User talk:Jmcgnh/Archives/2018/03

Thanks for feeding my knowledge

Dear Sir, Thank you for your message about my edit being reverted.I have tried diligently to find updated links for the ones I removed using the information you provided,but the only one with those articles is newspapers.com,which is a pay site. It seems many newspapers are using it exclusively now. Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated. Clubview166 (talk) 15:21, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

@Clubview166: Yes, it's annoying that so many resources are going behind paywalls. But we don't require that references be accessible online. Just having the complete bibliographic information for a citation is sufficient, a working URL is not required. I'm not sure what the current view is on citing through newspapers.com. When citing offline references, the theory is that someone with access to a decent library should be able to verify the content of the article against the cited reference. The notion of "access to a decent library" for some resources can get pretty sloppy. I'm sure that a citation to a document from the secret archives of the Vatican Library would come under a lot of scrutiny. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 15:51, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

New Page Review Newsletter No.10

Hello Jmcgnh/Archives/2018, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:

• ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

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