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The Cathedral of La Laguna is a Roman Catholic church in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, on the Spanish island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The church was designated a cathedral in 1818 and is the seat of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, which includes the islands of Tenerife, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro. The current building was constructed between 1904 and 1915 to replace an earlier building begun in 1515. The cathedral is located in the historic centre of La Laguna and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1999 by UNESCO. It contains elements of several architectural styles and is noted for its Neoclassical facade, inspired by Pamplona Cathedral, as well as its dome, which stands out prominently in the city landscape. In the cathedral lie the remains of Alonso Fernández de Lugo, the conqueror of the island and founder of the La Laguna. This photograph shows one of the side chapels of the Cathedral of La Laguna, with a 6-metre-tall (20 ft) gilded reredos behind the altar. Constructed in the Baroque style in the first half of the 18th century, the reredos is the largest in the Canary Islands. The chapel is dedicated to the Virgin of Los Remedios, whose statue is in the central niche behind the altar. The reredos features seven paintings, attributed to Hendrick van Balen, depicting scenes from the lives of Jesus and Mary.Photograph credit: Diego Delso

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Tools Wikipedia:Tools Interiot's Edit Counter edit counter Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups -- very valuable -- I use this one all the time now Policy Wikipedia:NPOV tutorial Not a Dictionary WP:BLP Bio of Living Persons No original research Wikipedia:External_links Misc Redirect - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect #REDIRECT [[NAME OF PAGE 2]] Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style Upload - Special:Upload Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines

Vandalism, Protection, Afd, Etc.

• WP:RFPP
• WP:AIV
• WP:RFI (watchlist section)
• Report here {{vandal|username_or_ip}} optional brief reason for listing (keep it short) -- ~~~~
  • but after giving a warning {{blatantvandal|[name of article]}}
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• Dealing with Vandalism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dealing_with_vandalism
  
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• WP:Spam
• WP:Articles for deletion

Congressional Templates

See [[Category:Succession templates]], particularly

Template:USRepSuccessionBox and

Template:U.S._Senator_box

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{{start box}} {{US House succession box | state=Texas | district=22 | before=[[Ron Paul]] | start=1984 }} {{U.S. Senator box | state=Washington| class=1 | before=[[Slade Gorton]] | start=2001 | alongside=[[Patty Murray]] | }} {{end box}}

Also:

• {{ushr|Pennsylvania|7|}} gives you "Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district"
• {{CongBio|R000243|(default=name of page)}} gives you "
• United States Congress. "name of page (id: R000243)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress."

External Links: 2006 Election

These are some of the links that I frequently use in following the 2006 election. If you're reading this, and you find other useful ones, please add them!

• For all results in one place, http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006//pages/results/states/VA/index.html, simply replace "VA" with whatever state you need

• The king - CQPolitics.com
• The Green Papers -- excellent reference resource
• TPMCafe Election Central - polls and stories
• TPMMuckraker - scandals
• Electoral Vote.com
• Nat Journal's ranked list of most likely seats to flip
• Real Clear Politics, ranked list of seats most likly to flip
• Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball
• Cook Political Report
• meta-survey of projections
• Pollster.com

Reference Templates

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{{cite news  |first =  |last =  |author =  |coauthors = |url =  |title =  |work =  |publisher =  |pages =  |page =  |date =  |accessdate = 
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</ref>

if you need to cite a source twice, give it a name as such:

<ref name="Source1">{{cite news | etc. }}}</ref>

then to link it again use

<ref name="Source1"/>

Also

{{cite web | title=Title | work=Title of Complete Work | url=http://www.example.com | accessdate=2006-06-28}}

Two columns for references?

{{reflist|2}}

See also Sources of Articles.

Other Useful Templates

• {{subst:lifetime|1904|1991|Greene, Graham}}
• {{birth date and age |1953|12|22}} yields (1953-12-22) December 22, 1953
• {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, John}}

To Do List

• Bradley Schlozman -- good summary here
• Johnnie Burton -- part of Abramoff? See here
• Abramoff update, see here
• 2005 Georgia Voter ID Law -- or something entitled something like that
• Veco scandal -- see here
• Joey Fay, corrupt union official, involved with a number of pols in the 1940's and 1950's
• 495/Beltway: resources to update: lots of links from here
• update Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act to include information about Administration's withholding of accurate cost estimates, see, e.g., here and here
• Thomas M. Davis - article way too negative
• Ohio Investment Scandal -- apparently Coingate is only one part
  • a "Coingate" box?
  • Terrence W. Gasper, former chief financial officer for the workers' comp bureau of Ohio, indicted on charges, among other things, for receiving $25K in laundered money from Tom Noe. See here.
  • two more indicted for alleged BWC bribes [1]
  • more Toledo Blade articles here
• reorg Jeanine Pirro
• J. Joseph Curran, Jr. with info from here.
• Mayors of Newark, start with Leo P. Carlin and work backwards. [2]
• District of Columbia voting rights
• Frank Rudolph Wolf - stub
• Jim Moran -
• Congressional Districts, might United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts District 1 be a template? (If anybody knows of a better generic one, please let me know!)
• converting generic succession boxes to {{USRepSuccession}} for US Reps?
• Sprauges, Sprague family; Lodge family (look in political graveyard); Freulinhuysen family page...
  • Sprague, see here, here, and here.
• It'd be a big project: MZM
• Is it true that JFK had no tax cuts passed?

He proposed tax cuts in 1962; they were passed in 1964. [3] On a larger subject: the "Domestic Policies" section of the JFK article seems pretty dismissive. Certainly it's wrong to imply, as strongly as it does, that the tax cuts passed in 1964 owed little to his efforts. John Broughton 15:02, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

A quick scan of my old Ency. Britannica noted as accomplishments: Cuban missle crisis, which may have helped lead Kruschev to sign, 10 mos later, the nuclear test ban treaty. It notes that Congress was indeed wary of his domestic plans (one that passed was the Peace Corps) in part because of the closeness of the election -- but that Kennedy was convinced he would win a 1964 landslide against Goldwater, and get the mandate for the massive tax cut, and civil rights leglislation that he wanted. -- Sholom 21:13, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

• RFK campaign missing some good details
• Great Society is kinda short . . .
• Interesting article at [4], which, if its information were incorporated here, would effect articles on Everglades and Fla Gov John W. Martin (where all this is missing), and adding to the following articles where it is mentioned to some degree: Lake Okeechobee, 1926 Miami Hurricane, and Herbert Hoover Dike.
• check out Template:COTWs
• Ed Buckham, Jack Abramoff, U.S. Family Network (and perhaps Tom DeLay), need some major updating b/c of the info in this article [5], does the Abramoff template need to include U.S. Family Network?
• The Chandler Family and the LA Times? [6]
• Frank Doyle Scholarships

Trivia

various 'landmarks'

• 1st edit: Roy Orbison
• 100th edit Talk:Bob Ney
• 500th edit Newark Evening News (initial version)
• 1000th edit Porter J. Goss
• 1500th edit Ed Schrock (+ pic)
• 2000th edit United States House elections, 2006
• 2500th edit Cynthia Matthews
• 3000th edit Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy

some articles I created

• Sharon Mosher, American geologist
• Patricia Herzog, lawyer in the landmark marital property law
• Justin Maxwell, Jonathan Albaladejo, Ross Detwiler, Brandon Larson - more baseball players for, at the time, the Washington Nationals
• Judah Nadich, Rabbi, chair of Rabbinical Assembly, helped Holocaust victims.
• Paul L. Troast, 1st chair of NJ Turnpike, filed gov candidate
• Template:Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy and some of the players: Monica Goodling & J. Scott Jennings
• Leonard Ruben, long time Montg. County, Md., judge
• Margaret Chiara, Daniel Bogden, two US Attorneys fired
• Michael A. Battle Director of EOUSA in DOJ (some involvement with Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy).
• 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege
• Jeralyn Merritt - defense attorney, creator of TalkLeft blog
• Cathy L. Lanier - first female to head (and current) DC Police cheif
• Anita Alpern - in 1970's, the highest ranking woman in the federal career service
• Thomas N. Downing Virginia Congressman
• Ohio 13th congressional district election, 2006
• Nevada 2nd congressional district election, 2006
• California 11th congressional district election, 2006
• Colorado 5th congressional district election, 2006
• Joel T. Broyhill (congressman)
• Arizona 8th congressional district election, 2006
• Georgia 4th congressional district election, 2006 (Cynthia McKinney loses in runoff)
• Pennsylvania 7th congressional district election, 2006 (Curt Weldon v Joe Sestak)
• Virginia 2nd congressional district election, 2006 (Phillip Kellam v incumbent Thelma Drake)
• John E. Fogarty congressman
• Phil Hare running for Congress
• Roger Stillwell another character in the Abramoff scandal
• Jack Abramoff/CNMI
• Christine Jennings running for congress in Katherine Harris's old seat
• Sam Sparks federal judge, ruled on one fo Tom DeLay's cases
• Phillip Kellam member of local prominent family, running for congress
• Donna Edwards local activist, came within a whisker of beating Albert Wynn in Dem primary in 2006, then beat him, and won the general to become a Congresswoman in 2008.
• Balor Moore baseball player (first player drafted by the expansion Montreal Expos)
• William Pickering (governor) of Washington Territory
• Lew Anderson final actor to portray Clarabell the Clown on Howdy Doody
• Leo P. Carlin mayor of Newark
• Dave McCurdy Congressman from Oklahoma
• Andrew Jacobs, Jr. and Andrew Jacobs Congressmen from Indiana
• Jonathan H. Wallace Congressman
• William A. Newell Congressman, and governor of two states (NJ and Wash Terr)
• Benjamin Franklin Howey, John Runk, Samuel G. Wright Congessmen from NJ
• George F. Fort, Charles C. Stratton Governors of NJ
• Newark Evening News
• Template:Essex County, New Jersey
• Camelback Ski Area, in the Poconos (Pa.)
• Richard Warren passenger on the Mayflower (and ancestor of my wife) -- my first article

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