User:JamesBouquin

Hello and welcome to my userpage, which has never really been designed, but just grew. Most of the stuff further down is just links or information I might want to refer to, since it's so easy to click my username at the top and find myself here.

About me
 * My mother tongue is French
 * My interests include music, environmental issues, art, travel
 * I like working on disambiguation and list pages...

Manifesto Favourite quotations:
 * no person is boring – boredom is your own fault
 * spread a little happiness, start a chain reaction
 * people treasure appreciation – be generous
 * “the greatest success is to help others to succeed; the greatest blessing is to bring blessings on others”
 * “make sure your words are soft and sweet – you may have to eat them tomorrow”
 * “The only thing men learn from history is that men learn nothing from history.” (Hegel)
 * “Add life to your days – not days to your life”

Wayback
To retrieve the most recent archive of a page from the Wayback Machine, use a link in the format:


 * http://web.archive.org/http://www.cnet.com

(for the most recent version of http://www.cnet.com

Order of optional appendices and footers
(from WP:FOOTERS)
 * 1) Works or Publications
 * 2) See also
 * 3) Notes and/or References
 * 4) Further reading
 * 5) External links
 * 6) Navigation templates (footer navboxes)
 * 7) Persondata template
 * 8) Defaultsort
 * 9) Categories
 * 10) Stub templates
 * 11) Interlanguage links

Other languages
In place of Image: use the following
 * Putting images onto pages on Wikipedia in other languages


 * da - Billede
 * de - Bild
 * fo - Mynd


 * fi - Kuva
 * fy - Ofbyld
 * es - Imagen


 * id - Berkas
 * it - Immagine
 * la - Imago


 * ms - Imej
 * nl - Afbeelding
 * pl - Grafika


 * pt - Imagem
 * ru - Файл
 * sv - Bild


 * Terminology for disambiguation pages in other languages


 * cs (rozcestník)
 * da (flertydig)
 * de (Begriffsklärung)
 * en (disambiguation)
 * eo (apartigilo)
 * es (desambiguación)


 * et (täpsustus)
 * fi (täsmennyssivu)
 * fr (homonymie)
 * fy (betsjuttings)
 * hr (razdvojba)
 * hu (egyértelműsítő lap)


 * id (disambiguasi)
 * is (aðgreining)
 * it (disambigua)
 * la (discretiva)
 * lv (nozīmju atdalīšana)
 * ms (nyahkekaburan)


 * nl (doorverwijspagina)
 * no (andre betydninger)
 * nn (fleirtyding)
 * pl (ujednoznacznienie)
 * pt (desambiguação)
 * simple (disambiguation)


 * sk (rozlišovacia stránka)
 * sv (olika betydelser)
 * tr (anlam ayrımı)
 * vo (Telplänov)

Other users
I used to keep these in my watchlist – but some are so busy that the entries swamped the list, so I'll keep their names here:


 * User_talk:Quentinwllcs – worked on Centennial, California
 * User:MichaelQSchmidt - amazing member of Article Rescue Squadron
 * User:PamD - a great help in trying to sort out the disambiguation/surnames/orphan tag issue
 * User talk:GeorgeLouis – gave me a barnstar!
 * User:Wikigear – writer of Adam Hamilton (pastor)
 * User:Moonriddengirl – helpful administrator and expert on copyright issues

My favourite Alt codes
(listed here because I keep forgetting them)

Punctuation:
 * ellipsis: Alt 0133 …
 * en-dash: Alt 0150 –
 * em-dash: Alt 0151 —
 * open single quote: Alt 0145 ‘
 * close single quote: Alt 0146 ’
 * open double quote: Alt 0147 “
 * close double quote: Alt 0148 ”

Symbols:
 * degrees: Alt 0176 °
 * bullet: Alt 0149 •
 * interpunct: Alt 0183 ·
 * 1/4: Alt 0188 ¼
 * 1/2: Alt 0189 ½
 * 3/4: Alt 0190 ¾
 * plus-minus: Alt 241 ±
 * multiply: Alt 0215 ×
 * divide: Alt 0247 ÷
 * squared: Alt 0178 ²
 * cubed: Alt 0179 ³
 * arrow: Alt 26 →

Accented letters:
 * a grave: Alt 0224 à
 * a circumflex: Alt 0226 â
 * e grave: Alt 0232 è
 * e acute: Alt 0233 é
 * e circumflex: Alt 0234 ê
 * o circumflex: Alt 0244 ô