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| | : "it is also true many companies put expiration on non-perishable products" <- I especially like the "best before" date on salt. Bonus points if the box has a description of how the salt has been in a mine for over millions of years... --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.52|162.158.114.52]] 07:13, 22 July 2019 (UTC) | | : "it is also true many companies put expiration on non-perishable products" <- I especially like the "best before" date on salt. Bonus points if the box has a description of how the salt has been in a mine for over millions of years... --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.52|162.158.114.52]] 07:13, 22 July 2019 (UTC) |
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| − | ::To be fair, while the salt wouldn't go "bad" or spoiled, it WILL probably return to natural rock form, meaning will stop being loose. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 23:22, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
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| | :The legal requirements of "expiration dates" for food are less stringent than many believe. In the USA, under FDA regulations, only baby formula cannot legally be sold after its expiration date. Wording like "use by" and "sell by" is not legally binding... more like "guidelines", as Capt. Barbossa would say. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.34.64|172.68.34.64]] 15:57, 19 July 2019 (UTC) | | :The legal requirements of "expiration dates" for food are less stringent than many believe. In the USA, under FDA regulations, only baby formula cannot legally be sold after its expiration date. Wording like "use by" and "sell by" is not legally binding... more like "guidelines", as Capt. Barbossa would say. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.34.64|172.68.34.64]] 15:57, 19 July 2019 (UTC) |
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| | If the food is older than you, you are still living with your parents, so it isn't your house, and your score doesn't count ;) | | If the food is older than you, you are still living with your parents, so it isn't your house, and your score doesn't count ;) |
| | [[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.82|162.158.114.82]] 20:06, 22 July 2019 (UTC) | | [[Special:Contributions/162.158.114.82|162.158.114.82]] 20:06, 22 July 2019 (UTC) |
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| − | My mother has some of the same herbs in little tins that she had since shortly after she bought that house, in early 1969. Not doing the math, since she's not me. But it's probably a high score — [[User:Kazvorpal|Kazvorpal]] ([[User talk:Kazvorpal|talk]]) 01:42, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
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| − | If a baby bought a product with a short expiry date before the end of the calendar year, then discovered it early in the next year, with this all being in the baby's first year of life, an infinite score is attainable. [[Special:Contributions/192.168.0.1|192.168.0.1]] 13:53, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
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| − | == "i don't know how to do links where it says one thing and goes to another, can someone fix that?" ==
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| − | To the IP editor who put in that edit comment, here's the longer explanation, in case you come back and see this... There are three basic link-types to consider:
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| − | *Internal to ExplainXKCD - use double-square brackets for links, with or without the underlines for spaces of the URL, e.g. <nowiki>[[Title of page]] or [[Title_of_page]]</nowiki>, and that will give the link under the same text. To change what it says, insert a pipe/bar and the alternate text in before the closure, e.g. <nowiki>[[2178: Expiration Date High Score|this comic]]</nowiki> should point to [[2178: Expiration Date High Score|this comic]], though general convention is to just have the "Number: Title" version bare and in context, as "this/that comic" or whatever is a bit terse.
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| − | **It works for all proper pages, not just comic-numbered ones, like [[Cueball]], although a link to a <nowiki>[[Category:Some category]]</nowiki> would just invisibly add that Category to the page (best done after the Talk-insert markup) and if you want to add a category index page as an inline clickable link, use a preceding colon <nowiki>[[:Category:Some category]]</nowiki> or <nowiki>[[:Category:Some category|this text links to the Category index]]</nowiki>, such as [[:Category:Comics featuring Black Hat|Comics featuring Black Hat]]. That's a commonish issue, I find.
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| − | *Interwiki links - double-curly brackets to activate the template that has been set up (if one has) to properly format the link to the alternate site's page. <nowiki>{{w|Wikipage title}} or {{w|Wikipage title|link text}}</nowiki>, for example. Start with "w|" for Wikipedia, "wiktionary|" for, well, Wiktionary, and (though it's a different family of resource) someone set up "tvtropes|" for ease of use. That last one renders slightly different, perhaps as a warning not to get sucked into a Wikiwalk if you decide to wander into it... ;). But, in general, it makes interwiki links as inobtrusive as internal linking, e.g. {{w|Wikipedia|this one to Wikipedia's page on Wikipedia}}...
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| − | *All other links - Single-square bracketting <nowiki>[http://your.url.here/in/full]</nowiki>, which renders as a 'note-link' that isn't very nice (there are ref-based ways of properly footnoting, usually no need for that though). To give it alternate text, add within the []s a ''space'' and the display-text you want. Bare URLs (if interpretable) get rendered as literal-links with display text. Examples: Note[http://www.microsoft.com] or with [http://www.microsoft.com alternate text] or literally just http://www.microsoft.com on its own.
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| − | There are other useful things (e.g. literal wikilinks with an 's' appended after any {{}}s gives links to the inner literal pages but rendered as {{w|plural}}s, and the uppercased first-letter of a page title can be lowercase (but sometimes it's too complicated to rely on that). But best practice is to use [[]]-links if possible, fall back to {{}}-links if that's necessary (and you know that the template name you need exists) and only go the full [url] route if you have to.<br />
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| − | I'm sure there's better guides on how to do this (no errors, no missing info) in the site's help-pages or on general external mediawiki resources, but as the editor who prompted this info hadn't found it (and I had to work much of this out on my own, from seeing what others had done correctly/incorrectly over a number of years) I thought it worthwhile to give this 'summary', hopefully not too wrong in substance... [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.155|172.70.162.155]] 16:26, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
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