User:Hurrmic/Article creation workpage



I try to always practice: Civility, Maturity, Responsibility

I have not logged into my account in just over four years.


 * I took a (very long) Wikibreak starting in early November, 2008. A friend discovered my Hurrmic account today, so I logged in. I am surprised everything is still here. I will take this as a sign that I should get back into it, taking baby steps, of course. 11/16/2012

Willard Bunnell House


 * House is on the NRHP (follow NHRP WikiProject guidelines) | | Year built | Willard died before house was finished | Photograph? | Winona County Historical Society | Open for tours (maintain NPOV) | Brother Lafayette 'named Yosemite' |

Willard Bunnell

Bunnell, his brother (wikilink) | Bunnell's wife and child (children?) | Bunnell (and brother) were from upstate New York |

American Indian Wars (from "On this day") (Study for Bunnell and for MB book)
 * 1862 - Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed; the others are reprieved.

Lafayette Bunnell | Wapasha | Sioux | Homer, Minnesota | Winona, Minnesota | Winona County | Mississippi River | Driftless area | Southeast Minnesota | Minnesota (history) | Trempeleau, Wisconsin | New York State
 * Wikilinks (for both Bunnell articles)

(see above)
 * "See also:" (for both Bunnell articles)

National Register of Historic Places | Winona County Historical Society | www.winonahistory.org | Do Bunnell Google searches
 * External references (for both Bunnell articles)

Bunnell died just before completion of house | Bunnell's brother and his Yosemite connection
 * "DYK" 'hooks' suggestions for Bunnell House

Go here to submit a new article for DYK consideration, and be sure to suggest a few hooks.

For all NRHP articles-in-progress


 * Minnesota NRHP list
 * NRHP - Main

Winona County, Minnesota NRHP list (Work on red links first)

(list ends here)
 * Elba
 * Nicholas Marnach House
 * Whitewater State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources
 * William Hemmelberg House
 * Homer
 * Willard Bunnell House
 * Rollingstone
 * Church of the Holy Trinity-Catholic
 * St. Charles
 * St. Charles City Bakery
 * Trinity Episcopal Church (St. Charles, Minnesota)
 * Whitewater Avenue Commercial Historic District
 * Stockton
 * Trinity Episcopal Church (Stockton, Minnesota)
 * Utica
 * Benjamin Ellsworth House
 * Winona
 * Abner F. Hodgins House
 * Anger's Block
 * Bridge No. L1409
 * Choate Department Store
 * Church of St. Stanislaus-Catholic
 * Dr. J. W. S. Gallagher House
 * East Second Street Commercial Historic District
 * Grain and Lumber Exchange Building
 * Huff-Lamberton House
 * J. R. Watkins Medical Company Complex
 * Kirch/Latch Building
 * Merchants National Bank
 * Paul Watkins House
 * Pickwick Mill
 * Schlitz Hotel
 * Sugar Loaf
 * Sugar Loaf Brewery
 * Winona City Hall
 * Winona Commercial Historic District
 * Winona County Courthouse
 * Winona Free Public Library
 * Winona High School and Winona Junior High School
 * Winona Hotel
 * Winona Masonic Temple
 * Winona Savings Bank Building
 * Winona and St. Peter Engine House
 * Winona and St. Peter Railroad Freight House

Reference sources, templates, and more

For Minnesota, there is a 2003 book available, The National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota by Mary Ann Nord - (Nord, Mary Ann)' (2003), (Minnesota Historical Society}' (ISBN: 0-87351-448-3}.
 * Minnesota NRHP reference book by Mary Ann Nord

At time article is created off of the 'redlink', be sure to summarize that the article is being created for [WP:NRHP] (and any other relevant Wikipedia Project) before saving the page.
 * Edit Summary (what to write in summary when creating new article)

Use Elkman's template to create NRHP infobox on each article page
 * Infoboxes (Elkman template)


 * NRHP Project Template (Bottom of article)

(End of NRHP section)

Meredith effect (red link - create article after searching for similar content under a different title)

During the development of the P-51 Mustang aircraft during World War II, specifically while re-working a Curtiss-designed radiator, something known as the Meredith effect, which provides a small power increase, was a factor. I was intrigued, and I want to learn more about it. I noticed the redlink, and ran a Google search |Meredith on October 25, 2008. I will find some sources to cite, write something and start an article - unless someone beats me to it. Will that someone be you?

Jean-Marc Borot (red link - create article after searching for similar content under a different title)

Borot is a French artist known for caricatures. Some of his work has recently been featured on MSN.com |view, and here are the results of a Google search |Borot run on October 26, 2008.

Charles H. Olmstead (red link - create article after searching for similar content under a different title)

I don't know anything about this Olmstead, but I am researching the Olmstead surname and variants such as Olmsted, which is more commonly known because of Frederick Law Olmsted and his son. I'm tracing the naming of various streets, buildings, parks, etc., using the Olmstead or Olmstead name. -October 27, 2008

Lawrence Block section (Most LB novels and collections are red links - no article on Wikipedia as of yet.)

Matthew Scudder novels
 * 1) The Sins of the Fathers (1976)
 * 2) In the Midst of Death (1976)
 * 3) Time to Murder and Create (1977)
 * 4) A Stab in the Dark (1981)
 * 5) Eight Million Ways to Die (1982)
 * 6) When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (1986)
 * 7) Out on the Cutting Edge (1989)
 * 8) A Ticket to the Boneyard (1990)
 * 9) A Dance at the Slaughterhouse (1991)
 * 10) A Walk Among the Tombstones (1992)
 * 11) The Devil Knows You're Dead (1993)
 * 12) A Long Line of Dead Men (1994)
 * 13) Even the Wicked (1997)
 * 14) Everybody Dies (1998)
 * 15) Hope to Die (2001)
 * 16) All the Flowers Are Dying (2005)

Bernie Rhodenbarr novels There are also Bernie Rhodenbarr short stories: "The Burglar Who Dropped In On Elvis" and "The Burglar Who Smelled Smoke".
 * 1) Burglars Can't Be Choosers (1977)
 * 2) The Burglar in the Closet (1978)
 * 3) The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (1979)
 * 4) The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (1980)
 * 5) The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian (1983)
 * 6) The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (1994)
 * 7) The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (1995)
 * 8) The Burglar in the Library (1997)
 * 9) The Burglar in the Rye (1999)
 * 10) The Burglar on the Prowl (2004)

Evan Tanner novels
 * 1) The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (1966)
 * 2) The Canceled Czech (1966)
 * 3) Tanner's Twelve Swingers (1967)
 * 4) The Scoreless Thai (a.k.a. Two for Tanner) (1968)
 * 5) Tanner's Tiger (1968)
 * 6) Here Comes a Hero (a.k.a. Tanner's Virgin) (1968)
 * 7) Me Tanner, You Jane (1970)
 * 8) Tanner on Ice (1998)

Chip Harrison novels (as Chip Harrison) "As Dark As Christmas Gets" (1997) is a Chip Harrison short story written specifically for customers of the Otto Penzler owned Mysterious Bookshop. It was printed in booklet format for the 1997 holiday season.
 * 1) No Score (1970)
 * 2) Chip Harrison Scores Again (1971)
 * 3) Make Out With Murder (a.k.a. The Five Little Rich Girls) (1974)
 * 4) The Topless Tulip Caper (1975)

Keller novels
 * 1) Hit Man (1998)
 * 2) Hit List (2000)
 * 3) Hit Parade (2006)
 * 4) Hit and Run (June 2008)

Paul Kavanagh novels
 * 1) Such Men Are Dangerous (1969)
 * 2) The Triumph of Evil (1971)
 * 3) Not Comin' Home to You (1974)

Other fiction
 * Cinderella Sims (a.k.a $20 Lust) (1961)
 * Coward's Kiss (a.k.a. Death Pulls a Doublecross) (1961)
 * Grifter's Game (a.k.a. Mona, a.k.a. Sweet Slow Death) (1961)
 * You Could Call it Murder (1961)
 * A Diet of Treacle (1961)
 * The Girl With the Long Green Heart (1965)
 * Deadly Honeymoon (1967)
 * After the First Death (1969)
 * The Specialists (1969)
 * Ronald Rabbit is a Dirty Old Man (1971)
 * Ariel (1980)
 * Random Walk (1988)
 * Enough Rope: Collected Stories (2002)
 * Small Town (2003)
 * My Blueberry Nights (2007)

Books for writers
 * Writing the Novel From Plot to Print (1979)
 * Telling Lies for Fun & Profit (1981)
 * Write For Your Life (1986)
 * Spider, Spin Me a Web (1987)

(End of Lawrence Block section)

Copy-edit section (move to a 'copy edit' subpage when quantity dictates)

How to copy-edit Copy editing is to make formatting changes and improvements to an article to make it clear, correct, concise, comprehensible, and consistent, that is: make it say what it means, and mean what it says. In Wikipedia, this is done via the Manual of Style, often referred to as "MoS".[1] The numerous subsidiary pages of MoS are listed in the sidebar on that page. A particularly important subsidiary page is Manual of Style (dates and numbers), often referred to as "MOSNUM".

Refer to:
 * Manual of Style
 * [{Wikipedia:How to copy-edit|How to copy-edit]]

Copy edit skills improvement (External links - all of these links are free.)


 * The Online English phrase checker . This is very useful and worth bookmarking: enter the phrase in the search window to check any word or phrase on the Internet using the alltheweb search engine; for example, should "up-regulated" be hyphenated? Survey usage with and without the hyphen in just seconds, and make your own informed decision.
 * Editing exercises . A set of problem sentences with click-and-show solutions, for undergraduates, from the MacEwan Centre, University of Calgary, Canada; accessed 12 August 2006
 * Ask Oxford . A free online dictionary resource, with a search box for looking up the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, information on better writing (including tips on spelling, grammar and plain English), a huge database of FAQs on the language, and a section on global English
 * The Owl at Purdue . Treatment of many writing issues; part of Purdue University's wide-ranging site for writers.
 * Better editor . A rich resource of style and grammar guides, dictionaries, free software downloads and other tools for serious editors
 * The American heritage book of English Usage . We disagree with the approach on much of this site, based as it is on traditional grammar; however, we've included the address because of its search box, which enables you to access online information on your chosen topic in several popular texts; for example, you can compare what the self-appointed authorities say about the so-called split infinitive
 * The Guardian style guide . A good read, set out as short entries in alphabetical order
 * The Internet grammar of English . An online course in English grammar, written primarily for university undergraduates but more widely applicable; it assumes no prior knowledge of grammar
 * World Wide Words . Writer and lexicographer Michael Quinion writes about international English from a British viewpoint—indexed articles, Q&A, reviews, topical words, turns of phrase, weird words, funnies
 * Onelook dictionary search . Enter a word (AmEng spelling) to search for dictionary websites that include that word
 * Acronym finder . Find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stands for
 * Merriam-Webster online dictionary and thesaurus
 * The international system of units (SI)
 * Rowlett's online Dictionary of units of measurement

Other notes and reminders Transform your Wikipedia experience: attractive new wikilink formatting Linking, which is often overused on Wikipedia, looks seriously messy in densely linked text and makes reading more difficult. You can very easily change the display colour of links on your monitor from the current gaudy blue to a more subtle shade. Try it and see. It will take two minutes; here's how.
 * "monobook.css" - from Tony1's Userpage

(1) First, choose how subtle you want your links to look: here's a comparison over whole paragraphs of the current default colour with four other, decreasingly bright colours. (2) Create your own user stylesheet, if you haven’t done so already: User:YourUsername/monobook.css. Mine is User:Tony1/monobook.css); take a look. (3) At the top of that page, paste in the following, starting with “a” and ending with the curly bracket: a { color: #003366 } (this one is for midnight blue, the second darkest—simply replace that code with the one that suits you on the comparison page). (4) Then go to your user preferences. Make sure that you’ve selected “MonoBook (default)” under Skin, and “Never underline links” under Miscellaneous. Empty your cache, and you're done. To use another colour, simply replace “midnightblue” with the name of your choice; remove the pasted text to return to the default. Feedback on this is welcome on my talk page. I'd like to see WikiMedia adopt this as the default colour, and decouple the date-autoformatting and linking functions: it's ridiculous that dates have to be blue links to activate the formatting mechanism.

Go HERE to submit your new article for consideration in "Did you know..." on the Main Page. Be sure to suggest a few hooks.
 * Did you know...