User:Notcharizard/links
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Hello, this is a page intended for use by Notcharizard, with links they want to remember. You are welcome to have a look too, maybe you will find something helpful!
Templates
Requests for admin assistance
Resources
- References: Bad / Questionable / Videogame / Music
- Tips for communicating positively + Tips for dealing with incivility + Civility policy
Manual of Style
Tasks
- Suggestions for Notcharizard, from SuggestBot
- Dead-end pages - updated on the 9th and 23rd of the month
- Orphaned pages - updated on the 15th of every month
- Very short pages - mostly surnames, some small town articles can be extended
- Pages with no categories
- Pages not connected to WikiData items
- Random page
- Random Pending AfC submission
- Random article in category:
Problematic wording
- "passed away"
- "sadly" (especially common in sports articles - often not so sad for the opposing team!)
Reviewing
notability guides: organisations, people
My userspace
- Userboxes I've made
- Stuff I've done
- Sandboxes: 1, 2, 3
- Quadball name change notes
Essays
Fun stuff
Interesting articles
- Antanaclasis (a type of play on words)
- Bitcoin buried in Newport landfill
- Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected March 26, 1960, at an Elevation of about 1450 Meters on Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California, México, Apparently for a Southeastward Range Extension of Some 140 Miles (that is the full name)
- Dord (a real word)
- Fixed price of Coca-Cola from 1886 to 1959
- Gadgetbahn (when people try to reinvent the train but it's never as good as good ol' train)
- Grapefruit–drug interactions (grapefruits interact with a lot of prescriptions medications!)
- Origin of language
- Pomato (a plant that grows both tomatoes and potatoes)
- Spaghetti-tree hoax
- Titivillus (demon of typos)
Lists
- Common English usage misconceptions (silly prescriptivism in English)
- List of animal sounds (with buttons to play the sounds)
- List of stories set in a future now in the past
"Oh, there's a word for that!"
- Chad (paper) (the little bits of paper from punched holes in paper)
- Hypnic jerk (when you wake up because you felt like you were falling)
- Semantic satiation (when you say a word too much and it loses its meaning)
- Tadpole person (the way small children often draw people asa head with arms and legs coming out)
- Umarell
People and animals
- Andy (goose) (goose with cool prosthetic feet)
- Clara Breed (librarian who help children in Japanese-American internment camps)
- Comandanta Ramona (Zapatista revolutionary)
- Emily Wheelock Reed (librarian who fought against racist censorship in the 1950s)
- John Smith (there's a lot of them!)
- Minerva Sanders (one of the first librarians to allow children to use the library)
- Onfim (student from the 13th century who left us their homework with doodles)
- Public Universal Friend
- Tilly Smith
Places
- Blood Falls (spooky!)
- Chandelier Tree (big tree!)
- Falkirk Wheel (a lift for boats in Scotland)
- Gum Wall (it's 15m long and covered in gum! What collaboration)
- Nagoro (a town with realistic dolls posing as people)
- Sandy Island, New Caledonia (an island thought to be real for over 100 years until it was "undiscovered" in 2012)
An interesting edit summary from back in 2005 about Stay High 149.