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Oceanflynn

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Oceanflynn
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Oceanflynn
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Oceanflynn is #1989 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits with 54,871 edits
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Wikidata items

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Contributions fr.wikipédia

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Utilisateur:Oceanflynn page d’utilisateur

Oceanflynn Cet éditeur a commencé à contribuer pour la première fois de fr.wikipédia à l'article, Gestion de l'offre (Canada).

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Règles, protocoles, et recommandations

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Contributions

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Articles I am currently watching:

  • Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex—particularly in a more detailed description of what is visible in the 2023 James Webb image.
  • Heshmat Moayyad, I read his 1998 article thanks to JSTOR and Wikipedia Library Moayyad, Heshmat; Schaefer, Udo; Towfigh, Nicola; Gollmer, Ulrich (1998). "Review of Desinformation als Methode. Die Baha'ismus Monographie des F. Ficicchia". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 8 (3): 451–454. ISSN 1356-1863. JSTOR 25183587. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  • Covenant of Baháʼu'lláh added 2022 references from Routledge Worlds series—described as "magisterial surveys of key historical epochs, edited and written by world-renowned experts. Giving unprecedented breadth and depth of coverage, they are the works against which all future books on their subjects will be judged and are essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in the subject."Routledge I purchased The World of the Bahá'í Faith by Robert Stockman.

Articles created in 2024: A timeline of misinformation and disinformation in Canada, National Institute on Ageing (Canada), Farmers' suicides in Canada.

Articles created in 2023: Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice, Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, Selected timeline related to orphan wells in Alberta, The Dream of Reason, The Dream of Enlightenment

Minor current edits 2023 Canadian drought.

This user created these articles in 2022: Brookfield Global Integrated Solutions, Premiership of Danielle Smith, Public Order Emergency Commission, Nursing shortage in Canada, Rage farming, Child poverty in Canada, Foundation models, 42 Days of Darkness, Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, 2020s controversies around critical race theory, A Brief History of Equality, Lobbying Act (Canada), COVID-19 misinformation in Canada, Timeline of the Canada convoy protest, COVID-19 vaccination mandates in Canada, Yellow vests movement (Canada), Accusation in a mirror, Retrogressive thaw slumps, and Leighton Art Centre,

Articles this user created in 2021: Child care in Canada, Institute for Investigative Journalism, Irving Pulp and Paper, Water pollution in Canada, Reference re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, Royal Commission on the Northern Environment,Teck Cominco smelter, Pakootas v. Teck Cominco Metals, VBI Vaccines, Irfan Chaudhry, Trevor Tombe (economist), Real Talk Ryan Jespersen (podcast) since deleted, Mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows, Grassy Narrows First Nation v. Ontario (Natural Resources), Long-term drinking water advisories, COVID-19 protests in Canada, Amitturmiut, Utkuhiksalingmiut, Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns, National Standards for United States History Trumpism in Canada the article was since deleted but content is in a section of the article Trumpism.

2020: Toronto Conference on the Changing Atmosphere, Coal in Alberta, NHL Enterprises, LP, Alberta Wilderness Association, Modern Miracle Network, Ministry of Health (Alberta), Kenney Ministry, DynaLife, Alberta Carbon Trunk Line System, Sturgeon Refinery, Cambie Surgeries Corporation v. British Columbia, Brotherhood (2020 film) · (Deleted), Spring Valley, Prince Edward Island, Cavendish Farms, Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2020, GPT-3, Alexandra Rutherford, Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, Marguerite Trussler, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, Corporate tax in Canada, Robert H. Bremner, The Givers, Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For, Health Sciences Association of Alberta, Telus Corporation, Timeline of race relations and policing in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, Appalachian Uplands, Canada Strong and Free Network, How Fascism Works, Capitalism, Alone, In Pursuit of the Unknown, Deena Hinshaw, COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta, Mondaq, Charity Intelligence Canada, List of advocacy groups in Canada, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Canadian Energy Centre

2019: The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Canadian Energy Centre, Code for Canada, Alberta provincial budget, 2019, Wataynikaneyap Power, William Pearce (civil engineer), Premiership of Jason Kenney, Andrew Leach (economist), Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, Premiership of Doug Ford, Timeline of events related to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, Stephanie Soechtig, Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, ChemRisk, CircumArctic Rangifer Monitoring and Assessment Network, G7 Rapid Response Mechanism, Caribou herds and populations in Canada, 2019 Amazon wildfires (disambiguation) · (Deleted), 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires, Ryan McMahon (comedian), Immigrant invasion, Oceanflynn/Immigrant invasion (rhetoric), Augustus Griffin, Special Report on Climate Change and Land, Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish Memory, Timeline of events related to migrant children's detention centers in the United States, Four Twenty Seven, Go back to where you came from, Timeline of the opioid epidemic, Outreach Calling Inc, Dale Hodges Park, Environmental issues in Alberta, Public Sector Wage Arbitration Deferral Act, Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution, Hawthorne Police Department, 2019 Alberta wildfires, Bowmont Park, Ipperwash Inquiry, Nassima al-Sadah, The Trust Project, Heartland Petrochemical Complex, Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Rights Framework, Deferred prosecution agreement (Canada), Orphan wells in Alberta, Canada, Atkinson Foundation, Barry Meier, Massachusetts v. Purdue, The Daphne Project, Storyful, Indigenous Peoples March, Bighorn Wildland Provincial Park, Vincent Michael Gaughan, Carbon pricing in Canada, World Inequality Database

2018 articles created: World Inequality Database, The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire, Fourth National Climate Assessment, Limits of Reason, Hutto v. Finney, Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave, AI Superpowers, Julia Angwin, Thank You for Being Late, Harperism (book), Armine Yalnizyan, Abraham Anghik Ruben, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, Business Council of Canada, Think tanks based in Canada, Mariela Baeva, List of March for Our Lives locations, Political Victory Fund, Davies Commission Inquiry, Killing of Colten Boushie, Rutger Bregman, Circle of Friends for American Veterans,

2014 articles created included Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung.

Sandbox articles

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A timeline of the romanization of Arabic and Persian

Wikinews

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My sandbox draft on pillars, protocols, templates etc on how to contribute to Wikinews.

My first Wikinews articles:

Did you know?

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On 31 January 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Carbon price (Canada), which I recently created. The fact was ... that Canada has enacted a cap and trade program to tax carbon emissions? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Carbon price (Canada). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Carbon price (Canada)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Awards

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  The Original Barnstar
Thanks for cleaning up the List of 2018 Women's March locations, and for your great work on so many articles. Your contributions do not go unnoticed! --Another Believer 27 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, Another Believer (Talk) It has been great working with you on the List of 2018 Women's March locations, March for Our Lives and many other articles.Oceanflynn (talk) 17:00, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

  The Bronze Maple Leaf Award
This maple leaf is awarded to Oceanflynn for writing 8 new articles and expanding 8 others during The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg
  The Writer's Barnstar
For your work on the Border-adjustment tax (United States)
  The Original Barnstar
For your edits to Black swan emblems and popular culture, a fascinating, well-written, well-sourced and thoroughly interesting article Tom (LT) 10 May 2016 (UTC)
  The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thanks for your work on Bruce Allan Clark! GrammarDamner (talk) 15:34, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Edit summaries

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  • readability, legibility, comprehensibility, decipherability, intelligibility, understandability, neatness, clarity, plainness, legibleness, readableness.
  • Always add /*Background*/ to edit summaries to help others find exactly where edit was made
  • Use square brackets for Wikipedia articles in edit summaries
  • Acknowledge use of Ebsco/Gale/Wikipedia Library in edit summaries
  • Common edit summaries used
    • rm stray character-typo
    • clean up
    • rm unnecessary trailing square or curley bracket; pipe; etc
    • tweaked links
    • +Info, cat, re:
    • provided slightly more detail on
    • Reorganization
    • x section
    • tag with [bare URL PDF]. Note that refs to PDFs cannot be filled by any tool or bot. They need to be filled manually
    • "Some of the content in this section was copied from [article] on [date]. Please see the history of that page for attribution." suggested by User Diannaa
      • I changed this to: "Some of the content written in this section was copied from [article] on [date] by the same user Oceanflynn. Please see the history of that page for attribution.

My preferences

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  • {{refbegin|35em|indent=yes}} {{refend}}
  • Notes/Citations > {{Reflist|30em}}
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  • |ref={{sfnRef|Canadian Encylopedia|2007}}
    • |date=Jan 2013b or |date=Winter 2013b: month or season and year dates
    • |date=9 November 2013b or |date=November 9, 2013b: full dates
    • |date=June–July 2013c or |date=Winter–Spring 2013c: month or season ranges and year dates
    • |date=c. 2013d: circa year dates
    • |date=2022–2023f or |date=Summer 2022–23f: year ranges
    • |date=n.d.e: no date (n.d.)
  • {{TOC limit}}
  • [Hyphens and dashes— (- – —) hyphens (-), en dashes (–) and em dashes (—), improve readability and comprehension.
    • —{{emdash}}
    • –{{endash}}
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  • {{reflist-talk}} {{reflist-talk|close}}
  • *Bundle short citations by changing {{sfn| to {{{{harvnb inside Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). <ref>{{harvnb|last|xxxx|p=xx}}; {{harvnb|last|xxxx|p=xx}}.</ref>

More legible ref names, adding

  • {{cite journal |last1=Hughes |first1=J.|last2=Albon |first2=S.D.|last3=Irvine |first3=R.J.|last4=Woodin |first4=S. |year=2009 |title=Is there a cost of parasites to caribou? |journal=Parasitology |volume=136 |pages=253–265 |ref={{SfnRef|Hughes|2009}} * <small>(most recent first)</small> at the top of some timeline articles. * Top of article<no wiki>{{Distinguish|John G. Stackhouse Jr.{{!}}John G. Stackhouse Jr}}
  • In talk pages to ping a user use {{yo|theusersname}}
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  • quotes in quotes: <no wiki>"containing 'critical race theory'"</no wiki> "containing 'critical race theory'"
  • Capitalization: Capitalize Mayor/ of Toronto but not X is the mayor of Toronto in a general statement. In a formal context of in writing an address, use Mayor/Chief of Police/ not mayor.
  • Canadian spelling includes per cent instead of percent, grey rather than gray; centre, travelled, counselling, realize, recognize, aluminium.
  • I prefer 10%
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica: encyclopaedia is British spelling. It digital format uses American spelling Encyclopedia but all Wikipedia references use the British spelling.
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  • trimming non-free-to-read links
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  • notelist {{notelist}} Use {{efn|write the note here}}
  • Abbreviation for United States can be either US or U.S. It should be uniform throughout.
  • nowiki /nowiki
  • Talk page templates {{WikiProject Law|class=Start|importance=Low}}

{{split article|from=Lund v Boissoin|to=Hate speech laws in Canada|diff=http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=Hate_speech_laws_in_Canada&diff=prev&oldid=331836694|date=December 15 2009}}

  • News's something
  •   creates a space
  • MOS: If there are more than 10 references, the reflist tag makes columns automatically and adjusts them for each person's monitor settings so adding 30em is not necessary.

Said, stated, described, wrote, commented, and according to are almost always neutral and accurate

  • Wikipedia special search
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  • fill in bare reference(s) with reFill 2
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  • A simple year–year range is written using an en dash (– or –) not an em dash, hyphen or slash; this dash is unspaced (that is, with no space on either side); and the range's end year is usually given in full: 1881–1886; 1881–1992 (not 1881–86; 1881 – 1992) Markup: 1881–1886 or 1881–1886"
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  • $61 million
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  • {{talkheader}} I found this template very useful for moving back and forth between the talk page and the article, rather than clicking on "Article" in the menu. I thought it was more intuitive. I recently learned that this is not the proper use for this template and I will no longer generously sprinkle article talk pages with it. Talk header
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  • CAD$2.25 billion, USD$2.25 billion CAD$2.25 billion, USD$2.25 billion
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  • Wikipedia how-to
  • Mi'kmaq language code ISO 639-3 mic so {{lang-mic|}}ethnologue
    • classification = Algic›Algonquian›Eastern Algonquian; Autonym = L’nui’simk, Míkmawísimk
    • Language Resources OLAC resources in and about Mi’kmaq (language archives)
    • Alternate Names Mi’gmaq, Mi’gmaw, Mi’gmawi’simg, Micmac, Miigmao, Restigouche
    • This web edition of the Ethnologue may be cited as: Eberhard, David M., Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2020. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Twenty-third edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com
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  • Use 'African American' not 'African-American' as adjective, noun group.

Dates and numbers

  • Manual of style: dates and numbers
    • Ex A simple year–year range is written using an en dash (– or –) not an em dash, hyphen, or slash; this dash is unspaced (that is, with no space on either side); and the range's end year is usually given in full.
    • Integers from zero to nine are spelled out in words.
    • M (unspaced, capitalized) or bn (unspaced), respectively, may be used for "million" or "billion" after a number, when the word has been spelled out at the first occurrence (She received £70 million and her son £10M).
    • Markup: 21{{nbsp}}million

Tables

Reliable sources

"In general, the most reliable sources are peer-reviewed journals and books published in university presses; university-level textbooks; magazines, journals, and books published by respected publishing houses; and mainstream newspapers. As a rule of thumb, the greater the degree of scrutiny involved in checking facts, analyzing legal issues, and scrutinizing the evidence and arguments of a particular work, the more reliable it is. Academic and peer-reviewed publications are highly valued and usually the most reliable sources in areas where they are available, such as history, medicine and science. Material from reliable non-academic sources may also be used in these areas, particularly if they are respected mainstream publications. The appropriateness of any source always depends on the context." WP:Verifiability, June 23, 2008

"Completed dissertations or theses written as part of the requirements for a PhD, and which are publicly available (most via interlibrary loan or from Proquest), can be used but care should be exercised, as they are often, in part, primary sources. Some of them will have gone through a process of academic peer reviewing, of varying levels of rigor, but some will not. If possible, use theses that have been cited in the literature; supervised by recognized specialists in the field; or reviewed by third parties. Dissertations in progress have not been vetted and are not regarded as published and are thus not reliable sources as a rule. Some theses are later published in the form of scholarly monographs or peer reviewed articles, and, if available, these are usually preferable to the original thesis as sources. Masters dissertations and theses are considered reliable only if they can be shown to have had significant scholarly influence."Identifying reliable sources (Scholarship)

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References

  1. ^ Brooks 2012, pp. 12.
  2. ^ Brooks & Smith 2012, pp. 12.

User attribution

  • Wikipedia policies and guidelines
    • While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution.

"Some of the content in this section was copied from [article] on [date]. Please see the history of that page for attribution."

— User Diannaa

It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. If you are the sole author of the prose that was moved, attribution is not required.

US or U.S.

"While in principle, either US or U.S. may be used (with internal consistency) to abbreviate "United States" in any given article, the use or non-use of periods (full stops) should also be consistent with other country abbreviations in the same article (thus the US, UK, and USSR, not the U.S., UK, and USSR). In longer abbreviations (three letters or more) that incorporate the country's initials (USN, USAID), do not use periods. When the United States is mentioned with one or more other countries in the same sentence, U.S. or US may be too informal, especially at the first mention or as a noun instead of an adjective (France and the United States, not France and the U.S.). Do not use the spaced U. S. or the archaic U.S. of A., except when quoting; and do not use U.S.A. or USA except in a quotation, as part of a proper name (Team USA), or in certain technical or formal uses (e.g., the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes and FIFA country codes)."

— MoS

Useful protocols and tips from other editors

  • "Use "page preview" before saving an edit."* To track use of Wikipedia Library resources some WL volunteers began using#JSTOR, #GALE for example.
  • replace et al. in author/editor parameters with |display-authors=etal or |display-editors=etal;)

|doi=10.1017/s0031182008005246|display-authors=etal}} Cited in Vors' Phd (2013), Caribou</nowiki>

Essays about Wikipedia

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Autopatrolled

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Hi Oceanflynn, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Coffee // have a cup

User:Oceanflynn

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I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

  Multi-licensed with any Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License  
I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under Wikipedia's copyright terms and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0 and 2.0, and the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license version 2.0. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides.

Oceanflynn on Wikimedia

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Canada10000

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  Please list Canada-related articles you have improved/created here starting in November 2016.

About

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  • Wikipedia Library
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Wikimedia

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Autopatrolled rights February 6, 2017

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User:Coffee has just let me know that they have added the "autopatrolled" permission to my account, "as you have created numerous, valid articles." This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. WP:AfC WP:RFC

That feels good.

Articles about Wikipedia

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Reliable sources

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This is a "A list of the 238 most respected journalists, as nominated by journalists in the 2018 Journalists at Work survey" National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ).[1]

Fact-checking

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Reliable sources: essays

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Identifying and evaluating reliable sources (Medicine)

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    This flow chart is used for evaluating sources for Wikipedia articles on medicine from this draft on identifying reliable sources. Sources with some legitimate uses such as "cohort studies, case reports, expert opinion, blog posts, company sites or blacklisted sources"] are not used in Wikipedia articles on medicine
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    This flow chart on medical journals is used for evaluating sources for Wikipedia articles on medicine from this draft.
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    "Guidelines are important on Wikipedia because they present recommended practice."draft.

Pew Research: media polarization, trusted sources and Wikipedia's reliable sources protocol

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The Wikipedia protocol regarding reliable independent sources and the protocol of maintaining neutrality are often used as arguments for deleting content, and may result in long discussions on talk pages. On these talk pages for different articles, the methodology for measuring reliability and neutrality is not always obvious. The other problem I want to avoid is having maintenance templates placed on articles to which I am contributing. These templates are unsightly and they diminish the article in the eyes of readers. I prefer to spend my volunteer time on articles themselves rather than on talk pages, so I am trying to avoid the most common pitfalls. I find Pew Research helpful. A site that is trusted by users in general does not mean it is always reliable. Oceanflynn (talk) 16:44, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Ideological Placement of Each Source’s Audience
  • All voters by percentage: FOX 19%, CNN 13%, Facebook 8%, Local TV 7%, NBC 5%, MSNBC 5%, ABC 5%, NPR 4%, CBS 4%, New York Times 3%, local newspapers 3%
  • Trump voters by percentage: FOX 40%, CNN 8%, Facebook 7%, NBC 6%, Local TV 5%, ABC 3%, CBS 3%, local radio 3%,
  • Clinton voters by percentage: CNN 8%, MSNBC 9%, Facebook 8%, Local TV 8%, NPR 7%, ABC 6%, New York Times 5%, CBS 5%, NBC 4%, local newspapers 4%, FOX 3%
— Pew Research 2017

"Clinton voters named an array of different sources, with no one source named by more than one-in-five of her supporters. The survey was conducted Nov. 29-Dec. 12, 2016, among 4,183 adults who are members of Pew Research Center’s nationally representative American Trends Panel."

— Gottfried, Barthel and Mitchell January 18, 2017

In order:

More trusted than not trusted: The Economist, BBC, NPR, PBS, The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, CNN, USA Today, Google News, The Blaze, New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, The Guardian, Bloomberg, The New Yorker, Politico, Yahoo News, Fox News,

Equally trusted and not trusted: Mother Jones, Slate, Breitbart, Huffington Post, Colbert Report, Think Progress, Daily Show, Drudge Report,

More distrusted than trusted: Daily Kos, Sean Hannity Show, Al Jazeera America (2013-6), The Ed Schultz Show (-2014), The Glenn Beck Program, The Rush Limbaugh Show, BuzzFeed

Lead section

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"As a general rule of thumb, a lead section should contain no more than four well-composed paragraphs and be carefully sourced as appropriate... The verifiability policy advises that material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, and direct quotations, should be supported by an inline citation. Any statements about living persons that are challenged or likely to be challenged must have an inline citation every time they are mentioned, including within the lead...and information in the lead section of non-controversial subjects is less likely to be challenged and less likely to require a source; there is not, however, an exception to citation requirements specific to leads. The necessity for citations in a lead should be determined on a case-by-case basis by editorial consensus. Complex, current, or controversial subjects may require many citations; others, few or none. The presence of citations in the introduction is neither required in every article nor prohibited in any article."

— Wikipedia Lead Section
    • Words to watch Puffery or peacock words ex ... "legendary, great, acclaimed, visionary, outstanding, leading, celebrated, award-winning, landmark, cutting-edge, innovative, extraordinary, brilliant, hit, famous, renowned, remarkable, prestigious, world-class, respected, notable, virtuoso, honorable, awesome, unique"
      Shortcuts
    • Words to watch: contentious labels eg ... "cult, racist, perverted, sect, fundamentalist, heretic, extremist, denialist, terrorist, freedom fighter, bigot, myth, -gate, pseudo-, controversial"
    • Consensus
    • Shortcuts
      "WP:AVOID" redirects here. For other uses, see Wikipedia: Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions.
      Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
    • Shortcuts
      unsupported attributions, for example, "... some people say, many scholars state, it is believed/regarded/considered, many are of the opinion, most feel, experts declare, it is often reported, it is widely thought, research has shown, science says, it is often said ..."

About Wikipedia

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Categories

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Help:Category

Multiple authors templates

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Gale

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GaleThis user has access to Gale through The Wikipedia Library.

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"Transcript of a Press Briefing by Gerry Rice, Director, Communications Department, IMF." ENP Newswire 15 Jan. 2016. Infotrac Newsstand. Web. 18 Jan. 2016. http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA439931815&v=2.1&u=wikipedia&it=r&p=STND&sw=w&asid=bc5a13915f0a167c964b9ac62cb3ee22 "

EBSCO

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EBSCOThis user has access to EBSCO resources through The Wikipedia Library.

Renewed August 2016 Thank you.

User page

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This User:Oceanflynn page contains lifelong learning resources I use or would like to use when editing Wikipedia articles. It is a convenient shareable but personalized resource for keeping track of potentially useful templates and tools.

Biographies

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Notability
General notability guideline
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Special characters

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Two forms of dash are used on Wikipedia: en dash (–) and em dash (—). Type them in as – (–) and — (—) or click on them to the right of the "Insert" tab under the edit window; or see How to make dashes.

  • Unspaced em dash[edit]

"Another "planet" was detected—but it was later found to be a moon of Saturn." Do not use spaces with em dashes.

  • Spaced en dash

"Another "planet" was detected – but it was later found to be a moon of Saturn."

To ensure correct linewrap handling, the  – template (or its  – shorthand) can be used:

Another "planet" was detected – but it was later found to be a moon of Saturn.

However, do not use the template where the en dash is unspaced (see § En dashes: other uses, below).

Dashes can clarify the sentence structure when there are already commas or parentheses, or both.

We read them in chronological order: Descartes, Locke, Hume—but not his Treatise (it is too complex)—and Kant.

Toolkit

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Templates

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  • Footnotes
    • {{Cite journal|url = http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/GALE{{!}}A256635439/GPS|title = Escape into the past|last = |first = |date = 2011|journal = Paraplegia News|volume = 65|issue = 5|pages = 49–53}}{{subscription required|via=General OneFile}}
  • Footnotes ref group
Footnotes
When using both names and groups, the syntax is:
<ref name=name group=groupname>Content</ref>
For the repeated note:
<ref name=name group=groupname />
{{cleanup-reorganize|date=January 2016}}
The footnote marker group name must be enclosed in quotes if the group name includes a space, else a cite error will occur, otherwise quotes are optional.
The syntax for the reference list with a group is:
{{reflist|group=groupname}}
  • Templates at top of articles
    • {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}
  • Templates placed at top of articles that have major issues

{{Essay-like|date=January 2016}}

{{outdated|date=January 2016}}


{{reflist|30em}}

{{citations needed|date=January 2016}}

{{under construction|14 January 2016}}

{{in use}}

  • convert

{{convert|1.126|Moilbbl/d|m3/d}}

Wikipedia Library volunteer

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I officially began volunteering with Wikipedia Library on September 16, 2015

Links related to the Wikilibrary topics recommended by Nikki: - Art And Feminism, September 16, 2015 is an example of a landing page set up for an editathon (this one is part of the Art & Feminism initiative).

    • editathon provides more guidance on how to set up such an event
    • Training is a hub for training materials for various audiences (see also the Education Program page at WEP)
    • The Wikipedia Library: Free resources is our subject-based list of free resources that Wikipedia is working on developing
    • all Wikimedia mailing lists provides access to all Wikimedia mailing lists - the ones I suggest are Wikipedia-Library and GLAM-US (which despite its name covers all of North America)
    • Citing sources with Zotero to go along with your discussion of EndNote - this open-source reference software integrates nicely with Wikipedia.

Did you know?

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There are two steps, one is to add the article to this list, the other is to create a nomination page. The nomination page can be edited after it is submitted.

Quotes

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Images

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In infobox

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See Caribou

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    • | image_caption =Male Porcupine caribou ''R. t. granti'' in Alaska

In subsection

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Clear left

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See Caribou

  • Use this {{clear left}} just above the subsection title, to maintain image placement related to subsection.
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  • thumb [[File:Reindeer licking salt from roadway.jpg|thumb|Caribou licking salt from roadway in [[British Columbia]]]]
  • 250px[[ File:CanaportLNG Long7.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Canaport]] in New Brunswick, Canada is a tidewater petroleum facility]]
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    Drop of oil
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    Schematic showing both terrestrial and geological sequestration of carbon dioxide emissions from a coal-fired plant
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See Caribou

  • <gallery> Image:Caribou crossing Leaf River.jpg|Caribou crossing Leaf River Image:Caribou at the campsite.jpg|Leaf River and caribou </gallery>

Wikiproof colour codes in html

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Geographic coordinates and maps

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Debert in Nova Scotia.
 
 
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Prudhoe Bay Oil Field
 
 
Charlie Lake Caves
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Charlie Lake Caves

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Prudhoe Bay Oil Field
 
Teshekpuk Lake
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North Slopes Alaska

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Geographic Location (8-way)

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See {{Geographic Location (8-way)}}

I use this template in articles I edit. It can be used for communities, such as provinces, municipalities, unincorporated places, cities or geographic features such as oceans, rivers, lakes, and mountains. Geographic features should be in italics.

As noted in the page {{Geographic Location (8-way)}}, the "Geographic Location (8-way) template provides for a convenient compass-based navigational aid for articles about communities. It allows you to display the communities surrounding the subject of your article. The only required field is "Centre"; the template defaults to an "(enter city)" in the centre of the box message if nothing is entered here (see note below). The fields Northwest, North,Northeast, West, East, Southwest, South, and Southeast are optional. They will be hidden when not used; when values are entered for the relevant parameters, the fields will automatically appear. (Normal Wiki markup can be used in the fields, such as links, colours, and bold/italics.) The template is coded to handle the American spelling "center". It first looks for a value in "Centre", then in "Center"; it defaults to the "(add city)" message if both are left blank. In order to ensure consistent usage, the following guidelines are suggested: Use same-level jurisdictions or equivalent in the directional fields as in the centre. For instance, when using this template for a province, show adjacent provinces; when using it for a municipality, show adjacent municipalities; when using it for unincorporated places, show adjacent unincorporated communities; etc. When a municipality borders an international, provincial, or state boundary, try to use a municipality in that adjacent jurisdiction rather than the jurisdiction itself. Geographical features such as oceans, rivers, lakes, and mountains should be in italics to differentiate them. Avoid cluttering the template with too much detail; it is a general guide, not a detailed map."

How to insert references in a talk page

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:to insert references into a talk page use this<ref name="BPOilreservedefinitions">{{cite web |url=http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/about-bp/statistical-review-of-world-energy-2013/review-by-energy-type/oil/oil-reserves/oil-reserve-definitions.html |title=Oil reserve definitions |work=bp.com |publisher=BP |accessdate=4 December 2013}}</ref> {{reflist-talk|close}}

to insert references into a talk page use this[2]

References

  1. ^ "NCJT list of 238 most respected journalists (generated)" (PDF), NCTJ, 11 October 2018, retrieved 11 October 2018
  2. ^ "Oil reserve definitions". bp.com. BP. Retrieved 4 December 2013.

Wikipedia Projects

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  • [Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia]

Wikipedia's Manual of Style

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Citations

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  • Citation List of all arguments presently considered by Module:Citation/CS1/sandbox
    • accessdate, degree, department, institution, origyear, others not translator, |orig-year=1936 |trans_title= |trans-title=,


Wikipedia articles on shortened footnotes

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Shortened footnotes with separate explanatory notes with references

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This method uses {{sfn}} to create the main footnotes, {{efn}} to create the explanatory notes, {{sfn}} to create footnotes in the explanatory notes and {{notelist}} to create the notes list.

Markup Renders as 
The Sun is pretty big.{{sfn|Miller|2005|p=23}}{{efn|But Miller points out that the Sun is not as large as some other stars.{{sfn|Miller|2005|p=23}}}} But the Moon{{efn|The Moon goes by other names, such as Selena.{{sfn|Brown|2001|p=63}}}} is not so big.{{sfn|Brown|2001|p=46}}{{efn|Historically the Moon was not always considered to be large.}} The Sun is also quite hot.{{sfn|Smith|2005|p=334}}

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==Citations==
{{reflist}}

==References==
{{refbegin}}
* {{citation |last=Brown |title=The Moon |publisher=Penguin |year=2001}}
* {{citation |last=Miller |title=The Sun |publisher=Oxford |year=2005}}
* {{citation |last=Smith |title=The Universe |publisher=Random House |year=2005}}
{{refend}}

The Sun is pretty big.[1][b] But the Moon[c] is not so big.[3][d] The Sun is also quite hot.[4]

Notes
  1. ^ write the note here.
  2. ^ But Miller points out that the Sun is not as large as some other stars.[1]
  3. ^ The Moon goes by other names, such as Selena.[2]
  4. ^ Historically the Moon was not always considered to be large.
Citations
  1. ^ a b Miller 2005, p. 23.
  2. ^ Brown 2001, p. 63.
  3. ^ Brown 2001, p. 46.
  4. ^ Smith 2005, p. 334.
References
  • Brown (2001), The Moon, Penguin
  • Miller (2005), The Sun, Oxford
  • Smith (2005), The Universe, Random House

User:Diannaa on shortened footnotes

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User:Redrose64 on shortened footnotes

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"Chaco Culture National Historical Park, like Answer, uses <ref>{{harvnb}}</ref>. There is an easier way: the {{sfn}} template produces output which is identical to {{harvnb}}in behaviour and appearance, but dispenses with the need for <ref>...</ref>; differing page numbers are given different ref numbers, but where a given author/year/page combination occurs more than once, they are automatically merged. See Reading Southern railway station which uses {{sfn}} to such an extent that although there are 59 inline references, the <ref>...</ref> tag doesn't occur at all. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:54, 7 July 2011 (UTC)" [https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_92 Village Pump]


Harvard reference

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  • Cite book| publisher=[[Yale University Press]]| isbn = 978-0-300-07223-5| last = Abert| first = Hermann| authorlink = Hermann Abert| others = [[Cliff Eisen]] (ed.), Stewart Spencer (trans.)| title = W. A. Mozart| location = New Haven| year = 2007| url =| oclc = 70401564| ref = harv}}

References with reference page template

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  • <ref name="name" />{{Rp|1}}

References

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User:Diannaa

Shortcuts from User:Hwy43

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User:Hwy43

Infobox templates

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Infobox parameters

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Cite templates

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Cite_AV_media people= time=
Cite book oclc= isbn=
Cite magazine magazine= will automatically italicize New Yorker
Cite news newspaper= will automatically italicize The New York Times
Cite techreport
Cite episode
Cite thesis xx
Cite CanLII
Cite canLaw
Cite web will automatically italicize? Cite news or site web?
  • {{cite book |year= '''|orig-year=''' '''|chapter=''' }}
  • {{cite magazine }}

cite thesis

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|last= |first= |date= |title= |chapter: The chapter heading of the source. May be wikilinked or may use chapter-url, but not both|type=|publisher= |docket= |oclc=

|url= |access-date= |degree=M.Sc.|format=PDF, DOC, or XLS|edition|series or version|publication-date|orig-year|trans-title|chapter-url=|publisher=, |distributor=, |institution=|periodical=, |journal=, |newspaper=, |magazine=, |work=, |website=, |encyclopedia=, |encyclopaedia=, |dictionary=;Laysummarylay-url: URL link to a non-technical summary or review of the source; the URL title is set to "Lay summary". Aliases: lay-summary, laysummary.lay-source: Name of the source of the laysummary. Displays in italics and preceded by an endash. Alias: laysource.lay-date: Date of the summary. Displays in parentheses. Alias: laydate.

  • {{Google maps|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/66%C2%B008'49.0%22N+65%C2%B042'31.0%22W/@66.146944,-65.708611,1187m/ | title=Pangnirtung|accessdate={{date}}}}
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Some of these I found on User:Diannaa's page. When I find similar pages on topics I edit with the templates, I will replace hers.

WikiProject Alberta

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This includes navigational boxes.

Resources for Alberta

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alberta.
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My wiki books

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My wiki books are on my new user subpage User:Oceanflynn/Books 

* Affordable housing

Wayback archiving urls

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Internet Archive Wayback Machine

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User:Oceanflynn pages

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User books

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Sandbox protocols, templates, etc

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"[A]dd {{db-userreq}} at the top of any such page you no longer wish to keep; an administrator will then delete the page. See Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion for more information." Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion

To delete a sole author sandbox article. {{db-g7}}

Shortcut

To delete a sole author sandbox article, blank the page "(other than a userspace page, a category page, or any type of talk page), this can be taken as a deletion request? If requested in good faith and provided that the only substantial content of the page was added by its author. (For redirects created as a result of a page move, the mover must also have been the only substantive contributor to the pages prior to the move.[1]) If the sole author blanks a page other than a userspace page, a category page, or any type of talk page, this can be taken as a deletion request."Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion (section)

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