User:Yahya Abdal-Aziz/sandbox

“She said” quote
Current Wiki?edia activity, asking for contributions. After dismissing the banner earlier, I just now came across this quote: ... music, and most things I value in life are inherently unownable, undocumentable, continuously changing, and ephemeral. Whatever music we made that day was in a shared moment of listening, collaboration, play, and presence. in an interview "Doc 063" with digital media artist Celia Hollander on Interlude Docs at. But cannot retrieve the banner! Nor find it ... :-( yoyo (talk) 00:22, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

How to refer to a website
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 * This hydraulophone, which Legoland describes as "a musical water stand", is the centerpiece of the entranceway, ...

How to show page numbers in a reference using the 'rp' template
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 * Baptist missionary work in Canada began in the British colony of Nova Scotia (current day Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) in the 1760s. The first official record of a Baptist church in Canada was that of the Horton Baptist Church (now Wolfville) in Wolfville, Nova Scotia on October 29, 1778.  The church was established with the assistance of the New Light evangelist Henry Alline. Many of Alline's followers, after his death, would convert and strengthen the Baptist presence in the Atlantic region.

Microabrasion

 * 1)  (Unintentional) A break in the skin surface through which various microbes may infect a patient.
 * 2)  (Intentional) A surgical technique used, for example, to reduce or remove an arterial blockage.

Reception (a draft revision)
Critical reception for Black Feminist Anthropology has been positive. Choice Reviews Online praised the work, stating it was a "refreshing and inspiring collection of nine articles and a superb introduction seeks to come to terms with, if not resolve, the triple contradictions found in the title." Yolanda T. Moses of Anthropological Quarterly also praised Black Feminist Anthropology, stating that it was "a very important and provocative book". Another reviewer for Anthropological Quarterly was somewhat critical of the work and commented that he would have liked to have seen more information and discussion in the book, using Karla Slocum's conversational interview style as an example and stated that she did not "explain whether it mattered that she was not, in fact, a market woman who had to compete with her informants in the marketplace, nor did she have to survive on the proceeds of her labor there. Like her professional colleagues, she chose to be a participant-observer and could choose to terminate the experiment at will." (NB: This review is behind a paywall.)

How to create a new draft article
The simplest way to create a new draft – whilst reducing the chance of others changing it before you're ready to create the actual Wikipedia article – is to create a sub-page of your user-page. For details, see WP:UP.

I've also created a link on my user-page (at the bottom of the user-boxes) for all its sub-pages, using the following text: Special:Prefixindex/User:Your_Wikipedia_Name using, of course, my Wikipedia name.

=Note to self: A mess!= My main user-page is presently (2018) a right royal (formatting) mess! :-( Contrast it with the version at Commons, which was copied from an earlier incarnation.  What went wrong?  Still haven't figured it out.  May not be important to anybody else, but it's a problem I'd like to solve so that I understand better how to format wiki pages.

=Use Template:Block_indent, not leading colons= By which I mean, don't continue indenting text as in the following:

Non-Example 0

::Level 2 indent :::Level 3 indent

because, although it looks like this:


 * Level 1 indent
 * Level 2 indent
 * Level 3 indent

it also breaks the HTML validation. Instead, use: Example 1

to produce:

Example 2

This is a simple example at one level only:

Example 3

Leading colons are perfectly apt for Description lists; but not for multiply-indented blocks.

BTW, I intend to [sign and] time-stamp my future sandbox edits, just like on talk pages: yoyo (talk) 17:49, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

=Generating IPA for Russian=

Note that this uses a template from Wiktionary, not Wikipedia! And as a result, it doesn't work here.

Example code:

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=Arthur F. Veinott, Jr.=

Arthur F. "Pete" Veinott Jr. (born October 12, 1934 in Boston, died December 12, 2012 in Stanford, California) was an American mathematician who specialized in mathematical optimization and operations research.

Veinott studied at Lehigh University with a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering in 1956 and PhD in 1960 at Columbia University with advisor Cyrus Derman, writing his dissertation on "Optimal Ordering, Issuing, and Disposal of Inventory with Known Demand". After that, he was a logistics analyst at the U.S. Air Force, before becoming a professor at Stanford University in 1962. From 1975 to 1985 he was chairman of the Department of Operations Research and in 2009 he became emeritus.

He was particularly interested in lattice programming, dynamic programming, Markov decision processes, and inventory theory.

In 2007 he received the John von Neumann Theory Prize. He was the founder of the journal Mathematics of Operations Research. In 1978-79 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He was a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and the National Academy of Engineering.

Publications

 * Editor with George Dantzig: Mathematics of the Decision Sciences, 2 volumes, American Mathematical Society 1968
 * Editor: Mathematical studies in management science, Macmillan 1965