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Secretary of the Navy nominee

Hi Srich32977, I posted some updates for John Phelan's article, President Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Navy. I think they would interest you as a member of WP:DONALDTRUMP and, if you agree with my suggestions, would you mind implementing them? Thank you! Mako246 (talk) 18:41, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CS1 error on Robert McBlair

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February thanks

Thank you for improving article quality in February! - I point at a composer today, as the main page does. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 00:01, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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March thanks

Thank you for improving article quality in March! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:57, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today: an opera, 100 years old OTD, on Bach's birthday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:07, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today, 300 years of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1! We sang works for (mostly) double choir by Pachelbel, Johann Christoph Bach, Kuhnau/Bach, Gounod and Rheinberger! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:44, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Can you explain this?

This edit. You can't give URLs to Gale Onefile, it doesn't let you and just directs to the main login to the database. And why did you comment out the ProQuest wikilinks? Silver seren^C 22:01, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Silverseren: It is a quandry! WP:V says the reader must be able check on the references. So, when ProQuest is listed as a source, we should have an URL to click to determine what the source is. When a Wikipedian has access and can provide the ProQuest URL, they should provide the url in the citation. In those situations, ProQuest can get a (subscription required) or registration tag. WRT Gale, I've assumed that once a user gets past the main login to the database, they can find material, and such material will have its' own url. (Is this correct?) If Gale doesn't provide specific URLs for the sources it provides, then how do we verify what Gale has provided? Back to ProQuest, the "id=" parameters give us a Wikilink to ProQuest, so it is redundant to say "via ProQuest" in those citations. Thanks! – S. Rich (talk) 22:40, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gale doesn't provide direct URLs at all, as those links given to others will just redirect to the login screen. The URLs also frequently have pipes ("|"), so even using them as links on Wikipedia doesn't work because of HTML issues. To find the same source in the database, you need to perform the search yourself, which is why information like the name of the articles and its date of publication are more important. Also, WP:V doesn't say anything about requiring URLs in references. Per WP:PAYWALL, difficult to access sources are still fine, as are offline ones. Silver seren^C 22:51, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also, I disagree with your interpretation of the via parameter. Per templates like Template:Cite news, the via parameter is meant for "A clipped and archived news article that you quote, found on an information aggregation service requiring a subscription". The very example given there is with Newspapers.com while also including a URL. So clearly the template usage doesn't consider it redundant. Silver seren^C 22:54, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In Template:Cite news it says: "via is not a replacement for publisher, but provides additional detail." When I've removed the "via=XYZ" it's done because the "via=" does not provide additional detail. As always, thanks for your comments. I'll keep them in mind as I am culling the ProQuest citations. – S. Rich (talk) 23:16, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes and the publisher is not the same. Via is redundant if the publisher is the same, but it's not here. Choice Reviews and such are the publisher, which are filling that field. Meanwhile, via is for:

Identify the aggregator of the resource that provided the digital version (usually a database provider), when it differs from the publisher (e.g., for The Wikipedia Library)

Example: EBSCOHost, Proquest, Newspapers.com

It is literally explicitly listed as an example for the parameter. Silver seren^C 23:31, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]