Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

2015-08-11 Thread Carcharoth
Time to once again consider the future of this list and maybe also that of Wikipedia-L (as David suggested back in December)? I think I'm right in saying that apart from this list being used for some discussion of block appeals, nothing was posted here for all of June and July?

Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

2014-12-02 Thread Carcharoth
about disabling new posts, or forwarding new posts to Wikimedia-l, making a referral to Wikimedia-l in the info, and leaving the archives open. Fred Bauder On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 00:26:31 + Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: If the moderators of this mailing list are around

[WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

2014-12-01 Thread Carcharoth
://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/ https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l Actually, looking at the list of moderators, how many of them are still around? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

[WikiEN-l] Missing articles/concepts

2014-08-22 Thread Carcharoth
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Re: [WikiEN-l] Help finding photos on Flickr

2014-08-12 Thread Carcharoth
...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Of course Carcharoth. Cany promise anything but happy to try! On 11 Aug 2014 13:02, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Would anyone subscribed to this mailing list have time to help finding suitably licensed photos on Flickr (or elsewhere) for an article I worked

[WikiEN-l] Help finding photos on Flickr

2014-08-11 Thread Carcharoth
any images used would be taken at the events themselves. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

[WikiEN-l] Title font display

2014-04-04 Thread Carcharoth
Has the font used to display the title of Wikipedia pages changed? I noticed things looked different today and have just worked out what the change is. Is there a discussion about this anywhere, or more information? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Title font display

2014-04-04 Thread Carcharoth
On 4/4/14, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Has the font used to display the title of Wikipedia pages changed? I noticed things looked different today and have just worked out what the change is. Is there a discussion about this anywhere, or more information? Ah, OK: http

[WikiEN-l] Sidebar and MediaWiki namespace

2014-02-25 Thread Carcharoth
Is anyone able to track down the history of the sidebar? I noticed 'Wikimedia Shop' appeared there (recently?), and I can only find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sidebar How do I get from that to the actual pages where changes are being made? Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Sidebar and MediaWiki namespace

2014-02-25 Thread Carcharoth
Ah, I think I found it: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikimediaShopLink On 2/25/14, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Is anyone able to track down the history of the sidebar? I noticed 'Wikimedia Shop' appeared there (recently?), and I can only find: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] Sidebar and MediaWiki namespace

2014-02-25 Thread Carcharoth
=60466 OK, I'll stop there... On 2/25/14, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Ah, I think I found it: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikimediaShopLink On 2/25/14, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Is anyone able to track down the history of the sidebar? I noticed

Re: [WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

2013-04-26 Thread Carcharoth
-wiki way is the better way, and the categorisation system needs to adapt to intersection possibilities. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_intersection That's an old proposal, but is it becoming more feasible now? Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

2013-04-25 Thread Carcharoth
/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_April_24#Category:American_women_novelists Carcharoth On 4/25/13, Kathleen McCook klmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Wikipedia's overwhelmingly male user-editors began the bizarre forced gender migration on Tuesday The New York Times:: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday

Re: [WikiEN-l] incivility consciously as a tactic.

2013-04-15 Thread Carcharoth
-ups, exacerbated by the nature of online communications (the lack of body language to and verbal tone) and the lack of empathy for others that some who are drawn to Wikipedia exhibit. Carcharoth On 4/16/13, Kathleen McCook klmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Right--and this would make all the difference. I

Re: [WikiEN-l] Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

2013-04-13 Thread Carcharoth
If you want anecdotal evidence, I would say that someone's first encounter with AfD can set them firmly in one place on the spectrum, but that most people who stick around see their views evolve as they come to understand sources and the range of articles topics and various problems better.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

2013-04-13 Thread Carcharoth
in a way. And why would you think that inclusionism/deletionism debates are intractable? I thought the idea that such terms should be avoided (as they are divisive) was taking hold and gaining ground? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Gallery policy

2013-02-18 Thread Carcharoth
, if they want, easily drill down to the more detailed levels where more pictures are used (even if those levels are on other sites). Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?

2013-02-12 Thread Carcharoth
Destination film series - if you've not seen them, best avoided really). Carcharoth On 2/12/13, Newyorkbrad newyorkb...@gmail.com wrote: I would look up my obituary on the [[Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians]] page and see what was listed as my place of death. Then, I would make sure never to go

Re: [WikiEN-l] If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?

2013-02-12 Thread Carcharoth
state or not, and would you have time to check the sources? Seeing as it is the sources you need to read to verify what you are reading... (no-one takes on blind trust what they read on Wikipedia without checking the sources, do they now??). Carcharoth PS. You might find that the page(s) you chose

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to write about things that were once notable?

2013-02-06 Thread Carcharoth
that are poorly maintained and look increasingly out of date as time goes by. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to write about things that were once notable?

2013-02-06 Thread Carcharoth
then sometimes only briefly. Some stuff is just waiting for historians to write about it, or not as the case may be. Some stuff from 150 years ago has been written about 20 years ago, but may not be returned to by future historians for another 100 years, if at all. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to write about things that were once notable?

2013-02-06 Thread Carcharoth
have to inspect each individual case. It *is* important that contemporary coverage exists as a check and balance to past coverage, but past coverage can provide historical context in other articles, even if it ultimately is insufficient to support a stand-alone article. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] List admin

2012-12-24 Thread Carcharoth
a thread on which mailing lists people use? Or on the new namespaces that I only just noticed a few months ago? (That would at least be about en-Wikipedia). Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing

[WikiEN-l] Any ITN editors around?

2012-12-12 Thread Carcharoth
Apologies for using the list for this message. Is there anyone reading this list who is active at WP:ITN? If so, I'd be grateful if you could e-mail me off-list. Thanks. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe

Re: [WikiEN-l] don't make the other person feel they have no business there

2012-09-09 Thread Carcharoth
-confrontational as possible, but is there a way to (politely) point out that mailing list etiquette would suggest a different approach? i.e. constructive criticism of the form can we keep most of this in one or two threads? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] don't make the other person feel they have no business there

2012-09-09 Thread Carcharoth
the wikimedia-l mailing list, which can make for different sorts of discussions. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

[WikiEN-l] BBC article on Roth novel and Wikipedia article

2012-09-08 Thread Carcharoth
and correct this misunderstanding, or is it near-impossible to get the distinction across to journalists? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2012-13 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-07-30 Thread Carcharoth
The thread started on wikimedia-l here, if anyone here wants to read the background to this: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-July/121418.html Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2012-13 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-07-30 Thread Carcharoth
On 7/30/12, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: The thread started on wikimedia-l here, if anyone here wants to read the background to this: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-July/121418.html PS. Here also: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_budget

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Mozilla teams up with Wikimedia UK for an Editathon - 18 August, London

2012-07-30 Thread Carcharoth
. Having said that, the British Library food is good, so I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to compare that to the Mozilla food... :-) But sadly I'll not be around in London that weekend. Carcharoth PS. I thought there was talk at some point of WM-UK providing space directly for editathons, did

[WikiEN-l] Other mailing lists

2012-07-30 Thread Carcharoth
On 7/30/12, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 July 2012 14:49, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: PPS. It strikes me that what I said here is better said on the wikimediauk-l mailing list. Is it possible to subscribe to that without having joined WM-UK? Yeah, it's just

Re: [WikiEN-l] Categorisation by gender

2012-07-18 Thread Carcharoth
/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2005_June_27 And this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Categorization/Ethnicity,_gender,_religion_and_sexuality/Archive_1 But that is around 2005. Not looked earlier than that yet. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Categorisation by gender

2012-07-18 Thread Carcharoth
animals as well? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Olav Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia crossed 4 million articles milestone

2012-07-13 Thread Carcharoth
It does seem appropriate that this milestone was reached during Wikimania. Does anyone have a listing of when the other million milestones were reached? There is also a discussion here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#4.2C000.2C000th_article Carcharoth On 7/13/12, Tanvir Rahman

Re: [WikiEN-l] Central location for article content queries and requests

2012-07-05 Thread Carcharoth
if there are places on the German Wikipedia to draw attention to that sort of thing? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

[WikiEN-l] Central location for article content queries and requests

2012-07-03 Thread Carcharoth
the edit request template works). Would something like that have any chance of being useful? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Central location for article content queries and requests

2012-07-03 Thread Carcharoth
userspace to ask others about. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Central location for article content queries and requests

2012-07-03 Thread Carcharoth
noticeboard and similar overcentralised mechanisms won't work. Patience also helps, not every expert will be here every month. Good point. Patience *is* a virtue. :-) Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] Central location for article content queries and requests

2012-07-03 Thread Carcharoth
. This series catalogues each of these beautiful and influential books, carefully describing and illustrating them. That sounds reliable. Carcharoth On 7/3/12, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: As long as the query is relevant to the Wiiproject I don't see a problem in asking more than

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia as part of a social media strategy for hotels

2012-07-02 Thread Carcharoth
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Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia as part of a social media strategy for hotels

2012-07-02 Thread Carcharoth
On 7/3/12, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On 7/2/12, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote: On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, WereSpielChequers wrote: I'm not inclined to shed a tear for hotel articles, many of which are I suspect being created by spammers, but David makes an important point

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia as part of a social media strategy for hotels

2012-06-25 Thread Carcharoth
ground? I know people assume that Wikipedia is the place for everything, but if people are going to get out of that mindset, you need to tell them they were in the wrong place, and not just move stuff for them. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia as part of a social media strategy for hotels

2012-06-25 Thread Carcharoth
to work together in synergy, exchanging material as needed, but it still feels like a distraction from the core activities. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

[WikiEN-l] Duolingo and translating Wikipedia

2012-06-20 Thread Carcharoth
on Duolingo is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duolingo Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Duolingo and translating Wikipedia

2012-06-20 Thread Carcharoth
that? What I did wonder was whether the gaming approach reflects how things work on Wikipedia: Points are offered for each translation attempted; completing a round earns the user a shiny gold medal; and learners can follow each other, adding a competitive edge. Sound rather familiar... Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Current consensus on PR editing?

2012-06-13 Thread Carcharoth
are only needed when you have deletions or undeletions taking place, and that isn't always the case (though I realise you were referring to that in your example). Not that the public at large really get the distinction, though. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Link removal experiment; Re: How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit, _The Atlantic_

2012-06-01 Thread Carcharoth
to be the removal of entire articles and restricting Wikipedia to a relatively narrow set of articles. Removal of content within articles is a completely different ballgame. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] Link removal experiment; Re: How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit, _The Atlantic_

2012-05-31 Thread Carcharoth
://toolserver.org/~mzmcbride/watcher/ That was limited to pages less than 30, though, after some objections were raised. Possibly admins or others can see pages that have less than 30 watchers. Can't remember. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Link removal experiment; Re: How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit, _The Atlantic_

2012-05-30 Thread Carcharoth
): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Gwernoffset=201205301826limit=100target=Gwern Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [WikiEN-l] Link removal experiment; Re: How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit, _The Atlantic_

2012-05-30 Thread Carcharoth
view is that if such experiments are to be carried out, it would be better if they were designed and conducted by those able to restrain themselves from such snark. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Lum Hats in Paradise

2012-05-22 Thread Carcharoth
. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Lum Hats in Paradise

2012-05-22 Thread Carcharoth
Insert me after telling below... On 5/22/12, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On 5/22/12, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Brian McNeil's productive work in Edinburgh. I particularly like the idea of recruiting newbies at libraries - with all those lovely old printed

Re: [WikiEN-l] How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit, _The Atlantic_

2012-05-17 Thread Carcharoth
is more one of quality, and your analysis is oversimplistic? I submit that well-formatted and well-chosen external links tend to stick, while drive-by additions (or removals) don't. Which is not entirely surprising. Carcharoth PS. We have gone way off-topic

Re: [WikiEN-l] PLoS Comp Biol article on getting stuff intoWikipedia

2012-05-04 Thread Carcharoth
On 4/11/12, Dr Jacob F. de Wolff jfdwo...@doctors.org.uk wrote: Carcharoth wrote: What I'm thinking in particular is that some FACs would benefit from what is essentially an *external* peer review process (as opposed to the internal peer review and other review processes). i.e. Actively

Re: [WikiEN-l] Notability of commercial organisations

2012-04-28 Thread Carcharoth
requirements? Straw polls should either follow discussion, or link to discussion/pages on the topic. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [WikiEN-l] Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement

2012-04-18 Thread Carcharoth
under pending changes? Most likely rejected due to being mis-spelt and no source provided, but where is the line drawn? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement

2012-04-16 Thread Carcharoth
listen to the radio. The question is, should I make myself aware of what is being said in those media before editing such articles or their talk pages, or not? If there is a need to follow 'responses' in other media, that is not sustainable either. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement

2012-04-16 Thread Carcharoth
. I'm surprised no survey has actually been done along those lines yet. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] PLoS Comp Biol article on getting stuff into Wikipedia

2012-04-11 Thread Carcharoth
in this model of reviewing, but I'd be interested to see reactions to this. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement

2012-04-04 Thread Carcharoth
-examination. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement

2012-04-04 Thread Carcharoth
/ It would be simple to incorporate something like that into a SNG (specific notability guideline), but I doubt that will be possible in the current climate. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing

Re: [WikiEN-l] Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement

2012-04-04 Thread Carcharoth
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: On 4 April 2012 15:10, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: We *should* have a category of BLP stubs, but I can't find it. Maybe someone can cross-reference the BLP category and the people stub

Re: [WikiEN-l] Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement

2012-04-04 Thread Carcharoth
, and it always has been. I wonder, how much of the early editing (first 2-3 years), was on news topics? How much was on historical topics? ANd has that changed over time? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] More stringent notability requirements for biographical articles

2012-03-28 Thread Carcharoth
to what has been written. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] More stringent notability requirements for biographical articles

2012-03-27 Thread Carcharoth
stubs. That is the entire BLP problem in a nutshell. If the sources aren't there, the articles are placeholders that will only be short and stubby until someone out there writes more about that person, and if that never happens, then is it ultimately worth maintaining such articles? Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] More stringent notability requirements for biographical articles

2012-03-24 Thread Carcharoth
to be written by others (and then summarised and incorporated into the Wikipedia article). There are other examples, but I'll leave those for another time. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] More stringent notability requirements for biographical articles

2012-03-24 Thread Carcharoth
' what is there. I'd be in favour of locking down BLPs once they reach a certain stage of development and requiring a very high standard of sourcing for new additions. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] More stringent notability requirements for biographical articles

2012-03-24 Thread Carcharoth
. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia not responding

2012-03-24 Thread Carcharoth
Wikipedia seems to be down... http://wikistatus.ezyang.com/ Anyone know what's happening? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [WikiEN-l] More stringent notability requirements for biographical articles

2012-03-24 Thread Carcharoth
the first to do so. Wikipedia shouldn't be in the business of attempting to write biographies of a new type (aggregating existing sources) where nothing similar has been done before. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Inclusionists vs deletionists

2012-03-23 Thread Carcharoth
in general) should require published biographies during the person's lifetime and/or obituaries after death. Would anyone on this mailing list be willing to bounce ideas around about that? The sticking point is what constitutes a 'published biography'? Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Inclusionists vs deletionists

2012-03-23 Thread Carcharoth
their website. That was from User:DracoEssentialis (12:00, 23 March 2012 (UTC)). I'm also going to post what I proposed at that AfD, but I'll do that in another thread. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe

[WikiEN-l] More stringent notability requirements for biographical articles

2012-03-23 Thread Carcharoth
to ascertain if they are still living. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] More stringent notability requirements for biographical articles

2012-03-23 Thread Carcharoth
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:48 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 March 2012 14:04, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm posting here an argument I made in a recent AfD, explaining why I think more stringent notability requirements are needed for biographical articles

Re: [WikiEN-l] More stringent notability requirements for biographical articles

2012-03-23 Thread Carcharoth
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:18 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 March 2012 14:04, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: It has been said before, but that is why specialist biographical dictionaries often have as one of their inclusion criteria that someone has to be dead

Re: [WikiEN-l] More stringent notability requirements for biographical articles

2012-03-23 Thread Carcharoth
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 March 2012 17:10, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: For Leon Mestel, the qualifying sources would be his entry in Who's Who and in Debrett's People of Today. Those are UK-specific sources. What would

Re: [WikiEN-l] More stringent notability requirements for biographical articles

2012-03-23 Thread Carcharoth
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: What I would say is that Wikipedia biographies should have at least one source that I knew I should have finished the draft before posting it... That sentence was meant to say something like should have at least

Re: [WikiEN-l] More stringent notability requirements for biographical articles

2012-03-23 Thread Carcharoth
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:25 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 March 2012 17:20, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Who's Who might say this guy is notable, but the actual content is completely

Re: [WikiEN-l] sad news

2012-03-23 Thread Carcharoth
that knew them. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

[WikiEN-l] BLP sources updates following death of article subject

2012-03-12 Thread Carcharoth
that some tagged pages only get dealt with when they become topical. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

[WikiEN-l] Ancient merge proposals

2012-02-08 Thread Carcharoth
gets there first, but was wondering where very old merge proposals are listed. Is there a tracking category somewhere that they are put in? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] Ancient merge proposals

2012-02-08 Thread Carcharoth
will add tagged articles to Category:Articles to be merged, while non-articles (files, templates, etc.) will be added to Category:Items to be merged. Doh! Thanks anyway. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] A Wikipedian asked to write for a paper encyclopedia

2012-01-20 Thread Carcharoth
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:34 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://savageminds.org/2012/01/19/wikipedia-encyclopedias/ Probably not the first and not the last. I don't find it that surprising. What he says there is excellent, though. Well worth reading. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] A Wikipedian asked to write for a paper encyclopedia

2012-01-20 Thread Carcharoth
on Wikipedia or the process for the encyclopedia you are writing for? In my view, that process you describe is how writing on Wikipedia *should* work. Whether it does in practice or not is another matter. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia and political statements

2012-01-18 Thread Carcharoth
the more it is used. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia blackout

2012-01-18 Thread Carcharoth
if not editable), could someone list them here? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia blackout

2012-01-18 Thread Carcharoth
. If someone else wants to cross-post this, or post before I do, please do. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia blackout

2012-01-18 Thread Carcharoth
to just article namespace (which is what would be needed to allow other stuff to carry on as normal). I don't think it would ever really happen. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit

[WikiEN-l] Reactions against the SOPA blackout

2012-01-18 Thread Carcharoth
=471993971 Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

[WikiEN-l] BBC articles related to Wikipedia blackout

2012-01-18 Thread Carcharoth
facts? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16601517 All BBC News, 18 January 2012. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] BBC articles related to Wikipedia blackout

2012-01-18 Thread Carcharoth
Also this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/17/wikipedia-blackout Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

[WikiEN-l] Image rotation request

2012-01-09 Thread Carcharoth
is to show the Wikipedia file if there is a file of the same name both here and on on Commons. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Image rotation request

2012-01-09 Thread Carcharoth
Thanks! All looks great now. On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: On 9 January 2012 17:55, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Is anyone able to deal with this image? (Or ask someone else or repost this someone suitable?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

[WikiEN-l] Managing knowledge

2012-01-08 Thread Carcharoth
Thought some here might be interested in this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16443825 It's about the history of managing knowledge and information. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] Guidelines on how much we take from a source?

2011-12-08 Thread Carcharoth
as an overview of World War I. Ultimately, such top-level articles don't need to be perfect. As long as they are reasonably good and reasonably accurate, it is the subsidiary articles with the details that are more important, and Wikipedia is better at producing those sort of articles anyway. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] British library online newspaper archive

2011-11-30 Thread Carcharoth
library membership should be able to access the ILN archives. At least the one I have through Westminster Libraries recently added a link to the ILN archives. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing

[WikiEN-l] British newspaper archive

2011-11-29 Thread Carcharoth
May be of interest: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15924466 http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [WikiEN-l] British library online newspaper archive

2011-11-29 Thread Carcharoth
be free. I can still access this for free, but only by going there. I wonder if libraries around the country will be able to access this for free and provide online access for their members? Still doesn't help those outside the UK. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN

Re: [WikiEN-l] Linkage bloat

2011-11-09 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: On 8 November 2011 15:32, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: What I'm looking for is the ability to filter links to articles that are due to that template being transcluded on other pages, and links

Re: [WikiEN-l] Linkage bloat

2011-11-09 Thread Carcharoth
(understandably) meet great resistance from those that have built and maintain such templates (a natural reaction if people see months or years of work being made less visible, being a click away rather than directly visible). Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

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