User: Tom.Reding

About

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For those without the leisure time required to read through my userboxes: former Astronomy grad student (MS), with another MS in Mechanical Engineering (focusing on alternative fuel use and maximizing efficiency in developing countries) and BSs in Physics and Mechanical Engineering, interested in galaxy-scale out to large-scale structure. I enjoy researching primary sources, adding missing information, fixing errors, making things look pleasing, ordered, and complete, taking & manipulating photos, standardization & consistency within articles, citations, and templates, and automation wherever (reasonably) possible. Being bludgeoned with perspective my entire academic life has taught me to not give a fuck, but in the best possible way. So please, assume good faith, then speak your mind, be brief and concise, don't be afraid to follow or break convention, as long as you're not a dick. You can expect the same.

Userboxes

What follows is an attempt to describe myself solely in user boxes. These will be used in lieu of immediate semi-permanent creative inspiration. For the sake of humanity, all user boxes have been hidden by default. You alone will be responsible for any life threatening or altering effects caused by reading this page in its entirety.

Babel

en-5 This user can contribute with a professional level of English. pl-1 Ten użytkownik posługuje się językiem polskim na poziomie podstawowym. This user is a native of the United States of America This user is of Polish ancestry

Educational/Professional

MSc This user has a Master of Science degree in Astronomy.	MSc This user has a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.	BSc This user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.	BSc This user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics.
This user has a minor in Biology.	This user is an academic.	This user is an engineer.

Productive Interests

This user is a member of WikiProject Astronomy.	This user is interested in Astronomy.	This user is interested in Space Sciences.	This user has a keen interest in physics.
Editing Wikipedia is something this user does as a hobby.	This user is constantly learning due to the existance of Wikipedia.	This user is really fascinated by the weather.	This user enjoys sailing and boating.
♦ This user is an advanced skier or snowboarder.	This user enjoys backpacking.	This user enjoys camping.	This user is an archer
This user plays ultimate.	This user plays tennis.	This user plays racquetball.	This user plays ultimate.
This user plays the piano.	This user plays the saxophone.	BASIC-2 This user is an intermediate BASIC programmer.	bat-1 This user is an occasional Batch programmer.
C-2 This user is an intermediate C programmer.	C++-2 This user is an intermediate C++ programmer.	C#-3 This user is an advanced C# programmer.	re-3 This user writes advanced regular expressions.
vb-2 This user is an intermediate Visual Basic programmer.	-1 This user is a beginner Mathematica programmer.	mircs-3 This user is an advanced mIRC scripter.	This user has been on Wikipedia for 8 years, 2 months and 1 day.
This user knows how AutoCAD works.	¼ You are one-quarter through this user's userboxes.	This user once used DOS back in the day.	m IRC This user uses mIRC for chatting on IRC.
This user writes games on his or her graphing calculator.	EDIT.COM_ This user contributes using MS-DOS Editor.	This user enjoys chess.	This user enjoys a rousing game of Trivial Pursuit.
This user enjoys playing Magic: The Gathering	This user kicks butt at Tetris.	This user loves knowledge.	This user is interested in science
This user is interested in higher education.	This user is an advanced mathematician.	This user is a skeptic.	This user enjoys singing.
choir This user sings in a choir.	This wikipedian is involved in FIRST Robotics	This user enjoys electronics or is an electronics hobbyist.	This user is interested in recycling

Opinions/Preferences/Personal

This user is a WikiSloth.	This user is a WikiCyclops.	This editor is a WikiGnome.	This user is a WikiCat, so please don't disturb them during their catnaps.
This user is a WikiChef.	DGAF This user does not give a fuck.	This user uses AutoWikiBrowser to quickly make repetitive edits.	This user uses HotCat.
Flexible This user deals with edits, deletion, and creation of pages individually instead of unilaterally and encourages others to do so.	This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality in all articles.	This user knows that everyone has points-of-view, and that admitting to and identifying one's own biases is the first step to achieving NPOV.	mankind This user supports the use of gender-neutral language.
by The passive voice may be used by this user.	When editing on Wikipedia, this user is a Wikipedian above all else.	This user is proud to be a Wikipedian.	Non nobis solum.
This user believes that anyone who thinks Wikipedia is an unreliable source should continue their quest to find a better website.	It's really pretty simple: → Remain neutral | Don't be a dick ← → Ignore all rules←	Thou/Ye This user wants to resurrect the T–V distinction in English.	their there they're This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!
your you’re This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you’re in need of help.	Majority ≠ right This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.	This user thinks good grammar is sexy.	A, B, and A and B This user uses the serial comma unless its inclusion is confusing.
. The This user does not put two spaces after a full stop.	This user terminates unquoted ellipses on sight. This is not your blog. We end sentences properly.	This user appreciates WikiLove.	“…” This user favors curly quotation marks over straight style.
"…"? This user thinks "British punctuation is best for quotation marks". Do you?	ə This user is a Grammar Nazi.	; This user is addicted to semicolons; he or she uses them frequently.	<ref> This user recognizes the importance of citing sources.
<ref> This user would like to see everyone using inline citations. Please...	This user finds copyright paranoia disruptive.	Ths usr cn rd & rt usn txt lng	This user is a hacker, or identifies with and promotes the hacker ethic.
This user can type 70 WPM.	½ You are halfway through this user's userboxes.	This user maintains a Facebook profile.	This user's news source is The Onion.
G This user will use Google before asking dumb questions.	This user lives in or is from Westchester County.	This user lives in, or hails from, New York City.	5.1 This user has a 5.1 channel surround sound speaker set-up for his/her computer.
This user has a quad monitor configuration	This user uses Wikipedia at work.	1920 x 1200 This user contributes at 1920 x 1200 resolution.	intel inside This user contributes with a computer based on the Intel Core i7 microprocessor.
ATI This user uses a Graphic Card powered by an ATI Radeon HD 6870 GPU.	This user contributes using Windows 7 x64.	This user contributes using Google Chrome.	This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.
This user contributes using Opera.	This user contributes while using Winamp.	This user is an omnivore.	This user prefers fudge-like brownies.
This user loves Indian food	User:EliminatorJR/Userboxes/Curry Addict	This user likes Mexican food	This user eats Garbage Plates.
This user drinks tea.	C2H5OH-2 This user drinks occasionally.	MEAD This user drinks mead.	This user drinks wines
User:Ehm1883/Userboxes/Calligraphy	This user can make The Spinning Dancer turn both ways.	This user admires all expressions of nature.	This user prefers warm weather.
This user prefers the metric system.	c = 1 This user uses natural units.	Don't worry, Pluto, I'm not a planet either.	This user knows 16 digits of pi.
This user knows how to Find X	This user listens to NPR.	92.3 This user misses the real 92.3 K-Rock.	This user likes most types of music.
Hanlon's Razor This user never attributes to malice that which is best explained by stupidity. †	This user accepts evolution as a biological fact.	dar This editor holds a darwikinist philosophy.	This user knows global warming is a reality we are facing.
This user participated in the Earth Hour event.	This user is right-handed.	This user does not smoke.	This user is a blood donor
This user's blood type is O+. O+	This user is a straight male.	This user respects the beliefs and religions of others.	This user is not religious.
This user is an atheist.	lib This user is a liberal.	00:00 This user uses 24-hour time.	29 July 2017 This user supports International Date Format (day month year)
ubx-n This user communicates exclusively via userboxes.

Unproductive Interests (Entertainment)

her? This user is a fan of Arrested Development.	FG This user thinks Family Guy is freakin' sweet.	This user doesn't know the Battle of Borodino from a tiger's bum.	This user is a captive on the Satellite of Love
SEIN This user is obsessed with Seinfeld... not that there's anything wrong with that!	STAR TREK Tom.Reding is a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation. TNG	M.D. This user watches House.	Law & Order This user is a fan of all Law & Order series. All L&O
This user enjoys computer and video game music outside gaming.	This user is a fan of First Person Shooter Games	This user still enjoys playing games on the NES.	XI This user plays Final Fantasy XI.
TES IV This user is fanatical about The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.	PSO This user plays Phantasy Star Online.	This user is a loyal member of the Terran Republic.	CIV This user plays one or more versions of Civilization.
This user is interested in numismatics.	C&H This user reads Calvin and Hobbes.	xkcd This user is a reader of the xkcd webcomic.	This user is pro-cannabis, and opposes bigotry and oppression suffered by cannabis users.

Wikipedia's Stats, Personal Stats, Service Badges

Page Stats Find page history statistics for article on English Wikipedia.	{{t|25+}} This user has made or created 25+ Templates.	12,600+ This user has over 12,600 pages on his watchlist.	This user actively contributes photos or other images.
Wikimedia Commons contains multimedia from Tom.Reding.	This user has been on Wikipedia for 8 years, 2 months, and 1 days.	en.wiki # of articles = 5,450,166   (11.9%) en.wiki # of pages = 42,613,061   (25.5%) en.wiki # of users = 31,450,993   (45.2%) en.wiki # of active users = 118,078 (43.8%) en.wiki # of edits = 902,200,232   (37.6%)	all.wiki # of articles = 45,662,716 all.wiki # of pages = 167,014,477 all.wiki # of users = 69,542,009 all.wiki # of active users = 269,471 all.wiki # of edits = 2,399,692,041
vn-4 This user page has been vandalized 4 times.	END This user has no more userboxes.
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This editor is a Signator and is entitled to display this Scroll of Signatures.	This editor is a Burba and is entitled to display this First Book of Wikipedia.	This editor is a Novato and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Picture Story Book.	This editor is a Grognard and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Little Red Book.
This editor is a Yeoman Editor and is entitled to display this Service Badge.	This editor is an Experienced Editor and is entitled to display this Service Badge.	This editor is a Veteran Editor and is entitled to display this Iron Editor Star.	This editor is a Veteran Editor II and is entitled to display this Bronze Editor Star.
This editor is a Grognard Extraordinaire and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Vest Pocket Edition.	This editor is a Grognard Mirabilaire and is entitled to display this 1937 Wikipedia First Edition.	This editor is a Tutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge.	This editor is a Grand Tutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain.
This editor is a Veteran Editor III and is entitled to display this Silver Editor Star.	This editor is a Veteran Editor IV and is entitled to display this Gold Editor Star.	This editor is a Senior Editor and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star.	This editor is a Senior Editor II and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star.
This editor is a Most Perfect Tutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain and Cigarette Burn.	This editor is a Tutnum of the Encyclopedia and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain, Cigarette Burn, and Chewed Broken Pencil.	This editor is a Labutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain, Cigarette Burn, Chewed Broken Pencil, and Sticky Note.	This editor is a Most Pluperfect Labutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain, Cigarette Burn, Chewed Broken Pencil, Sticky Note, and Bookmark.
This editor is a Senior Editor III and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star.	This editor is a Master Editor and is entitled to display this Platinum Editor Star.	This editor is a Master Editor II and is entitled to display this Platinum Editor Star.	This editor is a Master Editor III and is entitled to display this Bufonite Editor Star.
This editor is a Labutnum of the Encyclopedia and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain, Cigarette Burn, Chewed Broken Pencil, Sticky Note, Bookmark, and Note from Jimbo.	This editor is an Illustrious Looshpah and is entitled to display this Book of All Knowledge.	This editor is an Auspicious Looshpah and is entitled to display this Book of All Knowledge with Secret Appendix.	This editor is a Most Plusquamperfect Looshpah Laureate and is entitled to display this Book of All Knowledge with Secret Appendix and Errata Sheet.

Gallery of Uploaded Images

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  380° panorama of Kitt Peak from the Warner and Swasey Observatory (own work)

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  400° panorama from Kitt Peak's Mayall 4-meter Observatory (own work)

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  A galaxy group in Eridanus (NGC 1721, NGC 1723, NGC 1725, and NGC 1728)

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  Abell 520 in the visible, X-ray, and showing derived mass

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  The Burrell Schmidt telescope at Kitt Peak (own work)

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  The Warner & Swasey Observatory at Kitt Peak (own work)

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  A Chandra X-ray image of Abell 665

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  Arcturus in the optical (DSS2/MAST/STScI/NASA)

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  Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Titania

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  Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Oberon

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  Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Iapetus

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  Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Umbriel

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  Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Ariel

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  Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Tethys

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  Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Enceladus

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  Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Pluto

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  Smith's Cloud, 2008 (Bill Saxton, NRAO, AUI, NSF)

Activity/Putting my OCD to good use

Astronomy articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	Bottom	NA	???	Total
FA	53	12	50	2	1			118
FL		3	8	3				14
FM						8		8
A	1							1
GA	18	17	52	87	6			180
B	45	63	145	61	3		14	331
C	85	141	514	346	18		67	1,171
Start	24	158	1,251	5,739	89	7	458	7,726
Stub		6	495	7,474	37	23	718	8,753
List		15	198	3,372	8	2	8	3,603
Book						41		41
Category				1		2,532		2,533
Disambig				72	1	86	15	174
File						83		83
Portal				4		38		42
Project	1					47		48
Redirect			1	24		23,889	1	23,915
Template		1				643		644
Other		1				11		12
Assessed	227	417	2,714	17,185	163	27,410	1,281	49,397
Unassessed			1	2			204	207
Total	227	417	2,715	17,187	163	27,410	1,485	49,604
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7004967710000000000♠96,771			Ω = 5.31

This user is a member of
WikiProject Astronomy.

This user uses AutoWikiBrowser to quickly make repetitive edits.

Doing

  Fixing various CS1/maintenance categories.
  Populating, correcting, standardizing minor planets' categories & sortkeys from the JPL SBDB, using AWB, C#, and RegEx.
  General article & citation cleanup of ~56,000 articles in Category:Astronomy via AWB & my new friend, regex. Fixes include, but aren't limited to:
      Parsing author & editor lists (talk, talk).
      Standardizing |year=/|date= citation usage where appropriate (talk).
      Standardizing L_☉, R_☉, M_☉, etc. usage. Adding those templates to articles, when appropriate (talk).
      Trying to standardize use of parsecs first, light-years second, where appropriate (talk, talk).
  Taking bites out of the WikiProject Astronomy cleanup listing, and perusing WP:Vital articles/Physical sciences#Astronomy.
      Finding pages with unintentional links to disambiguation pages and fixing the easy ones. Sometimes I'm even on the leaderboard.
      Finding, adding, and formatting proper references to remove {{citation needed}} tags, reference errors, and hidden categories for astronomy articles.
  Sometimes listening to the sound of Wikipedia.

To do

  Standardize MOS:DateFormat for astro articles (talk).
  Make article stub on A3558.
  Expand on the differences between galaxy groups and clusters (talk).
  Consistify/make pretty the List of voids.

Not doing (anymore)

  Populating the more-difficult-to-find {{Infobox galaxy cluster}} statistics (member #, velocity dispersion, ICM temperature, mass) from journal articles for the most popular Abell clusters (doing so for all would take way too much time and wouldn't be as much benefit).

Never done

  Adding {{Redirect category shell}} to single-redirect-template #REDIRECTs (via TomBot, BRfA denied).

Done (large and/or systematic changes)

  Added {{Redirect category shell}} to multiple-redirect-template #REDIRECTs (talks).
  AWB Night-mode style.css
  Category:Minor planets maintenance (talk)
  Category:Astronomical objects by year of discovery maintenance (talk)
  Category:Numbered asteroids maintenance (talk).
  Helped reduce the Cleanup listing for WikiProject Astronomy to the lowest it has ever been as a % of astronomy articles: 11.7% at inception, 31.7% on 18 February 2012, and now 9.2% on 19 May 2015. Done mostly via #REDIRECTing ~12,000 unnotable asteroid stubs (talk).
  Helping with the CarloscomB cleanup.
  Extended the "Earth-Moon-thing" size-comparison format to 8 more Solar System objects between the size of Enceladus and Titania (talk).
  List all most pages in Category:Astronomy (here and here); list of all numbered asteroids here.
  Resolve ambiguities surrounding cluster designations for many NGC articles.
  Template related:

  Added many needed parameters to {{Infobox astro object}}.

  Added documentation to the {{NGCX}} family of templates.

  Added |Velocity dispersion=, |Flux=, and |Distance (co-moving)= parameters to {{infobox galaxy cluster}}.

  Add notes and helpful wikicode to all {{Infobox galaxy cluster}} parameters for clarity and consistent usage.

  Created & transcluded {{Infobox supercluster}} to all superclusters.

  Abell catalog related:

  Turned the boring, ugly, unorganized List of Abell clusters into this very nice table while adding ra, dec, Abell richness, and BM type (inspired by this heroic effort by User:Dr. Submillimeter).

  Added |Bautz-Morgan type= parameter to {{Infobox galaxy cluster}}. Populated it and |richness class= for all List of Abell clusters and Category:Abell objects, respectively.

  Created and assigned 6 new categories for/to all Abell cluster richness 0-5.

  Corrected all Abell cluster pages with {{Infobox galaxy}} to {{Infobox galaxy cluster}}.

  Made {{Catalogs}} variable width so it looks nicer at the bottom of a page (talk), and added it to all Abell object pages.

  Populated the easily gotten {{Infobox galaxy cluster}} statistics (α, δ, constellation, z, co-moving distance, x-ray flux) from NED for all Abell cluster pages.

  Organized the List of galaxy clusters and removed synonymous usage of galaxy clusters with galaxy groups.

AWB feature requests

Still-open: 2 3 4 5 6⁶ 7 9 10 12 13 14 15 17

Endorsed (still open): 16¹⁶

Incorporated into AWB: 1 11^{Still buggy}

Workaround/alt solution is sufficient: 8^[\d\D]{936,} 18^{Tools.WordCount(ArticleText)}

Unorphaned

Arp 107 (via Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies) ★ Calcium monohydride (via Inorganic compounds by element) ★ Coronet cluster (via Corona Australis) ★ Galactic ridge ‎(via Milky Way) ★ Kilonova (via Gamma-ray burst) ★ Nuclear pasta (via Neutron star) ★ Virgocentric flow (via Virgo Cluster) ★ Virial mass (via Binding energy and Gravitational binding energy)

Pages & templates significantly contributed to (and improved, hopefully)

  List of Abell clusters ★ Velocity dispersion ★ Eridanus cluster ★ Astrophysical X-ray source ★ Antlia Cluster ★ Abell 520 ★ Abell 2199 ★ Coma Cluster ★ Kitt Peak National Observatory ★ Virgocentric flow ★ Calcium monohydride
  {{Deg2DMS}} ★ {{Infobox astro object}} ★ {{Infobox galaxy cluster}} ★ {{Infobox globular cluster}} ★ {{Infobox star}} ★ {{Catalogs}} ★ {{Earth radius}} ★ {{Jupiter radius}}

Pages, templates, and categories created

  {{The Banstar Barnstar}} ★ {{NASTRO comment}} ★ {{Partial minor planet designation}} ★ {{Cite compare2}} ★ {{Deg2HMS}} ★ {{hub}} ★ {{Infobox supercluster}} ★ {{Solar luminosity}} ★ {{Solar radius}} ★ {{Lunar mass}} ★ {{Lunar radius}} ★ {{Fe/H}} ★ {{alpha/Fe}} ★ {{WikiCat topicon}}
  Bautz-Morgan classification
  Abell 133 ★ Abell 262 ★ Abell 478 ★ Abell 665 ★ Abell 907 ★ Abell 1413 ★ Abell 1795 ★ Abell 1991 ★ Abell 2390
  NGC 1721 ★ NGC 1723 ★ NGC 1725 ★ NGC 1728 ★ Pages in Category:Astronomy
  Category:Potentially hazardous asteroids
  Many, many #REDIRECTs. Mostly capitalization (not all shown; ain't nobody got time for that) and typo-related: Abell 1060 ★ Abell catalog ★ Abell Catalogue ★ Abell richness class ★ Abell richness group ★ Abell s0636 ★ Abell s636 ★ abs ads ★ ABSADS ★ ads abs ★ adsabs ★ AGN classification ★ Antlia dwarf ★ Apogalactic ★ Astronomical X-ray source ★ Asynchronous serial protocol ★ Bautz-Morgan Classification ★ Bautz-Morgan type ★ Bautz-Morgan ★ Binding mass ★ Bolometric ★ Canadian Astronomy Data Centre ★ cD galaxy ★ Chandra X-ray observatory ★ Collinder ★ {{CSdoc}} ★ {{ColBegin}} ★ {{ColEnd}} ★ Coma (constellation) ★ {{deg2Hms}} ★ Dorado group ★ Draco dwarf ★ Eridanus group ★ Fe/H ★ Galactic cosmic radiation ★ Gould belt ★ Hydra cluster ★ ICM temperature ★ {{Infobox asteroid}} ★ {{Infobox Supercluster}} ★ Intracluster Medium ★ Lunar radius ★ {{NavBar}} ★ {{NGCX}} ★ O Ceti ★ Outer space treaty ★ PA-Risc‎ ★ PAndAS ★ Pandora cluster ★ Pandora's cluster ★ Perigalactic ★ Planck collaboration ★ S. Lucia Stroncone Observatory ★ {{Ra}} ★ R. B. Tully ★ {{Solar system}} ★ Tidal disruption ★ Transit-method ★ Tucana dwarf ★ Type 2 Supernova ★ Ultra high energy gamma-ray ★ Ultra high-energy gamma ray ★ Ultra high-energy gamma-ray ★ Virgo stellar stream ★ Virgo-centric flow/infall★ Wikipedia:GenFixes ★ WP:LinkRot ★ WP talk:Astronomy ★ Zeta orionis ★ ~11,000 minor planet sub/stub #REDIRECTs

Useful links & code (personal, yet public, cheat sheet)

Astronomy related/reference material

• ADSabs ★ NED ★ SIMBAD
• ToolServer.org ★ WP:Astronomy Cleanup Listing ★ Wikimedia Commons
• {{Cite journal}} ★ {{Cite arXiv}} ★ {{Cite book}} ★ {{Cite web}} ★ {{Convert}} ★ {{Infobox galaxy}} ★ {{Infobox galaxy cluster}} ★ {{Infobox supercluster}} ★ {{Inline tags}} ★ Help:CS1_errors
• WP:Manual of Style/Layout ★ WP:Cheatsheet ★ WP:Tools/Editing tools ★ WP:Vital articles/Expanded/Physical sciences
• Help:Displaying a formula ★ Help:Special characters#Unicode and ISO 8859-1 ★ Help:HTML in wikitext ★ Help:Table ★ Help:Wiki markup
• Unicode character synonyms (☉ = ☉ = ☉, etc.)
• WP:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual
• All(?) 5 minor planets with a number designation but a common-name article-title: Ceres (dwarf planet) (1), Pluto (134340), Haumea (136108), Eris (dwarf planet) (136199), Makemake (136472).

References

WikiData

• Preview {{#invoke:Wikidata|Dump}} on any page to display all WikiData attached to it.

Template parser functions, calculation, and logic (not formatting related)

• mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions & meta:Help:Calculation — {{#ifexpr, {{#ifexist, {{#expr, etc.
• mw:Extension:Variables — {{#vardefine, {{#var, etc.
• wikidot.com:code:tags-as-variables

Unit conversion, notation, and special characters

• {{HMS2Deg|22|06|15}} →  331.5625
• {{Deg2HMS|331.5625|p=0|sup=yes}} →  22^h 6^m 15^s

• {{Coord|0|-28.4375|format=dms}} →  0°00′00″N 28°26′15″W
• {{convert|23|Mpc|Mly|0|abbr=on|lk=on}} →  23 Mpc (75 Mly)
• {{convert|281|+/-|90|Mpc|Mly|abbr=on|lk=on}} →  281 ± 90 Mpc (920 ± 290 Mly)

• 19.0{{±|1.8|1.7}} [[parsec|Mpc]] (62.0{{±|5.9|5.5}} [[light-year|Mly]]) →  19.0+1.8
  −1.7 Mpc (61.9+5.9
  −5.5 Mly)
• {{solar luminosity|link=y}} →  L_☉
• {{val|1.44|e=14|u=L_solar}} →  7014144000000000000♠1.44×10¹⁴ L_☉
• {{val|1.44|e=14|ul=M_solar}} →  7014144000000000000♠1.44×10¹⁴ M_☉
• {{solar mass|10<sup>14</sup>}} →  10¹⁴ M_☉
• {{solar radius|1.44{{e|14}}|link=y}} →  1.44×10¹⁴ R_☉
• {{hub|0.70}} →  h−1
  0.70   — A template I made for things measured using various values for the dimensionless Hubble parameter

• {{#expr: (200/6) * 2 round 3}} →  66.667
• : [ ] { | } →  : [ ] { | }
• - – — & σ Σ λ Λ * →  - – — & σ Σ λ Λ *
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× ☉ ♃ ⊕ ☾

Formatting

• Columns:
  • {{cmn|colwidth=15em| ... }} →  the best list-option—continuously determines how many columns best fit the page.
  • {{cmn|3|
 * some
 * bulleted
 * list
 }} →  splits that list up dynamically(!) into 3 (forced) columns.
  • See {{div col}} for more variants.
• {| cellpadding="0" style="vertical-align:top; float: right;" border="0"
 |- valign="top"
 | [[Image:blah.gif|thumb|top|300px|Caption text.]]
 | [[Image:stuff.jpg|thumb|top|300px|Things.]]
 |} →  is an easy way to lay pictures horizontally rather than vertically.
• {{clear}} →  forces horizontal white space until next section, usually after a picture.
•   →  Non     -     Breaking     SPace. Ascii chr 160, instead of ascii 32 (typical keyboard space).
• [[File:Santa riding a dinosaur with Jesus with a lightsaber.jpg|275px|right|thumb|Caption this]] →  inserts a variable size picture and caption text.
• <span> ★ <div> ★ <gallery widths="300px" heights="300px"> →  (usually) prettifies things.
• <pre style="width:50%; height:150px; overflow:scroll;"> →  Begins a scrolling list.
• {{para|date}} →  |date=
• {{keypress|Alt|F4}} →  Alt+F4

• {{hidden begin
   | title = '''Some ordered list'''
   | titlestyle = text-align:center;
   | border = 1px solid}}
  {{cmn|colwidth=15em|
  # some
  # ordered
  # list
  }}
  {{hidden end}}
  

  → 

Some ordered list 

1. some
2. ordered
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• <div class="template-documentation iezoomfix"> Template documentation background </div> → 

Template documentation background

• <syntaxhighlight lang="css">.citation-comment {display: inline !important;}</syntaxhighlight> → 

.citation-comment {display: inline !important;}

Citations & links

• User:Tom.Reding#Frequently used links & code →  links directly to subsections of an article.
• {{anchor|Foo}} to be used to link to [[User:Tom.Reding#Foo]]'s in-page position.
• <span id="Simpler section title"></span> for [[User:Tom.Reding#Simpler subsection title]] linking when special characters are used.
• <ref name="Reding">...</ref> ... <ref name="Reding" /> →  to name your refs for easy reref'ing later in the same article.
• {{Refimprove|date=July 2017}} or {{Refneeded|date=July 2017}} →  use occasionally.
• {{Citation needed|date={{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}} →  use liberally.
• {{Sky|03|28|13.8|-|20|44|40|321000000}} →  links to wikisky (not whiskey). Put after references. 321000000 = lightyears (for zoom level!).
• {{tq}} makes nice-looking in-line talk-quotes.

Other wikicode

• #REDIRECT [[Tidal force]] + {{an R template}}→  is all you need to have as the body in a redirect page.
• <code><nowiki> w/e </nowiki></code>, {{tl|sometemplate}}, {{t1|blah}}, {{tlx|etc|a{{=}}1|b{{=}}2}} →  make everything above.
• <tt><nowiki> blah </nowiki></tt> →  or this (which doesn't highlight the background).