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Since when did Twitter and Youtube become commonly used as citations? Both are still listed as 'generally unreliable' at WP:RSP. I just ran across the article Alex Hirsch. I discovered 21 tweets used as citations, and a whole handful of youtubes before I quit counting altogether and just gave up. Stripping that stuff would probably reduce the article's citations by half. If anyone is willing to tackle that article with a big pair of scissors, please go for it. Grorp ( talk) 07:12, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
(directed from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Citation cleanup, carried over here.)
Hi! I'm pretty sure this is the place to ask, so I'm asking if we could do {{ citation needed}} tag removal drives. There's a large amount–according to Category:Articles with unsourced statements, there's more than 500,000 articles containing either citation needed or {{ failed verification}} tags. So, in order to reduce those by replacing the tags with reliable sources, should we start a drive to remove and replace the tags listed above? Thanks! Tails Wx 14:55, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
To make category pages easier to use, for the individual months within Category:Articles with unsourced statements I added these:
These additions are "cloned" from changes done for:
This update is being posted at:
Overall, I am hopeful these changes will help editors new to article citations and those regularly working to reduce the backlog. Regards, JoeNMLC ( talk) 22:03, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
Wondering what is/has happened with Category:Articles with unsourced statements from September 2023? For "Sports" topic there are 14,637 articles. Is this possible from a bot run? August 2023 has 9,715 articles and Sept is only the 9th day. Regards, JoeNMLC ( talk) 23:17, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
Should {{ not in body}} be the same as {{ not verified in body}}?
Should the link go to Template:Not verified in body/doc as opposed to Wikipedia:Citation needed?
Please discuss at Template talk:Not verified in body, thx CapnZapp ( talk) 07:20, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Is Artfacts.net considered a reliable source? They claim to " meticulously check" all info, and from the research I did they do seem to be rigorous and accurate. I'm wondering if this source can be used for citing major exhibitions on a wikipedia article on a BLP artist.
The article formerly had a laundry list of exhibitions with refs for each. It was moved to talk b/c it read like a resume and caused ref bomb. It seems that the most prominent exhibitions should be included in paragraph form. Wondering if I can use artfacts to cite 4-5 top shows with one source. What do you think? 174.194.142.148 ( talk) 21:07, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
Hello. There is an issue in the article Shi (personator) regarding its name and the use of the word personator throughout the page. Can someone check the sources that reportedly back the use of the word personator instead of "impersonator"?
According to its lead,
The shi (Chinese: 尸; pinyin: shī; Wade–Giles: sh'ih; lit. 'corpse') was a ceremonial "personator" who represented a dead relative during ancient Chinese ancestral sacrifices. In a shi ceremony, the ancestral spirit supposedly would enter the descendant "corpse" personator, who would eat and drink sacrificial offerings and convey messages from the spirit.
But, according to the article Personation,
Personation (rather than impersonation) is a primarily legal term, meaning "to assume the identity of another person with intent to deceive". [1]
According to the article Impersonator,
An impersonator is someone who imitates or copies the behavior or actions of another. [2]
Therefore, I think it would be more appropriate that the article Shi (personator) be named Shi (impersonator] and most of the instances of the word "personator" in the article, replaced with the word "impersonator". I was going to do it but then I stumbled on references, so I decided to try to check what does the sources say and how to solve this discrepancy, and that's why I am making the request here. Regards, Thinker78 (talk) 18:50, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
References
Is there somewhere I can find a list of reliable sources and depreciated sources? I have been looking for a while now and I seem to be just going around in circles. Irtapil ( talk) 09:38, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Backlog drives/February 2024 drive is now active. CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 14:48, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I question if Alyssa Mercante, the senior editor, and therefore Kotaku itself, should be considered a vialbe source when she says and does think that is very questionable and makes her a very biased person.
( BLP violation removed) [1] https://twitter.com/alyssa_merc/status/1765465735822725277
Also she she now tries to ( BLP violation removed). [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAMPUogdMS4 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hrQaMJ74MA Selo007 ( talk) 02:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
WikiProject Reliability page. |
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Archives: 1Auto-archiving period: 30 days |
Reliability | ||||
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The contents of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check page were merged into Wikipedia:WikiProject Reliability on 11 January 2019. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page. |
Important - Monthly after the bot creates a new Category:
{{align|center|{{resbox|'''{{large|{{Random page in category}}}}'''}}}} {{Filter category by topic}}
{{align|center|{{resbox|'''{{large|{{Random page in category}}}}'''}}}} {{Filter category by topic}} *'''Please help improve an article in this category by adding [[WP:REFB|references]] to [[WP:Reliable sources|reliable sources]] that [[WP:V|verify]] content within the article. Once the reliable source references have been added, the unsourced (citation needed) tag can be removed.''' After the category has more than about 50 articles would be the appropriate time to add the above. |
Since when did Twitter and Youtube become commonly used as citations? Both are still listed as 'generally unreliable' at WP:RSP. I just ran across the article Alex Hirsch. I discovered 21 tweets used as citations, and a whole handful of youtubes before I quit counting altogether and just gave up. Stripping that stuff would probably reduce the article's citations by half. If anyone is willing to tackle that article with a big pair of scissors, please go for it. Grorp ( talk) 07:12, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
(directed from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Citation cleanup, carried over here.)
Hi! I'm pretty sure this is the place to ask, so I'm asking if we could do {{ citation needed}} tag removal drives. There's a large amount–according to Category:Articles with unsourced statements, there's more than 500,000 articles containing either citation needed or {{ failed verification}} tags. So, in order to reduce those by replacing the tags with reliable sources, should we start a drive to remove and replace the tags listed above? Thanks! Tails Wx 14:55, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
To make category pages easier to use, for the individual months within Category:Articles with unsourced statements I added these:
These additions are "cloned" from changes done for:
This update is being posted at:
Overall, I am hopeful these changes will help editors new to article citations and those regularly working to reduce the backlog. Regards, JoeNMLC ( talk) 22:03, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
Wondering what is/has happened with Category:Articles with unsourced statements from September 2023? For "Sports" topic there are 14,637 articles. Is this possible from a bot run? August 2023 has 9,715 articles and Sept is only the 9th day. Regards, JoeNMLC ( talk) 23:17, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
Should {{ not in body}} be the same as {{ not verified in body}}?
Should the link go to Template:Not verified in body/doc as opposed to Wikipedia:Citation needed?
Please discuss at Template talk:Not verified in body, thx CapnZapp ( talk) 07:20, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Is Artfacts.net considered a reliable source? They claim to " meticulously check" all info, and from the research I did they do seem to be rigorous and accurate. I'm wondering if this source can be used for citing major exhibitions on a wikipedia article on a BLP artist.
The article formerly had a laundry list of exhibitions with refs for each. It was moved to talk b/c it read like a resume and caused ref bomb. It seems that the most prominent exhibitions should be included in paragraph form. Wondering if I can use artfacts to cite 4-5 top shows with one source. What do you think? 174.194.142.148 ( talk) 21:07, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
Hello. There is an issue in the article Shi (personator) regarding its name and the use of the word personator throughout the page. Can someone check the sources that reportedly back the use of the word personator instead of "impersonator"?
According to its lead,
The shi (Chinese: 尸; pinyin: shī; Wade–Giles: sh'ih; lit. 'corpse') was a ceremonial "personator" who represented a dead relative during ancient Chinese ancestral sacrifices. In a shi ceremony, the ancestral spirit supposedly would enter the descendant "corpse" personator, who would eat and drink sacrificial offerings and convey messages from the spirit.
But, according to the article Personation,
Personation (rather than impersonation) is a primarily legal term, meaning "to assume the identity of another person with intent to deceive". [1]
According to the article Impersonator,
An impersonator is someone who imitates or copies the behavior or actions of another. [2]
Therefore, I think it would be more appropriate that the article Shi (personator) be named Shi (impersonator] and most of the instances of the word "personator" in the article, replaced with the word "impersonator". I was going to do it but then I stumbled on references, so I decided to try to check what does the sources say and how to solve this discrepancy, and that's why I am making the request here. Regards, Thinker78 (talk) 18:50, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
References
Is there somewhere I can find a list of reliable sources and depreciated sources? I have been looking for a while now and I seem to be just going around in circles. Irtapil ( talk) 09:38, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles/Backlog drives/February 2024 drive is now active. CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 14:48, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I question if Alyssa Mercante, the senior editor, and therefore Kotaku itself, should be considered a vialbe source when she says and does think that is very questionable and makes her a very biased person.
( BLP violation removed) [1] https://twitter.com/alyssa_merc/status/1765465735822725277
Also she she now tries to ( BLP violation removed). [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAMPUogdMS4 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hrQaMJ74MA Selo007 ( talk) 02:18, 27 March 2024 (UTC)