User:ModernDayTrilobite/sandbox

Draft articles

• Avantdale Bowling Club – New Zealand hip hop project by Tom Scott
• Church (Billy Woods album) – 2022 album by Billy Woods
• Druim Alban – historical mountain range in Scotland
• Jae Skeese – rapper from Buffalo, New York
• John R. Rose – cartoonist of Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 2001–present
• Kuenga Rabten Palace – palace in Bhutan
• List of albums considered the best – testing to see if this is a feasible project
• List of albums ranked first on year-end lists – another project being tested

My essays

• The case for RMNOMIN

Useful links

Information

• WP:LIBRARY – The Wikipedia Library

Manual of Style and related

• MOS:CONFORM – use Wikipedia's house style for typographic formatting of quotations
• MOS:CURLY – use straight quotes, not curly quotes
• MOS:DABCOMMON – in certain circumstances, it's permissible to put multiple major topics in the lead section of a DAB
• MOS:ENBETWEEN – use en dashes for marking bilateral relationships
• MOS:LQUOTE – use logical quotation; i.e., keep punctuation out of quotation marks unless it's within the quotation itself
• MOS:RANGE – use en dashes for separating a range of numbers or years
• MOS:REFPUNCT – placement of citations relative to punctuation
• WP:NCPDAB – guidance on disambiguating biographical article titles; subsection of WP:NCBIO
• WP:REPCITE – if one source is used for consecutive sentences, you don't need to cite it over and over

Templates

• Template:Birth based on age as of date – hopefully self-explanatory
• Template:efn – redirects to the lettered footnote
  • Template:notelist – like reflist, but for notes
• Template:Icon – catalog of inline icon templates; see also Template:Done/See also and Wikipedia:List of discussion templates
• Template:Old moves – talk page header box for compiling past RMs
• Template:Rcat – conveniently compiles redirect categories in the navbox
• Hatnotes:
  • Template:About
  • Template:For
  • Template:For-multi

Special pages

• Special:Contributions
• Special:PrefixIndex ("all pages with prefix")
• Special:WhatLinksHere
• Move log

April Fools' Day

• Wikipedia:April Fools
• Wikipedia:Rules for Fools

Fun or odd things

• Template:Fake heading and other similar templates linked in its documentation
• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saul Goodman (fictional character) (from 2007)
  • For similar cases, see WP:BTWN ("before they were notable")
• WP:DAFT (Deleted Articles with Freaky Titles)
• Wikipedia:Village stocks
• "You cannot cite your own anus on Wikipedia".

Compilations of stuff for future projects

• General or broad topics in hip hop (TWL links)
  • The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop
  • Jstor, "Introduction: Hip Hop in History: Past, Present, and Future": [1] (2005)
  • Jstor, "Hip hop: Origins, Characteristics and Creative Processes": [2] (2000)
  • Reference works focused for a librarian audience:
    • List of recommended sources (2016)
    • "One Day It'll All Make Sense": Hip-Hop and Rap Resources for Music Librarians (2008)
• Semi-broad (TWL links)
  • Jstor, "Historicizing the Breakbeat: Hip-Hop's Origins and Authenticity": [3] (2011)
  • Jstor, "The Construction of Jazz Rap as High Art in Hip-Hop Music": [4]
  • Jstor, "Metaphorical Conceptions in Hip-Hop Music": [5]
  • Jstor, "From Jay-Z to Dead Prez: Examining Representations of Black Masculinity in Mainstream Versus Underground Hip-Hop Music": [6] (likely to be most useful as a delineation of what is vs. isn't within the parameters of "underground")
  • Jstor, "Hip Hop Samples Jazz: Dynamics of Cultural Memory and Musical Tradition in the African American 1990s": [7] (useful for more jazz rap content?) (2011)
  • Jstor, "Message in the Music: Political Commentary in Black Popular Music from Rhythm and Blues to Early Hip Hop": [8] (2005)
• Glorious Game
  • Bandcamp interview about the new Black Thought/El Michels Affair album: [9]
  • The Fader interview w/ Black Thought: [10]
  • Treble review of Glorious Game: [11]
• Filling in Billy Woods' back catalog
  • Interview discussing Today, I Wrote Nothing and Known Unknowns: [12]
  • Interview discussing History Will Absolve Me and the Super Chron Flight Brothers era: [13]
  • HWAM touched upon in Pitchfork's Aethiopes review: [14]
  • Fader interview about Aethiopes: [15]
  • Pitchfork interview about Backwoodz: [16]
  • NPR article about Woods in general: [17]
  • DJBooth interview about Terror Management: [18]
  • Vice article recounting Woods' career: [19]
  • Guardian on Woods in general: [20]
  • NPR reviews Maps, but also touches on Woods' career more broadly: [21]

Digging in further to Maps

See also: User:ModernDayTrilobite/Individual songs on Maps

• Consequence: [22] (FaceTime), [23] (review; a bit perfunctory but could help diversify source pool)
• Exclaim: [24] (review)
• The Fader: [25] (album and tour announcement), [26] (FaceTime), [27] (Soft Landing)
• Financial Times: [28] (review)
• The Guardian: [29] (mentions Maps briefly)
• Huck: [30] (interview)
• NPR: [31] (review)
• Pitchfork: [32] (album and tour announcement), [33] (FaceTime), [34] (Soft Landing video release), [35] (Babylon by Bus video)
• Stereogum: [36] (announcement)
• Treble: [37] (review)
• Vice: [38] (discusses Maps alongside other albums)