User:JMF

My user-name
My user-name for many years was user:John Maynard Friedman, which was my twist on an occasional urban myth about my home city, Milton Keynes. Despite the myth, MK is not named after Milton Friedman and John Maynard Keynes. The name is centuries old and comes from that of an ancient village, now part of the new city. Though it could be that JMK is descended from the de Cahaignes, the Anglo-Norman family who once owned these parts.

Such a long-winded name seemed like a good idea at the time but had become irritating and I had been abbreviating it to 𝕁𝕄𝔽 in my sig for some time. It is now my user name.

The typeface I have used is blackboard bold (which was created for mathematicians, so I am an interloper). For its use as an identifier, I assert prior art over Twitter 2.0.

Talk to me
Leave a message on my talk page ->

Good Articles that I helped reach that status

 * History of Milton Keynes
 * Milton Keynes
 * Calendar (New Style) Act 1750
 * John Ogilby
 * Robert Hooke

Did You Know features from these GAs

 * On 13 June 2019, Did you know was updated with ... that "one of the biggest concentrations of Bronze Age gold known from Britain" was found in archaeological investigations during the development of Milton Keynes?
 * On 25 March 2021, Did you know was updated with ... that until the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 was passed, the new year began on 25 March in England, Wales, Ireland, and Britain's American colonies?
 * On 15 September 2023, Did you know was updated with .. that John Ogilby saved the manuscript of his translation of the complete works of Virgil from destruction in a shipwreck by wrapping it in a waterproof cloth?
 * On 27 March 2024, Did you know was updated with ... that in addition to his work as a scientist, Robert Hooke was an architect who designed the Monument to the Great Fire of London so that it could also have a practical value as a scientific instrument?

Bare URLs

 * WP:REFILL
 * WP:ReFill
 * WP:REFLINKS
 * IABot Management Interface

Got title, need ISBN, publisher etc
Following a link from an isbn= took me to worldcat.org and I found that it is far better than Google (or Amazon) when doing the reverse – I have a title but I need its ISBN. It also gives publisher, location, date, translator – just what one needs to complete a template:cite book.

Historic England
template:NHLE
 * eg:

VCH




Statutes at large

 * Resource: The Acts of Parliament at Alsatia

Geography


Maps and mapping
 * NLoS Find maps by place, down to 1:2500.
 * template:cite map
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography/Archive 27 re care to avoid WP:SYNTH

Getting metro area population from NOMIS
 * 1) https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/  then section headed Local Area Report
 * 2) Name of urban area and then Search ... Example: Bristol
 * 3) Select the relevant built up area   ... Example: Built-up area (villages, towns or cities), ...Bristol (in South West Region) (caution! not "Built-up area sub divisions (town or city sub divisions)").
 * 4) Get the GSS E number from the response ... Example: "This report covers the characteristics of people and households in Bristol Built-up area in South West (GSS code E34004965)".
 * 5) Plug into template:NOMIS2011 ... Example  produces  which reports "There were 617,280 usual residents as at Census day 2011".
 * 6) Wrap in ref tags and attach to figure in table.

Book sources

 * Wikipedia talk:Book sources
 * fix harv errors for unused citations by moving them to a Further Reading and appending ref=none to the citation.

Finding CS1/2 errors

 * String CS1 maint:
 * String = ignored

Wlinking to an older instance of a page
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AReliable_sources%2FPerennial_sources&type=revision&diff=983827787&oldid=983690192
 * template:diff
 * with, xyz
 * with, xyz

"[ ... ] You can also use the template:  or go through a special page my sandbox." Gospel according to Red rose64 &#x1f339;
 * template:oldid

Antivandalism and other warnings

 * WikiProject User warnings
 * Category:Standardised user warning templates
 * Requests for page protection
 * Administrator intervention against vandalism to request block
 * Redaction: WP:REDACT (aka notcensored, go away); Revision deletion for libel; WP:Oversight e.g. for outing or doxing (prob via an admin, I assume).


 * Disruptive editing
 * WP:Advocacy
 * WP:AOBF (Accusing others of bad faith)
 * WP:BMB Bans apply to all editing, good or bad
 * Request deletion of a page created solely for vandalism (eg talk page): put  at the top of the page.
 * Guidance for younger editors
 * Earwig's Copyvio Detector (Toolforge)

Editing talk pages
od restart indent sequence Talk quote block for quotes in talk pages.

IP editors

 * Shared IP advice
 * subst:Xsign (wrapper for Unsigned and Unsigned IP). Takes input copied and pasted directly from the history tab as the first unnamed parameter. Don't incude the talk|contribs bit.
 * esp if responding to requests for changes to semi-protected pages. use subst:
 * Why create an account?

Obscure but useful links

 * Manual of Style/Character Table 1 Characters to avoid (and what to use instead)
 * Manual of Style/Icons generalised MOS:FLAGS esp wrt infoboxes
 * Talk:Muhammad/FAQ images and honorifics
 * Use–mention distinction Foundational concept of analytical philosophy, according to which it is necessary to make a distinction between a word (or phrase) and  it
 * to fend off an overactive bot
 * Product placement concerns: WP:NOTHATNOTE Trivial does not get hatnote. Obscure probably does is my reading.
 * GBP for simplified inflation/UK: GB£1000 1900 => GB£1000 1900 not for CapEx etc.
 * set index midway between a bare disambig and a full list article.
 * for multi hatnote template that produces a list of alternative uses for the title of the article
 * to flush the cache
 * Template:Div col
 * User:SD0001/easy-merge for merging articles
 * Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1165
 * It works!
 * Teahouse/Questions/Archive 1165
 * It works!


 * X v X (disambiguation): Judging by WP:DABNAME and WP:INTDABLINK, X(d) should redirect to X if X is also a disambig (no primary topic).
 * you can search any namespace - enter your search term in the search bar, choose "search for pages containing ", then expand the "Search in" dropdown, where you can remove the article namespace and add the Wikipedia namespace instead. ─
 * WikiNav (where do visitors go next, useful to identify WP:PRIMARYTOPIC).
 * Template:Emoji presentation
 * spaces for nbsp, thinspace, etc
 * wiktionary redirect redirect to Wiktionary
 * User:Cacycle/wikEd
 * in title, e.g., All pages with titles containing Topic
 * Graphics Lab/Photography workshop for image clean-up, contrast/brightness issues etc.

Screen-reader ready
"It just shouldn't rely on color and/or font alone; if it's marked up with  (which indicates keystrokes or other textual input, and is more loosely spec-defined than ), that's a sufficient HTML/CSS handle for anyone with a screen reader to tell their software to do something specific when encountering that element. But if there's no specific element, just some CSS coloring and/or font-family on a span, all screen readers will ignore it as irrelevant visual fluff. That would mostly be a problem when the content coincides with an English word like a or I, though it would probably also affect punctuation characters (we need them to be interpreted in and of themselves in these cases, not as part of the regular flow of the sentence; I think by default most screen readers would just ignore it as mis-placed punctuation (a typo), though some might even do something more wrong, e.g. misinterpret a single-quote character being presented as a glyph, as instead indicating the beginning of a quotation. While not everyone with a screen reader will do something to distinguish markup, at least they have the option, and it won't be dependent on using a unique-to-WP CSS class, either, so easier to deal with on their end."


 * MOS:PSEUDOHEAD

Excerpt
Rather than outright copy the lead of another article, use excerpt to replicate it automagically.

Collapsible list

 * Template:Collapsible list aka clist

Better disambiguation articles and See also lists
but... Wikipedia talk:Short description/Archive 9
 * anli, appends the short description (aka annotated link
 * etc etc to convert a long See Also to use ALs.

Trouble at t'mill

 * Village pump (technical)
 * Wikipedia talk:Short description/Archive 9
 * Requests for oversight for enhanced revdels

Things to follow up

 * Categories for discussion/Log/2019 June 9
 * finish census ref in parishes (E)
 * talk:Bracket
 * Flesch–Kincaid readability tests
 * chartab at talk:A