User:Septegram/notes

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To Do[edit]

  • If this issue with the Odal Rune article hasn't been addressed, address it, complete with citations.
  • Write an article for Rule of Law Defense Fund
  • Write an article for Lily Berlina
  • Write an article on Peggy Jo Tallas (AKA "Cowboy Bob") the bank robber.
  • The article on Vasa Syndrome says "Another example used to demonstrate the effect of the Vasa syndrome is Greyhound Lines's attempt to design and implement a new computerized reservation system in 1998, modeled after a similar American Airlines system. Greyhound managers did not fully understand the technology and lacked sufficient knowledge of the bus industry. Because they attempted to copy a product they did not fully understand and a product that ended up being quite different from what they needed, the project was a complete failure." However, I don't see a reference to this in the article on Greyhound. Something should be done.
  • The acronym "SCE" needs to be alphabetized, and "Sovereign Citizen Extremist," a term used by the FBI, added.
  • The Pom doesn't have an article. Probably should. Article's been written, and I actually did a spot of editing there myself.
  • Some sections of Cheongsam are in serious need of editing; they were clearly written by someone for whom English is a second language
  • The article Panic needs reworking in light of current thinking
  • The article "Ten Sleep, Wyoming" reeks of copyvio. See if you can confirm and, if so, rework it.
  • The article "Forward-Swept Wing" has a sentence fragment in the section "Return of the fast jet"
  • The "Operational History" section of Waco_CG-4 was clearly lifted from somewhere else. Fix it.
  • Create an article on Graciela Casillas and/or her style, Shen Chun Do.
  • Create an article for St. Nectan's Glen
  • Create article on wilderness emergency rescue signals -- link from survival, WSAR etc. articles.
  • Check out "Rites of Spring," "EarthSpirit Community," "Free Spirit Gathering," "Free Spirit Alliance," "Heartland Pagan Festival," "Pagan Spirit Gathering." All need creation or improvement, I believe. When "RoS" is updated/built, include a link from Jeff McBride, as RoS isn't mentioned in that article.
  • Similarly, EarthSpirit Community, Andras Corban Arthen, Deirdre Pulgram Arthen, and Glainn Sidhr Order (spelling is correct; alternative is `Glenshire`; pronunciation is roughly glenn-sheer, in both cases)
  • Create article on Sonia King
  • Create article on Pelham town hall
  • Create automotive article "Tune-Up."
  • Create article for Bob Venosa
  • Create an article for Croyland Bridge?
  • Create article for ECWCS
  • Margaret Hamilton (scientist)'s page is a bit folksy. Most articles about people use the last name and/or peronal pronoun, but this one makes heavy use of her first name. Cleanup for encyclopedic tone
  • Create article for Horace Harding. If he's important enough to have an NYC Expressway named after him, he probably rates an article. Unless he's this guy, of course, in which case just make sure there's the appropriate linking.
  • Once I have the layout of my page improved, put this up (The code is {{subst:SA-Novato}} ):
This editor is a Novato, and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Picture Story Book.
  • Some parts of the Router article seem (as of 2015.05.27) to have been lifted from elsewhere. There's much there that needs reworking.

Follow Up[edit]

  • Keep an eye on this.

--I was right: copyvio all over the place. Someone kindly addressed it.

  • Check back on McDojo and see if anyone objects to my proposed change.

--Gave up on arguing about Goju as a better example.

People Worth Visiting Now And Then[edit]

Sites/Articles/Discussions To Finish Reading Or Periodically Review[edit]

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikipedians_for_encyclopedic_merit

Command_responsibility

Triboluminescence is interesting for assorted reasons.

Portal:Wicca

Kevin Danaher and his writings

Flower of Life

Spiffy animated bars (on Wikipedia, but linked this way to keep one of the graphix from showing up here)

Simunition

Toolbox[edit]

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Dispute {{POV}} {{disputed}} {{TotallyDisputed}} {{controversial}}

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Community Community Portal, Village pump, Wikipedia:RC patrol, Policies and guidelines, WikiProject, Barnstars on Wikipedia, Peer Review, The perfect Article

External Alexa, HTML to wiki tables

Stats Statistics, Sitemap

Deletions Speedy Delete, AfD, CfD, IfD, TfD, Copyright Problems, MfD, AfD, April 26, CfD, April 26, IfD, April 26, TfD, April 26

(Ganked from Evadb)

Handy Tools For Myself[edit]

Use the {{fact}} template to request a citation at the end of a sentence. Simply insert the template at the end of the sentence by adding {{fact}} so it looks like this:[citation needed] Resist the urge to insert this template into multiple sentences in the same article. Instead, use the {{not verified}} template at the top of the appropriate page or section.

The note at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:206.196.184.80 is a good example of how to include a change link in a post. The trick, apparently, is to use <span class="plainlinks">insert URL here using usual WP format with a space between URL and text, surrounded by square brackets</span>

Useless_Fodder has some useful information on tables.

Help:Editing

{{subst:unsigned|user name or ip|date}} replacing "user name or ip" with their user name or ip and "date" with the date. For example, {{subst:unsigned|septegram|11/20/2006}} gives —The preceding unsigned comment was added by septegram (talk • contribs)11/20/2006.

{{fact}} gets a "Citation needed" tag thus [citation needed]

User page design courtesy of the Transhumanist

Holy crap, SilkTork has a lot of useful information on his page!

Information on makin' der Userboxen

{{unsigned|#####}} —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Example (talk • contribs).
{{unsigned2|#####}} —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Example (talk • contribs) 18:45, December 6, 2006 (UTC)
{{unsigned3|#####}} —The preceding comment is by Example (talk • contribs) 18:45, December 6, 2006: Please sign your posts!

{{subst:User:Septegram/Welcome}} Beware: this will invite the user to ask me questions. Tweakable at User:Septegram/Welcome
I can do more of these, too. Hmmm...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Typo Wikipedia typo project

  • Users can ping me by adding {{Ping|Septegram}} to their posts in a talk page. Useful so I don't have to keep watching pages which aren't really important to me. Just make sure they know. Other variants include {{Re|Septegram}} and {{u|Septegram}}. Not sure which is best to use when; I should look it up sometime.
To unindent, when things are getting too indented, use {{od}}

Thus

Entering <span class="plainlinks">[URL text]<span> gives a tidier URL when listing things like revisions, thus: this edit

Useful formatting stuff at Help:Using_talk_pages

EMailing someone (untested): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/username

Templates[edit]

This template {{Technical (expert)}} is good for overly-technical articles.


Cleanup templates here

Shortcuts here

Welcome Templates[edit]

WT Welcome Templates! Template:Welcomeh looks like the origin for mine.

A handy Welcome Template may be insterted by pasting {{subst:welcomeg}} onto a page.

Starter Toolset

Welcome Template Table

Welcome Templates

Conversation with user:Jossi explains creating/using templates:

I added the template you your userspace. To add the template to a page use this syntax: {{subst:User:Septegram/Welcome}} - ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 15:33, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you kindly. I've been looking for something like this for a while. Is there a list of these? I've looked around the WP:WELCOME, but to no avail. Ideally, I'd like one that was similar to the one you used, but without the invitation to ask me questions; I'm not an Administrator, and often just want to do a quick "Howdy" rather than present myself as a serious resource, particularly for shared IPs.
*Septegram*Talk*Contributions* 15:39, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Just edit the template... User:Septegram/Welcome to whatever you want. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 15:48, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Aha!
That's how it works. I get it.
Thank you kindly.
*Septegram*Talk*Contributions* 16:17, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Warning Templates[edit]

Blatant Vandalism Template Here

Vandalism Warnings

Wp:vandalism

Nicely arranged list of templates

Spam Warnings[edit]

Templates may be found here

Handy Code For Working On Articles[edit]



Create article
Wikipedia:Requested_articles
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Wikipedia:Images
Archive a Talk Page

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<ref>[http://www.example.com] Title (SOURCE_NAME, DATE)</ref>

In case harmful editors start to grief you:
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Wikipedia:Tagging_pages_for_problems#Over-tagging
Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules
Wikipedia:The_rules_are_principles
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RFA[edit]

RFA Page says "This is not a page for discussion," so I'm going to store my comments here in case they get deleted. 

====Statement by Septegram====
I was not notified of this RFA, which I find disturbing in and of itself, and only heard about 
it through the good offices of another Wikipedian.  I'm not sure I belong as a party, since I 
don't believe I have done any editing of the articles in question.  My understanding of this 
debacle is that Mattisse bombed the Starwood article with {fact} tags (acting, it seems to me, 
in questionable faith), leading Rosencomet to put in links to what information zie had available.  
These were attacked, and the furball that ensued brought us here. 

I believe there have been cases of inappropriate behavior on all sides, and have started to 
distance myself from this debacle.  I am not optimistic that a conclusion can be reached that 
all sides will find reasonable, or even equally unreasonable.
*Yes, Rosencomet probably overdid the linking of Starwood to performers and vice-versa.
*Yes, others did respond perhaps overaggressively

*Rosencomet says zie's made numerous edits in an attempt to comply with 
requests from people regarding this mess; I don't know and can't speak to it.  I do know that 
this cluster**** has caused at least one editor who I held in fairly high regard to abandon 
Wikipedia entirely.  
*Yes, I'm getting disgusted with this whole dispute and the lack of flexibility and WP:AGF 
displayed by several people.

If the tone or content of this statement is not appropriate, I apologize, but not very 
heartily.

Septegram*Talk*Contributions* 18:36, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
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