User:Bruce M. Tindall

 Where Bruce lives it is approximately: 19:30
My sandbox
Reminders

Bruce Tindall is a poet, author, and teacher. He spent over 20 years in the computer software business as a developer and technical manager. More recently he has taught writing at Southern Methodist University and the University of California, San Diego. He received a B.S. with Honors in Mathematical Sciences from UNC-Chapel Hill, an M.A. from Duke University, and an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College, and also attended the University of North Carolina law school. He is co-author of two nonfiction books; has copyedited several scholarly manuscripts on East Asian history; and has published poems (one of which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize) in many literary journals, including the Beloit Poetry Journal, West Branch, Light Quarterly, and the Southern Poetry Review.

Howto

I stole from Aleta Curry the idea of keeping helpful hints for myself (and anyone else who wants to use them) here so I won't forget how to do certain things in CZ.

CZ:How to has a lot of how-to info.

CZ:Naming Conventions] is just that.

To insert footnotes in an article, put the text of the footnote between <ref> and </ref>. That will create the superscript number. But also, at the bottom of the article, where you want the text of the footnotes to appear, put ==Notes== (or References or Footnotes or whatever you want the heading to be), and on the next line, put <references/> (note that forward slash after the keyword).

To display wiki markup keywords literally, and suppress their interpretation (i.e., to "macro-quote" them, in SAS Macro parlance), use the keyword <nowiki> .

To browse a list of all templates, click on "Special pages" in the left-hand column, then select the "Templates" namespace.

You might find this useful too: CZ:Templates. Templates are organised by function.

This explains how Definition Templates work: http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1374.0.html .

The suggested subdivisions of "gazetteer" geography articles can be found at http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Geography_Workgroup/Gazetteer .

To alphabetize: Sometimes, in the list of articles in the "Live" category or another category, an article will not appear in the correct alphabetical order specified by the "abc=" field of the checklist. To force re-alphabetization, make a meaningless change (like adding a blank space) to the main article, and remove any "Categories:" specifications from the bottom of the main article. Thanks to Chris Day and Matt Innis for discovering these fixes and posting them in the Technical forum in early May 2008.

To make xxx redirect to yyy: Create page xxx, and in it, put the single line #REDIRECT [[yyy]] .

To go to the redirect page for "Whatever" rather than to what it redirects you to, go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki?title=Whatever&redirect=no

To suggest a rename: in the Talk page, put {{Rename}} .

To report duplicate articles: in the Talk page, put {{duplicate|Foo}} , where "Foo" is the title of the other article.

To move a page and its subpages, do what Matt Innis describes in http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User_talk:D._Matt_Innis/Archive_6#moving_clusters . This is apparently a simplified new process that showed up in late 2008.

Useful stuff plagiarized from Howard Berkowitz's user page:

Disambiguation page: {{dabhdr|foo}} {{r|foo-meaning-1}} {{r|foo-meaning-2}} {{disambig}}

Table: {| class="wikitable" <center>'''Title if used DNS'''</center> |- ! Column 1 Header ! Column 2 Header ! Column 3 Header |- | Row 1, Column 1 | Row 1, Column 2 | Row 1, Column 3 |- | Row 2, Column 1 | Row 2, Column 2 | Row 2, Column 3 |- | Row 3, Column 1 | Row 3, Column 2 | Row 3, Column 3 |}