User talk:Rlneumiller

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Wiktionary links

If you type [[wikt:ketogenic|ketogenic]], you'll get ketogenic which is the link to Wiktionary you were looking for. However, if there is a Wikipedia article, then it's almost always better to link to that as it will contain more information.

Since Wikipedia articles are always nouns, not adjectives, we make a redirect from ketogenic to ketogenesis. As you can see, both of those take you to the same article, so you don't need to use the pipe ([[ketogenesis|ketogenic]]) in cases like this. Hope that helps. --RexxS (talk) 06:19, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah... makes sense. Thanks Rlneumiller (talk) 07:22, 19 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

National varieties of English

Hello. In a recent edit to the page Marxism, you changed one or more words or styles from one national variety of English to another. Because Wikipedia has readers from all over the world, our policy is to respect national varieties of English in Wikipedia articles.

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Citations referencing resources not available to the general public.

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What is the point of citations if the average reader is unable to access them? Specifically, many citations point to online resources that require a subscription to access. Rlneumiller (talk) 18:15, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Many citations are also to books, which the average reader cannot quickly access. The point of citations is not that every one of them can be quickly accessed, in that case Wikipedia might be quite shallow. But the point is that every fact on Wikipedia is verifiable, even if it takes some work to verify. We are trying to make sources more accessible, but many sources are inherently not free. If you as an editor wish to access sources for research, the WP:Wikipedia Library has institutional access to a number of paywalled sources, such as old newspapers and scientific journals. CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 18:35, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Belated thanks for the explanation and for bringing to my attention to WP:Wikipedia Library. Rlneumiller (talk) 09:17, 22 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]