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	] might be considered a better attempt at an article, except for the fact that I <s>nicked</s>... translated it from the German Misplaced Pages.		] might be considered a better attempt at an article, except for the fact that I <s>nicked</s>... translated it from the German Misplaced Pages.

	== ~~Thoughts~~ on disambiguation ~~pages~~ ==		== Creating an article from a disambiguation page ==

	These thoughts are based on work I did on ]. This started when I realised that ] redirected Over the course of a few days I edited ] from (25/03/2006) to (28/02/2006). Most of the work involved organising the Ptolemies into sections, and early on I settled on a historical scheme to help make sense of this. Following on from that, I became interested in the etymology of Ptolemy, and the history of the name and the people bearing the name, and how the name has come to be used in today's world. This accounts for the etymological section, and the expansion into other languages. By the time of this (29/03/2006), my earlier fears that the page was no longer a disambiguation page were confirmed.		These thoughts are based on work I did on ]. This started when I realised that ] redirected to ], as seen . This rang a warning bell in my mind, as I realised that many people would link Ptolemiac in articles referring to Claudius Ptolemaeus, the famous astronomer of the 2nd century AD, not the Egyptian ruling dynasty (of Macedonian origin) of the 3rd to 1st centuries BC. Clicking on "What links here" confirmed my fears. I eventually got round to tidying up those links and redid ] as a disambiguation page. While changing those links, I had got interested in the history of the Ptolemies, and the confusing tangle of Ptolemies in the ]. Over the course of a few days I edited ] from (25/03/2006) to (28/02/2006). Most of the work involved organising the Ptolemies into sections, and early on I settled on a historical scheme to help make sense of this. Following on from that, I became interested in the etymology of Ptolemy, and the history of the name and the people bearing the name, and how the name has come to be used in today's world. This accounts for the etymological section, and the expansion into other languages. By the time of this (29/03/2006), my earlier fears that the page was no longer a disambiguation page were confirmed.

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Tip of the day...

How to make your watchlist easier to read

If you use Firefox, there is a user script you can install called Watchlist sorter.

This script sorts your watchlist by namespace, and adds spaces within each entry. This makes the watchlist much easier to read.

To install the script, copy/paste the following line into your your common.js page. This will install the script across all your skins.

importScript("User:The Transhumanist/WatchlistSorter.js");

Note: After saving, you have to Bypass your cache. To do this in Firefox, hold down the ⇧ Shift key while clicking Reload (or press Ctrl+⇧ Shift+R). Or, you may have to {{purge}} the Misplaced Pages server cache.

Prior tip – Tips library – Next tip Read more:Misplaced Pages:User scripts Your watchlist settings Misplaced Pages:Purge Become a Misplaced Pages tipster To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use
{{tip of the day}}

Things to do

Look at other user pages and get ideas for layout.
Make summary of my contributions to date (including IP addresses).
Start using watchlist.
Start making bookmark list.

Bookmarks

Contributions

First edit as Carcharoth was January 2005.
Log of contributions is here.

First article

Spotted a missing article in Category:Chess magazines, and decided to add CHESS magazine. Unfortunately I appear to have just missed out on the honour of creating the 1,000,000th article...

Second article

Baruch Harold Wood might be considered a better attempt at an article, except for the fact that I ~~nicked~~... translated it from the German Misplaced Pages.

Creating an article from a disambiguation page

These thoughts are based on work I did on Ptolemy (disambiguation). This started when I realised that Ptolemaic redirected to Ptolemiac dynasty, as seen here. This rang a warning bell in my mind, as I realised that many people would link Ptolemiac in articles referring to Claudius Ptolemaeus, the famous astronomer of the 2nd century AD, not the Egyptian ruling dynasty (of Macedonian origin) of the 3rd to 1st centuries BC. Clicking on "What links here" confirmed my fears. I eventually got round to tidying up those links and redid Ptolemaic as a disambiguation page. While changing those links, I had got interested in the history of the Ptolemies, and the confusing tangle of Ptolemies in the Ptolemaic dynasty. Over the course of a few days I edited Ptolemy (disambiguation) from this (25/03/2006) to this (28/02/2006). Most of the work involved organising the Ptolemies into sections, and early on I settled on a historical scheme to help make sense of this. Following on from that, I became interested in the etymology of Ptolemy, and the history of the name and the people bearing the name, and how the name has come to be used in today's world. This accounts for the etymological section, and the expansion into other languages. By the time of this version (29/03/2006), my earlier fears that the page was no longer a disambiguation page were confirmed.