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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

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1925 revisited

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I sometimes fear that
  people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress
worn by grotesques and monsters
  as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.

Michael Rosen

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction ... no longer exists”

1938 revisited

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1940 revisited

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... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Talk to me

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Leave a message on my talk page ->

GAs and DYKs

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Good Articles that I helped reach that status

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Did You Know features from these GAs

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Today
(at UTC+00)
Monday, 1 June 2026
Other calendars
Armenian 16 Margach 1475
Bengali 18 Joishtho, BS 1433
Chinese Yang Fire HorseHeart Mansion
17 Sìyue, Bǐngwǔnián
(Xiaoman, 4 days until Mangzhong)
Common Era 1 June 2026 CE
Coptic 24 Pashons, AM 1742
Egyptian 16 Phaophi, NE 2775
Ethiopian 24 Genbot, AD 2018
French Republican Décade II, Tridi de Prairial de l'Année 234 de la République
Gregorian 1 June, AD 2026
Hebrew 16 Sivan, AM 5786
Islamic 15 Dhu al-Hijjah, AH 1447
(tabular method)
ISO week date 2026-W23-1
Japanese 16 Uzuki, Reiwa 8
(Shōman, 5 days until Bōshu)
Julian 19 May, AD 2026 (AM 7534)
Julian day 2461193
Maya 13.0.13.11.10
3 Zotz, 13 Oc
Roman ante diem XIV Kalendas Iunias, AUC 2779
Solar Hijri 11 Khordad, SH 1405

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Citations

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  • Multiple pages in the same sourcebook - WP:IBID and WP:CITEPAGE (help), especially Help:Shortened footnotes (using Harvard citations).
  • Template:Google books
  • References and footnotes: WP:References, WP:Footnotes (use {{subst:Footnotes|100%}} )
    • Template:Refn and #tag:ref
    • templates: efn and notelist
  • Use Refill to fix bare references see User:Zhaofeng Li/reFill
  • Dead links restored using archive.org or ghostarchive
  • put longwinded cites in References section rather than embedded:
    • {{reflist|refs= then
    • <ref name=
  • Chasing down all instances of an unreliable or WP:LINKVIO source: {{duses}} (e.g., answering-islam.org Links Spamcheck )
  • Getting a precise page citation from Google Books: see wp:GBOOKS.
  • use |display-authors=etal in cite books
  • Inflation: how to specify as of when: Equivalent to about £{{inflation|UK-GDP|0.15|1700|r=0}} million in {{Inflation/year|UK-GDP}}.{{Inflation/fn|UK-GDP}} yields Equivalent to about £28 million in 2024.[1] Good practice is to include {{Inflation/fn}} in the note as it explains what index is being used.
  • link to other language WPs: {{ill}}
  • using {{cite book}} in "further reading" can throw up false positives. Add ref=none to the string to avoid.
  • date={{season|summer|1989}}
  • template:r is a quick way to shorten named refs and include chapter/section/page numbers.
    • Also used to combine a number of named citations. e.g., {{r|Hsu 2023|Paddison 2023|McCarthy 2023|Sethi 2023}}
  • When a Wikipedia article makes reference to a work that contains multiple chapters by different authors, bibliographies and reference sections can look rather cluttered: the solution is {{harvc}}
  • How to use the sfnp family of templates

Bare URLs

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Footnotes

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  • Poole, Robert (1995). Calendar Reform in eighteenth-century England. Oxford Academic Past & Present. p. 117, footnote 77.

or

  • Poole, Robert (1995). "'Give us back our eleven days!': Calendar Reform in eighteenth-century England". Past & Present. 149 (1): 95–139. doi:10.1093/past/149.1.95. p. 117, footnote 77.

Got title, need ISBN, publisher etc

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Following a link from an isbn= took me to worldcat.org and I found that it is far better than Google (or Amazon) when doing the reverse – I have a title but I need its ISBN. It also gives publisher, location, date, translator – just what one needs to complete a template:cite book.

Historic England

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template:NHLE

VCH and VoB

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Statutes at large

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Geography

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Maps and mapping

Getting metro area population from NOMIS

  1. https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/ then section headed Local Area Report
  2. Name of urban area and then Search ... Example: Bristol
  3. Select the relevant built up area ... Example: Built-up area (villages, towns or cities), ...Bristol (in South West Region) (caution! not "Built-up area sub divisions (town or city sub divisions)").
  4. Get the GSS E number from the response ... Example: "This report covers the characteristics of people and households in Bristol Built-up area in South West (GSS code E34004965)".
  5. Plug into template:NOMIS2011 ... Example {{NOMIS2011|id=E34004965|title=Bristol BUA}} produces UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Bristol BUA (E34004965)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. which reports "There were 617,280 usual residents as at Census day 2011".
  6. Wrap in ref tags and attach to figure in table.

Book sources

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  • Wikipedia talk:Book sources
  • fix harv errors for unused citations by moving them to a Further Reading and appending ref=none to the citation.

Finding CS1/2 and harv errors

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Wlinking to an older instance of a page

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template
diff

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AReliable_sources%2FPerennial_sources&type=revision&diff=983827787&oldid=983690192

{{Diff|page|diff|oldid|label}}
with this diff, xyz
template
oldid

"[ ... ] You can also use the {{oldid}} template: my sandbox or go through a special page my sandbox." Gospel according to Redrose64 🌹

Antivandalism and other warnings

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Talk pages

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IP editors

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It works!

Screen-reader ready

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It just shouldn't rely on color and/or font alone; if it's marked up with <kbd>...</kbd> (which indicates keystrokes or other textual input, and is more loosely spec-defined than <code>...</code>), that's a sufficient HTML/CSS handle for anyone with a screen reader to tell their software to do something specific when encountering that element. But if there's no specific element, just some CSS coloring and/or font-family on a span, all screen readers will ignore it as irrelevant visual fluff. That would mostly be a problem when the content coincides with an English word like a or I, though it would probably also affect punctuation characters (we need them to be interpreted as characters in and of themselves in these cases, not as part of the regular flow of the sentence; I think by default most screen readers would just ignore it as mis-placed punctuation (a typo), though some might even do something more wrong, e.g. misinterpret a single-quote character being presented as a glyph, as instead indicating the beginning of a quotation. While not everyone with a screen reader will do something to distinguish <kbd> markup, at least they have the option, and it won't be dependent on using a unique-to-WP CSS class, either, so easier to deal with on their end.

Collapsible list

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Annotating 'See also' lists

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  • {{anli}}, appends the short description (aka {{annotated link}}
  • {{subst:AnnotatedListOfLinks| etc etc}} to convert a long See Also to use ALs.

but... Wikipedia talk:Short description/Archive 9#Length – 40 or 90 characters??

Trouble at t'mill

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Things to follow up

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Footnotes

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References

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  1. ^ United Kingdom Gross Domestic Product deflator figures follow the MeasuringWorth "consistent series" supplied in Thomas, Ryland; Williamson, Samuel H. (2026). "What Was the U.K. GDP Then?". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved April 1, 2026.