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My user name, "Presearch", has many possible meanings. I use it because it is similar to "Research," which is needed for writing good Wikipedia articles (just no original research!). Pluralism interests me: some of what I do for Wikipedia might perhaps be called pluralism research, which shortens to p-research, or presearch. More broadly, the word "presearch" has been used for many years in many ways, with 3000+ hits in Google Book in 1980s and earlier, some going as far back as 1981, 1957, or even 1946.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years, 3 months and 29 days.




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This user is ranked No. 4217 on the list of Wikipedians by articles created.
This user has created >150 articles on Wikipedia.
This user has written or expanded >25 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.







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The 25 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal
The Original Barnstar
For your fine-tooth comb review work on Pitkin County Courthouse at T:TDYK. Daniel Case (talk) 15:19, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

November 2017, soon after creation of Auguste de Pradines:

The Original Barnstar
Your contributions have made Wikipedia better. Thanks for all you do. Barbara (WVS)   09:24, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

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Explanations are part of civility

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Please note that explanations are part of civility, and civility is one of Wikipedia's five pillars. According to the Wikipedia civility guidelines (from WP:CIV):

Editors are expected to be reasonably cooperative... and to be responsive to good-faith questions. Try to treat your fellow editors as respected colleagues with whom you are working on an important project.

In the "avoiding incivility" subsection, we are told to

Explain yourself. Not sufficiently explaining edits can be perceived as uncivil, whether that's the editor's intention or not. Use good edit summaries, and use the talk page if the edit summary doesn't provide enough space or if a more substantive debate is likely to be needed.

and also told to

Be careful with user warning templates. Be careful about issuing templated messages to editors you're currently involved in a dispute with [as well as to] newcomers.... Consider using a personal message...

See HERE-1 for one highly civil editor explaining to a recurrently uncivil editor why indiscriminate templating is wrong (see also HERE-2). Furthermore, Wikipedia's Editing Policy page (WP:EP) states:

Be helpful: explain your changes. When you edit an article, the more radical or controversial the change, the greater the need to explain it.

and also states:

Preserve information: fix problems if you can, flag them if you can't. Try to preserve information. As long as any of the facts or ideas added to the article would belong in a "finished" article, they should be retained and the writing tagged if necessary, or cleaned up on the spot.

Disruptive Editing

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The Wikipedia article on Disruptive Editing (WP:Disruption) states that:

Disruptive editing is a pattern of edits, which may extend over a considerable period of time or number of articles, that has the effect of

  • disrupting progress toward improving an article, or
  • disrupting progress toward the fundamental project of building an encyclopedia.

Signs of disruptive editing (according to the same page include a:

Campaign to drive away productive contributors: act counter to policies and guidelines such as Wikipedia:Civility, Wikipedia:No personal attacks, Wikipedia:Ownership of articles,... etc. on a low level that might not exhaust the general community's patience, but that operates toward an end of exhausting the patience of productive rules-abiding editors on certain articles.

and another sign is:

Does not engage in consensus building: repeatedly disregards other editors' questions or requests for explanations concerning edits or objections to edits;


For remedies, a section of the same article describes a stepwise

model for remedies, though these steps do not necessarily have to be done in this sequence. In some extreme circumstances a rapid report to WP:ANI may be the best first step; in others, a fast track to a community ban may be in order. But in general, most situations can benefit from a gradual escalation, with hope that each step may help resolve the problem, such that further steps are not needed.

Wikipedia Etiquette

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  • "Do not hesitate to let the other person know that you are not comfortable with their tone in a neutral way" (WP:EQ)

Disagreement and dispute resolution

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"Stay in the top three sections of this pyramid" (advice given at WP:Dispute resolution and WP:BRD misuse; concept from an article by Paul Graham[1]).
  • From WP:Dispute Resolution: "Assume that an editor is acting in good faith until it's absolutely clear that they're not. It's at that point where you should consider dispute resolution processes that involve third parties."
  • From WP:BRD_misuse: "There are essentially two ways to misuse WP:BRD: being an Edit ninja (or Revert ninja) and being a Filibusterer.... If the advice suggested doesn't work then... [a backup is to] seek outside community support elsewhere."
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Style
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  • Wikipedia: Try to fix problems: preserve information
  • Wikipedia: Don't revert due to "no consensus"
  • Wikipedia: "Do not impose Wikipedia style guidelines on sources that are cited or quoted" (from WP:PEACOCK)
  • Researchers citing themselves: "If an editor has published the results of his or her research in a reliable publication, the editor may cite that source while writing in the third person and complying with our neutrality policy" (WP:NOR); "Editing in an area in which you have professional or academic expertise is not, in itself, a conflict of interest. Using material you yourself have written or published is allowed within reason, but only if it is notable and conforms to the content policies" (WP:COI)
  • WP:OWN states that "if someone else is claiming 'ownership' of a page, you can bring it up on the associated talk page, appeal to other contributors, or consider the dispute resolution process." Examples of ownership attitudes include "please do not make such changes or comments without my/his approval."
  • Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point (WP:POINT)
  • Wikipedia is not a battleground (WP:BATTLE)
Utility
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Project page talk
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General talk talk
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Writing articles
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Non-fiction books talk
Library article talk
Adding images talk
Bibliography articles talk
Naming conventions talk
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Category:WikiProject Books
  • Including references on talk pages?: It is possible to generate multiple lists of references by inserting {{reflist|close=1}} - see Template:Reflist#Multiple_uses. Each reference section will be renumbered, starting with 1. This allows the talk page reference section to appear immediately below the text that generates it. Failure to include an argument, such as "close=1", will lead to simple duplication of the most recent previous instance of a reference section.
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Miscellaneous
  • Churnalism briefly had a Wikipedia:Churnalism essay (in Wikipedia space) that was userfied in 2017. It now appears to reside in userspace at User:Northamerica1000/Churnalism, which in its header advises, "For the reliable sources guideline on churnalism, see WP:NEWSORG". The latter states that "News reporting from well-established news outlets is generally considered to be reliable for statements of fact (though even the most reputable reporting sometimes contains errors)," and that "Otherwise reliable news sources—for example, the website of a major news organization—that publish in a blog-style format for some or all of their content may be as reliable as if published in standard news article format" (citing WP:NEWSBLOG, which introduces its topic by stating that "Some newspapers, magazines, and other news organizations host online pages, columns or rolling text they call blogs.").
External Links
  • Requests to archive webpages: [1]
  • Decline in Wikipedia page views (analysis): [2]

Subpage viewing

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Harder than a few years ago. See Wikipedia:Subpages, or Wikipedia:Tip of the day/March 8.

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Cites

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When making cites, might I (Ogress) suggest https://reftag.appspot.com/ ? (be sure to check the box for ref=harv). It does all the work. All you do is plug in a Google Books link. It autoformats everything:

{{harv|Murti|2013|p=}}

{{cite book|ref=harv|last=Murti|first=T R V|title=The Central Philosophy of Buddhism: A Study of the Madhyamika System|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=mmvzSw2igPUC|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-135-02946-6}}

There. Now just replace harv in {{harv|Murti|2013|p=}} with sfn and you get {{sfn|Murti|2013|p=}}. That makes a ref without needing tags! Here's page 15 cited:[2]. Then stick the second one in the bibliography!

References

  1. ^ Paul Graham (2008, March). "How to Disagree." Accessed 27 Dec 2009.
  2. ^ Murti 2013, p. 15.

      Bibliography

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  • Murti, T R V (2013). The Central Philosophy of Buddhism: A Study of the Madhyamika System. Routledge. ISBN 1-135-02946-6. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)


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