User talk:Wiki.arfazhxss

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Hey Dianna! Arfaz here: I've re-edited the section Diplomatic Dispute Section in the Israel–Spain relations Page, my current references includes contents from The Guardian, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, Reuters, and BBC News. I made sure to follow the sources listed in Wikipedia: Reliable sources/Perennial sources. I noticed you retracted my last contribution for one of the sources, The Guardian. Could you please let me know if there's a list of licensed news networks that can be referenced in Wikipedia? Thank you! Wiki.arfazhxss (talk) 05:49, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

If you mean websites that are not protected by copyright, there's no such list, because pretty much everything you find online is protected by copyright. Content you add to Wikipedia has to be written in your own words and not include any wording from the source material. — Diannaa (talk) 11:26, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Bot advice

Thank you for your interest in improving Wikipedia. I notice that you have run IABOT many times. It has its uses, but the way you're using it may not be as beneficial to the encyclopedia as you think. Consider this run on History of Bangladesh:

1. Google Books: An archive link to a blank page is useless, and bloats the article.[1]
2. Indian Express: Columnists writing about history in a modern-day newspaper are a low quality source. Wikipedia much prefers historians writing in books published by reputable academic presses. It would be more helpful to find a scholarly source than to link to an archive of an unwanted source.[2]
3. Refugee Board of Canada: This is another low quality source for history. It would be better to replace it than to maintain it.[3]
4. The Hindu: This is an opinion piece, so not reliable for facts per WP:RSEDITORIAL. Wikipedia should not cite it.[4]
5. JSTOR: The original citation should not have included this URL for two reasons: first, the url parameter should only point to the full text of the source (which this doesn't) and second, the jstor parameter serves as the link to this URL, so using the url parameter is duplication.[5]

So in this example, 60% of the changes were harmful. They created undesirable bloat. The remaining 40% were only marginally useful, as the links weren't dead and ideally will be replaced with better sources.

Tools and bots can seem very satisfying, as they give the impression that they accomplish a lot of work at the press of a button. They aren't as intelligent as a human editor though. Multiple citation-focused bots run on their own. My advice is to not activate IABOT, or do not activate it frequently, until you have enough experience to appreciate the pros and cons of using it. Definitely don't run it because an anonymous editor or one who is not in good standing tells you to. That should be a big red flag that it is a bad idea.

If you are looking for ways to help out, see Wikipedia:Community portal. If you're interested specifically in improving Bangladesh-related articles, see this list of cleanup tasks. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! --Worldbruce (talk) 20:02, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice! Arfaz (chat) | 22:06, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Please know that Wikipedia citations get automatically archived by the Internet Archive, without needing to run IABot. The Internet Archive also has deals with news organisations to automatically archive all their articles. This is unnecessary, and unfortunately harmful since Wikipedia has low technical size limits for articles; you can already see that the navboxes at the bottom of the page fail to render properly, and if the page grows any further, citations will break too. It's very time-consuming to manually remove these archive links to bring the page size back down, and manual removal is the only option if anyone has edited the page after IABot. If it weren't for the technical size limits it would be mostly harmless, but as things stand, I recommend avoiding adding archives for non-dead links. Cheers - DFlhb (talk) 08:32, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Notice of edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Wikipedia's policy on edit warring. The thread is Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:Wiki.arfazhxss reported by User:LucrativeOffer (Result: ). Thank you. LucrativeOffer (talk) 10:56, 10 December 2023 (UTC)