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Citation overkill proposal at WP:Citation overkill talk page

Opinions are needed on the following: Wikipedia talk:Citation overkill#Citations. A permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 06:34, 9 May 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report

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Microscopy & learned societies

I'm currently in the process of creating articles for learned societies and other international organisations concerning the field of microscopy and was wondering if there was a task force or even a WikiProject attached to this one which can review and add talk pages to my articles plus aid in copyeditting. Thanks. UaMaol (talk) 02:02, 19 May 2017 (UTC)

Help with understanding a U-series dating method

I'm working on ice core, and have found a reference in Landais 2012 (p. 192) to a U-series dating method, cited to Aciego 2010. The latter is an appendix to the proceedings of a conference, without much discussion, but the reference in Landais, which just calls it "a promising study", makes it worth a one-sentence mention. However, I don't understand the method and was hoping someone here could enlighten me -- I don't want to cite something I don't understand. It looks like Aciego et al are discussing U-series decay in dust that falls on the ice core, but what exactly are they measuring, and how does it determine age? Thanks for any help. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:46, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

You might have better luck asking this question at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science‎. Looie496 (talk) 14:12, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks; will do. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:16, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

WP:Citation overkill RfC

Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:Citation overkill#Should this essay be changed to encourage more citations?. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 01:28, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

RfC Announce: Wikimedia referrer policy

In February of 2016 the Wikimedia foundation started sending information to all of the websites we link to that allow the owner of the website (or someone who hacks the website, or law enforcement with a search warrant / subpoena) to figure out what Wikipedia page the user was reading when they clicked on the external link.

The WMF is not bound by Wikipedia RfCs, but we can use an advisory-only RfC to decide what information, if any, we want to send to websites we link to and then put in a request to the WMF. I have posted such an advisory-only RfC, which may be found here:

Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RfC: Wikimedia referrer policy

Please comment so that we can determine the consensus of the Wikipedia community on this matter. --Guy Macon (talk) 21:45, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

RfC regarding the WP:Lead guideline -- the first sentence

Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section#Request for comment on parenthetical information in first sentence. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 04:59, 2 July 2017 (UTC)

Category:Constituents of tobacco smoke has been nominated for discussion

Category:Constituents of tobacco smoke, has been nominated for possible deletion, A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Bosley John Bosley (talk) 23:32, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

RfC: Red links in infoboxes

Opinions are needed on the following matter: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Infoboxes#RfC: Red links in infoboxes. A WP:Permalink for it is here. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 13:19, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

World Science Photo Competition 2017

Hi all! I'd like to inform you that with Ivo K. from Wikimedia Estonia and others we are organizing the 2017 edition of commons:Commons:European Science Photo Competition 2015. This year thanks to ivo effort the competition is going to be international, here is the current webiste. There are good chance it will become something like Wiki Loves Monument or Wiki Loves Earth!

We are currently looking for qualified jurors. So far I have found a Belgian photographer (with good scientific background, not a simple artistic photographer) and a Swiss-Chinese professor of organic chemistry, and I have some options for an Italian astronomer or another professor of material science and analytical chemistry to be "promoted" from their national jury.

Is anyone from the academia with some interest in photography or scientific illustration interested? IMHO the best candidates are P.I. or at least some sort of expert postdocs, or directors of scientific institutions, scientific journalists or managers in the field of education... it would help to show around that we care about the level of the jurors. But again, that's my opinion (I still don't consider myself enough for the international jury for example :D), just show up if you want to join somehow!

Plus, if we find someone that is both an expert scientist and a wikimedian that would be even better.

There are also local committees with special or national prizes, as in 2015. So if you find the money for that, you can arrange them as well. I am organizing the Italian jury for example, but that work takes of course much more time than few afternoons scrolling uploaded files. if you find enough people coming from the same geographical area (USA, Canada, UK...) and a strong support from a reliable institution (your alma mater, the outreach department of your research center...) you can become the core for a national initiative and maybe I can help you to find more local jurors.

But so far, simply another "expert" international juror would be nice. Anyone interested?--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:46, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

Also if you have any other idea on how to promote the competition in your own country, like a mailing list or a blog... just contact Ivo. Or join as uploader! The challenge will take place in November.--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:01, 6 August 2017 (UTC)