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Hello, I see on your user page that you use JSTOR and I'd like to know more about your experience. By my calculations, a good 70 % of the main JSTOR content is now available for everyone at Internet Archive Scholar, with full text search provided e.g. at https://scholar.archive.org/ . The service is still in beta, but I've used it for some source-finding and it seems quite usable to me; I wonder whether that's just my experience. If you have a chance, the next time you'd be looking for a source on Google Scholar or JSTOR or similar, to perform the same search on IA scholar instead, I'd be curious to hear how it ends up. Thanks, Nemo 19:07, 22 March 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Nemo: Ok, I'll try it the next time I'm looking for one of those sources. I use JSTOR relatively little compared with other sites, so it may be a while. Nick Number (talk) 19:27, 22 March 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sure, we're not in a hurry. Thanks! Nemo 21:38, 22 March 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I can see that the dates should be in the US format, but I don't see why you have changed the parameter name "work" to its alias "newspaper" in the instances of ((cite news)). What justification is there for those changes? Thanks. PamD 06:30, 4 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@PamD: The works in question are newspapers, so the parameter is more precise and equally accurate. There was a while (two years ago?) when some of the Cite templates would throw an error if "work" was used. That change was reversed, but my thinking was to preempt any problems in case the pendulum of consensus were to swing back on that point in the future. But it likely won't make a difference, and I won't object if you want to change the parameters back. Nick Number (talk) 14:56, 4 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello! I appreciate the massive amount of time you must have spent trying to make improvements to this article (that I entirely researched and wrote). I guess the links to newspapers.com enable all people to read the article without having to have a subscription, which is good. I just have one concern - the several links that I checked only seem to have a link to the first page of the article, unless I just don't know how to access the second page. Most articles indeed have a second page somewhere further back in the paper and often a lot of the info in the wikipedia article may be from there, not the first page. Also, I had listed the newspaper as the author because that way people can very easily see which newspapers are sourced at the start of the reference as some people give precedence to certain papers. Lastly, the reason I had the refrerence numbers out of order is because sometimes the info in the first part of the sentence was from a higher numbered reference but I wanted to imply it matched with the first part of the sentence. I preferred to have academic-length sentences for the most part as opposed to short ones with only once piece of info and just one reference. I'd appreciate hearing back about the second page of an article issue. On the others, I guess the way you have ordered things is the way it will stay as I am not a huge detail person like you are.Eastern Cougar (talk) 01:35, 13 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Eastern Cougar: Hello, and thank you for creating a detailed and thoroughly referenced article. Regarding your question, I believe I included clippings for all of the pages. See, for example, footnote 27, where the link in the article title goes to the first page, and the "4" in "pp. 1, 4" links to the second. Nick Number (talk) 01:51, 13 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Okay. I just wonder how many people will not know that they can hit the second number especially since not that many newspapers get referenced nowadays. Is there some way to make it more visible or understandable that they can click on the second number?Eastern Cougar (talk) 03:07, 13 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Eastern Cougar: I had an informal conversation with some other experienced editors on the Discord server a while ago, and this was generally agreed to be the best way to format these kinds of citations (in the absence of a native mechanism to bundle multi-page clippings on Newspapers.com or NewspaperArchive). For more perspectives and a broader consensus, you might want to start a discussion at Help talk:Citation Style 1. Changes agreed to there could be incorporated into the existing Cite templates. Nick Number (talk) 03:43, 13 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

If you are bored, feel free to go over to the second article I wrote and do your newspaper clipping thing. Someone else rewrote the citations in the same style as you but did not did cut out the clippings like you had done. Its just too much work/detail for me to get into. The article is 1971 Great Lakes Blizzard.Eastern Cougar (talk) 23:31, 25 May 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		Thank you for contributing those pictures - they will make Mary Jane Richardson Jones and John Jones into better articles! Ganesha811 (talk) 02:48, 24 April 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hello Nick Number, coming across this edit, just wanted to inform you there is a Category:Charles Butler (NYU) now on commons, in case you might wish to alter the image. Cheers. Lotje (talk) 08:06, 13 September 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sir Hello Nick Number, since you edited the page, just wanted to inform you I came across this portrait and I am pretty sure this Sir Henry Moore:-) Lotje (talk) 07:14, 20 November 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hey. Long time!! I am travelling in South America. This morning, on day 6 of my trip, I tested positive. I may be locked in a hotel room for a few days. Last night I was at a show where "Cielito Lindo" was played. I did not know the name of the song, but I figured the Ay yi yi yi song might get me somewhere. I ended up at "Limerick (song)". I am quite sure I have gone too far in hatnoting a remedy. I think maybe some other redirects should exist related to this issue though.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 12:16, 28 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@TonyTheTiger: Hi Tony. I hope you have a quick recovery with no lingering effects. Looking at these articles, I think the best solution is to create a disambiguation page at Ay yi yi yi, with links to all the various similar-sounding titles. Nick Number (talk) 22:46, 28 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

We don't have page traffic info, but I am thinking Cielito Lindo is the main and maybe I should create an Ay yi yi yi (disambiguation) page. Thoughts.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:14, 29 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Also, of the four phonetic redirects, where do you think they should be primarily redirecting?-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 01:35, 29 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Furthermore can a phonetic disambiguation page be unified with the following opening line "Ay ay ay ay", "Ay yi yi yi", "I yi yi yi", and "Aye yi yi yi" may refer to:--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 01:36, 29 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'd be inclined to use "Ay ay ay ay", since "ay" is nominally a word. But they're all similar enough that I don't think it matters too much. The introductory line can contain the most common spellings, but doesn't need to be exhaustive. Nick Number (talk) 14:28, 29 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Ay ay ay ay (disambiguation) created and hatnotes adjusted.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 22:40, 5 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  Ok. I made a few style fixes. Nick Number (talk) 23:45, 5 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

  Thx for the assist.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:14, 6 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Also expanded Ay Ay Ay.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 22:40, 5 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

https://omeara-associates.com/project-controls-systems-pcs.html Omda4wady (talk) 07:38, 29 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

https://pmweb.com/project-control-systems-pcs-for-construction-projects%EF%BF%BC/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omda4wady (talk • contribs) 07:38, 29 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

As you've started a similar thread at Talk:PCS#PCS, I've responded there. Nick Number (talk) 14:16, 29 December 2022 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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Your view would be appreciated here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Military_police#Photographs Dreddmoto (talk) 19:53, 20 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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DavidLeeLambert (talk) 15:41, 17 March 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Just wanted to thank you for this image. I've known Heilman's piano trio for years, now - it's one of the finest pieces of American chamber music I know. It frustrates me no end how little information there is about him out there - at least I can now put a face to the name. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 05:04, 2 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You're welcome. I'm glad it was of value. I must confess I hadn't heard of him. My musical tastes are broader in more rock and pop type areas. Nick Number (talk) 15:33, 2 May 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

	Women in Red 8th Anniversary
	In July 2015 around 15.5% of the English Wikipedia's biographies were about women. As of July 2023, 19.61% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women. That's a lot of biographies created in the effort to close the gender gap. Happy 8th Anniversary! Join us for some virtual cake and add comments or memories and please keep on editing to close the gap!

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Since you seem to understand the technical side of WP, far, far better than I do, can you help me with a link from Ebsco host? Please understand I am probably incapable of explaining this sufficiently, but I will try. If you go to the WP library and look up "A Nursing Legend: Admiral Josephine T. Waconda, BSN, CFNP Assistant Surgeon General February 1935-January 2013" in the search bar at the top, the first result is to the article I need "A Nursing Legend" by Fran A'Hern Smith. However, the link https://wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/login?auth=production&url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=86176810&site=eds-live&scope=site has a proxy address and I cannot figure out a work around. The accession number, 86176810, if put into the template ((Ebsco)), takes you to this page, showing it isn't found. How the heck do I use a link in a citation in my draft to get to the article? SusunW (talk) 17:39, 7 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I'm not really familiar with Ebsco, but for me, ((EBSCOhost|86176810|dbcode=ccm)) yields http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=ccm&AN=86176810. If I access Ebsco through the Wikipedia Library link and then go to that URL, I see "A Nursing Legend". Does that work for you? Nick Number (talk) 19:19, 7 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I have absolutely no idea how you figured that out, but thank you for 1) understanding my non-technical explanation and 2) solving my problem. That works for me. I appreciate your help so much! SusunW (talk) 20:03, 7 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

It was mostly through looking at the link you provided to Template:Ebsco and figuring that "db=ccm" in the URL was equivalent to the dbcode parameter. I did have to do a little fiddling with the syntax, as I misread part of the description. I'm glad it's working now. Nick Number (talk) 20:14, 7 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

You lost me a dbcode, but in any case, I appreciate your skills. SusunW (talk) 21:00, 7 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This bit: ((EBSCOhost|86176810|dbcode=ccm)) Nick Number (talk) 21:17, 7 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I totally get that that was required in the link but how you figured that out, I don't know (and don't tell me, my brain doesn't work that way and I won't remember it and probably won't understand ). I literally just copied what you wrote and it worked, so I am happy. Parameters, coding, syntax, etc. are not words that I can comprehend. But, if you ever need research help, please ask. That I totally understand. SusunW (talk) 22:24, 7 August 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

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The Original Barnstar

I bestow this barnstar to you, Nick Number, with appreciation and thanks for your behind-the-scenes work involving Women in Red's Temperance editathon by ... adding Wikidata items for subjects of the Templars images where there's basic information available [ergo] ... those looking to create articles can make use of the references linked in them. Rosiestep (talk) 20:01, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Thank you. :) Nick Number (talk) 20:15, 3 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

This is just a note of appreciation for the tips -- and especially the javascript bookmark -- that you posted on March 7, 2023, in Wikipedia talk:Newspapers.com#issue converting clipping to citation.

After my subscription to Newspapers.com expired in December 2023, I found a link to that section that I had saved in my files, created the bookmark, and followed the steps you listed. I was amazed at how smooth that made the transition from having my own subscription to using the Wikipedia Library for access and creating clippings. Now I use your bookmark daily on my desktop computer, laptop computer, or both.

Thanks for your simplification of what otherwise would have been a tedious process! Eddie Blick (talk) 03:13, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

@Teblick: Thanks so much for the note. I'm really glad the bookmarklet has been helpful. I'm sure newspaper citations are especially valuable in the old-time radio space. Nick Number (talk) 15:45, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Yes, they are very useful. Old newspapers have helped me to strengthen existing articles about old-time radio and to create new articles about programs. I have also expanded my efforts into older TV, both creating new articles and finding additional content for existing articles in back issues of newspapers. Eddie Blick (talk) 16:28, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]