{coord|42.754367|-76.865845|display=title}}<nowiki>{{Location map |New York |label = Seneca Army Depot |label_size = 100 |lat = 42.754367 |long = -76.865845 }} {{coord|42.754367|-76.865845|display=title}}

Hatnotes

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  • Hatnote templates
    • Distinguish: {{Distinguish|foo|bar|something|baz}} (Not to be confused with foo, bar, something, or baz.)
    • About: {{About|the passenger train|other uses|Down Easter (disambiguation){{!}}Down Easter}} (This article is about the passenger train. For other uses, see Down Easter.)

Talk page

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  • {{Reply to|PRRfan}}
  • Unsigned-talkpage-comment attrib template: {{unsigned|[username]}}
  • Spam warning for user Talk pages: {{Uw-advert1}}
  • Ping someone (or someones): {{ping|Ɱ|Epicgenius}}

Model wiki-interactions

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How-to

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Working

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To do

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Nice gestures

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The Editor's Barnstar
For trimming the material on the page Iowa class battleship to its current and much improved version I herby award you The Editor's Barnstar. Keep up the good work! TomStar81 (Talk) 09:22, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For your assistance with copyeditting USS New Jersey (BB-62) while the article was up on the mainpage I herby award you The Editor’s Barnstar. Keep up the good work! TomStar81 (Talk) 00:27, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thanks for the relentless copyediting on the iPad article, its definitely been useful in making the article good. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 19:43, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For exceptional skill in editing, especially your significant reorganization and copyediting of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport Dan Dassow (talk) 09:56, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
The Writer's Barnstar
For recognition of your skill as a writer, seen in your improvements to Summit, New Jersey.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 13:09, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
The Teamwork Barnstar
For your work on Boston Marathon bombings. Bearian (talk) 22:25, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
Philadelphia Barnstar
For your work on the Mill Creek article. --evrik (talk) 03:36, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For your dedicated, extensive, and instructive editing of the Railroaders Memorial Museum page. Public Thing (talk) 16:37, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thank you for your help on Francis Pharcellus Church-- your copyediting was invaluable in catching the (number) of errors my rushed editing made, not to mention the great content you found, specifically (though not exclusively) by tracking down Bigelow-- great find! The article would not look near as good without your help, and I'm excited to see the article grace the main page come Christmas! As Church himself wrote; "Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world." I like to think that collaboration is one of those overlooked wonders. Happy holidays and I wish you all the best in the year to come! Eddie891 Talk Work 22:50, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
The Civility Barnstar
Thank you, PRRfan, for your work on the Springfield, Ohio page, and for being open to feedback. Kudos --Chimino (talk) 15:23, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

railroad bios

Thank you for quality articles such as Herman J. Lombaert and Henry J. Reilly, for beginning articles about historic places such as Strivers' Section Historic District, for quality copy-editing and adding to content on the way as for Francis Pharcellus Church, for your first DYK in 15 years of service, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2686 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:07, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

  1. ^ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference germantownhistory was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "NYT" (PDF).
  4. ^ "Mary Clark" (PDF). {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  5. ^ "sale of library" (PDF). New York Times.
  6. ^ "Endow prof". New York Times.
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