User:Kinkyturnip
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Names of stand-alone US cities, list of which is well-nigh impossible to find in WP's Manual of Style:
- Atlanta
- Baltimore
- Boston
- Chicago
- Cincinnati
- Cleveland
- Dallas
- Denver
- Detroit
- Honolulu
- Houston
- Indianapolis
- Las Vegas
- Los Angeles
- Miami
- Milwaukee
- Minneapolis
- New Orleans
- New York
- Oklahoma City
- Philadelphia
- Phoenix
- Pittsburg
- St. Louis
- Salt Lake City
- San Antonio
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- Washington
— Wikipedian ♂ — | |
Name | Tony Logan |
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Born | June 19, 1964 |
Current location | San Francisco, California |
Education and employment | |
Occupation | Writer/social observer |
High school | Unioto High School |
College | Ohio University |
Hobbies, favourites and beliefs | |
Religion | I blame God |
Politics | More Vesper Lynd, less Paul Lynde |
Editors do not need to add the name of the state after these cities. Why is this information not easier to find on Wikipedia? Copyediting is already hard enough; please don't make it even harder.
Favorite Wikipedia notification: "Your edit on Anal sex was reverted."
Editing These Entries Nearly Induced Insanity/Suicide:
- The Guess Who
- Rice Krispies
- Howling III (one of the worst films—and plot summaries—I've ever seen)
Musings From An Old-school, Cranky-pants Writer:
- When you start nearly every sentence or paragraph in an article with a date, it's akin to taking minutes at a meeting — and just as dull. This format is called proseline, which tranquilizes readers and irks other editors (to the point of insanity). If you lack writing skills, consider another career as a politician or accountant so you can bore people to death in a completely different way.
- Editing Wikipedia alone during a pandemic leads to isolation, crankiness and overconsumption of caffeine. If you bristle at picky editors' changes, please remember most of us labor under the delusion that everyone shares our love of language and proper grammar — and getting the damn details right so WP doesn't deteriorate into an embarrassing site of poorly written trivia.
Kinkyturnip's Copyediting Tutorial:
- 1. Read this run-on sentence from article on Bugs Bunny:
Bugs was used to advertise World War II because they were low on troops so they found out the most athletic adults watched Bugs Bunny so they used that to attract them into the war so they could fight.
- 2. Now compare the run-on sentence with this line from The Simpsons episode "King Size Homer":
I heard your dad went into a restaurant and ate all the food in the restaurant and they had to close the restaurant.
In both cases, one word (i.e., so and restaurant, respectively) is overused to comical effect (intentionally in The Simpsons, unintentionally in the Wikipedia article—at least I hope so.)
The line from The Simpsons is spoken by Ralph Wiggum, an eight-year-old child. Unless second graders are editing Wikipedia, I suggest running edits by someone proficient in reading and writing the English language.
Or else Wikipedia can change its motto to: The encyclopedia that anyone can edit—but probably shouldn't.
Favorite Film Quote: May I suggest Mr. Ray's Wig World? 🎥
Chick-fil-A is a North American restaurant chain with locations in 47 U.S. states. Chick-fil-A also operates Chick-fil-A locations in Hawaii Chick-fil-A and the U.S. Chick-fil-A territory of Puerto Chick-fil-A Rico, as well as several Chick-fil-A locations throughout Chick-fil-A Canada and Transylvania Chick-fil-A.
there he labors less for people's affection and acceptance than "to persuade them to do what he wants", with the film bearing "witness [to] his scams."
a "sociopathic narcissist" https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/savannah-film-fest-red-rocket-simon-rex-1235039198/
In an unspecified future,[b] space adventurer Barbarella is sent by the Earth's president to retrieve Durand Durand from the Tau Ceti planetary system. Durand is the inventor of a laser-powered weapon, the positronic ray, which Earth leaders fear will cause mass destruction. Barbarella crash-lands on Tau Ceti's 16th planet[c] and is knocked unconscious by two children. They bring her to the wreckage of a spaceship, where they bind and attack her using mechanical dolls with razor-sharp teeth. Barbarella is rescued by Mark Hand, the Catchman who patrols the ice looking for errant children. Hand tells her that Durand is in the city of Sogo and offers her a ride to her ship in his ice boat. When Barbarella offers to repay him, Hand asks her to make love to him. Barbarella is confused, since Earthlings no longer have intimate physical relations; instead they take pillows "until full rapport is achieved." Hand suggests having sex in his bed instead. Barbarella relents and enjoys it but admits that she understands why sex is considered primitive and distracting on Earth.
Barbarella leaves the planet and crashes into a labyrinth inhabited by outcasts exiled from Sogo. She is found by Pygar, a blind angel who has lost the will to fly. Pygar introduces her to Professor Ping, who offers to repair her ship. Pygar flies Barbarella to Sogo after she restores his will to fly by having sex with him. Pygar and Barbarella are captured by Sogo's Black Queen and her concierge. The concierge describes the Mathmos:[12] living energy in liquid form, powered by evil thoughts and used as an energy source in Sogo, which sits atop it. Pygar endures a mock crucifixion and Barbarella is placed in a cage, where hundreds of birds prepare to attack her. She is rescued by Dildano, leader of the local underground, who joins in her pursuit of Durand. Dildano gives her an invisible key to the Black Queen's chamber of dreams, where she sleeps.
After returning to Sogo, Barbarella is promptly recaptured by the concierge. He places her in a machine which induces fatal sexual pleasure. She outlasts the machine and causes it to go haywire. The concierge, shocked at its destruction, reveal himself as Durand Durand. Barbarella is surprised since he is only 25 years old but has aged tremendously&mash;a side-effect of the Mathmos. Durand wants to overthrow the Black Queen and become Sogo's new leader, which requires using his positronic ray and gaining access to the Queen's chamber of dreams. Durand takes Barbarella to the chamber and locks her inside with the invisible key. She sees the Queen, who warns that if two people are in the chamber, the Mathmos will devour them. Durand seizes control of Sogo as Dildano and his rebels begin their attack on the city. The Black Queen retaliates by releasing the Mathmos to destroy Sogo. Protected by what the Black Queen calls Barbarella's innocence, they escape the Mathmos and find Pygar. He angel clutches them in his arms and flies off. When Barbarella asks Pygar why he saved a tyrant, he tells her that an angel has no memory of the past.