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[edit]- 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
[edit]Useful links
[edit]Information
[edit]- WP:LIBRARY – The Wikipedia Library
Manual of Style and related
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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:
Special pages
[edit]- Special:Contributions
- Special:PrefixIndex ("all pages with prefix")
- Special:WhatLinksHere
- Move log
April Fools' Day
[edit]Fun or odd things
[edit]- 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".
Strange disambiguators
[edit]Compilations of stuff for future projects
[edit]- 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:
- 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
- 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
[edit]- 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)