User:Notcharizard/useful-links

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

Manual of Style

Tasks

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

Stat things about my account

Essays

Fun stuff

Humor essays

Fun Wikipedia tools

Articles I love

"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)

An interesting edit summary from back in 2005 about Stay High 149.