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Oral history as references

Hi, Trying to get back into contributing to the wikipedia.

I'd like to add an article about Richie Riley, a Jamaican born dancer and community activist. He has a broadsheet obit but next to nothing published about him over a few brief lines. However, he has oral history interviews at Black Cultural Archives and the British Library. Unfortunately both have fairly brief catalogue descriptions. Is it possible to use the oral history interviews as references?

This page gives some guidance but I'm still not sure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Cultural_Professionals#As_References

Thanks for your help

Hi, the place to check is Wikipedia:No_original_research#Primary.2C_secondary_and_tertiary_sources. According to the policy it is Ok to use primary sources provide you are careful about infroducing any interpretation that could be original research. Leutha (talk) 12:40, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

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Hi. It was a real pleasure meeting you at the science conference. I'm sorry we didn't get to spend more time together. (I'm the Australian guy.) You mentioned you might point me to your paper on Neurath. I'd like to read it, if you'd still like to share it. Your summary when we first met, and a comment you made after one of the presentations, have piqued my interest. (Don't expect anything like informed criticism from me, though. I know next to nothing about 20th century philosophy.) --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 10:13, 4 September 2015 (UTC) Thank you, Tony, it was great to meet you. The paper will be ready in two weeks,it's my MSc dissertation. After that I will be sharing it. In fact it looks at Neurath in a broader context than philosophy, I kind of feel he got involved in philosophy because that was what was required for his conception of broader democratic access to knowledge, so don't worry about it being over philosophical. I am also doing work ready for when Neurath goes out of copyright in January,. Leutha (talk) 10:36, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Cool. I look forward to it. (There's a nice photo of you and Jacob talking in the lunch room on Commons.) --Anthonyhcole (talk · contribs · email) 02:43, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

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Hi, Leutha! Hope you're OK. Two of our recent Wikipedia-and-food participants have asked me a question which amounts to "What does it mean when I get an email to say that my sandbox was patrolled? Is it threatening?" I didn't know -- I have been a Wikipedian since 2005 without ever knowing of this feature -- but by searching I found the MediaWiki page about patrolling, so now I think I understand what it is. We even have it on the Latin Vicipaedia. You live and learn. But, after having read the MediaWiki page, I still can't see why anyone would patrol a sandbox page (resulting in a disturbing email to the sandbox user). Can you perhaps understand it? Do you think it was, in essence, a mistake? Or does it happen to nearly everybody? I have user subpages too, but I never got an email about any of them ... Andrew Dalby 18:40, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

I agree it does sound a bit menacing. Basically when people are still quite new, the pages get patrolled for vandalism. Most vandalism comes from new accounts, as the old accounts get blocked quite quickly. You haven't experienced this, I guess, because you already had plenty of edits when it was introduced a while ago. Even user subpages can be problematic if they are attack pages, so I suppose that's why they get patrolled as well.Leutha (talk) 22:01, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Of course, there can be attack pages lurking in userspace -- never thought of that angle. I'll pass the explanation on. Andrew Dalby 08:37, 15 September 2015 (UTC)

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It's not an article, so why to write something?Xx236 (talk) 06:52, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Time is a great healer. Leutha (talk) 07:00, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

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I was a bit miffed last night, but I'm over it now. I understand where the editor was coming from, but I feel that they were forcing their own ideas of how Wikipedia should run rather than considering that other editors work in different ways. A 24 hour wait before enforcing moved etc, is not too much to ask and it doesn't damage the encyclopedia. I hope your experience wasn't too damaging, but sometimes you just need to put things down to experience and move on. Happy editing FruitMonkey (talk) 22:24, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

It also looks like other editor took up our baton and s/he has decided to no longer move to draft, so that's a result. Thanks for the update to the Plebs' League article too. FruitMonkey (talk) 22:37, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Leutha,

Of course, I mean the meeting at Canary Wharf on Tuesday 24th November.

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I strayed over to Semi-detached- culled a bit and started to look for references. That was easy- but how do I play it http://www.pia-journal.co.uk/articles/10.5334/pia.404/ has everything and the whole text is tagged as CC BY 3.0. It is almost the article we need. It is fully referenced to our standards. I have never come across that before. Does that allow me to cut and paste- how do I credit it- how do I fight off the plagiarism bots. Have you any advice on this?

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This is confirmed for the 13th. They are promoting it in the next few days and say they already have a lot of interest. Philafrenzy (talk) 11:32, 18 January 2016 (UTC) Thanks for that. I can confirm I shall be there as well! Leutha (talk) 13:08, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

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Hi Leutha, I wondered if you had some time to help with History of South America, which I'm currently working on. -- Marek.69 ^talk 18:52, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

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Leutha (talk) 19:08, 30 July 2016 (UTC) Marryats again My only criticisms as Joe stands at present are 1) it's more usual to keep bibliographic details in the references, just the title in the text, and 2) if subtitled sections are only a line or two, the page begins to look a bit like a club sandwich! Anyway, look forward to seeing more, he sounds an interesting guy, starting banks and stuff. Amazing how important East Anglia was to the English economy even in the 18th century. They all seemed to come from there. Bmcln1 (talk) 21:40, 30 July 2016 (UTC) Just love those Joseph Marryat titles you've just added. However, the information about the first is now in twice. Bmcln1 (talk) 20:38, 31 July 2016 (UTC) 198 Gallery Editathon 6 Aug 2016 Hi, did you get my previous emails? 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The Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! 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