User:Timeshifter

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Contents 1 A nice cup of tea 2 Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab-Israeli conflict 3 Maps 4 Commons media in English wikipedia categories 5 My personal sandboxes. Please do not use them unless invited. 6 Quick links. Wikipedia policies, templates, banners, incident boards 7 Link bars for old, new, or redirected articles 8 Meatpuppets for NPOV! 9 Wikipedians for optional advertisements

[edit] A nice cup of tea

Here you go. Have a nice cup of tea. :)

Wikipedia:A nice cup of tea and a sit down

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[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab-Israeli conflict

Please support this WP:NPOV project.

You can copy the link code below to relevant pages, and to your user pages. Code:

[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab-Israeli conflict]]

It produces this link:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab-Israeli conflict

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You can copy the banner code to the top of relevant article talk pages. Code:

{{WikiProjectNotice|Arab-Israeli conflict}}

See the banner on my talk page, on the talk page for the project, and on the relevant article talk pages.

• The project page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab-Israeli conflict
• My talk page: User talk:Timeshifter

[edit] Maps

See the Atlas of Palestine at the wikimedia commons. It is an organized and commented collection of geographical, political and historical maps of Palestine and the Palestinian territories.

See also the Atlas of Israel and Category:Maps of Israel and Maps of the history of Israel

The overall wikipedia map index is Category:Maps

The overall wikimedia commons map index is here:

• http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps

For maps of Palestine before the creation of Israel in 1947 please see this category:

• Category:Maps of Palestine

For maps of the Palestinian territories after the creation of Israel in 1947 please go here:

• Category:Maps of the Palestinian territories

[edit] Commons media in English wikipedia categories

Commons media are for the use of all wikipedia sites worldwide. The English wikipedia category pages for those commons media list the English wikipedia pages on which those commons media are used.

The commons page for a particular image does not list the English wikipedia pages on which that image is being used.

Sometimes better images are uploaded that can replace lesser-quality images. Without the list of English-language wikipedia pages it would be very difficult to find and replace a particular image on multiple English-language wikipedia pages.

There are images in English wikipedia categories that would not be accepted in the commons. Gif images, fair use images, etc.. So the link to the commons category allows for more public-domain images to be used in English wikipedia pages.

The existence of the English wikipedia category allows for links to be made to the commons category of the same name. So English wikipedia editors then know of the additional commons media available to them. Those images are sometimes better, as explained previously. Oftentimes there is a larger selection of images at the commons.

The existence of the English wikipedia category also allows a logical location for links to the English wikipedia subcategories.

Not all commons images are suitable for placement in English wikipedia categories. Images captioned in other languages for example.

As many others have done I put some of the English-language commons images in the English wikipedia categories. This saves editors time in finding images. Because they don't have to click many commons images to open them up and see what language is used on the image.

It is common for a map or media to be in several categories. There are many examples of this. Maps, for example, often show several nations, territories, etc..

[edit] My personal sandboxes. Please do not use them unless invited.

You can look, but don't touch. :)

• /Sandbox
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• /Sandbox3
• /Sandbox4
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[edit] Quick links. Wikipedia policies, templates, banners, incident boards

Please check out: Wikipedia:Template messages and Category:Wikipedia templates. Those pages can save you a lot of time in finding banner code you can copy and paste.

Here is a good quote to use from the talk page guidelines: "Keep headings neutral: A heading should indicate what the topic is, but not communicate a specific view about it."

A good quote from the "No personal attacks" guidelines: "Abusive edit summaries are particularly ill-regarded."

From the "No personal attacks" guideline is this: "Do not make personal attacks anywhere in Wikipedia. Comment on content, not on the contributor."

Just copy and paste any of the code below into the relevant talk pages for articles and users.

[[Wikipedia:Assume good faith]]

[[Wikipedia:Civility]]

[[Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines]]

[[Wikipedia:No personal attacks]]

[[Wikipedia:Resolving disputes]]

[[Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts]]

[[Wikipedia:Third opinion]]

[[Wikipedia:Requests for comment]]

[[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents]]

[[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard]]

Here are the working links:

• Wikipedia:Assume good faith
• Wikipedia:Civility
• Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines
• Wikipedia:No personal attacks
• Wikipedia:Resolving disputes
• Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts
• Wikipedia:Third opinion
• Wikipedia:Requests for comment
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard

[edit] Link bars for old, new, or redirected articles

Copy the code below into any talk or user page. Substitute the old or new article name.

{{Article|ARTICLE NAME}}

Here is an example:

Iraq War (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

This code is good for finding the original article of a redirected page, its old talk page, its old revisions, old diffs, revision histories, etc..

[edit] Meatpuppets for NPOV!

Feel free to post this on relevant talk pages, etc.. :)

Meatpuppets for NPOV

Anybody know how to make templates, banners, userboxes, etc. with the above slogan? Please respond on my talk page.

[edit] Wikipedians for optional advertisements

Ads are OK if they are optional, and if advertisers have zero power over Wikipedia.

See this category page: Category:Wikipedians for optional advertisements

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_for_optional_advertisements

From http://www.calacanis.com/2006/10/30/wikipedia-advertising-proposal-part-ii-and-i-shouldnt-have-us/ - I like this excerpt:

So, how about this as a suggestion: Wikipedia put up one Google Adsense leaderboard and there is a large link under it that says "Turn off advertising" and users could select if they donated to Wikipedia with their eyeballs or with a cash donation. Heck, you could even have a selection when you first load the site: "I'd like to support the wikipedia by having one, two, or three ads per page."

I think wikipedia is getting swamped. I see frequent server slowdowns, and many areas needing new software programming. I think wikipedia needs more paid staff, programmers, board members etc.. But there are dangers when more money is involved.

To protect against these dangers I think the board should elect itself. I mean that new members should be added to the board whenever a majority of existing members decides to choose a new member to add. A few board members could be elected by users, too. But the board should be able to eject any member of the board by a majority vote of the board.

I hope some good lawyers are found to make sure that wikipedia lasts, and that it can withstand all attacks. So that wikipedia is never taken over and ruined by advertisers, partisan user groups, etc..

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