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Robert from San Diego, CA. A random WikiGnome trying to help with Interlanguage links, stub sorting, cleanup and minor edits in various categories.

Things to do

Stubs
TV-stubs
Telecom-stubs
bio-stubs
Category:Unassessed biography (science and academia) articles
Category:United States articles missing geocoordinate data
WT:GEO#To do
WP Calif
Uncat categories
The Wikipedia Adventure
dab Georgia
dab Thorn
dab Verse. Finished by Meredyth. Thanks, M.
fix bunched edit links on Limahuli Garden and Preserve  Done
same for Dodo  Done
Typo correction - [[Wikipedia:Typo|You can help!]]
Mil Hist Assessment Drive
Work
{{WPMILHIST}}
Wikification; you can help!

Prefixindex, User pages, User page design center
Hauptseite, Hafan, Ĉefpaĝo, Príomhleathanach

209.150.67.45, Contributions/209.150.67.45 (some of these are mine}
68.7.124.252, Contributions/68.7.124.252
208.4.145.66, Contributions/208.4.145.66 (some of these are mine}

Create links faster using tricks

1. Magic pipe trick: Synonymous article titles may be clarified with terms in parentheses, like this: [[Self (psychology)]]. But when you want to include such a link in the body of an article, this would look rather awkward. So all you have to do is use the "magic pipe trick", like this: [[Self (psychology)|]]. Notice the pipe ("|") character stuck in there at the end of the link? That makes the link look like this: Self, without having to type the name of the link after the pipe! This trick also works with namespaces, so that [[Wikipedia:Tip of the day|]] (again notice the pipe character) displays like this: Tip of the day.

2. Plural trick: While editing, you will often need to make a link to a plural. For example, suppose you wanted to link "Fred Foo was famous for his study of puddles" to puddle; you could link it like so: [[puddle|puddles]]. However, you can save time by instead writing [[puddle]]s. This also works for adjectives ([[Japan]]ese), verbs ([[dance]]d), and any other suffixes or prefixes, like [[bring]]ing. It does not, however, work for some irregular verbs. For example, [[try]]ied does not work; you have to use [[try|tried]]. Nor does it work with apostrophes needed outside the wikilink like: [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s.

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