User:Tempshill
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Hi. Tempshill 18:05, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Politics and the English Language, by George Orwell, is the best 5,321-word guide to writing that you'll find.
There is no need for our writing on Wikipedia to be dry while being encyclopedic. Probably my favorite clause I have written on Wikipedia is "...Hewlett-Packard's now-forgotten NewWave...." Has NewWave technically been completely forgotten by our civilization? No, but it is not an error to call it "now-forgotten", and that term makes the sentence a lot more interesting and informative to the layman. And it's still extremely accurate — not 100% accurate, but somehow more accurate than it would be if "now-forgotten" were deleted.
In this vein, my favorite sentence in all of Wikipedia is currently a comment in the Borat article: "Everything that Borat has said about Kazakhstan is incorrect."
Useful links
- Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Extended image syntax
- The latter 3 images on Nez Perce (reformatted by User:Whosyourjudas 11/04)
- Wikipedia:Cleanup resources
- How to edit has character formatting stuff.
- Wikipedia:Categorization
- Lists of articles by category
- Wikipedia:Template messages for various dispute and cleanup tags
- User:Tempshill/c
To-do
- Quoz
- [1] (http://www.econlib.org/library/Mackay/macEx13.html) is one link
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of CrowdsAnd some spelling variants of the aboveAnd provide links to it from tulipomania and other places
- Mackay
- William Marbury
- a story about him (http://www.jmu.edu/madison/center/main_pages/madison_archives/era/judicial/article1.htm)
Merge Expanded memory and Expanded Memory Specification