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Hi. Tempshill 18:05, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. — Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.

Politics and the English Language, by George Orwell, is the best 5,321-word guide to writing that you'll find.

There is no need for our writing on Wikipedia to be dry while being encyclopedic. Probably my favorite clause I have written on Wikipedia is "...Hewlett-Packard's now-forgotten NewWave...." Has NewWave technically been completely forgotten by our civilization? No, but it is not an error to call it "now-forgotten", and that term makes the sentence a lot more interesting and informative to the layman. And it's still extremely accurate — not 100% accurate, but somehow more accurate than it would be if "now-forgotten" were deleted.

In this vein, my favorite sentence in all of Wikipedia is currently a comment in the Borat article: "Everything that Borat has said about Kazakhstan is incorrect."

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• ^{[all-purpose superscript complaint tag]}
• Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Extended image syntax
• Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
• The latter 3 images on Nez Perce (as reformatted by User:Whosyourjudas 11/04)
• Wikipedia:Cleanup resources
• How to edit has character formatting stuff.
• Wikipedia:Categorization
• Lists of articles by category
• Wikipedia:Template messages for various dispute and cleanup tags
• Wikipedia:Image copyright tags
• User:Tempshill/c
• User:Tempshill/work
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types

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• Wikipedia:Fair use
• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion

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• Quoz
  • [1] is one link
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
  • And some spelling variants of the above
  • And provide links to it from tulipomania and other places
• Mackay
• William Marbury
  • a story about him
• Merge Expanded memory and Expanded Memory Specification
• Go through the images tagged "fair use" and "fair use with permission" and start disputing the bad ones. I think there are plenty.
• Nansen passport [2]
• Category:Airliner shootdowns - there's a list of lots more on the Talk page.
• CatFur and Catsend
• ESRB re-rating of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - when an FA, the article, especially the intro, seemed stunningly irrelevant unless you were a gamer and already knew what the controversy was really about.