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"Needs image"

Hi @LPascal: I've been trying to use your Google spreadsheet and it seemed to me that you might usefully use the "needs-image=yes" parameter within the talk page assessments. That is, I wanted to draw your attention to the various templates used on the Talk pages to assess articles. For example in Talk:Anne_Zahalka the template:"{{WikiProject Biography |living=yes |class=Start |listas=Zahalka, Anne |auto=yes|needs-image=yes}}" has been modified by the insertion of "|needs-image=yes" Modifying talk pages in this manner means that various bots (and other wikipedians) will pick up that an image is needed. You will see that I have used your google sheet to add this to the talk pages: Talk:Anne_Zahalka, Talk:Anastasia Klose, Talk:Agatha Gothe-Snape, Talk:Ann Newmarch. It doesn't always show, but that does not prevent the bots from finding and listing these for wikipedians attention. Doing this would allow all wikipedians to help, rather than just those signed up to the wikiclub.

And, of course, as you know, the reason why so many articles fail to have images of the subject or their art, is that most images of artworks do not satisfy the requirements of Wikipedia, that images be CC-BY-0 in some form or other. And as for photographs of the subject, the photographer who created the image needs to be 70 years dead, or to have released copyright. MargaretRDonald (talk) 03:31, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Listing pages in category and its subcategories

I saw your query at User talk:Mitch Ames. Is this tool any use to you? NebY (talk) 19:07, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

Other content?

Per this edit summary, content in Wikipedia is not based on whether same or similar content exists or is formatted similarly in some other page. Content should usually follow manuals of style and consensus guidelines. See WP:OTHERCONTENT. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 13:48, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

This article about Jan Dunn and many others about Australian women artists has been written under the auspices of Wikimedia Australia as part of the Wikipedia:Know my name project. The editors, including me, who write these articles have been trained by experienced Wikipedians. New editors who are experienced in writing for other kinds of publication usually expect to be given a template with headings to write content under. This is not the case with Wikipedia. We were told there are no standard headings to use in bios but to look at existing artist bios and choose similar headings that were relevant to the subject person. So we were trained to look through other articles with a C classification or higher to get some ideas for content headings. That is why I made the comment about comparing with other bios. We were also taught that as the project is about artists, and their notability is related to their artwork, the emphasis should be on their art, techniques/styles especially if it's innovative or part of a new art movement, critical reception (independent reviews), and representation in exhibitions and collections, partly to show notability. Also that every mention of an exhibition or being in a collection, has to be referenced, so there will be many references both to show notability and to verify that the artwork is in a collection or was in a certain exhibition. The Dunn article and all the other Australian women artist articles were written under these WP guides and polices and more: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Visual arts, Wikipedia:Notability, Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout, Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Article titles, headings, and sections. I have followed the WP guidelines and policy in writing about Dunn, included mention of her representation in collections and exhibitions and introducing a new ceramics technique and being part of the Australian Craft Movement to show notability, written the article with a neutral voice, included brief quotations from independent critics to show art style and technique (not as promotion), divided the content into subheadings commonly used in artist's bios and referenced every sentence so that it's all verifiable. Thank you for previous suggestions. I suggest you can remove the "It reads like a resume" banner. LPascal (talk) 01:58, 11 July 2022 (UTC

Article citations count

Hi @LPascal: How goes it? I notice that several of your articles are suffering from WP:CITEKILL. Generally speaking only reference is needed per sentence and there is a fine line between too many references and too few. This article, for example, Peta Sherlock. This has whole blocks of references sometimes six or eight which are overkill. It really needs to be addressed. I also had a look at List of the first women ordained as priests in the Anglican Church of Australia in 1992 which as ref 7 to 26 which is beyond the pale really. I assuming you plan to use these for that structured list which is itself unreferenced, one per entry possibly? scope_creep^Talk 11:29, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Great articles apart from that and well referenced... scope_creep^Talk 11:30, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Really solid in fact. scope_creep^Talk 11:36, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi @scope_creep^Talk

Thank you for complimenting my articles and for putting these friendly comments on my Talk page to alert me to WP:CITEKILL. I quickly read that policy and will work through it again in detail and see what I can do with the references on my recent articles as well as review Wikipedia:Citing sources again. I thought though that it would be worth giving you the reasons why I reference the way I do. I'm not going to get out of checking those articles against WP, just discussing the issue. I'm also happy for you to explain to me how the placement of the citations for the standalone priest list could be improved.

Firstly, as a volunteer social historian and archivist and a former director of social policy, research and data, I have a deep aversion to making assertions without references. I like to see that every sentence or paragraph in a report or history is backed up by an authoritative source or data. This fits well with WP:CS. I am also aware of whole articles written by others based on only one source or just a newspaper report where the journalist didn't pay much attention to facts. So I am very thorough in my research to make sure I find the information I write about in more than one reliable source.

I am also aware that some of the articles I write are about women working in jobs where their status and role is contested, their notability questioned, and their articles more likely to be challenged, so I need to show that the woman I am writing about has indeed achieved enough or been written about enough to meet notability requirements through reliable sources.

Another issue is that I don't like the stuttering effect of one fact per sentence and so I might combine a few facts into one sentence. For example: Jane was married at x place and then obtained a degree at x university. There are two facts in that sentence, and the verification comes from two different sources, so I put the citations at the end of the sentence rather than after each fact. It's a personal preference not to interrupt the flow of the sentence with citation numbers. However I will look at the policies around inline citations and see if I'm following them.

I already know that lists of publications, works, or exhibitions within an article have to have a citation per bullet point and so I do that. However because I list a person's works in their article it means I have one reference per work so that adds to the reference list. On stand-alone lists, I have looked at the list policies and I find it a bit unclear where I should put the citations, so I looked at a whole lot of other lists of people and found that they did not put the citation after each name as it seems to clutter up the list, so I put all the citations after the introductory paragraphs. In developing the list of first women priests, I used a publicly available list as a starting point but I could see it had flaws which I needed to double check and correct and put into a list format. So I had to use the most authoritative source, a directory of clergy, but which needs to be checked by year so I had to cite more than one directory. The directory sources apply to the whole list but some newspaper article sources only apply to one or two people. Sometimes I also needed to cite a newspaper article because of differences in married/single names over time and to clarify the number of women and in which diocese they were ordained. Some of these things cause debate so I use references to show I'm not making stuff up.

Finally, I know that students especially find the reference lists very useful in their research, even more than articles, so I think it's a gift to future researchers or students to have lots of worthwhile references they can read for themselves. LPascal (talk) 09:43, 19 June 2023 (UTC

Anglican Ink

I noticed your edits to Anglican Church of Australia and have started a discussion at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Anglican.ink. My initial feeling is that while davidould.net is not a reliable source, anglican.ink is (per the frequent citations in books) and so when they republish Ould's articles (if that's what they are doing) it is with editorial oversight. Hence, Anglican Ink references should not be removed per WP:BLPSPS. But I'm happy to wait and see how it plays out at RSN. StAnselm (talk) 15:37, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

@StAnselm Thanks for alerting me to the to the other thread. I have left my comments there. LPascal (talk) 01:27, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

No problem. It looks like the emerging consensus might be trending towards not having AI at all. StAnselm (talk) 02:35, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, LPascal. Thank you for your work on Susanna Pain. User:SunDawn, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Thank you for writing the article on Wikipedia! I genuinely appreciate your efforts in creating the article on Wikipedia and expanding the sum of human knowledge in Wikipedia. Wishing you and your family a great day!

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✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 13:27, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

SunDawn Thank you. Terima kasih. LPascal (talk) 01:22, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for the adding the page for Gloria Shipp; an important part of the living history of Australian Anglicanism and beyond! Klbrain (talk) 10:52, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! Just what I needed. LPascal (talk) 10:42, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

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