User:BEANS X2/Alpha

There is much more to me

The Teahouse has just reached 1000 archives. 19:29, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

I was here when we hit six million articles. 13:32, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

About me

I mostly use the source editor over the visual editor, but use the latter for referencing and I use ProveIt for citations, as I'm not too good at using the templates. I joined Wikipedia to try and improve the article Gulval. I am currently creating an article on Dingle Farm Tearoom, although I am on-and-off with this.

Useful templates and links

Tip of the day...

Wikipedia-specific searching with Firefox

In Firefox, the search box has a little pull down menu to allow you to choose which search engine it uses. Several popular search engines come included, but not Wikipedia. However, Firefox provides a page on their website listing more search engines you can add to that menu, including Wikipedia's search. To add Wikipedia, simply go here and click on Wikipedia in the list provided, and you are done. To activate it, pull-down the menu at the search box and click on Wikipedia there. Now you have a second Wikipedia search box. Unlike the search box in Wikipedia's sidebar, which disappears off the screen when you scroll down to read a long page, the Firefox search box always remains on the screen, ready to assist. (Keep in mind, typing Alt+F also places the cursor in the Wikipedia search box.)

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Tools

• Dab solver
• Special:ExpandTemplates - Noticed how special pages don't like to use spaces?
• meta:Special:UrlShortener
• User:Citation bot/use
• Special:BlankPage - The most useful.
• Wikiproject article list
• Special:Search - New articles without a short description.

Things I found in the Wikiverse

• Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Morning277 - Wow.
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia has an article on everything!
• Wikipedia:Perennial proposals - Is this to stop people from proposing them, or trying to give them ideas?
• Wikipedia:Community response to the Wikimedia Foundation's ban of Fram
• WP:DoF

Projects

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom
• Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia

Categories that need cleanup

• Random featured article
• Category:Infobox musical artist with missing or invalid Background field - Wow, that's a lot of articles! I'm holding off until I get AWB.
• Category:Pages using infoboxes with thumbnail images

Misc.

• WP:ACM - More/less a list of pet hates.

Userboxes

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Wikipedia

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wiki-1This user is a beginning Wikipedia editor.

Languages

en-gbThis user is a native speaker of British English.

en-us
-1This user has a basic understanding of American English.

a lot alotThis user recognizes that linguistic change is a natural and desirable aspect of human language.

theyThis user frequently uses the singular they for want of a better gender-neutral pronoun.

snukThis user says snuck.

infinitiveThis user has no opinion about split infinitives.

than
thenThis user understands the difference between using "than" and "then."

its & it'sThis user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you!

much & manyThis user understands the difference between much & many.

less & fewerThis user understands the difference between less & fewer.

. TheThis user does not put two spaces after a full stop.

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!!!This user terminates excessive use of exclamation points and question marks on sight. Grow up!

—This user knows the difference between a dash and a hyphen, and follows MOS:DASH.

HTML-1This user is a beginner HTML user.

{{Wiki}}This user is an intermediate writer in the MediaWiki language.

{{t|1}}This user knows roughly how a template works.

mdThis user can write in Markdown.

This user has an account on GitHub.

js-0This user does not understand JavaScript (or does not want to write JavaScript).

py-1This user is a beginning Python programmer.

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