User:Jengod

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[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] Wiki userboxes

This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify)
40,000+ This user has made over 40,000 contributions to Wikipedia.
en This user is a native speaker of English.


[edit] Personal userboxes

This user is female.
This user lives in or hails from the state of California.


BA This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree.
This user is a professional writer or journalist.


[edit] Editorial userboxes

A, B and C This user prefers not to use the serial comma.
"…" This user favours typewriter style quotation marks over typographic ones.


[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]
  • "if wikipedia were a boy, i'd date it" ~anonymous (Canadian)
  • "The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work." Unknown, quoted by User:Kizor in The New York Times


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Easton's Bible Dictionary - 77.9%
Gutenberg authors - 48.2%
Jewish Encyclopedia
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OBI Biographies - 98.3%
Find-A-Grave - 58.3%
ACF Regionals answers
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Overall progress - 53.7%
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[edit] Highlights

  • "According to 20th-century folklore, the laws of aerodynamics prove that the bumblebee should be incapable of flight, as it does not have the capacity (in terms of wing size or beat per second) to achieve flight with the degree of wing loading necessary. Not being aware of scientists proving it cannot fly, the bumblebee succeeds." ~Bumblebee

[edit] About me

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] 1. Get a WikiLife

Do you spend all your time crusading on one bureaucratic tip or another? Factboxes! Notability! Must slap "not good enough" templates on all non-featured articles!!! Do you?! Well, then you're not doing Wikipedia right. Get a life, and contribute something useful, instead of nagging the rest of us who are trying to get some actual work done.

[edit] 2. 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 global record of the photograph.

[edit] 3. 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 1769–5 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] 4. 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] 5. Put the article title in the article lead

Example: History of the Jews in Malta

BAD: Jews have lived in Malta - though never in a number greater than 1,000 inhabitants - since approximately 1500 BC. Their presence...

GOOD: The history of Jews in Malta dates to approximately 1500 BC. Although the population was probably never in a number greater than 1,000 inhabitants, their presence...

[edit] Jengod bookmarks

[edit] Wikipedia bookmarks

  • Templates to remember
    • {{limitedgeographicscope}}
    • {{verify}}
    • {{cleanup date|month yyyy}}
    • {{US-tv-stub}}
    • {{note_label}} + {{ref_label}}
Hot stuff, map by User:Arturoramos
Hot stuff, map by User:Arturoramos

[edit] Cribsheets

Nations and states of Britain and Ireland

  • England, Wales, Scotland: 927 to 1536
    • England (England + Wales), Scotland: 1536-1707
  • Great Britain (Scotland + England + Wales): 1707-1801
  • United Kingdom (England + Wales + Scotland + Ireland): 1801-1921
  • United Kingdom (England + Wales + Scotland + Northern Ireland): 1921
    • -Northern Ireland: 1921
    • -Irish Free State: 1921-1937
      • -Ireland / Éire: 1937-1949
      • -Republic of Ireland / Poblacht na hÉireann: 1949

Copyrights in the United States


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[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] Did you know...

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