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ARCHIVE PAGE 70: October 2013
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Wikimedia NYC Meetup! Saturday October 5
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Please join the Wikimedia NYC Meetup on October 5, 2013! Everyone gather at Jefferson Market Library to further Wikipedia's local outreach for education, museums, libraries and planning WikiConference USA. --Pharos (talk) 21:41, 1 October 2013 (UTC) |
The Signpost: 02 October 2013
- Discussion report: References to individuals and groups, merging wikiprojects, portals on the Main page, and more
- News and notes: WMF signals new grantmaking priorities
- Featured content: Bobby, Ben, Roger and a fantasia
- Arbitration report: Infoboxes: After the war
- WikiProject report: U2 Too
The Signpost: 09 October 2013
- Traffic report: Shutdown shenanigans
- WikiProject report: Australian Roads
- Featured content: Under the sea
- News and notes: Extensive network of clandestine paid advocacy exposed
- In the media: College credit for editing Wikipedia
- Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute and Ebionites 3 cases continue; third arbitrator resigns
Opting in to VisualEditor
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Re: Template:Cephalopod anatomy
Hi Invertzoo. Thank you for your note. I'll see if I can turn some of these blue in the next few days. While I agree that the inclusion of red links in navigation templates is useful primarily to editors, I think it can also serve readers. Excluding red links might give the false impression that the listed items represent (or at least approximate) a complete set of topics in a given area, when in reality they are a more-or-less arbitrary subset, possibly a very small one. Octopod internal shells, for example, would be completely omitted if red links were left out of this template. A more extreme example would be a genus template listing only species with Wikipedia articles - something I think should be avoided as highly misleading. mgiganteus1 (talk) 22:25, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
- I do tend to agree with you on most of what you have just said. It is a bit of a dilemma. Invertzoo (talk) 22:46, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 16 October 2013
- News and notes: Vice on Wiki-PR's paid advocacy; Featured list elections begin
- Traffic report: Peaceful potpourri
- WikiProject report: Heraldry and Vexillology
- Featured content: That's a lot of pictures
- Arbitration report: Manning naming dispute case closes
- Discussion report: Ada Lovelace Day, paid advocacy on Wikipedia, sidebar update, and more
About Close paraphrase in Ctenoides ales
Hi Invertzoo, I know about it, I usually don't do that kind of stuff but it was so nicely said. That's a shame sometimes not to be able to use a scientist explanation that is clear as water even if we mention the reference. I can try to get the author authorisation but then how to mention it on wiki? Cheers, Bastaco (talk) 17:37, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
- Hi Bastaco, In cases where the original statement of fact is really ideal, and where the prose is not very long, the best way to handle this is to use a direct quotation "which you can display like this". That is considered OK as long as the quotation is referenced and attributed correctly. The only thing is that that website is run by the Lembeh Resort Staff and it does not seem to say which person wrote ""The clams have a highly reflective tissue on the very outer edge of their mantle that is exposed and then hidden very quickly, so the change back and forth from the white reflective tissue to the red tissue creates the appearance of flashing." Maybe you could write them a quick note to ask who wrote that piece, so you can attribute the quote correctly? Maybe it was Dimpy Jacobs? Invertzoo (talk) 21:05, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
The Signpost: 23 October 2013
- News and notes: Grantmaking season—rumblings in the German-language community
- Traffic report: Your average week ... and a fish
- Featured content: Your worst nightmare as a child is now featured on Wikipedia
- Discussion report: More discussion of paid advocacy, upcoming arbitrator elections, research hackathon, and more
- In the media: The decline of Wikipedia; Sue Gardner releases statement on Wiki-PR; Australian minister relies on Wikipedia
- WikiProject report: Elements of the world
Wikimedia NYC Meetup- "Greenwich Village In The 60s" Editathon! Saturday November 2
Please join Wikipedia "Greenwich Village In The 60s" Editathon on November 2, 2013!
Everyone gather at Jefferson Market Library to further Wikipedia's local outreach for Greenwich Village articles on the history and the community.--Pharos (talk) 21:34, 29 October 2013 (UTC)|}
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Hi and thanks for all your advice, if you couldn't tell The Way of St Andrews is my first post on Wikipedia. I'm actually doing it as a favour to a friend and he hasn't provided proper references for me to use - just the books that you have redirected to citations - I have already highlighted this to him but to be honest don't think this is likely to change any time soon.
Feel free to give more feedback/move stuff around as you see fit. Your help is very much appreciated - this was a little trickier than I expected it to be! I think he's mostly concerned with having the content up and then we can work on it from there - next step is getting an image in, and finding the time to do it!
Thanks again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicolahancock (talk • contribs) 22:35, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
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