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Today is Thursday, 13 June 2024, and the current time is 06:06 (UTC/GMT). There are currently 6,834,739 articles. this page for a new update.

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Saulos Chilima

• A plane crash in Mzimba, Malawi, kills nine people, including Vice President Saulos Chilima (pictured).
• In tennis, Iga Świątek wins the Women's singles and Carlos Alcaraz wins the Men's singles titles at the French Open.
• In the Indian general election, the National Democratic Alliance, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is re-elected with a reduced majority.
• The Boeing Starliner spacecraft conducts its first crewed flight, carrying two astronauts to the International Space Station.

Ongoing:

• Israel–Hamas war
  • timeline
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • timeline
• Sudanese civil war
  • timeline

Recent deaths:

• Michael Mosley
• Warren Winiarski
• Simon M. Cowell
• James Lawson
• Brother Marquis
• Chet Walker

Personal

Today's motto... → Feeling lucky punk? Oh, good. Nominate one today!

Thursday

13

June

2024

06:06 UTC

Lives in Grand Prairie, Texas.

Born in 1976.

Interested in Historical Articles, American Politics, Americana and other general knowledge.

Want to find out more about me? Check my UserBoxes. I also use my userpages to learn what I can and cannot do, trial and error stuff before I screw up an article somewhere. I ask that you do the same, but not on my page, use your own, please.

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My Pages

• User:Leobold1/Helpful Links
• User:Leobold1/sources
• User:Leobold1/sandbox
• User:Leobold1/Texas
• User:Leobold1/sources
• User:Leobold1/Research Articles
• User:Leobold1/Helpful Links
• User:Leobold1/UserBoxes

Useful Articles

These are Wikipedia articles I use to help my writing and editing.

• Wikipedia:List of shortcuts
• Wikipedia:Layout
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style
• Wikipedia:Notability
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style (flags)
• Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words
• Wikipedia:Avoid peacock terms
• Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace
• Wikipedia:Writing better articles
• Wikipedia:Lead section
• Wikipedia:Search engine test
• Wikipedia:Department of Fun
• Category:Wikipedia essays
• Wikipedia:Search engine test
• Wikipedia:InterWikimedia links
• Web colors

Articles Enhancing In Progress

These are the articles I'm working on now, on a semi- or more permanent-basis.

• XXII Corps (ACW)
• 108th Cavalry Regiment (United States)
• Structure of the United States Armed Forces
• Six flags over Texas‎

To Do

These are articles I plan to work on in the near to distant future.

Articles Enhanced (Non-Orphan)

These are articles I want to expand. These are not stubs.

• List of works by William W. Johnstone‎

Articles Planned

These are articles I plan on writing from scratch.

• Books by William W. Johnstone
• List of Union Army Regiments participating in the Grand Review of the Armies

Other Enhancements

These are articles I have enhanced in some way. Enhancement means to give more detail to in a very limited fashion.

• Template:Civil War DC forts

Favorite Articles

These are articles I really enjoy. These are the favorites.

• User:BillCJ/Sandbox/Essays/RFL
• United States
• Texas
• Republic of Texas
• Texas Revolution
• Battle of the Alamo
• Battle of San Jacinto
• Confederate States of America
• Army of Northern Virginia
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Texas in the American Civil War
• Texas Civil War Confederate Units
• Texas Brigade
• Pacific War
• Attacks on North America during World War II
• Attack on Pearl Harbor
• United States Army
• United States Navy
• United States Air Force
• United States Marine Corps

Photos uploaded

This is a list of photos I have helped upload.

• Image:106th Field Signal Battalion.jpg

Articles that are of Personal Use

• Baen Free Library
• John Ringo

Milestones

1st Talk Edit:

Talk:List of U.S. government designations for places‎

(December 16, 2007)

1st Article Edit:

List of works by William W. Johnstone‎

(February 1, 2008)

1st Major Article Edit:

108th Cavalry Regiment (United States)‎

(February 5, 2008)

1st Photo Upload (that I didn't screw up):

Image:106th Field Signal Battalion.jpg‎

(February 7, 2008)

1st Article Move:

User:Leobold1/List of Union Army Regiments participating in the Grand Review of the Armies

(March 3, 2008)

1st Template

Template:Six flags of Texas

(March 26, 2008

Tip of the Day

Tip of the day...

How to insert a picture into an article

The syntax used for displaying an image is:

[[File:{name}|{type}|{location}|{size}|{alt=}|{caption}]]

Only [[File:{name}]] parameter is required.

Do not put spaces between parameters. The other parameters are optional and can be placed in any order. Some infoboxes do not require the brackets. Keep parameters in lower case. The other parameters are:

Type

'thumb' / 'thumbnail' or 'frame'. This causes image to be displayed with specific formatting. "thumb" is normally preferred.

Location

'right', 'left', 'center' or 'none'. Determines placement of the image on the page. "Left" or "right" is the norm, but large panoramas or timelines can be displayed in the center.

Size

{width}px or {width}x{height}px (e.g. 50x40px, would limit width to 50 pixels and height to 40 pixels). Normally only one variable is used. Use common sense when determining the sizes; you can use the "Show preview" button if you need to. If thumb or thumbnail is chosen, size should normally be left out, so that the size defaults to the size set in a user's preferences.

alt=

(keep it lower case). This is the "alternate image" parameter used to describe the image for screenreaders or for people with low-vision. It should be more descriptive than the caption alone. Do not use this for another copy of the caption or of the article title, as the reader will already be aware of these.

Caption

Any element which cannot be identified as one of the above is automatically treated as caption text. It is traditional to put this last. The caption should identify what the image is, and ideally be a complete sentence that adds to the article by pointing out something a casual reader would not have noticed otherwise, or add information the pertains to the image. Full sentence or multi fragment captions require full stop punctuation.

If you have created a picture that is not already in Wikipedia's image collection on the Commons that you want to include in an article, you will need to upload it first. Bonus tip: Similar formatting is used to insert basic audio or basic video clips into articles.

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