User:Zgystardst/sandbox

Note to self - linking to wikisource
Using the parameter "2=" with the wikisource template to display a slightly different name:

code:

result (at far right): ->

Note to self - linking to wikisource (2)
When an entire work is in wikisource, and it's divided into sections of some kind and each section is a separate wikisource page, the link is simply caption. Example:

section url: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Works_of_the_Late_Edgar_Allan_Poe/Volume_2/The_Sleeper

coded link: caption for The Sleeper

result: caption for The Sleeper

For this particular page, the title of the article actually is as given at the top of the page: "The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 2/The Sleeper". The underscores are optional in this context. All other pages conform to this titling and usage.

For the infobox (using template:wikisource):

coded link:

result (at far right): ->

link to an existing article and show brackets around the name
easiest way - include brackets in the caption. [Clive Staples Lewis]

testsection
to test "see above". DO NOT EDIT OR DELETE THE SECTION NAME

"see above" example
test this is a example. Note that "sectionlink" is a template.

"see above" example (manual method)
This is mainly for wikiquote which doesn't have the templates.

The syntax is caption

code example for wikiquote:  Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907)

result:  Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907)

This is similar to.

other testing

 * Marxism has tremendous appeal in the Third World for exactly the same reason it had tremendous appeal to me in college. It give you something to believe in when what surrounds you seems unbelievable. It gives you someone to blame besides yourself. It's theoretically tidy. And, best of all, it's fully imaginary so it can never be disproved.
 * "The Awful Power of Make-Believe". Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back At The Sixties. Collier, Peter; Horowitz, David, eds. (1989). Lanham, MD: Madison Books. ISBN 978-0819171474.

"The Awful Power of Make-Believe", Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back At The Sixties (1989), ed. Peter Collier and David Horowitz, Madison Books isbn 0-8191-7148-4


 * Dear Sir,   Your astonishment's odd:    I am always about in the Quad.    And that's why the tree    Will continue to be,    Since observed by    Yours faithfully,    God.
 * Although this reply is anonymous, it is usually also attributed to Knox. (See, for example, a Guardian editorial for 3 September 2010.) Given the supposed divine provenance of the limerick, the lack of a human author would appear to be part of the joke.
 * Although this reply is anonymous, it is usually also attributed to Knox. (See, for example, a Guardian editorial for 3 September 2010.) Given the supposed divine provenance of the limerick, the lack of a human author would appear to be part of the joke.

Google Books link
(from template cite book)

For wikiquote (also has cite book/web templates in the toolbar (click on "cite")):

line spacing
line 1 (using br) line 2

line 3 (using blank line)

line 4

line 5 (using paragraphs) line 6

comparing
Use Google Docs. open one document, click on tools/compare document, select another document, click on the "compare" document. Remember to temporarily enable all scripts in NoScript.

math examples
convert 2 lb to oz.

$$ \frac{2\cancel{lb}}{1} * \frac{16 oz}{1\cancel{lb}} = \frac{2*16oz}{1} = 32oz $$

$$ \frac{2}{4}=0.5$$

=Inspiration?= Does anybody else see parallels between the concluding line of this piece and a quote from the Satyricon of Petronius that opens T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land?


 * “For once I myself saw with my own eyes the Sybil at Cumae hanging in a cage, and when the boys said to her ‘Sybil, what do you want?’ she replied, ‘I want to die.’”

(205.250.167.76 00:56, 16 May 2007 (UTC))

The basic idea shares many elements with Minority Report (film by Spielberg based on Philip K. Dick story). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.29.76.37 (talk) 13:25, 5 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I've added Asimov's own account of his inspiration from the preface to this story in "The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov". He doesn't mention a specific source. There is no preface to this story in "Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol 1". But I swear that decades ago I read a different collection of his stories in which he specifically said that the Satyricon episode was the inspiration. The memory I have of reading that account is very strong because I'd already recognized the connection and I was elated that I was proved right. But the ISFDb doesn't list any other collections that include the story. Zgystardst (talk) 02:32, 11 February 2024 (UTC)