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This site does not appear to meet WP:RS. There are some documents that are out of copyright and should be linked to Gutenberg or Wikisource, not to this site; there are also essays that qualify as primary self-published sources. In every case we should be using reliable independent secondary sources instead. Just exactly as we should not be using mirrors of libertarian economic texts on the "Library of Econmics and Liberty", a libertarian think-tank. Guy ( Help!) 11:14, 13 April 2017 (UTC) reply

I disagree that MIA is unreliable—it is, as its name suggests, an archive, and a fairly large (in terms not just of its collection but its staff) and well-established one. But even if it is unreliable, since it is the only source for the claims in the article, it should be replaced, not removed. (This is in line with the recommendations made by the content guideline you linked to.) If you still feel that MIA is so unreliable as to be unsuitable for use as a source for the basic publication data of the Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher, even on an interim basis, then I invite you to start a discussion at WP:RSN. — Psychonaut ( talk) 11:37, 13 April 2017 (UTC) reply
@ JzG: I see you're now engaging in mass removal of MIA references from other articles. I've reverted these edits for now. Before making such drastic and wide-ranging edits across the encyclopedia, please first seek consensus on WP:RSN. — Psychonaut ( talk) 11:41, 13 April 2017 (UTC) reply
"Mass" as in seven. Every time anyone says "mass removal" - at least to date -it has been someone supporting a website that we should not be using, such as a quackery site or a predatory journal. Feel free to show that's not the case this time. Guy ( Help!) 13:02, 13 April 2017 (UTC) reply
Were you really planning on stopping at seven? (Given the response to your previous RSN post on the matter, I'm a bit taken aback that you thought it was a good idea to remove even these.) — Psychonaut ( talk) 16:36, 13 April 2017 (UTC) reply

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The first RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:

The result of that RfC was "unambiguously in favour of omitting the parameter altogether for 'none' " and despite the RfC title, additionally found that "There's no obvious reason why this would not apply to historical or fictional characters, institutions etc.", and that nonreligions listed in the religion entry should be removed when found "in any article".

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I disagree that MIA is unreliable—it is, as its name suggests, an archive, and a fairly large (in terms not just of its collection but its staff) and well-established one. But even if it is unreliable, since it is the only source for the claims in the article, it should be replaced, not removed. (This is in line with the recommendations made by the content guideline you linked to.) If you still feel that MIA is so unreliable as to be unsuitable for use as a source for the basic publication data of the Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher, even on an interim basis, then I invite you to start a discussion at WP:RSN. — Psychonaut ( talk) 11:37, 13 April 2017 (UTC) reply
@ JzG: I see you're now engaging in mass removal of MIA references from other articles. I've reverted these edits for now. Before making such drastic and wide-ranging edits across the encyclopedia, please first seek consensus on WP:RSN. — Psychonaut ( talk) 11:41, 13 April 2017 (UTC) reply
"Mass" as in seven. Every time anyone says "mass removal" - at least to date -it has been someone supporting a website that we should not be using, such as a quackery site or a predatory journal. Feel free to show that's not the case this time. Guy ( Help!) 13:02, 13 April 2017 (UTC) reply
Were you really planning on stopping at seven? (Given the response to your previous RSN post on the matter, I'm a bit taken aback that you thought it was a good idea to remove even these.) — Psychonaut ( talk) 16:36, 13 April 2017 (UTC) reply

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Specifically, it asks that "religion = none" be allowed in the infobox.

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The result of that RfC was "unambiguously in favour of omitting the parameter altogether for 'none' " and despite the RfC title, additionally found that "There's no obvious reason why this would not apply to historical or fictional characters, institutions etc.", and that nonreligions listed in the religion entry should be removed when found "in any article".

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The result of that RfC was that the "in all Wikipedia articles, without exception, nonreligions should not be listed in the Religion= parameter of the infobox.".

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Specifically, it asks that "religion = none" be allowed in the infobox.

The first RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:

The result of that RfC was "unambiguously in favour of omitting the parameter altogether for 'none' " and despite the RfC title, additionally found that "There's no obvious reason why this would not apply to historical or fictional characters, institutions etc.", and that nonreligions listed in the religion entry should be removed when found "in any article".

The second RfC that this new RfC is trying to overturn is:

The result of that RfC was that the "in all Wikipedia articles, without exception, nonreligions should not be listed in the Religion= parameter of the infobox.".

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Believe it or not there's progress being made on all this old stuff again -- Wizardman 03:25, 19 December 2019 (UTC) reply

Just a puzzled observation, regarding this edit: While it's understandable that you were duped by the deceptive bluelink in the entry for the Shannon McKelden novel, due to not looking closely, the fact that the link to the Seattle band was red was hard to overlook. I can't find any evidence that there was ever an article for the band, so there is no obvious explanation for your mistake. (Moreover, the disambiguator "(U.S. band)" is against MOS, and should be "(US band)", or rather, "(American band)".) I have now removed both. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 16:57, 12 May 2020 (UTC) reply

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