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Thank you for helping with the Jamie Eads wiki page. As a brand new user, your help was instrumental in getting everything sorted. I really appreciate it!

20:45, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Stevietheman, today I uploaded my first draft into my sandbox. As a new user, I'm bound to make a lot of mistakes so please forgive me if I shouldn't contact you--or in this manner. For the past 7 years, I have been researching the lives of Joseph and Arthur McCormack, both of whom were long-time heads of the Kentucky Department of Health (1883-1913 and 1913-1943). I'm writing to you because I'm trying to use your article about Luke Blackburn as the model for mine. And because you are interested in Louisville history. (BTW, Blackburn appointed Joseph McCormack to the Board of Health in 1880 and I'll be linking my article with yours.)

I'm finding it much more difficult to write an encyclopedic article than to write academically. I have so much material that it's hard to know what to include or leave out of the Wikipedia article. For example, McCormack was the lead physician attending to Geobel after the assassination attempt and is the physician who signed his death certificate. That's not really important to my story, but I have included it so I can link to the article about Goebel. Somehow, that feels like cheating even if it does help illustrate McCormack's reputation as a surgeon.

I posted my first question to the Teahouse this afternoon and will be using that resource a lot. Still, it would be nice to chat with someone familiar with Louisville/Kentucky history. (I no longer live there; I've retired to Asheville via Atlanta. I seem to have been following you around the South. ) What I've written so far mostly concerns McCormack's activities on the national scene. I'd like to make my article more relevant to Kentucky.

I'm hoping you'll be willing to "adopt" me while I get the hang of things. Again, I'll use the TeaHouse for my routine questions and would direct my "Kentucky" questions to you. And, again, please accept my apology if this is an inappropriate request. The email address I use for my research is McCormack1847 at gmail in case we should communicate via email. For now, I'm going to start adding my citations to the article. Cordially, Valerie Drvalsummers (talk) 21:45, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Drvalsummers: I'm busy working on my garden and yard through this weekend, but perhaps next week I can take a look at this. I'm sorry for the delay. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 22:11, 15 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I understand about the gardening; I'm doing the same thing. I apologize for the duplicate entries to your talk page. I'm still learning the ropes. Drvalsummers (talk) 23:25, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

20:40, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

This month:

In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.

Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)

With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: {{Wikipedia Requests}}. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying article=, category=, or wikiproject=, and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do {{Wikipedia Requests|category=Living people}}. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!

The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.

If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia:Wikipedia Requests#Transition project and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.

WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.

And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.

Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name s52475__wpx_p. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called projectindex. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!

• The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
• The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

So as not to engage in an edit war, please suggest how you would like to have the issue resolved? Dr. Boyce Watkins has released a video in which he directs comments at Lil' Wayne and explicitly suggests that Lil' Wayne is condoning violence in return for payment from a "White and Jewish overseer". You have repeatedly removed the citation expressing that it is not noteworthy. Notability is neither a requirement nor an expectation for citations [see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability] . Furthermore this quote helps provide context as to the nature of the Lil' Wayne/Boyce Watkins controversy which is itself notable. Please explain your reason for having this citation removed and suggest a solution. Starting edit wars is not acceptable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.226.181.194 (talk) 17:25, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]