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Ravenswing(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Yikes, first on the list? In any event, I've been on Wikipedia nearly ten years and with approaching 40,000 edits, and I'm active in researching older hockey articles and AfDs for which this resource would be splendid, and for which Highbeam is less useful for earlier decades.
Ravenswing 15:42, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
X96lee15(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) – I have been active on Wikipedia for 8 years and have over 40,000 edits. I'm focused on sports and also cities and other subjects in the Midwest. I'm excited to potentially have access to newspaper archives for historical topics. I've recently been interested in adding references, cleaning up and and resurrecting dead links. —
X96lee15 (
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19:22, 20 June 2014 (UTC)reply
Arxiloxos(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Thank you for making newspapers.com content more widely available. I have been editing Wikipedia since 2008, and I have made more than 20,000 edits. I am active in improving article sourcing as well as participating in AfD discussions. Recently I have noted more and more potential sources at newspapers.com, so access to this collection would be especially welcome. --
Arxiloxos (
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18:28, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Juliancolton (
talk·contribs) - in writing my historical weather articles (I have over 20 FAs and 100 GAs in that field) I often find myself requiring access to archived newspaper articles. I'd use this resource on a weekly basis.
Teemu08(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) As a longtime, active user (18k edits over nine years), newspapers.com access would appeal to me. In the past few years I have predominately written articles on local history via the
NRHP Wikiproject as well as Illinois political biographies. Articles in both of these spheres would greatly benefit from newspaper access as I could have contemporary accounts of politicians and construction reports on historic buildings.
Teemu08 (
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20:39, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Mike Christie(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I mostly work on content and have written 40+ FAs. I'd like to get access to old business news reports -- e.g. this company was formed by the merger of these two; this person was promoted to CEO; this company went bankrupt. I do a lot of work on mid-twentieth century magazines, and I am often hampered on the business side by the lack of sources for the mundane details about the companies who owned the magazines.
Mike Christie (
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library)
21:39, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
MrX(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - I have made around 44,000 edits and have created 156 articles, including 32 biographies. Newspapers.com would be very useful in finding contemporaneous information about various biographical and historical subjects. I currently use NewsBank through my local library, but it has limited content.-
MrX21:43, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Jweiss11(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been an editor since 2005 and have made over 140,000 edits. Most of my editing relates to American college sports with a particular focus on biography articles for coaches. Access to Newspapers.com would help a great deal with my efforts. Thanks,
Jweiss11 (
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00:41, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Mackensen(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been on Wikipedia since 2003 and have about 50,000 edits. I've written 4 GAs and 70+ DYKs. I'm very active in researching North American railroading topics from the 20th century. Newspapers.com frequently appears as a search result and it would be an invaluable tool.
Mackensen(talk)02:30, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
TheAustinMan(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) – Editor for 5 years, with multiple good articles that are usually heavily sourced with newspaper content as they focus on historical tropical cyclones. I think this resource will be incredibly useful for my article endeavors and will vastly help the project grow in scope and information. TheAustinMan(
Talk·
Works)04:00, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Doremo(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been editing WP for just over 5 years, have created over 900 articles, and have made about 30,000 edits. I would like to make more contributions on local U.S. history, and newspapers.com access would be very valuable for doing so.
Doremo (
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14:21, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Supercarwaar(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been active on the Dutch Wikipedia for almost 2.5 years, and have made over
13,000 edits. In my time on Wikipedia, I've been writing lots of articles about the USA. At the moment, I'm busy with writing articles about New York City skyscrapers, so newspapers.com would be a really valuable rescource.
User:Supercarwaar/signature 14:45, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
EddieHugh(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been active since December 2012 and have more than 4,000 edits. My main contributions are to jazz articles (11 GA; 13 created so far), mainly to biographies of US musicians from the 1940s on. Some of these players had local/regional reputations rather than national ones, so coverage of them is very limited in national newspapers of the time, books, etc. Having access to more local sources via newspapers.com would, I believe, provide valuable extra information for articles on these people.
EddieHugh (
talk)
17:53, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
RL0919(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Editor since 2005 with 24,000 edits, 43 articles created and 2 GAs. Recently I've been focusing on early 20th century theater, and I often run across Newspapers.com when looking for information on plays and actors. Would be very helpful to be able to access these articles rather than trying to hunt the information down from another source. --
RL0919 (
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20:32, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Samwalton9(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been an active editor since 2013, have over 6000 edits, and have created and improved a number of articles (see my user page). This would likely be very useful generally but more specifically for scientist biographies which I have recently been working on.
Sam Walton (
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20:48, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Godot13(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been editing for over 18 months and have written 2 FLs and significantly re-written 2 FLs (in addition to creating other articles). Most of my research is in the history of U.S. banknotes and/or other related areas of numismatics or the history (e.g., art, engraving). I have almost 4,000 edits on Wikipedia and almost 10,000 edits on Commons. Thanks.--
Godot13 (
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14:12, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Lfstevens(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - Hi. I have edited more than 10k articles. I am a member of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors. My substantive edits focus on batteries, materials science, genetic engineering, marine subjects and Hawaii. Many of these are poorly cited - Newspaper.com would be a big help. I have started 50+ articles on such subjects. Thanks!
Paulscrawl(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Editor over 10 years, also reviewer, specializing in carefully adding high-quality citations to existing articles, though I've also created a few. Looking to add more articles as availability of reliable sources for local history permit. Interested in adding Newspapers.com to repertoire for revitalizing dormant Project New Orleans, a city undergoing major structural and cultural changes post-Katrina, as well as adding historically newsworthy citations to assorted topical articles that pass my way, generally literature & philosophy. 19thC coverage of vital primary sources confirmed on Newspapers.com. Thank you for providing this great resource! Open Access Clippings feature is truly awesome and worthy of support!
Paulscrawl (
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18:28, 30 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Perfect for the biographies I write and for the Library of Congress at Flickr Commons project to create articles for Wikipedia. For a samples of the new ones I am working on see my user page. My subscription to Newspapers.com ran out about 6 months ago, and I have not renewed it. I use my personally paid for subscription at Ancestry.com in every biography I write.
Orangemike(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) -- Historian by training, long-time Wikipedian (admin on the English-language Wikipedia) who has created hundreds of articles, with a particular interest in creating content on U.S. history of the 19th and 20th centuries, for which this access would be invaluable. --
Orange Mike |
Talk01:34, 31 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Marine 69-71 (
talk·contribs) I have written hundreds of history related articles in Wikipedia. My main interest is US and Puerto Rican military history, US history and Puerto Rican history. I write about historical facts which for some reason have been omitted by history books and have fallen into the cracks of history only to be forgotten. My work in Wikipedia has been recognized by various US agencies such as the Pentagon and by the Government of Puerto Rico. I would like very much to have access to the newspaper archives which I believe can help me further in my work and investigations.
Tony the Marine (
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03:38, 31 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Jrcla2(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Registered/active editor since November 2006; have 145,000+ manual edits, created 1,100+ articles and 600 navboxes. I work primarily on American college sports articles but still dabble in other areas. I've used my Highbeam access to find information unavailable on general Google searching, and Newspapers.com access would help tremendously with historical sports figures.
Jrcla2 (
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17:11, 31 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Jacqke(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)I write a lot of articles dealing with people who died in the 1950s and earlier. For many of them newspaper archives make the difference between a good article and a stub. One example where I have used a newspaper archive in the past is
John Olaf Todahl. That article was completely impossible to write without the newspaper obituaries. Other articles that used online newspapers:
Seattle Cartoonists' Club and
Alice Harriman. Currently working on musician biographies, where old newspapers provide evidence of their notability.
Jacqke (
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19:29, 31 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Neonblak(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - I am currently over 18K in edit total. My area of interest involves pre-1900 baseball figures, and other notable places and events. One of the greatest volumes of information available for this period of time, are newspapers. Having access would greatly enhance my ability to produce quality articles for people that have very limited resources freely available.Neonblaktalk - 06:00, 1 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Dirtlawyer1(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - I have been editing Wikipedia since June 2009, and I have 61,000+ edits to date, of which 53,000+ are article edits. I have four Good Articles to my credit, and intend to use the Newspapers.com account for sourcing article content and creating reliable source footnotes.
Dirtlawyer1 (
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09:41, 4 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Scewing(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - I have been editing Wikipedia for over 7 years, have ~5,000 edits to date, and have created 34 Wikipedia articles. I intend to use the Newspapers.com account to source article content and help create future articles. Thanks for your consideration.
Scewing
Rpclod(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) My first edit was 30 Sep 2006. I have 1,764 live edits on 1,057 unique pages. I have created maybe 6 or 8 new pages, including 1 GA, edited many others, and recently began helping with AfD analysis. The latter is where access may be of most use. Happy to see a lot of great Wikipedians on this list.--
Rpclod (
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20:26, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Laszlo Panaflex(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been editing since 2005, with about four thousand edits. Most of my activity is on history pages. I've also been doing directed research on various figures from University of New Mexico administration and sports. Access to newspapers, especially from the 1960s through 1980s would be very useful to my efforts.
Laszlo Panaflex (
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16:24, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Nyth83(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I do a lot of research for biographies of deceased persons and histories of businesses and access to these archives would greatly help this research.
Hi @
TLSuda: Part of our partnerships is agreeing to the TOC of their databases. Can you confirm that your picture work meets the ToC at
their website. They don't claim PD items as copyrighted, but they do claim access and reuse restrictions,
Sadads (
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17:00, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
Sadads: I have no desire to violate their terms of service and primarily would be using the resource for souring images that have been obtained through other means. Many newspapers included are in the public domain and have been scanned from other sources and uploaded but it is hard for us to verify that information. Additionally, I have recently begun a project of working on some articles where the bulk of the sources are in older newspapers that would be useful to gather information from here. Cheers, TLSuda (
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19:39, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Approved Thanks for confirming, I just wanted to make sure that you understood the image limitations. Expect a Wikipedia email soon,
Sadads (
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20:05, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
John M Baker (
talk·contribs) Access would be extremely useful to me for my work on articles about word and phrase origins. I've been an editor for several years and have done extensive work on articles such as
jazz (word) and
the whole nine yards. In addition, I am an active participant at
Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange and share articles there with requesting editors. In my experience, while other editors often have access to journal databases such as JSTOR, few seem to have access to newspaper databases other than Highbeam.
John M Baker (
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18:14, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Hey @
John M Baker: I am not following how you would use these newspapers as a source. If you are searching back in their database for "earliest" uses wouldn't that constitue
WP:OR? Shouldn't we be using secondary or tertiary sources like the
OED or Google Ngrams for that kind of work. Could I get a little more detail on how access would be useful for you?
While it's always best to use high-quality secondary sources such as the OED, there are not always current reliable sources to address word and phrase origins. Newspaper sources can be secondary sources in their own right, when better sources are not available, as they often provide information on word and phrase origins. In addition, early uses in newspapers and other media are acceptable as primary sources, although they must be used without interpretation. It would not, for example, be good practice to say "the earliest known use of X was in The New York Times on Y date," unless this fact is derived from a reliable source. Finally, and most importantly, it is valuable to be able to refer to the original sources that are cited by reliable sources. A famous example in the field is an article from 1913, "In Praise of 'Jazz,' a Futurist Word Which Has Just Joined the Language." In writing about
jazz (word), naturally I wanted to be able to view and refer to that article (which happily had been reproduced elsewhere), although conclusions about it could be drawn only from secondary sources.
John M Baker (
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22:10, 12 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Approved Sounds good, just wanted to make sure that the database was going to be of use, and how that was the case. Expect a Wikipedia email soon,
Sadads (
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14:52, 13 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Viswaprabha(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I am an editor at various Wikipedias including en but predominantly on Indic Wikis. Access to this library will be much useful to me as I am in constant search for authentic references and citations pertaining to history, science, biographies and Indo-European languages apart from other topics. Thank you. ViswaPrabhaവിശ്വപ്രഭtalk00:06, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
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Sadads: I am one of the leading editors/ mentors/ content advisers at ml.wikipedia and other Indic projects. (A review of my recent direct contributions may not reflect the effectiveness of my actual contributions as I am spending more time in mentoring and training students and new editors from local communities on focused content with authentic citations). As you may know, we are always short of genuine back references when it comes to detailed information on historic events as they unfolded. I have seen that newspapers, whether they are regional, national or international, have been of tremendous value and use when preparing to write / edit/ refine a serious Wikipedia article on history, especially that of countries of South Asia, South Africa and elsewhere. (For eg: India's freedom movement and personalities involved within that from various regions and cultures). Being able to access newspapers.com will be a powerful tool to overcome this problem. I earnestly hope that you understand the degree of need that we face at communities belonging to less digitized and obscured archives. Thank you. ViswaPrabhaവിശ്വപ്രഭtalk14:47, 12 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Approved Sounds good, just wanted to see a slightly more specific agenda and clear sense of how this particular database was of use to you. Expect a Wikipedia email soon,
Sadads (
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Hi @
DutchmanInDisguise: Looking at your recent contribution history: you haven't been very active in creating new content that would be benefited by this resource. Do you have a research agenda that you could describe for so that I could better understand how you will use the archive? Are their any particular gaps that you think would benefit from this access?
Sadads (
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17:00, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Sadads: You're right. My contributions have been only intermittent. You can see the articles listed on my
user page which I've created, or made major contributions to. Having access to extensive newspaper files would certainly have enhanced these contributions. But it looks like this research tool (Newspapers.com) would be of more value to a "Wikipedia regular", which I don't claim to be.
DutchmanInDisguise (
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16:26, 12 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
DutchmanInDisguise: Pending when accounts become available. You will be waitlisted until more accounts become available. You demonstrate enough regularity, that you qualify, I just wanted a little more affirmation that you planned to use this actively for content development,
Sadads (
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14:52, 13 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Danimations(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I do a lot of work on mining, industrial and natural history subjects. This access would allow me to develop pages of content beyond the borders of my home country of Australia.
Hi @
Danimations:, I am going to waitlist you for the second round of this accounts when they become available because your content focus has largely been Australian/natural history, which should be better benefited from the other Wikipedia Library holdings that you applied for. Do you have a more specific reason why you need access to American newspapers?
Sadads (
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17:43, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
Danimations:Approved: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here,
Astinson (WMF) (
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22:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
@
Ecragg:Approved: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here,
Astinson (WMF) (
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22:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
RoySmith(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been editing for about 10 years, an admin for most of that, but only semi-active for a number of years in the middle. I just passed 10k edits recently. I've become more active recently, spending a lot of my time at AfD. Having access to this database would be a great help when trying to locate references during notability arguments. I accept that notability may be demonstrated with references that are not on-line, but as a practical matter, it is difficult the judge when somebody says, I've found a reference in XYZ newspaper, but you'll have to take my word for it that it establishes notability --
RoySmith(talk)00:21, 3 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
RoySmith:Approved: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here,
Astinson (WMF) (
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22:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
K8 fan(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)I have added a considerable number of references via the Questia and Highbeam accounts I received last year. That is my primary area of contribution. I would like to have access to more newspaper references to get several articles to Good or even Featured status.
K8 fan (
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03:28, 4 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
K8 fan:Approved: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here,
Astinson (WMF) (
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22:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Mabalu(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - Wikipedian since 2008, I have often worked on articles for American fashion designers such as
Nell Donnelly Reed,
Anne Fogarty, etc and have frequently come across hits for these designers on Newspapers.com that I haven't been able to access. I have also come across hits on Newspapers.com during the course of AFDs that I haven't been able to verify, which has been frustrating on a couple of occasions as the articles have been deleted due to "lack of sources" which I feel might have been avoidable had the sources been accessible/verifiable. There are a great many American designers, particularly Winnie and Coty award winners/nominees that I would like to produce more articles on, and Newspapers.com would be invaluable for this.
Mabalu (
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22:31, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
JayJasper(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Editing English Wikipedia for nearly eight years, with 35,000+ edits. I have created several articles, and edit mainly in the areas of US politics, history, sports, literature, music and biographies. Access would be invaluable in providing sources for expansion, improvement and creation of articles.--
JayJasper (
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21:09, 6 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Caponer(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have created 60,880 articles since 20:03, 7 September 2005. Most of my articles are biographies, and I would be able to use newspapers.com for valuable information detailing the subjects of these articles. --
Caponer (
talk) 00:51, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Caponer (
talk·contribs) I have been a registered Wikipedian since September 2005, and because I write articles on historical figures like politicians and military figures and historic places, I constantly come across available information at Newspapers.com that is unavailable to me because I do not have access. I feel that I would be able to craft more comprehensive articles with this source at my fingertips. Thank you for your consideration. --
Caponer (
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17:02, 17 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Caponer: You certainly qualify for an account, but I noticed that your user page says you are semi-retired as of February 2015 (though still apparently quite active!) Can you please just confirm that you're still interested in Newspapers.com? More accounts have just become available. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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14:43, 25 February 2015 (UTC)reply
HazelAB, thank you for your quick response regarding my interest in Newspapers.com. The template on my user page is just a formality, but in practice as you can see, I am still very much active in Wikipedia. I have many more articles on my to-do list, and I also review articles for Good Article status, so this tool would definitely assist me in both endeavors. Thanks again! --
Caponer (
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20:07, 25 February 2015 (UTC)reply
GDuwen(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Autoconfirmed, autopatrolled and file mover user registered in 2007. Seven years in Wikipedia with 8,581 edits (23 GAs). I edit mostly pop-culture related stuff (music, movies), from time to time history or other miscellaneous articles. The articles comprehend mostly topics that range from the 1940s to 1970s, and I'm always on the look for reviews or news pieces from back in the day that are sometimes difficult to find on other sources like Google Books (many times only snippet views are available). I'm an active contributor, and I'm always glad to work on articles of older things, equilibrating the tendency to the recentness of topics. I'm positive that the access to this sort of information would help a lot in creating more complete articles or expanding the existing ones.--GDuwenTell me!16:07, 27 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Approved@
Auric: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here.
HazelAB (
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23:34, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Approved@
Edison: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here.
HazelAB (
talk)
14:19, 27 February 2015 (UTC)reply
MisterCake (
talk·contribs) On Wikipedia 3 years and and have over 20,000 edits. Though I do have other academic interests they seem covered here; most of my edits pertain to American college football in the South in the early 20th century. Access to newspapers would allow one to better reliably source material–for a great deal of the information is from sportswriters..
Cake (
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00:36, 8 November 2014 (UTC)reply
ceyockey(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I am active in rescuing deadlinks and I feel that Newspapers.com would provide content in gaps not covered by HighBeam (I have a subscription to this as well). Thank you for considering my request for an account; let me know if you want to have additional information. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me)
01:21, 13 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Teblick(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been editing for slightly more than one year, with 43 articles created and more than 4,000 edits. My main area of interest is old-time radio. I have found back issues of publicly available newspapers to be useful with regard to both people and programs of that era. Being able to use this database would provide access to even more newspapers that I can use in creating new articles and improving existing articles. Thanks!
Eddie Blick (
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19:39, 9 January 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Sagaciousphil: most of the contents of Newspapers.com, other than 50 years of the New York Times, are local US papers. Do you think they would be useful in your subject areas? Maybe you could give an example of an occasion when Newspapers.com would have been helpful. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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20:43, 28 February 2015 (UTC)reply
HazelAB, one very recent example: after working on
Bile Beans, a small stub was started on
Frank Harris Fulford, who came to the UK from Ontario. I have been trying to track down further information on the very wealthy extended family and some extra information may be able to be gleaned from US local papers.
Emily Gordon Cathcart was a stub I started a while ago that I have always intended to expand; she was deeply involved in the Highland Clearances and, again, a lot of extra I formation may be available via local US papers.
SagaciousPhil -
Chat20:58, 28 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Lentower: Could you be more specific about how this access will help you develop content in the topic areas of focus? What resarch agenda will it benefit?
Sadads (
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13:49, 7 August 2014 (UTC)reply
My editing interests include articles local to Boston as well as contemporary music & science and technology worldwide. I also edit articles as I consult them as a reader. Regularly as I try to find good sources for them I come across sources in newspapers behind paywalls, that I can't access or use. It appears this access would get me behind the paywalls. —
Lentower (
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17:28, 12 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Ammodramus(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been on Wikipedia since October 2009, in which time I've made just over 20,000 edits. Much of my work has been related to my home state of Nebraska: I've added history sections or done major expansions to the history sections of several Nebraska communities (e.g.
Columbus,_Nebraska#History), have worked on biographical articles of Nebraskans (e.g.
Solomon Butcher), and have written or expanded several articles about Nebraska newspapers (e.g. McCook Daily Gazette). I'm involved with
WikiProject National Register of Historic Places, and have worked on articles on NRHP sites in Nebraska and elsewhere (e.g.
Dowse Sod House,
Battery White). I am fairly obsessive about citations for everything that I put on the page, and access to pre-Internet issues of US newspapers would greatly help me, both in adding new content and in coming up with citations for content added by others. —
Ammodramus (
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02:51, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
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Aoidh: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 23. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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21:14, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
My apologies, I checked the email at work and forgot to follow through when I got home. I've followed the instructions in the email, thank you. -
Aoidh (
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07:02, 4 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Murma174: most of the contents of Newspapers.com, other than 50 years of the New York Times, are local US papers. Do you think they would be useful in your subject areas? Maybe you could give an example of an occasion when Newspapers.com would have been helpful, or something you would be able to undertake if you had access. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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20:43, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
HazelAB:, yes, one example is the uncertain story of the
w:frr:Mary Celeste with three North Frisian sailors on board. A look into original
newspapers of that time should help to get a clearer view on the 'real' story. Another example concerning a North Frisian sailor ist the
mutiny on the ship Braganza in 1838 (no Wikipedia article yet). Up to now I've got little original material from the
AAS, but it's very time consuming for the AAS-staff and much easier, if I could browse the newspapers myself. --
Murma174 (
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21:30, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
SciGal(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been an editor since June 26, 2009, and I have about 1,391 edits. I am interested in using Newspapers.com for articles in
WikiProject:Florida. Most of the rural communities I am interested in have had a role in Florida and American history in the 1800s and 1900s, and there are no archives of local newspapers going back that far. (One news source has a few articles dating between 1901 and 1905; the next range of dates begin about 2012.) I would like to use Newspapers.com to find more information about these communities. Can I please have access to the site?
SciGal (
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20:02, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Racconish (
talk·contribs). I contribute since 2008. Above 11,000 contributions to WPen, 29,000 to WPfr, 56,000 altogether. I am an active mediator on the French project and the access would help suggest consensus orientated improvements. Thanks, — Racconish ✉13:31, 3 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Racconish: most of the contents of Newspapers.com, other than 50 years of the New York Times, are local US papers. Do you think they would be useful in your subject areas? Could you give an example of a situation where Newspapers.com would help suggest consensus oriented improvements on the French project, as you mentioned in your application? Thanks!
For example the
1929 Hebron massacre and its qualification by media as a pogrom. Actually, in the process of resolving the dispute on this subject I have completely rewritten the French article on the subject and I am contemplating to propose is as a BA. I am also interested in researching for articles I write on English topics such as Montagu Bronwlow Parker. I contribute also on early American films. I am a member of the Silent Films task force and I am preparing an improvement of the article on the 1916 Sherlock Holmes film, based on the copy which has been found by the Cinémathèque française. Thanks, — Racconish 📥21:08, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Thanks, @
Racconish:Approved Expect a Wikipedia user email soon.
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Sweet kate: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 23. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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21:14, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
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Anne Delong: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 24. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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21:14, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
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Bagumba: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 23. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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21:14, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
25or6to4(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been editing around Wikipedia since 2005, mainly focusing on Highways and the
National Register of Historic Places. My main focus now is specifically on locations on the NRHP that have been destroyed or otherwise removed from the list for some reason. Having access to newspaper archives would be extremely useful to find some of these sites from local sources and find better information on why some sites were lost.
25or6to4 (
talk)
04:51, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
RHM22(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I work primarily in the field of numismatics, although I also venture into other historical areas. I've helped promote nine featured articles, one featured list, three good articles and several DYK hooks. Access to Newspapers.com would be useful because it would allow me access to news accounts of when and why coins were created, how they were received by the public and other important (and often overlooked) aspects of their history. The newspapers help to present a viewpoint which may be overlooked when numismatic writers cover the topic later.-
RHM22 (
talk)
03:11, 4 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Carrite(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Wikipedian since 2009, 55K edits, something in the neighborhood of 250 starts, top 900 on the all time edits list. I've also engaged in something like 5,000 deletion debates, I think. I mostly work in labor history and the history of radical political movements. JSTOR has been a massive help, British Newspaper Project has not. Questia wasn't either. You never know until you try these things... Access to US newspapers would be a boon. Suggestion for the suggestion box: access to NY Times "Times machine" archive would be very helpful for a lot of Wikipedians, including myself. Thanks, —Tim ///
Carrite (
talk)
23:16, 4 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Penny Richards(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Active member of WP:Women's History, WP:Women Artists, WP:Women Scientists, editing since 2011 but much more active in the past two years, >2000 edits, >100 pages created; I often write new entries about US suffragists and other women who got more coverage in local papers than in other sources.
Penny Richards (
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14:33, 5 March 2015 (UTC)reply
onel5969(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I go on binges, usually to help out in an area that is getting behind (like copyediting or AfC). I'm also involved in the film and city projects. While I became a user in 2009, I truly didn't get involved until December 2013. Since then I have over 25,000 edits, including about 200 article creations. I think this would help in the film area, as I do quite a bit of editing on actors and directors, particularly from the 1930s-50s. But it would probably also help on the city pages as well.
Onel5969 (
talk)
21:02, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Thierry Caro(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Admin and fourth biggest contributor of the French Wikipedia. I am active on the American-related topics, with special interest for Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. I created a lot of portals about the US and try to maintain them. I sponsor the aforementioned project to create an article per day of the past 200 years so an access would be very useful.
Thierry Caro (
talk)
14:01, 5 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Wasted Time R(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Ten years on, some 67,000 edits, about 110 FA/GA/DYK articles. Mostly work in 20th century American history and politics and academia, often lately in some fairly obscure subjects. I have access to the NYT archives but access to a broader range of older newspapers would be a great help.
Wasted Time R (
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01:46, 6 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Pending@
Sicaspi: you didn't provide any reasons to back up your request and you don't actually meet the requirement of 1000 edits. Based on your recent contributions, I don't think this resource would really be a good fit.
HazelAB (
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21:14, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Sicaspi: I didn't know about your contributions to fa.wiki, sorry. We also ask applicants to indicate why they believe the access would be beneficial to them (see the intro text above, before the Apply section). Could you please let me know briefly how Newspapers.com access would help you with your Wikipedia editing? Thanks!
HazelAB (
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22:53, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Sorry I should have added it. I contribute to wiki in many different fields, many times I need to have access to the archive of newspapers, which are usually closed and need a subscription (which I do not have). For example, recently I was working on the article of an Iranian MP who lived 100 years ago, and I had heard that the newspaper "Times" had reported on his activities back then, but I did not have access to its archive. Had I had access to it, I would have improved the article with more material. --
Drako (
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23:46, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Thanks @
Sicaspi: Most of the contents, other than 50 years of the New York Times, are local US papers. Do you think you could use them? I'm willing to accept your application, just want to confirm that you think you and fa.wiki can benefit from what it offers. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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23:58, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
@
The ed17: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 27. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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13:33, 11 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Amqui(
talk·contribs·count·logs·email) I'm mainly active on French Wikipedia. I write a lot of articles about Canadian and military topics. US and Canada history is often inter-related, so those sources could be helpful. In many articles, I used news article from newspapers (recent ones freely available) to source articles. I developed 14 good articles on French Wikipedia and has close to 40,000 edits.
GauchoDude(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) To be honest, not a clue as to how many "edits" I've got as I don't keep count nor know how to, but it's certainly more than 1,000. I started editing to Wikipedia in college (probably around 2005-2007 somewhere) and have found my focus to mainly be soccer (specifically women's soccer), Santa Barbara (specifically surrounding the University of California, Santa Barbara), and BLP's. I would use the resource to further those goals and any requests put to me.
GauchoDude (
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16:25, 11 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Kmhkmh(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) working primarily for the English and German wikipedia with a total of over 45,000 edits. Access would be useful to verify, extend or write articles on various US locations (history and events in smaller communities), biographic articles and movie/art reviews.--
Kmhkmh (
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05:36, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
@
LaurentianShield: Looking at your editing history, you are not frequently expanding content. Do you have a specific research agenda that would benefit from this access? Could you please better explain it here?
Sadads (
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13:49, 7 August 2014 (UTC)reply
I have about 40 new articles since 2012 or so, most fairly substantial. One was listed in the San Francisco Bay Area portal for a while as a "did you know" which I think exemplifies my research interest. It is about a innovative business manager named
Isaac Friedlander who used new technology to make California into a major wheat producer. This is relatively unknown, and technologically related. I lean towards those "stories" that have a large ratio of practical impact compared to what people know commonly. I use a variety of resources, but historical newspapers a big one.
LaurentianShield (
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22:24, 7 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
LaurentianShield: You have been less active in the mainspace for the past several months. Do you still think you would have much use for Newspapers.com? Please let me know. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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15:24, 4 March 2015 (UTC)reply
I definitely will be picking up my pace of editing at some point. In fact today I am adding two new articles, although neither are going to be using newspaper articles as citations. I do find "citations needed" and dubious claims that newspaper article access would help clarify. It is hard to predict how often that would be. I am not just an editor but use Wikipedia all the time for general research and I am constantly on the lookout for such needed corrections.
LaurentianShield (
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13:46, 19 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Miyagawa(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been on Wiki for more than six years now with over 43,000 edits. I do tend to work on some random things at times, but the primary reason for making this request is to search for reviews of old American television episodes at the time they were originally aired - specifically as a result of some feedback to a FA nomination I'm working with at the moment.
Miyagawa (
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15:13, 19 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Zigzig20s(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been editing and creating pages for many years, usually every day. I add in-line references to almost every sentence and I already have access to Jstor thanks to Wikipedia, which I find very useful and cite accordingly. I would find access to these newspapers very useful to find more info about local listed buildings with WP:NRHP, prominent figures of the Gilded Age and the Antebellum and Postbellum South (
like this), and the early history of California (I am working on early Jews and historic synagogues in LA for example, so access to the Los Angeles Herald would be extremely useful). The NYTimes would also be useful as they do cover topics outside New York, for example
this article about a historic Southern mansion). Thank you.
Zigzig20s (
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00:27, 22 March 2015 (UTC)reply
SusunW (
talk·contribs) I have only been on Wikipedia for about 6 months, but I have written 56 articles and majorly contributed to 20 more. Primarily my writing concerns women, but I do occasionally write articles on men if they intersect with a policy I am researching. I study policy and its effects on women and minorities. Thus most articles I write are on women who are Native Americans, Latino, black, LGBT, etc. I have done major rewrite on 3 very large articles
Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico,
Indian termination policy,
Feminism in Mexico. Because women and especially minorities are not covered in a lot of printed histories, newspapers are a critical source of information. Even more so, I live in Mexico and do not have access to free libraries and especially ones with English references.
SusunW (
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12:50, 11 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Jbhunley(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have had issues with finding newspaper and news articles with the databases I have access to. This would be a tremendous help particularly when looking for public rather than scholarly perspective such as when editing articles where the public and scholarly views do not line up such as politically charged topics like PNAC (where this access would have really helped) or maybe later on climate change. Thank you.
Jbh (
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15:57, 14 April 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Jbhunley: This resource contains mostly local US newspapers, with very little content after the mid 1980s. Would it be useful for the topics you work on? The ones you mention seem as though they would require more current sources.
HazelAB (
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17:19, 14 April 2015 (UTC)reply
@
HazelAB: Hmmm... I thought they went further... Would the British Newspaper Archive be better? Having access to back issues of old local newspapers would be useful for verifying BLP/BDP articles but I would not want to take away a slot for someone who had a better use for the access.
Jbh (
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17:42, 14 April 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Jbhunley: At this point we have more accounts available than applicants, and you meet the edit count qualification, so you can have an account if you think it would be helpful. I just wanted to make sure you knew the resource's limitations. If you're still interested let me know here and I'll approve your application,
HazelAB (
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18:23, 14 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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HazelAB: OK. Thank you. I think it will be useful in at least some things there is a lot of information locked away in old, small town newspapers. At the very it will open up some new areas to contribute. If I find I am not using it I will turn the account back in.
Jbh (
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19:13, 14 April 2015 (UTC)reply
HazelAB(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)) 1,786 mainspace edits since February 2011. My content creation projects include plenty of topics that would be covered in older regional US papers. For example, I'm now on the hunt for information about US-born Canadian philanthropist and baseball fan Dorothy J. Killam. Also, I'm the WPL coordinator for this resource and access would help with troubleshooting.
HazelAB (
talk)
12:15, 16 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Worldbruce(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)) My maintainence and AfC efforts bring me into contact with a wide variety of articles that need work on their sources, in terms of both verifiability and expansion. I cite something found through Google's newspaper archive or through HighBeam Research at least once a week, and would expect a similar level of activity for Newspapers.com. Access could make my work more efficient and allow me to help more articles more completely.
Worldbruce (
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00:59, 20 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Cowlibob(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I am an active Wikipedian with over 8700 edits. I work mainly on film articles, and have contributed to 15 featured lists of Hollywood cinema. Having access to newspapers.com will greatly help me in sourcing information especially for filmographies.
Cowlibob (
talk)
16:04, 22 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Gatoclass(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been a registered user since 2006 and an admin since 2008, in that time I have made over 60,000 edits and authored over 300 articles including about 180 DYKs. Many of my articles would easily be GA if not FA class though I have rarely submitted them to either process. I have been somewhat inactive for the last three years due to increased off-Wiki responsibilities, however, I now have the opportunity to return to a higher level of editing and am looking forward to doing so. Currently, my main areas of interest are ships, shipbuilding, and US businesses and biographies; access to newspapers.com would be invaluable to my research as old newspapers are among my most important sources.
Gatoclass (
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10:03, 2 January 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Gatoclass: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 28. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
NealeFamily (
talk)
02:19, 5 May 2015 (UTC) access to US based newspapers would assist in a number of articles I am editing and revising. I meet the criteria and agree to the terms of use.reply
object404(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Wikipedian for almost 7 years, currently active. My current area of interest is Filipino history, culture & martial arts. I'm currently looking into accessing newspapers and journals published in the US about the Spanish-American war and topics about the American colonial period in the Philippines (Philippine-American War, Commonwealth Period, WWII), as well as 1800s+ American history (like the Mexican-American war). Access to these is difficult from the Philippines. Thank you! -
Object404 (
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16:08, 11 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi, @
Carl Henderson: would you be able to give an example of something you're working on, or planning to work on, that would benefit from access to Newspapers.com? The contents are local US newspapers from the 18th and 19th centuries, and the 20th century up to 1980. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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13:01, 13 May 2015 (UTC)reply
No. I really have no idea what article I'm going to be working on next until I start doing it. I tend to choose articles by hitting "random article" until I find something I think I can improve. I realize that's not a very organized way of approaching article editing and creations, but that's what I do. Articles I've worked on in the past where such access might have been helpful include
Thomas M. Blackstock,
Thomas M. and Bridget Blackstock House,
Hayden Schilling,
Clallam County Courthouse, and
Vernon Jones. I'm also planning to get back to a partially-completed overhaul and expansion of an article on
Alrutheus Ambush Taylor when I can get more information on him.
Carl Henderson (
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18:55, 13 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Valfontis(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Admin with 9 years and 70,000+ edits. I am a content creator (
list of examples) working primarily on historical Oregon subjects from before the Internet era for which reliable sources are needed. I found myself hitting the newspapers.com paywall so often (for example, I've been trying to track down the full names on the
List of members of the Oregon Territorial Legislature, and keep hitting U.S. West Coast papers of the era), I signed up for a pay account last night, but I can't really afford it right now. Thanks for your consideration.
Valfontis (
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17:35, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Valfontis: If you still want to claim your Newspapers.com account, please let me know. If I don't hear from you I will assume you're no longer interested, and the account will be given to another applicant. Thanks,
HazelAB (
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12:37, 15 May 2015 (UTC)reply
@
GaryColemanFan: If you still want to claim your Newspapers.com account, please let me know. If I don't hear from you I will assume you're no longer interested, and the account will be given to another applicant. Thanks,
HazelAB (
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12:37, 15 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Hmlarson(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I primarily focus on articles related to women's history. Access to newspapers.com would help in retrieving older articles for content development. I have been active on Wikipedia for several years and have made over 9,500 constructive edits. Thank you. [[:|Hmlarson]] (
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19:42, 12 May 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Hmlarson: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the Wikipedia email sent on May 13. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here. Thanks,
HazelAB (
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18:21, 8 June 2015 (UTC)reply
Tyrol5(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) This looks to be a really neat resource. I edit fairly extensively in U.S. political history, particularly that of Pennsylvania. One of my focuses has been contributing to Wikipedia's coverage of historical elections and campaigns throughout Pennsylvania. Having access to many of the papers in this archive, like The Pittsburg Post and The Altoona Mirror, would be tremendous in documenting campaigns and elections with the reporting of the day (not to mention a potential source for election returns). Thanks,
Tyrol5[Talk]03:30, 31 July 2015 (UTC)reply
GMTEgirl(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) (
talk) I create articles and edit other articles in Wikipedia mostly associated with companies that have gone out of business in Ontario, Canada and Detroit, Michigan. Because the companies are out of business, information is needed from past texts including old newspapers. Most recently, I started a thread on
edson moore & company and have exhausted all newspaper reference material in google archives and National Archives newspaper database. I believe Newspapers.com would provide further information to improve this article and others. thanks.
Roman Spinner(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been editing Wikipedia on almost-daily basis for nearly 10 years (since January 2006). Edit count at "Preferences": 22,430. Numerous contributions in areas of film, television, history and politics. Access to Newspapers.com would be especially helpful to establish an exact date of death for 19th century figures whose obituary proves difficult to find in other resources, such as Google archive. The "Clippings" form is a particularly useful function which, upon gaining access, I would use for every applicable future edit.
—Roman Spinner(talk)(contribs)17:08, 24 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
MrLinkinPark333: Could you please explain how your plan to use this source for content development? From looking at your recent user contributions, and based on your description of activities, your are mostly working on administrative tasks. As a relatively young account, it would be preferable to have examples of your work with content expansion,
Sadads (
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17:00, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
MrLinkinPark333: My main concern with that example, is that the sources you found, never became part of the article. We want this content to be used actively through editing articles for expansion. Can you please provide an example of that?
Sadads (
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14:52, 13 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
MrLinkinPark333: If you are still interested in a Newspapers.com account please let me know here. The content is mostly local US newspapers with little coverage after the 1970s to early 80s. Thanks
HazelAB (
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17:36, 7 October 2015 (UTC)reply
CNMall41(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - I have been absent from Wiki for a while but now I am retired and have more time to dedicate to the site. You can see that I have more than 500 edits and would like access to Newspapers.com as many of the edits I make deal with older archived work for musicians. Some of them are difficult to find and I actually came across some references in the past from Newspapers.com but was unable to retrieve them. Thanks for evaluating my request. --
CNMall41 (
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06:12, 6 October 2015 (UTC)reply
LowSelfEstidle(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I enjoy researching to improve English articles of a variety of favourite topics of mine, including films, biographies, and music related articles. Having a resource such as this would be a tremendous help and would encourage me to spend more time researching and improving content to the articles I enjoy working on! Many thanks.
LowSelfEstidle (
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08:51, 6 October 2015 (UTC)reply
srwalden(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Hi, I am applying for access to Newspapers.com because, as a historian of Colorado with an emphasis on transporation, newspapers, especially local ones are a prime source of information on noteworthy events. I have been a member of
Wikiproject Colorado for many years, but because of my physical disability, my contributions have been less than what I had hoped. I would like to be able to reference and crosscheck newspaper sources when reading articles and use it to improve articles with inline citations, a service I have consistently, if slowly, provided to Wikipedia as an editor. I would like to discuss my disability in detail so you can make a more informed decision about my application, but to do so privately. -
Srwalden (
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16:50, 2 May 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Srwalden: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the Wikipedia email sent on May 6. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here. Thanks,
HazelAB (
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18:21, 8 June 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Srwalden: please let me know if you plan to take up your Newspapers.com account. If I don't hear from you I will assume you are no longer interested and the account will be given to another user. Thanks
HazelAB (
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18:12, 7 October 2015 (UTC)reply
I am definitely interested! I couldn't figure out what happened to my instructions for signing up. I think I deleted them. I still have a need for that account as a Wikipedia editor, but fell back to old habits. Can you re-send the instructions or, if that doesn't work, figure out an alternative means of getting me signed up?
Srwalden (
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10:15, 8 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Lost on Belmont(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) My work tends to focus on articles related to aspects of the history of the rail portions Chicago's public transit system. This usually relates to articles revolving around the
Chicago "L" but also the
Metra system and the
South Shore Line. I also work on and maintain articles on the
interurban lines in and around Chicago. For the most part, these articles are "Start" or "Stub" class. Improving and expanding them is dependent upon sources which are often in local, obscure newspapers from the early 20th Century.
Lost on Belmont 3200N1000W (
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22:21, 6 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Patrickneil(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Modern history is surprisingly difficult to get
WP:RS on, and we need newspaper for many articles here. One example that comes to mind is a sports championship from the turn of the century that I was writing about recently. Its notable, but no one's written a book about it, so we need the news from the time. Thanks!--
Patrick,
oѺ∞21:09, 6 October 2015 (UTC)reply
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Xb2u7Zjzc32: please let me know if you plan to take up your Newspapers.com account. If I don't hear from you I will assume you are no longer interested and the account will be given to another user. Thanks
HazelAB (
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18:12, 7 October 2015 (UTC)reply
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Xb2u7Zjzc32: Registration is a two-part process. Now that you have registered at Newspapers.com and filled in the Google form I will contact Customer Support at Newspapers.com and they will upgrade your account to full access. This should happen this week.
HazelAB (
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11:49, 13 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Iloilo Wanderer(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Most of my edits and nearly all of my articles focus on the Philippines, particularly the American Colonial Period in the Philippines from 1898 to 1946. Those articles which are explicitly about the American Colonial Era often are about institutions with a history that starts with the era. Many of the Philippine-related articles suffer from a lack of historical depth. --
Iloilo Wanderer (
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14:05, 8 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Mkdw(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - I work in a wide range of articles from historical figures, to neologisms, and social issues. Most commonly I often work in deletion and routinely use reliable sources to determine the notability of a subject and help improve them when required. I've been on the project since 2006.
Mkdwtalk14:05, 7 August 2014 (UTC)reply
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Mkdw: You have been less active in the mainspace for the past several months. Do you think you would have much use for Newspapers.com? Please let me know.
HazelAB (
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14:11, 27 February 2015 (UTC)reply
@
HazelAB:I've recently returned from several months of traveling but I'm not certain what my activity will be like in the coming months. Please put me at the bottom of the waitlist should there ever be more accounts than people on the list, then I'll take up a spot. Cheers,
Mkdwtalk17:57, 27 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Dovid(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been editing WP for a decade and have over 2,000 edits. My editing interests are eclectic, but often include historical subjects from the 1600s through the 1900s. As an example of where access would be useful, I recently worked on articles relating to
Hog Island (New York), and had to rely on tertiary sources, such as a recent newspaper account that itself referenced an inaccessible old newspaper account of a hurricane in the late 1800s. Having direct access to that source would make this sort of editing much easier, and allow direct reference to the original source instead of indirect referencing. It would also improve article depth and possibly accuracy. Older records are often less precise than those made today, and it is beneficial to have easy access to multiple contemporaneous sources.
Dovid (
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19:33, 9 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Surfsupusa(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I mostly make contributions to history and geography in the Pacific region and have made over 500 edits. My focus in editing is on accuracy, relevance and importance and on "telling the story".
Whoisjohngalt(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I try to edit daily and mainly focus on business pages and biographies of business leaders in and around the New England area. I also try to keep on top of the different athletic shoe companies. This source would be helpful in the above.
Whoisjohngalt (
talk) 13:55, 6 October 2015 (UTC)#: Hi @
Whoisjohngalt: This resource is "particularly suited for Wikipedia content about the 18th, 19th and the first 3⁄4 of the 20th century in the United States and global topics affecting the United States". Do you think it would be useful for your subjects, which seem to be more contemporary? Perhaps you could think of an example where it would have helped? Thanks
HazelAB (
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13:41, 11 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
HazelAB: While my focus has been more contemporary businesses, I have been limited to this due to the scarcity of resources for editing companies in New England from the 18th, 19th and the first 3⁄4 of the 20th century. I thought this resource would help me in my efforts.
Whoisjohngalt (
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15:26, 12 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Harrias(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Content creating editor, almost 200 DYKs and 49 GAs. Although my editing is typically related to late 19th and early 20th century cricket, I often get distracted by other sports of the same era, including those in the US, and this would be a great resource to aid with that.
Harriastalk08:39, 9 December 2015 (UTC)reply
smmurphy(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I'm not sure if I'm qualified because I work on wp in bursts and am away for months sometimes, but I meet the requirements and love using old newspaper articles in my work. I am interested in (mostly local to me) academics, journalists, and social and political activists mostly before 1950.
Smmurphy(
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Neutralhomer(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been an editor at English Wikipedia since August 16, 2006 and have amassed 66,045 edits as of this writing. I primarily edit radio station articles and focus on those located in Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. I wish it use Newspapers.com to access local newspapers for local sources on the aforementioned radio station articles. Currently, I have FCC documents, but no local info. Newspapers.com would help with that. -
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Fuhghettaboutit(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I am a regular contributor, with about 87,000 edits (including deleted). I write on a variety of subjects (though lately I've been working on a variety of bird articles, and am hoping the content will include articles on particular species): I've had 10 articles, predominantly written by me, achieve good status and 3 have been promoted as featured articles – with a few in the pipeline. I often use research access to help others with their writing efforts here, as well as to check sources for verification. I also spend quite a bit of time checking claimed and suspected copyright violations, which requires access to a diversity of sources. This type of newspaper archive, with the date range has been incredibly helpful to me in the past, such as with
Yank Adams and others focused on sports that were popular in the 1800s and are almost unheard of today (sadly).--
Fuhghettaboutit (
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00:43, 18 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Doug Coldwell(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been an editor at English Wikipedia since December 30, 2006. I have 34,000 edits and almost 400 Did You Know articles. I create articles on a broad range of subjects. I wish it use Newspapers.com to access national newspapers for reference sources for the DYK articles I create.--
Doug Coldwell (
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18:27, 19 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Delabrede(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I am a retired librarian. I spend some hours each day doing research on American artists of the 20th century in order to make articles on ones who are under-appreciated. Most of the time my primary research sources are contemporary news accounts of gallery showings, obituaries, and the occasional interview or retrospective review article. My most recent article is on
Katherine Schmidt. I run into Newspapers.com sources while doing general searches and this makes me confident that access would help me prepare the articles I write. I think the Wikipedia library is an excellent resource and I'm grateful for the opportunity to gain access to it --
Delabrede (
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14:48, 23 January 2016 (UTC)reply
Ibadibam(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I'm requesting access to help my work on etymology sections of various articles, in order to add and improve citations of primary sources where words or phrases were first used, with a focus in American lexicography in general and food and popular culture more specifically.
Ibadibam (
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20:58, 6 November 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Ibadibam: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions in the Wikipedia email that was sent to you on November 16. Thanks
HazelAB (
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19:22, 7 February 2016 (UTC)reply
MinorProphet(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been editing en:WP for 6 years with around 2.5K edits; a number of my interests centre around US and UK history around 1880-1920. I have in preparation a number of draft articles on recondite subjects such as popular entertainment at World's Fairs, the early film industry, and US involvement in exporting Coney Island-style Amusement Parks to Britain and Europe. It would be very helpful to have improved access to the newspapers since they are often the only sources available, rather than the free OCR which merely tantalises and makes you wish for the real thing. I try to create new, well-referenced, in-depth articles such as
The Miracle (1912 film), for which newspaper and trade journals of the time provided a major source.>
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02:43, 18 February 2016 (UTC)reply
MACWILMSLO(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)) Hi, I have been active on Wikipedia for about a year and have done many edits mainly concerned with nostalgic music subjects such as Bing Crosby. The site would be particularly useful to me in checking information from the first half of the 20th century. 29 February, 2016 (UTC)
Acroterion(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been working on articles involving public reactions to public lands, public works projects and architecture in the United States and find that access to newspaper articles would be valuable. I'm a nearly ten-year contributor to Wikipedia, an administrator, and I have written one featured article and a couple of GAs. Acroterion(talk)02:57, 6 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Yoninah(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been an editor on Wikipedia for more than 10 years and have written over 200 articles, in addition to over 45,000 edits on improving other articles. Since the start of the
WP:Women in Red project last year, I have become an active member and am currently working through the redlinks in Women's Hall of Fame articles, notably
Maine Women's Hall of Fame and
Colorado Women's Hall of Fame. I find Newspapers.com an excellent source for biographical information, and would appreciate a free subscription. Thank you,
Yoninah (
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18:07, 7 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Oulipal(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been editing and contributing to Wikipedia content for about 6 years. My areas of expertise include US literature and 19th and 20th Century American art. Access to the American and Canadian newspaper articles and reviews contained in the Newspapers.com archive would enormously benefit my contributions to Wikipedia, particularly in what regards Reception Studies, namely the historical contextualization of works of literature and art through the voices of its coetaneous critics and reviewers. Newspapers.com would be an invaluable tool for the research of these contextual quotations, work on which I have not been able to focus in the past, not having had access to a digital archive such as this.
@
Nmwalsh: This resource contains mostly US local newspapers, and as the scope info above states it is "particularly suited for Wikipedia content about the 18th, 19th and the first 3⁄4 of the 20th century in the United States and global topics affecting the United States". I'm not sure of its relevance to your editing interests. Can you think of an example where access to this content would have helped?
HazelAB (
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15:00, 8 October 2015 (UTC)reply
I am a declared paid editor and I am regularly contacted for advice on content and references from all over the world. I would be very interested in this resource.
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18:34, 8 October 2015 (UTC)reply
AnthroMimus(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I had been working diligently on biographies of 20th century American figures, which have to be culled from Newspapers becaue there are no good biographies in book form. T see how I have done this, check out
Stanley Steingut. I was half-way through
Irwin Steingut and had to quit because my NYTimes account was not sufficient to finalize the project. (I had been using a database put together by an amateur, but it's search feature was insufficient and I could not spend the time going through thousands of hits the database produced.) If I had access to newspapers.com I oculd finish that, and begin on Brooklyn political boss
John H. McCooey, Tammany Hall boss
Jimmy Walker, NY Governor
Hugh Carey and numerous others. You can see that my intent was to take stub or start class articles and flesh them out fully. Nespapers.com, I think, would be the perfect tool for that. Absent a good newspaper database, I have migrated away from such projects and am currently doing 20th century legal figures (which also could use the newspaper database). See, e.g.
Archibald Cox and
Donald Turner. For that project I desperately need another resource (HeinOnine) but the account coordinate there has not visited the application site since October. I am willing to do large text additions and reworkings, but I have to have some research resources to work with.
AnthroMimus (
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14:41, 21 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Many thanks,
HazelAB. This will save me countless hours with the other clunkier and less comprehensive database (not to mention microfilm rolls, ugh!) BTW, in those articles that I have used the other database (which pulls up PDF files of the newspaper page), should I replace the cites to the newspaper.com one? It will be a pain but I can do it over time if you think useful or appropriate. Also thanks for the very prompt response. Cheers.
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22:37, 21 March 2016 (UTC)reply
X4n6(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I bolster, verify, create and occasionally AfD bios (and other articles) and often hit the newspaper dead end. Of course, I could do much more in those areas - but especially in content creation, particularly regarding bios - with greater newspaper access. Thanks!
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23:21, 26 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Finktron(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I would find access to Newspapers.com beneficial because a number of the ace pilot Wiki pages are referenced primarily with links to acepilots.com and other secondary online sources, rather than contemporary newspapers, original military documents, personal biographical accounts, etc. I have been an editor for about four months now. Since that time have created two pages,
Albert O. Vorse, Jr. and
Cecil E. Harris, the former of which has multiple references to Newspapers.com even though I currently only have access to OCR scans of these documents that I find incidentally via Google. Greater access to the full columns and their verbiage—along with accompanying pictures—would go a long way in improving not only the referencing of existing/future articles, but would make research much smoother in the process. US Navy aces, even those with 15 or more credited kills, rarely have Wiki pages. My goal for the next couple months is to create at least 3 more B-grade articles for e.g. Nooy, Fleming and others who have rendered significant wartime as well as post-war contributions. Thank you for your consideration,
Finktron (
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21:09, 13 May 2016 (UTC)reply
Acdixon(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I do a pretty substantial amount of work on Kentucky politicians. Through my local library, I have access to Newsbank, which includes the Lexington Herald-Leader, but not The Courier-Journal. Also, Newsbank only goes back to about 1983. Newspapers.com would fill in these two gaping holes. For example, I am currently trying to create articles for Kentucky Supreme Court justices, and many served prior to the time period covered by Newsbank. This is just one example of how Newspapers.com access would be helpful.
Acdixon(
talk·contribs)15:03, 2 June 2016 (UTC)reply
Pending@
Sicaspi: you didn't provide any reasons to back up your request and you don't actually meet the requirement of 1000 edits. Based on your recent contributions, I don't think this resource would really be a good fit.
HazelAB (
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21:14, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Sicaspi: I didn't know about your contributions to fa.wiki, sorry. We also ask applicants to indicate why they believe the access would be beneficial to them (see the intro text above, before the Apply section). Could you please let me know briefly how Newspapers.com access would help you with your Wikipedia editing? Thanks!
HazelAB (
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22:53, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Sorry I should have added it. I contribute to wiki in many different fields, many times I need to have access to the archive of newspapers, which are usually closed and need a subscription (which I do not have). For example, recently I was working on the article of an Iranian MP who lived 100 years ago, and I had heard that the newspaper "Times" had reported on his activities back then, but I did not have access to its archive. Had I had access to it, I would have improved the article with more material. --
Drako (
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23:46, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Thanks @
Sicaspi: Most of the contents, other than 50 years of the New York Times, are local US papers. Do you think you could use them? I'm willing to accept your application, just want to confirm that you think you and fa.wiki can benefit from what it offers. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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23:58, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
HazelAB There is a problem. I can click on my account, so it shows me I'm signed in. I can change my account settings. It lets me search. Then it tells me I don't have a subscription to view the results. It wants me to click on "Free Trial offer" instead.
— Maile (
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18:58, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Maile66: It is a two-step process. Now that you have registered at Newspapers.com and filled in the Google form I will contact Customer Support at Newspapers.com and they will upgrade your account to full access. This should happen quickly but may take a few days. Once your account has been upgraded, you will have access for one year. By the way NewspaperArchive.com has similar registration system so there will be a short wait for that one too.
HazelAB (
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19:12, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Lemongirl942(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I usually work with sourcing Singapore related articles and since Singapore was a British colony, access to colonial era British newspapers would help me in researching facts. Applying for this as I just got to know that the British Newspaper Archive is no longer distributing accounts. My main work is often sourcing obscure facts about etymology and biographies which do not seem to be available anywhere else and this would be a useful research tool. I am also active at AfDs, so this can help me look up historical facts. Thank you. --
Lemongirl942 (
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14:05, 20 August 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Lemongirl942: According to the resource description above Newspapers.com "is particularly suited for Wikipedia content about the 18th, 19th and the first 3⁄4 of the 20th century in the United States and global topics affecting the United States. The collection includes some major newspapers for limited periods (i.e., 50 years of the New York Times), but mostly consists of regional papers from the 1700s onward. Very few titles go beyond the late 1980s." The great majority of the content is regional US papers. Do you think it would be useful for your Singapore related articles?
HazelAB (
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13:16, 24 August 2016 (UTC)reply
Cloudchased(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Write and edit
WP:WPTC-related articles, many of which pre-1900; due to scarcity of other secondary sources on this topic, would be very helpful to have access to papers from this period. (Used to use the Google News newspaper archives for older storms and LexisNexis for more recent ones not impacting the U.S., but the prior became more difficult to work with a few years back after becoming essentially unsearchable.)
Cloudchased (
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04:27, 26 August 2016 (UTC)reply
Omni Flames(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I mainly would like access to this database to aid in my work on
fried chicken. Although I got it to GA status a couple of months ago, it still needs significant work in order to become an FA. This source would be helpful mostly for the "history" section of that article. I'd also like to work on
chicken nugget after that, and I'd imagine this would be helpful there as well. Additionally, I think newspapers.com would be useful at
WP:AFD and would help me find sources and potentially salvage articles there. Omni Flames (
talk)08:23, 5 September 2016 (UTC)reply
Usernameunique(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been registered for just under a year with approximately 5,000 edits, and have frequently run into the paywall when researching historical/biographical topics. An account would help me find and cite to a broader array of sources, containing valuable information otherwise unavailable online. This is a really cool resource; thanks for making it available!
Usernameunique (
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07:52, 30 September 2016 (UTC)reply
Stevietheman(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I'm a
Top-400 editor in the English Wikipedia who works primarily on Louisville/Kentucky-related articles that are covered fairly extensively by The Courier-Journal, but I am increasingly finding myself hamstrung by the lack of access to archived copies of the C-J. I also sometimes have the need to go back to search for major-newspaper coverage of non-Louisville/Kentucky subjects. I'm finding the web is just too limited to do some of the deep content additions and resolution of dead links (and such) that I would really like to do.
Stevie is the man!Talk •
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Alansohn(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) As a firm believer in adding references to articles, I'm finding that fewer sources are available online and that there are many available at Newspapers.com that are just outside my grasp. The addition of these new sources will help me create, expand and references and allow readers to more easily trace back to the original source.
Alansohn (
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15:50, 26 October 2016 (UTC)reply
MopTop(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I write mostly historical articles, often about notable women, so access to this resource would be helpful. Just recently I was searching for information about the aviator Rose Lok, and found several Newspaper.com articles that looked like they might be useful if only I could read them.
--MopTop (
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20:12, 31 October 2016 (UTC)reply
choster(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Although I am not as active as I was several years ago, I have been engaged over the last year or so in expanding articles about local churches, particularly in the United States. Information about these communities is often very sparse outside of NRIS, and local newspaper coverage of personnel changes, fundraising campaigns, and the like would be helpful. The 19th/early 20th century American focus seems particularly well-suited. -
choster (
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22:37, 3 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Hmm, I may not have opened my account using the special link. Should I re-apply using the right link from the email? It would need to be a different email from the one I customarily use for WP. -
choster (
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20:15, 7 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Ɱ(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have written historical and biographical articles for a while, and have found many useful resources on Newspapers.com. I recently signed up for a trial, which provided me with an enormous quantity of very useful articles, none of which I had found through traditional research methods. The trial has since expired and another editor directed me here so I can continue using this invaluable resource. Thank you.
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MB(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)) I work on a variety of historical articles, including places/events/people in New York State, Arizona, and throughout North America often know there must be more information available in newspaper articles from the period.
MB01:04, 1 December 2016 (UTC)reply
Muboshgu(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Hi, I write great articles, and sometimes about older subjects for whom there isn't much available online except in an archive such as this one. I'm writing an article now on an advisor to U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, and have found some articles in Newspapers.com that would help strengthen the page. This would also come in handy in AfDs, either helping articles be kept or deciding not to nominate them at all. –
Muboshgu (
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19:15, 13 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Canadian Paul(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Hello. Based on
a recent GA review it was recommended that I apply here for access to Newspapers.com, which I thought I had through my university, but apparently I do not. My editing areas are somewhat eclectic, but they do often touch upon American topics from the last 100 years, particularly athletes and coaches and local/state politicians. Examples of what I have worked on can be found
here and my to-do list is right above. I am an active content contributor and I think that the articles I work on would benefit greatly from access to Newspapers.com, as I often find myself limited using regular internet search engines for older topics.
CanadianPaul20:06, 16 January 2017 (UTC)reply
EdChem(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been collaborating with
Doug Coldwell, and we have expanded
Elizabeth Plankinton (
diff of combined edits added ~23 021 bytes, 1 061 words, and 42 references),
Elizabeth Plankinton House (new article,
combined edits added ~16 012 bytes, 1 126 words, and 16 references),
John Plankinton (new article,
combined edits added ~33 000 bytes, 1 896 words, and 62 references), and
Richard Henry Park (
diff of combined edits added ~16 895 bytes, 1 103 words, ~20+ references). Doug has newspapers.com access and has been finding things for me, but it'd be much easier if I could use it myself. We are working towards articles on
John Plankinton House, a mansion refurbished in the 1860s,
William Plankinton House, which John built for his son in the 1870s and was being discussed for preservation in the 1960s,
William Plankinton (the name of John's son and his grandson, who inherited John's vast estate), and
John Plankinton Statue, which is still on display and was recently restored. The access to historical materials from the Sydney Morning Herald (Australian newspaper) would also be useful for some of the materials relating to the
Ensemble Theatre and its history and productions, which goes back into the 1950s. The article on
Hayes Gordon needs expansion, and
Sandra Bates AM and
Mark Kilmurry (the Theatre's only two other artistic directors in its nearly-60 year history) are both notable and their biographies are missing. I have been a Wikipedian for a long time, have made over 12000 edits (all manual),
4630 in the last 12 months, and maintain an over-50%-of-edits-in-article-space-record.
My DYK credits pages lists 49 article creations / expansions, successful nominations of 10 other articles, and other nominations in progress. I have written an FA (
rhodocene) for which I have a
Four Award (having taken it from a new article through DYK, GA, and FA), and developed the biography of
Hans Freeman from a
604 byte unreferenced BLP stub of 66 words to a
25 843 byte GA of 1 391 words with 28 references. Hopefully this is enough to show my commitment to WP content development, my skill, and the benefit from my being able to access newspapers.com content. Feel free to ask if you need any information, or to ask Doug about recent collaborations involving newspapers.com content. Thanks.
EdChem (
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04:09, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Crash Underride(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I frequently help edit and expand or even create articles for current and former players in the
National Football League, and as such many articles require newspapers, especially older players. I've helped get
Kojo Aidoo to GA status (as well as a current GA nomination for
T. T. Toliver. Newspaper access would help with the expansion of players from the
Arena Football League massively as they usually weren't covered as much in college as players in the NFL. I have a user box at the bottom of my user page that lists every article and template I've created, as well as images I've uploaded for Wiki use. I plan to continue contributing to Wikipedia for as long as I can and this would be of immense help. Thank you. (talk page stalker)CrashUnderride14:16, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Carbrera(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Hey. I've written and/or expanded a ton of articles regarding music and would find this tool useful in order to look at possible reviews which would be helpful for certain sections of album/song articles. I've been editing for nearly 2.5 years and was surprised I didn't find out about this until recently. Thanks,
Carbrera (
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00:55, 19 January 2017 (UTC).reply
Rlendog(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I frequently edit articles of athletes and music subjects for which access would likely be useful to source information on a regular basis. I also work extensively on Tree of Life articles for which access to newspapers.com may be relevant occasionally.
15:09, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I tried following the email instructions but I got a message that my email address was already in use. But when I went to the regular login page and typed my email address in it said they didn't have that email address. And when I went back to the original email to retry the link I just error messages and didn't even get to the start page.
Rlendog (
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01:43, 13 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I retried and it appears that the process worked so hopefully this is now resolved. Please let me know if I still do not show up on the next batch list.
Rlendog (
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00:05, 28 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Stratosphere(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been a Wikipedia editor since 2006, mainly dealing with articles related to highways as part of the
WP:USRD project, specifically Michigan and Nebraska. Frequently, historical information is available via newspapers in and around the area in which a route or highway development occurred, so access to newspapers.com will facilitate detailed histories which may otherwise be difficult to obtain. I've recently been working to improve historical information on some Nebraska highways and have stumbled across a couple situations where a subscription would have helped greatly. Thanks!
Strato|
sphere17:40, 6 February 2017 (UTC)reply
SportsEdits1(
talk·contribs·count) Have a background in science, humanities, and research, and could use the extensive newspaper source. Consummate fact checker and objective. I have also edited and written articles on science, history, philosophy, sports, and pop culture in extensive publications, and have been helping
Cake (
talk) recently with articles on early sports history. He recommended I apply for a Newspapers.com account and can vouch for my accumen. A Newspapers account would certainly help me with
WP:V.
SportsEdits1 (
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00:54, 14 February 2017 (UTC)reply
PageantUpdater(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Have already used up two free trials, very keen to use this to be able to add references to pageant-related articles, especially from 1950-2010 where most internet news sources have been archived. A lot of articles are at risk of being AFDed for lack of RS or notability due to lack of sources currently available on the internet where a search of Newspapers.com shows a wealth of material to establish notability. Whilst this subject area meets with a lot of controversy due to some poor editing, I always hope to show there are a few "good eggs" out there committed to referencing these articles, I have just run short of tools to do so. An example from a recent article
[1] , and from one I edited with the help of a newspapers.com free trial
[2] ---
PageantUpdater (
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09:46, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Kaldari(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Editor for 12 years, like to work on biography and history articles, both of which would benefit from having access to local newspapers. I've written some Good Articles and collaborated on some Featured Articles. I have no idea if my local library offers access, but it's very difficult to do things at my local library since they have crappy hours (basically just work hours).
Kaldari (
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01:20, 23 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semmendinger(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Hi! I was just referred to this page as a solid way of getting sources for some of the articles I've created. I have made and plan on making a high amount of articles for Wikipedia Project Library, and in doing so require some histories of libraries and library systems established in the late 1800s to early-mid 1900s. I think this would be a fantastic resource to assist me in adding solid citations to my pages!
SEMMENDINGER (
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14:06, 23 March 2017 (UTC)reply
AmandaRR123(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) User for 4-ish years, particularly focusing on history of underrepresented, most lately verifying citations. Access would help me find citations, especially for underrepresented groups that might be better covered in regional rather than national newspapers.
AmandaRR123 (
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19:35, 3 March 2017 (UTC)reply
Melonkelon(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been using Newspapers.com regularly to find old newspapers articles that are unavailable elsewhere and using it to improve the references of a number of articles, but I have only been able to use trial memberships. Adding citations is something I do often, and it would be great to have a membership. Thanks,
Melonkelon (
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08:22, 3 April 2017 (UTC)reply
BaldBoris(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I'm currently in desperate need for this in my research of the cyclist
Marshall Taylor (1878–1932), specifically putting together an accurate list of his results, which doesn't exist online. Also, I created
Tour de France task force and one thing that we need is to find out who wore each of the jerseys on each of the stages, of which around 15 of the Tour articles have no record. Of the freely accessible newspaper archives, this information cannot be found. Thanks,
BaldBoris05:43, 13 April 2017 (UTC)reply
Jeff G.(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Hi. I have been editing English Wikipedia for ten years and have 96,000+ edits. I frequently need to find more information for mainspace and draft articles and substantiate the information already present. Newspapers.com access would be invaluable in helping me to fill that need. It would also help with my work on Simple English Wikipedia. Thank you for your consideration. — Jeff G. ツ(talk)20:14, 9 April 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Cameron11598: Thanks, it's working, although I'm finding I don't have access to most of my search hits because they are "Publisher Extra" content which is not covered by Wikipedia's subscription. —
Bruce1eetalk10:20, 4 June 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Bruce1ee: Sorry Newspapers.com is unable to provide us with publishers extra accounts due to agreements they have with the various news corporations. We have asked in the past.
19:33, 4 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Mukkakukaku(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - Active on English wiki, simple English wiki, and Wikisource. I actively write articles about airplane crashes, so access to a newspaper archive will be beneficial in this endeavor. I already have personal access to the NYT archive, but having access to additional newspapers would be helpful in providing a more balanced view of the event.
Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû(
blah?)23:59, 31 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Hobbes Goodyear(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email). I actively use Highbeam access to improve article content, verification, and evidencing notability, and will use Newspapers.com similarly. I will follow the recommended method for citing Newspapers.com refs. --
Hobbes Goodyear (
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Zellfaze(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been working on local history related articles. Having access to older newspapers would help with that. Its on of the primary reasons I asked for a HighBeam account. I also help out on
WP:RX where I can and would continue to do so. Please consider me a lower priority over other users though as I already requested and was granted Highbeam and Questia access. I've been an editor for over 6 years and have over 2,000 edits on English Wikipedia and over 4,000 edits across all Wikimedia projects.
Zell Faze (
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13:12, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Zellfaze: looking through your edit history, most of the articles that you have been expanding have been more contemporary than the database specializes in. Do you have a research agenda that would be well matched to this archive? Can you give examples of where you might use it?
Sadads (
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17:00, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
Sadads: I just recently ran an edit-a-thon on
Frederick County History and I'd like to try to do a
Wikipedia in Residency with my local historical society (who I have a good relationship with and helped me advertise the edit-a-thon even). As far as a list of articles I'd like to work on goes, there is a great list over at the page for the edit-a-thon. We barely scratched the surface of those articles (we worked on maybe 10 of them?). In particular the
Everedy Bottle Capper Company,
Frederick Seamless Hosiery Company, and the
OxFibre Brush Company are likely notable and without articles. Further Frederick, Maryland also has a
list of stub Historical sites, which I would love to do some work on. A recent article I worked on,
Frederick Brewing Company made extensive use of newspaper references from the Baltimore Sun and the Frederick News Post (though in this case, articles on this topic were easy enough to find online). The article on
Creagerstown, Maryland could use a little love, as could
Lewistown, Maryland. In particular in the case of
Lewistown, Maryland I would love to find more information about
General John F. Reynolds' march through the town. I definitely have some plans, even if I haven't gotten around to working on all of them yet.
Zell Faze (
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18:14, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Also, I am more than happy to go on the wait-list if someone else needs an account more than me. I have access to Highbeam and Questia already. Plus I am part of my local historical society and have access the library's archives, so in some cases I can find older newspapers through those.
Zell Faze (
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18:49, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Approved No need to put you on the waitlist, especially if you are becoming more active in the GLAM activities. Expect a Wikipedia email soon,
Sadads (
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20:05, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Rambo's Revenge(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Experienced editor with a focus on content creation. Was researching information for a new article, wanted a page from this site and thought I'd be able to ask someone to take a look - found this in the process which would be even better! GAs, FLs and an FA - I like to add historical balance to articles that succumb to online source recentism (
e.g. 1 and
2). Older print media is invaluable for this.
Rambo's Revenge(talk)11:52, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Themightyquill: You are more than qualified, but looking through your recent edit history, you have been focusing largely on maintenance and AWB editing. Do you plan to return to content development? Do you have a research agenda? Could you describe that agenda?
Sadads (
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17:00, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Sadads:. I can see that my recent edit history might look that way. I've slowed down from the content I was producing a few years ago, and the AWB/maintenance looks prominent because of the huge number of edits within minutes of each other, but I am nonetheless still interested in research... I just don't have the same access to research materials that I once did. One of Newspapers.com's strengths is access to newspapers from smaller communities across North America. I could use that to add historical content to numerous articles about numerous towns that lack such content. -
TheMightyQuill (
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01:01, 7 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Ceranthor(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I'm an administrator here with more than 23,000 edits. I've contributed significantly to 13 featured articles and roughly 30 good articles. A lot of the content I deal with involves looking up dated news articles, so this tool would be an immense help for finding obscure sources. ceranthor23:57, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Huntster(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Admin on en.wiki, active on Commons. I'm active within the spaceflight and technology communities, and do some work in biology and music fields. Local perspectives are always a plus to add additional flavour and sometimes esoteric facts unavailable elsewhere. —
Huntster (
t@c)02:30, 3 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
Huntster:Approved: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here,
Astinson (WMF) (
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22:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
@
Oldbeeg:Approved: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here,
Astinson (WMF) (
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22:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Jakec(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Been editing since August 2012 (February 2013 with my current account) and have nearly 13,000 edits (nearly 12,000 with my current account). I've created more than 110 articles to date and remain very active in content creation. My main work is on bodies of water in Pennsylvania. It seems that some of these bodies of water have many hits on newspapers.com. The content could be useful in beefing up the history sections of some of my articles. --Jakob (
talk) 18:57, 6 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Thine Antique Pen(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've edited Wikipedia for a few years, and have created over 9,500 articles about a wide variety of subjects. I have over 120 DYK articles, a number of Good Articles, and have made over 45,000 edits to enwp. I am looking for access to US newspapers in order to get a global perspective on various historical events to improve my future article creations.
Thine Antique Pen (
talk)
21:31, 31 December 2014 (UTC)reply
ThaddeusB(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have considerable experience in creating content with more than 100 DYKs, for example. When researching a topic, I have often found that having access to a source on Newspapers.com would be useful, but didn't realize it was part of the Wikipedia library project until now. --
ThaddeusB (
talk)
20:18, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Alexander Doria(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Admin and long-time user (more than eight years) of the French Wikipedia. I frequently participate to requests to deletion of all kind: this would be a valuable resource to find additional sources. Besides, I have been involved some kind of crazy project where old newspapers would be quite useful: create an article per day since the beginning of the XIXth century (for instance,
10 march 1837).
Alexander Doria (
talk)
23:25, 2 March 2015 (UTC)reply
WeijiBaikeBianji(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I checked the list of available newspapers and the documentation on this page about using the Newspapers.com clip function for citations, and I think I could improve quite a few biographical articles about famous Americans and some articles about cities and towns with access to this resource. Thanks for administering the application process. --
WeijiBaikeBianji (
talk,
how I edit)
23:46, 2 March 2015 (UTC)reply
@
BoBoMisiu:Approved: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here,
Astinson (WMF) (
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22:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Lixxx235(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)I would like access to better source GANs I work on. 3400+ live edits, though admittedly only 1k mainspace. Acfcount created Feb 2010
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Georgejdorner(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been creating new articles for WP since August 2008. With more than 1,300 new articles created, over 42,000 edits, and 39 DYKs, I am a daily writer for WP. Presently, I am working on articles concerning the
Laotian Civil War. Source materials are scarce in this niche; few journalists have written books on the subject. Not only would access to newspapers aid my research, but it would allow me to explore how the Laotian Civil War was presented (or not) to the U.S. public and the world. Since the history of the Laotian Civil War has tended to be treated as a minor sideshow of the
Second Indochina War, histories of the latter are not particularly helpful. I am retired on a limited budget, so have not subscribed previously.
Georgejdorner (
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16:50, 6 March 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Aymatth2: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 25. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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15:20, 8 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Magalhães(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) 80.000+ edits, 3000+ on en.wikipedia, 3000+ articles on the Dutch wikipedia. I write mainly about the Philippines, a former American colony. I expect that access to newspapers.com will provide me with a lot of usefull information about "my" subject.
Magalhães (
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20:46, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Wittylama(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I'm working in particular on the history of the american women's singing organisation "Sweet Adelines International". As you can see from the article I've just published
Sweet Adelines International competition (see also the navbox at the bottom with articles about specific decades' competitions) there's loads of history to the competition around the North American continent, but it's very difficult to find contemporary sources for the earlier times.
Wittylama19:48, 26 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Jefferyseow(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I edit entries related to 19th Century British Malaya (the Federated Malay States, Unfederated Malay States, and the Straits Settlements, especially Penang and Singapore). Sources are hard to find and access to these old newspapers would help.
Hi, @
Jefferyseow: given your subject area, are you sure this resource is relevant? As the description above on this page says, it "is particularly suited for Wikipedia content about the 18th, 19th and the first 3⁄4 of the 20th century in the United States and global topics affecting the United States". The newspapers in the collection are mostly local US papers.
HazelAB (
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13:37, 27 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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Victuallers: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 23. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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21:14, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Smartyllama(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have edited Wikipedia in English for close to a decade now. I have made several thousand edits during that time. I will use my account to add sources to existing material as well as to new material I create. This will especially be true for articles related to Connecticut, New York, college athletics, international sporting events, baseball, (American) football, and other sports to a lesser extent.
Smartyllama (
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21:27, 30 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Smartyllama: I am going to waitlist you for the second round of accounts for this partnership, because you are not very frequently active and other users would likely get more use of this account (though when you are active you contribute to content). Would that be okay?
Sadads (
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17:43, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
Smartyllama:Approved: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here,
Astinson (WMF) (
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22:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Skookum1 (
talk) 10:15, 7 August 2014 (UTC) I generally work on history and geography of the Pacific Northwest, and re history especially would like to be able to review old newspapers from the region about events, biographies and commerce. I have been on Wikipedia since Oct 28, 2005 07:38:30, edited 19,861 unique articles, and have a total of 88,677 edits to date, and created 2,134 articles.
Skookum1 (
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10:15, 7 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Sadads(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I edit way too much (86,000 edits), stick my finger in fixing too many articles, and well... 4 GAs, 20+ DYKs, hundreds of articles created or majorly expanded. I work mostly in literature, but am increasingly doing work in historical sites. In part, I want to help with cleanup on student work as part of a
Public history class I supported in short assignment. In part, I am moving to Vermont in a few months, and have plenty of interest in dabbling in local history to get to know the region. I also, frequently support editathons, etc, where clippings would be a huge boon,
Sadads (
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03:14, 6 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Winner 42(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) While I may not be as experienced as some of the other participants here, with only 13k edits and five years of experience, newspapers.com has web archives of sources relevant to me such as the
Boston Globe and
Lowell Sun as well as historical newspapers. I wish to use these sources to expand
Massachusetts related articles that I work I have been working on for the majority of my time spent on content creation. This resource would also help me get
Massachusetts to GA status which I have been working on for the past few weeks by lending additional press sources that can not found online for free. I hope you considered my request and thank you for your time.
Winner 42Talk to me!13:12, 8 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Buffaboy(
talk·contribs·count) Since my university's subscription-based content is pretty thin, Newspapers.com would be an essential tool for me when developing place based articles relating to New York State, its cities, and U.S. Cities in general. I recognize I am not as experienced as other editors who have applied here, and I also recognize I've only ramped up activity over about a year (here since 2010 however). With Newspapers.com however, I can cite material faster than having to jump over paywalls or find alternative sources regarding news articles on some subjects I can't find in books and journals. Thanks a lot.
Buffaboytalk05:55, 13 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Pending Hi @
Ca$e: Most of the contents, other than 50 years of the New York Times, are local US papers, and there is very little coverage after the 1980s. As the description at the top of this page says, this resource is best "suited for Wikipedia content about the 18th, 19th and the first 3⁄4 of the 20th century in the United States and global topics affecting the United States". It doesn't seem all that relevant to the areas of interest you mention. Is there a particular research project you are contemplating, for which you would need access to older local US papers?
HazelAB (
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14:08, 8 March 2015 (UTC)reply
To give you just 2 examples: Among my areas of my work are the classics of american pragmatist philosophy. Newspapers.com hosts thousands of references to these classics. Another broad area of my work are religious movements, including e.g. evangelical movements. Newspapers.com hosts hundreds of thousands of articles in this regard.
Ca$e (
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18:43, 8 March 2015 (UTC)reply
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Ca$e: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on March 10. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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19:54, 27 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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Ca$e: If you still want to claim your Newspapers.com account, please let me know. If I don't hear from you I will assume you're no longer interested, and the account will be given to another applicant. Thanks,
HazelAB (
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12:37, 15 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Not done User did not respond to renewal offers and account expired.
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HazelAB (
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19:54, 27 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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Wehwalt: If you still want to claim your Newspapers.com account, please let me know. If I don't hear from you I will assume you're no longer interested, and the account will be given to another applicant. Thanks,
HazelAB (
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12:37, 15 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Not done User did not respond to renewal offers and account expired.
Fillthemill(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Working on a variety of historic and cultural pages across wikipedia. Have contributed nearly 1000 edits over 4 yeas, including content in 5 languages, and created 13 new subjects. Planning to do some work around the War of 1812 and 19th Century US finance, including around the under-researched 1890s collapse of
Barings, for which access to US papers would be a great advantage.
Fillthemill (
talk)
10:25, 12 June 2015 (UTC)reply
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Rosiestep: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 23. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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21:14, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Sbmeirow(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Over 41,000 edits and created 71 articles. I've edited every city and county article in
Kansas plus various cities and counties around USA. I've expanded history sections for many cities in Kansas, thus its very useful to be able to search old newspapers to validate content and create references. •
Sbmeirow •
Talk •
04:16, 10 August 2014 (UTC)reply
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Sbmeirow: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 26. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
HazelAB (
talk)
15:20, 8 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Gorthian(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Editing since 2011, becoming much more active this past year, with over 5,000 edits. My lack of access to good reference sources has been frustrating. I would like to use this opportunity to verify notability and accuracy in natural-disaster articles. I also anticipate working on biographies, mostly of scientists. —
Gorthian (
talk)
04:50, 31 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Adavidb(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Thanks for offering newspapers.com access. I'm lately averaging 1000 edits every month or two and am approaching 30,000 edits total. With over 700 articles on my watchlist, I regularly verify new and updated Wikipedia content. Many of my watched articles cover American History subjects, for which this newspaper access would be quite helpful. —
ADavidB16:38, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Cyclonebiskit(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) – Editor since 2007 with ~20 pieces of featured content and ~150 GAs. Briefly had access to this before and it proved immeasurably useful for researching past tropical cyclone events. Allows for the most complete coverage of these storms possible with information provided at the time.
Cyclonebiskit (
talk)
03:16, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Milowent(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email). I've written a few hundred articles over the past few years, and done research to improve many others. An area of key interest is 19th/early 20th century American popular culture, which the newspapers.com database would be a great resource for, as its coverage exceeds that of Chronicling America and fultonhistory.com.--Milowent • hasspoken02:11, 30 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Tucoxn(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have over 6500 edits since 2008, with 9 articles created and 8
DYK credits. I often add references to unreferenced or poorly referenced articles. I write on a wide range of topics, including historical and social events, and people. Using old newspapers would be very helpful for my editing. Thanks for providing this opportunity! - tucoxn\talk02:28, 10 August 2014 (UTC)reply
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Tucoxn: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 26. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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15:20, 8 March 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Tucoxn: If you still want to claim your Newspapers.com account, please let me know. If I don't hear from you I will assume you're no longer interested, and the account will be given to another applicant. Thanks,
HazelAB (
talk)
12:37, 15 May 2015 (UTC)reply
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FlugKerl: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 26. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
HazelAB (
talk)
15:20, 8 March 2015 (UTC)reply
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FlugKerl: If you still want to claim your Newspapers.com account, please let me know. If I don't hear from you I will assume you're no longer interested, and the account will be given to another applicant. Thanks,
HazelAB (
talk)
12:37, 15 May 2015 (UTC)reply
dirtyharry667(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I don't know how many edits or contributions I have, but I have been a member for many years. I have written several articles and have helped clean up several others. My primary interests have to do with corporate history and retail history. My most recent contributions were the August Wagner Breweries page and I am in the process of reworking the Gamble-Skogmo page. Having access to these data bases would be very helpful in nailing down acquisitions and mergers and their dates. THIS DATABASE IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE KINDS OF ARTICLES I WRITE AND EDIT!!! It would have been very helpful in assembling the Gamble-Skogmo article (which is still a work in process). - Thank you for your consideration!
dirtyharry667 (
talk) 3:21, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Tmangray(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)I've been editing for nearly 15 years. Many of the articles I have created or edited relate to local or regional history, and some biographies, for which research and authorities from newspapers are useful and sometimes necessary. Not having to wait for the next trip to the university microfilm archives would be a great relief.
Tmangray (
talk)
18:06, 6 October 2015 (UTC)reply
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Tmangray: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions in the Wikipedia email that was sent to you on October 8. Thanks
HazelAB (
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18:31, 27 October 2015 (UTC)reply
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Connor7617: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions in the Wikipedia email that was sent to you on January 3. Thanks
HazelAB (
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19:22, 7 February 2016 (UTC)reply
Not done User did not respond to signup email or reminders and in any case was indefinitely blocked on 12 February 2016.
HazelAB (
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17:49, 21 March 2016 (UTC)reply
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Dough4872: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions in the Wikipedia email that was sent to you on November 23. Thanks
HazelAB (
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19:22, 7 February 2016 (UTC)reply
I'm having trouble accessing my Newspapers.com account. I forgot my password and attempted to reset it, but never got the email. Dough487202:58, 9 February 2016 (UTC)reply
I got the email but tried getting onto my account using my email address you mailed me with but forgot my password for Newspapers.com. I attempted to get it reset but Newspapers.com never sent me the email to reset my password. Should I attempt to get an account through an alternate email address or is there a way we can fix it? Dough487204:17, 10 February 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Dough4872: You don't actually have a Newspapers.com account. Getting an account is a two-step process. First you sign up at the Newspapers.com site, then you fill in the Google form that is linked to in the email I sent you. You don't seem to have filled in the form, or if you have it didn't get recorded, so I suggest you fill it in again. Once you have filled in the Google form, I will contact Newspapers.com and they will activate your account. Thanks
HazelAB (
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13:17, 10 February 2016 (UTC)reply
rogermx(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)I have contributed to Wikipedia since 2007 and have over 16,000 edits. My primary interests lie in biographies of American organized crime figures. My goal is to provide better references for existing articles by tapping newspaper sources from the early to middle 20th century. Examples of my work includes revisions to articles on
Lucky Luciano and
Albert Anastasia.--
rogermx (
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Rogermx: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions in the Wikipedia email that was sent to you on January 30. Thanks,
HazelAB (
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17:08, 21 March 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Neuralia: This resource contains mostly US local newspapers, and as the scope info above states it is "particularly suited for Wikipedia content about the 18th, 19th and the first 3⁄4 of the 20th century in the United States and global topics affecting the United States". I'm not sure of its relevance to your editing interests. Can you think of an example where access to this content would have helped?
HazelAB (
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14:40, 8 October 2015 (UTC)reply
This page is currently inactive and is retained for
historical reference. Applications and approved users can now be found on
the Library Card platform
The first list is for currently active accounts. The second list is for accounts that were not renewed after one year. The third list is for accounts that were approved but not claimed. The fourth list is empty.
Active accounts
Ravenswing(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Yikes, first on the list? In any event, I've been on Wikipedia nearly ten years and with approaching 40,000 edits, and I'm active in researching older hockey articles and AfDs for which this resource would be splendid, and for which Highbeam is less useful for earlier decades.
Ravenswing 15:42, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
X96lee15(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) – I have been active on Wikipedia for 8 years and have over 40,000 edits. I'm focused on sports and also cities and other subjects in the Midwest. I'm excited to potentially have access to newspaper archives for historical topics. I've recently been interested in adding references, cleaning up and and resurrecting dead links. —
X96lee15 (
talk)
19:22, 20 June 2014 (UTC)reply
Arxiloxos(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Thank you for making newspapers.com content more widely available. I have been editing Wikipedia since 2008, and I have made more than 20,000 edits. I am active in improving article sourcing as well as participating in AfD discussions. Recently I have noted more and more potential sources at newspapers.com, so access to this collection would be especially welcome. --
Arxiloxos (
talk)
18:28, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Juliancolton (
talk·contribs) - in writing my historical weather articles (I have over 20 FAs and 100 GAs in that field) I often find myself requiring access to archived newspaper articles. I'd use this resource on a weekly basis.
Teemu08(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) As a longtime, active user (18k edits over nine years), newspapers.com access would appeal to me. In the past few years I have predominately written articles on local history via the
NRHP Wikiproject as well as Illinois political biographies. Articles in both of these spheres would greatly benefit from newspaper access as I could have contemporary accounts of politicians and construction reports on historic buildings.
Teemu08 (
talk)
20:39, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Mike Christie(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I mostly work on content and have written 40+ FAs. I'd like to get access to old business news reports -- e.g. this company was formed by the merger of these two; this person was promoted to CEO; this company went bankrupt. I do a lot of work on mid-twentieth century magazines, and I am often hampered on the business side by the lack of sources for the mundane details about the companies who owned the magazines.
Mike Christie (
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contribs -
library)
21:39, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
MrX(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - I have made around 44,000 edits and have created 156 articles, including 32 biographies. Newspapers.com would be very useful in finding contemporaneous information about various biographical and historical subjects. I currently use NewsBank through my local library, but it has limited content.-
MrX21:43, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Jweiss11(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been an editor since 2005 and have made over 140,000 edits. Most of my editing relates to American college sports with a particular focus on biography articles for coaches. Access to Newspapers.com would help a great deal with my efforts. Thanks,
Jweiss11 (
talk)
00:41, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Mackensen(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been on Wikipedia since 2003 and have about 50,000 edits. I've written 4 GAs and 70+ DYKs. I'm very active in researching North American railroading topics from the 20th century. Newspapers.com frequently appears as a search result and it would be an invaluable tool.
Mackensen(talk)02:30, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
TheAustinMan(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) – Editor for 5 years, with multiple good articles that are usually heavily sourced with newspaper content as they focus on historical tropical cyclones. I think this resource will be incredibly useful for my article endeavors and will vastly help the project grow in scope and information. TheAustinMan(
Talk·
Works)04:00, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Doremo(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been editing WP for just over 5 years, have created over 900 articles, and have made about 30,000 edits. I would like to make more contributions on local U.S. history, and newspapers.com access would be very valuable for doing so.
Doremo (
talk)
14:21, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Supercarwaar(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been active on the Dutch Wikipedia for almost 2.5 years, and have made over
13,000 edits. In my time on Wikipedia, I've been writing lots of articles about the USA. At the moment, I'm busy with writing articles about New York City skyscrapers, so newspapers.com would be a really valuable rescource.
User:Supercarwaar/signature 14:45, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
EddieHugh(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been active since December 2012 and have more than 4,000 edits. My main contributions are to jazz articles (11 GA; 13 created so far), mainly to biographies of US musicians from the 1940s on. Some of these players had local/regional reputations rather than national ones, so coverage of them is very limited in national newspapers of the time, books, etc. Having access to more local sources via newspapers.com would, I believe, provide valuable extra information for articles on these people.
EddieHugh (
talk)
17:53, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
RL0919(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Editor since 2005 with 24,000 edits, 43 articles created and 2 GAs. Recently I've been focusing on early 20th century theater, and I often run across Newspapers.com when looking for information on plays and actors. Would be very helpful to be able to access these articles rather than trying to hunt the information down from another source. --
RL0919 (
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20:32, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Samwalton9(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been an active editor since 2013, have over 6000 edits, and have created and improved a number of articles (see my user page). This would likely be very useful generally but more specifically for scientist biographies which I have recently been working on.
Sam Walton (
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20:48, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Godot13(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been editing for over 18 months and have written 2 FLs and significantly re-written 2 FLs (in addition to creating other articles). Most of my research is in the history of U.S. banknotes and/or other related areas of numismatics or the history (e.g., art, engraving). I have almost 4,000 edits on Wikipedia and almost 10,000 edits on Commons. Thanks.--
Godot13 (
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14:12, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Lfstevens(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - Hi. I have edited more than 10k articles. I am a member of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors. My substantive edits focus on batteries, materials science, genetic engineering, marine subjects and Hawaii. Many of these are poorly cited - Newspaper.com would be a big help. I have started 50+ articles on such subjects. Thanks!
Paulscrawl(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Editor over 10 years, also reviewer, specializing in carefully adding high-quality citations to existing articles, though I've also created a few. Looking to add more articles as availability of reliable sources for local history permit. Interested in adding Newspapers.com to repertoire for revitalizing dormant Project New Orleans, a city undergoing major structural and cultural changes post-Katrina, as well as adding historically newsworthy citations to assorted topical articles that pass my way, generally literature & philosophy. 19thC coverage of vital primary sources confirmed on Newspapers.com. Thank you for providing this great resource! Open Access Clippings feature is truly awesome and worthy of support!
Paulscrawl (
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18:28, 30 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Perfect for the biographies I write and for the Library of Congress at Flickr Commons project to create articles for Wikipedia. For a samples of the new ones I am working on see my user page. My subscription to Newspapers.com ran out about 6 months ago, and I have not renewed it. I use my personally paid for subscription at Ancestry.com in every biography I write.
Orangemike(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) -- Historian by training, long-time Wikipedian (admin on the English-language Wikipedia) who has created hundreds of articles, with a particular interest in creating content on U.S. history of the 19th and 20th centuries, for which this access would be invaluable. --
Orange Mike |
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Marine 69-71 (
talk·contribs) I have written hundreds of history related articles in Wikipedia. My main interest is US and Puerto Rican military history, US history and Puerto Rican history. I write about historical facts which for some reason have been omitted by history books and have fallen into the cracks of history only to be forgotten. My work in Wikipedia has been recognized by various US agencies such as the Pentagon and by the Government of Puerto Rico. I would like very much to have access to the newspaper archives which I believe can help me further in my work and investigations.
Tony the Marine (
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03:38, 31 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Jrcla2(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Registered/active editor since November 2006; have 145,000+ manual edits, created 1,100+ articles and 600 navboxes. I work primarily on American college sports articles but still dabble in other areas. I've used my Highbeam access to find information unavailable on general Google searching, and Newspapers.com access would help tremendously with historical sports figures.
Jrcla2 (
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17:11, 31 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Jacqke(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)I write a lot of articles dealing with people who died in the 1950s and earlier. For many of them newspaper archives make the difference between a good article and a stub. One example where I have used a newspaper archive in the past is
John Olaf Todahl. That article was completely impossible to write without the newspaper obituaries. Other articles that used online newspapers:
Seattle Cartoonists' Club and
Alice Harriman. Currently working on musician biographies, where old newspapers provide evidence of their notability.
Jacqke (
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19:29, 31 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Neonblak(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - I am currently over 18K in edit total. My area of interest involves pre-1900 baseball figures, and other notable places and events. One of the greatest volumes of information available for this period of time, are newspapers. Having access would greatly enhance my ability to produce quality articles for people that have very limited resources freely available.Neonblaktalk - 06:00, 1 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Dirtlawyer1(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - I have been editing Wikipedia since June 2009, and I have 61,000+ edits to date, of which 53,000+ are article edits. I have four Good Articles to my credit, and intend to use the Newspapers.com account for sourcing article content and creating reliable source footnotes.
Dirtlawyer1 (
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09:41, 4 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Scewing(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - I have been editing Wikipedia for over 7 years, have ~5,000 edits to date, and have created 34 Wikipedia articles. I intend to use the Newspapers.com account to source article content and help create future articles. Thanks for your consideration.
Scewing
Rpclod(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) My first edit was 30 Sep 2006. I have 1,764 live edits on 1,057 unique pages. I have created maybe 6 or 8 new pages, including 1 GA, edited many others, and recently began helping with AfD analysis. The latter is where access may be of most use. Happy to see a lot of great Wikipedians on this list.--
Rpclod (
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20:26, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Laszlo Panaflex(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been editing since 2005, with about four thousand edits. Most of my activity is on history pages. I've also been doing directed research on various figures from University of New Mexico administration and sports. Access to newspapers, especially from the 1960s through 1980s would be very useful to my efforts.
Laszlo Panaflex (
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16:24, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Nyth83(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I do a lot of research for biographies of deceased persons and histories of businesses and access to these archives would greatly help this research.
Hi @
TLSuda: Part of our partnerships is agreeing to the TOC of their databases. Can you confirm that your picture work meets the ToC at
their website. They don't claim PD items as copyrighted, but they do claim access and reuse restrictions,
Sadads (
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17:00, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
Sadads: I have no desire to violate their terms of service and primarily would be using the resource for souring images that have been obtained through other means. Many newspapers included are in the public domain and have been scanned from other sources and uploaded but it is hard for us to verify that information. Additionally, I have recently begun a project of working on some articles where the bulk of the sources are in older newspapers that would be useful to gather information from here. Cheers, TLSuda (
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19:39, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Approved Thanks for confirming, I just wanted to make sure that you understood the image limitations. Expect a Wikipedia email soon,
Sadads (
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20:05, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
John M Baker (
talk·contribs) Access would be extremely useful to me for my work on articles about word and phrase origins. I've been an editor for several years and have done extensive work on articles such as
jazz (word) and
the whole nine yards. In addition, I am an active participant at
Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange and share articles there with requesting editors. In my experience, while other editors often have access to journal databases such as JSTOR, few seem to have access to newspaper databases other than Highbeam.
John M Baker (
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18:14, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Hey @
John M Baker: I am not following how you would use these newspapers as a source. If you are searching back in their database for "earliest" uses wouldn't that constitue
WP:OR? Shouldn't we be using secondary or tertiary sources like the
OED or Google Ngrams for that kind of work. Could I get a little more detail on how access would be useful for you?
While it's always best to use high-quality secondary sources such as the OED, there are not always current reliable sources to address word and phrase origins. Newspaper sources can be secondary sources in their own right, when better sources are not available, as they often provide information on word and phrase origins. In addition, early uses in newspapers and other media are acceptable as primary sources, although they must be used without interpretation. It would not, for example, be good practice to say "the earliest known use of X was in The New York Times on Y date," unless this fact is derived from a reliable source. Finally, and most importantly, it is valuable to be able to refer to the original sources that are cited by reliable sources. A famous example in the field is an article from 1913, "In Praise of 'Jazz,' a Futurist Word Which Has Just Joined the Language." In writing about
jazz (word), naturally I wanted to be able to view and refer to that article (which happily had been reproduced elsewhere), although conclusions about it could be drawn only from secondary sources.
John M Baker (
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22:10, 12 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Approved Sounds good, just wanted to make sure that the database was going to be of use, and how that was the case. Expect a Wikipedia email soon,
Sadads (
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14:52, 13 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Viswaprabha(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I am an editor at various Wikipedias including en but predominantly on Indic Wikis. Access to this library will be much useful to me as I am in constant search for authentic references and citations pertaining to history, science, biographies and Indo-European languages apart from other topics. Thank you. ViswaPrabhaവിശ്വപ്രഭtalk00:06, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
@
Sadads: I am one of the leading editors/ mentors/ content advisers at ml.wikipedia and other Indic projects. (A review of my recent direct contributions may not reflect the effectiveness of my actual contributions as I am spending more time in mentoring and training students and new editors from local communities on focused content with authentic citations). As you may know, we are always short of genuine back references when it comes to detailed information on historic events as they unfolded. I have seen that newspapers, whether they are regional, national or international, have been of tremendous value and use when preparing to write / edit/ refine a serious Wikipedia article on history, especially that of countries of South Asia, South Africa and elsewhere. (For eg: India's freedom movement and personalities involved within that from various regions and cultures). Being able to access newspapers.com will be a powerful tool to overcome this problem. I earnestly hope that you understand the degree of need that we face at communities belonging to less digitized and obscured archives. Thank you. ViswaPrabhaവിശ്വപ്രഭtalk14:47, 12 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Approved Sounds good, just wanted to see a slightly more specific agenda and clear sense of how this particular database was of use to you. Expect a Wikipedia email soon,
Sadads (
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Hi @
DutchmanInDisguise: Looking at your recent contribution history: you haven't been very active in creating new content that would be benefited by this resource. Do you have a research agenda that you could describe for so that I could better understand how you will use the archive? Are their any particular gaps that you think would benefit from this access?
Sadads (
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17:00, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Sadads: You're right. My contributions have been only intermittent. You can see the articles listed on my
user page which I've created, or made major contributions to. Having access to extensive newspaper files would certainly have enhanced these contributions. But it looks like this research tool (Newspapers.com) would be of more value to a "Wikipedia regular", which I don't claim to be.
DutchmanInDisguise (
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16:26, 12 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
DutchmanInDisguise: Pending when accounts become available. You will be waitlisted until more accounts become available. You demonstrate enough regularity, that you qualify, I just wanted a little more affirmation that you planned to use this actively for content development,
Sadads (
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14:52, 13 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Danimations(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I do a lot of work on mining, industrial and natural history subjects. This access would allow me to develop pages of content beyond the borders of my home country of Australia.
Hi @
Danimations:, I am going to waitlist you for the second round of this accounts when they become available because your content focus has largely been Australian/natural history, which should be better benefited from the other Wikipedia Library holdings that you applied for. Do you have a more specific reason why you need access to American newspapers?
Sadads (
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17:43, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
Danimations:Approved: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here,
Astinson (WMF) (
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22:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
@
Ecragg:Approved: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here,
Astinson (WMF) (
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22:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
RoySmith(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been editing for about 10 years, an admin for most of that, but only semi-active for a number of years in the middle. I just passed 10k edits recently. I've become more active recently, spending a lot of my time at AfD. Having access to this database would be a great help when trying to locate references during notability arguments. I accept that notability may be demonstrated with references that are not on-line, but as a practical matter, it is difficult the judge when somebody says, I've found a reference in XYZ newspaper, but you'll have to take my word for it that it establishes notability --
RoySmith(talk)00:21, 3 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
RoySmith:Approved: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here,
Astinson (WMF) (
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22:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
K8 fan(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)I have added a considerable number of references via the Questia and Highbeam accounts I received last year. That is my primary area of contribution. I would like to have access to more newspaper references to get several articles to Good or even Featured status.
K8 fan (
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03:28, 4 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
K8 fan:Approved: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here,
Astinson (WMF) (
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22:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Mabalu(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - Wikipedian since 2008, I have often worked on articles for American fashion designers such as
Nell Donnelly Reed,
Anne Fogarty, etc and have frequently come across hits for these designers on Newspapers.com that I haven't been able to access. I have also come across hits on Newspapers.com during the course of AFDs that I haven't been able to verify, which has been frustrating on a couple of occasions as the articles have been deleted due to "lack of sources" which I feel might have been avoidable had the sources been accessible/verifiable. There are a great many American designers, particularly Winnie and Coty award winners/nominees that I would like to produce more articles on, and Newspapers.com would be invaluable for this.
Mabalu (
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22:31, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
JayJasper(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Editing English Wikipedia for nearly eight years, with 35,000+ edits. I have created several articles, and edit mainly in the areas of US politics, history, sports, literature, music and biographies. Access would be invaluable in providing sources for expansion, improvement and creation of articles.--
JayJasper (
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21:09, 6 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Caponer(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have created 60,880 articles since 20:03, 7 September 2005. Most of my articles are biographies, and I would be able to use newspapers.com for valuable information detailing the subjects of these articles. --
Caponer (
talk) 00:51, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Caponer (
talk·contribs) I have been a registered Wikipedian since September 2005, and because I write articles on historical figures like politicians and military figures and historic places, I constantly come across available information at Newspapers.com that is unavailable to me because I do not have access. I feel that I would be able to craft more comprehensive articles with this source at my fingertips. Thank you for your consideration. --
Caponer (
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17:02, 17 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Caponer: You certainly qualify for an account, but I noticed that your user page says you are semi-retired as of February 2015 (though still apparently quite active!) Can you please just confirm that you're still interested in Newspapers.com? More accounts have just become available. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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14:43, 25 February 2015 (UTC)reply
HazelAB, thank you for your quick response regarding my interest in Newspapers.com. The template on my user page is just a formality, but in practice as you can see, I am still very much active in Wikipedia. I have many more articles on my to-do list, and I also review articles for Good Article status, so this tool would definitely assist me in both endeavors. Thanks again! --
Caponer (
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20:07, 25 February 2015 (UTC)reply
GDuwen(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Autoconfirmed, autopatrolled and file mover user registered in 2007. Seven years in Wikipedia with 8,581 edits (23 GAs). I edit mostly pop-culture related stuff (music, movies), from time to time history or other miscellaneous articles. The articles comprehend mostly topics that range from the 1940s to 1970s, and I'm always on the look for reviews or news pieces from back in the day that are sometimes difficult to find on other sources like Google Books (many times only snippet views are available). I'm an active contributor, and I'm always glad to work on articles of older things, equilibrating the tendency to the recentness of topics. I'm positive that the access to this sort of information would help a lot in creating more complete articles or expanding the existing ones.--GDuwenTell me!16:07, 27 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Approved@
Auric: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here.
HazelAB (
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23:34, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Approved@
Edison: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here.
HazelAB (
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14:19, 27 February 2015 (UTC)reply
MisterCake (
talk·contribs) On Wikipedia 3 years and and have over 20,000 edits. Though I do have other academic interests they seem covered here; most of my edits pertain to American college football in the South in the early 20th century. Access to newspapers would allow one to better reliably source material–for a great deal of the information is from sportswriters..
Cake (
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00:36, 8 November 2014 (UTC)reply
ceyockey(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I am active in rescuing deadlinks and I feel that Newspapers.com would provide content in gaps not covered by HighBeam (I have a subscription to this as well). Thank you for considering my request for an account; let me know if you want to have additional information. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me)
01:21, 13 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Teblick(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been editing for slightly more than one year, with 43 articles created and more than 4,000 edits. My main area of interest is old-time radio. I have found back issues of publicly available newspapers to be useful with regard to both people and programs of that era. Being able to use this database would provide access to even more newspapers that I can use in creating new articles and improving existing articles. Thanks!
Eddie Blick (
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19:39, 9 January 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Sagaciousphil: most of the contents of Newspapers.com, other than 50 years of the New York Times, are local US papers. Do you think they would be useful in your subject areas? Maybe you could give an example of an occasion when Newspapers.com would have been helpful. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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20:43, 28 February 2015 (UTC)reply
HazelAB, one very recent example: after working on
Bile Beans, a small stub was started on
Frank Harris Fulford, who came to the UK from Ontario. I have been trying to track down further information on the very wealthy extended family and some extra information may be able to be gleaned from US local papers.
Emily Gordon Cathcart was a stub I started a while ago that I have always intended to expand; she was deeply involved in the Highland Clearances and, again, a lot of extra I formation may be available via local US papers.
SagaciousPhil -
Chat20:58, 28 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Lentower: Could you be more specific about how this access will help you develop content in the topic areas of focus? What resarch agenda will it benefit?
Sadads (
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13:49, 7 August 2014 (UTC)reply
My editing interests include articles local to Boston as well as contemporary music & science and technology worldwide. I also edit articles as I consult them as a reader. Regularly as I try to find good sources for them I come across sources in newspapers behind paywalls, that I can't access or use. It appears this access would get me behind the paywalls. —
Lentower (
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17:28, 12 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Ammodramus(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been on Wikipedia since October 2009, in which time I've made just over 20,000 edits. Much of my work has been related to my home state of Nebraska: I've added history sections or done major expansions to the history sections of several Nebraska communities (e.g.
Columbus,_Nebraska#History), have worked on biographical articles of Nebraskans (e.g.
Solomon Butcher), and have written or expanded several articles about Nebraska newspapers (e.g. McCook Daily Gazette). I'm involved with
WikiProject National Register of Historic Places, and have worked on articles on NRHP sites in Nebraska and elsewhere (e.g.
Dowse Sod House,
Battery White). I am fairly obsessive about citations for everything that I put on the page, and access to pre-Internet issues of US newspapers would greatly help me, both in adding new content and in coming up with citations for content added by others. —
Ammodramus (
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02:51, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Aoidh: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 23. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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21:14, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
My apologies, I checked the email at work and forgot to follow through when I got home. I've followed the instructions in the email, thank you. -
Aoidh (
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07:02, 4 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Murma174: most of the contents of Newspapers.com, other than 50 years of the New York Times, are local US papers. Do you think they would be useful in your subject areas? Maybe you could give an example of an occasion when Newspapers.com would have been helpful, or something you would be able to undertake if you had access. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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20:43, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
HazelAB:, yes, one example is the uncertain story of the
w:frr:Mary Celeste with three North Frisian sailors on board. A look into original
newspapers of that time should help to get a clearer view on the 'real' story. Another example concerning a North Frisian sailor ist the
mutiny on the ship Braganza in 1838 (no Wikipedia article yet). Up to now I've got little original material from the
AAS, but it's very time consuming for the AAS-staff and much easier, if I could browse the newspapers myself. --
Murma174 (
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21:30, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
SciGal(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been an editor since June 26, 2009, and I have about 1,391 edits. I am interested in using Newspapers.com for articles in
WikiProject:Florida. Most of the rural communities I am interested in have had a role in Florida and American history in the 1800s and 1900s, and there are no archives of local newspapers going back that far. (One news source has a few articles dating between 1901 and 1905; the next range of dates begin about 2012.) I would like to use Newspapers.com to find more information about these communities. Can I please have access to the site?
SciGal (
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20:02, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Racconish (
talk·contribs). I contribute since 2008. Above 11,000 contributions to WPen, 29,000 to WPfr, 56,000 altogether. I am an active mediator on the French project and the access would help suggest consensus orientated improvements. Thanks, — Racconish ✉13:31, 3 September 2014 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Racconish: most of the contents of Newspapers.com, other than 50 years of the New York Times, are local US papers. Do you think they would be useful in your subject areas? Could you give an example of a situation where Newspapers.com would help suggest consensus oriented improvements on the French project, as you mentioned in your application? Thanks!
For example the
1929 Hebron massacre and its qualification by media as a pogrom. Actually, in the process of resolving the dispute on this subject I have completely rewritten the French article on the subject and I am contemplating to propose is as a BA. I am also interested in researching for articles I write on English topics such as Montagu Bronwlow Parker. I contribute also on early American films. I am a member of the Silent Films task force and I am preparing an improvement of the article on the 1916 Sherlock Holmes film, based on the copy which has been found by the Cinémathèque française. Thanks, — Racconish 📥21:08, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Thanks, @
Racconish:Approved Expect a Wikipedia user email soon.
@
Sweet kate: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 23. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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21:14, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Anne Delong: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 24. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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21:14, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Bagumba: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 23. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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21:14, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
25or6to4(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been editing around Wikipedia since 2005, mainly focusing on Highways and the
National Register of Historic Places. My main focus now is specifically on locations on the NRHP that have been destroyed or otherwise removed from the list for some reason. Having access to newspaper archives would be extremely useful to find some of these sites from local sources and find better information on why some sites were lost.
25or6to4 (
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04:51, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
RHM22(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I work primarily in the field of numismatics, although I also venture into other historical areas. I've helped promote nine featured articles, one featured list, three good articles and several DYK hooks. Access to Newspapers.com would be useful because it would allow me access to news accounts of when and why coins were created, how they were received by the public and other important (and often overlooked) aspects of their history. The newspapers help to present a viewpoint which may be overlooked when numismatic writers cover the topic later.-
RHM22 (
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03:11, 4 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Carrite(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Wikipedian since 2009, 55K edits, something in the neighborhood of 250 starts, top 900 on the all time edits list. I've also engaged in something like 5,000 deletion debates, I think. I mostly work in labor history and the history of radical political movements. JSTOR has been a massive help, British Newspaper Project has not. Questia wasn't either. You never know until you try these things... Access to US newspapers would be a boon. Suggestion for the suggestion box: access to NY Times "Times machine" archive would be very helpful for a lot of Wikipedians, including myself. Thanks, —Tim ///
Carrite (
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23:16, 4 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Penny Richards(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Active member of WP:Women's History, WP:Women Artists, WP:Women Scientists, editing since 2011 but much more active in the past two years, >2000 edits, >100 pages created; I often write new entries about US suffragists and other women who got more coverage in local papers than in other sources.
Penny Richards (
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14:33, 5 March 2015 (UTC)reply
onel5969(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I go on binges, usually to help out in an area that is getting behind (like copyediting or AfC). I'm also involved in the film and city projects. While I became a user in 2009, I truly didn't get involved until December 2013. Since then I have over 25,000 edits, including about 200 article creations. I think this would help in the film area, as I do quite a bit of editing on actors and directors, particularly from the 1930s-50s. But it would probably also help on the city pages as well.
Onel5969 (
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21:02, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Thierry Caro(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Admin and fourth biggest contributor of the French Wikipedia. I am active on the American-related topics, with special interest for Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. I created a lot of portals about the US and try to maintain them. I sponsor the aforementioned project to create an article per day of the past 200 years so an access would be very useful.
Thierry Caro (
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14:01, 5 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Wasted Time R(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Ten years on, some 67,000 edits, about 110 FA/GA/DYK articles. Mostly work in 20th century American history and politics and academia, often lately in some fairly obscure subjects. I have access to the NYT archives but access to a broader range of older newspapers would be a great help.
Wasted Time R (
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01:46, 6 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Pending@
Sicaspi: you didn't provide any reasons to back up your request and you don't actually meet the requirement of 1000 edits. Based on your recent contributions, I don't think this resource would really be a good fit.
HazelAB (
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21:14, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Sicaspi: I didn't know about your contributions to fa.wiki, sorry. We also ask applicants to indicate why they believe the access would be beneficial to them (see the intro text above, before the Apply section). Could you please let me know briefly how Newspapers.com access would help you with your Wikipedia editing? Thanks!
HazelAB (
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22:53, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Sorry I should have added it. I contribute to wiki in many different fields, many times I need to have access to the archive of newspapers, which are usually closed and need a subscription (which I do not have). For example, recently I was working on the article of an Iranian MP who lived 100 years ago, and I had heard that the newspaper "Times" had reported on his activities back then, but I did not have access to its archive. Had I had access to it, I would have improved the article with more material. --
Drako (
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23:46, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Thanks @
Sicaspi: Most of the contents, other than 50 years of the New York Times, are local US papers. Do you think you could use them? I'm willing to accept your application, just want to confirm that you think you and fa.wiki can benefit from what it offers. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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23:58, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
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The ed17: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 27. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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13:33, 11 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Amqui(
talk·contribs·count·logs·email) I'm mainly active on French Wikipedia. I write a lot of articles about Canadian and military topics. US and Canada history is often inter-related, so those sources could be helpful. In many articles, I used news article from newspapers (recent ones freely available) to source articles. I developed 14 good articles on French Wikipedia and has close to 40,000 edits.
GauchoDude(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) To be honest, not a clue as to how many "edits" I've got as I don't keep count nor know how to, but it's certainly more than 1,000. I started editing to Wikipedia in college (probably around 2005-2007 somewhere) and have found my focus to mainly be soccer (specifically women's soccer), Santa Barbara (specifically surrounding the University of California, Santa Barbara), and BLP's. I would use the resource to further those goals and any requests put to me.
GauchoDude (
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16:25, 11 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Kmhkmh(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) working primarily for the English and German wikipedia with a total of over 45,000 edits. Access would be useful to verify, extend or write articles on various US locations (history and events in smaller communities), biographic articles and movie/art reviews.--
Kmhkmh (
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05:36, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
@
LaurentianShield: Looking at your editing history, you are not frequently expanding content. Do you have a specific research agenda that would benefit from this access? Could you please better explain it here?
Sadads (
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13:49, 7 August 2014 (UTC)reply
I have about 40 new articles since 2012 or so, most fairly substantial. One was listed in the San Francisco Bay Area portal for a while as a "did you know" which I think exemplifies my research interest. It is about a innovative business manager named
Isaac Friedlander who used new technology to make California into a major wheat producer. This is relatively unknown, and technologically related. I lean towards those "stories" that have a large ratio of practical impact compared to what people know commonly. I use a variety of resources, but historical newspapers a big one.
LaurentianShield (
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22:24, 7 August 2014 (UTC)reply
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LaurentianShield: You have been less active in the mainspace for the past several months. Do you still think you would have much use for Newspapers.com? Please let me know. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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15:24, 4 March 2015 (UTC)reply
I definitely will be picking up my pace of editing at some point. In fact today I am adding two new articles, although neither are going to be using newspaper articles as citations. I do find "citations needed" and dubious claims that newspaper article access would help clarify. It is hard to predict how often that would be. I am not just an editor but use Wikipedia all the time for general research and I am constantly on the lookout for such needed corrections.
LaurentianShield (
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13:46, 19 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Miyagawa(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been on Wiki for more than six years now with over 43,000 edits. I do tend to work on some random things at times, but the primary reason for making this request is to search for reviews of old American television episodes at the time they were originally aired - specifically as a result of some feedback to a FA nomination I'm working with at the moment.
Miyagawa (
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15:13, 19 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Zigzig20s(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been editing and creating pages for many years, usually every day. I add in-line references to almost every sentence and I already have access to Jstor thanks to Wikipedia, which I find very useful and cite accordingly. I would find access to these newspapers very useful to find more info about local listed buildings with WP:NRHP, prominent figures of the Gilded Age and the Antebellum and Postbellum South (
like this), and the early history of California (I am working on early Jews and historic synagogues in LA for example, so access to the Los Angeles Herald would be extremely useful). The NYTimes would also be useful as they do cover topics outside New York, for example
this article about a historic Southern mansion). Thank you.
Zigzig20s (
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00:27, 22 March 2015 (UTC)reply
SusunW (
talk·contribs) I have only been on Wikipedia for about 6 months, but I have written 56 articles and majorly contributed to 20 more. Primarily my writing concerns women, but I do occasionally write articles on men if they intersect with a policy I am researching. I study policy and its effects on women and minorities. Thus most articles I write are on women who are Native Americans, Latino, black, LGBT, etc. I have done major rewrite on 3 very large articles
Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico,
Indian termination policy,
Feminism in Mexico. Because women and especially minorities are not covered in a lot of printed histories, newspapers are a critical source of information. Even more so, I live in Mexico and do not have access to free libraries and especially ones with English references.
SusunW (
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12:50, 11 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Jbhunley(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have had issues with finding newspaper and news articles with the databases I have access to. This would be a tremendous help particularly when looking for public rather than scholarly perspective such as when editing articles where the public and scholarly views do not line up such as politically charged topics like PNAC (where this access would have really helped) or maybe later on climate change. Thank you.
Jbh (
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15:57, 14 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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Jbhunley: This resource contains mostly local US newspapers, with very little content after the mid 1980s. Would it be useful for the topics you work on? The ones you mention seem as though they would require more current sources.
HazelAB (
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17:19, 14 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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HazelAB: Hmmm... I thought they went further... Would the British Newspaper Archive be better? Having access to back issues of old local newspapers would be useful for verifying BLP/BDP articles but I would not want to take away a slot for someone who had a better use for the access.
Jbh (
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17:42, 14 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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Jbhunley: At this point we have more accounts available than applicants, and you meet the edit count qualification, so you can have an account if you think it would be helpful. I just wanted to make sure you knew the resource's limitations. If you're still interested let me know here and I'll approve your application,
HazelAB (
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18:23, 14 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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HazelAB: OK. Thank you. I think it will be useful in at least some things there is a lot of information locked away in old, small town newspapers. At the very it will open up some new areas to contribute. If I find I am not using it I will turn the account back in.
Jbh (
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19:13, 14 April 2015 (UTC)reply
HazelAB(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)) 1,786 mainspace edits since February 2011. My content creation projects include plenty of topics that would be covered in older regional US papers. For example, I'm now on the hunt for information about US-born Canadian philanthropist and baseball fan Dorothy J. Killam. Also, I'm the WPL coordinator for this resource and access would help with troubleshooting.
HazelAB (
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12:15, 16 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Worldbruce(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)) My maintainence and AfC efforts bring me into contact with a wide variety of articles that need work on their sources, in terms of both verifiability and expansion. I cite something found through Google's newspaper archive or through HighBeam Research at least once a week, and would expect a similar level of activity for Newspapers.com. Access could make my work more efficient and allow me to help more articles more completely.
Worldbruce (
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00:59, 20 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Cowlibob(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I am an active Wikipedian with over 8700 edits. I work mainly on film articles, and have contributed to 15 featured lists of Hollywood cinema. Having access to newspapers.com will greatly help me in sourcing information especially for filmographies.
Cowlibob (
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16:04, 22 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Gatoclass(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been a registered user since 2006 and an admin since 2008, in that time I have made over 60,000 edits and authored over 300 articles including about 180 DYKs. Many of my articles would easily be GA if not FA class though I have rarely submitted them to either process. I have been somewhat inactive for the last three years due to increased off-Wiki responsibilities, however, I now have the opportunity to return to a higher level of editing and am looking forward to doing so. Currently, my main areas of interest are ships, shipbuilding, and US businesses and biographies; access to newspapers.com would be invaluable to my research as old newspapers are among my most important sources.
Gatoclass (
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10:03, 2 January 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Gatoclass: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions sent via a Wikipedia email on February 28. If you are no longer interested, please let me know here. Thanks!
NealeFamily (
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02:19, 5 May 2015 (UTC) access to US based newspapers would assist in a number of articles I am editing and revising. I meet the criteria and agree to the terms of use.reply
object404(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Wikipedian for almost 7 years, currently active. My current area of interest is Filipino history, culture & martial arts. I'm currently looking into accessing newspapers and journals published in the US about the Spanish-American war and topics about the American colonial period in the Philippines (Philippine-American War, Commonwealth Period, WWII), as well as 1800s+ American history (like the Mexican-American war). Access to these is difficult from the Philippines. Thank you! -
Object404 (
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16:08, 11 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi, @
Carl Henderson: would you be able to give an example of something you're working on, or planning to work on, that would benefit from access to Newspapers.com? The contents are local US newspapers from the 18th and 19th centuries, and the 20th century up to 1980. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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13:01, 13 May 2015 (UTC)reply
No. I really have no idea what article I'm going to be working on next until I start doing it. I tend to choose articles by hitting "random article" until I find something I think I can improve. I realize that's not a very organized way of approaching article editing and creations, but that's what I do. Articles I've worked on in the past where such access might have been helpful include
Thomas M. Blackstock,
Thomas M. and Bridget Blackstock House,
Hayden Schilling,
Clallam County Courthouse, and
Vernon Jones. I'm also planning to get back to a partially-completed overhaul and expansion of an article on
Alrutheus Ambush Taylor when I can get more information on him.
Carl Henderson (
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18:55, 13 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Valfontis(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Admin with 9 years and 70,000+ edits. I am a content creator (
list of examples) working primarily on historical Oregon subjects from before the Internet era for which reliable sources are needed. I found myself hitting the newspapers.com paywall so often (for example, I've been trying to track down the full names on the
List of members of the Oregon Territorial Legislature, and keep hitting U.S. West Coast papers of the era), I signed up for a pay account last night, but I can't really afford it right now. Thanks for your consideration.
Valfontis (
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17:35, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
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Valfontis: If you still want to claim your Newspapers.com account, please let me know. If I don't hear from you I will assume you're no longer interested, and the account will be given to another applicant. Thanks,
HazelAB (
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12:37, 15 May 2015 (UTC)reply
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GaryColemanFan: If you still want to claim your Newspapers.com account, please let me know. If I don't hear from you I will assume you're no longer interested, and the account will be given to another applicant. Thanks,
HazelAB (
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12:37, 15 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Hmlarson(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I primarily focus on articles related to women's history. Access to newspapers.com would help in retrieving older articles for content development. I have been active on Wikipedia for several years and have made over 9,500 constructive edits. Thank you. [[:|Hmlarson]] (
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19:42, 12 May 2015 (UTC)reply
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Hmlarson: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the Wikipedia email sent on May 13. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here. Thanks,
HazelAB (
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18:21, 8 June 2015 (UTC)reply
Tyrol5(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) This looks to be a really neat resource. I edit fairly extensively in U.S. political history, particularly that of Pennsylvania. One of my focuses has been contributing to Wikipedia's coverage of historical elections and campaigns throughout Pennsylvania. Having access to many of the papers in this archive, like The Pittsburg Post and The Altoona Mirror, would be tremendous in documenting campaigns and elections with the reporting of the day (not to mention a potential source for election returns). Thanks,
Tyrol5[Talk]03:30, 31 July 2015 (UTC)reply
GMTEgirl(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) (
talk) I create articles and edit other articles in Wikipedia mostly associated with companies that have gone out of business in Ontario, Canada and Detroit, Michigan. Because the companies are out of business, information is needed from past texts including old newspapers. Most recently, I started a thread on
edson moore & company and have exhausted all newspaper reference material in google archives and National Archives newspaper database. I believe Newspapers.com would provide further information to improve this article and others. thanks.
Roman Spinner(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been editing Wikipedia on almost-daily basis for nearly 10 years (since January 2006). Edit count at "Preferences": 22,430. Numerous contributions in areas of film, television, history and politics. Access to Newspapers.com would be especially helpful to establish an exact date of death for 19th century figures whose obituary proves difficult to find in other resources, such as Google archive. The "Clippings" form is a particularly useful function which, upon gaining access, I would use for every applicable future edit.
—Roman Spinner(talk)(contribs)17:08, 24 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
MrLinkinPark333: Could you please explain how your plan to use this source for content development? From looking at your recent user contributions, and based on your description of activities, your are mostly working on administrative tasks. As a relatively young account, it would be preferable to have examples of your work with content expansion,
Sadads (
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17:00, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
MrLinkinPark333: My main concern with that example, is that the sources you found, never became part of the article. We want this content to be used actively through editing articles for expansion. Can you please provide an example of that?
Sadads (
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14:52, 13 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
MrLinkinPark333: If you are still interested in a Newspapers.com account please let me know here. The content is mostly local US newspapers with little coverage after the 1970s to early 80s. Thanks
HazelAB (
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17:36, 7 October 2015 (UTC)reply
CNMall41(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - I have been absent from Wiki for a while but now I am retired and have more time to dedicate to the site. You can see that I have more than 500 edits and would like access to Newspapers.com as many of the edits I make deal with older archived work for musicians. Some of them are difficult to find and I actually came across some references in the past from Newspapers.com but was unable to retrieve them. Thanks for evaluating my request. --
CNMall41 (
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06:12, 6 October 2015 (UTC)reply
LowSelfEstidle(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I enjoy researching to improve English articles of a variety of favourite topics of mine, including films, biographies, and music related articles. Having a resource such as this would be a tremendous help and would encourage me to spend more time researching and improving content to the articles I enjoy working on! Many thanks.
LowSelfEstidle (
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08:51, 6 October 2015 (UTC)reply
srwalden(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Hi, I am applying for access to Newspapers.com because, as a historian of Colorado with an emphasis on transporation, newspapers, especially local ones are a prime source of information on noteworthy events. I have been a member of
Wikiproject Colorado for many years, but because of my physical disability, my contributions have been less than what I had hoped. I would like to be able to reference and crosscheck newspaper sources when reading articles and use it to improve articles with inline citations, a service I have consistently, if slowly, provided to Wikipedia as an editor. I would like to discuss my disability in detail so you can make a more informed decision about my application, but to do so privately. -
Srwalden (
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16:50, 2 May 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Srwalden: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the Wikipedia email sent on May 6. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here. Thanks,
HazelAB (
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18:21, 8 June 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Srwalden: please let me know if you plan to take up your Newspapers.com account. If I don't hear from you I will assume you are no longer interested and the account will be given to another user. Thanks
HazelAB (
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18:12, 7 October 2015 (UTC)reply
I am definitely interested! I couldn't figure out what happened to my instructions for signing up. I think I deleted them. I still have a need for that account as a Wikipedia editor, but fell back to old habits. Can you re-send the instructions or, if that doesn't work, figure out an alternative means of getting me signed up?
Srwalden (
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10:15, 8 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Lost on Belmont(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) My work tends to focus on articles related to aspects of the history of the rail portions Chicago's public transit system. This usually relates to articles revolving around the
Chicago "L" but also the
Metra system and the
South Shore Line. I also work on and maintain articles on the
interurban lines in and around Chicago. For the most part, these articles are "Start" or "Stub" class. Improving and expanding them is dependent upon sources which are often in local, obscure newspapers from the early 20th Century.
Lost on Belmont 3200N1000W (
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22:21, 6 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Patrickneil(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Modern history is surprisingly difficult to get
WP:RS on, and we need newspaper for many articles here. One example that comes to mind is a sports championship from the turn of the century that I was writing about recently. Its notable, but no one's written a book about it, so we need the news from the time. Thanks!--
Patrick,
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Xb2u7Zjzc32: please let me know if you plan to take up your Newspapers.com account. If I don't hear from you I will assume you are no longer interested and the account will be given to another user. Thanks
HazelAB (
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18:12, 7 October 2015 (UTC)reply
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Xb2u7Zjzc32: Registration is a two-part process. Now that you have registered at Newspapers.com and filled in the Google form I will contact Customer Support at Newspapers.com and they will upgrade your account to full access. This should happen this week.
HazelAB (
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11:49, 13 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Iloilo Wanderer(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Most of my edits and nearly all of my articles focus on the Philippines, particularly the American Colonial Period in the Philippines from 1898 to 1946. Those articles which are explicitly about the American Colonial Era often are about institutions with a history that starts with the era. Many of the Philippine-related articles suffer from a lack of historical depth. --
Iloilo Wanderer (
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14:05, 8 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Mkdw(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - I work in a wide range of articles from historical figures, to neologisms, and social issues. Most commonly I often work in deletion and routinely use reliable sources to determine the notability of a subject and help improve them when required. I've been on the project since 2006.
Mkdwtalk14:05, 7 August 2014 (UTC)reply
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Mkdw: You have been less active in the mainspace for the past several months. Do you think you would have much use for Newspapers.com? Please let me know.
HazelAB (
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14:11, 27 February 2015 (UTC)reply
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HazelAB:I've recently returned from several months of traveling but I'm not certain what my activity will be like in the coming months. Please put me at the bottom of the waitlist should there ever be more accounts than people on the list, then I'll take up a spot. Cheers,
Mkdwtalk17:57, 27 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Dovid(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been editing WP for a decade and have over 2,000 edits. My editing interests are eclectic, but often include historical subjects from the 1600s through the 1900s. As an example of where access would be useful, I recently worked on articles relating to
Hog Island (New York), and had to rely on tertiary sources, such as a recent newspaper account that itself referenced an inaccessible old newspaper account of a hurricane in the late 1800s. Having direct access to that source would make this sort of editing much easier, and allow direct reference to the original source instead of indirect referencing. It would also improve article depth and possibly accuracy. Older records are often less precise than those made today, and it is beneficial to have easy access to multiple contemporaneous sources.
Dovid (
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19:33, 9 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Surfsupusa(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I mostly make contributions to history and geography in the Pacific region and have made over 500 edits. My focus in editing is on accuracy, relevance and importance and on "telling the story".
Whoisjohngalt(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I try to edit daily and mainly focus on business pages and biographies of business leaders in and around the New England area. I also try to keep on top of the different athletic shoe companies. This source would be helpful in the above.
Whoisjohngalt (
talk) 13:55, 6 October 2015 (UTC)#: Hi @
Whoisjohngalt: This resource is "particularly suited for Wikipedia content about the 18th, 19th and the first 3⁄4 of the 20th century in the United States and global topics affecting the United States". Do you think it would be useful for your subjects, which seem to be more contemporary? Perhaps you could think of an example where it would have helped? Thanks
HazelAB (
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13:41, 11 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
HazelAB: While my focus has been more contemporary businesses, I have been limited to this due to the scarcity of resources for editing companies in New England from the 18th, 19th and the first 3⁄4 of the 20th century. I thought this resource would help me in my efforts.
Whoisjohngalt (
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15:26, 12 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Harrias(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Content creating editor, almost 200 DYKs and 49 GAs. Although my editing is typically related to late 19th and early 20th century cricket, I often get distracted by other sports of the same era, including those in the US, and this would be a great resource to aid with that.
Harriastalk08:39, 9 December 2015 (UTC)reply
smmurphy(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I'm not sure if I'm qualified because I work on wp in bursts and am away for months sometimes, but I meet the requirements and love using old newspaper articles in my work. I am interested in (mostly local to me) academics, journalists, and social and political activists mostly before 1950.
Smmurphy(
Talk)15:13, 12 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Neutralhomer(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been an editor at English Wikipedia since August 16, 2006 and have amassed 66,045 edits as of this writing. I primarily edit radio station articles and focus on those located in Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. I wish it use Newspapers.com to access local newspapers for local sources on the aforementioned radio station articles. Currently, I have FCC documents, but no local info. Newspapers.com would help with that. -
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07:29, 14 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Fuhghettaboutit(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I am a regular contributor, with about 87,000 edits (including deleted). I write on a variety of subjects (though lately I've been working on a variety of bird articles, and am hoping the content will include articles on particular species): I've had 10 articles, predominantly written by me, achieve good status and 3 have been promoted as featured articles – with a few in the pipeline. I often use research access to help others with their writing efforts here, as well as to check sources for verification. I also spend quite a bit of time checking claimed and suspected copyright violations, which requires access to a diversity of sources. This type of newspaper archive, with the date range has been incredibly helpful to me in the past, such as with
Yank Adams and others focused on sports that were popular in the 1800s and are almost unheard of today (sadly).--
Fuhghettaboutit (
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00:43, 18 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Doug Coldwell(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been an editor at English Wikipedia since December 30, 2006. I have 34,000 edits and almost 400 Did You Know articles. I create articles on a broad range of subjects. I wish it use Newspapers.com to access national newspapers for reference sources for the DYK articles I create.--
Doug Coldwell (
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18:27, 19 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Delabrede(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I am a retired librarian. I spend some hours each day doing research on American artists of the 20th century in order to make articles on ones who are under-appreciated. Most of the time my primary research sources are contemporary news accounts of gallery showings, obituaries, and the occasional interview or retrospective review article. My most recent article is on
Katherine Schmidt. I run into Newspapers.com sources while doing general searches and this makes me confident that access would help me prepare the articles I write. I think the Wikipedia library is an excellent resource and I'm grateful for the opportunity to gain access to it --
Delabrede (
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14:48, 23 January 2016 (UTC)reply
Ibadibam(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I'm requesting access to help my work on etymology sections of various articles, in order to add and improve citations of primary sources where words or phrases were first used, with a focus in American lexicography in general and food and popular culture more specifically.
Ibadibam (
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20:58, 6 November 2015 (UTC)reply
@
Ibadibam: If you are still interested in getting a Newspapers.com account, please follow the instructions in the Wikipedia email that was sent to you on November 16. Thanks
HazelAB (
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19:22, 7 February 2016 (UTC)reply
MinorProphet(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been editing en:WP for 6 years with around 2.5K edits; a number of my interests centre around US and UK history around 1880-1920. I have in preparation a number of draft articles on recondite subjects such as popular entertainment at World's Fairs, the early film industry, and US involvement in exporting Coney Island-style Amusement Parks to Britain and Europe. It would be very helpful to have improved access to the newspapers since they are often the only sources available, rather than the free OCR which merely tantalises and makes you wish for the real thing. I try to create new, well-referenced, in-depth articles such as
The Miracle (1912 film), for which newspaper and trade journals of the time provided a major source.>
MinorProphet (
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02:43, 18 February 2016 (UTC)reply
MACWILMSLO(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)) Hi, I have been active on Wikipedia for about a year and have done many edits mainly concerned with nostalgic music subjects such as Bing Crosby. The site would be particularly useful to me in checking information from the first half of the 20th century. 29 February, 2016 (UTC)
Acroterion(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been working on articles involving public reactions to public lands, public works projects and architecture in the United States and find that access to newspaper articles would be valuable. I'm a nearly ten-year contributor to Wikipedia, an administrator, and I have written one featured article and a couple of GAs. Acroterion(talk)02:57, 6 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Yoninah(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been an editor on Wikipedia for more than 10 years and have written over 200 articles, in addition to over 45,000 edits on improving other articles. Since the start of the
WP:Women in Red project last year, I have become an active member and am currently working through the redlinks in Women's Hall of Fame articles, notably
Maine Women's Hall of Fame and
Colorado Women's Hall of Fame. I find Newspapers.com an excellent source for biographical information, and would appreciate a free subscription. Thank you,
Yoninah (
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18:07, 7 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Oulipal(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been editing and contributing to Wikipedia content for about 6 years. My areas of expertise include US literature and 19th and 20th Century American art. Access to the American and Canadian newspaper articles and reviews contained in the Newspapers.com archive would enormously benefit my contributions to Wikipedia, particularly in what regards Reception Studies, namely the historical contextualization of works of literature and art through the voices of its coetaneous critics and reviewers. Newspapers.com would be an invaluable tool for the research of these contextual quotations, work on which I have not been able to focus in the past, not having had access to a digital archive such as this.
@
Nmwalsh: This resource contains mostly US local newspapers, and as the scope info above states it is "particularly suited for Wikipedia content about the 18th, 19th and the first 3⁄4 of the 20th century in the United States and global topics affecting the United States". I'm not sure of its relevance to your editing interests. Can you think of an example where access to this content would have helped?
HazelAB (
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15:00, 8 October 2015 (UTC)reply
I am a declared paid editor and I am regularly contacted for advice on content and references from all over the world. I would be very interested in this resource.
Nmwalsh (
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18:34, 8 October 2015 (UTC)reply
AnthroMimus(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I had been working diligently on biographies of 20th century American figures, which have to be culled from Newspapers becaue there are no good biographies in book form. T see how I have done this, check out
Stanley Steingut. I was half-way through
Irwin Steingut and had to quit because my NYTimes account was not sufficient to finalize the project. (I had been using a database put together by an amateur, but it's search feature was insufficient and I could not spend the time going through thousands of hits the database produced.) If I had access to newspapers.com I oculd finish that, and begin on Brooklyn political boss
John H. McCooey, Tammany Hall boss
Jimmy Walker, NY Governor
Hugh Carey and numerous others. You can see that my intent was to take stub or start class articles and flesh them out fully. Nespapers.com, I think, would be the perfect tool for that. Absent a good newspaper database, I have migrated away from such projects and am currently doing 20th century legal figures (which also could use the newspaper database). See, e.g.
Archibald Cox and
Donald Turner. For that project I desperately need another resource (HeinOnine) but the account coordinate there has not visited the application site since October. I am willing to do large text additions and reworkings, but I have to have some research resources to work with.
AnthroMimus (
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14:41, 21 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Many thanks,
HazelAB. This will save me countless hours with the other clunkier and less comprehensive database (not to mention microfilm rolls, ugh!) BTW, in those articles that I have used the other database (which pulls up PDF files of the newspaper page), should I replace the cites to the newspaper.com one? It will be a pain but I can do it over time if you think useful or appropriate. Also thanks for the very prompt response. Cheers.
AnthroMimus (
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22:37, 21 March 2016 (UTC)reply
X4n6(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I bolster, verify, create and occasionally AfD bios (and other articles) and often hit the newspaper dead end. Of course, I could do much more in those areas - but especially in content creation, particularly regarding bios - with greater newspaper access. Thanks!
X4n6 (
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23:21, 26 March 2016 (UTC)reply
Finktron(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I would find access to Newspapers.com beneficial because a number of the ace pilot Wiki pages are referenced primarily with links to acepilots.com and other secondary online sources, rather than contemporary newspapers, original military documents, personal biographical accounts, etc. I have been an editor for about four months now. Since that time have created two pages,
Albert O. Vorse, Jr. and
Cecil E. Harris, the former of which has multiple references to Newspapers.com even though I currently only have access to OCR scans of these documents that I find incidentally via Google. Greater access to the full columns and their verbiage—along with accompanying pictures—would go a long way in improving not only the referencing of existing/future articles, but would make research much smoother in the process. US Navy aces, even those with 15 or more credited kills, rarely have Wiki pages. My goal for the next couple months is to create at least 3 more B-grade articles for e.g. Nooy, Fleming and others who have rendered significant wartime as well as post-war contributions. Thank you for your consideration,
Finktron (
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21:09, 13 May 2016 (UTC)reply
Acdixon(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I do a pretty substantial amount of work on Kentucky politicians. Through my local library, I have access to Newsbank, which includes the Lexington Herald-Leader, but not The Courier-Journal. Also, Newsbank only goes back to about 1983. Newspapers.com would fill in these two gaping holes. For example, I am currently trying to create articles for Kentucky Supreme Court justices, and many served prior to the time period covered by Newsbank. This is just one example of how Newspapers.com access would be helpful.
Acdixon(
talk·contribs)15:03, 2 June 2016 (UTC)reply
Pending@
Sicaspi: you didn't provide any reasons to back up your request and you don't actually meet the requirement of 1000 edits. Based on your recent contributions, I don't think this resource would really be a good fit.
HazelAB (
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21:14, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Sicaspi: I didn't know about your contributions to fa.wiki, sorry. We also ask applicants to indicate why they believe the access would be beneficial to them (see the intro text above, before the Apply section). Could you please let me know briefly how Newspapers.com access would help you with your Wikipedia editing? Thanks!
HazelAB (
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22:53, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Sorry I should have added it. I contribute to wiki in many different fields, many times I need to have access to the archive of newspapers, which are usually closed and need a subscription (which I do not have). For example, recently I was working on the article of an Iranian MP who lived 100 years ago, and I had heard that the newspaper "Times" had reported on his activities back then, but I did not have access to its archive. Had I had access to it, I would have improved the article with more material. --
Drako (
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23:46, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Thanks @
Sicaspi: Most of the contents, other than 50 years of the New York Times, are local US papers. Do you think you could use them? I'm willing to accept your application, just want to confirm that you think you and fa.wiki can benefit from what it offers. Thanks!
HazelAB (
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23:58, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
HazelAB There is a problem. I can click on my account, so it shows me I'm signed in. I can change my account settings. It lets me search. Then it tells me I don't have a subscription to view the results. It wants me to click on "Free Trial offer" instead.
— Maile (
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18:58, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Maile66: It is a two-step process. Now that you have registered at Newspapers.com and filled in the Google form I will contact Customer Support at Newspapers.com and they will upgrade your account to full access. This should happen quickly but may take a few days. Once your account has been upgraded, you will have access for one year. By the way NewspaperArchive.com has similar registration system so there will be a short wait for that one too.
HazelAB (
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19:12, 21 July 2016 (UTC)reply
Lemongirl942(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I usually work with sourcing Singapore related articles and since Singapore was a British colony, access to colonial era British newspapers would help me in researching facts. Applying for this as I just got to know that the British Newspaper Archive is no longer distributing accounts. My main work is often sourcing obscure facts about etymology and biographies which do not seem to be available anywhere else and this would be a useful research tool. I am also active at AfDs, so this can help me look up historical facts. Thank you. --
Lemongirl942 (
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14:05, 20 August 2016 (UTC)reply
@
Lemongirl942: According to the resource description above Newspapers.com "is particularly suited for Wikipedia content about the 18th, 19th and the first 3⁄4 of the 20th century in the United States and global topics affecting the United States. The collection includes some major newspapers for limited periods (i.e., 50 years of the New York Times), but mostly consists of regional papers from the 1700s onward. Very few titles go beyond the late 1980s." The great majority of the content is regional US papers. Do you think it would be useful for your Singapore related articles?
HazelAB (
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13:16, 24 August 2016 (UTC)reply
Cloudchased(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Write and edit
WP:WPTC-related articles, many of which pre-1900; due to scarcity of other secondary sources on this topic, would be very helpful to have access to papers from this period. (Used to use the Google News newspaper archives for older storms and LexisNexis for more recent ones not impacting the U.S., but the prior became more difficult to work with a few years back after becoming essentially unsearchable.)
Cloudchased (
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04:27, 26 August 2016 (UTC)reply
Omni Flames(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I mainly would like access to this database to aid in my work on
fried chicken. Although I got it to GA status a couple of months ago, it still needs significant work in order to become an FA. This source would be helpful mostly for the "history" section of that article. I'd also like to work on
chicken nugget after that, and I'd imagine this would be helpful there as well. Additionally, I think newspapers.com would be useful at
WP:AFD and would help me find sources and potentially salvage articles there. Omni Flames (
talk)08:23, 5 September 2016 (UTC)reply
Usernameunique(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been registered for just under a year with approximately 5,000 edits, and have frequently run into the paywall when researching historical/biographical topics. An account would help me find and cite to a broader array of sources, containing valuable information otherwise unavailable online. This is a really cool resource; thanks for making it available!
Usernameunique (
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07:52, 30 September 2016 (UTC)reply
Stevietheman(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I'm a
Top-400 editor in the English Wikipedia who works primarily on Louisville/Kentucky-related articles that are covered fairly extensively by The Courier-Journal, but I am increasingly finding myself hamstrung by the lack of access to archived copies of the C-J. I also sometimes have the need to go back to search for major-newspaper coverage of non-Louisville/Kentucky subjects. I'm finding the web is just too limited to do some of the deep content additions and resolution of dead links (and such) that I would really like to do.
Stevie is the man!Talk •
Work21:18, 18 October 2016 (UTC)reply
Alansohn(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) As a firm believer in adding references to articles, I'm finding that fewer sources are available online and that there are many available at Newspapers.com that are just outside my grasp. The addition of these new sources will help me create, expand and references and allow readers to more easily trace back to the original source.
Alansohn (
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15:50, 26 October 2016 (UTC)reply
MopTop(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I write mostly historical articles, often about notable women, so access to this resource would be helpful. Just recently I was searching for information about the aviator Rose Lok, and found several Newspaper.com articles that looked like they might be useful if only I could read them.
--MopTop (
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20:12, 31 October 2016 (UTC)reply
choster(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Although I am not as active as I was several years ago, I have been engaged over the last year or so in expanding articles about local churches, particularly in the United States. Information about these communities is often very sparse outside of NRIS, and local newspaper coverage of personnel changes, fundraising campaigns, and the like would be helpful. The 19th/early 20th century American focus seems particularly well-suited. -
choster (
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22:37, 3 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Hmm, I may not have opened my account using the special link. Should I re-apply using the right link from the email? It would need to be a different email from the one I customarily use for WP. -
choster (
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20:15, 7 November 2016 (UTC)reply
Ɱ(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have written historical and biographical articles for a while, and have found many useful resources on Newspapers.com. I recently signed up for a trial, which provided me with an enormous quantity of very useful articles, none of which I had found through traditional research methods. The trial has since expired and another editor directed me here so I can continue using this invaluable resource. Thank you.
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vbm ·
coi)19:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)reply
MB(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)) I work on a variety of historical articles, including places/events/people in New York State, Arizona, and throughout North America often know there must be more information available in newspaper articles from the period.
MB01:04, 1 December 2016 (UTC)reply
Muboshgu(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Hi, I write great articles, and sometimes about older subjects for whom there isn't much available online except in an archive such as this one. I'm writing an article now on an advisor to U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, and have found some articles in Newspapers.com that would help strengthen the page. This would also come in handy in AfDs, either helping articles be kept or deciding not to nominate them at all. –
Muboshgu (
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19:15, 13 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Canadian Paul(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Hello. Based on
a recent GA review it was recommended that I apply here for access to Newspapers.com, which I thought I had through my university, but apparently I do not. My editing areas are somewhat eclectic, but they do often touch upon American topics from the last 100 years, particularly athletes and coaches and local/state politicians. Examples of what I have worked on can be found
here and my to-do list is right above. I am an active content contributor and I think that the articles I work on would benefit greatly from access to Newspapers.com, as I often find myself limited using regular internet search engines for older topics.
CanadianPaul20:06, 16 January 2017 (UTC)reply
EdChem(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been collaborating with
Doug Coldwell, and we have expanded
Elizabeth Plankinton (
diff of combined edits added ~23 021 bytes, 1 061 words, and 42 references),
Elizabeth Plankinton House (new article,
combined edits added ~16 012 bytes, 1 126 words, and 16 references),
John Plankinton (new article,
combined edits added ~33 000 bytes, 1 896 words, and 62 references), and
Richard Henry Park (
diff of combined edits added ~16 895 bytes, 1 103 words, ~20+ references). Doug has newspapers.com access and has been finding things for me, but it'd be much easier if I could use it myself. We are working towards articles on
John Plankinton House, a mansion refurbished in the 1860s,
William Plankinton House, which John built for his son in the 1870s and was being discussed for preservation in the 1960s,
William Plankinton (the name of John's son and his grandson, who inherited John's vast estate), and
John Plankinton Statue, which is still on display and was recently restored. The access to historical materials from the Sydney Morning Herald (Australian newspaper) would also be useful for some of the materials relating to the
Ensemble Theatre and its history and productions, which goes back into the 1950s. The article on
Hayes Gordon needs expansion, and
Sandra Bates AM and
Mark Kilmurry (the Theatre's only two other artistic directors in its nearly-60 year history) are both notable and their biographies are missing. I have been a Wikipedian for a long time, have made over 12000 edits (all manual),
4630 in the last 12 months, and maintain an over-50%-of-edits-in-article-space-record.
My DYK credits pages lists 49 article creations / expansions, successful nominations of 10 other articles, and other nominations in progress. I have written an FA (
rhodocene) for which I have a
Four Award (having taken it from a new article through DYK, GA, and FA), and developed the biography of
Hans Freeman from a
604 byte unreferenced BLP stub of 66 words to a
25 843 byte GA of 1 391 words with 28 references. Hopefully this is enough to show my commitment to WP content development, my skill, and the benefit from my being able to access newspapers.com content. Feel free to ask if you need any information, or to ask Doug about recent collaborations involving newspapers.com content. Thanks.
EdChem (
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04:09, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Crash Underride(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I frequently help edit and expand or even create articles for current and former players in the
National Football League, and as such many articles require newspapers, especially older players. I've helped get
Kojo Aidoo to GA status (as well as a current GA nomination for
T. T. Toliver. Newspaper access would help with the expansion of players from the
Arena Football League massively as they usually weren't covered as much in college as players in the NFL. I have a user box at the bottom of my user page that lists every article and template I've created, as well as images I've uploaded for Wiki use. I plan to continue contributing to Wikipedia for as long as I can and this would be of immense help. Thank you. (talk page stalker)CrashUnderride14:16, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Carbrera(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Hey. I've written and/or expanded a ton of articles regarding music and would find this tool useful in order to look at possible reviews which would be helpful for certain sections of album/song articles. I've been editing for nearly 2.5 years and was surprised I didn't find out about this until recently. Thanks,
Carbrera (
talk)
00:55, 19 January 2017 (UTC).reply
Rlendog(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I frequently edit articles of athletes and music subjects for which access would likely be useful to source information on a regular basis. I also work extensively on Tree of Life articles for which access to newspapers.com may be relevant occasionally.
15:09, 1 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I tried following the email instructions but I got a message that my email address was already in use. But when I went to the regular login page and typed my email address in it said they didn't have that email address. And when I went back to the original email to retry the link I just error messages and didn't even get to the start page.
Rlendog (
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01:43, 13 February 2017 (UTC)reply
I retried and it appears that the process worked so hopefully this is now resolved. Please let me know if I still do not show up on the next batch list.
Rlendog (
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00:05, 28 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Stratosphere(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been a Wikipedia editor since 2006, mainly dealing with articles related to highways as part of the
WP:USRD project, specifically Michigan and Nebraska. Frequently, historical information is available via newspapers in and around the area in which a route or highway development occurred, so access to newspapers.com will facilitate detailed histories which may otherwise be difficult to obtain. I've recently been working to improve historical information on some Nebraska highways and have stumbled across a couple situations where a subscription would have helped greatly. Thanks!
Strato|
sphere17:40, 6 February 2017 (UTC)reply
SportsEdits1(
talk·contribs·count) Have a background in science, humanities, and research, and could use the extensive newspaper source. Consummate fact checker and objective. I have also edited and written articles on science, history, philosophy, sports, and pop culture in extensive publications, and have been helping
Cake (
talk) recently with articles on early sports history. He recommended I apply for a Newspapers.com account and can vouch for my accumen. A Newspapers account would certainly help me with
WP:V.
SportsEdits1 (
talk)
00:54, 14 February 2017 (UTC)reply
PageantUpdater(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Have already used up two free trials, very keen to use this to be able to add references to pageant-related articles, especially from 1950-2010 where most internet news sources have been archived. A lot of articles are at risk of being AFDed for lack of RS or notability due to lack of sources currently available on the internet where a search of Newspapers.com shows a wealth of material to establish notability. Whilst this subject area meets with a lot of controversy due to some poor editing, I always hope to show there are a few "good eggs" out there committed to referencing these articles, I have just run short of tools to do so. An example from a recent article
[1] , and from one I edited with the help of a newspapers.com free trial
[2] ---
PageantUpdater (
talk)
09:46, 20 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Kaldari(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Editor for 12 years, like to work on biography and history articles, both of which would benefit from having access to local newspapers. I've written some Good Articles and collaborated on some Featured Articles. I have no idea if my local library offers access, but it's very difficult to do things at my local library since they have crappy hours (basically just work hours).
Kaldari (
talk)
01:20, 23 February 2017 (UTC)reply
Semmendinger(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Hi! I was just referred to this page as a solid way of getting sources for some of the articles I've created. I have made and plan on making a high amount of articles for Wikipedia Project Library, and in doing so require some histories of libraries and library systems established in the late 1800s to early-mid 1900s. I think this would be a fantastic resource to assist me in adding solid citations to my pages!
SEMMENDINGER (
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14:06, 23 March 2017 (UTC)reply
AmandaRR123(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) User for 4-ish years, particularly focusing on history of underrepresented, most lately verifying citations. Access would help me find citations, especially for underrepresented groups that might be better covered in regional rather than national newspapers.
AmandaRR123 (
talk)
19:35, 3 March 2017 (UTC)reply
Melonkelon(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been using Newspapers.com regularly to find old newspapers articles that are unavailable elsewhere and using it to improve the references of a number of articles, but I have only been able to use trial memberships. Adding citations is something I do often, and it would be great to have a membership. Thanks,
Melonkelon (
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08:22, 3 April 2017 (UTC)reply
BaldBoris(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I'm currently in desperate need for this in my research of the cyclist
Marshall Taylor (1878–1932), specifically putting together an accurate list of his results, which doesn't exist online. Also, I created
Tour de France task force and one thing that we need is to find out who wore each of the jerseys on each of the stages, of which around 15 of the Tour articles have no record. Of the freely accessible newspaper archives, this information cannot be found. Thanks,
BaldBoris05:43, 13 April 2017 (UTC)reply
Jeff G.(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Hi. I have been editing English Wikipedia for ten years and have 96,000+ edits. I frequently need to find more information for mainspace and draft articles and substantiate the information already present. Newspapers.com access would be invaluable in helping me to fill that need. It would also help with my work on Simple English Wikipedia. Thank you for your consideration. — Jeff G. ツ(talk)20:14, 9 April 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Cameron11598: Thanks, it's working, although I'm finding I don't have access to most of my search hits because they are "Publisher Extra" content which is not covered by Wikipedia's subscription. —
Bruce1eetalk10:20, 4 June 2017 (UTC)reply
@
Bruce1ee: Sorry Newspapers.com is unable to provide us with publishers extra accounts due to agreements they have with the various news corporations. We have asked in the past.
19:33, 4 June 2017 (UTC)reply
Mukkakukaku(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - Active on English wiki, simple English wiki, and Wikisource. I actively write articles about airplane crashes, so access to a newspaper archive will be beneficial in this endeavor. I already have personal access to the NYT archive, but having access to additional newspapers would be helpful in providing a more balanced view of the event.
Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû(
blah?)23:59, 31 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Hobbes Goodyear(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email). I actively use Highbeam access to improve article content, verification, and evidencing notability, and will use Newspapers.com similarly. I will follow the recommended method for citing Newspapers.com refs. --
Hobbes Goodyear (
talk)
Zellfaze(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been working on local history related articles. Having access to older newspapers would help with that. Its on of the primary reasons I asked for a HighBeam account. I also help out on
WP:RX where I can and would continue to do so. Please consider me a lower priority over other users though as I already requested and was granted Highbeam and Questia access. I've been an editor for over 6 years and have over 2,000 edits on English Wikipedia and over 4,000 edits across all Wikimedia projects.
Zell Faze (
talk)
13:12, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Zellfaze: looking through your edit history, most of the articles that you have been expanding have been more contemporary than the database specializes in. Do you have a research agenda that would be well matched to this archive? Can you give examples of where you might use it?
Sadads (
talk)
17:00, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
Sadads: I just recently ran an edit-a-thon on
Frederick County History and I'd like to try to do a
Wikipedia in Residency with my local historical society (who I have a good relationship with and helped me advertise the edit-a-thon even). As far as a list of articles I'd like to work on goes, there is a great list over at the page for the edit-a-thon. We barely scratched the surface of those articles (we worked on maybe 10 of them?). In particular the
Everedy Bottle Capper Company,
Frederick Seamless Hosiery Company, and the
OxFibre Brush Company are likely notable and without articles. Further Frederick, Maryland also has a
list of stub Historical sites, which I would love to do some work on. A recent article I worked on,
Frederick Brewing Company made extensive use of newspaper references from the Baltimore Sun and the Frederick News Post (though in this case, articles on this topic were easy enough to find online). The article on
Creagerstown, Maryland could use a little love, as could
Lewistown, Maryland. In particular in the case of
Lewistown, Maryland I would love to find more information about
General John F. Reynolds' march through the town. I definitely have some plans, even if I haven't gotten around to working on all of them yet.
Zell Faze (
talk)
18:14, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Also, I am more than happy to go on the wait-list if someone else needs an account more than me. I have access to Highbeam and Questia already. Plus I am part of my local historical society and have access the library's archives, so in some cases I can find older newspapers through those.
Zell Faze (
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18:49, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Approved No need to put you on the waitlist, especially if you are becoming more active in the GLAM activities. Expect a Wikipedia email soon,
Sadads (
talk)
20:05, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Rambo's Revenge(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Experienced editor with a focus on content creation. Was researching information for a new article, wanted a page from this site and thought I'd be able to ask someone to take a look - found this in the process which would be even better! GAs, FLs and an FA - I like to add historical balance to articles that succumb to online source recentism (
e.g. 1 and
2). Older print media is invaluable for this.
Rambo's Revenge(talk)11:52, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Themightyquill: You are more than qualified, but looking through your recent edit history, you have been focusing largely on maintenance and AWB editing. Do you plan to return to content development? Do you have a research agenda? Could you describe that agenda?
Sadads (
talk)
17:00, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Sadads:. I can see that my recent edit history might look that way. I've slowed down from the content I was producing a few years ago, and the AWB/maintenance looks prominent because of the huge number of edits within minutes of each other, but I am nonetheless still interested in research... I just don't have the same access to research materials that I once did. One of Newspapers.com's strengths is access to newspapers from smaller communities across North America. I could use that to add historical content to numerous articles about numerous towns that lack such content. -
TheMightyQuill (
talk)
01:01, 7 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Ceranthor(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I'm an administrator here with more than 23,000 edits. I've contributed significantly to 13 featured articles and roughly 30 good articles. A lot of the content I deal with involves looking up dated news articles, so this tool would be an immense help for finding obscure sources. ceranthor23:57, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Huntster(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Admin on en.wiki, active on Commons. I'm active within the spaceflight and technology communities, and do some work in biology and music fields. Local perspectives are always a plus to add additional flavour and sometimes esoteric facts unavailable elsewhere. —
Huntster (
t@c)02:30, 3 August 2014 (UTC)reply
@
Huntster:Approved: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here,
Astinson (WMF) (
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22:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
@
Oldbeeg:Approved: if you are still interested in access, please follow the instructions in the forthcoming Wikipedia email. If you don't plan on claiming the account, please let me know here,
Astinson (WMF) (
talk)
22:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Jakec(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Been editing since August 2012 (February 2013 with my current account) and have nearly 13,000 edits (nearly 12,000 with my current account). I've created more than 110 articles to date and remain very active in content creation. My main work is on bodies of water in Pennsylvania. It seems that some of these bodies of water have many hits on newspapers.com. The content could be useful in beefing up the history sections of some of my articles. --Jakob (
talk) 18:57, 6 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Thine Antique Pen(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've edited Wikipedia for a few years, and have created over 9,500 articles about a wide variety of subjects. I have over 120 DYK articles, a number of Good Articles, and have made over 45,000 edits to enwp. I am looking for access to US newspapers in order to get a global perspective on various historical events to improve my future article creations.
Thine Antique Pen (
talk)
21:31, 31 December 2014 (UTC)reply
ThaddeusB(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have considerable experience in creating content with more than 100 DYKs, for example. When researching a topic, I have often found that having access to a source on Newspapers.com would be useful, but didn't realize it was part of the Wikipedia library project until now. --
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20:18, 26 February 2015 (UTC)reply
Alexander Doria(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Admin and long-time user (more than eight years) of the French Wikipedia. I frequently participate to requests to deletion of all kind: this would be a valuable resource to find additional sources. Besides, I have been involved some kind of crazy project where old newspapers would be quite useful: create an article per day since the beginning of the XIXth century (for instance,
10 march 1837).
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23:25, 2 March 2015 (UTC)reply
WeijiBaikeBianji(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I checked the list of available newspapers and the documentation on this page about using the Newspapers.com clip function for citations, and I think I could improve quite a few biographical articles about famous Americans and some articles about cities and towns with access to this resource. Thanks for administering the application process. --
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23:46, 2 March 2015 (UTC)reply
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Astinson (WMF) (
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22:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Lixxx235(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)I would like access to better source GANs I work on. 3400+ live edits, though admittedly only 1k mainspace. Acfcount created Feb 2010
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Georgejdorner(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been creating new articles for WP since August 2008. With more than 1,300 new articles created, over 42,000 edits, and 39 DYKs, I am a daily writer for WP. Presently, I am working on articles concerning the
Laotian Civil War. Source materials are scarce in this niche; few journalists have written books on the subject. Not only would access to newspapers aid my research, but it would allow me to explore how the Laotian Civil War was presented (or not) to the U.S. public and the world. Since the history of the Laotian Civil War has tended to be treated as a minor sideshow of the
Second Indochina War, histories of the latter are not particularly helpful. I am retired on a limited budget, so have not subscribed previously.
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16:50, 6 March 2015 (UTC)reply
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15:20, 8 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Magalhães(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) 80.000+ edits, 3000+ on en.wikipedia, 3000+ articles on the Dutch wikipedia. I write mainly about the Philippines, a former American colony. I expect that access to newspapers.com will provide me with a lot of usefull information about "my" subject.
Magalhães (
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20:46, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Wittylama(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I'm working in particular on the history of the american women's singing organisation "Sweet Adelines International". As you can see from the article I've just published
Sweet Adelines International competition (see also the navbox at the bottom with articles about specific decades' competitions) there's loads of history to the competition around the North American continent, but it's very difficult to find contemporary sources for the earlier times.
Wittylama19:48, 26 April 2015 (UTC)reply
Jefferyseow(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I edit entries related to 19th Century British Malaya (the Federated Malay States, Unfederated Malay States, and the Straits Settlements, especially Penang and Singapore). Sources are hard to find and access to these old newspapers would help.
Hi, @
Jefferyseow: given your subject area, are you sure this resource is relevant? As the description above on this page says, it "is particularly suited for Wikipedia content about the 18th, 19th and the first 3⁄4 of the 20th century in the United States and global topics affecting the United States". The newspapers in the collection are mostly local US papers.
HazelAB (
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13:37, 27 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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21:14, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Smartyllama(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have edited Wikipedia in English for close to a decade now. I have made several thousand edits during that time. I will use my account to add sources to existing material as well as to new material I create. This will especially be true for articles related to Connecticut, New York, college athletics, international sporting events, baseball, (American) football, and other sports to a lesser extent.
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21:27, 30 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Smartyllama: I am going to waitlist you for the second round of accounts for this partnership, because you are not very frequently active and other users would likely get more use of this account (though when you are active you contribute to content). Would that be okay?
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17:43, 5 August 2014 (UTC)reply
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22:46, 10 December 2014 (UTC)reply
Skookum1 (
talk) 10:15, 7 August 2014 (UTC) I generally work on history and geography of the Pacific Northwest, and re history especially would like to be able to review old newspapers from the region about events, biographies and commerce. I have been on Wikipedia since Oct 28, 2005 07:38:30, edited 19,861 unique articles, and have a total of 88,677 edits to date, and created 2,134 articles.
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10:15, 7 August 2014 (UTC)reply
Sadads(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I edit way too much (86,000 edits), stick my finger in fixing too many articles, and well... 4 GAs, 20+ DYKs, hundreds of articles created or majorly expanded. I work mostly in literature, but am increasingly doing work in historical sites. In part, I want to help with cleanup on student work as part of a
Public history class I supported in short assignment. In part, I am moving to Vermont in a few months, and have plenty of interest in dabbling in local history to get to know the region. I also, frequently support editathons, etc, where clippings would be a huge boon,
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03:14, 6 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Winner 42(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) While I may not be as experienced as some of the other participants here, with only 13k edits and five years of experience, newspapers.com has web archives of sources relevant to me such as the
Boston Globe and
Lowell Sun as well as historical newspapers. I wish to use these sources to expand
Massachusetts related articles that I work I have been working on for the majority of my time spent on content creation. This resource would also help me get
Massachusetts to GA status which I have been working on for the past few weeks by lending additional press sources that can not found online for free. I hope you considered my request and thank you for your time.
Winner 42Talk to me!13:12, 8 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Buffaboy(
talk·contribs·count) Since my university's subscription-based content is pretty thin, Newspapers.com would be an essential tool for me when developing place based articles relating to New York State, its cities, and U.S. Cities in general. I recognize I am not as experienced as other editors who have applied here, and I also recognize I've only ramped up activity over about a year (here since 2010 however). With Newspapers.com however, I can cite material faster than having to jump over paywalls or find alternative sources regarding news articles on some subjects I can't find in books and journals. Thanks a lot.
Buffaboytalk05:55, 13 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Pending Hi @
Ca$e: Most of the contents, other than 50 years of the New York Times, are local US papers, and there is very little coverage after the 1980s. As the description at the top of this page says, this resource is best "suited for Wikipedia content about the 18th, 19th and the first 3⁄4 of the 20th century in the United States and global topics affecting the United States". It doesn't seem all that relevant to the areas of interest you mention. Is there a particular research project you are contemplating, for which you would need access to older local US papers?
HazelAB (
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14:08, 8 March 2015 (UTC)reply
To give you just 2 examples: Among my areas of my work are the classics of american pragmatist philosophy. Newspapers.com hosts thousands of references to these classics. Another broad area of my work are religious movements, including e.g. evangelical movements. Newspapers.com hosts hundreds of thousands of articles in this regard.
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18:43, 8 March 2015 (UTC)reply
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19:54, 27 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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12:37, 15 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Not done User did not respond to renewal offers and account expired.
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19:54, 27 April 2015 (UTC)reply
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HazelAB (
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12:37, 15 May 2015 (UTC)reply
Not done User did not respond to renewal offers and account expired.
Fillthemill(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Working on a variety of historic and cultural pages across wikipedia. Have contributed nearly 1000 edits over 4 yeas, including content in 5 languages, and created 13 new subjects. Planning to do some work around the War of 1812 and 19th Century US finance, including around the under-researched 1890s collapse of
Barings, for which access to US papers would be a great advantage.
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10:25, 12 June 2015 (UTC)reply
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HazelAB (
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21:14, 3 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Sbmeirow(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Over 41,000 edits and created 71 articles. I've edited every city and county article in
Kansas plus various cities and counties around USA. I've expanded history sections for many cities in Kansas, thus its very useful to be able to search old newspapers to validate content and create references. •
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04:16, 10 August 2014 (UTC)reply
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HazelAB (
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15:20, 8 March 2015 (UTC)reply
Gorthian(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Editing since 2011, becoming much more active this past year, with over 5,000 edits. My lack of access to good reference sources has been frustrating. I would like to use this opportunity to verify notability and accuracy in natural-disaster articles. I also anticipate working on biographies, mostly of scientists. —
Gorthian (
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04:50, 31 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Adavidb(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Thanks for offering newspapers.com access. I'm lately averaging 1000 edits every month or two and am approaching 30,000 edits total. With over 700 articles on my watchlist, I regularly verify new and updated Wikipedia content. Many of my watched articles cover American History subjects, for which this newspaper access would be quite helpful. —
ADavidB16:38, 28 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Cyclonebiskit(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) – Editor since 2007 with ~20 pieces of featured content and ~150 GAs. Briefly had access to this before and it proved immeasurably useful for researching past tropical cyclone events. Allows for the most complete coverage of these storms possible with information provided at the time.
Cyclonebiskit (
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03:16, 29 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Milowent(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email). I've written a few hundred articles over the past few years, and done research to improve many others. An area of key interest is 19th/early 20th century American popular culture, which the newspapers.com database would be a great resource for, as its coverage exceeds that of Chronicling America and fultonhistory.com.--Milowent • hasspoken02:11, 30 July 2014 (UTC)reply
Tucoxn(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have over 6500 edits since 2008, with 9 articles created and 8
DYK credits. I often add references to unreferenced or poorly referenced articles. I write on a wide range of topics, including historical and social events, and people. Using old newspapers would be very helpful for my editing. Thanks for providing this opportunity! - tucoxn\talk02:28, 10 August 2014 (UTC)reply
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15:20, 8 March 2015 (UTC)reply
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Tucoxn: If you still want to claim your Newspapers.com account, please let me know. If I don't hear from you I will assume you're no longer interested, and the account will be given to another applicant. Thanks,
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12:37, 15 May 2015 (UTC)reply
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15:20, 8 March 2015 (UTC)reply
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12:37, 15 May 2015 (UTC)reply
dirtyharry667(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I don't know how many edits or contributions I have, but I have been a member for many years. I have written several articles and have helped clean up several others. My primary interests have to do with corporate history and retail history. My most recent contributions were the August Wagner Breweries page and I am in the process of reworking the Gamble-Skogmo page. Having access to these data bases would be very helpful in nailing down acquisitions and mergers and their dates. THIS DATABASE IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE KINDS OF ARTICLES I WRITE AND EDIT!!! It would have been very helpful in assembling the Gamble-Skogmo article (which is still a work in process). - Thank you for your consideration!
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Tmangray(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)I've been editing for nearly 15 years. Many of the articles I have created or edited relate to local or regional history, and some biographies, for which research and authorities from newspapers are useful and sometimes necessary. Not having to wait for the next trip to the university microfilm archives would be a great relief.
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18:06, 6 October 2015 (UTC)reply
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18:31, 27 October 2015 (UTC)reply
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HazelAB (
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19:22, 7 February 2016 (UTC)reply
Not done User did not respond to signup email or reminders and in any case was indefinitely blocked on 12 February 2016.
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17:49, 21 March 2016 (UTC)reply
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19:22, 7 February 2016 (UTC)reply
I'm having trouble accessing my Newspapers.com account. I forgot my password and attempted to reset it, but never got the email. Dough487202:58, 9 February 2016 (UTC)reply
I got the email but tried getting onto my account using my email address you mailed me with but forgot my password for Newspapers.com. I attempted to get it reset but Newspapers.com never sent me the email to reset my password. Should I attempt to get an account through an alternate email address or is there a way we can fix it? Dough487204:17, 10 February 2016 (UTC)reply
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Dough4872: You don't actually have a Newspapers.com account. Getting an account is a two-step process. First you sign up at the Newspapers.com site, then you fill in the Google form that is linked to in the email I sent you. You don't seem to have filled in the form, or if you have it didn't get recorded, so I suggest you fill it in again. Once you have filled in the Google form, I will contact Newspapers.com and they will activate your account. Thanks
HazelAB (
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13:17, 10 February 2016 (UTC)reply
rogermx(
talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)I have contributed to Wikipedia since 2007 and have over 16,000 edits. My primary interests lie in biographies of American organized crime figures. My goal is to provide better references for existing articles by tapping newspaper sources from the early to middle 20th century. Examples of my work includes revisions to articles on
Lucky Luciano and
Albert Anastasia.--
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HazelAB (
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17:08, 21 March 2016 (UTC)reply
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Neuralia: This resource contains mostly US local newspapers, and as the scope info above states it is "particularly suited for Wikipedia content about the 18th, 19th and the first 3⁄4 of the 20th century in the United States and global topics affecting the United States". I'm not sure of its relevance to your editing interests. Can you think of an example where access to this content would have helped?
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14:40, 8 October 2015 (UTC)reply