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He is some guy and he does stuff and what not. |
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==Verifiability policy sucks== |
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I declare the phrase "third party" in [[WP:Verifiability]] to be meaningless, because it is only meaningful in the context of contract law, and has no meaning in a policy about verifiability. Thus I am not bound to obey any portion of said policy that has been contaminated by contact with this rotten phrase. [[User:Jc3s5h|Jc3s5h]] ([[User talk:Jc3s5h|talk]]) 04:30, 2 October 2010 (UTC) |
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===Jimbo comment on verifiability=== |
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From [[User talk:Jimbo Wales]]: |
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Here is a story for consideration. Recently in the UK, a Member of Parliament was accused of sexual assault. There was a flurry of news stories. Within a few days, the entire case collapsed and his accuser admitted the whole thing was a lie. For a few days, his biography was problematic in the usual way: the accusations took up a huge percentage of the article, so that there were serious undue weight issues. When the case unraveled, a consensus was quickly reached on the talk page that while we should leave the material in his biography for a little while, since some people may not have heard about it at all, that a good case could be made for removing the whole incident entirely, eventually, because as it turns out, it is likely to have had zero impact on his career, life, etc., because basically nothing actually happened. (I reserve judgment on whether removing the information completely will be the right thing in this particular case, but I can see where it could be the right thing to do.)</blockquote> |
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All of that is editorial judgment as opposed to be transcription monkeys. The transcription monkey view, which virtually no one actually holds of course, once they stop to think about it, would say that editorial judgment is wrong, that the information is verifiable in reliable sources, therefore we must include it. |
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What's point here? My point is that even if something meets "verifiable" we might not include it... even if it is true. There are also cases where it is possible to find a handful of reliable sources that made a claim that is false and never corrected themselves, even though it has become starkly obvious that the claim is false. It's wrong to say "verifiability, not truth" if it leads people to think that it is ok to not care about truth. |
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We want verifiability and truth. And relevance. And proper weight. And some other things besides!--Jimbo Wales (talk) 04:52, 1 September 2011 (UTC)</blockquote> |
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==To do== |
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*Clean up citations in [[American Red Cross]]. |
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*Insure REFLINKS does not automatically change "accessed" to "Retrieved". See [[User talk:Dispenser/Reflinks#accessed versus retrieved?]] |
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==User name meaning== |
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I wanted to choose a random user name. I shuffled a deck of cards, and drew three. They were the jack of clubs, three of spades, and five of hearts. |
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==Subpages== |
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*[[/vector.js]] Javascript page. |
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*[[/ymd_date_format_unifier.js]] |
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*[[/Gregorian calendar]] experiment |
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*[[/sandbox]] subpage to work on articles or edits when it will take a while to whip them into shape. |
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*[[/sandbox2]] similar to above. |
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*[[/sandbox3]] similar to above. |
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*[[/sandbox4]] similar to above. |
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*[[/sb-DATEtoMOS]] similar to above. |
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*[[/sortTable]] experiments with sortable tables |
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*[[/Harvard citation]] presents an example of creating Harvard citations with links between the text citation and the reference list entry, without the use of citation templates. |
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*[[/Note citation]] presents an example of creating notes (sometimes called endnotes or footnotes) with short citations, followed with a reference list containing full citations. |
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*[[/Boracay Bill on references]] is a snippet from Boracay Bill's talk page that I want to keep track of. |
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==Articles created== |
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#[[Conversion between Julian and Gregorian calendars]] |
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# [[Moderator (town official)]] |
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==Articles merged== |
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#[[Apostille]] into [[Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents]] |
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==Articles overhauled== |
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#New citations, citation format cleanup in [[Coordinated Universal Time]] |
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#Provide citations in [[International Atomic Time]], which previously had a {{tl|refimprove}} template. |
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# [[Jech v. Burch]] |
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#[[Universal Time]] (updated description of the main form, UT1, from the late 20th century version to the early 21st century version) |
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#[[Tropical year]] which had several reference related templates and a great deal of what looked like original research |
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==Significant citation cleanup== |
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#[[Leap year]] |
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#[[Metre]] |
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#[[Birth certificate]] |
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#[[System time]] |
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==Citations== |
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===Origins & basis of citation templates=== |
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I have always wondered what, if any, external style guide the various citation templates were based on. The earliest I have been able to find are |
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*{{tl|book reference}} is the predecessor to {{tl|Cite book}}. According to the first thread on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Book_reference/archive01 this talk page archive], shortly after it was created, it was remodeled to resemble MLA. (August 2004.) |
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=== Design goals of Cite book template === |
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Also, there is this thread where [[User:Gracefool]] answered a question on that editor's talk page: |
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As far as I can tell from the history, you seem to be the original contributor of {{tl|Cite book}}. I have heard that originally all the cite xxx family of templates were modeled on [[APA style]]. Can you tell me if this is true? [[User:Jc3s5h|Jc3s5h]] ([[User talk:Jc3s5h|talk]]) 18:20, 19 January 2010 (UTC) |
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:That's correct - but we weren't strict about it. Why? [[User:Gracefool|··gracefool]][[User talk:gracefool|☺]] 18:17, 21 January 2010 (UTC) |
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::Sometimes there are new fields added, and there are disagreements about how to format them. If the goal is to follow APA, then the APA manual should influence the decision. Of course, if the APA manual was only loosely followed, then I guess it is decided by whoever is the most persistent. Thanks for your reply. |
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::More specifically, there is a fairly new template, {{tl|Cite thesis}}. There is disagreement about whether to merge it into either {{tl|Cite journal}} or {{tl|Cite book}}, and whether the title of a PhD thesis should be in italics. --[[User:Jc3s5h|Jc3s5h]] ([[User talk:Jc3s5h|talk]]) 18:49, 21 January 2010 (UTC) |
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:::Yeah it's not necessarily to follow the APA, so decisions should be judged on their own merits, and [[Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion|decided by discussion]] as per usual. As for {{tl|cite thesis}}, I've posted its talk page. [[User:Gracefool|··gracefool]][[User talk:gracefool|☺]] 23:22, 21 January 2010 (UTC) |
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===Citation tools=== |
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See [[Wikipedia:Citation tools]]. |
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===Citation of other Wikimedia projects=== |
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See [[Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia]] |
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===Guide to guides=== |
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{{Wikipedia referencing}} |
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==Images created== |
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{{Gallery |
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|title=Images by Jc3s5h |
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|File:Differential-Current-Switch.svg|alt1=Schematic diagram of differential current switch circuit|Differential current switch circuit. |
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|File:Tribrach.jpg|alt2=Tribrach.|Wild brand tribrach made in 1950s. |
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|File:Delta T.jpg|alt3=graph|ΔT for the years 1657 to 1984. |
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|File:Acre over US and Associationl football field.svg|alt4=acre, two kinds of football field|Acre overlaid on US and Association football fields, modification of images by [[User:DanMS|DanMS]] and [[User:Xyzzy|Xyzzy]]. |
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|File:Castleton station.jpg |alt5=Castleton, Vermont Amtrack station|Castleton, Vermont Amtrack station. |
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==Tools worth remembering== |
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[[User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo]] |
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[[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser]] |
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[[Wikipedia:Tools#Page_histories]] |
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[http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php Tool to figure out what revision introduced text.] |
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[[User:PleaseStand/References segregator]] |
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[[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Database Scanner]] |
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==Pages worth remembering== |
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*[[Unicode equivalence]] describes how to normalize Unicode text to facilitate the comparison of Unicode text with the same meaning e.g., "25 °C" has the same meaning as "25 ℃". |
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* [[User:Dabomb87/Summary of the Date Linking RFCs]] |
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* [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation]]–A place where logged-in users can create articles on behalf of IP editors. |
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*[[MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist]]–A place to nominate pages for blacklisting on the English Wikipedia. |
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*[[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Custom Modules]] |
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*[[Portal:Contents/Lists of topics]] Almanac-style data |
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*[[Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials]] |
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*[[Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act]] |
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*[[Wikipedia:File copyright tags/Non-free]] |
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*[[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MOSNUM Bot#Comma use in American style dates]] contains a discussion of why it is difficult for a bot to correctly change between the mdy and dmy date formats. There are references to examples that appear in Wikipedia articles and references to printed style guides. |
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*[[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking]] is the final result of a long-running debate. |
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*[[Wikipedia:Centralized_discussion/Citation discussion]] |
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*[[Wikipedia:Mosnum/proposal on YYYY-MM-DD numerical dates]] |
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* [[User:Dabomb87/Summary of the Date Linking RFCs]] |
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==Barnstars== |
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I have attracted a wikistalker. As a result I will not give barnstars for fear the stalker will lavish its attention on the awardee. Symmetry demands that I not accept or display barnstars. |
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==Copyright problem advice from Theleftorium's talk page== |
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I am beginning to pay attention to the Copyright problems page, and I noticed you edit there. I want to point out that the CorenSearchBot seems to have a false positive with [[Kubrilesque]], but the article has other problems, namely conflict of interest and no citation to independent sources to show notability. I have explained the issues at the article talk page, but would like your help with the best way to make a notation at the copyright problems page. [[User:Jc3s5h|Jc3s5h]] ([[User talk:Jc3s5h|talk]]) 23:58, 12 August 2010 (UTC) |
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:Hi. :) If you find a false positive at [[WP:SCV]], just make a small note underneath it such as "No copyright concern: false positive" (it seems [[User:VernoWhitney]] has already done this with [[Kubrilesque]], though). [[Template:SCV]] is really useful for that. As for the COI and notability issues, those should generally not be noted at WP:SCV. [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard]] is probably better, or you can just nominate the article at AfD. Regards, [[User:Theleftorium|Theleftorium]] <sup>[[User talk:Theleftorium|(talk)]]</sup> 08:18, 13 August 2010 (UTC) |
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==Wiki page terminology== |
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The [[Wikipedia: Glossary]] has this to say about the text that is stored in the database and displayed in the edit window: |
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;{{Anchor|Wiki markup}}Wiki markup, wikitext, wiki text, wiki-text, etc. |
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: Code like HTML, but simplified and more convenient, for example '''<tt><nowiki>'''boldfaced text'''</nowiki></tt>''' instead of <tt><B>boldfaced text</B></tt>. It is the source code stored in the database and shown in the edit box. [[Wikipedia:Searching|Searching]] by the Wikipedia software is done in the wikitext, as opposed to searching by external major search engines, which is done in the resulting HTML. The size of a page is the size of the wikitext. ''See also [[Wikitext]], [[Help:Wiki markup]], [[Wikipedia:How to edit a page]], [[Wikipedia:Guide to layout]].'' |
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The article [[Wiki markup]] describes the concept of a markup language for wikis, without being specific to the Wikimedia Foundation's projects. |
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The help page [[Help:Wiki markup]] describes the language used by MediaWiki. |
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In all cases, no clear distinction or definition appears that states whether the terms apply only to the markup elements, eg, <nowiki> "==" </nowiki> to begin and end a 2nd level heading, or if the terms also includes the English (or other language) statements that express the information content of the article. |
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==Good article reviews== |
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[[Voltage doubler]] |
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Revision as of 19:43, 17 November 2011
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