User:Edison/Useful tools, misc links

Tools

 * Tools


 * Administrators


 * Refactoring: Template:Rf


 * Edit counter, etc: https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pcount/index.php


 * Webreflinks: fix raw urls: http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webreflinks.py


 * Template for article coming from Ref Desk threads: Template:WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration


 * Find incidents of editing an article about the same time as another editor: https://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/editorinteract.py?


 * Google Ngram viewer: How often was a word or phrase used over time? http://books.google.com/ngrams


 * Whole toolbox per Snottywong: http://toolserver.org/~snottywong/index.html
 * New AFD vote counter


 * Improve refs User:Zhaofeng Li/reFill

"A talkpage message about better referencing:


 * To find all instances of a word in Wikipedia, say "hoodlum," put ~hoodlum in the search box. (Per advise Dec 9 2015 at the help desk.)


 * Wikipedia:WikiBlame can find when a section of text was added to an article


 * Desist includes a polite way to express the view that you wish no further contact with another editor. It is far more civil than "Fuck off:" ""Look, I feel as if our interaction isn't helping the encyclopedia. I'm going to back away from this issue now, and I would appreciate if you would do the same. Let's avoid each other for now, as clearly this isn't a good situation."

Adding references can be easy
Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.

Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:
 * 1) While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
 * 2) Then click on "Templates".
 * 3) Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
 * 4) Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
 * 5) Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
 * 6) Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.
 * Before clicking on Save page, check that a References header  ==References==  is near the end of the article.
 * And check that    is directly underneath that header.
 * 7.Click on Save page. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.

You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.

Hope this helps, --Edison (talk) 19:33, 6 December 2015 (UTC)


 * To use this message, place  on User:talk pages when needed.

Links and of interest: useful, humorous or thought provoking

 * WP:CGTW Cynics' guide to Wikipedia
 * List of places in the United Kingdom and Ireland with counterintuitive pronunciations
 * WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG!
 * New pages patrol Useful guide
 * Unusual articles
 * Origin of "WP:Smerge" It means, or originally meant,  "selective merge"sometimes termed "slight merge"and was coined by User:R. fiend. We rarely need to put the entire content of the article into the destination article, The topic is often worthy of inclusion, but not of the extensive coverage an article creator may have given it. It often comes up when some celebrity or politician is in the news for some silly thing.

Slavery
[http://www.newsweek.com/slavery-america-popular-misconceptions-627229 Slavery In America: Why Myths And Misconception Persist by Daina Ramey Berry, 6/19/17, Newsweek]

Newspapers.com

 * Newspapers.com
 * Info on clips and privacy

New copyvio detector

 * Eranbot writeup User:EranBot

Movies on Wikimedia

 * Silent movies
 * Films and TV videos
 * Historic pornographic movies
 * Edison films

History of electrical technology

 * Experiments and Observations Tending to Illustrate the Nature and Properties of Electricity By Sir William Watson (1746) London Ignited spirits with discharge. Discussed conductors and electrics (insulators)
 * New experiments in electricity; In a letter from Mr. Ebenezer Kinnersley to Benjamin Franklin LL.D. F.R.S by Ebenezer Kinnersley (March 12, 1761), Philadelphia. Early experimental associate of Franklin. Interesting experiments. Expt 11, page 92: He passed the charge from a battery of Leyden jars through a small brass wire with a weight hanging from it. It got red hot and was drawn out longer. He also showed that the wire got red hot, when the discharge was inside his air thermometer, and he used it to ignite gunpowder. Page 94 he literally says that though a charged object is not innately hot,  it is the "resistance it meets with, producing heat in other bodies, when it passes through them"  and "A large quantity will pass thro'  a large wire without producing any sensible heat; when the same quantity passing thro' a very small one, being there confined to a narrower passage, the particles crowding closer together, and meeting with greater resistance, will make it red hot and even melt it."
 * The History and Present State of Electricity, with Original Experiments, Volume 2,Third Edition By Joseph Priestley (1775) London. Has an account of using Leyden jar to make wire incandesce before it melts.

Telecommunications history

 * Bell System employees' anecdotes
 * BBC archives

History of medicine and surgery
Sources for improvement of articles on the history of medicine and surgery:
 * "American surgery: An illustrated history"Ira Rutkow (1998) which cites the following:
 * "Practical remarks on the treatment of wounds and fracture" by Jones (1775)
 * Modern American Practice by Thacher (1817)
 * "A military journal during the American Revolutionary War" by Thacher(1827)
 * Collection of remarkable cases in surgery" Paul Eve (1857). Per Rutkow (p103) this book describes "amputation of the head, with the patient surviving 36 hours"
 * "The horse and buggy doctor"Arthur Hertzler (1938) "a far less glowing portrayal of frontier doctors" per Rutkow (p160). See also 240-241.
 * "Surgical cases with illustrations," Charles Brigham (1876)
 * "The treatment of wounds," Lewis Pilcher (1883) early espousal of Lister aseptic/antiseptic method. Old doctors rejected it, young doctors accepted it.
 * "The rules of aseptic and antiseptic surgery," Arpad Gerster (1888) 2nd edition. Google book search says "Volume 2" but it seems to be one volume. Early description and advocacy for asepsis, The doctor should not stick his dirty finger in a bullet wound as 10 doctors did when Pres. Garfield was shot in the 1880s. Most old doctors did not agree with asepsis. Photos show Gerster in the 1880s doing operation without a hair covering or covering of nose and mouth, with bare hands and a lavish beard over the wound. He did scrub hands and soak in disinfectant, but Halstead found circa 1900 that fatal infection resulted from running the bowel with bare hands which were scrubbed and soaked in disinfectant, when he was not satisfied with tactile sense through gloves. He then resolved never again to unglove. Gerster had 15% death rate from amputation. Gerster said gunshot wounds were aseptic unless wad or clothing was known to be introduced to wound: dubious.
 * "The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary," W. B. Saunders & company, 1900. Useful for definitions of obsolete medical terms, tools and techniques which might not be mentioned in current medical books.
 * "A surgical pilgrim's progress," Lewis Pilcher (1925) Only snippets are viewable, but it should soon be viewable as the copyright has expired.
 * "From a surgeon's journal," Harvey Cushing (1936) descriptions of WW1 frontline hospital "
 * "The false promise of DNA testing," The Atlantic, June 2016. Used at Reference Desk July 22, 2016, "Genetics and inheritance" thread.
 * "A short textbook of surgery," AV Roy 2011 Viewable modern textbook

Email use by US politicians

 * Bush White House email controversy
 * The George W. Bush email scandal the media has conveniently forgotten. Eric Boehlert, Media Matters, 12 March 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
 * Hillary Clinton email controversy

AFD Keep rationale proto-essay
From Articles for deletion/B. P. C. M. Babyland English Medium High School, Kokrajhar (2nd nomination) An alternative to the circular reasoning of "Keep because Outcomes says these get kept." " Editors who participate in an AFD have the right to determine whether a subject is notable.. I am merely noting that in my experience established and accredited secondary schools have adequate sources to satisfy WP:N when the search includes materials not instantly available online, such as newspapers from the region where the school is located". This was about a secondary school where English online sources were scarce. But in fact, there are many US states where newspaper records exist somewhere in paper or microfilm form, but have not yet been scanned into online databases.
 * Articles for deletion/Sumana Secondary School"*Keep The long-standing consensus at Wikipedia is that secondary schools which are verifiable are notable. The RFC did not change this. I agree that it is a circular argument to say "Common outcomes say these are kept so this must be kept." Instead I note that years ago I saw rural US high schools up for deletion because the nominator could not find adequate references online. However, many regions of the US have no newspapers included in online compilations, while big-city newspapers are more likely to be available online. There is systematic bias even in the US. There is much more bias in the availability of news media for third-world schools. Experience shows that if non-online news archives are consulted, adequate references can be found to satisfy WP:ORG for "real" high schools, as opposed to a home school or a short-lived religious school taught to a few children in a church basement for a few years. High schools are major public investments which have regional or state-wide influence, generally over a long span of time. Edison (talk) 14:45, 18 August 2017 (UTC)"