User:Sholom

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I have many and extremely varied interests, ranging from Judaism to Ultimate to Genealogy, and, as I live in the DC area, politics, particularly US politics (both current events and history). And more!


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...This user is proud to say that they have kept their amateur procrastinator status intact.
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Greetings

Today is Friday, April 26, 2024. It's 20:42 (UT).

Wikipedia currently has 6,817,215 articles.

Today's Pic of the Day

Lichfield Cathedral
Lichfield Cathedral is a Church of England cathedral in Lichfield, in the English county of Staffordshire. A cathedral was first built on the site in 700, by Bishop Headda, to house the bones of St Chad. The original wooden building was replaced by a Norman cathedral made from stone, which in turn was replaced by the present Gothic structure, begun in 1195. The fabric of the cathedral suffered in the English Civil War, when it was used as a defensive structure. In the 18th century the interior was extensively remodelled, with major structural work organised by James Wyatt; this involved removing the high altar to make a single worship area consisting of the choir and lady chapel, and adding a massive stone screen at the entrance to the choir. This photograph shows the choir of the cathedral, which was built around 1200.Photograph credit: David Iliff

Useful Links

General Editing

Images, Copyright, Etc.

  • Wikipedia:Uploading images
    • Upload File (note: campaign site pix fall under {{Promotional}})
      • then [[Image:Richard_Boucher.jpg|200px|Richard Boucher|right]]
  • WP:ICT
    Image copyright tags
  • WP:PIC
    Picture Tutorial
    • WP:EIS
      Extended Image Syntax (syntax notes only)

Tools

Policy

Misc

Redirect - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect #REDIRECT [[NAME OF PAGE 2]]
Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style
Upload - Special:Upload
Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines


Vandalism, Protection, Afd, Etc.

Congressional Templates

See [[Category:Succession templates]], particularly

Template:USRepSuccessionBox
and
Template:U.S._Senator_box
wikitext renders
{{start box}}
{{US House succession box |
  state=Texas |
  district=22 |
  before=[[Ron Paul]] |
  start=1984
}}
{{U.S. Senator box | 
  state=Washington| class=1 |
  before=[[Slade Gorton]] | 
  start=2001 | 
  alongside=[[Patty Murray]] |
 }}
{{end box}}
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Texas's 22nd congressional district

1984–present
Incumbent
Preceded by U.S. senator (Class 1) from Washington
2001-present
Served alongside: Patty Murray
Succeeded by
incumbent

Also:

  • {{ushr|Pennsylvania|7|}} gives you "Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district"
  • {{CongBio|R000243|(default=name of page)}} gives you "
  • United States Congress. "name of page (id: R000243)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress."

External Links: 2006 Election

These are some of the links that I frequently use in following the 2006 election. If you're reading this, and you find other useful ones, please add them!

Reference Templates

<ref>
{{cite news  |first =  |last =  |author =  |coauthors = |url =  |title =  |work =  |publisher =  |pages =  |page =  |date =  |accessdate = 
}}
</ref>

if you need to cite a source twice, give it a name as such:

<ref name="Source1">{{cite news | etc. }}}</ref>

then to link it again use

<ref name="Source1"/>

Also

{{cite web | title=Title | work=Title of Complete Work | url=http://www.example.com | accessdate=2006-06-28}}

Two columns for references?

{{reflist|2}}

See also Sources of Articles.

Other Useful Templates

  • {{subst:lifetime|1904|1991|Greene, Graham}}
  • {{birth date and age |1953|12|22}} yields (1953-12-22) December 22, 1953 (age 70)
  • {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, John}}

To Do List

  • Bradley Schlozman -- good summary here
  • Johnnie Burton -- part of Abramoff? See here
  • Abramoff update, see here
  • 2005 Georgia Voter ID Law -- or something entitled something like that
  • Veco scandal -- see here
  • Joey Fay, corrupt union official, involved with a number of pols in the 1940's and 1950's
  • 495/Beltway: resources to update: lots of links from here
  • update Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act to include information about Administration's withholding of accurate cost estimates, see, e.g., here and here
  • Thomas M. Davis
    - article way too negative
  • Ohio Investment Scandal -- apparently Coingate is only one part
    • a "
      Coingate
      " box?
    • Terrence W. Gasper, former chief financial officer for the workers' comp bureau of Ohio, indicted on charges, among other things, for receiving $25K in laundered money from Tom Noe. See here.
    • two more indicted for alleged BWC bribes [1]
    • more Toledo Blade articles here
  • reorg Jeanine Pirro
  • J. Joseph Curran, Jr. with info from here
    .
  • Mayors of Newark, start with Leo P. Carlin and work backwards. [2]
  • District of Columbia voting rights
  • Frank Rudolph Wolf
    - stub
  • Jim Moran -
  • Congressional Districts, might
    United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts District 1
    be a template? (If anybody knows of a better generic one, please let me know!)
  • converting generic succession boxes to {{USRepSuccession}} for US Reps?
  • Sprauges, Sprague family; Lodge family (look in political graveyard); Freulinhuysen family page...
  • It'd be a big project: MZM
  • Is it true that JFK had no tax cuts passed?
He proposed tax cuts in 1962; they were passed in 1964. [3] On a larger subject: the "Domestic Policies" section of the JFK article seems pretty dismissive. Certainly it's wrong to imply, as strongly as it does, that the tax cuts passed in 1964 owed little to his efforts. John Broughton 15:02, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
A quick scan of my old Ency. Britannica noted as accomplishments: Cuban missle crisis, which may have helped lead Kruschev to sign, 10 mos later, the nuclear test ban treaty. It notes that Congress was indeed wary of his domestic plans (one that passed was the Peace Corps) in part because of the closeness of the election -- but that Kennedy was convinced he would win a 1964 landslide against Goldwater, and get the mandate for the massive tax cut, and civil rights leglislation that he wanted. -- Sholom 21:13, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

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various 'landmarks'

some articles I created

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