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? https://lists.wiki

Re: [WikiEN-l] Lists

2015-05-16 Thread Carcharoth
icles that could be created. A better example (for more interwikis) is this article (in en, de, it and pt): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_von_Siemens_Ring How would wikidata handle that sort of data? Carcharoth On 5/14/15, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Magnus has produced new fu

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

2014-12-02 Thread Carcharoth
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 +0000 > Carcharoth wrote: >> >> If the moderators of this mailing list are around, would they o

[WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

2014-12-01 Thread Carcharoth
as. https://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

[WikiEN-l] Missing articles/concepts

2014-08-22 Thread Carcharoth
pedia.org/wiki/Organogenesis 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] Help finding photos on Flickr

2014-08-12 Thread Carcharoth
kimedia.org.uk> wrote: > >> Of course Carcharoth. Cany promise anything but happy to try! >> On 11 Aug 2014 13:02, "Carcharoth" wrote: >> >> > Would anyone subscribed to this mailing list have time to help finding >> > suitably licensed photos on Flick

[WikiEN-l] Help finding photos on Flickr

2014-08-11 Thread Carcharoth
eally 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

Re: [WikiEN-l] Title font display

2014-04-04 Thread Carcharoth
On 4/4/14, Carcharoth 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://en.wikipe

[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] Sidebar and MediaWiki namespace

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

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 wrote: > Is anyone able to track down the history of the sidebar? > > I noticed 'Wikimedia Shop' appeared there (recently?), and I can only find: > > 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?

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

2013-04-26 Thread Carcharoth
nders, and that the female subcategory is a convenience when a particular area has been studied in gender terms. Personally, I think the de-wiki way is the better way, and the categorisation system needs to adapt to intersection possibilities. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ca

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

2013-04-25 Thread Carcharoth
a.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_April_24#Category:American_women_novelists Carcharoth On 4/25/13, Kathleen McCook wrote: > Wikipedia's overwhelmingly male user-editors began the bizarre forced > gender migration on Tuesday > > > The New York Times:: >> >> > htt

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

2013-04-15 Thread Carcharoth
u get periodic flare-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 wrote: > Right--and this would make all the diff

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

2013-04-13 Thread Carcharoth
tics 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@l

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. Whether

Re: [WikiEN-l] Gallery policy

2013-02-18 Thread Carcharoth
can, 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: h

Re: [WikiEN-l] deployment of the first phase of Wikidata on enwp

2013-02-15 Thread Carcharoth
ata entry, is it worth creating one or just waiting for one to be created as more interwiki links are added, or other Wikidata functionality is added? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing li

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
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 to read had b

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
the Final Destination film series - if you've not seen them, best avoided really). Carcharoth On 2/12/13, Newyorkbrad 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 sur

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

2013-02-06 Thread Carcharoth
o 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 articl

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

2013-02-06 Thread Carcharoth
etimes 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.

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

2013-02-06 Thread Carcharoth
ticles 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] List admin

2012-12-24 Thread Carcharoth
archives over there and subscribe to this one (which is very low traffic now). Maybe 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] 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 unsubs

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

2012-09-09 Thread Carcharoth
than 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

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

2012-09-09 Thread Carcharoth
te and non-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] BBC article on Roth novel and Wikipedia article

2012-09-08 Thread Carcharoth
a publicity ever try 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.w

[WikiEN-l] Other mailing lists

2012-07-30 Thread Carcharoth
On 7/30/12, David Gerard wrote: > On 30 July 2012 14:49, Carcharoth 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

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

2012-07-30 Thread Carcharoth
istinction is an important one. 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

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 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:Wiki

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] Categorisation by gender

2012-07-18 Thread Carcharoth
Wikipedia's documentation - is it? And do they cover famous 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] Categorisation by gender

2012-07-18 Thread Carcharoth
(and other genders). Examples of discussions include this: http://en.wikipedia.org/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 th

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, Tan

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

2012-07-04 Thread Carcharoth
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

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

2012-07-03 Thread Carcharoth
nd topography. This series catalogues each of these beautiful and influential books, carefully describing and illustrating them." That sounds reliable. Carcharoth On 7/3/12, WereSpielChequers wrote: > As long as the query is relevant to the Wiiproject I don't see a problem in &g

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

2012-07-03 Thread Carcharoth
t; expertise. That's why IMHO the content 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 ___ Wiki

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

2012-07-03 Thread Carcharoth
ted stuff to a page in my 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

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

2012-07-03 Thread Carcharoth
lar to how 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] Wikipedia as part of a social media strategy for hotels

2012-07-02 Thread Carcharoth
On 7/3/12, Carcharoth wrote: > On 7/2/12, Ken Arromdee 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

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

2012-07-02 Thread Carcharoth
es in certain parts of the world. > > Wasn't there a probem where Jimbo wrote an article for a restaurant in > South Africa and people tried to delete it for this reason? That would be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mzoli%27s Reading the AfD (available in the page history) is a bit

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

2012-06-25 Thread Carcharoth
nline freely licensed sites 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 l

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

2012-06-25 Thread Carcharoth
ople 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@lists.wikim

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

2012-06-22 Thread Carcharoth
iProject Spam. It is worrying how Wikipedia is associated by some with social media. 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
t; Sound rather familiar... Carcharoth On 6/20/12, Carcharoth wrote: > A claim made here about Duolingo and translating Wikipedia: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18367017 > > "With 100,000 active users, von Ahn says Duolingo could translate > Wikipedia from English into Spa

[WikiEN-l] Duolingo and translating Wikipedia

2012-06-20 Thread Carcharoth
article 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] Current consensus on PR editing?

2012-06-13 Thread Carcharoth
proach). Administrators 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 ___

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

2012-06-01 Thread Carcharoth
ionism 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 unsubsc

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

2012-05-31 Thread Carcharoth
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@lists.wiki

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

2012-05-30 Thread Carcharoth
g a cross-hair on its forehead". My 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@list

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

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

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 wrote: > On 5/22/12, David Gerard wrote: >> Brian McNeil's productive work in Edinburgh. I particularly like the >> idea of recruiting newbies at libraries - with all those lovely old >&g

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

2012-05-22 Thread Carcharoth
. This could work anywhere. You are not telling that this isn't a perennial proposal? It's blindingly obvious. The issue is not recruiting newbies, but keeping them and getting them to understand how Wikipedia works, and then to be productive instead of getting sucked into the vario

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

2012-05-21 Thread Carcharoth
o places where the reader can view such images. I can provide some examples if anyone wishes to discuss 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] "How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit", _The Atlantic_

2012-05-17 Thread Carcharoth
hat the question of external links 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 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/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: The counterattack of the PR companies

2012-04-19 Thread Carcharoth
newspaper journalists do this, but not many 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] "Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement"

2012-04-18 Thread Carcharoth
like that have been handled 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 thi

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

2012-04-16 Thread Carcharoth
o object in principle. 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] "Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement"

2012-04-16 Thread Carcharoth
mentioned at some point. I'm not on Facebook and I don't 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

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

2012-04-11 Thread Carcharoth
nymous nature of editing, there hasn't been much interest 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
m, 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 unsub

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 wrote: > On 4 April 2012 15:10, Carcharoth 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" >> cate

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

2012-04-04 Thread Carcharoth
ioacademy.org/hall-of-fame/ http://www.radiohof.org/ 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

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

2012-04-04 Thread Carcharoth
career has finished. The whole "notability is not temporary" thing needs serious re-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] More stringent notability requirements for biographical articles

2012-03-28 Thread Carcharoth
out a living person who can (in theory) turn up and object 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
than to produce poorly maintained 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 u

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

2012-03-24 Thread Carcharoth
ate the next level of biographical coverage, and being 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] 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/lis

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

2012-03-24 Thread Carcharoth
t is nearly always a bad 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

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

2012-03-24 Thread Carcharoth
ing people) come along later and try and 'expand' 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 ma

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

2012-03-24 Thread Carcharoth
ys a work in progress, waiting for the definitive accounts 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 ___ WikiE

Re: [WikiEN-l] sad news

2012-03-23 Thread Carcharoth
ese Wikipedians was mentioned briefly in the Signpost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-03-12/News_and_notes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-03-19/News_and_notes Very sad news in both cases. My condolences to those that knew them. Carchar

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 wrote: > On 23 March 2012 17:20, Carcharoth wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:16 PM, David Gerard wrote: > >>> Who's Who might say "this guy is notable", but the actual content is >>> completely se

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 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 one sou

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 wrote: > On 23 March 2012 17:10, Carcharoth 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 the e

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 wrote: > On 23 March 2012 14:04, Carcharoth 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 before ha

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 wrote: > On 23 March 2012 14:04, Carcharoth 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: &g

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

2012-03-23 Thread Carcharoth
ing to find out anything more about people who have faded back into obscurity and for whom it is often difficult 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] 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 u

Re: [WikiEN-l] Inclusionists vs deletionists

2012-03-23 Thread Carcharoth
icles 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 ___

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

2012-03-12 Thread Carcharoth
ink 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

Re: [WikiEN-l] Ancient merge proposals

2012-02-08 Thread Carcharoth
hese templates 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

[WikiEN-l] Ancient merge proposals

2012-02-08 Thread Carcharoth
one else 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 lis

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

2012-01-20 Thread Carcharoth
to the process 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 l

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 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. Ca

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] BBC articles related to Wikipedia blackout

2012-01-18 Thread Carcharoth
ipedia, where can you get your 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.wikimed

[WikiEN-l] Reactions against the SOPA blackout

2012-01-18 Thread Carcharoth
ldid=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

Re: [WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia blackout

2012-01-18 Thread Carcharoth
disablement 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

Re: [WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia blackout

2012-01-18 Thread Carcharoth
nts 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
o this that are still readable (even 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] Wikipedia and political statements

2012-01-18 Thread Carcharoth
r future, if only because this strategy becomes less effective 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] Image rotation request

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

[WikiEN-l] Image rotation request

2012-01-09 Thread Carcharoth
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

[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
icles 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 ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >