Encouraged by the response I got on en-Wikipedia after asking around
enough, I was encouraged to ask at the German Wikipedia page. See
here:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskussion:Georg_Andreas_B%C3%B6ckler#Birth_and_death_years
Goodness only knows if anyone will see that. Anyone know if there
Does anyone know of a central location for article content queries and
requests? I'm not necessarily talking about emergency fixes or
vandalism, but more subtle problems about content that may need
discussion but where it can be difficult to find people willing to
tackle the request. The reason
Wasn't this part of what the Content noticeboard was intended for?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Content_noticeboard
--Ed
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.comwrote:
Does anyone know of a central location for article content queries and
requests? I'm
Does anyone know of a central location for article content queries and
requests?
That would have been Wikipedia:Content noticeboard However, hardly anyone
used it or monitored it, so it was a neglected corner. We need central
places which are used and monitored even if the stuff on them is not
On 3 July 2012 12:27, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
That would have been Wikipedia:Content noticeboard However, hardly anyone
used it or monitored it, so it was a neglected corner. We need central
places which are used and monitored even if the stuff on them is not
finely
On 3 July 2012 08:08, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
The article talk page is almost certainly the first place to go,
followed by additional notes to the article editors and in other
locations in case no-one is watching the article. But even then, it
would be nice to have a
On 3 July 2012 12:27, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
That would have been Wikipedia:Content noticeboard However, hardly
anyone
used it or monitored it, so it was a neglected corner. We need central
places which are used and monitored even if the stuff on them is not
finely
On 03/07/2012, at 5:01 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
On 3 July 2012 08:08, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
As Kudpung notes, it'd be lovely if we had some kind of issue-tracking
system, but in practice we probably don't have the number of people
needed to
On 03/07/2012, at 5:01 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk
wrote:
On 3 July 2012 08:08, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
As Kudpung notes, it'd be lovely if we had some kind of issue-tracking
system, but in practice we probably don't have the number of people
needed to
On 3 July 2012 13:11, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
I suppose there is some obscure section of OTRS that does that already.
Not that even someone who has OTRS access could find the stovepipe.
I thought there was a boilerplate response on content issues (other
than legal or BLP)
Most articles belong to a Wikiproject (or can be given to one with a little
tagging), and if a wikiproject is even semiactive it will have people with
specialist knowledge. So I'd suggest if you need help on an article, post a
query on the relevant WikiProject page. And if there isn't a
On 7/3/12, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 July 2012 13:11, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
I suppose there is some obscure section of OTRS that does that already.
Not that even someone who has OTRS access could find the stovepipe.
I thought there was a boilerplate
On 7/3/12, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
Most articles belong to a Wikiproject (or can be given to one with a little
tagging), and if a wikiproject is even semiactive it will have people with
specialist knowledge. So I'd suggest if you need help on an article, post a
As long as the query is relevant to the Wiiproject I don't see a problem in
asking more than one Wikiproject.
Another method I use for non-obvious things is to put a note at the top of
my guestbook -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/guestbookWhich
reminds me, I need to refresh
There has been some response now at the article talk page. It would be
nice to know exactly what caused it, hopefully it was the WP:Biography
note that drew more people towards this.
I have found a source from 1998 (i.e. pre-Wikipedia) that gives the
1617 and 1687 dates. So presumably there is
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