User:JohnFromPinckney

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. Add my notes from mail.

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.
• Template:Cite gold platin Template 2010-07-29
  (Muhandes is a genius: use {{Cite gold platin|artist=Eminem|title=Encore}}).

NZ / RIANZ

• 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>

UK / BPI

• <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://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=rihanna

• Copy-paste for ref, inserting correct URL:

<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.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>

My name is John. I am from Pinckney. Greetings, Earthling.

I am (so far) 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
• Layout: Appendices order
• Welcome Templates
• Vandalism & Templates (MLT), Twinkle (10-03) and AIV
• Citations & Templates
• Template:Unsigned: {{subst:unsigned|whoever|12:34, 1 November 2011 (UTC)}}
• ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 + alpha-3 country codes

Music stuff, mostly

• About those pesky Record charts
• Open items for Template:Singlechart:
  • Denmark's change of chart size: Hint
  • Hung Medien sites' troubles with character encoding: Hint
  • Checker tool: Pointer

  Selected current charts

  Country	Singles	Albums
  AUS	Top 50	Top 50
  DNK	Top 40	Top 40
  IRL	Top 50	Top 100
  FIN	20 singles, 50 albums
  UK	Top 40100	Top 40100
  UK R&B	Top 40	Top 40

• BB dead link rehabilitation (thanks to Legolas2186)
  
  • Given dead link http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003696997 (1),

  use story ID in http://login.vnuemedia.com/bbbiz/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003696997 (2)

• BB Bubbling Under et al.
• Cheatsheet
• Hidden categories
• Help:Cite errors
• Pop icons: MJ. "The same holds true for Madonna, Janet Jackson, U2, Whitney Houston, Nirvana, and Guns N Roses among others." via Google search
• wikidashboard
• [Bare links tool (set for Lily Allen article) to look at]
• [ES tool]

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 Links

Music

• Dablinks Checker

• Dead Link Checker

Pages/Templates

• Cleanup
• Statements Such As: Done, Not Done, Etc...
• Maintenance

• Recent Page Patrol
• Reporting Vandalism
• Sources / citations / references

Last updated: 2011-10-31