User talk:Chris Day
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Notes to self
- Fix move cluster
- Write proposal for subgroups
- {{Lemma}} idea
- optional photo credit
- Article task and notification list
- Metadata edits always current so should tie speedydelete etc to that one page. This will get around the maintenance categories often being out of date.
- Supernova [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Nova (astronomy)#Supernova (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
See - /Notes to self
Need to figure out the disconnects between the rare earths elemental classes and the template:periodic. Did uranium, but others need fixing too. See Uranium/Elemental Class
- List of agricultural methods topics
- List of biology topics
- List of code generation topics
- List of compiler optimizations
- List of famous Canadians
- List of humanities journals
- List of important publications in biology
- List of inorganic compounds
- List of languages using the .NET Framework
- List of library associations
- List of medical schools
- List of music psychology topics
- List of notable evolutionary biologists
- List of notable paleoanthropologists
- List of notable primatologists
- List of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance experiments
- List of operating systems
- List of organic compounds
- List of organic reactions
- List of scholarly journals in international relations
- List of scientific journals
- List of seminal concepts in computer science
- List of snake scales
- List of social science journals
- List of space advocacy organizations
- List of states of matter
- List of topics related to agriculture
- List of viperine species and subspecies
- List of youth orchestras in the United States
Definitions of redirects
When I previewed, all seemed to work as I intended. Clearly, they didn't for you. What were the symptoms? Was I running into some restriction on non-alphanumeric characters? Howard C. Berkowitz 22:04, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
- Just went to the top of the article rather than the appropriate section. Chris Day 22:44, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
- What do I need to do differently? I had, I thought, written REDIRECT [[Article title#Section heading]] Howard C. Berkowitz 22:56, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
- You are not wrong. But you have a special character in the three most recent cases. While "#Sarnoff's Law" and "#Sarnoff.E2.80.99s_Law" are look the same when viewed in a hyperlink on the screen they do not behave the same in a redirect, at least not in my browser. The latter redirects to the subsection, as we want, but the former stalls at the top of the article. Chris Day 04:19, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
Nutritional medicine
If you are going to redirect, why not to the more specific level of the subheading "Nutritional medical techniques"? I suppose that subhead could be renamed "nutritional medicine", although at some point, it will be a full article. Howard C. Berkowitz 19:37, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
- I just used what was already there. i agree it should go to the more specific heading. Chris Day 19:40, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
the importance of adding an asterisk
Thanks, Chris! I still baffled by all this, however. And how that single asterisk turns everything right, is a pure mystery to me! But thanks again! (Did you see my "cri de coeur" the Forum?) Hayford Peirce 19:38, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
- On the wiki one line break is not seen as a line break at all. However any type of indent will then force a line break. If you want a line break without an indent you will need to have two line breaks. I suspect this strange arrangement is to allow code, such as </ref> to exist on its own line (for clarity) without actually causing line breaks in the text. Chris Day 19:44, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks for all your help in various places. I have printed your Forum reply and will study it; will also study your various moves on the various article pages and try to figure out what has been done and why. Eventually, if I can grasp things for myself, I'll see if maybe I can make the Related Articles instructions clearer. (I remember when I got my first MS-DOS computer in 1984 and it came with an enormous binder from Microsoft with so-called instructions in it -- I was literally reduced to tears at one point. Even a year or so later, when I had become pretty adept at using DOS, the friggin' book was *still* a mystery!) Hayford Peirce 20:42, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
- Are those to be earnest asterisks? Howard C. Berkowitz 20:44, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
An example of why one line break alone does not interrupt the text on a wiki:
If I write:
Organic chemicals<ref>An important reference here</ref> are the basis for life as we know it.
or
Organic chemicals <ref>An important reference here </ref> are the basis for life as we know it.
They will both appear like the following text in the wiki:
Organic chemicals [1] are the basis for life as we know it.
- ↑ An important reference here