User:JohnFromPinckney

Nothing about me here (who am I, anyway?). Just handy links and reference material for myself.

Certs tools

• Sales/shipments certifications
• Category:Music industry associations
• Discussion about charts certs column
• New template to generate standardized refs: {{Cite certification}}
• Templates (using above) to generate tables of certs:
  • {{Certification Table Top}}
  • {{Certification Table Entry}}
  • {{Certification Table Summary}}
  • {{Certification Table Bottom}}

Australia / ARIA

• Determine cert year by choosing from ARIA certs pages.
• Use template: <ref>{{Cite certification |region=Australia |type=single |certyear=1998 |accessdate=December 25, 2011}}</ref>
• When not on certs page yet, but (still) on current Top 50 Singles:

<ref name="AUScurrent50">{{cite web|url=http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display.asp?chart=1U50 |title=ARIA Top 50 Singles Charts: 31/10/2011 |publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]] |accessdate=October 31, 2011}}</ref>

Canada / (CRIA) Music Canada

• CRIA links (do any still work?).
• Music Canada link to search and sample ref:

http://musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=Loud&ica=False&sa=Rihanna&sl=&smt=0&sat=-1&ssd=9/1/2011&sed=10/1/2011&ssb=Artist

st=Title
ica=Search Canadian Artists Only. True/False
sa=Artist
sl=Label
smt=Media type. Number 1-10 from list index
sat=Award type. E.g., TRIPLE PLATINUM ALBUM(S)
ssd=Start date
sed=End date
ssb=Sort by
&ssdir=ascending/descending

<ref>{{cite web|url=http://musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?sa=Notorious+B.I.G. |title=Gold and Platinum Search (Notorious B.I.G.) |publisher=[[Music Canada]] |accessdate=October 5, 2011}}</ref>

Germany / BVMI

• "Gold/Platin-Datenbank" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 2010-06-19.
• "Gold/Platin-Datenbank" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
• "Gold/Platin-Datenbank" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Changed again ~2010-10-27.
• "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Eminem; 'Encore')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Template 2010-07-29
  (Muhandes is a genius: use {{Cite certification|region=Germany|artist=Eminem|title=Encore}}).

NL / NVPI

• 1978–2006: Functioning DB <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ifpi.nl/nvpi/pagina.asp?pagkey=60461 |title=NVPI, de branchevereniging van de entertainmentindustrie – Goud/Platina |publisher=[[NVPI]] |accessdate=2011-12-31}}</ref>
• 1951–2011: Totally broken DB (contains 11 test entries).

NZ / RIANZ

Bulletin, 12.11.11: All bets are off; those dumbasses at RIANZ have changed their site, so the below URLs all redirect to http://nztop40.co.nz/ (showing only the current Top 40). Maybe someday the thing in the upper-right that resembles a drop-down list of charts will actually work. Bloody idiots.

News flash. 19.12.11: Thanks to Harout72, there may be salvation: http://rianz.org.nz/rianz/oldchart.asp gets us to the old charts, it appears. Will research...

• With song/album search charts to see when it was released/moving. That can help when stabbing at weekly links at RIANZ site.
• NZ direct links to any charts: Weekly and EOY Replace chart number (chartNum) or year (chartYear) as needed, and chartKind with S=singles, A=albums, D=DVDs, C=compilations, H=radio airplay (thanks to Adabow) Sample ref here.

<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rianz.org.nz/rianz/chart.asp?chartNum=1784&chartKind=S |title=RIANZ: Chart #1784 - Monday 1 August 2011 / Top 40 Singles Chart (select from drop-down lists) |publisher=[[Recording Industry Association of New Zealand]] |accessdate=2011-10-21}}</ref>

References

Sweden / IFPI

• IFPI SWE: Platinum<ref name=IFPI-SEp8>[http://www.ifpi.se/wp/wp-content/uploads/ar-20002.pdf "ÅR 2000 <nowiki>[Year 2000]</nowiki>"] (PDF) via [http://www.ifpi.se/?page_id=67 IFPI Guld & Platina page] (in Swedish). IFPI Svenska Gruppen. p. 8. Retrieved 2011-11-30.</ref>

UK / BPI

• Non-specific link to BPI DB: <ref name=BPI>{{cite web|url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx |title=BPI Certified Awards Search |publisher=[[British Phonographic Industry]] |accessdate=December 4, 2011}}</ref>

US / RIAA

• OLD RIAA search tool. RIAA results URLs: long form & a short form (thanks to TheJazzDalek)
• Updated (2011) RIAA search tool. Go to this URL, replacing "rihanna" as appropriate (doesn't have to actually be the artist; site searches for whatever's in "artist" field [no other params known yet]):

http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=rihanna

• Copy-paste for ref, inserting correct URL:

<ref>{{cite web|url=http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=%22Without%20You%22 |title=RIAA – Searchable Database: Without You |publisher=[[Recording Industry Association of America]] |accessdate=October 31, 2011}}</ref>

I am (still) using this page as a scratchpad of those links I frequently use and spend way too much time looking up. While I'm adding and removing such links, it seems like a good opportunity for me to play with formatting capabilities. So I offer my apologies if my User page is of less than great use to its visitors; I'm rather selfishly using it for my own evil purposes.

• Manual of Style
• [[MOS:DASH]]
• Decap per [[MOS:JOBTITLES]]
• one bluelink per line per [[WP:DABSTYLE]]
• rm redlinks per [[MOS:DABRED]]
• #/No./number per [[MOS:NUMBERSIGN]]
• states written out per [[MOS:POSTABBR]]
• ACCESS:COLOR per [[MOS:COLOR]]
• Colors table [[WP:MoS/Accessibility/Colors]] points to Colour Contrast Check at Snook.ca
• Tables
• MoS/Tables w/ (some basic) sorting examples
• Wikipedia:Table dos and don'ts, a 10-item shortlist, with some links
• Help:Table w/ detailed tricks to make things (like centering) work
• WP:ACCESS#Tables
• Help:Sorting
• Stabilize expando-captions/headings for tables: |+ class="nowrap" |
• ...and centered, too: {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"
• {{Screen reader-only|Example table}}
• Talk pages
• Template:Unsigned: {{subst:unsigned|whoever|12:34, 1 January 2023 (UTC)}}
• Template:UnsignedIP: {{subst:Unsigned IP|whatever|12:34, 1 January 2023 (UTC)}}
• Template:Undated: {{subst:undated|12:34, 1 January 2023 (UTC)}}
• [[MOS:LISTGAP]], non-binding discussion, May 2020
• {{tqi}}, {{tqq}} (auto w/ quote marks)
• [[WP:DISCOGSTYLE]], toward [[WP:ACCESS]]
• Layout: Appendices order
• Welcome Templates
• Vandalism & Templates (MLT), Twinkle (10-03), AIV and Excellency SPI
• Citations & Templates

Template:Dead link

Template:Citation needed

Template:Failed verification

• possibly not an RS per [[WP:RSP]]
• ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 + alpha-3 country codes; ISO 3166-2:BE regions.

• Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes (WP:CLASS)
• Rate Limits (phab T258888)
• Skins, Tech News: 2021-02: There is a new tool to build new skins. You can also see existing skins. You can give feedback.
• To change watchlist period, add action=watch to URL
• Conversation about Authority Control/WikiData: last(?) entry in thread

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• Cheatsheet
• Hidden categories
• Help:Cite errors
• Wikipedia:Database reports, something to explore...

My subpages

Coding tools

• Help:Contents: Apparently TOC for many goodies
• Help:Template

Basics, parameters: named/unnamed/empty/default

• Help:Advanced_templates

Variable templates and parameters, branching

• Help:Parser_function

Formatting (LC, UC, LCFIRST, URLENCODE)

NS, URLs etc., Pages in category

• Help:Extension:ParserFunctions

#expr, #if, #ifeq, #iferror, #switch, etc.

• Help:Magic_words#Parser_functions

{{urlencode:string}}, {{lc:string}}, {{#tag:tagname}}

• Help:Newlines_and_spaces

What it says; how to use spaces in params

Useful Lil links

• Reflinks / Limited to 5 (Dead / Dead, 18.05.21)
• Dablinks Checker (Dead, 18.05.21)
• Dead Link Checker (Dead, 18.05.21)

Pages/Templates

• Cleanup
• Statements Such As: Done, Not Done, Etc...
• Maintenance
• Sources / citations / references

• My JavaScript: Special:MyPage/common.js
• Active admins
• EIA
• Edit summary search
• ES tool

My stats

Unfinished business

• Finish cleaning up Darren Holden (musician)
• Chamber of Deputies (Romania) uses Template:Election table, which isn't WP:ACCESS-compliant.
• Robert Hogan (psychologist) has ~recent (07.06.21) addition of "most important works"; needs reviewing. See also Special:Contributions/Hogan_Marketing.
• Finish review of frightful Literary Death Match for italics/quotes/linking.
• Source/prune The Neptunes production discography finally; work begun at bottom of Sandbox5.
• Review MOS:DTT#Complex tables. Ask about Template:Static row numbers accessibility.
• At Template:Infobox political party we see addition of params categories, demo, nocat, which three were causing errors on another template. Which? One of the college rankings, I think. (Look at May–late June timeframe.)
• At WPT:Discographies there's a comment (06:26, 30 January 2021) concerning 4 pages to look at.
• Purge ludicrous tables at Madame Tussauds
• Wiseguy: Talk:Wiseguy#Article needs cleanup, like so...?
• Fix Escape (Journey album) tables

Last updated: 2024-10-14