User:Theleekycauldron
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Hi there, I'm theleekycauldron! I also go by leek, leeky, and claudia. I do some writing and editing around here – it's pretty fun, in addition to being an enormous privilege. I also try to make myself useful around the backrooms of the project, usually at Wikipedia:Did you know, sometimes with some fancy-looking extra buttons I've been given access to. They're really not all that scary, and I hope I'm not either – in fact, I bet you're pretty cool! Come hang around and talk to me if you'd like, maybe there's something I can do for you :) if you want some dense information about what exactly I do around here and why, keep reading – if you find that terribly dull, maybe instead you can spend that time finishing up that project that's been sitting on your to-do list for eons. You know which one I'm talking about. Go do it! Or stay here! I'll probably never know either way! Happy editing :)
Articles I've worked on
Politics
Court cases
American state legislators
Television
The West Wing
Claudia Jean Cregg[claudia 6][pec 5]
Amy Gardner- Ainsley Hayes
- Mrs. Landingham[pec 5]
- "17 People"
- "A Proportional Response"
- "A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote"
- "Bartlet for America"
- "Celestial Navigation"
- "Game On"
- "Hartsfield's Landing"
- "Main Title (The West Wing)"
- "The Debate"
"The Long Goodbye"- "The Supremes"
Music
Internet culture
- Pronunciation of GIF
- Boneghazi[co 1]
- Celebrity Number Six[co 1]
- Dear White Staffers
- @NJGov
- Citizens Square
Code Bullet- Dumpster fire
- Erynn Chambers
- Hurricane Shark[co 1][co 7]
- 🦞[co 8]
- Melissa Ong
- @NYT_first_said
- Spiders Georg
- That Vegan Teacher
- Wikipedia Star Trek Into Darkness debate
- Wrath Month[co 9]
Miscellaneous
Stubs
These are usually expandable or have already been expanded by someone else; I've starred articles where I've left lots of sources that could turn the stub into something way better. Take a look!
- Alabama's 3rd Senate district
- Alabama's 4th Senate district
- Authentically Orthodox*
- Commonwealth v. Graves*
Executive Order 13942- Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment*
- Fisher v. United States (1946)*
- Fisher v. United States (1976)*
- Food Lion, Inc. v. Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.*
- From Jim Crow to Civil Rights*
- John Mannion
- Kate Sanchez
- Mario Mattera
- Peter Oberacker
- Pizza Rat
- United States v. Moore (1988)*
Things I haven't done yet
- Bucket list projects: Legal projects
- Squirrel projects
- The West Wing projects
- 1910 revolt
- ActuallyAutistic
- Beauharnais v. Illinois
- Beth Chayim Chadashim
- Chosen name
- Claudia Myles
- Claudia Kishi
- ClueBot NG
- Dave Barry Slept Here
- Food emojis
- Impeachment 10
- Jon Stewart's 2004 appearance on Crossfire to FA
- Lady Bird Johnson
- Leek
- Los Angeles eruv
- Mel King (The Pitt)
- Michelle Wolf at the 2018 White House Correspondents' Dinner
- Nicole Coenen
- Pissing Out Cancer
- Rami Be'er
- Sarah Barrios
- San Fernando Valley secession efforts
- Stank face
- State v. Demesme
- Sugar Hill, Los Angeles
- The Hateful Eight Martin guitar
- We Do Not Care
- White Electric Coffee
- "Wired Style"
- Youth suffrage in the United States
Ideas for someone else
For a list of potential good and featured content, see User:Theleekycauldron/Requested good and featured content. Some still-notable, but probably not FAable, content is also up for grabs below:
- Academy Chicago Publishers v. Cheever
- Black Pill
- CARE court
- "Causation and the Excuses"
- Doyle Skillern and/or the murder of Patrick Randel
- It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
- Killings of Kendal Ashmore and Kathy Anne Brown (draft)
- Nessa Rapoport
- Norma Rosen
- On a Farther Shore
- Our Nazi
- Siddur Sha'ar Zahav
- The Blade (Los Angeles)
- The Border and the Line
- The City at Stake
- Zweibon v. Mitchell
Other stuff I do around here
DYK
I spend lots of time volunteering at Did you know, a section of the Main Page that airs fun and intriguing facts from new and improved articles. I nominate my articles to appear at DYK virtually every chance I get, but I spend much more time assembling and scheduling DYK sets (known in the biz as "prep building"), and as an administrator, I also stamp sets that others have built so that they can go on the Main Page (we need more of these!).
This is a random selection of my hooks about political figures:
- ... that a resolution introduced into the Nebraska Legislature by Joni Albrecht praised Julie Schmit-Albin as "never one to let a public official waffle on pro-life legislation"?
- ... that Maine state legislator Tracy Quint introduced a bill that would have banned all COVID-19 vaccination mandates in Maine until 2024?
- ... that after Claudia Fleming's dessert cookbook went out of print due to poor sales, used copies began circulating on eBay for hundreds of dollars?
- ... that Arkansas legislator Denise Jones Ennett took part in a Black Lives Matter protest in front of the Arkansas State Capitol?
- ... that after her father received hospice care, Connecticut state legislator Claudia Powers introduced bills to include hospice under Medicare?
A full list of hooks can be found here.
Essays
- DYK and attribution: Just like the lead of an article, a DYK hook fact shouldn't be in wikivoice if the body of the article or the source isn't willing to say the fact in their own voice.
- Some disputes aren't worth it: How to handle a hot conflict over something that doesn't actually matter for readers.
- Source your plot summaries: Plot summary can be sometimes be avoided by following what reliable sources say is important to the story.
- Tell me something interesting: A short thought experiment to test if you've got a good DYK hook.
- Why some hooks are interesting: DYK hooks are intriguing when they entice a reader into wanting to know more, and editors should justify why their hooks will accomplish that goal.
Script and bot work
I run GalliumBot; he does a bunch of maintenance tasks related to DYK and anything else I run into that I think might need . I've also written the prep set's half-assed workbench (pshaw), the reviewer of functionaries' recent activity (refract), and the block and oversight machine (bloom).
