User:Shershb/sandbox

June 28: Great job! I can see your published edits in the Wikipedia article.

From Dr. Hildebrandt (June 27): Excellent work, Sydney. I look forward to seeing your edit published in the article. You are almost finished with this part of the course!

From Dr. Hildebrandt: Great job on this so far, Sydney!

Assignment 17


 * 1) I chose the stub about Inio Asano, a famous manga artist who wrote one of my favorite manga, Goodnight Punpun. I chose this stub because the manga he writes are very thought provoking and include some of the most innovative storytelling I've ever come across.
 * 2) At the bottom of the article there is a note that states that the article is a stub, and also calls for help from other editors to expand the article.
 * 3) Overall, the stub is extremely bare, only including the most bare minimum facts required to understand who this person is. There is nothing about his life other than a comprehensive list of all of his other works. Considering that this man wrote two famous manga, one of which was turned into a feature film, I doubt that this is because of a lack of information on him. Something that is fairly common for biographical Wikipedia articles is an overview of their career, which allows for the readers to get more of an insight to the person's rise to fame. There is also no information on his early life, which is also something that is in almost all biographical Wikipedia articles. In the introduction paragraph, the editor quoted someone else calling Asano "one of the voices of his generation" and then they do not go at all into how this is so. This could mainly be because of a lack of interest in the author in the west, or because of a language barrier in any interviews since he is Japanese.
 * 4) All of the links in the references page work, but I found that most of the sources are either poorly translated, or have very little actual information. A lot of the websites are also what I would consider "sketchy". Most of the websites are translated announcements from the authors social media, such as his announcement of getting married or that his manga was getting a movie.
 * 5) As I stated before, this article is very bare. There is only an introduction paragraph and a list of his works. This article is missing, at the very least, an early life page, a debut page or something of the sort that describes how he rose to acclaim, and something about his recent life and his recent works. These are things that most biographical Wikipedia pages have.

Assignment 18
Horror punk

Bent Knee

Will Wood (musician)

Assignment 19

 * 1) I'm choosing the stub article about Horror Punk.
 * 2) The closest thing I could get for a guide on a music genre/subculture is the guide on art history. The guide recommends using journals, catalogues, critic reviews, and other such sources.
 * 3) For the Horror punk article, all that is there is a basic overview of the genre as a whole. It doesn't go much into the subculture of horror punk or the history behind it. Another thing that I would like to add would be notable names in the genre, and examples of their sound as well as what the sound was inspired by.

Mattson, Kevin. “Leather Jackets for Flowers: the Death of Hippie and the Birth of Punk in the Long, Late 1960s.” The Sixties, vol. 12, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1–44., doi:10.1080/17541328.2019.1603930.

Assignment 20
My first stub is the one on Horror Punk.

The first source I found is the Vogue article on Misfits, who are widely considered to be the starts of the subgenre. Vogue is also a trusted source in the music industry and had a good amount of information on the band.

“Misfits.” Vogue,

The second source I found is an article on the brief history of horror punk written by what looks to be a local newspaper.

Brightman, Emily. “For Scary Kids Only: A Brief History of Horror Punk.” Massachusetts Daily Collegian,

Assignment 21
The second stub I am finding sources for is the stub on the band Bent Knee. Since this is a STL local band, I couldn't find any relative database articles that I felt were fitting.

The first source I located is a review on their most recent album. It also includes an interview with the bands lead singer, which provides good insight into the overall album that just a review might not have otherwise had.

McCoy, Kris. “Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean (Album Review).” Sonic Perspectives, Sonic Perspectives, 30 Sept. 2019,

The second source I chose was an interview with Ben Levin, the bands lead guitarist.

Garone, Anthony. “Ben Levin Interview.” Make Weird Music, Make Weird Music, 18 Feb. 2021

Assignment 22

I have decided on the Horror Punk article for my English 102 Project. I would mainly like to focus on early history of the subgenre as well as early examples that paved the way for the genre. In this section I would also like to talk about influences on the genre.

History
Horror Punk saw a rise in the late 70's to the early 80's alongside the popularization of the band Misfits, who are widely believed to be the main kick starters of the genre. However, inspiration for the subgenre can be traced back to the era of rockabilly and doowop. Misfits released their first album in 1982, setting the stage for the modern understanding of the subgenre, The themes of the songs were dark, largely talking about death and other dark subjects, which gave the subgenre its name. Later, several members of the band would go on and create their own spins on the genre.