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Pennsylvania Railroad

Overview
Headquarters	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Reporting mark	PRR
Locale	Chicago and St. LouistoNew York City and Washington, DC
Dates of operation	1846–1968
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

Trying something based on a Japanese organization system I read about: each time I use one of these templates, I move it to the top.

• Official website: {{official|www.barnesfoundation.org}}
• Redirects: #REDIRECT [[Yale University]]
• IABot (auto-find archive pages for cites): Analyze a page
• {{anchor|tennallytownrockville}}
• Inflation template:
  • (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|amount|year|r=0}}}} today{{Inflation-fn|US}})
  • US$17 million (about ${{Format price|{{Inflation|US|17000000|1889|r=-6}}}} today{{Inflation-fn|US}}): US$17 million (about $576 million today^[1])
• "Wikimedia Commons has material relating to" template: {{Commons category|Toledo, Ohio}}
• Linking from WM Commons to WP: "Works cast by the [[w:Bureau Brothers|Bureau Brothers]], a foundry established in Philadelphia in the 1970s."
• Inline conversion:{{convert|2.7|mi|km|abbr=off}}: " 2.7 miles (4.3 kilometres)"
• {{Years ago|1910}}
• Frequently cited sources

• ahistoric residence and former headquarters of a forced-labor farm
• List of inline cleanup tags like ^[who?]

Master Templates page

• {{HAER | survey = PA-404-B | id = pa3881 | title = Thirtieth Street Station, Load Dispatch Center}}
• {{Citation needed span|text=with the hopes of spanning all of [[Greece]] in a massive urban sprawl;|date=November 2013}}
• Official website: {{official|www.barnesfoundation.org}}
• Template:Convert
  • {{convert|220|mph}}
  • with adjective awareness {{convert|164|ft|m|adj=on}}
  • sigfigs: {{convert|39.6|mi|km|sigfig=2|adj=on}}
  • Range: {{convert|3|–|6|ft}}
• U.S. Navy ship ref template: {{USS|Gyatt|DD-712}}
• Ship class template: {{sclass|Gearing|destroyer}}
• To link to a Category page: [[:Category:Shipyards of the United States]]
• Wikipedia:Extended image syntax
• Wikipedia guidelines | Wikipedia:External links
• WP citing sources
• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
• Delete templates:
  • Speedy: Spam: {{db-spam}}
  • Simple delete: {{subst:afd}}
• Make bulleted lists flow into two columns:
• {{multicol}} [bulleted list here] {{multicol-end}}
• Generate QR code for this page
• Making References columns self-balancing
• Instead of <blockquote></blockquote>, use Quote template:

{{Quote|Quote goes here.|Attribution goes here<ref>Cite goes here</ref>}}

• Citation templates
• Help:References and page numbers#Inline page numbers / Help:List-defined references / Help:Footnotes
• <ref name="germantownhistory" />{{rp|189}} produces ^[2]: 189
• Books (documentation): <ref name="NAME">{{cite book |title= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |year= |publisher= |location= |isbn= |page= |pages= |url= |accessdate=}}</ref>
  • The brontosaurus is thin at one end.<ref name=elk1972>{{cite book |last=Elk |first=Anne |title=[[Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses]] |date=November 16, 1972}}</ref>{{rp|5}} Then it becomes much thicker in the middle.{{r|elk1972|p=6–7}}
  • The brontosaurus is thin at one end.{{sfn|Elk|1972a|p=5}} Then it becomes much thicker in the middle.{{sfn|Elk|1972a|p=6–7}} ==Notes== {{reflist}} ==References== {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |last=Elk |first=Anne |title=[[Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses]] |date=November 16, 1972a}} {{refend}}
• Website (documentation): <ref name="NAME">{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | work = | publisher = | date = | url = | format = | doi = | accessdate = }} </ref>
• Publication: <ref name="NAME"> {{cite journal | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | journal = | volume = | issue = | pages = | publisher = | location = | date = | url = | doi = | id = | accessdate = }} </ref>
• News (documentation): <ref name="NAME"> {{cite news |title= |first= |last= |newspaper= |date= |url= |accessdate=}}</ref>
• {{who|date=April 2012}}^[who?]
• Citation bot instructions

• WP:USPLACE: WP style on U.S. place names
• GeoLocator: Get digital lat/long by zooming in and alt-clicking on location, then copy the autogenerated {{location dec}}
• Location:
  • Template:Coord: {{Coord|LAT|LONG|display=title}}
  • {{coord|43.315624|-70.564756|type:landmark_region:US|format=dms|display=title}}
  • {{Location map |New York |label = Seneca Army Depot |label_size = 100 |lat = 42.754367 |long = -76.865845 }} {{coord|42.754367|-76.865845|display=title}}<nowiki>{{Location map |New York |label = Seneca Army Depot |label_size = 100 |lat = 42.754367 |long = -76.865845 }} {{coord|42.754367|-76.865845|display=title}}

• Geographic Names Information System:
  • GNIS Search
  • Entry (replace nnn with ID number): [[Geographic Names Information System]] ID No. [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:nnn nnn]

• Hatnote templates
  • Distinguish: {{Distinguish|foo|bar|something|baz}} (Not to be confused with foo, bar, something, or baz.)
  • About: {{About|the passenger train|other uses|Down Easter (disambiguation){{!}}Down Easter}} (This article is about the passenger train. For other uses, see Down Easter.)

• {{Reply to|PRRfan}}
• Unsigned-talkpage-comment attrib template: {{unsigned|[username]}}
• Spam warning for user Talk pages: {{Uw-advert1}}
• Ping someone (or someones): {{ping|Ɱ|Epicgenius}}

• Good response to user questioning the deletion of a spam article
• Good response to adding redlink to Notable people
• Wikipedia:Verifiability#Responsibility_for_providing_citations notes that "The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and it is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution." (boldface added). This means that it's job of the person who added the text to include a citation. A person who adds a "citation needed" flag is simply asking the original person to do this job. Or another person could do it. It's not an insult, nor an aspersion on the text, just a request for a cite. JingleJim (talk) 3:40 pm, Feb 1 2023 (UTC−5) [source]

• Images: Tutorial | Syntax

• William Slater
• Joshua Richardson, Elkton postmaster
• John Ahern, iron maker?, road contractor
• Henry R. Hazlehurst
• Alexander Provest
• John McKim Jr.
• Luna Park, Scranton

• Dupont Circle list
• Clarence Clark mentions: one^[3] mary todhunter clark rockefeller^[4] Chestnutwold's library^[5] endow Assyrian professorship^[6]

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For trimming the material on the page Iowa class battleship to its current and much improved version I herby award you The Editor's Barnstar. Keep up the good work! TomStar81 (Talk) 09:22, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For your assistance with copyeditting USS New Jersey (BB-62) while the article was up on the mainpage I herby award you The Editor’s Barnstar. Keep up the good work! TomStar81 (Talk) 00:27, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		Thanks for the relentless copyediting on the iPad article, its definitely been useful in making the article good. -- Eraserhead1 <talk> 19:43, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For exceptional skill in editing, especially your significant reorganization and copyediting of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport Dan Dassow (talk) 09:56, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

		The Writer's Barnstar
		For recognition of your skill as a writer, seen in your improvements to Summit, New Jersey.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 13:09, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	For your work on Boston Marathon bombings. Bearian (talk) 22:25, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

	Philadelphia Barnstar
	For your work on the Mill Creek article. --evrik (talk) 03:36, 14 December 2013 (UTC)

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For your dedicated, extensive, and instructive editing of the Railroaders Memorial Museum page. Public Thing (talk) 16:37, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

The Original Barnstar

Thank you for your help on Francis Pharcellus Church-- your copyediting was invaluable in catching the (number) of errors my rushed editing made, not to mention the great content you found, specifically (though not exclusively) by tracking down Bigelow-- great find! The article would not look near as good without your help, and I'm excited to see the article grace the main page come Christmas! As Church himself wrote; "Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world." I like to think that collaboration is one of those overlooked wonders. Happy holidays and I wish you all the best in the year to come! Eddie891 Talk Work 22:50, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for quality articles such as Herman J. Lombaert and Henry J. Reilly, for beginning articles about historic places such as Strivers' Section Historic District, for quality copy-editing and adding to content on the way as for Francis Pharcellus Church, for your first DYK in 15 years of service, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2686 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:07, 25 December 2021 (UTC)