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Internet Archive Scholar vs. JSTOR
Hello, I see on your user page that you use JSTOR and I'd like to know more about your experience. By my calculations, a good 70 % of the main JSTOR content is now available for everyone at Internet Archive Scholar, with full text search provided e.g. at https://scholar.archive.org/ . The service is still in beta, but I've used it for some source-finding and it seems quite usable to me; I wonder whether that's just my experience. If you have a chance, the next time you'd be looking for a source on Google Scholar or JSTOR or similar, to perform the same search on IA scholar instead, I'd be curious to hear how it ends up. Thanks, Nemo 19:07, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
- @Nemo: Ok, I'll try it the next time I'm looking for one of those sources. I use JSTOR relatively little compared with other sites, so it may be a while. Nick Number (talk) 19:27, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
- Sure, we're not in a hurry. Thanks! Nemo 21:38, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
Lucia Chamberlain edits
I can see that the dates should be in the US format, but I don't see why you have changed the parameter name "work" to its alias "newspaper" in the instances of {{cite news}}. What justification is there for those changes? Thanks. PamD 06:30, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
- @PamD: The works in question are newspapers, so the parameter is more precise and equally accurate. There was a while (two years ago?) when some of the Cite templates would throw an error if "work" was used. That change was reversed, but my thinking was to preempt any problems in case the pendulum of consensus were to swing back on that point in the future. But it likely won't make a difference, and I won't object if you want to change the parameters back. Nick Number (talk) 14:56, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
Great Snowstorm (of 1944)
Hello! I appreciate the massive amount of time you must have spent trying to make improvements to this article (that I entirely researched and wrote). I guess the links to newspapers.com enable all people to read the article without having to have a subscription, which is good. I just have one concern - the several links that I checked only seem to have a link to the first page of the article, unless I just don't know how to access the second page. Most articles indeed have a second page somewhere further back in the paper and often a lot of the info in the wikipedia article may be from there, not the first page. Also, I had listed the newspaper as the author because that way people can very easily see which newspapers are sourced at the start of the reference as some people give precedence to certain papers. Lastly, the reason I had the refrerence numbers out of order is because sometimes the info in the first part of the sentence was from a higher numbered reference but I wanted to imply it matched with the first part of the sentence. I preferred to have academic-length sentences for the most part as opposed to short ones with only once piece of info and just one reference. I'd appreciate hearing back about the second page of an article issue. On the others, I guess the way you have ordered things is the way it will stay as I am not a huge detail person like you are.Eastern Cougar (talk) 01:35, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Eastern Cougar: Hello, and thank you for creating a detailed and thoroughly referenced article. Regarding your question, I believe I included clippings for all of the pages. See, for example, footnote 27, where the link in the article title goes to the first page, and the "4" in "pp. 1, 4" links to the second. Nick Number (talk) 01:51, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
- Okay. I just wonder how many people will not know that they can hit the second number especially since not that many newspapers get referenced nowadays. Is there some way to make it more visible or understandable that they can click on the second number?Eastern Cougar (talk) 03:07, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
- @Eastern Cougar: I had an informal conversation with some other experienced editors on the Discord server a while ago, and this was generally agreed to be the best way to format these kinds of citations (in the absence of a native mechanism to bundle multi-page clippings on Newspapers.com or NewspaperArchive). For more perspectives and a broader consensus, you might want to start a discussion at Help talk:Citation Style 1. Changes agreed to there could be incorporated into the existing Cite templates. Nick Number (talk) 03:43, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
- Okay. I just wonder how many people will not know that they can hit the second number especially since not that many newspapers get referenced nowadays. Is there some way to make it more visible or understandable that they can click on the second number?Eastern Cougar (talk) 03:07, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
If you are bored, feel free to go over to the second article I wrote and do your newspaper clipping thing. Someone else rewrote the citations in the same style as you but did not did cut out the clippings like you had done. Its just too much work/detail for me to get into. The article is 1971 Great Lakes Blizzard.Eastern Cougar (talk) 23:31, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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Thank you for contributing those pictures - they will make Mary Jane Richardson Jones and John Jones into better articles! Ganesha811 (talk) 02:48, 24 April 2022 (UTC) |
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2013 disestablishments in Uruguay
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Charles Butler (NYU)
Hello Nick Number, coming across this edit, just wanted to inform you there is a Category:Charles Butler (NYU) now on commons, in case you might wish to alter the image. Cheers. Lotje (talk) 08:06, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
Nomination of Tessy María López Goerne for deletion
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