User:D Monack

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Contents 1 Articles created 2 Articles to write 3 Pictures needed 4 My pictures 5 Things to do 6 Pet peeves 6.1 Hyphens & dashes 6.2 "Spoiler" template 7 Legal

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[edit] Articles created

John Harkes ~ Columbia Heights, Washington, D.C. ~ Victoria Abril ~ The Pingry School ~ City Museum of Washington, DC ~ Aharon Appelfeld ~ International Spy Museum ~ Bobby Holik ~ National Museum of American Art ~ Phillips Collection ~ The Ghost Writer ~ Hakoah Vienna ~ Meridian Hill Park ~ Diner ~ Theodore Roosevelt Island ~ Newark Museum ~ Manhattan Murder Mystery ~ National Museum of Women in the Arts ~ Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. ~ Harold Brodkey ~ awareness bracelet ~ Potomac Mills ~ "The Yankee Doodle Boy" ~ Ben's Chili Bowl ~ Cakes and Ale ~ Dean Gallo ~ Joseph S. Frelinghuysen ~ 16th Street ~ Mincio ~ Heartland Institute ~ Pope John Paul II Cultural Center ~ Joseph Minish ~ National Theatre ~ Todd Stottlemyre ~ James Russell Wiggins ~ Morris Carnovsky ~ Moyshe-Leyb Halpern ~ George Oakes ~ Marge Roukema ~ Eduard Tauwitz ~ Category:Yes ~ Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library ~ Frank Sundstrom ~ Luke Fox ~ Ann Smith Franklin ~ Kurt Schmoke ~ Ten-Day War ~ Stephens College ~ National Children's Museum ~ Željko Ivanek ~ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue ~ Richard Palmer-James ~ Charles Webster Hawthorne ~ Robert Kean ~ Hamilton Fish Kean ~ Category: Kean family ~ Philemon Dickerson ~ Metropolitan ~ Alan Voorhees ~ Too Long in Exile ~ John P. Stockton ~ Judith Deutsch ~ Bad Influence ~ Foster M. Voorhees ~ William J. Hughes ~ Lucio Filomeno ~ Charles A. Wolverton ~ William Hughes (Senator) ~ Seal of the District of Columbia ~ Pale Horse, Pale Rider - Gain ~ Louis de Jaucourt ~ McMillan Plan ~ Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht ~ Heinrich Karl von Haymerle ~ Roland Hinton Perry ~ Category: Music of Washington, D.C.

[edit] Articles to write

United States Senate Radio-Television Gallery (cf. http://www.senate.gov/galleries/radiotv/index.htm) / Downtown Washington, D.C. / National Capital Planning Commission / North Capitol Street / Speak, Memory (currently a redirect) (cf. http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=1917)

[edit] Pictures needed

Oak Hill Cemetery | XM Satellite Radio headquarters on NY Ave. | Anacostia River | Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle ext. | Dumbarton Oaks | McMillan Reservoir | Temple Emanu-El

[edit] My pictures

Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium	National Museum of Women in the Arts	Pope John Paul II Cultural Center	The Tivoli Theatre
Ben's Chili Bowl	"Dante" by Ettore Ximenes	Metrobus (Washington, D.C.)	Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
American Red Cross Headquarters	The Renwick Gallery	Statue of Albert Gallatin outside the U.S. Treasury Building	The Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
National Capitol Columns at the United States National Arboretum	Founders Library, Howard University	National Theatre	Embassy of Ecuador in Washington
Duke Ellington Bridge	Lion sculpture on Taft Bridge	Fort Stevens (Washington, D.C.)	Battleground National Cemetery
National Portrait Gallery	Smithsonian American Art Museum

[edit] Things to do

See User:D Monack/Sandbox.

• Mention involvement of Stokely Carmichael in 1968 Washington, DC riots.
• Add Folger Elizabethan Theatre to Folger Shakespeare Library.

[edit] Pet peeves

Guidance on style

Manual of Style

Supplementary manuals

Abbreviations Biographies Capital letters Command-line examples Dashes Dates and numbers Headings Links Mathematics Pronunciation Sister projects Text formatting Titles Trademarks

Special article styles

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Other guidance

How to edit a page Guide to layout Captions Categorization Categorization of people Cite sources Explain jargon Footnotes Writing better articles Lists Music samples Naming conventions Overlinking Picture tutorial Proper names Sections Technical terms and definitions Words to avoid Writing about fiction

[edit] Hyphens & dashes

The hyphen (-), en dash (–), and em dash (—) have 3 seperate functions.

• Use the hyphen to hyphenate compound words.

ex. The Boston Redsox are five-time losers in the World Series.

ex. Voltaire is the pen name of François-Marie Arouet.

• Use the en dash to connect numbers indicating a range such as two dates.

ex. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772–July 25, 1834).

ex. Psalms 18:26–29.

• Use the em dash to indicate a parenthetical break in the thought of a sentence, especially those that require internal commas.

ex. New Jersey's institutions of higher learning—such as Princeton, Rutgers, and Seton Hall, to name a few—have made it an attractive location for many Fortune 500 companies.

It may seem like a quibble but the appropriate punctuation can make your writing much clearer.

The hyphen is just the regular "-" next to the zero on your keyboard.
To create the en dash, type: –
To create the em dash, type: —

See: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dashes).

[edit] "Spoiler" template

I know I'm in the minority on this one, but I despise the Spoiler template. Let me count the ways:

1. It's insulting to the reader's intelligence. If one looks up an encyclopedia article on the movie, Citizen Kane, you'd certainly expect to see the plot discussed. Isn't Wikipedia supposed to be an encyclopedia?
2. Who are these tabula rasas who visit Wikipedia without any prior knowledge of Don Quixote? And can you believe someone put a spoiler warning on Genesis? Wow, a massive flood! Didn't see that one coming. (Sorry if I ruined it for you.)
3. In case you mess up and don't realize you're reading an encyclopedia, maybe the large header that reads "Plot summary" or "Surprise ending" should be a clue to stop reading.
4. The word "spoiler" implies that one's enjoyment of a work of art will be "spoiled" by knowing details of the plot. The Monty Python and the Holy Grail is just as funny and enjoyable even knowing in advance that the Knights of the Round Table never actually win the grail (sorry). I understand that this usage of the term "spoiler" is merely a convention and not to be taken literally, but it irks me nevertheless.
5. The template is ugly (although the latest versions are bit more subdued). It's jarring and distracting by design.
6. It makes Wikipedia look like an amateurish fan site.

What can be done about this evil menace of the ever-multiplying spoiler template? Unfortunately, not much. It's far too popular to get killed by a TfD. I generally remove it from its most egregious uses, but more often that not my edits are reverted. In exasperation and resignation, my last resort was to create this anti-spoiler manifesto on my user page.

For those of you who think I'm being curmudgeonly, in this case I'll embrace the epithet. Oh, and "Rosebud" was his sled, you bastards.

[edit] Legal

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

	Multi-licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License versions 1.0 and 2.0
I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under the GFDL and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0 and version 2.0. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides.