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The Wikipedia Library Survey

As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 15:26, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

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re: AfD on Hunbatz Men

You never properly tagged the page when you nominated Hunbatz Men for deletion. I therefore procedurally closed the AfD and immediately renominated it. You may wish to comment on the new deletion discussion page. Safiel (talk) 16:46, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for sorting that out - I don't often nominate for deletion, I kind of assumed a bot would trailing close behind... all the best. Simon Burchell (talk) 10:35, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

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Smallcaps

Hi Simon! You might want WP:MESO to review Template:Smallcaps to see why {{aut}} should not be used within citation templates. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 18:17, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Thanks - I'll take a look. All the best, Simon Burchell (talk) 10:46, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Books & Bytes New Years Double Issue

Books & Bytes

Volume 1 Issue 3, December/January 2013

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Happy New Year, and welcome to a special double issue of Books & Bytes. We've included a retrospective on the changes and progress TWL has seen over the last year, the results of the survey TWL participants completed in December, some of our plans for the future, a second interview with a Wiki Love Libraries coordinator, and more. Here's to 2014 being a year of expansion and innovation for TWL!

The Wikipedia Library completed the first 6 months of its Individual Engagement grant last week. Here's where we are and what we've done:

Increased access to sources: 1500 editors signed up for 3700 free accounts, individually worth over $500,000, with usage increases of 400-600%

Deep networking: Built relationships with Credo, HighBeam, Questia, JSTOR, Cochrane, LexisNexis, EBSCO, New York Times, and OCLC

New pilot projects: Started the Wikipedia Visiting Scholar project to empower university-affiliated Wikipedia researchers

Developed community: Created portal connecting 250 newsletter recipients, 30 library members, 3 volunteer coordinators, and 2 part-time contractors

Tech scoped: Spec'd out a reference tool for linking to full-text sources and established a basis for OAuth integration

Broad outreach: Wrote a feature article for Library Journal's The Digital Shift; presenting at the American Library Association annual meeting

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Mesoamerican ballgame reassessment

Mesoamerican ballgame, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. — MusikAnimal ^talk 05:17, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

FAC Spotcheck request

Hello Simon! Thanks again for you spotcheck on Fijación Oral 1. I was wondering if you could another spotcheck for an article which contains mostly Spanish-language sources, this time it's for Formula, Vol. 1. Cheers! Erick (talk) 09:55, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Magiciandude - I don't seem to have had much time for Wikipedia at the moment, but I'll take a look if I get a spare moment and the FAC is still running. All the best, Simon Burchell (talk) 14:11, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 4

Books and Bytes

Volume 1, Issue 4, February 2014

News for February from your Wikipedia Library.

Donations drive: news on TWL's partnership efforts with publishers

Open Access: Feature from Ocaasi on the intersection of the library and the open access movement

American Library Association Midwinter Conference: TWL attended this year in Philadelphia

Royal Society Opens Access To Journals: The UK's venerable Royal Society will give the public (and Wikipedians) full access to two of their journal titles for two days on March 4th and 5th

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JSTOR Survey (and an update)

Hi! Just a quick update that while JSTOR and The Wikipedia Library discuss expanding the partnership, they've gone ahead and extended the pilot access again, until May 31st. Thanks, JSTOR!

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Books & Bytes - Issue 5

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Books & Bytes
Issue 5, March 2014
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• New Visiting Scholar positions
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Category:Fortification in Central America

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Classic Maya collapse

I've added a source after an IP pointed out the author's name was wrongly linked, but if you ever have the inclination and time the whole section needs reviewing. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 15:31, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Books & Bytes, Issue 6

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Books & Bytes
Issue 6, April-May 2014
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• New donations from Oxford University Press and Royal Society (UK)
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Mayan rulers - un-sourced pages

Hello Simon Burchell,
Just want to know if you can have a look at about 23+ new un-sourced page,s list here. The newby author keeps trying to use WP pages as refs, despite me advising them they can't. You have already come across them at Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil re Copán

They are also using cites of the form <ref name="Martin_g"> Martin & Grube 2000, pp.198–199, unfortunately they have no more information about the, I infer, source book.

They added a lot of similarly sourced Meso-American related text to History of sport, in the edit here, which I have reverted.

If you could just see if all the pages are kosher, or a big hoax? Thanks! --220 of ^Borg 02:06, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

OK, I'll take a look when I get some free time - the Martin & Grube book I own, it's the Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens. Best regards, Simon Burchell (talk) 07:31, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. I knew you had 'some' interest in the area. Then I had a look at your userpage! Seems you are exactly the right editor to ask for help in this case. --220 of ^Borg 14:02, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

I've started looking at this - at least some of this is cut and pasted from articles that I wrote. For example, Itza Kingdom has sections cut from Nojpetén and Spanish conquest of Petén, both of which I created. The cites have been copied across intact, but not the refs... Other stuff looks new, but genuine. Simon Burchell (talk) 10:55, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	I hereby award Simon Burchell the Writer's Barnstar for his excellent work on Manche Ch'ol, which had been a redlink for far too long. Kaldari (talk) 17:44, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Kaldari! Simon Burchell (talk) 21:19, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library: New Account Coordinators Needed

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DYK for Manche Ch'ol

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Thanks. Simon Burchell (talk) 09:04, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Acala Ch'ol

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Thank you! Simon Burchell (talk) 20:58, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

La Malinche

Please refrain from repeatedly undoing other people's edits. Your edits on La Malinche indicate you may be engaged in an edit war. The three-revert rule (3RR) prohibits making more than three reversions in a content dispute within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. Rather than reverting, please discuss disputed changes on the talk page. Thank you.

Firstly, I have not reverted 3 times. Secondly, you are adding unsupported assumptions. Marina was a Maya noblewoman who had become a slave. She had been educated in the Mesoamerican tradition where she would expect to be married off to a powerful noble in order to cement an alliance. An arranged noble marriage, as she would have interpreted it, does not make her a sex slave. Thirdly, if you don't want your edits changed, give a ref. Simon Burchell (talk) 21:42, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

You have a very strange view of what defines a slave and what doesn't. These well documented events that took place 500 years ago are now common knowledge to educated Mexicans. Who made you the undisputed expert of the relationship between Cortes and Malintzin? Cortes acknowledges she was his slave in his second letter to the King of Spain, as does Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a witness to the conquest of Mexico in "The True History of the Conquest of New Spain", a book he authored. Your weird assertions and attempts at WP:OWN don't change history. I'm going to wait a day or so, add some citation and I will revert again. In the meantime you should become thoroughly acquainted with the 3RR because if you break it, I will report you without hesitation. Oh, and by the way, stop posting on my talk page. Blue Eagle 21063 (talk) 22:14, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

Believe me, I am familiar with it - and it is 3 reverts in 24 hours. As for accusing me of ownership, that's laughable, as a look at the edit history of the article will show. And if you don't want me to post to your talk page, then don't post to mine. Please pay attention, I do not argue that she was not a slave, she clearly was - but claiming she was a sex slave is something else entirely. I would also advise you to perhaps be a little less aggressive. Simon Burchell (talk) 22:17, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Chinamita

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Thanks, Simon Burchell (talk) 07:03, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Torberry Hill

Gatoclass (talk) 04:12, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

Featured topic

Hey Simon, you should nominate your articles about the colonization of Guatemala as a Featured topic. I didnt know these existed, but your work would be a really good candidate imho.User:Maunus ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 17:12, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion Maunus... I've been (very slowly) trying to build up a good topic on the conquest of the Maya but still have a way to go before I nominate (Spanish conquest of Yucatán is pending GA review, I still need to cover Tabasco and Chiapas, and then write a synthesis of all the conquest articles as Spanish conquest of the Maya. After that I'll certainly give featured topic a go (I haven't looked at Featured Topics, but Good Topics need an umbrella article and sub-articles all at the Good Article or better - hence the overarching conquest of the Maya article). Best regards, Simon Burchell (talk) 17:20, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

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DYK for Caesar's Camp, Rushmoor and Waverley

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