User:JohnFromPinckney

Nothing about me here (who am I, anyway?). Just handy links and reference material for myself. 


 * Sales/shipments certifications
 * Category:Music industry associations
 * Discussion about charts certs column
 * New template to generate standardized refs: Cite certification
 * Templates (using above) to generate tables of certs:
 * Certification Table Top
 * Certification Table Entry
 * Certification Table Summary
 * Certification Table Bottom

Australia / ARIA

 * Determine cert year by choosing from ARIA certs pages.
 * Use template:
 * When not on certs page yet, but (still) on current Top 50 Singles:

Canada / (CRIA) Music Canada
 http://musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=Loud&ica=False&sa=Rihanna&sl=&smt=0&sat=-1&ssd=9/1/2011&sed=10/1/2011&ssb=Artist
 * CRIA links (do any still work?).
 * Music Canada link to search and sample ref:

Germany / BVMI
(Muhandes is a genius: use ).
 * "Gold/Platin-Datenbank" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 2010-06-19.
 * "Gold/Platin-Datenbank" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
 * "Gold/Platin-Datenbank" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Changed again ~2010-10-27.
 * Template 2010-07-29

NL / NVPI

 * 1978–2006: Functioning DB
 * 1951–2011: Totally broken DB (contains 11 test entries).

NZ / RIANZ
Bulletin, 12.11.11: All bets are off; those dumbasses at RIANZ have changed their site, so the below URLs all redirect to http://nztop40.co.nz/ (showing only the current Top 40). Maybe someday the thing in the upper-right that resembles a drop-down list of charts will actually work. Bloody idiots.

News flash. 19.12.11: Thanks to Harout72, there may be salvation: http://rianz.org.nz/rianz/oldchart.asp gets us to the old charts, it appears. Will research...
 * With song/album search charts to see when it was released/moving. That can help when stabbing at weekly links at RIANZ site.
 * NZ direct links to any charts: Weekly and EOY Replace chart number or year  as needed, and   with S=singles, A=albums, D=DVDs, C=compilations, H=radio airplay (thanks to Adabow) Sample ref here.

UK / BPI

 * Non-specific link to BPI DB:

US / RIAA

 * OLD RIAA search tool. RIAA results URLs: long form & a short form (thanks to TheJazzDalek)
 * Updated (2011) RIAA search tool. Go to this URL, replacing "rihanna" as appropriate (doesn't have to actually be the artist; site searches for whatever's in "artist" field [no other params known yet]):


 * Copy-paste for ref, inserting correct URL:

I am (still) using this page as a scratchpad of those links I frequently use and spend way too much time looking up. While I'm adding and removing such links, it seems like a good opportunity for me to play with formatting capabilities. So I offer my apologies if my User page is of less than great use to its visitors; I'm rather selfishly using it for my own evil purposes.  Manual of Style   [[ MOS:DASH ]] Decap per [[ MOS:JOBTITLES  ]] one bluelink per line per [[ WP:DABSTYLE  ]] rm redlinks per [[ MOS:DABRED  ]] #/No./number per [[ MOS:NUMBERSIGN  ]]</li> <li>states written out per [[ MOS:POSTABBR  ]]</li> <li>ACCESS:COLOR per [[ MOS:COLOR  ]]</li> <li>Colors table [[ WP:MoS/Accessibility/Colors  ]] points to Colour Contrast Check at Snook.ca</li> </ul> <li>Tables</li> <ul> <li>MoS/Tables w/ (some basic) sorting examples</li> <li>Table dos and don'ts, a 10-item shortlist, with some links</li> <li>Help:Table w/ detailed tricks to make things (like centering) work</li> <li>WP:ACCESS#Tables</li> <li>Help:Sorting</li> <li>Stabilize expando-captions/headings for tables: </li> <li>...and centered, too: </li> <li></li> </ul> <li>Talk pages</li> <ul> <li>Template:Unsigned: </li> <li>Template:UnsignedIP: </li> <li>Template:Undated: </li> <li> [[ MOS:LISTGAP ]], non-binding discussion, May 2020</li> <li>,    (auto w/ quote marks)</li> </ul> <li> [[ WP:DISCOGSTYLE ]], toward  [[ WP:ACCESS  ]]</li> <li>Layout: Appendices order</li> <li>Welcome Templates</li> <li>Vandalism & Templates (MLT), Twinkle (10-03), AIV and Excellency SPI</li> <li>Citations & Templates</li>
 * Template:Dead link
 * Template:Citation needed
 * Template:Failed verification

<li>possibly not an RS per [[ WP:RSP  ]]</li> <li>ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 + alpha-3 country codes; ISO 3166-2:BE regions.</li> </ul>
 * Catalogue of CSS classes (WP:CLASS)
 * Rate Limits (phab T258888)
 * Skins, Tech News: 2021-02: There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback.
 * To change watchlist period, add  to URL
 * Conversation about Authority Control/WikiData: last(?) entry in thread

<ul> <li>Cheatsheet</li> <li>Hidden categories</li> <li>Help:Cite errors</li> </ul>

My subpages

Coding tools

 * Help:Contents: Apparently TOC for many goodies
 * Help:Template
 * Basics, parameters: named/unnamed/empty/default


 * Help:Advanced_templates
 * Variable templates and parameters, branching


 * Help:Parser_function
 * Formatting (LC, UC, LCFIRST, URLENCODE)
 * NS, URLs etc., Pages in category


 * Help:Extension:ParserFunctions
 * #expr, #if, #ifeq, #iferror, #switch, etc.


 * Help:Magic_words#Parser_functions
 * , string,


 * Help:Newlines_and_spaces
 * What it says; how to use spaces in params

Useful Lil links

 * Reflinks / Limited to 5 (Dead / Dead, 18.05.21)
 * Dablinks Checker (Dead, 18.05.21)
 * Dead Link Checker (Dead, 18.05.21)


 * Pages/Templates
 * Cleanup
 * Statements Such As: Done, Not Done, Etc...
 * Maintenance
 * Sources / citations / references

My stats
 * My JavaScript: Special:MyPage/common.js
 * Active admins
 * EIA
 * Edit summary search
 * ES tool

Unfinished business

 * Finish cleaning up Darren Holden (musician)
 * Chamber of Deputies (Romania) uses Template:Election table, which isn't WP:ACCESS-compliant.
 * Robert Hogan (psychologist) has ~recent (07.06.21) addition of "most important works"; needs reviewing. See also Special:Contributions/Hogan_Marketing.
 * Finish review of frightful Literary Death Match for italics/quotes/linking.
 * Source/prune The Neptunes production discography finally; work begun at bottom of Sandbox5.
 * Review MOS:DTT. Ask about Template:Static row numbers accessibility.
 * At Template:Infobox political party we see addition of params categories, demo, nocat, which three were causing errors on another template. Which? One of the college rankings, I think. (Look at May–late June timeframe.)
 * At WPT:Discographies there's a comment (06:26, 30 January 2021) concerning 4 pages to look at.
 * Purge ludicrous tables at Madame Tussauds
 * Wiseguy: Talk:Wiseguy, like so...?
 * Fix Escape (Journey album) tables