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Merry X-mas

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2018!

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Indigo children

Did you mean to leave the named ref? Bot "fixed" it. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 18:43, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ah yes, thanks. Guy (Help!) 18:57, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Self published tagging

Hi JzG! You might want to slow down your tagging - you aren't just tagging sources as self published, but sources that have a self publisher in the title, bibliography entries, and in once case, a link to a self publishing company. It makes sense to tag self published sources, but uses other than sources don't need the tags. - Bilby (talk) 09:23, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I found a couple where my regex matched a source and later something else, so fair point. Incidentally, my main purpose is to collect the things, not leave them tagged. I will be removing either the tag (if the source is valid) or the source, as soon as possible. This follows on from removing many hundreds of citations to junk journals, which is basically the same issue. Guy (Help!) 10:03, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Remembering that we accept self published sources depending on context, I'm not sure that this is necessarily the best approach. But at the moment I'm only concerned about misplaced tags. - Bilby (talk) 11:57, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Only by exception. The default is not to use self-published sources other than for uncontroversial autobiographical details. Most of these are self-published books by people of no evident expertise. Guy (Help!) 13:58, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

More on self-pub

Hi Guy. Thank you very much for your edit here on W T Stead. Can I ask how you were alerted to the self-publishedness of the work? Is the publisher name a flag, or even the author? I'd love to know, thanks.

Also, while you are looking at the article, do you think there is any point in that last sentence in "Website", where it (uncitedly!) says that the BL decided to archive his site in 2009 ... is this really a big deal? I actually don't know if they've archived 12 sites or 12 million and it does make a difference; I'm inclined to guess that it's not that notable or interesting but do please educate me if you know otherwise. Indeed, is there any point in the whole website section, do you think? It really only seems to say "famous bloke has website about him" ... do we need that? I'm honestly wondering whether the article would be any worse if I deleted most or all of that section.

Cheers, DBaK (talk) 11:51, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There's a list of companies engaged in self publishing. The three best known and most widely (ab)used on Wikipedia are Lulu, Xlibris and iUniverse. Guy (Help!) 13:56, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That's handy to know - many thanks DBaK (talk) 23:15, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Maximiliano Korstanje

Happy holidays, Guy. How about this? The English sounds a lot like Noellesch9. Bishonen | talk 17:00, 28 December 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Quack quack. Guy (Help!) 21:26, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The fact that the IP geolocates to the same city as Korstanje's university is purely a coincidence and you'll never convince me otherwise. Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 22:09, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. And the parallel fact of multiple other IPs from the same location and ISP editing the article is also a total coincidence. What are the odds, eh? Guy (Help!) 22:11, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Could this be another duck in the flock? [1] --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:25, 29 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Source for McCabe article

This is pretty good: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/us/politics/mccabe-fbi-trump-russia.html fwiw --Nuujinn (talk) 18:09, 29 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]