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Important - Monthly after the bot creates a new Category:
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Twitter and Youtube
Since when did Twitter and Youtube become commonly used as citations? Both are still listed as 'generally unreliable' at
- When they're added as sources, they're often removed per WP:RSPTWITTER. You should feel free to pare them where warranted. The article shouldn't rely on primary sources and if that info is noteworthy, a reliable, secondary source will cover it. czar 20:58, 21 July 2023 (UTC)]
{{Citation needed}} removal drive?
(directed from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Citation cleanup, carried over here.)
Hi! I'm pretty sure this is the place to ask, so I'm asking if we could do {{
- @talk 20:30, 1 November 2023 (UTC)]
- @citogenesis. (though the cn tags are probably more important/time sensitive) ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me! 16:31, 9 November 2023 (UTC)]
- I think this looks great! It would be awesome to see the backlog number come down (instead of go up) after such a drive. huntertur (talk) 04:58, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
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Update to Category pages
To make category pages easier to use, for the individual months within Category:Articles with unsourced statements I added these:
- Random page button
- Topic filter
- Help message
These additions are "cloned" from changes done for:
- Category:Orphaned articles individual months
- Category:Articles lacking sources individual months
This update is being posted at:
Overall, I am hopeful these changes will help editors new to article citations and those regularly working to reduce the backlog. Regards, JoeNMLC (talk) 22:03, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
Question about 17,118 September 2023 articles
Wondering what is/has happened with Category:Articles with unsourced statements from September 2023? For "Sports" topic there are 14,637 articles. Is this possible from a bot run? August 2023 has 9,715 articles and Sept is only the 9th day. Regards, JoeNMLC (talk) 23:17, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
Template:Not verified in body
Should {{
Should the link go to Template:Not verified in body/doc as opposed to Wikipedia:Citation needed?
Please discuss at
Artfacts
Hi, Is Artfacts.net considered a reliable source? They claim to "meticulously check" all info, and from the research I did they do seem to be rigorous and accurate. I'm wondering if this source can be used for citing major exhibitions on a wikipedia article on a BLP artist.
The article formerly had a laundry list of exhibitions with refs for each. It was moved to talk b/c it read like a resume and caused ref bomb. It seems that the most prominent exhibitions should be included in paragraph form. Wondering if I can use artfacts to cite 4-5 top shows with one source. What do you think? 174.194.142.148 (talk) 21:07, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
- I'd recommend asking on My Talk Page 21:29, 5 October 2023 (UTC)]
Personation vs impersonation: request
Hello. There is an issue in the article Shi (personator) regarding its name and the use of the word personator throughout the page. Can someone check the sources that reportedly back the use of the word personator instead of "impersonator"?
According to its lead,
The shi (Chinese: 尸; pinyin: shī; Wade–Giles: sh'ih; lit. 'corpse') was a ceremonial "personator" who represented a dead relative during ancient Chinese ancestral sacrifices. In a shi ceremony, the ancestral spirit supposedly would enter the descendant "corpse" personator, who would eat and drink sacrificial offerings and convey messages from the spirit.
But, according to the article
According to the article Impersonator,
An impersonator is someone who imitates or copies the behavior or actions of another.[2]
Therefore, I think it would be more appropriate that the article Shi (personator) be named Shi (impersonator] and most of the instances of the word "personator" in the article, replaced with the word "impersonator". I was going to do it but then I stumbled on references, so I decided to try to check what does the sources say and how to solve this discrepancy, and that's why I am making the request here. Regards, Thinker78 (talk) 18:50, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
- Hello @Kazamzam:. You mentioned you have access to a library to check references. If you have the time it would be great if you could check the references in this request to see if "personation" is the word actually used in them or whether it is both personator and impersonator or other? Regards, Thinker78 (talk) 18:40, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
References
- ^ "Personate definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary". Collins English Dictionary. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- ^ "Impersonator". The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 2010-01-03.
Is there a list?
Is there somewhere I can find a list of reliable sources and depreciated sources? I have been looking for a while now and I seem to be just going around in circles. Irtapil (talk) 09:38, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
- Hi WP:DEPS. (Please note the spelling of deprecated, which is different from depreciated.) — Newslinger talk 03:28, 26 December 2023 (UTC)]
Backlog drive notice
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Backlog drives/February 2024 drive is now active. CactiStaccingCrane (talk) 14:48, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Alyssa Mercante
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I question if Alyssa Mercante, the senior editor, and therefore Kotaku itself, should be considered a vialbe source when she says and does think that is very questionable and makes her a very biased person.
(BLP violation removed) [1]https://twitter.com/alyssa_merc/status/1765465735822725277
Also she she now tries to (BLP violation removed). [2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAMPUogdMS4 [3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hrQaMJ74MA Selo007 (talk) 02:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Her tweets, and especially her tattoo (particularly when cropped and out of context), seem entirely irrelevant to the reliability of an entire outlet. I suspect a better place to discuss a specific source would be he/him) 04:30, 27 March 2024 (UTC)]
- Her tweets and tattos clearly makes her align to a specific agenda.
- How can you write an unbiased article about men if your think "all men are evil"
- How can you write and unbiased article about racism if you think "you cant be racist against white people"
- Its not even taken into consideration on the "reliable sources" page
- There are alot of violations in the SBI article, but since all complains fall on death ears and just gets deleted its just becomes a hitpiece wikipage with an agenda.
- There has been several complains and yoou moderaters point people to where to post complains, it just gets deleted there instead. Selo007 (talk) 05:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
- Biased sources are okay, as long as they are used correctly—and talk page consensus suggests this one is. It's probably useful to point out that Kotaku is a media publication about video games, not "men" or "racism". It's also useful to point out that Mercante has never said "all men are evil". If you're referring to her tattoo: it's a quote from a book, and the image you keep sharing is only one half of the quote/tattoo.
- If your complaints are being deleted on other noticeboards (FWIW, he/him) 05:46, 27 March 2024 (UTC)]