User:TimothyBlue



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 Welcome To My Userpage 

About

I spend most of my time working on book articles, authors, and bibliographies about topics I'm interested in. The work I am most proud of are the bibliographies related to Russian and Soviet history I've created. I have also put considerable work into Bibliography of Los Angeles and Sexual violence in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The subjects I am most involved with are related to Russia the Soviet Union, World War I, II, and Cold War, and generally the swath of nations and peoples that run from Poland, the Baltics, and Russia, running southeast through Turkey and the Caucasus, Central Asia, and ending in Pakistan, northern India, western China, and Mongolia.

I enjoy working on the navigation elements and interconnectedness of Wikipedia, such as: Navigation lists such as indexes, outlines, timelines and years pages; See also and navigation hat notes; navigation templates and navigation sidebars.

I am a self appointed maintenance angel for Timothy (given name), Tim (given name), Timmy (given name); every Tim, Timmy, and Timothy has a place, and every Tim, Timmy, and Timothy should be in their proper place. This is critical for the survival of Wikipedia.

I watch articles generally related to:
 * History: the history of Russia and the Russian empire, the Soviet Union, and the Soviet bloc; the history of eastern and central Europe; Central Asia and the Caspian Sea; 20th century Germany and the Holocaust; World War I, II and the Cold War; the Sino-Japanese wars; general United States history.
 * Other: Los Angeles and California, UCLA and Los Angeles City College; The Doors, Velvet Underground, and Traffic; gold and silver age Russian literature; golden age science fiction; fascism and communism; Dungeons & Dragons and tabletop RPGs; Commodore PET and Altair 8800; accessibility and blindness; Blue holes; whiskey and tea; warships; colors, especially blue; bibliographies; glossaries. ...

I have some skill with MathML, LaTeX, C++, Python, Javascript, PHP, none with Lua. At one time I could write C well enough :) to make a living and had a painful 3yr encounter with 6502/6510 assembly language that left me traumatized. I've been casually learning about the Mediawiki software and the Wikipedia API, and investigating various database APIs. I also have some skill with Excel VBA. For the most part when I say "some skill", this should be interpreted as meaning "self taught hack that knows enough to be dangerous". It can be an embarrasing path but I occassionally arrive at the correct destination. My saving grace is knowing I'm a potentially dangerous self taught hack. Someday I might put a link up to my Github for Wikipedia tools.

I can "function" in Spanish (Los Angeles flavor), French, German, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Armenian (so so), and Georgian. By "function" I mean I know enough to work intelligently with the aid of a computer.

Much of the information here is to help my memory; if it helps others, wonderful. If you have a resource/page about Wikipedia or a good tool for working on Wikipedia, please let me know on my talk page, I hoard information.

My page on Polish Wikipedia My page on Ukrainian Wikipedia

Important thoughts, random musings, personal confessions, and fun facts

 * In 2018, I had a actual heart attack while listening to an orange monster promote fascism and white supremacy.
 * Don't worry, Rod Sterling is actually standing just out of sight laughing at us with Allen Funt.
 * I once found a coconut in Mercia.
 * "Once ya, ya get to know these parts, you never lack for somethin ta do. People always ask me, "Why I stay here?" I tell'm I stay cuz I like it better here than I would anywharez else." Herb Jones, The Legend of Boggy Creek.
 * I have Arachnophobia, musophobia, and Ophidiophobia. Spiders, rats and snakes will cause me.
 * Wikipedia is a creation worthy of the gnomes of Ak'Anon and as challenging for a newbie as Crushbone.
 * I'm convinced I was a librarian in a former life; maybe not a good one.
 * I routinely misspell "guarantee"; I have tried my whole life to stop, but cannot. It is my great shame.
 * I also have this problem with: "memoir", "Caucasus", "succinct", "parallel" ...


 * “He knows that there’s no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who’s trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you’re not bothered.”
 * My partnership is 25% Lucy and Ricky, 25% Harold and Kumar, 25% Odd Couple, and 25% Basil and Sybil.
 * I often have a problem recognizing sarcasm and respond accordingly.
 * My joints hurt. You can tell how cranky I am likely to be by checking if it is cold (below 60 F) or rainy in Los Angeles.
 * My great-grand-nephew started middle school today,.
 * Pro Russian POV editors think I'm a Ukrainian troll.
 * Pro Ukrainian POV editors think I'm a Russian troll.
 * Pro Azeri POV warriors think I'm an Armenian troll.
 * Pro Armenian POV warriors think I'm an Azeri troll.
 * I must be doing something right.
 * I've been accused of being an IDF wikifarm.Special:Permalink/1192363302
 * For the record, I'm a cranky old gay Polish Jew who has lived his entire life in Los Angeles. No connection to Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan, or Ukraine.
 * I've been accused of being an IDF wikifarm.Special:Permalink/1192363302
 * For the record, I'm a cranky old gay Polish Jew who has lived his entire life in Los Angeles. No connection to Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan, or Ukraine.

Where I live
I'm reasonably well traveled, but I have been fortunate to have been born, lived, gone to school, and worked my entire life in Los Angeles; I plan on staying well into the future. None of the videos below are mine (none of the pictures to the right from Wikipedia commons are mine either), but I do think they are quality and may be find a useful place in an article.

DTLA Skid Row Hollywood Thai town: Koreatown Weho Venice Santa Monica West side Parks
 * Downtown Los Angeles After Midnight (2023), Downtown Los Angeles Chinatown Walk Tour, Downtown Los Angeles Saturday Walking Tour (2023)
 * Walking tour, Walking tour, Walking tour
 * Hollywood Blvd walking tour, , ,
 * 2023 Hollywood Christmas Parade, ,
 * Amphai best Thai food in Los Angeles, Thai Town New Year celebration, 2023 Streetfood in Thaitown, Thai town Food Tour
 * 2024
 * Sunset Strip at Sunset walking tour, Santa Monica Blvd/Robertson general area, Halloween 2023
 * Walking tour, Sunset on Boardwalk, Morning Walk, Abbot Kinney, Venice Beach Santa Monica Pacific Palisades, Boardwalk, Lincoln
 * Driving tour, Walking tour, Walking tour
 * The Grove
 * 2024 MacArthur, 2024 Echo Lake, Griffith, Sunset at Griffith Observatory, Palisades

Thinks to watch while on a break

 * The Greatest Movie in Cinema history
 * Tim Curry talks about the Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975
 * Fear and Loathing bathroom scene
 * Truman Capote and Groucho
 * Santa Monica, '72, Live at Madison Square Garden 1973, An American Prayer, Summer Of Soul
 * Greatest song ever: 1968, Acoustic version (my favorite), 2018 remix, Esher Demo; Live:, , , , , , , , , . Anyone that says anything negative about George Harrison is a bad person.
 * Followed by the another greatest song: 1968, 2018 remix, Anthology 3, Live . Anyone that says anything negative about John Lennon is a bad person.
 * Followed later by the another greatest song: 1968, 2018 remix, Anthology (my favorite), Live . Anyone that says anything negative about Paul McCartney is a bad person.
 * (If you haven't listened to the White Album you should)


 * And because I still have a platonic crush Ringo, , , , , , , . Anyone that says anything negative about Ringo Starr is a bad person.
 * (If you haven't listened to all the Beatles albums you should)


 * Listen and sing along to one Beatles album a day and you will be a happier person.
 * (If you're bad mood, sing along with Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da five times; it will help. Repeat as needed.)

Funny

 * Currently the funniest video on Youtube, updated 20 September 2023.
 * Currently the funniest video on Youtube, updated 12 May 2023.
 * The funniest video on Youtube, updated 16 January 2023.
 * Another funniest video on Youtube, updated 16 February 2023.
 * Paul Lynde roast Dean Martin, updated 24 April 2023.

Not Funny

 * 2,000 Lies or The American Insurrection or January 6 Insurrection - PBS or American Reckoning
 * Jack Smith statement, Fani Willis statement

Ponderables

 * Should Rita Graham and David open the door?
 * Who are the overlords of the UFO?
 * The Floor Show
 * White Rabbit, a bathtub, Las Vegas?
 * The importance of toast.

Quotes from people much wiser than I will ever be

 * The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy, instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence, you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. —Martin Luther King.


 * "The Russian Revolution was the most successful criminal conspiracy in history. The takeover of an entire nation by a shameless huckster supported by a hostile foreign power. And the revolution was also an object lesson in how liberals can lose, and lose catastrophically, from a position of great advantage, if they are divided in the face of a ruthlessly ideological foe."


 * "I told you so. You damned fools".


 * "Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow." H.G. Wells


 * “They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high,” she wrote. “To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone.” Barbara Ehrenreich


 * "“No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges – absorbing but never creating. Did you know that the average viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won't be living their own lives any more." Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke

Observations

 * I think most portals exist to provide busy work for the bored.
 * Sarcasm is often the only effective response to absurdity.
 * Foolishness, and ignorance often win, but that's no reason to surrender.
 * I often find Wikipedia very amusing; its like a multi-national soap opera, generously mixed with black comedy, nth decimal place arguments, and the generally unbelievable, all set against a beige and gray backdrop splattered with virtual feces.
 * I hate grave dancing in articles about real life events

Things I've learned to live by on Wikipedia (or try to)

 * Think before you type. Then type. Then think again before you press Publish. "If you see a man hasty with his words, there is more hope for a fool than for him." Mishlei 29:20
 * When in doubt, don't press Publish.
 * If you're uncertain, Ask.
 * When you're wrong, you're wrong. Accept it gracefully.
 * I try and abide by a personal 2RR rule (except in cases such as vandalism, copyright, or BLP violations). If I've reverted twice and things continue, I'll leave it to another editor to pick up where I stop. If it's important someone else will come along. If important or the article is not watched, WP:3O or WP:DR is a better forum for resolving the dispute than moving towards WP:EW territory.
 * Think if something can be Improved, rather than Reverted or Deleted. If it can, then either Improve it or leave it for someone else.
 * Don't engage in petty reverting. See above.
 * Sometimes it's best to disengage from a quarrel and return later rather than keeping it going. "Just as without wood, the fire goes out, so without a grumbler the quarrel quiets down." Mishlei 26:20
 * Use polite and meaningful but short edit summaries.
 * Use warning templates sparingly. A note often produces better results.
 * Some topics I am too emotionally close to and I choose generally not to edit in those areas. At best it will be frustrating, at worst it will result in a ban or block. Everyone has to know their limitations. Wikipedia should be enjoyable and edifying, not frustrating and exasperating.
 * Don't stick your nose into situations you know nothing about. "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt." Abraham Lincoln
 * Don't stir the pot.
 * Don't hold grudges.
 * Not every editor is able to constructively edit/review every article. Know what articles are best left to others.
 * When you've dug yourself into a hole, that's a battleground; stop digging and just walk away.
 * Beating a dead horse with a lead pipe is messy and unnecessary; just walk away
 * There is often no right or wrong answer. If you don't feel strongly about something and others do feel strongly, you probably have better things to do than arguing about it.
 * Editing should generally be fulfilling and a positive part of your life.
 * Some areas on Wikipedia are very contentious, and often very unpleasant experiences arise. You can only deal with so much unpleasantness beyond which it isn't worth the personal toll and the impact on the other areas you edit. Pick and choose the unpleasantness you decide to involve yourself in carefully; you only have so much time and strength. It is better to deal with some difficult situations and leave others to others and keep your enthusiasm for editing than to try and deal with all difficulties and burn out and drop out.
 * There is a line between passion and obsession, commitment and crusade. The farther your keep from the line, the more enjoyable your experience. Easy to say, hard to follow.
 * Every editor should read Law of holes, Inverse consequences, Unintended consequences, The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Sayre's law, No good deed goes unpunished, Law of triviality, and Hoist with his own petard, Self-destructive behavior, This too shall pass
 * Some problems need an axe to fix, others needs a scalpel.
 * The kitchen sink often complicates a discussion and distracts from your main point.

Simple Wikipedia things I wish I knew sooner

 * When I first started editing Wikipedia, I was under the impression that it was a mellow, cordial, quite place to do something. <:)=
 * I couldn't figure out why the Thank option appeared sometimes, but other times was unavailable. It was because I had a VPN running.
 * You don't need to have the Page Mover user right to move a page. The right just gives you the ability to move without leaving a redirect.
 * There is a glossary of all those Wikipedian abbreviations people use at Glossary and Wikipedia abbreviations
 * When you see !vote it doesn't mean a Negative or Oppose vote. It means Not voting and refers to the process of consensus-building as opposed to polling.
 * Twinkle is the most helpful thing on Wikipedia.
 * Tools and User scripts/List.
 * RefScript automatically creates refs from webpages.
 * On Wikipedia, if something sounds straightforward and self-explanatory, you're wrong, it's not.
 * There are important differences between policies and a guidelines and an essays. They are not the synonmyns. Editors use the terms far too loosely and interchangeably, sometimes unintentionally and innocently, other times...?
 * Special:CategoryTree - displays a tree for a category
 * When you remove vandalism with an inappropriate edit summary, make sure to remove the default edit summary on your revert, or else the inappropriate edit summary will appear on the revert and in your user contributions.
 * Help:Cheatsheet, Help:Wikitext, Help:Magic words
 * Zotero - citation manager with Wikipedia support.
 * Help:Cheatsheet

Things about articles I do not like

 * 1) Excessive inline references per WP:OVERKILL. It makes it hard to read an article. If they are needed, they should be encapsulated or bundled WP:BUNDLING in a footnote with an explanation.
 * 2) Too many sections MOS:OVERSECTION. Article creation is not a contest to see how many sections an editor can cram into a stub.
 * 3) Substubs. These are not articles: they are PAGE SPAM. Shame on any editor that creates them and doesn't expand them (unless there is a good reason); if an article is worth creating, an editor should write 350 words about it, create a couple of incoming links, add two references, add categories. Minimum effort.
 * 4) The idea that having a separate article is always somehow better. Nothing is improved if content is unnessarily fragmented and placed in a more obsure stand alone article.
 * 5) Completely empty sections; if an editor creates a section, they should at least write one sentence about that section's topic.
 * 6) That its much easier to be considered notable as an athlete or entertainer, than it is to be considered notable as an academic, scientist, or author.

About articles

 * Every list should have a very clear and unambiguous inclusion criteria, that leaves little or nothing to question. The clearer the better. I think a lot of lists go off the rails with marginal entries and become only semi-useful from wlink spam.

The worst part of Wikipedia
The seemingly endless, repetitive, and ultimately meaningless time sink discussions where editors constantly repeat themselves over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Usually accompanied by walls of text that begin to blur into each other like a mental quagmire. See all the move requests related the Russo-Ukrainian war or renaming Turkey, or any high level article about Armenia or Azerbaijan as an example.

The second worst part of Wikipedia
Walls of text. In any and every context except your own user page.
 * Don't like them. Don't read them. Don't encourage them. Don't build them. Shun those that do.
 * Yes occasionally lots of text is needed, and when it is it should still be as concise and organized as possible.
 * Nothing justifies >500 words in a paragraph.
 * Nothing justifies >50 words in a sentence.
 * Nothing justifies >10 sentences in a paragraph.
 * Violating the above should be a Wikipedia felony, the offenders beaten mercilessly with rabid squirrels until they repent. Habitual offenders should be sentenced to live with feral cats and no wifi.

What Wikipedia is not

 * Wikipedia is not a directory of every athlete mentioned in the news.
 * Wikipedia is not a directory of every game or season mentioned on the internet.
 * Wikipedia is not a directory of every actor or musician with a credit.
 * Wikipedia is not an directory of every music single and television episode ever made.

Kyiv and Kiev
If it were up to my personal preference I'd change every occurrence of Kiev to Kyiv just to make the point many are trying to make, so I understand those that want to change it. But its not up to me and should be a matter of personal preference. The Wikipedia community has a consensus on historical Ukrainian names, read WP:KIEV.

What to do if you have been blocked or are facing being blocked
You have two options:

Option 1 Continue the fight until the bitter end. Don't accept defeat. Tell everyone else why they are wrong and why you are right. If you really think your right and won't abide by the consensus because you think its wrong, this is the option to take. Make sure you are very clear about your future defiant intentions. Use walls of text to make your point, with liberal use of copy/paste. Respond promptly to every comment made regarding the issue, with liberal use of copy/paste. Make sure to be very clear about where you stand in every reply. Blame others and point out their faults to distract from your editing.

This has never worked, but you might be the first!

Option 2

Admit defeat. Stop the behavior that created the problem. Post your accept the consensus to stop. Total white flag. This will work wonders for most people facing a block; this will not work for repeat or egregious problems, but if you've just made a mistake and taken it too far this will work wonders.

You need to consisely:
 * Explain what the problem is so others know you understand the reason behind the (potential)block.
 * Explain that you accept the consensus that what your were doing is unacceptable; you don't have to  agree , but you do have to accept to  abide  by consensus.
 * Explain what you will do to avoid a repeat (if needed and not implicit in the above).

Don't:
 * Use weasel works to try and minimize your problem.
 * Set conditions for your acceptance of the consensus, policy, or guidelines.
 * Try and offset your responsibility by pointing to others problems.
 * Attack or criticize other editors.

This works once, maybe again if you gain invisible Wikipedia brownie points.

Left aligned images
Images that are aligned to the left are an absolute pain for people that need significant screen magnification. It is much more accessible to place the images all to the right and avoid breaking up the flow of the text. This isn't true for simple low level magnification, but for individuals needing magnification at 500%+ while using a low resolution on a large display, it is an enormous and almost always unnecessary pain.

Unsourced material in BLPs
BLPs need clearly WP:IS WP:RS with WP:SIGCOV addressing the subject directly and indepth for both content and notabilty to avoid abuse. Per WP:BURDEN Be aware of Biographies of living persons also Biographies of living persons. Per WP:BURDEN, I removed unsourced content from BLPs. BLPs need clearly IS RS with SIGCOV addressing the subject directly and indepth for both content and notabilty to avoid abuse. Abuse can work in many ways: Just because information is on the internet does not make it notable, true, or worth adding to Wikipedia.  // Timothy :: talk  18:57, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
 * "All content must be verifiable. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and it is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution."
 * "Any material lacking an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the material may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source."
 * "Do not leave unsourced or poorly sourced material in an article if it might damage the reputation of living people or existing groups"
 * BLP abuse occurs when unsourced (or poorly sourced) negative information is placed in an article.
 * BLP abuse occurs when unsourced (or poorly sourced) promotional information is placed in an article.
 * BLP abuse occurs when unsourced (or poorly sourced) information is placed in an article with language that modifies or qualifies the information in a way that violates WP:NPOV, WP:WEIGHT.
 * BLP abuse occurs when opinions in otherwise IS RS are presented in Wikipeda as facts or given more WP:WEIGHT than is WP:DUE and neglects other viewpoints.
 * BLP abuse occurs when unsourced (or poorly sourced) information about private individuals makes its way into Wikipedia, either as part of another article or as a WP:BLP1E.

Legitimate uses I've found for ChatGPT
Using ChatGPT to write articles is repulsive. It should be a Wikipedia felony and a shunnable offense. But there are some great legitimate uses for ChatGPT. I've been using it inside VSCode (via Github Copilot) and on their website. Here are some useful things I've found (in no particular order). Obviously you should check the results and never assume.
 * Give it a list and ask it to order it chonologically or alphabetically.
 * Give it a list of ISBNs and/or DOIs and it will create a bibliography or references in the format you request from the list. It will even use Wikipedia citation templates if you ask it to.
 * Give it a list of bare URLs and it will create references.
 * It can create and modify Wikipedia tables.
 * Checking (NOT creating) translations. Its about as good as Google translate (poor), but is another tool that can help check translations.

Grammarly is much better for writing assistance.

I'm sure there are more things it could help with. When you have it use Python scripts to expand its reach, it can do some pretty interesting things.

Things I have to repeat often
Sourcing Nice new article. However if you could take a look at the article and add two additional independent reliable sources with significant coverage addressing the subject directly and indepth, it would help with the review process. The Wikipedia guidelines you should review for more information are Independent sources, Reliable sources, Significant coverage and general notability guidelines. Hope this help, ping me if you have questions or you can ask them at the tea house. On English Wikipedia, verifiability means other people using the encyclopedia can check that the information comes from a reliable source. Its content is determined by previously published information rather than editors' beliefs, opinions, experiences, or previously unpublished ideas or information. Even if you are sure something is true, it must have been previously published in a reliable source before you can add it. Before continuing to add content to Wikipedia, please read Verifiability, Citing sources, Reliable sources, No original research Any questions you have regarding sourcing can be answered at the Wikipedia Teahouse.

Basics

Here are some resources to answer your questions.


 * Please read WP:COI, WP:NPOV, and WP:OR, WP:WEIGHT. (neutrality)
 * Then read WP:N, and for biographies read WP:BIO, WP:BLP. For other types of article see WP:SNG; here is a list of SNGs Category:Wikipedia notability guidelines (notability).
 * Finally read: WP:V, WP:IS, WP:RS, and WP:SIGCOV (sourcing).

Any questions you have can be answered at the WP:TEAHOUSE.

If you are going to edit Wikipedia, especially creating articles, you need at a minimum to undestand the above. It will take time to learn them, but your time will either be spent productively learning about the above, or wasted here at AfD.

Here are some resources every editor on Wikipedia should understand. Please read: Any questions you have can be answered at the WP:TEAHOUSE.
 * WP:PGE, WP:5p, WP:NPOV, WP:OR, WP:SYNTH, WP:WEIGHT, WP:V, WP:IS, WP:RS, WP:CONSENSUS, WP:ONUS, WP:BURDEN, WP:BRD, WP:EW.
 * As you have no doubt already seen, editors use a lot of slang and abbreviations, Glossary is a good resource for learning wiki terms and language.


 * WP:MOS (the Wikipedia manual of style), WP:LEAD, WP:SECTION, WP:MOSLAYOUT, MOS:APPENDIX, WP:ARTICLETITLE (article structure)

BLPs

BLPs need clearly IS RS with SIGCOV addressing the subject directly and indepth for both content and notability to avoid abuse per well known core policy (WP:V and WP:BLP) and guidelines (WP:BIO and WP:IS, WP:RS, WP:SIGCOV).

Add references to restored content

Please be certain to add references to all the restored content at the above article (See WP:BURDEN, WP:ONUS, WP:V). This is very important for all the names of living or recently deceased persons in the article (see WP:BLP). For lists of individuals, there is no need to add a reference to each entry if a note at the top of the section will source many or all of the entries. Others may need an individual reference for the name. I'm certain you would not want anyone to add anything to the article, so references very important. Do not feel rushed, but it should be done within a reasonably short period of time (especially sourcing names of living persons per WP:BLP) and show steady progress until completion. Basic facts can be referenced using primary sources (see WP:PRIMARY); all other material should be references using independent reliable secondary sources (see WP:IS, WP:RS).

New articles lacking sources for notability

Recently you have created new articles which lack references clearly showing notability. If you have questions, please feel free to ask them at the WP:TEAHOUSE,
 * Please add references showing notability to the article. Articles that fail to show notability may be deleted; adding references will improve the article and assist in preventing deletion. Once you have added references showing notability, please submit to Articles for Creation (see article for link).
 * Before proceeding, please read the following guidelines Independent sources, reliable sources, Significant coverage, Cite your sources, primary sources and Notability.
 * Please pay particular attention to the significant coverage guideline, to show notability sources need to have multiple sources which address the topic 'directly and in detail.
 * Articles which do not have sources showing notability may be deleted or merged/redirected to other articles.
 * Sources connected to the subject (in anyway) cannot be used to show notability.

Unreferenced cleanup talk page discussion starter

There was a great deal of unsourced material which appears to be either WP:OR or WP:SYNTH in the article; this has been removed per WP:V. Material should only be reinserted if it has proper independent reliable sourcing per WP:BURDEN and if edited to remove any POV per WP:NPOV and WP:WEIGHT. Without insisting on independent reliable verifiable sources WP:V, anyone can place any information, positive or negative, into an article based on nothing but opinion, bias, or belief. Insisting on independent reliable sources for article content ensures the subject is not abused or exalted, and readers are not misinformed.

Independent WP:IS reliable sources WP:RS are essential for all articles, however they are absolutely critical for biographies of living persons WP:BLP and I firmly believe currently active organizations. For most articles there is not a possibility of unsourced information having a real world impact; this is not the case with BLPs and currently active organizations.

WP:PRIMARY sources should only be used to source basic facts and statistics; WP:SECONDARY sources are needed for all other article content.

Tags have been added for other problems.

A place for stuff I need a place for

 * WP:RPRGM
 * class="wikitable" style="font-size:75%;"
 * ==Notice about Wikipedia conventions regarding Ukrainian place names==
 * Please read Wikipedia conventions regarding Ukrainian names for further information. ~
 * Regarding [] and similar edits, the preponderance of English language reliable sources do not use this spelling or name. Per Wikipedia guidelines, in cases when different possible spellings or names exist, the WP:COMMONNAME and spelling from [[WP:RS|reliable sources] and the subjects article title (if one exists) are used. Names and spellings should be as consistent as possible across Wikipedia.
 * Template:Excerpt
 * Cleanup entries not meeting article criteria, "List of ***wars***"; entries such as battles, uprisings, individual incidents, feuds, etc are clearly not wars (they may have been a part of a war) and have no sourcing (WP:V) stating they were wars in themselves.
 * Article as written meets WP:NOTTVGUIDE and needs cleanup to comply with guidelines and policy.
 * Template:Excerpt
 * Cleanup entries not meeting article criteria, "List of ***wars***"; entries such as battles, uprisings, individual incidents, feuds, etc are clearly not wars (they may have been a part of a war) and have no sourcing (WP:V) stating they were wars in themselves.
 * Article as written meets WP:NOTTVGUIDE and needs cleanup to comply with guidelines and policy.
 * Template:Excerpt
 * Cleanup entries not meeting article criteria, "List of ***wars***"; entries such as battles, uprisings, individual incidents, feuds, etc are clearly not wars (they may have been a part of a war) and have no sourcing (WP:V) stating they were wars in themselves.
 * Article as written meets WP:NOTTVGUIDE and needs cleanup to comply with guidelines and policy.





Pages that attract POV problems

 * Talk:Israeli–Palestinian conflict
 * Talk:Israel–Hamas war
 * Talk:Red Sea crisis
 * Talk:War crimes in the Israel–Hamas war
 * Talk:Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)
 * Talk:2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
 * Talk:Russo-Ukrainian War
 * Talk:Uyghur genocide
 * Talk:Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
 * Talk:Flight of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians
 * Talk:Stepanakert
 * Talk:Burning of Smyrna
 * Talk:Yemeni civil war (2014–present)
 * Talk:Houthi takeover in Yemen
 * Talk:Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
 * Talk:Zviad Gamsakhurdia
 * Talk:Adjarians
 * Talk:Kievan Rus'

Lists prone to cruftification

 * List of wars involving Georgia (country)
 * List of wars involving Armenia
 * List of wars involving Azerbaijan
 * List of wars involving Albania
 * List of wars involving Poland

New Articles Created
Bibliographies


 * 1) Bibliography of the history of the Early Slavs and Rus'
 * 2) Bibliography of Russian history (1223–1613)
 * 3) Bibliography of Russian history (1613–1917)
 * 4) Bibliography of the Russo-Japanese War
 * 5) Bibliography of Russia during World War I
 * 6) Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War
 * 7) Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union
 * 8) Bibliography of the Soviet Union during World War II
 * 9) Bibliography of the Post Stalinist Soviet Union
 * 10) Bibliography of Russian history (1991–present)
 * 11) Bibliography of Martin Van Buren
 * 12) Bibliography of United States Presidential Spouses
 * 13) Bibliography of Eleanor Roosevelt
 * 14) Bibliography of works about communism
 * 15) Bibliography of Ukrainian history
 * 16) Bibliography of the history of Central Asia
 * 17) Bibliography of the history of Poland
 * 18) Bibliography of Poland during World War II
 * 19) Bibliography of the history of Belarus and Byelorussia
 * 20) Bibliography of the history of the Caucasus
 * 21) Bibliography of California history
 * 22) Bibliography of South Carolina history
 * 23) Bibliography of Hollywood
 * 24) Bibliography of Genocide studies
 * 25) List of Slavic studies journals

Books


 * 1) Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
 * 2) Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
 * 3) Stalin: Breaker of Nations
 * 4) Stalin's Peasants
 * 5) Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942
 * 6) The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944
 * 7) Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
 * 8) The Pacific War Trilogy
 * 9) Everyday Stalinism
 * 10) Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
 * 11) The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933
 * 12) The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933-1939
 * 13) The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
 * 14) Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century
 * 15) Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914–1921
 * 16) Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928
 * 17) The Empire of the Steppes
 * 18) The Russian Revolution: A New History
 * 19) The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia
 * 20) Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
 * 21) Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century
 * 22) The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932—1939
 * 23) Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917—1921
 * 24) The New Life (2022 historical fiction)
 * 25) In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas
 * 26) Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
 * 27) Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
 * 28) Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920
 * 29) Collaborationism in France during the Second World War
 * 30) Red, White, and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life
 * 31) The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
 * 32) Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
 * 33) The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region
 * 34) Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina
 * 35) Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848–1849
 * 36) The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life
 * 37) The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850
 * 38) That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500
 * 39) The Creation of Dangerous Violent Criminals
 * 40) A History of Algeria
 * 41) A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
 * 42) History and the culture of nationalism in Algeria
 * 43) Kentucke's Frontiers
 * 44) Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-60
 * 45) Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies, 1650-1780
 * 46) Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition
 * 47) El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
 * 48) A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
 * 49) A Modern History of the Kurds
 * 50) Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era
 * 51) The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
 * 52) Belorussia under Soviet Rule, 1917–1957
 * 53) Biography and the Black Atlantic
 * 54) Kurdistan +100: Stories from a Future State

Biography


 * 1) Monica Muñoz Martinez
 * 2) William John Read
 * 3) Talant Mamytov
 * 4) Artem Novikov
 * 5) Edith B. Gelles
 * 6) Catherine Allgor
 * 7) Byun Hui-su
 * 8) Serhii Korovayny
 * 9) Peter C. Byrne

Navigation


 * 1) Index of articles related to the Russian Revolution and Civil War
 * 2) Index of articles related to the Yazidis
 * 3) List of Nazi extermination camps and euthanasia centers
 * 4) Outline of whisky
 * 5) Outline of the Beatles
 * 6) Outline of the Doors
 * 7) Outline of Slavic history and culture
 * 8) Outline of Genocide studies
 * 9) Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian War
 * 10) Outline of the history of Los Angeles
 * 11) Outline and timeline of the Greek genocide
 * 12) Outline of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war
 * 13) Outline of the Yemeni Crisis, revolution, and civil war (2011-present)
 * 14) Outline of the Houthi movement
 * 15) Outline of Pakistan military history
 * 16) Outline of Kazak military history
 * 17) Outline of the military history of the People's Republic of China
 * 18) Outline of the Chinese Civil War
 * 19) Timeline of the Chinese Civil War
 * 20) Outline of metrology and measurement
 * 21) 2021 in Turkey
 * 22) 2021 in Georgia (country)
 * 23) 2021 in Armenia
 * 24) 2021 in Azerbaijan
 * 25) 2021 in Mongolia
 * 26) 2021 in Uzbekistan
 * 27) 2021 in Kyrgyzstan
 * 28) 2021 in Tajikistan
 * 29) 2021 in Turkmenistan
 * 30) 2021 in Kazakhstan
 * 31) 1921 in Russia

California


 * 1) An Act for the Admission of the State of California
 * 2) Silverado Fire
 * 3) 2022 California elections
 * 4) 2022 California State Assembly election
 * 5) National parks in California
 * 6) Cannery Women, Cannery Lives (book)
 * 7) 2024 California State Assembly election
 * 8) 2024 California State Senate election
 * 9) 2024 California elections

Arts


 * 1) The Bop Chords
 * 2) United Ukrainian Ballet Company

Geography


 * 1) Amberjack Hole
 * 2) Green Banana Hole
 * 3) Cascade-Sierra province
 * 4) National Parks in Idaho
 * 5) National parks in California
 * 6) Great American Rail-Trail
 * 7) Ghazipur landfill
 * 8) Bhalswa landfill

Other


 * 1) 2021 Kyrgyz presidential election
 * 2) Deepspot
 * 3) Fancruft
 * 4) Senegal bus crash (2023)
 * 5) 2023 Israeli judicial reform
 * 6) PROUD Academy (Connecticut)
 * 7) Timoteo (given name)

Set indexes Disambiguations
 * Bibliography of Russian history
 * Bibliography of the Soviet Union
 * All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies
 * Timoteo
 * David McDowall

Ukrainian Wikipedia

 * uk:Готель Голлівуд Рузвельт (Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel)
 * uk:Заперечення геноциду вірмен (Armenian genocide denial)
 * uk:Міський коледж Лос-Анджелеса (Los Angeles City College)

DYK Entries

 * On 17 August 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Green Banana Hole

New Templates Created

 * Template:Russianbiblioseries (Russian history bibliography series)
 * Template:YazidisOutline (Navtemp Outline for Yazidis)
 * Template:Outline tpm (talk page message for Wikipedia Outlines)

Articles and Pages I've made significant contributions to

 * Index of Soviet Union-related articles
 * Bibliography of Los Angeles
 * WikiElf
 * Sexual violence in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
 * Timothy (given name), Tim (given name), Timmy (given name), Timofey, Timotheus, Timothée, Timmie, Timo

Needs expansion

 * Echo Park Lake restoration
 * Pig 'n Whistle

New Articles

 * History of Hollywood

NPP, AfD, and cleanup notes
I keep a personal list of pages I've come across that need unsourced content referencing and cleanup work or work for an AfD at User:TimothyBlue/cleanup.
 * New pages patrol - "When you tag something for speedy deletion, do not mark it as reviewed."
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject International relations/Archive 7

About books

 * Great Historians of the early Soviet Union
 * Favorite History Books and Authors
 * If you are looking for a citation or to verify a citation from one of these works, just ask me on my talk page. I'm happy to help if I can. Many of these are on Kindle, so I can provide a Kindle location and chapter, but not always a page number.
 * If you are looking for a citation about Soviet history, I have ready access to many of the books on the lists at Bibliography of the Soviet Union and Bibliography of Russian history.

Journals

 * Journal List about or related to history - a personal list of journals I have found useful.

How to evaluate claims of off-wiki status as an expert or scholar

 * If someone feels the need to tell you they are expert or scholar, they are rarely an expert or scholar.
 * If someone feels the need to tell you they are expert or scholar, and therefore you should respect their opinion/contribution even though they don't have WP:RS, they are very rarely an expert or scholar.
 * If someone feels the need to tell you they are expert or scholar, and therefore you should respect their opinion/contribution even though they don't have WP:RS, and they have "Dr." or "Ph.D." anywhere in their username, you can be completely certain beyond any doubt they are not an expert or scholar.

The Unspoken Sixth Pillar of Wikipedia
''A stub article shall be created for each and every male football (soccer) player, who has ever been on a roster for a national team for even one game, regardless of how obscure they are or unlikely it is that the stub will ever be expanded, if even one bare entry in a statistical database site can be found as a source for the aforementioned male football (soccer) player. If challenged, WP:NFOOTBALL shall be invoked with the authority of the gods to override any objection, policy or guideline.''

Anyone who foolishly deviates from this sacred standard, even ever so slightly or inadvertently, will be declared an apostate and banished forever, doomed to create stub articles for baseball players.

Proposed new CSD criteria
The following is a list of proposed new CSD criteria that will make everything much more interesting.
 * A8. No indication of importance (things you don't understand and don't feel the need to try)
 * Wikipedia is not about learning new things and its just rude for someone to create an article that you don't understand.


 * A12. Stuff you don't like.
 * Applies to stuff you don't like or don't agree with, or stuff that makes you uncomfortable, hungry, restless, or fatigued, regardless of WP:N or WP:RS. Because Wikipedia is here for you.


 * A13. Stuff someone you don't like is enjoying working on, so you want it deleted.
 * Applies to people who have offended you in the past, may offend you in the future, or someone you just have a funny feeling about. Also can be applied if someone you don't know and have never interacted with, is obviously bothering/harassing/stalking you, even if you are uncertain which editor is doing this.


 * A14. Too many typoes mispellings or grammer errors.
 * Available only to WikiGnomes and to WikiElves helping them. Because Grammer Speling and Punctuation is the very MOST immportant thing; an if anyone disegrees their WRONG! and trying to Destory Wikipedia and MUST be stoped; before the werld comes too an end..


 * A14(a) The hyphens-dash clause
 * This applies when hyphens are used instead of en-dashes or especially when used instead of em-dashes or visa-versa. This can potentially cause a fatal case of what is referred to as Gnomish CE-OVERLOAD, if a WikiElf is not present to help them calm down. In severe cases, all the offending editor's articles and edits shall be reverted and they shall be issued an infinite block for WP:DE. Available only to WikiGnomes with SuperGnome powers.


 * A15. Someone stole your idea.
 * Something you've been planning on writing for years now and was almost ready to think about considering starting it, but someone stole the idea and beat you to it. The offending editor obviously is a mind reader and this is the same as plagiarism.


 * A16. Obviously not notable.
 * You did a Google search in English and nothing came up on the first page, so it can't be notable and it's too much trouble to go to AfD and plus someone might disagree with you there.


 * A17. Its a stub. You hate stubs.
 * A stub. You hate stubs. Why are there so many stubs? Also applies to start articles that look too much like stubs and to featured articles that at one point were stubs.


 * A18. Something that could be merged, but you're too lazy to do it.
 * Applies if you are too lazy at the moment to do the work or feel you might be too lazy when you get around to thinking about maybe doing it later.


 * A18(a). Something could be redirected, but you forgot the correct syntax for a redirect.
 * Syntax is hard. Why can't you just wish for a thing to be and it is? This way you just have a couple clicks to perform. Everything on Wikipedia should be done by clicks and not require typing. Typing is hard.


 * A19. Articles with references in languages other than English that obviously cannot be verified.
 * This is English Wikipedia so everything should be in English. Google translate is hard and some of those non-Latin characters are scary.


 * G15. You're having a bad day and something just absolutely must pay for it.
 * Applies to all situations where real-life issues are upsetting you and the best solution is to take it out on an innocent article, category, template or other random page or two. Please note: this only applies to real-life off-wiki situations that are upsetting you. If you are upset due to an on-wiki situation, other CSD criteria may apply, such as A12 or A13. If you are both having a bad off-wiki day and something on-wiki is also bothering you, please contact an Oversighter and have something suppressed.


 * G16. You should get credit for something, but won't unless it's deleted first so you can claim the credit.
 * You found something and think you could improve on it, but want credit for creating it, so you want it deleted. Can be literally anything from a new stub to the five pillars.


 * G17. You just feel something should be deleted.
 * Feelings are more important than facts, policies, and guidelines. You should WP:IGNORE and go with your gut.


 * U6. A user page that meets the criteria for a user page, but that you don't like.
 * A good way to express exactly how involved you are in the lives of individuals you don't know.


 * U7. User page deletion anger management
 * Available when you are having a disagreement with another editor, need to vent your anger, but don't want to be blocked for a personal attack. You can repeatedly have their user page deleted until they acknowledge you are always correct and agree not to challenge you in the future. Use with caution due to the possibility of this developing into a U7(a) situation.


 * U7(a). User page deletion anger management delete war
 * When two editors need to vent their anger over a disagreement on an article but don't want to edit war at that article or engage in personal attacks, they can engage in a delete war against each other's user pages, repeatedly having the other's user page deleted and when the other user refunds their page and deletes your page, you simply delete again until someone surrenders. Canvassing your clique to create a delete war army to assist you is acceptable. If the delete war appears to be at a stalemate, an uninvolved admin can decide to close the delete war by having a Wikipedia drone strike carried out on the editors accounts to end the situation.

Bored?

 * Task Center
 * Most-wanted articles (list of articles with the most redlinks), Special:WantedPages, Requested articles, WIR/REDLIST (red-linked lists focusing on women)
 * Maintenance
 * Community portal/Opentask
 * Category:Wikipedia maintenance
 * Maintenance and collaboration resources
 * Open Tasks Backlog
 * Category:Wikipedia backlog
 * Index of articles needing cleanup work
 * Department of Fun
 * Category:Articles lacking sources

Free tools for editing Wikipedia
These are some of the tools I use, your millage may vary, but these work for me. Suggestions welcome. Items available for Linux, may be available for Windows and Mac. All work well for individuals with visual impairments, and most work well with dark themes.

Text Editors I usually have all of the above open and just switch between them depending on what I'm doing.
 * Visual Studio Code: This text editor has a Wikipedia extension (by Jason Williams) with code coloring, a great snippet tool, autocomplete, code folding, robust find and replace within/across documents, workspaces, write scripts in any language, and a reasonable spelling engine that doesn't flag code. I find this very useful for working with new articles and bibliographies.
 * VSCode online edition
 * Useful extensions: Wikipedia extension, LaTeX Workshop, Markdown All in One
 * Sublime Text: Another great text editor, all of the features above, except spell check and code coloring. I usually use this as a notepad, to compose or edit short passages, edit talk page messages. Biggest drawback is no spell check. I prefer VS Code for snippet management. There is a plug in that allows you to directly open, edit, and save Wikipedia pages which is very useful.
 * Brackets: Another great text editor.

Grammar and writing tools
 * Grammarly -

Python modules for text processing and data analysis (These are useful for cleaning up raw bibliographic data, working with tables, geographic data, etc)
 * NLTK (Natural Language toolkit), spaCy
 * Python Tutorials for Digital Humanities

Office Suites
 * LibreOffice: Word Processor and Spreadsheet. Minimal bloat, all the tools someone might use in a more expensive and bloated Office suite. Doesn't have an easy to switch to dark mode :/
 * Open Office: Very very similar to Libre Office.
 * Google Docs web applications. No my favorite. There extension system is awkward, but this is useful. Best dark mode.

Fonts
 * Input: I prefer Input Mono Thin. Works well with color coding on dark backgrounds.

References and notes'
 * Evernote: online note taking. I use this but below items are great
 * Joplin: if I wasn't so used to Evernote, I'd probably use Joplin.
 * Simplenote: Made by WordPress.
 * Zotero: reference manager. Someone told me this would change my life and it did. Has browser plug ins for Chrome and Firefox. Lacks some accessibility customizations I like.

Web tools
 * Exceltowiki : works with LibreOffice and OpenOffice, not just Excel.
 * DeepL: Machine translation, personal opinion this works better than Google.
 * Online RegEx, Online RegEx utility
 * Python RegEx video tutorial, Another Python RegEx video tutorial, Google online RegEx tutorial, Python RegEx tutorial

Online repositories
 * Github, online storage and versioning for projects that aren't yet ready for prime time or anything else you want.

Databases, indexes and bibliographies

 * UCLA Library - UC System wide search
 * Los Angeles Public Library search
 * Stanford Library system search
 * New York Public Library search
 * Catalogs from Other Libraries: Selected Library Catalogs from Around the World, Northwestern
 * Library of Congress
 * United States National Archives
 * The British Newspaper archive
 * Periodicals and Newspapers from Bengal
 * WorldCat
 * Video: New WorldCat.org Sneak Peak
 * ISBN Search
 * Search for Books by ISBN ABE Books Search by ISBN
 * BibGuru
 * Newspaper archives: Jawaharlal Nehru University Library
 * Search by DOI
 * EBSCO
 * National Archives of India
 * India: Newspapers/Periodicals, Colbumbia University
 * Congress.gov, United States Congress
 * Online Archive of California

Historical Associations

 * California Historical Society
 * City of Los Angeles Historical Society
 * American Historical Association
 * Organization of American Historians
 * Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Wikipedia Editor Information Pages
These are items I either have or continue to find useful. I post them here for my reference and in the hope they might help someone else find something.

General

 * Help:Wikitext

AFD

 * WP:FUTUREEVENT: "expected future events should be included only if the event is notable and almost certain to take place. "

Contentious topics

 * Template:Contentious topics/alert/first
 * code
 * CT Codes: Template:Contentious topics/alert/first
 * Template:Contentious topics/talk notice

ECP General sanctions

 * ECP GS for Armenia and Azerbaijan: General sanctions/Armenia and Azerbaijan
 * ECP GS for Russo-Ukrainian War: General sanctions/Russo-Ukrainian War
 * ECP GS for Kurds: General sanctions/Kurds and Kurdistan

Punctuation

 * The Punctuation Guide
 * Commas | Semicolons | emDashes | enDashes | Hyphens


 * Use of Colons and Semicolons Rules

Prepositions

 * How to Use Preposition in English Grammar (On, At, In, Of, For)

General grammar

 * What are Antecedents in Grammar? Give Examples
 * Rules of Superlative and Comparative Adjectives
 * What are the Rules for Using Superlative Adjectives?
 * What is the Difference between Relative and Demonstrative Pronouns
 * What are Parts of Speech and their Functions
 * What are Modal Verbs and their Rules
 * What is the Difference between Subordinate and Coordinate Clause
 * Comparison of Adjectives and their Usage
 * Interrogative Adverbs and their Usage in Sentences
 * Possessive Form of Nouns and its Rules

Noticeboards

 * Category:Wikipedia noticeboards

MOS Style Guidelines

 * Manual of Style - The better you know this, the better editor you will become.
 * Simplified Manual of Style - Simple version of MOS with the most common issues.

Layout and sections
 * MOS:SECTIONORDER - Sections and order
 * Manual of Style/Layout

Lists
 * Manual of Style/Lists
 * WP:SOURCELIST Adding individual items to a list
 * WP:LISTCRIT Selection criteria

Details
 * Section titles use sentence case, not title case. See MOS:CAPS.
 * Everything about using hyphens and dashes properly on Wikipedia.
 * Wikipedia's style for an Manual of Style ellipsis is three unspaced dots ; do not use the precomposed ellipsis character or three dots separated by spaces . Generally, use a non-breaking space before an ellipsis, and a regular space after it
 * Manual of Style/Titles of works

Editing policies, guidelines, essays
General
 * List of policies and guidelines
 * Summary style / WP:SUMMARY

Lists
 * Stand-alone lists
 * Categories, lists, and navigation templates / WP:CLN

Categories

 * Category Sort Keys
 * Ordering names in a category
 * Special:CategoryTree
 * Categorization/Ethnicity, gender, religion and sexuality

About policies, guidelines and essays

 * Policies and guidelines
 * The difference between policies, guidelines and essays
 * Process is important

Deletion, Merging, Splitting
Notability
 * List of Wikipedia subject notability guideline pages
 * List of Wikipedia|List of notability essays

Articles for Deletion related processes
 * Deletion policy
 * Deletion process
 * Articles for deletion|Current and past AfDs
 * Alternatives to deletion
 * New pages patrol


 * CSD Guidelines
 * PROD Guidelines


 * Merging
 * WikiProject Merge


 * Template:Source assess table

Useful guidelines and essays related to deletion criteria
 * Categories, lists, and navigation templates Talks about the importance and individuality of Categories, Lists and Navigation templates and how they work together on Wikipedia.
 * Summary style Talks about what Summary style is and the pattern of topic development that follows: Summary Overview Article/List >> General Subject Article/List >> Specific Topic Article/Listeg: History >> American History >> History of the American Civil War >> History of the Battle of Gettysburg

Copyright

 * Copyright violations
 * Text Copyright Violations 101
 * Copyright problems
 * Contributor copyright investigations
 * Contributor copyright investigations
 * Copying within Wikipedia
 * Earwig
 * CopyPatrol

Wikipedia Reference

 * Glossary
 * Edit summary legend
 * Wikipedia abbreviations

Tools and Scripts
Lists
 * Tools and User scripts/List
 * User scripts/Most imported scripts


 * Help:Citation tools, Tools/Editing tools
 * Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books
 * Convert Google Sheets table into MediaWiki format


 * GeoLocator


 * Wikieditor Plug in for Notepad++
 * Wikieditor Plug in for Sublime Text
 * Table Generator


 * Help:Multilingual support - uncommoon scripts

Individual items
 * User:DannyS712/DiscussionCloser - Tool for closing discussions.
 * User:Ohconfucius/script/MOSNUM dates - fix dates.
 * User:The Evil IP address/hdedit - The Header Editor, just double click on a header to edit.
 * User:Evad37/duplinks-alt Highlights duplicate links.
 * User:J947/Quick links - Adds a custom quick links drop down in your menu.

Copyright tools
 * Earwig's Copyvio Detector
 * CopyPatrol

Online writing tools
 * Online multilingual online keyboard

Wikipedia Sorting and Indexing Lookup Pages

 * Stub sorting list of stub types
 * List of Delsort lists
 * Relisted AfD discussions
 * Page or Sectionn Clean up templates

Templates

 * Templates
 * Template index
 * Template index/Cleanup
 * Inline cleanup tags
 * Category:Wikipedia utility templates
 * Category:Wikipedia formatting and function templates
 * Help:Cheatsheet, Help:Magic words

General
 * {{tl|Template:Anchor]]


 * {{tl|Icon}}
 * {{tl|Coord}}
 * Category:Time, date and calendar templates
 * {{tl|nts}}
 * Hatnotes: {{Tl|Broader}}, {{Tl|Further}}, {{Tl|See also}}, {{Tl|Main}}, WP:HAT

Text
 * {{tl|Font color}}
 * {{tl|Color}}
 * {{tl|Background color}}
 * {{tl|xt}} - for talk pages only  for green and red monospaced.

Calculation
 * Template:Convert
 * Category:Conversion templates
 * Template:Arithmetic operations
 * Template:Age in days nts
 * Template:Duration in days nts
 * Template:Birth, death and age templates

General Page
 * Template:In creation
 * Template:In use
 * Template:Under construction
 * Template:Under discussion
 * Category:Merge templates


 * Template:Use American English, Template:Use British English - See also section links to others.
 * Template:Use dmy dates, Template:Use mdy dates

Page Cleanup {{main|Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup}}
 * Articles requiring significant attention and other issues
 * Template:Multiple issues {{Multiple issues {{...}}... }}
 * Template index/Cleanup
 * {{notability}}
 * {{POV}}
 * {{primary sources}}
 * {{more citations needed}}
 * {{one source}}
 * {{original research}}
 * {{unreferenced}} {{unreferenced section}}

Style of writing
 * {{repetition}} This article may contain too much repetition or redundant language.
 * {{peacock}} This article contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information.
 * {{buzzword}} This article appears to contain a large number of buzzwords.
 * {{cleanup-PR}} This article reads like a press release or a news article and is largely based on routine coverage or sensationalism.
 * {{essay-like}} This article is written like a personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay
 * {{like resume}} This biographical article is written like a résumé.
 * {{review}} This article reads like a review rather than an encyclopedic description of the subject.
 * {{verbosity}} This article's text uses more words than are necessary.
 * {{advert}} This article contains content that is written like an advertisement
 * {{cleanup}} This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
 * {{cleanup rewrite}} This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards.
 * {{cleanup section}} This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
 * {{too many see alsos}} This "see also" section may contain an excessive number of suggestions.
 * {{very long}} This page may be too long to read and navigate comfortably.
 * {{lead rewrite}} The lead section of this article may need to be rewritten.
 * {{POV lead}} The neutrality of this article's introduction is disputed.
 * {{cleanup red links}} This article or section's use of red links may not follow Wikipedia's guidelines.
 * {{external links}} This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines
 * {{off topic}} This section may stray from the topic of the article.

'''Structure
 * {{cleanup reorganize}} This article may be in need of reorganization to comply with Wikipedia's layout guidelines.
 * {{importance section}} This section contains information of unclear or questionable importance or relevance to the article's subject matter.
 * {{sections}} This article should be divided into sections by topic, to make it more accessible.
 * {{tl|subsections}} This section is too long to read comfortably, and needs subsections.
 * {{tl|Expand section}}
 * {{tl|Summarize section}} This section may be too long and excessively detailed
 * {{summarize section}} This section may be too long and excessively detailed.
 * {{Too many sections}} This article may have too many section headers dividing up its content.

Inline cleanup templates
 * Template:Inline cleanup tags - contains a categorized list of templates

Talk pages
 * Template:Talk header
 * Template:WikiProject banner shell
 * Template:New discussion
 * Template:Off topic warning
 * Template:Portal talk, Template:Not a forum
 * Template:Skip to talk
 * Template:Reflist-talk
 * Template:Not watching

Infoboxes
 * Template:Infobox book
 * Template:Infobox book series
 * Template:Infobox book/doc
 * Template:Infobox writer
 * Template:Infobox author bibliography
 * Template:Infobox U.S. legislation
 * Template:Infobox landform
 * Template:Infobox mountain

Miscellaneous
 * Template:Data missing (Lists)
 * Template:Missing information (Sections)
 * Template:Copyvio
 * Template:Currentuser {{subst:currentuser}} Outputs username in plain text
 * Template:Book list

Names

 * Timothy (given name), Tim (given name), Timmy (given name)
 * Timothy (disambiguation), Tim (disambiguation), Timoti (disambiguation), Timotheus (disambiguation)

History

 * History, History of the United States, Russian History, German History, California History, History of Los Angeles, LGBT history, Jewish history, Favorite History Books and Authors
 * William and Mary Quarterly, The American Historical Review, Early American Studies, Journal of the American Revolution, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, The Russian Review, Slavic Review, Europe-Asia Studies, The Journal of Modern History, German Studies Review
 * Bibliography, Library

Bibliographies

 * David Eddings bibliography, H. P. Lovecraft bibliography, Jules Verne bibliography, H. G. Wells bibliography, Isaac Asimov bibliography (categorical), Stephen King bibliography, Arthur Conan Doyle bibliography, Philip K. Dick bibliography, List of works by Mary Shelley, Rudyard Kipling bibliography, List of works by Frederik Pohl, Anthony Burgess bibliography
 * Maxim Gorky bibliography, Leo Tolstoy bibliography, Fyodor Dostoevsky bibliography, Anton Chekhov bibliography
 * Franz Kafka bibliography, F. Scott Fitzgerald bibliography
 * Dr. Seuss bibliography
 * Bibliographies of Presidents of the United States
 * Bibliographies of wars and conflicts
 * Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War, Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union, Bibliography of the Post Stalinist Soviet Union
 * List of books about Nazi Germany, Bibliography of The Holocaust, Bibliography of Adolf Hitler
 * Bibliography of the Ottoman Empire
 * Bibliography of World War I, Bibliography of World War II
 * Bibliography of Los Angeles, Bibliography of Chicago history, Bibliography of Philadelphia, Books about New York City
 * Bibliography on American Communism

Contents, Indexes, Outlines and Glossaries
Indexes Contents Glossaries Outlines Timelines Portals
 * Index of Soviet Union-related articles, Index of articles related to the Russian Revolution and Civil War, Index of California-related articles
 * Contents, Contents/Indices, Contents/Outlines, Contents/Lists, Contents/Portals, Contents/Glossaries, Contents/Categories
 * Glossary
 * Category:Wikipedia glossaries, Glossary of history, Glossary of Nazi Germany, Glossary of Japanese history, Glossary of the French Revolution, Glossary of military abbreviations
 * Outline of Russia, Outline of California, Outline of war, Outline of World War I, Outline of World War II, Outline of Marxism, Outline of the Soviet Union, Outline of knowledge
 * Timeline of Russian history, Timeline of Los Angeles
 * Portal:Literature, Portal:Literature/New pages, Portal:Books

Literature
Authors
 * Science Fiction (mainly Golden age)
 * Weird Tales, Analog Magaine aka Astounding Stories, Galaxy Science Fiction, Fantastic, Dr. Who paperbacks
 * Russian literature
 * J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Douglas Adams, Stephen King, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Philip K. Dick, Brian Jacques, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frederik Pohl, Aldous Huxley, Anthony Burgess, David Eddings
 * Maxim Gorky, Mikhail Sholokhov, Feodor Gladkov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Blok, Anton Chekhov, Boris Pasternak, Aleksandr Kuprin
 * Jack London, Franz Kafka, Sinclair Lewis, Hans Fallada, Friedrich Schiller, F. Scott Fitzgerald,
 * Dr. Seuss

Technology

 * Software Development and technology (C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP)
 * Accessibility / Assistive technology, Screen reader, Speech recognition
 * Minicomputer, Altair 8800, Apple IIe, Commodore 64 and Commodore PET, Heathkit H8, Atari 2600

Music
Artists Works
 * 60s/70s Classic Rock, pre-WWII Blues, 50s/60s Oldies and Funk Rhythm & Blues, 60s/70s Reggae
 * The Beatles, The Doors, Cream, The Velvet Underground, Traffic, Grateful Dead, Blind Faith, The Rolling Stones, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Gong, Pink Floyd, Buffalo Springfield, The Chocolate Watchband, The Animals, Led Zeppelin, Sly and the Family Stone, Funkadelic, Parliament, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Toots and the Maytals, The Abyssinians, Black Uhuru, Santana, Israel Vibration, Small Faces, Canned Heat, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Moody Blues, Nazz, The Zombies, The Temptations, The Red Crayola, Pretty Things, The Herd, Love, The Yardbirds, Ohio Players, Silver Apples, Blood Sweat and Tears, The 13th Floor Elevators, Little Feat, Steely Dan, The O'Jays, The Kinks, Sugarloaf
 * Ray Manzarek, Jack Bruce, Lou Reed, Janis Ian, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Donovan, Bessie Smith, John Lee Hooker, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Cliff, Fats Domino, Alborosie, Maxi Priest, John Holt, Ijahman Levi, Big Mama Thornton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Etta James, Mississippi John Hurt, Willie Dixon, Arlo Guthrie, Al Stewart, Marvin Gaye, Gordon Lightfoot
 * The Beatles discography, The Doors discography, The Velvet Underground discography, Traffic discography, Jimi Hendrix discography, Led Zeppelin discography, Grateful Dead discography, Joni Mitchell discography, Pink Floyd discography, Canned Heat discography, The Rolling Stones discography, Funkadelic discography, Parliament discography, Donovan discography
 * An American Prayer, Hooker 'n Heat, The Velvet Underground & Nico, Rubber Soul, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, John Barleycorn Must Die, Satta Massagana, The Times They Are a-Changin', Maggot Brain, Absolutely Live, Axis: Bold as Love, Led Zeppelin I, 12x5, The Inner Mystique, Revolver, Before the Flood, Sunshine Superman, A Gift from a Flower to a Garden, Blue, Ladies of the Canyon, Meddle, Incense and Peppermints, Buffalo Springfield (album), Live at Winterland '68, Stand!, Flying Teapot, Blind Faith (album), McCartney, Alice's Restaurant, Year of the Cat, Earth, Wind & Fire (album), Trilogy, The Animals on Tour, What's Going On, Days of Future Passed, In Search of the Lost Chord, Fire, Odessey and Oracle, Waiting for the Sun, Welcome to the Canteen, December's Children (And Everybody's), Live in Pittsburgh 1970, Gettin' Ready, Five Live Yardbirds, Waiting for Columbus, There Are But Four Small Faces, Lotus, Aja
 * Fixing a Hole, Season of the Witch, Since I've Been Loving You, Not to Touch the Earth, The Gnome, Dear Mr. Fantasy, Voodoo Chile, From the Beginning, With God on Our Side, Blue Turns to Grey, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Don't Bother Me

Movies
Rocky Horror Picture Show, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), Harold and Maude, The Blues Brothers, Blazing Saddles, Animal House, Spaceballs, Kentucky Fried Movie, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Pink Flamingos, Brazil, This is Spinal Tap, Up in Smoke, Blue Velvet, Fantasia, Dr. Strangelove, The Wizard of Oz, Phantasm, Valley of the Dolls, Airplane!, Time Bandits, The Legend of Boggy Creek, Chariots of the Gods, Reefer Madness, Fritz the Cat, Super Fly (1972), Glen Or Glenda, Foxy Brown (1974), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Meaning of Life, American Graffiti, Ordinary People, Taxi Driver, Once Upon A Time in America, Once Upon A Time in the West, Klute, On Golden Pond, The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, The Graduate, Lolita, The Exorcist, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Rebel Without a Cause, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Midnight Cowboy, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Dirty Harry, Play Misty for Me, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Some Like it Hot, Don't Cry It's Only Thunder, Gimme Shelter (1970), The Wall (Pink Floyd), Quadrophenia, Tommy (The Who), The Last Waltz (1978), Vampyros Lesbos (1971), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Student Bodies, Metropolis (1927), Termors, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Never Ending Story, The Graveyard of Horror (1971), Teenagers from Outer Space (1959), The Other (Thomas Triton), The Sister Urge (MST3k version), The Curse of Bigfoot (MST3k version), I Accuse my Parents! (MST3k version), Chariots of the Gods, Quest for Fire, Overlords of the UFO, El Topo, Rosemary's Baby, Freaks (1932), Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! (1978), Heavy Metal (Animated), The Toxic Avenger, Mars Attacks!, Fire and Ice (Animated), Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), Barbarella (1968), Heathers (1988), The Mysterious Monsters, Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964), Trash (1970), Shock Treatment (1981), Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988), Welcome to the Doll House, Duck Soup (1933), Bigfoot (1970) Ivan Marx, Dear Dead Delilah, Sunset Blvd. (1950), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), Carnival of Souls (1962), Dementia 13 (1963), Yellow Submarine (1968), What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), The Thing with Two Heads (1972), Coffy (1973), Electra Glide in Blue (1973), Deep Red (1975), Friday the 13th (original), Halloween (original), Eraserhead (1977), The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Blue Sunshine (1977), Alone in the Dark, Scanners, Altered States, Stripes, VHS, Tron, Videodrome, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958), Night of the Living Dead, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Forbidden Planet (1956), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), The Blob (1958), The Fly (1958), The Angry Red Planet (1959), Planet of the Apes (1968), Tarzan and His Mate (1934), Soylent Green (1973), The Giant Claw, Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, Destory all Monsters, War of the Gargantuas, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolfman, The Invisible Man, Dr. Jekel and Mr. Hyde, The Bride of Frankenstein, ,

Places

 * California, Los Angeles, Hollywood
 * East Hollywood, Thai Town neighborhood, Koreatown neighborhood, West Hollywood, Silver Lake, Downtown Los Angeles, Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Arts District, Los Angeles Skid Row, Pico-Robertson, Little Ethiopia
 * MacArthur Park, Barnsdall Art Park, Sunset Strip, Hollywood and Vine, Pershing Square (Los Angeles), Amoeba Music, Canter's Deli, Clifton's Cafeteria, Whisky a Go Go, The Grove, Farmers Market, Pig 'n Whistle, Pink's Hot Dogs, Hollywood and Highland Center, Third Street Promenade, Los Angeles City College, UCLA, Los Angeles Public Library, Santa Monica Pier, Hermosa Beach Pier, Redondo Beach pier, Manhattan Beach Pier
 * Los Angeles LGBT Center, LGBT culture in Los Angeles, Personal Rights in Defense and Education, Sunset Strip curfew riots
 * Union Station, LA Metro, Los Angeles Metro Rail, The Red Line, Vermont/Sunset station, Pershing Square station, Westlake/MacArthur Park station, Hollywood/Western station, Hollywood/Vine station, Hollywood/Highland station, The Gold Line, Little Tokyo/Arts District station, Chinatown Station, Pasadena Del Mar Station, Pasadena Memorial Park station, Expo Line, 7th Street/Metro Center station, Downtown Santa Monica station
 * Santa Monica Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood Boulevard
 * Western Avenue, Cahuenga Boulevard, La Brea Avenue, La Cienega Boulevard, San Vicente Boulevard, Robertson Boulevard

Other

 * Public Transportation policy, Urban and Public Space Planning
 * Homelessness in the United States, Sustainable Living, Poverty Reduction/Alleviation
 * Herb gardening / Urban gardening
 * Classic Black & White movies, "Cult" films & "B" movies, 70's docudramas, classic monster/horror/sci-fi flicks
 * Current events, Gun Control, LGBT movement/issues/rights, the Democratic party / Democratic Socialism / Progressive causes
 * Euchre, Spades, Bridge, Pinochle, Cribbage, Gin
 * Dungeons & Dragons, Boot Hill, Metamorphosis Alpha / Gamma World
 * Anacin, Sanka, Burma-Shave, Coppertone, Tootsie Roll, Otter Pops, Cream soda, Shlitz Beer, Bazooka (chewing gum)
 * Blue Chip Stamps
 * Salton Sea, Bombay Beach, Slab City, Niland, Thermal, Imperial Valley
 * Gene Scott, Merv Griffin

Other

 * Vital articles
 * Vital articles/Level/5/History
 * Good articles/History
 * Featured lists
 * List of lists of lists
 * Wikipedia Signpost Newsletter

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