User:PaperTruths/White space

NEW! Project: New Article: Orphica
Create article on obscure keyboard instrument, the orphica. Sources for initial research:
 * Cantos Music Foundation - Featured Instruments - Orphica
 * National Music Museum Annotated Checklist of Keyboard Instruments(Harpsichords, Clavichords, Pianos, Pipe Organs)
 * Orphica, from Piano An Encyclopedia, second edition
 * GoogleBooks - Piano: An encyclopedia - Robert Palmieri, Margaret W. Palmieri
 * Centre for Performance History - Museum of Instruments: Catalogue, Part II - Keyboard Instruments - Orphica

Images (seek approval for use):
 * piano1111.com
 * Centre for Performance History - Museum of Instruments: Catalogue, Part II
 * Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon ONLINE

Corrections and changes
Existing text states "A rolling pin is a food preparation utensil consisting of a cylinder with a handle at each end, used to flatten dough." Only some rolling pins have handles, and rolling pins have other uses.

Search for more examples of rolling pin uses in popular culture. "Stereotypical angry housewife"?

Information to add

 * Rolling pins as courting gifts, 18th-century Pennsylvania Dutch tradition?
 * Glass pins as collectibles
 * History of rolling pins
 * Materials and their characteristics
 * Types of rolling pins
 * Rotating cylinder
 * French straight
 * French tapered
 * Grooved
 * Pasta
 * Hardtack
 * Decorative
 * Mini-pin
 * Note on pin weight
 * Pin covers, pin rings, nonstick coatings, hollow cores

Resources

 * http://www.hormel.com/kitchen/glossary.asp?id=34068 — good pictures of different kinds of pins
 * http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-rolling-pin.htm — info on types of rolling pins
 * http://www.jennieoturkeystore.com/knowledge.asp?id=520&catitemid=44 — explanation of ravioli pin
 * http://www.baking911.com/pantry/list_kitchenstuff2.htm — choosing a rolling pin
 * http://www.madehow.com/Volume-7/Rolling-Pin.html — history

WikiWanderings
Aides-mémoire—issues, noted while working on other projects. They're jotted down here so that I don't forget to go back to them and take appropriate steps.

May 2006

 * Uesugi clan
 * Incident at Honnoji
 * Richie Ryan (Highlander)
 * Clinton Lee Young
 * Dhubri District
 * Johnstone Hall
 * Cyclothymia
 * Make-a-Wish Foundation
 * Reverse tarot meaning

Work in progress

 * Slave dab link fix
 * Korean dab link fix
 * Chinese dab link fix

Sig testing
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Copyvio-lyrics (in development)
Purpose

To provide a quick-and-easy message for User_talk: namespaces, when a user adds song lyrics to an article. This seems to be a pretty common copyvio flub. (link to the template)

Syntax

Example

produces

Speedy-deletion tag placement (attack page)
A tag has been placed on your article, articlename, recommending it for speedy deletion under Wikipedia's speedy deletion criteria. Wikipedia does not accept articles created primarily to disparage the subject. Please do not remove the deletion tag yourself. If you disagree with the deletion recommendation, you may place the text  at the article to alert administrators to your objection. You should then promptly explain why you disagree at the article's talk page, and this will be taken into consideration. Thank you for your time. —~

...looks like...

A tag has been placed on your article, articlename, recommending it for speedy deletion under Wikipedia's speedy deletion criteria. Wikipedia does not accept articles created primarily to disparage the subject. Please do not remove the deletion tag yourself. If you disagree with the deletion recommendation, you may place the text  at the article to alert administrators to your objection. You should then promptly explain why you disagree at the article's talk page, and this will be taken into consideration. Thank you for your time. — Paper  Truths ( Talk ) 00:45, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Copyrighted material removal (song lyrics)
We appreciate your contributions to the articlename article. Unfortunately, Wikipedia cannot accept song lyrics, as they are copyrighted material. They have been removed. For more information, you may find these links helpful: If you have any questions, please feel free to drop a note on my talk page. Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia! —~
 * Wikipedia Copyright FAQ
 * Wikipedia Copyright Policy
 * Copyright infringement (article)

...looks like...

We appreciate your contributions to the articlename article. Unfortunately, Wikipedia cannot accept song lyrics, as they are copyrighted material. They have been removed. For more information, you may find these links helpful: If you have any questions, please feel free to drop a note on my talk page. Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia! — Paper  Truths ( Talk ) 00:51, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia Copyright FAQ
 * Wikipedia Copyright Policy
 * Copyright infringement (article)

Project: Help index
Wikipedia has a wealth of information to help the user. Unfortunately, it isn't always easy to find. There have been many, many occasions on which I remembered reading an answer to my question on one of the help pages. But...I didn't remember which one, and locating the appropriate page is too often anything but intuitive. It can take me half an hour to track down a page I need.

Talking to other editors suggests that this is a pretty common problem. So...I'm trying to come up with an alternative filing system, much like a book index. The index will, ideally, contain more intuitive key phrases (such as "deletion > types of > speedy > criteria") that will guide the user to the appropriate information with less fuss. If nothing else, it'll help me. :) I hope that other people will find it useful (once it's semi-complete), too.

This is a personal project, but if anyone stumbles across this and is interested in helping, I'm amenable. Just leave a note on my talk page!

The index in progress

Resources

 * Help site map
 * Department directory

New text
Arthur Fry (born 1931) is a retired United States inventor and scientist. He is credited as the co-creator of the Post-it note, an item of office stationery manufactured by 3M. As of 2006, Post-it note products are sold in more than 100 countries.

Fry was born in Minnesota, and subsequently lived in Iowa and Kansas City. He received his early education in a one-room rural schoolhouse. During his childhood, he reputedly made his first foray into engineering by building toboggans from scrap lumber. He went on from those early efforts to study chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota.

In 1953, while still enrolled in undergraduate school, Fry took a job at 3M (then called Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company) as a new product development researcher. He worked in new product development throughout his career at 3M until his retirement in the early 1990s. The product for which he is best known, however, was born in the 1970s. Fry attended a seminar given by another 3M scientist, Spencer Silver, on a unique adhesive Silver had developed in 1968. Silver's innovation had an unusual molecular structure, yielding a glue strong enough to cling to objects but weak enough to allow for a temporary bond. At the time, Silver was still searching for a marketable use for his invention.

As the legend goes, Fry was in church when he came up with the perfect application. Fry sang in his church choir on weekends, and he used slips of paper to mark the pages of his hymnal. When the book was opened, however, the makeshift bookmarks often moved around or fell out altogether. On a Sunday in 1974, it occurred to him that Silver's adhesive could be put to use to create a better bookmark. If it could be coated on paper, Silver's adhesive would hold a bookmark in place without damaging the page on which it was placed.

The next day, Fry requested a sample of the adhesive. He began experimenting, coating only one edge of the paper so that the portion extending from a book would not be sticky. Fry used some of his experiments to write notes to his boss. This use led him to broaden his original idea into the concept that became the Post-it note.

It took a few years for the concept to come to fruition, due to both technical problems with production and management's doubts about the product's salability. Post-it notes were released to the national market in 1980. In 1981, 3M named Post-it notes its Outstanding New Product. In 1980 and 1981, the Post-it note team received 3M's Golden Step Award, given to teams who create major new products that are significantly profitable. 3M named Fry a corporate researcher in 1986.

Fry resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota.