User:ModernDayTrilobite/sandbox

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Draft articles[edit]

My essays[edit]

Useful links[edit]

Information[edit]

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]

Special pages[edit]

April Fools' Day[edit]

Fun or odd things[edit]

Compilations of stuff for future projects[edit]

  • General or broad topics in hip hop (TWL links)
  • 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[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)