The Right Reverend Rabbi Timothy Blue The Abstract and Mischievous | |
---|---|
Born | |
Cause of death | Unknown at this time, but hopefully something interesting. |
Body discovered | Usually in a Red Line Station, return informaton in wallet. |
Resting place | Usually my chair in my apartment |
Nationality | United States |
Other names | Zaphod Beeblebrox |
Occupation | Retired |
Era | 1960s |
Agent | Secret |
Known for | Whiskey |
Style | Thrift store chic |
Television | Never |
Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) |
Political party | Democratic Socialist |
Movement | Mornings, I get slower as the day passes. |
Opponent | Vogons |
Partner | Yes |
Children | Definitely No |
Parent | Probably |
Call sign | Rainbow Whiskey |
Greetings from Los Angeles | ||
If we have a difference of opinion, I'm open to discussing it if the issue is meaningful, significant and worth my time. I ignore comments containing hyperbole, profanity, nonsense, attacks, and attitudes/behaviors I personally find offensive; I also ignore ones that I don't think are worth the time to respond. If you do not like this,
click here. I have very strong feelings about the importance of notability, policies and guidelines, sources and evidence. Best wishes from Los Angeles, // Timothy :: talk |
TimothyBlue ( talk · contribs · logs · block log · page moves · count · edit summaries · non-automated edits · articles created · BLP edits · AfD votes · XfD votes · admin score (beta) · CSD log · PROD log · no prior RfA) • Page curation log
Welcome To My Userpage
About
Current Status | ||
30% Resigned, 50% Good, 20% Sleepy Overall okay mood. Taking a semi-wikibreak. |
I spend most of my time working on book articles, authors, and bibliographies about topics I'm interested in. The work I am most proud of are the bibliographies related to Russian and Soviet history I've created. I have also put considerable work into Bibliography of Los Angeles and Sexual violence in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The subjects I am most involved with are related to Russia the Soviet Union, World War I, II, and Cold War, and generally the swath of nations and peoples that run from Poland, the Baltics, and Russia, running southeast through Turkey and the Caucasus, Central Asia, and ending in Pakistan, northern India, western China, and Mongolia.
I enjoy working on the navigation elements and interconnectedness of Wikipedia, such as: Navigation lists such as indexes, outlines, timelines and years pages; See also and navigation hat notes; navigation templates and navigation sidebars.
I am a self appointed maintenance angel for Timothy (given name), Tim (given name), Timmy (given name); every Tim, Timmy, and Timothy has a place, and every Tim, Timmy, and Timothy should be in their proper place. This is critical for the survival of Wikipedia.
I watch articles generally related to:
I have some skill with MathML, LaTeX, C++, Python, Javascript, PHP, none with Lua. At one time I could write C well enough :) to make a living and had a painful 3yr encounter with 6502/6510 assembly language that left me traumatized. I've been casually learning about the Mediawiki software and the Wikipedia API, and investigating various database APIs. I also have some skill with Excel VBA. For the most part when I say "some skill", this should be interpreted as meaning "self taught hack that knows enough to be dangerous". It can be an embarrasing path but I occassionally arrive at the correct destination. My saving grace is knowing I'm a potentially dangerous self taught hack. Someday I might put a link up to my Github for Wikipedia tools.
I can "function" in Spanish (Los Angeles flavor), French, German, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Armenian (so so), and Georgian. By "function" I mean I know enough to work intelligently with the aid of a computer.
Much of the information here is to help my memory; if it helps others, wonderful. If you have a resource/page about Wikipedia or a good tool for working on Wikipedia, please let me know on my talk page, I hoard information.
My page on Polish Wikipedia My page on Ukrainian Wikipedia
I'm reasonably well traveled, but I have been fortunate to have been born, lived, gone to school, and worked my entire life in Los Angeles; I plan on staying well into the future. None of the videos below are mine (none of the pictures to the right from Wikipedia commons are mine either), but I do think they are quality and may be find a useful place in an article.
DTLA
Skid Row
Hollywood
Thai town:
Koreatown
Weho
Venice
Santa Monica
West side
Parks
The seemingly endless, repetitive, and ultimately meaningless time sink discussions where editors constantly repeat themselves over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Usually accompanied by walls of text that begin to blur into each other like a mental quagmire. See all the move requests related the Russo-Ukrainian war or renaming Turkey, or any high level article about Armenia or Azerbaijan as an example.
Walls of text. In any and every context except your own user page.
If it were up to my personal preference I'd change every occurrence of Kiev to Kyiv just to make the point many are trying to make, so I understand those that want to change it. But its not up to me and should be a matter of personal preference. The Wikipedia community has a consensus on historical Ukrainian names, read WP:KIEV.
You have two options:
Option 1
Continue the fight until the bitter end. Don't accept defeat. Tell everyone else why they are wrong and why you are right. If you really think your right and won't abide by the consensus because you think its wrong, this is the option to take. Make sure you are very clear about your future defiant intentions. Use walls of text to make your point, with liberal use of copy/paste. Respond promptly to every comment made regarding the issue, with liberal use of copy/paste. Make sure to be very clear about where you stand in every reply. Blame others and point out their faults to distract from your editing.
This has never worked, but you might be the first!
Option 2
Admit defeat. Stop the behavior that created the problem. Post your accept the consensus to stop. Total white flag. This will work wonders for most people facing a block; this will not work for repeat or egregious problems, but if you've just made a mistake and taken it too far this will work wonders.
You need to consisely:
Don't:
This works once, maybe again if you gain invisible Wikipedia brownie points.
Images that are aligned to the left are an absolute pain for people that need significant screen magnification. It is much more accessible to place the images all to the right and avoid breaking up the flow of the text. This isn't true for simple low level magnification, but for individuals needing magnification at 500%+ while using a low resolution on a large display, it is an enormous and almost always unnecessary pain.
BLPs need clearly WP:IS WP:RS with WP:SIGCOV addressing the subject directly and indepth for both content and notabilty to avoid abuse. Per WP:BURDEN
Be aware of Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons also Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Legal persons and groups. Per WP:BURDEN, I removed unsourced content from BLPs. BLPs need clearly IS RS with SIGCOV addressing the subject directly and indepth for both content and notabilty to avoid abuse. Abuse can work in many ways:
Just because information is on the internet does not make it notable, true, or worth adding to Wikipedia. // Timothy :: talk 18:57, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
Using ChatGPT to write articles is repulsive. It should be a Wikipedia felony and a shunnable offense.
But there are some great legitimate uses for ChatGPT. I've been using it inside VSCode (via Github Copilot) and on their website. Here are some useful things I've found (in no particular order). Obviously you should check the results and never assume.
Grammarly is much better for writing assistance.
I'm sure there are more things it could help with. When you have it use Python scripts to expand its reach, it can do some pretty interesting things.
Sourcing
On English Wikipedia, verifiability means other people using the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source. Its content is determined by previously published information rather than editors' beliefs, opinions, experiences, or previously unpublished ideas or information. Even if you are sure something is true, it must have been previously published in a reliable source before you can add it. [34]
Before continuing to add content to Wikipedia, please read Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Citing sources, Wikipedia:Reliable sources, Wikipedia:No original research
Any questions you have regarding sourcing can be answered at the Wikipedia Teahouse.
Basics
Here are some resources to answer your questions.
Any questions you have can be answered at the WP:TEAHOUSE.
If you are going to edit Wikipedia, especially creating articles, you need at a minimum to undestand the above. It will take time to learn them, but your time will either be spent productively learning about the above, or wasted here at AfD.
Here are some resources every editor on Wikipedia should understand. Please read:
Any questions you have can be answered at the WP:TEAHOUSE.
BLPs
BLPs need clearly IS RS with SIGCOV addressing the subject directly and indepth for both content and notability to avoid abuse per well known core policy ( WP:V and WP:BLP) and guidelines ( WP:BIO and WP:IS, WP:RS, WP:SIGCOV).
Add references to restored content
Please be certain to add references to all the restored content at the above article (See WP:BURDEN, WP:ONUS, WP:V). This is very important for all the names of living or recently deceased persons in the article (see WP:BLP). For lists of individuals, there is no need to add a reference to each entry if a note at the top of the section will source many or all of the entries. Others may need an individual reference for the name. I'm certain you would not want anyone to add anything to the article, so references very important. Do not feel rushed, but it should be done within a reasonably short period of time (especially sourcing names of living persons per WP:BLP) and show steady progress until completion. Basic facts can be referenced using primary sources (see WP:PRIMARY); all other material should be references using independent reliable secondary sources (see WP:IS, WP:RS).
New articles lacking sources for notability
Recently you have created new articles which lack references clearly showing notability.
If you have questions, please feel free to ask them at the WP:TEAHOUSE,
Unreferenced cleanup talk page discussion starter
There was a great deal of unsourced material which appears to be either WP:OR or WP:SYNTH in the article; this has been removed per WP:V. Material should only be reinserted if it has proper independent reliable sourcing per WP:BURDEN and if edited to remove any POV per WP:NPOV and WP:WEIGHT. Without insisting on independent reliable verifiable sources WP:V, anyone can place any information, positive or negative, into an article based on nothing but opinion, bias, or belief. Insisting on independent reliable sources for article content ensures the subject is not abused or exalted, and readers are not misinformed.
Independent WP:IS reliable sources WP:RS are essential for all articles, however they are absolutely critical for biographies of living persons WP:BLP and I firmly believe currently active organizations. For most articles there is not a possibility of unsourced information having a real world impact; this is not the case with BLPs and currently active organizations.
WP:PRIMARY sources should only be used to source basic facts and statistics; WP:SECONDARY sources are needed for all other article content.
Tags have been added for other problems.
Bibliographies
Books
Biography
Navigation
California
Arts
Geography
Other
Set indexes
Disambiguations
I keep a personal list of pages I've come across that need unsourced content referencing and cleanup work or work for an AfD at User:TimothyBlue/cleanup.
A stub article shall be created for each and every male football (soccer) player, who has ever been on a roster for a national team for even one game, regardless of how obscure they are or unlikely it is that the stub will ever be expanded, if even one bare entry in a statistical database site can be found as a source for the aforementioned male football (soccer) player. If challenged, WP:NFOOTBALL shall be invoked with the authority of the gods to override any objection, policy or guideline.
Anyone who foolishly deviates from this sacred standard, even ever so slightly or inadvertently, will be declared an apostate and banished forever, doomed to create stub articles for baseball players.
The following is a list of proposed new CSD criteria that will make everything much more interesting.
These are some of the tools I use, your millage may vary, but these work for me. Suggestions welcome. Items available for Linux, may be available for Windows and Mac. All work well for individuals with visual impairments, and most work well with dark themes.
Text Editors
I usually have all of the above open and just switch between them depending on what I'm doing.
Grammar and writing tools
Python modules for text processing and data analysis
(These are useful for cleaning up raw bibliographic data, working with tables, geographic data, etc)
Office Suites
Fonts
References and notes'
Web tools
Online repositories
These are items I either have or continue to find useful. I post them here for my reference and in the hope they might help someone else find something.
Layout and sections
Lists
Details
...
); do not use the precomposed ellipsis character (…
) or three dots separated by spaces (. . .
). Generally, use a non-breaking space before an ellipsis, and a regular space after itGeneral
Lists
{{DEFAULTSORT:Last, First}}
Notability
Articles for Deletion related processes
Useful guidelines and essays related to deletion criteria
Wikipedia Citation Information
Citation Guides
Citation Tools
Citation Templates
Citation Essays
Lists
Individual items
Copyright tools
Online writing tools
General
{{subst:Anchor|Old name}}
Text
{{mxt|}} and {{!mxt|}}
for green and red monospaced.Calculation
General Page
Page Cleanup
Style of writing
Structure
Inline cleanup templates
Talk pages
Infoboxes
Miscellaneous
Indexes
Contents
Glossaries
Outlines
Timelines
Portals
Authors
Artists
Works
Rocky Horror Picture Show, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), Harold and Maude, The Blues Brothers, Blazing Saddles, Animal House, Spaceballs, Kentucky Fried Movie, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Pink Flamingos, Brazil, This is Spinal Tap, Up in Smoke, Blue Velvet, Fantasia, Dr. Strangelove, The Wizard of Oz, Phantasm, Valley of the Dolls, Airplane! , Time Bandits, The Legend of Boggy Creek, Chariots of the Gods, Reefer Madness, Fritz the Cat, Super Fly (1972), Glen Or Glenda, Foxy Brown (1974), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Meaning of Life, American Graffiti, Ordinary People, Taxi Driver, Once Upon A Time in America, Once Upon A Time in the West, Klute, On Golden Pond, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, The Graduate, Lolita, The Exorcist, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Rebel Without a Cause, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Midnight Cowboy, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Dirty Harry, Play Misty for Me, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Some Like it Hot, Don't Cry It's Only Thunder, Gimme Shelter (1970), The Wall (Pink Floyd), Quadrophenia, Tommy (The Who), The Last Waltz (1978), Vampyros Lesbos (1971), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Student Bodies, Metropolis (1927), Termors, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Never Ending Story, The Graveyard of Horror (1971), Teenagers from Outer Space (1959), The Other (Thomas Triton), The Sister Urge (MST3k version), The Curse of Bigfoot (MST3k version), I Accuse my Parents! (MST3k version), Chariots of the Gods, Quest for Fire, Overlords of the UFO, El Topo, Rosemary's Baby, Freaks (1932), Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978), Heavy Metal (Animated), The Toxic Avenger, Mars Attacks!, Fire and Ice (Animated), Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), Barbarella (1968), Heathers (1988), The Mysterious Monsters, Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964), Trash (1970), Shock Treatment (1981), Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988), Welcome to the Doll House, Duck Soup (1933), Bigfoot (1970) Ivan Marx, Dear Dead Delilah, Sunset Blvd. (1950), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), Carnival of Souls (1962), Dementia 13 (1963), Yellow Submarine (1968), What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), The Thing with Two Heads (1972), Coffy (1973), Electra Glide in Blue (1973), Deep Red (1975), Friday the 13th (original), Halloween (original), Eraserhead (1977), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Blue Sunshine (1977), Alone in the Dark, Scanners, Altered States, Stripes, VHS, Tron, Videodrome, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958), Night of the Living Dead, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Forbidden Planet (1956), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), The Blob (1958), The Fly (1958), The Angry Red Planet (1959), Planet of the Apes (1968), Tarzan and His Mate (1934), Soylent Green (1973), The Giant Claw, Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, Destory all Monsters, War of the Gargantuas, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolfman, The Invisible Man, Dr. Jekel and Mr. Hyde, The Bride of Frankenstein, ,
P | My pronouns are either he, him, his or they, them, their |
This user was born and lives in the U.S. State of California. |
This editor was born, raised, lives in and loves Los Angeles |
This user is a WikiElf. |
This user has visited or driven through 46 of the 50 States and the District of Columbia. | 46 |
Not visited: Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina.
This user is Jewish-American. |
This user has Polish ancestry. |
This user is a member of the LGBT community. |
This user identifies as a Democratic Socialist. |
This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article Chocolate. |
The Right Reverend Rabbi Timothy Blue The Abstract and Mischievous | |
---|---|
Born | |
Cause of death | Unknown at this time, but hopefully something interesting. |
Body discovered | Usually in a Red Line Station, return informaton in wallet. |
Resting place | Usually my chair in my apartment |
Nationality | United States |
Other names | Zaphod Beeblebrox |
Occupation | Retired |
Era | 1960s |
Agent | Secret |
Known for | Whiskey |
Style | Thrift store chic |
Television | Never |
Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) |
Political party | Democratic Socialist |
Movement | Mornings, I get slower as the day passes. |
Opponent | Vogons |
Partner | Yes |
Children | Definitely No |
Parent | Probably |
Call sign | Rainbow Whiskey |
Greetings from Los Angeles | ||
If we have a difference of opinion, I'm open to discussing it if the issue is meaningful, significant and worth my time. I ignore comments containing hyperbole, profanity, nonsense, attacks, and attitudes/behaviors I personally find offensive; I also ignore ones that I don't think are worth the time to respond. If you do not like this,
click here. I have very strong feelings about the importance of notability, policies and guidelines, sources and evidence. Best wishes from Los Angeles, // Timothy :: talk |
TimothyBlue ( talk · contribs · logs · block log · page moves · count · edit summaries · non-automated edits · articles created · BLP edits · AfD votes · XfD votes · admin score (beta) · CSD log · PROD log · no prior RfA) • Page curation log
Welcome To My Userpage
About
Current Status | ||
30% Resigned, 50% Good, 20% Sleepy Overall okay mood. Taking a semi-wikibreak. |
I spend most of my time working on book articles, authors, and bibliographies about topics I'm interested in. The work I am most proud of are the bibliographies related to Russian and Soviet history I've created. I have also put considerable work into Bibliography of Los Angeles and Sexual violence in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The subjects I am most involved with are related to Russia the Soviet Union, World War I, II, and Cold War, and generally the swath of nations and peoples that run from Poland, the Baltics, and Russia, running southeast through Turkey and the Caucasus, Central Asia, and ending in Pakistan, northern India, western China, and Mongolia.
I enjoy working on the navigation elements and interconnectedness of Wikipedia, such as: Navigation lists such as indexes, outlines, timelines and years pages; See also and navigation hat notes; navigation templates and navigation sidebars.
I am a self appointed maintenance angel for Timothy (given name), Tim (given name), Timmy (given name); every Tim, Timmy, and Timothy has a place, and every Tim, Timmy, and Timothy should be in their proper place. This is critical for the survival of Wikipedia.
I watch articles generally related to:
I have some skill with MathML, LaTeX, C++, Python, Javascript, PHP, none with Lua. At one time I could write C well enough :) to make a living and had a painful 3yr encounter with 6502/6510 assembly language that left me traumatized. I've been casually learning about the Mediawiki software and the Wikipedia API, and investigating various database APIs. I also have some skill with Excel VBA. For the most part when I say "some skill", this should be interpreted as meaning "self taught hack that knows enough to be dangerous". It can be an embarrasing path but I occassionally arrive at the correct destination. My saving grace is knowing I'm a potentially dangerous self taught hack. Someday I might put a link up to my Github for Wikipedia tools.
I can "function" in Spanish (Los Angeles flavor), French, German, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Armenian (so so), and Georgian. By "function" I mean I know enough to work intelligently with the aid of a computer.
Much of the information here is to help my memory; if it helps others, wonderful. If you have a resource/page about Wikipedia or a good tool for working on Wikipedia, please let me know on my talk page, I hoard information.
My page on Polish Wikipedia My page on Ukrainian Wikipedia
I'm reasonably well traveled, but I have been fortunate to have been born, lived, gone to school, and worked my entire life in Los Angeles; I plan on staying well into the future. None of the videos below are mine (none of the pictures to the right from Wikipedia commons are mine either), but I do think they are quality and may be find a useful place in an article.
DTLA
Skid Row
Hollywood
Thai town:
Koreatown
Weho
Venice
Santa Monica
West side
Parks
The seemingly endless, repetitive, and ultimately meaningless time sink discussions where editors constantly repeat themselves over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Usually accompanied by walls of text that begin to blur into each other like a mental quagmire. See all the move requests related the Russo-Ukrainian war or renaming Turkey, or any high level article about Armenia or Azerbaijan as an example.
Walls of text. In any and every context except your own user page.
If it were up to my personal preference I'd change every occurrence of Kiev to Kyiv just to make the point many are trying to make, so I understand those that want to change it. But its not up to me and should be a matter of personal preference. The Wikipedia community has a consensus on historical Ukrainian names, read WP:KIEV.
You have two options:
Option 1
Continue the fight until the bitter end. Don't accept defeat. Tell everyone else why they are wrong and why you are right. If you really think your right and won't abide by the consensus because you think its wrong, this is the option to take. Make sure you are very clear about your future defiant intentions. Use walls of text to make your point, with liberal use of copy/paste. Respond promptly to every comment made regarding the issue, with liberal use of copy/paste. Make sure to be very clear about where you stand in every reply. Blame others and point out their faults to distract from your editing.
This has never worked, but you might be the first!
Option 2
Admit defeat. Stop the behavior that created the problem. Post your accept the consensus to stop. Total white flag. This will work wonders for most people facing a block; this will not work for repeat or egregious problems, but if you've just made a mistake and taken it too far this will work wonders.
You need to consisely:
Don't:
This works once, maybe again if you gain invisible Wikipedia brownie points.
Images that are aligned to the left are an absolute pain for people that need significant screen magnification. It is much more accessible to place the images all to the right and avoid breaking up the flow of the text. This isn't true for simple low level magnification, but for individuals needing magnification at 500%+ while using a low resolution on a large display, it is an enormous and almost always unnecessary pain.
BLPs need clearly WP:IS WP:RS with WP:SIGCOV addressing the subject directly and indepth for both content and notabilty to avoid abuse. Per WP:BURDEN
Be aware of Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons also Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons#Legal persons and groups. Per WP:BURDEN, I removed unsourced content from BLPs. BLPs need clearly IS RS with SIGCOV addressing the subject directly and indepth for both content and notabilty to avoid abuse. Abuse can work in many ways:
Just because information is on the internet does not make it notable, true, or worth adding to Wikipedia. // Timothy :: talk 18:57, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
Using ChatGPT to write articles is repulsive. It should be a Wikipedia felony and a shunnable offense.
But there are some great legitimate uses for ChatGPT. I've been using it inside VSCode (via Github Copilot) and on their website. Here are some useful things I've found (in no particular order). Obviously you should check the results and never assume.
Grammarly is much better for writing assistance.
I'm sure there are more things it could help with. When you have it use Python scripts to expand its reach, it can do some pretty interesting things.
Sourcing
On English Wikipedia, verifiability means other people using the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source. Its content is determined by previously published information rather than editors' beliefs, opinions, experiences, or previously unpublished ideas or information. Even if you are sure something is true, it must have been previously published in a reliable source before you can add it. [34]
Before continuing to add content to Wikipedia, please read Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Citing sources, Wikipedia:Reliable sources, Wikipedia:No original research
Any questions you have regarding sourcing can be answered at the Wikipedia Teahouse.
Basics
Here are some resources to answer your questions.
Any questions you have can be answered at the WP:TEAHOUSE.
If you are going to edit Wikipedia, especially creating articles, you need at a minimum to undestand the above. It will take time to learn them, but your time will either be spent productively learning about the above, or wasted here at AfD.
Here are some resources every editor on Wikipedia should understand. Please read:
Any questions you have can be answered at the WP:TEAHOUSE.
BLPs
BLPs need clearly IS RS with SIGCOV addressing the subject directly and indepth for both content and notability to avoid abuse per well known core policy ( WP:V and WP:BLP) and guidelines ( WP:BIO and WP:IS, WP:RS, WP:SIGCOV).
Add references to restored content
Please be certain to add references to all the restored content at the above article (See WP:BURDEN, WP:ONUS, WP:V). This is very important for all the names of living or recently deceased persons in the article (see WP:BLP). For lists of individuals, there is no need to add a reference to each entry if a note at the top of the section will source many or all of the entries. Others may need an individual reference for the name. I'm certain you would not want anyone to add anything to the article, so references very important. Do not feel rushed, but it should be done within a reasonably short period of time (especially sourcing names of living persons per WP:BLP) and show steady progress until completion. Basic facts can be referenced using primary sources (see WP:PRIMARY); all other material should be references using independent reliable secondary sources (see WP:IS, WP:RS).
New articles lacking sources for notability
Recently you have created new articles which lack references clearly showing notability.
If you have questions, please feel free to ask them at the WP:TEAHOUSE,
Unreferenced cleanup talk page discussion starter
There was a great deal of unsourced material which appears to be either WP:OR or WP:SYNTH in the article; this has been removed per WP:V. Material should only be reinserted if it has proper independent reliable sourcing per WP:BURDEN and if edited to remove any POV per WP:NPOV and WP:WEIGHT. Without insisting on independent reliable verifiable sources WP:V, anyone can place any information, positive or negative, into an article based on nothing but opinion, bias, or belief. Insisting on independent reliable sources for article content ensures the subject is not abused or exalted, and readers are not misinformed.
Independent WP:IS reliable sources WP:RS are essential for all articles, however they are absolutely critical for biographies of living persons WP:BLP and I firmly believe currently active organizations. For most articles there is not a possibility of unsourced information having a real world impact; this is not the case with BLPs and currently active organizations.
WP:PRIMARY sources should only be used to source basic facts and statistics; WP:SECONDARY sources are needed for all other article content.
Tags have been added for other problems.
Bibliographies
Books
Biography
Navigation
California
Arts
Geography
Other
Set indexes
Disambiguations
I keep a personal list of pages I've come across that need unsourced content referencing and cleanup work or work for an AfD at User:TimothyBlue/cleanup.
A stub article shall be created for each and every male football (soccer) player, who has ever been on a roster for a national team for even one game, regardless of how obscure they are or unlikely it is that the stub will ever be expanded, if even one bare entry in a statistical database site can be found as a source for the aforementioned male football (soccer) player. If challenged, WP:NFOOTBALL shall be invoked with the authority of the gods to override any objection, policy or guideline.
Anyone who foolishly deviates from this sacred standard, even ever so slightly or inadvertently, will be declared an apostate and banished forever, doomed to create stub articles for baseball players.
The following is a list of proposed new CSD criteria that will make everything much more interesting.
These are some of the tools I use, your millage may vary, but these work for me. Suggestions welcome. Items available for Linux, may be available for Windows and Mac. All work well for individuals with visual impairments, and most work well with dark themes.
Text Editors
I usually have all of the above open and just switch between them depending on what I'm doing.
Grammar and writing tools
Python modules for text processing and data analysis
(These are useful for cleaning up raw bibliographic data, working with tables, geographic data, etc)
Office Suites
Fonts
References and notes'
Web tools
Online repositories
These are items I either have or continue to find useful. I post them here for my reference and in the hope they might help someone else find something.
Layout and sections
Lists
Details
...
); do not use the precomposed ellipsis character (…
) or three dots separated by spaces (. . .
). Generally, use a non-breaking space before an ellipsis, and a regular space after itGeneral
Lists
{{DEFAULTSORT:Last, First}}
Notability
Articles for Deletion related processes
Useful guidelines and essays related to deletion criteria
Wikipedia Citation Information
Citation Guides
Citation Tools
Citation Templates
Citation Essays
Lists
Individual items
Copyright tools
Online writing tools
General
{{subst:Anchor|Old name}}
Text
{{mxt|}} and {{!mxt|}}
for green and red monospaced.Calculation
General Page
Page Cleanup
Style of writing
Structure
Inline cleanup templates
Talk pages
Infoboxes
Miscellaneous
Indexes
Contents
Glossaries
Outlines
Timelines
Portals
Authors
Artists
Works
Rocky Horror Picture Show, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), Harold and Maude, The Blues Brothers, Blazing Saddles, Animal House, Spaceballs, Kentucky Fried Movie, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Pink Flamingos, Brazil, This is Spinal Tap, Up in Smoke, Blue Velvet, Fantasia, Dr. Strangelove, The Wizard of Oz, Phantasm, Valley of the Dolls, Airplane! , Time Bandits, The Legend of Boggy Creek, Chariots of the Gods, Reefer Madness, Fritz the Cat, Super Fly (1972), Glen Or Glenda, Foxy Brown (1974), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Meaning of Life, American Graffiti, Ordinary People, Taxi Driver, Once Upon A Time in America, Once Upon A Time in the West, Klute, On Golden Pond, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, The Graduate, Lolita, The Exorcist, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Rebel Without a Cause, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Midnight Cowboy, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Dirty Harry, Play Misty for Me, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Some Like it Hot, Don't Cry It's Only Thunder, Gimme Shelter (1970), The Wall (Pink Floyd), Quadrophenia, Tommy (The Who), The Last Waltz (1978), Vampyros Lesbos (1971), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Student Bodies, Metropolis (1927), Termors, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Never Ending Story, The Graveyard of Horror (1971), Teenagers from Outer Space (1959), The Other (Thomas Triton), The Sister Urge (MST3k version), The Curse of Bigfoot (MST3k version), I Accuse my Parents! (MST3k version), Chariots of the Gods, Quest for Fire, Overlords of the UFO, El Topo, Rosemary's Baby, Freaks (1932), Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978), Heavy Metal (Animated), The Toxic Avenger, Mars Attacks!, Fire and Ice (Animated), Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), Barbarella (1968), Heathers (1988), The Mysterious Monsters, Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964), Trash (1970), Shock Treatment (1981), Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988), Welcome to the Doll House, Duck Soup (1933), Bigfoot (1970) Ivan Marx, Dear Dead Delilah, Sunset Blvd. (1950), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), Carnival of Souls (1962), Dementia 13 (1963), Yellow Submarine (1968), What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), The Thing with Two Heads (1972), Coffy (1973), Electra Glide in Blue (1973), Deep Red (1975), Friday the 13th (original), Halloween (original), Eraserhead (1977), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Blue Sunshine (1977), Alone in the Dark, Scanners, Altered States, Stripes, VHS, Tron, Videodrome, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958), Night of the Living Dead, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Forbidden Planet (1956), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), The Blob (1958), The Fly (1958), The Angry Red Planet (1959), Planet of the Apes (1968), Tarzan and His Mate (1934), Soylent Green (1973), The Giant Claw, Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, Destory all Monsters, War of the Gargantuas, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolfman, The Invisible Man, Dr. Jekel and Mr. Hyde, The Bride of Frankenstein, ,
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