User:Rogerd/useful tips

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This
is
an
example
of how

outdenting

works

Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)#Subsequent uses of names see [1]

Coordinates:

Get Latitude and Longitude values from Google Maps

  • javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));
  • {{coord|40.758923| -73.965116|scale:4000|display=title}}


{{DEFAULTSORT:Lastname, Firstname}}

use {{Lifetime|birth|death|Sortkey}}

  • birth can be a year or MISSING
  • death can be a year or LIVING or MISSING
  • {{Lifetime|1950|LIVING|Skillman, Becky}}
  • {{Lifetime|MISSING|LIVING|Curci, Fran}}
  • {{Lifetime|1915|2007|Tibbets, Paul}}

My RFAs

common edit summaries

  • removed "first name basis" wording per [[MoS:BIO]] - reads as if the author knows the subject personally
  • remove extraneous links and piping per [[MoS:DP]]
  • remove extraneous links per [[MoS:DP]]
  • remove academic title per [[WP:CREDENTIAL]]
  • was -> is - there is at least one survivor
  • was -> is (they still exist)

other stuff