User:Nurg

This page is Nurg's toolbox. There is not much here about Nurg. They started editing 6 October 2003 and created their account 31 October 2003.
 * Manual of Style - Biography - Avoid small font in infobox etc. (MOS:FONTSIZE) - Featured articles
 * Article titles - Companies
 * Capital letters - Title case for books etc
 * Category sort keys - a space for main articles; asterisk for other highly relevant articles
 * Citing sources -
 * Citation templates: book - ency/dict - journal - press release - thesis - news - web (news on web can use either)
 * . The online Herald and the paper Herald may have completely different headings for the same article.
 * |department= for regular department, column or section within periodical or website
 * |url-status=deviated when page is not dead but no longer supports the content (since this change)
 * Commas - July 1, 2011, and Paris, Texas, are correct.
 * Dates & numbers - US$100 format; year ranges 1991–1997 (some exceptions, eg, two consec yrs)
 * Disambiguation - hatnotes - dab pages (cf. set index articles, eg, Puarangi, Wīwī)
 * DNZB citation template
 * External links from WP to ...
 * Layout: Lead, Works/Bib/Pubs (by the subj), See also, Notes, Refs/Citations/Works cited (eg here & here), Further reading, External links, succession & geog boxes, navboxes, bars, authority control, coords, cats, stub templates (preceded by 2 blanks). Talk page layout
 * Maori word formatting:
 * Obtaining geographic coordinates - GeoLocator
 * Reliable/unreliable sources list (the weirdly named "Perennial sources") - Breaking-news reports
 * Romanization of Ukrainian - Romanization of Russian
 * Speedy deletion - To reverse redirect (it's a pity something so simple requires admin rights)
 * Square bracket inside link eg [sic] for "[sic]"
 * Stub - Stub types (categories)
 * Template index: Cleanup, Sources -
 * Titles - italic (book, periodical, album, film); quote marks (article, chapter, song); neither (legal doc); etc.
 * Tools - Internet Archive bot - archive.today - prefix https://archive.li/ to find archived copy
 * Either US or U.S. may be used in any given article, but use should be consistent with other country abbreviations in the same article (thus the US, UK, and USSR). Manual of Style
 * Village pump (technical)
 * WikiProjects - New Zealand project (Popular pages) - Auckland - Albums - Birds
 * New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board
 * WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements - WikiProject Cities/Settlements: Article structure
 * WP:REFERS - about things, not the words for things
 * Wikivoyage templates - or  or
 * Don't wikilink everyday use of "de facto"
 * Offensive material
 * How to improve your writing by Tony1
 * Editor's Index to Wikipedia
 * Resources: The Wikipedia Library - Request copies of articles etc.
 * AllMusic as a source
 * Make template expandable then can add setting in articles
 * Changing "Other" to "Draft" in assessment tables - documentation at Template:ReleaseVersionParameters
 * New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 1#Should Articles Be Using Macrons (2005)
 * Article titles: "The choice between anglicized and local spellings should follow English-language usage, e.g. the non-anglicized titles Besançon, Søren Kierkegaard, and Göttingen are used because they predominate in English language reliable sources"
 * Manual of Style "For an international encyclopedia, using vocabulary common to all varieties of English is preferable."
 * Manual of Style "An article on a topic that has strong ties to a particular English-speaking nation should use the (formal, not colloquial) English of that nation."
 * New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 18#Regions of New Zealand, revisited
 * Proapteryx micromeros – Miocene Apterygidae
 * m:Tech/News
 * NZ Gazetteer of Place Names - example link to item
 * 1000 Māori place names at NZHistory is not a reliable source. Eg, there are two errors with the macrons for Onekaka alone. The NZHistory team should be ashamed.
 * Filter out Wikipedia mirror sites in Google searches
 * A reminder of why I've avoided RfA: An admin who passed by a healthy margin in Jan 2021 said "RFA was an unpleasant experience for me, and if I'd known exactly what to expect beforehand, I would not have run." And another.
 * Make template expandable then can add setting in articles
 * Changing "Other" to "Draft" in assessment tables - documentation at Template:ReleaseVersionParameters
 * New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 1#Should Articles Be Using Macrons (2005)
 * Article titles: "The choice between anglicized and local spellings should follow English-language usage, e.g. the non-anglicized titles Besançon, Søren Kierkegaard, and Göttingen are used because they predominate in English language reliable sources"
 * Manual of Style "For an international encyclopedia, using vocabulary common to all varieties of English is preferable."
 * Manual of Style "An article on a topic that has strong ties to a particular English-speaking nation should use the (formal, not colloquial) English of that nation."
 * New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 18#Regions of New Zealand, revisited
 * Proapteryx micromeros – Miocene Apterygidae
 * m:Tech/News
 * NZ Gazetteer of Place Names - example link to item
 * 1000 Māori place names at NZHistory is not a reliable source. Eg, there are two errors with the macrons for Onekaka alone. The NZHistory team should be ashamed.
 * Filter out Wikipedia mirror sites in Google searches
 * A reminder of why I've avoided RfA: An admin who passed by a healthy margin in Jan 2021 said "RFA was an unpleasant experience for me, and if I'd known exactly what to expect beforehand, I would not have run." And another.

Māori language

I graduated with a BA majoring in Māori many years ago. I can contribute with some confidence regarding use of Māori words and phrases in the English Wikipedia.

Other wikis


 * My user page at Wikivoyage
 * Māori Wikipedia
 * Simple English Wikipedia

Examples of vandalism that went undetected

Mostly large deletions; also reversal of meaning. How many more are still undetected?


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Australasia&diff=175317039&oldid=175193133
 * Made 2 December 2007. Fixed 20 August 2014‎ by Nurg, 6 years later.


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Central_business_district&diff=556273064&oldid=555733694
 * Made 22 May 2013. Fixed 5 July 2014 by Nurg, over 130 edits and a year later.


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cell_growth&diff=323511864&oldid=321670927
 * Made 2 November 2009. Fixed 11 August 2012‎ by Nurg, about 175 edits and over 2.5 years later.


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Osteichthyes&diff=293184924&oldid=292913243
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Osteichthyes&diff=282208901&oldid=282104711
 * Made 29 May 2009 & 6 April 2009. Fixed 21 Dec 2011 by Nurg, over 200 edits and 2.5 years later.


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Web_content&diff=296819673&oldid=291388018
 * Made 16 June 2009. Fixed 4 February 2010 by Nurg, 16 edits & 7 months later.


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citizenship&diff=212110743&oldid=211872528
 * Made 13 May 2008. Fixed 7 September 2008 by Nurg, 76 edits later.


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=System_software&diff=48855335&oldid=48078816
 * Made 17 April 2006. Fixed 11 November 2007 by Nurg, a year and a half later.


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amerigo_Vespucci&diff=56387552&oldid=56342826
 * Made 1 Jun 2006. Fixed 23 Sep 2006 by Nurg, over 90 edits later.


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christopher_Columbus&diff=75552930&oldid=75548810
 * Made 13 Sep 2006. Fixed 16 Sep 2006 by Nurg, nearly 70 edits later.


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mount_Ruapehu&diff=57317231&oldid=56818118
 * Made 7 Jun 2006. Fixed 1 Sep 2006 by Nurg, 10 edits later.


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Rolling_Stones&diff=42860123&oldid=42857898
 * Made 8 Mar 2006. Fixed 26 Mar 2006 by Nurg, about 70 edits later.