User:Smtomak

I've used Wikipedia for many years, and I'm just learning to edit. Input is certainly appreciated.

My interests include physics (completing undergrad this summer), chess (1700 USCF), and policy debate (debated four years). If you're working on a Wikipedia project related to any of these and would like the help of a total newbie, drop me a line. I'm a great researcher, and I have access to a number of databases (including LexisNexis and Infotrac) through my school. If you ever need access to a news or journal article, I'm more than willing to help out.

To Do

Eventually I'll break these out into "daily," "weekly," etc. If you know of any projects that need more grunt work and general knowledge than wikipedia experience and poetic writing skills, leave a note.

• Check for new requests at Wikipedia:Newspapers and magazines request service
  • Remember to remove name from list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange after graduation.

• Debate pages
  • Policy debate needs cleanup and references.
  • Rebuttal speech, Rebuttal, and Counterargument are all pretty dismal. They should be combined, cleaned up, referenced, and categorized.
  • Category:Debating
    • Category:Speech and debate stubs
    • Category:Policy_debate

• Chess pages
  • Plenty to do at Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess

• Physics pages
  • The article Experimental physics is a stub!
  • |Modern physics articles that need attention
  • Classical physics articles that need attention
  • Other physics-related pages needing attention
  • Category:Physics stubs

• Other science pages
  • Astronauts that deserve better biographies
    • Leland D. Melvin
    • Gregory Jarvis
    • Michael J. Smith (astronaut)

• Gun control pages
  • Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
  • Gun law
  • Gun laws in the United States (by state)
  • Concealed Carry in the United States
  • Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act
  • United States v. Miller
  • Domains of Gun Politics
  • Gun politics in the United States
  • Category:Firearm laws

• List of backlogs to deal with

Category:Wikipedia backlog (all backlogs)

Category:Articles_to_be_merged

WP:FACT

Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment

Notes to self

I can't read in a straight line - I learn by doing and keep the user manual at arm's reach.

General

Wikipedia:Community_Portal

Wikipedia:Introduction

Template:Welcomeg

Wikipedia:Policies and Guidelines

Help:Contents/Policies and guidelines

Category:Wikipedia policies and guidelines

Interesting

Wikipedia:Subpages

Wikipedia:Categorization

Wikipedia:Guide to layout

Wikipedia:Manual of Style

Wikipedia:Disambiguation

Wikipedia:Glossary - Acronyms and Wikipedian-speak

Referencing

Wikipedia:Attribution

Wikipedia:Verifiability

Wikipedia:No original research

Wikipedia:Reliable sources

Help:Footnotes

Wikipedia:Footnotes

Wikipedia:Embedded citations

Wikipedia:Citation templates

Wikipedia:Harvard referencing

Wikipedia:External links

Wikipedia:Forum for Encyclopedic Standards

Category:Wikipedia resources for researchers

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cite/Cite.php

Tip of the day

Tip of the day...

When not to use links

It is possible to create links to every word in an article. But providing too many defeats their purpose by obscuring the most relevant links. Here's an example of overlinking:

Wikipedia's greatness stems from being able to link articles together easily, but don't overdo it. It can get really annoying and does not help the reader.

The above passage hides the relevant link. Compare that with this:

Wikipedia's greatness stems from being able to link articles together easily, but don't overdo it. It can get really annoying and does not help the reader.

For notices that can be added to articles, see Template:Overlinked and Template:Underlinked.

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