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"It is rather like politics or policing: those who most enjoy the work are often those who should not be doing it." Sheri S. Tepper, The Fresco

"...you old hippie, you got lucky and were born in the right little window and got to grab all the surplus of happiness that history ever produced, and you blew it, you stood around and did nothing while the right reaganed back into power and shut down all possibility of change for an entire generation, you blew it in a ten-year party and staggered off stoned and complicit. You neither learned to do machine politics nor dismantled the machine. Not one of you imagined what had to be done. And so the backlash came down, the reactionary power structure, stronger than ever." Kim Stanley Robinson, Sixty Days and Counting

"...how, from earliest times, human beings have with "bewildering optimism" amassed collections of books and created buildings to put them in; how they have striven to assemble, encompass, and contain the materials on which the world's knowledge is recorded in the vain but determined hope that they will somehow, ultimately, be able to gather it all into one coherent, ordered space." Alice Crawford, The Meaning of the Library

"Freedom is the absence of unnecessary involuntary constraint." Zeno's Laughter

Ethnicity and nationality: "A creation of the human will, it is impervious to mere rational disproof." Patrick J. Geary, The Myth of Nations

"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

"Do you think Pavlov thought about feeding his dog every time he heard a bell ring?" Jeremy Parish's nephew

"Science is a haphazard collection of institutions, norms, customs, and traditions that have developed by trial and error over the past several centuries." Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World (2020)

"There was a span of years in the 1980s during which I marveled at the almost supernatural powers of Steve Perry. While he sang for Journey, he made people believe in themselves, weep over long distance relationships, and inquire at transit stations about midnight trains. Together with his bandmates, he fully explored the hidden depths and nuances of the word whoa -- teasing out shades of meaning and connotations that I would have been hard pressed to discover, even with two thousand years of attention to the problem – and I'm willing to bet that the pathos with which he imbued the syllable na shall never be equalled in the history of the human race." Kevin Hearne, Tricked

"...the appearance of intelligence does not always indicate its presence." -Zagoran, Talos Principle 2

To do

 * request revdel
 * sort links
 * my subpages
 * Typo Team/moss
 * promotional
 * Category:Biography articles with topics of unclear notability
 * WikiProject Unreferenced articles
 * User:SDZeroBot/PROD_sorting
 * source hunting
 * Outlines
 * User:HaeB/Short_BLP_controversy_sections
 * Wilma Melville (see zotero)
 * Barbara Dafoe Whitehead (see zotero)
 * Beatrice Haverfield (see zotero)

Dated
 * weekly check on NYT Bestsellers, USA Today, (also handy link to review aggregator)
 * 14 June: expansion release The Talos Principle 2
 * 16 August: update tense Jonathan Lunine

Historical
• National Register of Historic Places listings in King County, Washington

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Grays Harbor County, Washington

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Pierce County, Washington

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Kittitas County, Washington

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Clallam County, Washington

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Washington

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Mason County, Washington

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Thurston County, Washington

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Lewis County, Washington

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Pacific County, Washington

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Snohomish County, Washington

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Skagit County, Washington

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Whatcom County, Washington

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Chelan County, Washington

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Yakima County, Washington

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Klickitat County, Washington

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Cowlitz County, Washington

• National Register of Historic Places listings in San Joaquin County, California

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Solano County, California

• List of landmarks in King County, Washington

• WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Style guide

• Archipedia.org

• WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Resources

• WikiProject Washington/Requested Photos

• National Heritage Area

• NRHP colors legend

• Digital copies of the San Joaquin County Historical Society’s periodical publication, the San Joaquin Historian

• List of National Monuments in County Roscommon

• Chronicling America search

Deletions

 * delete my own pages:
 * administrators willing to handle RevisionDelete requests
 * How to delete a page
 * Introduction to deletion process
 * Proposed deletion
 * Criteria for speedy deletion
 * Proposed deletion
 * Proposed deletion of biographies of living people
 * Field guide to proper speedy deletion

Notability
• Notability (academics)

• Notability (astronomical objects)

• Notability (books)

• Notability (events)

• Notability (films)

• Notability (geographic features)

• WP:Notability (media) (essay)

• Notability (music)

• Notability (numbers)

• Notability (organizations and companies)

• Notability (people) (any; academics, creative: authors, editors, journalists, filmmakers, photographers, artists, architects, and other; criminals and victims; entertainers; military; politicians and judges; sports personalities)

• Notability (Railway lines and stations) (essay)

• WP:Notability (software) (essay)

• Notability (sports)

• Notability (web)

• User:Uncle G/On notability
 * Sample notability table


 * Note: I created this table manually, but have discovered there's a Template:Source assess


 * How to identify if source is reliable

Examples

 * Good example of lead sentence for a sport's specific event
 * example of cite template for different page numbers
 * example of several citations grouped in a single ref
 * alternate approach for page numbers
 * examples of wordy footnotes/notes section
 * example of quote box
 * examples of quotes in references
 * Template:Quote box
 * Template:Rquote
 * example of named, shared footnote
 * Geo Swan explaining defining refs in reflist
 * contender for worst written article, it even beats out Murals in Singapore
 * the last reference in Touch Me (The Doors song) for an example of search instructions within a reference
 * Convert acre as adjective: 3 acre

Templates
• Template index

• Template:Inline cleanup tags

• Citation templates

• Template messages

• Template messages/Cleanup

• Template messages/User talk namespace

• Template messages/Maintenance

• Template:Mbox templates see also

• Teahouse/Host lounge/Templates

• Category:Location map templates

• Template:Lang

• Template:Infobox protected area

• Template:Typo help inline

• Template:Which lang

• Template:Interlanguage link

• Template messages

• Template:Xt

• Template:Emoji

• Template:Section link

• Template:Poemquote

• Template:Cite web

• Template:Bl

• Template:Inflation

• Template:Subscription required

• Template messages/User talk namespace/Single-level templates

• Template:Para

• Template messages/Redirect pages

• Template:Annual readership/doc

• Template:Citation

• Template:Wikibreak

• Template:Infobox musical artist

• Template:Not a typo

• Template:Uw-copying

• Template:Quote

• Template:Location map/List

• Template:Efn

• Template:Hair space

• Template:Convert

• Template:Expand

• Template:R for reference

• Template:Cite tweet

• Template:Source assess table

• Template:Citation and verifiability article maintenance templates

• Template:Interlanguage link

• Template:External media

• Template:Inflation

• Template:Refideas

Things to read

 * American folk music revival
 * Community portal
 * Teahouse
 * Discussions dashboard
 * Dashboard
 * Noticeboards
 * Village pumps
 * WP:The future of NPP and AfC
 * Why reliable sources matter
 * Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars
 * User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior

Cite and link
• User:Nick Moyes/Easier Referencing for Beginners

• New page patrol source guide

• Complete diff and link guide

• Reliable sources/Perennial sources

• User:Citation bot/use

• Help:Interwikimedia links

• Help:Interwiki linking

• Hatnote

• Reliable sources checklist

• Reliable sources/Perennial sources

• Template:Rp/doc

• Template:R

• Template:Full citation needed (inadequately defined)

• regional reliable sources

• User:Rosguill/NPPRS

• Sources for songwriter credits: copyright.gov, ascap.com, bmi.com

• In template:cite news, id field can use template:ProQuest

• Example citing newspaper.com clip

• WP:WikiProject Video games/Sources

• Template:Multiref2

MOS and help

 * Where to report to admins
 * Help:Searching
 * Manual of Style/Words to watch
 * Manual of Style/Layout
 * Help:Footnotes
 * Help:Interwikimedia links
 * Help:Convert units
 * Special:Tags
 * Archived discussion of comma after date
 * Manual of Style/Images
 * Image use policy

Wiki projects

 * WikiProject Companies/Guidelines
 * WikiProject Books
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lighthouses

Miscellaneous

 * Editor's index to Wikipedia
 * MMORPG
 * Wikipedia outline
 * Raul's laws
 * my stats
 * my AFD stats
 * wikiscan
 * thanks
 * draftify log
 * speedy log
 * prod log
 * Wikipedia Signpost/2019-01-31/Essay
 * Pulitzer winners by year
 * RFC that almost convinced me not to edit Wikipedia

Articles I started
(tools view) or by category • #Harry Vanderbilt Wurdemann House

• #Dockton Hotel

• #Andrew and Bergette Hjertoos Farm

• #Camp North Bend

• #Hollywood Farm

• #F. W. Woolworth Company Store (Renton, Washington)

• #Vincent School

• #Tukwila School

• #Benjamin Holt House

• #Bank of Italy (Tracy, California)

• #Locke's Meat Market

• #Harmony Grove Church

• #Locke House and Barn

• #Tracy City Hall and Jail

• #Moses Rodgers House

• #El Dorado Elementary School

• #William and Estella Adair Farm

• #Black Diamond Coal Mining Company

• #Gaffney's Lake Wilderness Lodge

• #Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area (I merged and redirected it to Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta)

• #National Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring System

• #Covington Electrical Substation, Bonneville Power Administration

• #Colvos Store

• #404th Armed Service Forces Band

• #The Cave and the Light

• #Messenger of Peace Chapel Car

• #Bank of Tracy

• #Fox California Theater

• #Covenant Beach Bible Camp

• #Vashon Hardware Store

• #Helmer and Selma Steen House

• #McGrath Cafe and Hotel

• #The Fresco

• #North Bend Ranger Station

• #Pacific Coast Company House No. 75

• #Erick Gustave Sanders Mansion

• #Great Ellensburg Fire

• #Anne Emery

• #Anne Emery (young adult writer)

• #Dr. Trueblood House

• #Joseph Lytle House

• #Hoquiam's Castle

• #Wilkeson School

• #Betty Cavanna

• #Going steady (repurpose redirect)

• #Finding My Voice

• #Hit Refresh

• #Detectives in Togas

• #Sierra (motor ship)

• #World Folk Music Association

• #Bill Zorn

• #Northwestern Improvement Company Store

• #Literary feud

• #Henry Alsberg

• #Baring Bridge

• #Columbia River Quarantine Station

• #Apollo in Real Time

• #Lost Apple Project

• #Anti-Mask League of San Francisco

• #World of the Five Gods

• #American Nations

• #Lexipol

• #Great Olympic Blowdown

• #Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire

• #Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America

• #Fighting for Space

• #Elvira Chaudoir

• #Beauty (Tepper novel)

• #Cynical Theories

• # Coverstitch

• # Staunch Book Prize

• # Rashida Jones (television executive)

• # Chicago circulation wars

• # Sob sister

• # Louis Sobol

• # Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction

• # James Delmage Ross (repurpose redirect)

• # Seattle Municipal Light and Power Plant

• #Broad Band

• #First Principles (book)

• #The $64 Tomato

• #Correction girls

• #The Secret History of Home Economics

• #Alex Tarrant

• #Bobby Sheldon

• #Hopepunk (repurpose redirect)

• #Get Off My Internets

• #Joy Spence

• #Julie Reiner

• #Crib A'Glow

• #Song of the summer (repurpose redirect)

• #Marion Manola

• #Cecilia Greenstone

• #Seek and Hide

• #John Woestendiek

• #The Divorce Colony

• #Lyle Engel

• #Gilbert Galvan

• #Edna Gleason

• #Ghost cattle fraud

• #Gerard Baker (National Park Service)

• #Micke Grove Regional Park

• #Territorio de Zaguates

• #Barbara Sutteer

• #History of courtship in the United States

• #Richters Herbs

• #Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s

• #Murder Your Employer • United States Air Force Security Service (before after)
 * Rewrites and expansions

• Black Diamond Cemetery (before after)

• Houston High School (Mississippi) (before after)

• Tillie Lewis (before after)

• Confessions of a Sociopath (before after)

• Five Nights in Maine (before after)

• YouTube suspensions (before after)

• The Final Encyclopedia (before after)

• Advice column (before after)

• Young adult romance literature (before after)

• Readers theater (before after)

• Transfer of learning (before after)

• Carl L. Alsberg (before after)

• Cruising (driving) (before after)

• Mark Soldier Wolf (before after)

• Henry T. Weinstein (before after)

• Dodona's Grove (before after)

• Merle Egan Anderson (before after)

• Hello Girls (before after)

• John Nestor (before after)

• Shisha (embroidery) (before after)

• Personal advertisement (before after)

• David Day (Canadian author) (G13 rescue) (before after)

• Edward Sturgis Ingraham (before after)

• History of sewing patterns (before after)

• Tailor (before after)

• Sydney Taylor (before after)

• The Imperial Presidency (before after)

• Citadel (1957 book) (before after)

• John Lissauer (before after)

• Sheet music (before after)

• Dumb Friends League (before after)

• Bobby Skafish (before after)

• Operation Lincoln (before after)

• How Not to Write a Play (before after)

• Divorce mill (before after)

DYK reviews

 * Template:Did you know nominations/American Spaces

Quotes

 * "This is not SomePeopleGotMadForAWhileOnSocialMedia-pedia. It is not WP's job (see WP:NOT#INDISCRIMINATE, WP:NOT#SOCIAL, WP:NOT#INDEX) to serve as a catalogue of every ephemeral bit of online micro-drama surrounding celebrities. That's what People magazine is for.  — SMcCandlish"