User:Lightbreather
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I am a journalist and grandma. I retired from the English Wikipedia in 2015.
Soy periodista y abuela. Me retiré de la Wikipedia ingléses en 2015.
Things to do[change | change source]
Pages needing improvement[change | change source]
- Woman
- Sonoran Desert
- News
- Journalism
- Journalist
- The Times
- The Washington Post
- The New York Times
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Los Angeles Times
- Ella Baker
- Dolores Huerta
- John Lewis
- Mary Tape
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Elena Kagan
- Journalism
- Pulitzer Prize
- Bob Woodward
- Carl Bernstein
- Barbara Walters
- Diane Sawyer
- Gwen Ifill
Redlinks[change | change source]
- Saguaro
- United States–Mexico border
- Newspaper circulation
- Pauline Frederick
- Claudia Jones
- Christiane Amanpour
- Lucy Morgan
- Ann Marie Lipinski
- Myrta Pulliam
- Susan Schmidt
- Loretta Tofani
- Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab
- Judy Woodruff
- Ruth Marcus
- Women's Media Center
- United Farm Workers
- Anti-racism
- Tohono Oʼodham
- Yaqui
- Laura Cornelius Kellogg
- Dorothea Dix
Things I might use[change | change source]
- English wiki template:
{{Enwp based | url= (add full address here) }} - Image code:
[[Image:picture.jpg|thumb|[width in number of pixels]px|right|Insert caption here]] - Person Infobox: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Person
- Citation templates: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Citation_templates
- Common templates: web, book, and news
- Encyclopedia citation: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_encyclopedia#Usage
- Reference needed
{{fact}} - Births and Deaths Template:
{{BD|Year Birth|Year Death|Last, First}} - Wiktionary Link:
[[wikt:word|word]] - Converter:
{{convert|0|km|mi|0|lk=on|abbr=on}} {{convert|0|acre|ha|0|lk=on|abbr=on}} - Main article link:
{{Main|article name}} - Wiktionary candidate:
{{dicdef}} - Talkback message:
{{Talkback|Lightbreather}} - Find sources:
{{Find sources|Article name}} - Check Wikipedia
Useful United States stuff[change | change source]
- Biographies at National Women's History Museum
- Exhibits and Collections at Women's History Month - lots of good links
Readability[change | change source]
- Readability of Wikipedia compares articles in Simple English and on EnWiki
- Readability, with suggestions: Test and Improve
- Readability: Joe's Web Tools
- Readability: Automatic Readability Checker
| Fog Score | Examples from Juicy Studio |
|---|---|
| 6 | TV guides, The Bible, Mark Twain |
| 8 | Reader's Digest |
| 8-10 | Popular fiction |
| 10 | Time, Newsweek |
| 11 | Wall Street Journal |
| 14 | The Times, Guardian |
| 15-20 | Academic papers |
| Over 20 | Only the government can get away with this, because you can't ignore them. |
| Over 30 | The government is covering something up |