User:Boruch Baum

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Cite table
Short version of Citation templates, Citing sources, Footnotes

Do refer to the template for each, because there are many other possible parameters, to cover many other cases, and examples are often provided. This is a modified table based upon one from User:Humus sapiens.

Articles created
Following is a list of articles which I've created (not including redirects), presented in alphabetical order. The most recent article I wrote is a short page for Tractate (it had existed prior, but as a disambiguation page).


 * 1) History of the Jews in Kairouan
 * 2) Primary direction
 * 3) Tractate (it had existed, but only as a disambiguation page)

Articles improved
Following is a partial list of articles to which I contributed, presented in alphabetical order




 * 1) Aflatoxin
 * 2) Alice's Restaurant
 * 3) Articles for deletion - added step-by-step instructions for "non-administrator close"
 * 4) Azharot
 * 5) Book of Isaiah - reverted. shame. Here was my version. Here was the short discussion surrounding the revert. I was/am too new at this to know whether the reverter was justified, and no one backed me up, so I let it slide, at least until I learn more of what's legit on Wikipedia. My sense, just from reading other articles, is that with a fight, my edits could have stuck.
 * 6) Celestial longitude
 * 7) City University of New York - e.g. sortable table of notable alumni
 * 8) Cyrus the great
 * 9) Dartmouth Medal
 * 10) Djerba
 * 11) Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
 * 12) Halukkah - major rewrite
 * 13) Hawaii - There exists a mess of pages with overlapping content that could be combined, reorganized, renamed. I made a few incremental improvements.
 * 14) Help:IPA - easy copy/paste column of symbols
 * 15) History of the Jews in Bulgaria
 * 16) History of the Jews in Croatia
 * 17) Hylomorphism - inclusion of Neoplatonic notion of universal hylomorphism
 * 18) List of conjunctions (astronomy) - page should be renamed to "List of planetary conjunctions"
 * 19) Kapparot -major rewrite
 * 20) Kaspiysk
 * 21) Mimouna
 * 22) Oescus - turned skeletal stub into real article
 * 23) Office of Foreign Assets Control - e.g. table of targets for each sanctions program
 * 24) Rabbit Hash, Kentucky
 * 25) Satmar (Hasidic dynasty)‎
 * 26) Senior Sachs
 * 27) Solomon ibn Gabirol - major rewrite
 * 28) Sullivan and Cromwell
 * 29) Surgut
 * 30) Tashlikh
 * 31) Terefah
 * 32) Tiergarten (park)‎
 * 33) Tikkun Olam - but its still a mess
 * 34) U.S. uniformed services pay grades - added tables of the actual salary $$$

work in progress

 * 1) List of conjunctions (astronomy) - page should be renamed to List of planetary conjunctions
 * 2) Draft:Andrew_Penson - Once / if accepted:
 * * add redirects
 * * link to it from other articles


 * 1) possible deletion of page List of kosher restaurants. See my talk page.
 * 2) continue learning at Help_desk
 * 3) continue clean-up ofHistory of the Jews in Bulgaria
 * 4) continue clean-up ofHistory of the Jews in Croatia

Links to other Wikipedians

 * Guild of Copy Editors (WP:GOCE)
 * List_of_Wikipedians_by_article_count
 * User page design center - Hall of Fame


 * AKS.9955 - I copied elements (eg. scrollable info-boxes) from Arun's well designed user-pages.
 * Humus sapiens - I copied elements and content from here (ie. citation table, template and policy table), but needed to heavily alter it to possiblly be useful to me.
 * Largoplazo - The message box at the top of my talk page was copied from him.
 * Zozoulia - Way too much personal information, and a userbox junkie.
 * Carlossuarez46 - I came across him while browsing User page Hall of Fame, and his page Slavic toponyms for Greek places gave me the idea for a page of Jewish toponyms.
 * Wugapodes - Fan of using offline resources. Introduced me to Worldcat to find a reference library. Don't forget wikipedia's own access to online resources, via WP:LIB
 * GrammarFascist - I haven't put this user to the test to know whether the name is just bluster.
 * Tony1 - "professional editor and research consultant". His pages include "Self-help writing tutorials", and content on MOS. See his position on what he calls "overlinking", with which I strongly disagree (the purpose of a link is NOT to attract the user's eye to a "high-value link"; it is to inform the user of the existence of a relevant page, and to simplify navigation there). His position seems to have gained enough traction on English wikipedia that he has an automated bot to troll pages and delete links that don't meet his criteria. Mindless destruction (ie. bot deleting links) and a destructive presence.
 * Editor2020 - has a useful-looking toollbox and noticeboard section, but I haven't made time to look closely.
 * Qwertyus - has "one and only one" user box! (∃!). Check out the pages that he started!
 * Marek69 - has some very cool markup features incorporated in his user page. Near the top of his page, he creates a table which incorporates the content of cascades of other pages by reference ( beginning with references to pages and   ) and he makes liberal use of the hidden template.
 * Apcbg (Lyubomir Ivanov) - Bulgarian mathematician, green party activist, and Antarctic explorer.
 * Sam Sailor - extensive, I mean really extensive, glossary, navigation guide, lists of templates & boilerplates

Userboxes

 * This user thinks userboxes are silly.
 * This user thinks userboxes are dumb.
 * This user thinks userboxes are generally difficult to read.
 * This user thinks userboxes are an inferior method of communicating information.
 * This user would like to start an organization of like-minded wikipedians:
 * The Textual Order of Userbox Naysayers
 * The ASCII Knights of Vt101 Users
 * The CLI Brotherhood of Tty Emulators
 * This user is a member of the Jewish History Wikiproject.
 * This user is a member of WikiProject Judaism

Possibly useful
This was originally a table copied from User:Humus sapiens, being made useful for me as I have time and inclination

Unusual Favorite articles

 * Unusual articles
 * Sokal Affair
 * List of Ig Nobel Prize winners