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A fossil fuel, petroleum is formed when large quantities of dead organisms, mostly zooplankton and algae, are buried underneath sedimentary rock under anoxic conditions and subjected to both intense heat and pressure.
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I'd like to draw attention to the editor ItsCheck, who is repeatedly reverting good-faith edits in an attempt to maintain the inclusion of two irrelevant and politically-motivated sentences at the end of the lead. Arkadios 200 ( talk) 07:19, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
At
this edit, Editor
ItsCheck reverted
my edit with the edit summary Citation url is indeed dead, not alive
.
In cs1|2 templates ({{
cite journal}}
in this case), the presence of a url assigned to |archive-url=
causes the template to assume that the url assigned to |url=
is dead. See these simple examples; this is the default:
{{cite book |title=Title |url=https://www.example.com |archive-url=https://www.archive.org |archive-date=2024-04-02}}
Adding |url-status=dead
to the above example does absolutely nothing except to add extraneous clutter to an article's wikitext; the rendering of the citation is exactly the same as the default:
{{cite book |title=Title |url=https://www.example.com |archive-url=https://www.archive.org |archive-date=2024-04-02 |url-status=dead}}
As I write this, the
live version (permalink) of the article has 76 instances of |archive-url=
. Fifty-six of those are marked with |url-status=live
. Adding |url-status=live
to the above example, does cause the citation to render differently from the default:
{{cite book |title=Title |url=https://www.example.com |archive-url=https://www.archive.org |archive-date=2024-04-02 |url-status=live}}
My edit should be restored for the reasons just described but more importantly because the revert rebroke this citation.
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 23:43, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Someone thought it would be important that the first oil well was drilled in the US in 1859 (when you only count machine drills!) Wikipedia is not about national pride. I applied chronological order and removed that Guiness Book style remark. 2A01:C22:35F9:8100:3021:F59A:5898:47D0 ( talk) 00:41, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
Oil is not always "yellowish-black liquid". Different oil fields have different colours, ranging from black to green. I can attach a photo from a Geological Museum that includes _some_ of these colors. Shygeek12 ( talk) 09:51, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
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A fossil fuel, petroleum is formed when large quantities of dead organisms, mostly zooplankton and algae, are buried underneath sedimentary rock under anoxic conditions and subjected to both intense heat and pressure.
https://uwaterloo.ca/wat-on-earth/news/Cite error: A <ref>
tag is missing the closing </ref>
(see the
help page).formation-oil-and-other-elements-required-produce-petroleum
[1]Cite error: A <ref>
tag is missing the closing </ref>
(see the
help page).formation-oil-and-other-elements-required-produce-petroleum
[1] |website=University of Waterloo |publisher=University of Waterloo |access-date=2 September 2021}}</ref>
References
I'd like to draw attention to the editor ItsCheck, who is repeatedly reverting good-faith edits in an attempt to maintain the inclusion of two irrelevant and politically-motivated sentences at the end of the lead. Arkadios 200 ( talk) 07:19, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
At
this edit, Editor
ItsCheck reverted
my edit with the edit summary Citation url is indeed dead, not alive
.
In cs1|2 templates ({{
cite journal}}
in this case), the presence of a url assigned to |archive-url=
causes the template to assume that the url assigned to |url=
is dead. See these simple examples; this is the default:
{{cite book |title=Title |url=https://www.example.com |archive-url=https://www.archive.org |archive-date=2024-04-02}}
Adding |url-status=dead
to the above example does absolutely nothing except to add extraneous clutter to an article's wikitext; the rendering of the citation is exactly the same as the default:
{{cite book |title=Title |url=https://www.example.com |archive-url=https://www.archive.org |archive-date=2024-04-02 |url-status=dead}}
As I write this, the
live version (permalink) of the article has 76 instances of |archive-url=
. Fifty-six of those are marked with |url-status=live
. Adding |url-status=live
to the above example, does cause the citation to render differently from the default:
{{cite book |title=Title |url=https://www.example.com |archive-url=https://www.archive.org |archive-date=2024-04-02 |url-status=live}}
My edit should be restored for the reasons just described but more importantly because the revert rebroke this citation.
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 23:43, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
Someone thought it would be important that the first oil well was drilled in the US in 1859 (when you only count machine drills!) Wikipedia is not about national pride. I applied chronological order and removed that Guiness Book style remark. 2A01:C22:35F9:8100:3021:F59A:5898:47D0 ( talk) 00:41, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
Oil is not always "yellowish-black liquid". Different oil fields have different colours, ranging from black to green. I can attach a photo from a Geological Museum that includes _some_ of these colors. Shygeek12 ( talk) 09:51, 7 July 2024 (UTC)