User:ModernDayTrilobite/sandbox

Draft articles

 * Avantdale Bowling Club – New Zealand hip hop project by Tom Scott
 * Church (Billy Woods album) – 2022 album by Billy Woods
 * Druim Alban – historical mountain range in Scotland
 * Jae Skeese – rapper from Buffalo, New York
 * John R. Rose – cartoonist of Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 2001–present
 * Kuenga Rabten Palace – palace in Bhutan
 * List of albums considered the best – testing to see if this is a feasible project
 * List of albums ranked first on year-end lists – another project being tested

My essays

 * The case for RMNOMIN

Information

 * WP:LIBRARY – The Wikipedia Library

Manual of Style and related

 * MOS:CONFORM – use Wikipedia's house style for typographic formatting of quotations
 * MOS:CURLY – use straight quotes, not curly quotes
 * MOS:DABCOMMON – in certain circumstances, it's permissible to put multiple major topics in the lead section of a DAB
 * MOS:ENBETWEEN – use en dashes for marking bilateral relationships
 * MOS:LQUOTE – use logical quotation; i.e., keep punctuation out of quotation marks unless it's within the quotation itself
 * MOS:RANGE – use en dashes for separating a range of numbers or years
 * MOS:REFPUNCT – placement of citations relative to punctuation
 * WP:NCPDAB – guidance on disambiguating biographical article titles; subsection of WP:NCBIO
 * WP:REPCITE – if one source is used for consecutive sentences, you don't need to cite it over and over

Templates

 * Template:Birth based on age as of date – hopefully self-explanatory
 * Template:efn – redirects to the lettered footnote
 * Template:notelist – like reflist, but for notes
 * Template:Icon – catalog of inline icon templates; see also Template:Done/See also and List of discussion templates
 * Template:Old moves – talk page header box for compiling past RMs
 * Template:Rcat – conveniently compiles redirect categories in the navbox
 * Hatnotes:
 * Template:About
 * Template:For
 * Template:For-multi

Special pages

 * Special:Contributions
 * Special:PrefixIndex ("all pages with prefix")
 * Special:WhatLinksHere
 * Move log

April Fools' Day

 * April Fools
 * Rules for Fools

Fun or odd things

 * Template:Fake heading and other similar templates linked in its documentation
 * Articles for deletion/Saul Goodman (fictional character) (from 2007)
 * For similar cases, see WP:BTWN ("before they were notable")
 * WP:DAFT (Deleted Articles with Freaky Titles)
 * Village stocks
 * "You cannot cite your own anus on Wikipedia".

Compilations of stuff for future projects

 * General or broad topics in hip hop (TWL links)
 * The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop
 * Jstor, "Introduction: Hip Hop in History: Past, Present, and Future": (2005)
 * Jstor, "Hip hop: Origins, Characteristics and Creative Processes": (2000)
 * Reference works focused for a librarian audience:
 * List of recommended sources (2016)
 * "One Day It'll All Make Sense": Hip-Hop and Rap Resources for Music Librarians (2008)
 * Semi-broad (TWL links)
 * Jstor, "Historicizing the Breakbeat: Hip-Hop's Origins and Authenticity": (2011)
 * Jstor, "The Construction of Jazz Rap as High Art in Hip-Hop Music":
 * Jstor, "Metaphorical Conceptions in Hip-Hop Music":
 * Jstor, "From Jay-Z to Dead Prez: Examining Representations of Black Masculinity in Mainstream Versus Underground Hip-Hop Music": (likely to be most useful as a delineation of what is vs. isn't within the parameters of "underground")
 * Jstor, "Hip Hop Samples Jazz: Dynamics of Cultural Memory and Musical Tradition in the African American 1990s": (useful for more jazz rap content?) (2011)
 * Jstor, "Message in the Music: Political Commentary in Black Popular Music from Rhythm and Blues to Early Hip Hop": (2005)
 * Glorious Game
 * Bandcamp interview about the new Black Thought/El Michels Affair album:
 * The Fader interview w/ Black Thought:
 * Treble review of Glorious Game:
 * Filling in Billy Woods' back catalog
 * Interview discussing Today, I Wrote Nothing and Known Unknowns:
 * Interview discussing History Will Absolve Me and the Super Chron Flight Brothers era:
 * HWAM touched upon in Pitchfork's Aethiopes review:
 * Fader interview about Aethiopes:
 * Pitchfork interview about Backwoodz:
 * NPR article about Woods in general:
 * DJBooth interview about Terror Management:
 * Vice article recounting Woods' career:
 * Guardian on Woods in general:
 * NPR reviews Maps, but also touches on Woods' career more broadly:

Digging in further to Maps

 * Consequence: (FaceTime),  (review; a bit perfunctory but could help diversify source pool)
 * Exclaim: (review)
 * The Fader: (album and tour announcement),  (FaceTime),  (Soft Landing)
 * Financial Times: (review)
 * The Guardian: (mentions Maps briefly)
 * Huck: (interview)
 * NPR: (review)
 * Pitchfork: (album and tour announcement),  (FaceTime),  (Soft Landing video release),  (Babylon by Bus video)
 * Stereogum: (announcement)
 * Treble: (review)
 * Vice: (discusses Maps alongside other albums)