User:Jengod

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[edit] Some common objections to featured status and how to avoid them

[edit] Quotable

  • "If I may be so bold, what evidence do you have that you are really a sovereign nation and not just a bunch of thirteen-year-olds with a free web site account?" User:Garrett Albright
  • "If people spent as much time on typography and spelling as on edit wars...this would be Utopedia." User:Herbee
  • "Keep. Have you looked at our other articles? Among many other things, we are a repository for silliness." User:Snowspinner, on VfD.
  • "I'm a Wikipediholic! I'm addicted to Wikipedihol!" User:Adam_Bishop
  • "Revert. Please cite a reputable source for your claim that Bush's middle name is 'assface.'" User:John Fader
  • "Wikipedia is one of two good things on the internet. The other is porn." ~CaughtThinking[1]


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Easton's Bible Dictionary - 23.0% done
Gutenberg authors - 33.7% done
Literary Encyclopedia - 67.2% done
Find-A-Grave - 13.7% done
Miscellaneous
Many other lists of politicians, albums, films, TV shows and others.
Overall progress - 43.7%
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[edit] About me

This user lives in California.
This user is female.
This user loves to watch Kim Possible.




Interests: American history and culture, California topics, show biz, illustrating stuff with old postcards

POV: Left-liberal, at least in the U.S. :)

Wikihistory: According to Kate's Tool, my first edit under this username was May 27, 2003. I edited before that as an anon IP, but I'll be damned if I can figure out which one.

[edit] Soapbox

[edit] Sign and date your photos

When you upload photographs to the pedia, please consider including your name (even if just your username) and the date you took the photograph in the description. This kind of information should be part of the metadata record of the photograph.

[edit] Use the EN DASH correctly in biographies

En dashes should be used to indicate the span of time between a beginning point and an endpoint. On Wikipedia this comes up a lot in biographies, so stop doing hyphens, m-dashes, space-ndash-spaces and whatever else you punctuationally kooky types like to do, and just succumb to my will, okay? Thanks. :)

Example: Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 17695 May 1821) blah blah blah tried to take over the world...

En dash code: – or –

P.S. If you like to write dates Euro-style, i.e. 7 December, you can just go ahead and ignore this message and do your own thing.

P.P.S. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)

[edit] Stop putting links in article titles

For the love of Mike, people, please stop putting links in article titles! Mention the link-worthy words further down in the lead or elsewhere early in the article. It's just as easy, more semiotically clear and so much less ugly. I beg of you, my fellow Wikipedians, break this habit! :)

  • BAD: The history of beetle evolution began nine gajillion years ago somewhere in a dark corner of planet earth.
  • GOOD: The history of beetle evolution began eons ago. Beetles evolved out of the proto-beetle order within the insect kingdom and are first found in the fossil record during the Beetle Birth era.

[edit] Jengod bookmarks

[edit] Wikipedia bookmarks

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[edit] Cribsheets

Nations and states of the British Isles

  • England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland: time immemorial to 1536
    • Britain? England? 1536-1707
  • Great Britain (Scotland + England + Wales): 1707-1801
  • United Kingdom (England + Wales + Scotland + Ireland): 1801-1921
    • -Northern Ireland: 1921
    • -Ireland (Irish Free State, etc.): 1921

Copyrights in the United States


[edit] Good SoCal articles

[edit] To Do

[edit] Images for deletion

[edit] Missing articles

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[edit] Counties

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[edit] Grand Rapids politicians

Served in High Office Members of the house of representatives from Grand Rapids include Lucius Lyon, Wilder D. Foster, John W. Stone, Julius Houseman, Charles C. Comstock, Melbourne H. Ford, Charles E. Belknap, William Alden Smith, Edwin F. Sweet and Carl E. Mapes.


[edit] Licenses

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Multi-licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License versions 1.0 and 2.0
I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under the GFDL and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0 and version 2.0. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides.

[edit] Language

en This user is a native speaker of English.


[edit] Did you know...

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[edit] POTD

Picture of the day

Vibrissae (whiskers) of a Patagonian fox

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