User:Jengod
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- Talk: User Talk:Jengod
- Website: www.jengod.com
- AIM: IMjengod
- YIM: jengod
Background: I live in Los Angeles in California in the United States, I studied the English language in college, and I aspire to write for U.S. television
Interests: American history and culture, California topics, show biz, illustrating stuff with old postcards; my current favorite page on Wikipedia is historic regions of the United States
POV: Left-liberal, at least in the U.S. (Socialism=bad!) :)
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Use the EN DASH correctly in biographies
En dashes should be used to indicate the span of time between a beginning point and an endpoint. On Wikipedia this comes up a lot in biographies, so stop doing hyphens, m-dashes, space-ndash-spaces and whatever else you punctuationally kooky types like to do, and just succumb to my will, okay? Thanks. :)
Example: Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769–5 May 1821) blah blah blah tried to take over the world...
En dash code: – or –
P.S. If you like to write dates Euro-style, i.e. 7 December, you can just go ahead and ignore this message and do your own thing.
P.P.S. See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)
Stop putting links in article titles
For the love of Mike, people, please stop putting links in article titles! Mention the link-worthy words further down in the lead or elsewhere early in the article. It's just as easy, more semiotically clear and so much less ugly. I beg of you, my fellow Wikipedians, break this habit! :)
- BAD: The history of beetle evolution began nine gajillion years ago somewhere in a dark corner of planet earth.
- GOOD: The history of beetle evolution began nine gajillion years ago. Beetles evolved out of the proto-beetle order within the insect kingdom and are first found in the fossil record during the Beetle Birth era.
Quotable
- "If I may be so bold, what evidence do you have that you are really a sovereign nation and not just a bunch of thirteen-year-olds with a free web site account?" User:Garrett Albright
- "If people spent as much time on typography and spelling as on edit wars...this would be Utopedia." User:Herbee
- "Keep. Have you looked at our other articles? Among many other things, we are a repository for silliness." User:Snowspinner, on VfD.
- "I'm a Wikipediholic! I'm addicted to Wikipedihol!" User:Adam_Bishop
- "Revert. Please cite a reputable source for your claim that Bush's middle name is 'assface.'" User:John Fader
Bookmarks
Cribsheets
Nations and states of the British Isles
- England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland: time immemorial to 1536
- Britain? England? 1536-1707
- Great Britain (Scotland + England + Wales): 1707-1801
- United Kingdom (England + Wales + Scotland + Ireland): 1801-1921
- -Northern Ireland: 1921
- -Ireland (Irish Free State, etc.): 1921
Copyrights in the United States
- Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States (http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm)
To Do
Images
Counties
Cleanup
New
- Pacific Design Center
- As Maine goes, so goes the nation (American political saying)
- Charles Allerton Coolidge (Architect)
- Michael Horse (Actor, artist)
- Terry Moran (ABC White House correspondent)
- Peace Congress (ACW peace negotiations)
- Corduroy road
- Playhouse 90 (Pioneering early TV anthology show)
- Twin language (Linguistics/psychology)
- United States Anti-Monopolist Party (political party)
- Bob Woodruff (ABC News correspondent)
Biographies
See: Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. politicians
- Remainder of Lincoln's, FDR's Cabinet - DONE!
- Listing all Presidential Cabinetmembers on each President's page - DONE!
- Bios for all remaining U.S. Senators from California - DONE!
- Bios for all remaining U.S. Secretaries of State - DONE!
- Bios for all remaining U.S. Treasury Secretaries - DONE!
- Bios for all remaining U.S. Attorneys General - DONE!
Licenses
I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
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