User:Toploftical/Useful Stuff

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Useful links[edit]

  • William Schieffelin Claytor - typical mathematician article
  • Cheatsheet for Wikicode
  • ISBN 1568812450
  • G4G for lots of line breaks
  • about page
  • redirect page
  • disambiguation page
  • columns page
  • math symbols
  • allignment page
  • comments page
  • simple tables page
  • fancy tables page with sortable columns
  • big tables page
  • Template:Div col
  • Template:Infobox scientist
  • CORRECT mdash is 1725–1876
  • Template:Infobox academic
  • Speedy deletion templates
  • my upload log
  • edit count for toploftical
  • Adding link to same article in another language
  • Alan Hildebrand at Google Scholar

Useful Techniques[edit]

useful flags[edit]

replace << with left brackets
  • <<Citation needed}}
    • Here it is being used.[citation needed]
    • <<Citation needed| reason=Your explanation here| date=May 2021}}
  • <<More citations needed| date=December 2019}}
  • <<advert |date=February 2013}}
  • <<unreliable sources| date=February 2013}}
  • <<overly detailed| date=March 2015}}
  • <<Unreferenced| date=August 2020}}
  • <<Confusing| date=August 2020}}

useful templates[edit]

author link format[edit]

last1 = belcastro | first1 = sarah-marie | author1-link = Sarah-Marie Belcastro

MacTutor and MathGenealogy and MAA examples[edit]

MacTutor manual format: William Waldron Schieffelin Claytor at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
MacTutor template form:
O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Toploftical/Useful Stuff", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
MathGenealogy manual format: William Waldron Shieffelin Claytor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
MathGenealogy template form: Toploftical/Useful Stuff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
MAA manual format: William W. Shieffelin Claytor at the Mathematical Association of America (MAA)