User talk:Ieditwikiepdia

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Again, welcome! C F A 💬 00:05, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Help

Please don't just ping me in an edit summary with a vague "please help". It really helps me to help you if you post a comment someplace with some details about the issue(s). Imzadi 1979 → 18:06, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Newspapers.com citations

In generally, it's a bad thing to just use a bare URL as a citation. That can lead to issues of link rot. With Newspapers.com citations, it's a best practice to use {{cite news}} to wrap that URL and include additional details to create a full citation. That way if the link to that site ever goes dead, a reader could just find the original article on microfilm in a library or find a digital copy on another archival website.

You'll what to add {{cite news at the start of the footnote followed by a set of parameters. Each parameter is separated by a pipe character, |. So for example, in front of the URL, put |url=, and the template will know what the URL being cited is. Then add |title= with the title of the article in the newspaper. Please look at what it sin the scanned version, not the name of the clipping. You'll want to add |newspaper= for the title of the newspaper, |location= if the newspaper name doesn't include a city name, |date= for the date the issue was published, |page= for the page number where the article appears and finally |access-date= for the date of the clipping along with |via=Newspapers.com to tell readers where it came from. Remember to put the closing }} at the end to close out the template.

Whenever possible, we should be linking to clippings on Newspapers.com. Those are readable by non-subscribers. On these links you've been adding, I just look for your intended clipping and click on that. From there, I can use the URL for the clipping in the citation when I expand it. Imzadi 1979 → 18:29, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You should also keep in mined that ReFill doesn't work well on Newspapers.com URLs, especially clipping URLs. This is because someone named the clipping, and it's going to pull that clipping name. That clipping name may not match the original article title, won't have the author (if credited), etc. You should always pull the citation details from the original article that was scanned.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/223430279/?fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjIyMzQzMDI3OSwiaWF0IjoxNzIzOTA1MDk3LCJleHAiOjE3MjM5OTE0OTd9.60hVCOSFmI4Uyfmrw1jr6g9iYzXj4oAnie5IynNcJ_A is a problematic URL for several reasons. One, it's the continuation of an article that starts on page A1 of the paper, so we really need to clip and cite both parts. Second, using ReFill on that pulled some incorrect details. It pulled the page title generated by Newspapers.com, which is for the full page of the paper, not the desired article. They have it as page 4, but it's page A4. (Newspapers.com just counts from the first page of an issue and ignores section-based page numbers common in papers.) Without being able to see page A1, we can't tell if this article has a credited author. Thirdly, we really need to make a clipping of this article. Sadly, WP:TWL's access to Newspapers.com is broken at the moment. Lastly, the token embedded in that URL may stop working, meaning we won't be able to see the article at all. Imzadi 1979 → 19:28, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Importing content from other wikis

If you are importing content from other wikis, for various legal and licensing reasons, you have a few formalities to attend to. The simplest method is to include the permanent link of the article on the other wiki in your edit summary. Failure to do so creates some actual legal issues, and repeatedly doing so may result in a suspension of your editing privileges here. I don't want to sound harsh, but this is very important for you to understand. Imzadi 1979 → 06:20, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please preview your edits

I've noticed that you add misspelled words into the GSP article while you're adding content. I get it: we're all human. However, you do so at a higher frequency than most other editors. I appreciate your enthusiasm, and I would suggest using the preview button to give your edits a quick re-read before saving them.

Additionally, I'm going to reiterate my request that you try to learn how to fill out a citation template. Adding bare URLs as citations is not a good editing habit to have. It only takes a few seconds to copy over the information from a source and put it in a full citation. There are even tools on the editing toolbar to help do this for you. Imzadi 1979 → 09:59, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I was doing something more important off of the computer. Ieditwikiepdia (talk) 16:57, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Socking accusations

If you believe an editor is using sockpuppets to edit, the appropriate method is to report them to WP:SPI. Leaving unsupported accusations on a retired editor's talk pages accomplishes nothing and can be considered casting aspersions. Schazjmd (talk) 17:42, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you look at their talk page history, you can see a lot of IPs admitting to being the same person. It looks like a duck to me. Ieditwikiepdia (talk) 18:03, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So you created your account two days ago and are already talking about "ducks" and "socking"? C F A 💬 18:08, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

... And I found your blocked account. C F A 💬 18:10, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yea I was alredy editing as an IP. Ieditwikiepdia (talk) 18:11, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

August 2024

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Drmies (talk) 17:16, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]