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Wikipedia:Contents/Lists

A "list of lists" has no display in a type layout. Achmad Rachmani (talk) 16:13, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Achmad Rachmani: I'm not well read in type systems. Does the 'no display'-issue come from the spaces? Vital articles, Featured content, Good activities, A-Z index and Human activities don't seem to cause display issues. Kind regards, Infogiraffic (talk) 15:47, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

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Hi @Diannaa! How do I find out which Creative Commons was chosen by the authors of the apparent copyrighted material? Infogiraffic (talk) 15:03, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

This particular article was not released under a compatible license. Go to https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/01421599609040255; there's no license anywhere. Click on "Read this article" and you'll see that you can buy a copy for $62.00 US. So no, this one is not compatibly licensed. — Diannaa (talk) 23:39, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Is absence of a visible license enough to circumvent WP:PAYWALL, which states "Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly to access."? And if so, should Wikipedia policy more clearly inform its users not to consult paywalled sources? @​ Infogiraffic (talk) 10:05, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

It's okay to use such sources as a source of information, but it's not okay to copy their prose; to do so is a violation of our copyright policy. Everything you add to Wikipedia needs to be written in your own words. — Diannaa (talk) 12:17, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Such a relief. I wasn't aware of patchwriting being a thing, to be avoided even. Is there a way by which I can retrieve the deleted information so that I can summarize and correctly paraphrase it? @​ Infogiraffic (talk) 09:35, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Here is the CopyPatrol report. Click on the iThenticate link to see the overlapping text. — Diannaa (talk) 11:31, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Thank you @Diannaa, very interesting tool! Infogiraffic (talk) 10:14, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Template:Competence sidebar

<humour mode on>
I am amazed by your Template:Competence sidebar. Such an interesting subject and a complete failure at the same time. 10 links to disambiguation pages in this template is not a sign of competence.
<humour mode off>

But seriously, could you fix those links to disambiguation pages? The full list of faulty links is: Ambition, Attitude, Capability, Capacity, Instruction, Method, Priority, Proficiency, Style, Urgency

Thanks in advance. The Banner talk 11:05, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

Hi @The Banner, thanks for pointing out. Shall I, at first, try to link these to Wiktionary instead? Setting up new articles for these terms will probably take some time. Infogiraffic (talk) 11:18, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

I think you just have to visit all these disambiguation pages and see if there is anything useful there to link to. Like Ambition (character trait). The Banner talk 12:20, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

I indeed overlooked some, I see. @​ Infogiraffic (talk) 12:57, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

Contents of philosophy

Hi, I noticed your creation of the article Contents of philosophy. However, this appears to be a directory to various other wikipedia articles, which is not really what Wikipedia is for. I've draftified it for now; it's not clear whether you intended for it to be a mainspace article and, if so, abou what. Please don't take this as harsh criticism; it does appear to contain valuble cntent that could be transferred to a list or category, though I think that already exists. Regards, Fermiboson (talk) 04:52, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Fermiboson, my intention was to create only some sort of directory — no more different than outline- and list-pages can be perceived as directories — based on Wikipedia's main content system guideline as per WP:START, since it seems to me to offer the most overarching and user-friendly scheme by which to sort out philosophy-related information. I am aware that portals were originally intended for this specific purpose, but they seem to be utterly ineffective due to their becoming outdated recursively. Would you mind gathering some more opinions on whether a Contents-page is desired? Infogiraffic (talk) 20:29, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Definitely; you are free to move the article back to mainspace at any time. I won't pretend to be intimately familiar with all of Wikipedia's policies. It does, however, appear on further searching that what you are aiming to create already exists. Fermiboson (talk) 21:12, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Infogiraffic. Thank you for your work on Transcognition. User:PatrickJWelsh, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Hi, thanks for contributing the article Transcognition to Wikipedia! I have two suggestions for improvement:

1) Could you clarify whether the term has any frequency outside of Nietzsche scholarship?

2) Could you provide an example, preferably from Wilcox or another source? Even those already familiar with Nietzsche would benefit.

Regards,

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Patrick J. Welsh (talk) 15:10, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi @PatrickJWelsh, I will try to weed out some time to look at it somewhere next week. Infogiraffic (talk) 20:39, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

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