User:JustinTime55
JustinTime55
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Welcome to my world.
I was spawned in the Delaware River Valley: my father hailed from Clementon, New Jersey on the south, and my mother from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on the north. They met and married when Dad attended Lehigh University. Dad split the difference and got his first job at Gulf Oil in Philadelphia, so I was born there. But that only lasted two years, and I was reared in Lebanon, Pennsylvania which I consider home. I've only been back there once since 1966. Nowadays the closest I get is eating a Lebanon bologna sandwich, sauerkraut, or scrapple.
I was schooled in the Syracuse, New York region until 1976.
Choice references
Origins of the 1958 US lunar program (Pioneer): sources found (but not used) in Ranger program
- Hall, R. Cargill (1977). Lunar Imact: A History of Projct Ranger SP-4210. Washington DC.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Use this for: Space Race; Pioneer program; Exploration of the Moon; possibly Luna programme
- The Partnership: A History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project[2] -- Kennedy-Khrushchev letters of Feb-Mar 1962 !!!
Looks like Space Race may have to be corrected! - Apollo By the Numbers: A Statistical Reference:[3]]
- Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft:[4]
- Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations:[5]
- Before This Decade is Out: Personal Reflections on the Apollo Program. SP-4223. NASA:[6]
- Chapter 5 George E. Mueller:[7]
- User:NinjaRobotPirate/How to streamline a plot summary -- excellent! This should be an essay or guideline in project space.
Articles I have created:
Spaceflight
- Phillips Report
- Did you ever wonder what those scimitar antennas on the Apollo spacecraft were (and why they were called that)?
- Space tug
- Vostok 3 and 4 -- Merged the two articles; it was inherently a dual mission; Vostok 4 wasn't independently notable by itself, and the article reflected that by being very short and undeveloped relative to Vostok 3.
Politics
- Joseph Gargan -- Kennedy cousin of Teddy, Bobby, and President Jack; Teddy's stooge and fall-guy @ Chappaquiddick. If the non-relative Paul Markham rated his own article, certainly Gargan did.
Arts/Entertainment
- Converted Humorist from a List of humorists redirect to an actual page; humorists are not just comedians.*
- Have you ever heard of Jimmy Nelson (ventriloquist)? (No, he's not the African-American blues singer who used to hog the primary topic, nor the baseball player.)
- List of From the Earth to the Moon cast members (There used to be one once before I came along, but some overzealous admin seemed to have deleted it without any apparent due discussion.)
- Did you hear about The Plot to Overthrow Christmas?
If not, then join us, from Maine to the isthmus
of Panama...
Firesign Theatre
- Back From the Shadows: The Firesign Theatre's 25th Anniversary Reunion Tour
- Are you brave enough to open The Firesign Theatre's Box of Danger? (I converted this from the original Nick Danger page.) *
- Lawyer's Hospital
- Nick Danger (I re-created this after converting the old page to Box of Danger.) *
- What This Country Needs (Proctor and Bergman album)
* Counts as a creation of new content, even though the page previously existed.
Hints
Reusable short footnotes in Harvard format:
<ref name="name">citation text</ref> <ref name="name" />
{{sfnp | last name(s) of author(s) | year | p=page number or pp=page range or loc=other location }}
Warning: do not nest the sfn or sfnp templates inside <ref>--this is done automatically and will
blank the citation and cause an error message to be produced.
Another shortcut (most easily done when there is only one author's name):
<ref>[[#Last|Last]] (date), p.xxx</ref>
This works because the biblio refererence automatically generates an anchor named #Last; the pipe conceals this and makes the name "Last" print as expected. The citation appears as a wikilink which will take the reader to the biblio reference.
== Notes ==
{{Reflist}}
==References==
* {{citation
| title = Smith's paper
| ref = harv }} This is not necessary for {{citation}}, but is normally necessary for the others.
Plot summaries
Title case capitalization
The definitive rules for WP style are found in MOS:TITLECAPS:
Always capitalized: When using title case, the following words should be capitalized:
- The first and last word of the title
- Every adjective, adverb, noun, pronoun, and subordinating conjunction (Me, It, His, If, etc.)
- Every verb, including forms of to be (Be, Am, Is, Are, Was, Were, Been)
- Prepositions that contain five letters or more (During, Through, About, Until, Below, Under, etc.) – the "five-letter rule"
- Words that have the same form as prepositions, but are not being used specifically as prepositions
- Particles of phrasal verbs[a](e.g. Give Up the Ghost, "Puttin' On the Ritz")
- The first word in a compound preposition (e.g. Time Out of Mind)
Not capitalized: For title case, the words that are not capitalized on Wikipedia (unless they are the first or last word of a title) are:
- Indefinite and definite articles (a, an, the)
- Short coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor ; also for, yet, so when used as conjunctions)
- Prepositions containing four letters or fewer (as, in, of, on, to, for, from, into, like, over, with, upon, etc.); but see above for instances where these words are not used as prepositions[b]
- The word to in infinitives.
Other styles exist with regard to prepositions, including three- or even two-letter rules in news and entertainment journalism, and capitalization of no prepositions at all at many academic publishers. These styles are not used on Wikipedia, including for titles of pop-culture or academic works.
Notes
- ^ The term "phrasal verb" has conflicting meanings. According to English Grammar Today (Carter, McCarthy, Mark, and O'Keefee, 2016, as quoted by Cambridge Dictionary[1]): "Multi-word verbs are verbs which consist of a verb and one or two particles or prepositions (e.g. up, over, in, down). There are three types of multi-word verbs: phrasal verbs, prepositional verbs and phrasal-prepositional verbs. Sometimes, the name 'phrasal verb' is used to refer to all three types." For capitalizing in titles, "phrasal verb" is meant in the narrow sense (of verb + particle) only.
- ^ Consensus discussions have sometimes concluded in favor of an exception to the five-letter preposition rule, for cases that present unique facts. See, for example, multiple discussions in the archives of Talk:Star Trek Into Darkness, in which it was determined that the title is a play on words, with "Into" serving simultaneously as the start of a subtitle and as a mid-title preposition, and found capitalized in almost all independent sources. An outlying case like this is not dispositive of how Wikipedia normally treats "into" in mid-title.
To-do list
To-do list |
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Comedy vs. Humor
comedy: 1. classical sense; 2. dramatic sense; 3. a ludicrous or farcical event or series of events (a comedy of errors); 4. a. the comic element (·the comedy of many life situations); b. humorous entertainment (nightclub comedy)
comedian: 2. a comical individual; specifically : a professional entertainer who uses any of various physical or verbal means to be amusing
humor: 3. a. that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality; b. the mental faculty of discovering, expressing, or appreciating the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : the ability to be funny or to be amused by things that are funny; c. something that is or is designed to be comical or amusing
humorist: 2. a person specializing in or noted for humor
Sandbox
This should probably be a template:
 | STOP! Are you planning to change aTTitude to aLTitude? If so, please check whether or not this is correct - aTTitude is the orientation of an aerospace vehicle, whereas aLTitude is its height above the Earth (or other body). |
Barnstars
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| Thanks for all your edits to space articles including writing content, proofreading, and fact checking, especially on space exploration related articles on Wikipedia. For explorers, astronomers, and readers everywhere, thanks. Fotaun (talk) 13:49, 19 July 2018 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| Awarded for your excellent and ongoing editing to spaceflight and space history articles such as the Apollo missions. On behalf of space readers, thank you. Fotaun (talk) 23:15, 12 September 2018 (UTC) |
In memoriam
In memoriam |
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Turn me on, dead man 
Turn me on, dead girl 
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