User:Dainomite/File cabinet

''' Warning! ''' This is just a ton of random shit.

Subpages
prefix index
 * Userboxes/Politics

PA accounts I've found
WP:NOSHARE and WP:CORPNAME - noticeboard: Usernames for administrator attention (WP:UAA)
 * basically wrote 99% of the content for USASAC
 * basically wrote 99% of the content for USASAC
 * basically wrote 99% of the content for USASAC
 * basically wrote 99% of the content for USASAC
 * basically wrote 99% of the content for USASAC
 * basically wrote 99% of the content for USASAC

Signature history
Current signature(s):


 * — dain  omite   and —  dain  omite   8 June 2014 - Present (every 24 hours "dain" changes from Yellow to Turquoise and vice versa)

—  dain  omite   and —   dain  omite    10 October 2013 — 8 June 2014

Former signatures:

— -dain  omite   19 February 2013 — 10 October 2013

—   dain -  talk   9 January 2013 — 19 February 2013

dain  talk   7 August 2012 — 9 January 2013

&#32;  Dain   talk    9 June 2012 — 7 August 2012

&#32;  Dainomite   talk    29 May 2012 — 9 June 2012

Dainomite (talk) 23 August 2011 — 29 May 2012

Notepad of helpful links, reminders, etc for myself

 * CROWS
 * Counter-IED equipment
 * Blue Force Tracking

AFD stuff
WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Military

Some commonly used supporting reasons for AfDs
 * WP:42 = Articles require significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject.

The article lacks verifiability due to little to no significant coverage from independent and reliable sources to be considered notable per WP:GNG.


 * Wikipedia is not a memorial:  WP:NOTMEMORIAL
 * Notability guidelines for military personnel:  WP:SOLDIER
 * Notability guidelines for military units:  WP:MILUNIT
 * If the person wrote their own article...  WP:42, WP:COI, WP:RESUME
 * One person in one event does not make them inherently notable:  WP:ONEEVENT
 * Commissioned vessels of a national military force are notable and a precendent was set:  WP:SHIPS/AFD

Closed XFD with "delete" result...
Once an XFD has been closed with delete as the consensus it can be tagged by using  


 * Example:  

Handy tools & links
Noticeboards
 * Request Admin vandalism intervention - To report vandals
 * Requests for page protection - To request page protection
 * Usernames for administrator attention - To report usernames
 * Admin incident noticeboard - For admin attention on issues

Writing better articles
 * ''Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, Creating, and Maintaining Articles/Creating a New Article
 * Your first article
 * Articles for creation
 * Writing better articles
 * Article development
 * Peer review
 * Notability

MOS related
 * Manual of Style/Military history - Regarding military articles (short: WP:MILMOS)
 * Category:Wikipedia naming conventions

Handy Links
 * Help:Magic words
 * Help:Interwiki linking

All others
 * Nationality of people from the United Kingdom
 * WikiProject Military history/Assessment/B-Class FAQ - MILHIST B-class criteria

templates

 * Template:Connected contributor

Tools borrowing from EricSerge's toolbox
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taking you up on your offer
Hi Maunus, I'll take you up on your offer. I was wondering if you could kind of help guide me in the right direction on where to start and how to go about getting an existing article to GA status. The article I was looking to improve is El Cid. Any advice on how to get started would be much appreciated. dain  talk   17:16, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi Dainomite, sure of course, happy to help. If you want to start working El Cid towards GA status first you should review the guide for nominating good articles, and particularly the Good article criteria. In relation to the article on El Cid, it seems to me that its great weakness at the moment is the lack of inline sources. For GA every paragraph should have at least one source cited inline. It will probably take some research to find the major academic works on El Cid and make sure to use the best available literature. Also the article seems to me like it may not be comprehensive - it seems quite short for a major historical personality. If I were you I would start by doing the basic research, and then go on to source and expand the article. Then once I was sure that the article is well sourced and comprehensive then I might nominate it for a Peer Review, and then when that is done take it to WP:GAC for nomination. Please don't hesitate to contact me for specific guidance through the process. best regards, ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 17:58, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Awesome, thanks for the quick reply. Looks like I have some homework to do. How do I distinguish lackluster books written by authors that are unusable sources from good books written by authors that are usable sources. Dumb question I know >.< Also, I stumbled across something called an "A-class article" what's that? I've never seen one before. I saw it was between GA and FA on the quality scale but I couldn't find anything about how it's supposed to be better than a GA or any process about how that's done.  dain   talk   15:38, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Distinguishing good sources from bad ones is of course not easy - it requires familiarizing oneself with the body of literature in general and see whcih sources are widely used and which are ignored. I'd encourage looking at a few recent sources from reputable presses and see what they cite. A-class articles are used by some wikiprojects (notably the Military history project) to designate articles that have gone through a project internal review in preparation for the FA review - they are supposed to be articles that have been confirmed to be closer to the FA requirements than to the GA requirtements through a rigorous peer review process. Most projects don't have a process for making A class reviews and so don't use them - they just go from B class to GA to FA.·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 16:09, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Hrmm, this might be difficult with El Cid since I'm presuming a lot of sources will be in spanish. Oh well, I'm sure there will be plenty of books etc on him, it will be just a matter of sifting through them. Is there a good way to search for recent books about him? Or am I literally googling his name and seeing what books were written about him then going from there? Thanks for the info about the A class articles as well, very handy.—   dain -  talk   17:57, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Google Books and Google scholar are very good ways of starting to find one's way around the scholarship - also WorldCat and other library searches. I don't recommend a stanard google search, you'll probably just get wikipedia and wikipedia mirrors. Also beware of books based on wikipedia on google books though, they should be easy to spot.·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 18:40, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Awesome, thanks much for all your help Maunus. —    dain -  talk   16:33, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Files
File namespace contribs - en - commons

Work

 * Category:Image files for cleanup
 * Special:NewFiles

Moving files to commons

 * FTCG For The Common Good link


 * Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons
 * Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons (bot-assessed)
 * Category:Move to Commons Priority Candidates

Handy links
Files for deletion File namespace noticeboard File mover
 * template:rename media -  
 * Category:Wikipedia files requiring renaming
 * Category:Incomplete file renaming requests
 * template:Db-f8 - For when a file has been moved to commons...
 * Category:Wikipedia files that shadow a file on Wikimedia Commons

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