Note To Self संपादित करें

This was initially a sandbox I created, using my user page, for me to test stuff. Then I cut and pasted interesting formatting examples and how-to information from other wikipedia pages.

My Sandbox (original text or edits for pages) संपादित करें

The Fox Theatre was originally designed to be a dual vaudeville/movie house that would include a stage, a full fly loft, and dressing rooms underneath the stage. Due to the Great Depression and the up-and-coming “talkies”, there were limited opportunities to hold live plays and performances, and as such, the dressing rooms were never completed. By the time the Fox Theatre’s construction was completed, the overall budget increased from $200,000 to $300,000, including the furnishings.[1]

Random Markup to Use संपादित करें

  • For Reference Lists at End: {{टिप्पणीसूची}}
  • For Requesting Add'l Citation or Verification: {{tlx|Refimprove|date=December 2011}}.
  • For Typing Code That's Visible as Text: <tt><nowiki>CODE</nowiki>

Key Links for Editing संपादित करें

Regarding Major Edits (from Wikipedia) संपादित करें

All editors are encouraged to be bold, but there are several things that a user can do to ensure that major edits are performed smoothly. Before engaging in a major edit, a user should consider discussing proposed changes on the article discussion/talk page. During the edit, if doing so over an extended period, the {{In use}} tag can reduce the likelihood of an edit conflict. Once the edit has been completed, the inclusion of an edit summary will assist in documenting the changes. These steps will help all to ensure that major edits are well received by the Wikipedia community.

From Wikipedia:Tutorial/Formatting संपादित करें

यह एक मुक्त ज्ञानकोश है, जहाँ सभी को ज्ञानप्रसार का अधिकार है।

प्रायः पूछे जाने वाले प्रश्न · नया पृष्ठ कैसे आरम्भ करें? · लेख को कैसे बदलें? · लेखों का आकलन करने में सहायता करें · देवनागरी में कैसे टंकण करें? · मनचाहे बदलाव करके देखें · आप कैसे लेख न बनायें · लेखों का नाम कैसे रखें ·

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Formatting a Wikipedia article is a bit different from writing on a standard word processor. Instead of a strict WYSIWYG approach ("What You See Is What You Get"), Wikipedia uses text codes to create particular elements of the page (e.g., headings). This markup language is known as Wikitext (or Wiki-markup) and is designed for ease of editing.

Bold and italics संपादित करें

The most commonly used wiki tags are bold and italics. Bolding and italicizing are done by surrounding a word or phrase with multiple apostrophes ('):

You type You get
''italic'' italic

'''bold'''

bold

'''''bold italic'''''

bold italic

On Wikipedia, the names of an article's subject are written in bold when they are first mentioned in the article. For example, the article Elizabeth II begins:

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926) is the reigning queen and head of state of 16 independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: ...

Italics may be used for the names of books, movies, albums, and computer/video game titles. If the first mention of the subject of an article is also a book or movie title, then bold italic is used.

For more information about using bold and italics, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style.

Headings and subheadings संपादित करें

Headings and subheadings are a way to improve the organization of an article. If you can see two or more distinct topics being discussed, with more than a couple paragraphs for each, you can make the article more readable by inserting a heading for each topic - that is, making each into its own section.

Headings are created like this:

You type You get

==Heading==

Heading संपादित करें

===Subheading===

Subheading संपादित करें

If an article has at least four headings, a table of contents will automatically be generated. Try creating a heading in this page's sandbox. It will be added automatically to the table of contents for the page, assuming three others already exist.

HTML संपादित करें

Wikitext contains all the features required to follow Wikipedia's formatting conventions and knowledge of HTML code is not necessary, although it is often used for more specific formatting such as using colors, text and paragraph styles, and page layout.

See How to edit a page or the Cheatsheet for more on editing a page.
You can also check out an annotated example page.
Test what you have learned in the sandbox


Continue the tutorial with Wikipedia links


From Jim Loewen's Page संपादित करें

James (Jim) W. Loewen (b. February 6, 1942) is a sociologist, professor, and author whose best-known work is Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (1995).[2]

Early life and career संपादित करें

Loewen was born to Winifred and Dr. David F. Loewen in 1942. His mother was a librarian and teacher, and his father was a medical director. Loewen grew up in Decatur, Illinois. He was a National Merit Scholar as a graduate in 1960 from MacArthur High School.

He attended Carleton College. In 1963, as a junior, he spent a semester in Mississippi, an experience in a different culture that led to his questioning what he had been taught about United States history. He was intrigued by learning about the unique place of nineteenth-century Chinese immigrants and their descendants in Mississippi culture, commonly thought of as biracial. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University based on his research on the Chinese in Mississippi.

Loewen first taught in Mississippi at Tougaloo College, a historically black college[3] founded by the American Missionary Association after the American Civil War. For 20 years, Loewen taught about racism at the University of Vermont. Since 1997, he has been a Visiting Professor of Sociology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.[3]

First Amendment battle संपादित करें

Loewen co-authored a United States history textbook, Mississippi: Conflict and Change (1974), which won the Lillian Smith Award for Best Southern Nonfiction in 1975. The Mississippi Textbook Purchasing Board did not approve the textbook for use in the state school system. Loewen challenged the state's decision in a lawsuit, Loewen v. Turnipseed (1980).

The American Library Association considers Loewen v. Turnipseed, 488 F. Supp. 1138 (N.D. Miss. 1980), a historic First Amendment case, and one of the foundations of our "right to read freely." Mississippi: Conflict and Change was rejected for use in Mississippi's public schools by the Mississippi Textbook Purchasing Board on the grounds that it was too controversial and placed too much focus on racial matters. Judge Orma R. Smith of the U.S. District Court ruled that the rejection of the textbook was not based on "justifiable grounds", and that the authors were denied their right to free speech and press.[4]

Lies My Teacher Told Me संपादित करें

Loewen spent two years at the Smithsonian Institution, where he studied and compared twelve American history textbooks then widely used throughout the United States. He published his findings in Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong (1995). He concluded that no one textbook does a decent job of making history interesting, memorable nor does any single textbook provide accurate documentation.

He believes that history should not be taught as straightforward facts and dates to memorize, but rather analysis of the context and root causes of events[उद्धरण चाहिए]. Loewen recommends that teachers use two textbooks, so that students may realize the contradictions and ask questions, such as, "Why do the authors present the material like this?"

Recent writings संपादित करें

Continuing his interest in racial conflict in the United States, Loewen wrote Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism (2005). The book documents the histories of sundown towns, which are towns where black people, Jews, and other minority groups were forced (or strongly encouraged) to leave prior to sundown in order to prevent racial violence threatened and perpetrated by majority white populations. Loewen has written about sundown towns repeatedly throughout his career, including in Lies Across America, where he notably cited the affluent suburb of Darien, Connecticut as meeting his definition of a modern-day de facto sundown town.

At present, Loewen is researching a new book, Surprises on the Landscape: Unexpected Places That Get History Right. The book is planned as follow-up to Lies Across America, which noted historically inaccurate or misleading historical markers and sites across the United States. Surprises will call attention to historical sites that are accurate and provide honest representations of events. His official website invites the public to comment on what towns and historical sites should be included in terms of presenting history "right".

Books संपादित करें

Loewen has written the following books:[3]

  • The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971; second edition, Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press 1988
  • Mississippi: Conflict and Change (co-authored with Charles Sallis), New York: Pantheon Books, 1974
  • Social Science in the Courtroom, Lexington: D.C. Heath and Company, 1982
  • The Truth About Columbus 1989; second edition as Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus, paperback, 2006
  • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong, New York: The New Press, 1995
  • Lies Across America: What Our Historic Markers and Monuments Get Wrong, New York: The New Press, 1999
  • Sundown Towns, New York: The New Press, 2005
  • The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The Great Truth about the Lost Cause (co-edited with Edward H. Sebesta), Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2010

References संपादित करें

  1. ‘History of Fox Theatre’, Fox Theatre home page. Retrievied 2010-12-15
  2. "Jim Loewen". Ushistory.Org. Retrieved 2010-10-16.
  3. Cheney, Matt. "Biography of James W. Loewen". University of Illinois. Retrieved 2010-10-16.
  4. "Notable First Amendment court cases". American Library Association. Retrieved 2010-10-16.

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