User:Notcharizard/useful-links

Hello, this is a page intended for use by Notcharizard, with links they want to remember. You are welcome to have a look too, maybe you will find something helpful!

Templates

• Usertalk template index
• Multi level templates
• So fix it
• So look it up
• COI username
• No euphemisms please
• Edit warring

Requests for admin assistance

• Report an incident
• Intervention against vandalism

Resources

• References: Bad / Questionable / Videogame / Music
• Tips for communicating positively + Tips for dealing with incivility + Civility policy

• Source assessment table
• Page stats
• See subpages
• Category trees

Manual of Style

• Manual of Style
• Writing about fiction
• Wikiproject Pokémon's style guide

Tasks

• Suggestions for Notcharizard, from SuggestBot
• Dead-end pages - updated twice a month
• Very short pages - mostly surnames, some small town articles can be extended
• Pages with no categories
• Pages not connected to WikiData items
• Random page
  • Random page in a specific category

• Semi-protected page edit requests
• COI edit requests
• Pending changes

Problematic wording

• "passed away"
• "sadly" (especially common in sports articles - often not so sad for the opposing team!)

Reviewing

notability guides: organisations, people

• NPP sorting by topic
  • Books [notability guide]
  • Libraries and Information
  • Linguistics
  • Oceania
• AfC by topic
  • Books [notability guide]
  • Libraries and Information
  • Linguistics
  • Oceania
  • Videogames [notability guide]

My userspace

• Userboxes I've made
• Stuff I've done
• Sandboxes: 1, 2, 3
• Quadball name change notes

Stat things about my account

• My AfC responses
• Xfd responses
• My first edit with this account

Essays

• Bold, revert, discuss
• Run-of-the-mill
• Yes, it is promo
• When your boss tells you to edit Wikipedia

Fun stuff

Humor essays

• Friends of gays should not be allowed to edit articles
• Don't be a jerk / Please be a giant jerk so we can ban you
• No one cares about your garage band
• Unusual Articles

Fun Wikipedia tools

• See articles on things near you

Articles I love

• Antanaclasis
• Andy (goose) (goose with cool prosthetic feet)
• Blood Falls (spooky!)
• Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected March 26, 1960, at an Elevation of about 1450 Meters on Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California, México, Apparently for a Southeastward Range Extension of Some 140 Miles (that is the full name)
• Chandelier Tree
• Common English usage misconceptions (silly prescriptivism in English)
• Dord (a real word)
• Fixed price of Coca-Cola from 1886 to 1959
• Gadgetbahn (when people try to reinvent the train but it's never as good as good ol' train)
• Garden-path sentence ("I convinced her children are noisy")
• Gum Wall (it's 15m long and covered in gum! What collaboration)
• John Smith (there's a lot of them!)
• List of animal sounds (with buttons to play the sounds)
• Onfim (student from the 13th century who left us their homework with doodles)
• Pomato (a plant that grows both tomatoes and potatoes)
• Public Universal Friend
• Sandy Island, New Caledonia (an island thought to be real for over 100 years until it was "undiscovered" in 2012)
• Titivillus (demon of typos)

"Oh, there's a word for that!"

• Chad (paper) (the little bits of paper from punched holes in paper)

• Hypnic jerk (when you wake up because you felt like you were falling)
• Semantic satiation (when you say a word too much and it loses its meaning)
• Tadpole person (the way small children often draw people asa head with arms and legs coming out)

An interesting edit summary from back in 2005 about Stay High 149.