User:Nealbo
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Always happy to hear any suggestions of interesting new target areas of focus, Wiki Projects and initiatives!
| Area | Focus | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Video games | New article | See section "My Contributions" |
| Expand | Research and expand existing articles | |
| Cover art | Uploading and adding cover art for articles | |
| Screenshots | Uploading and adding screenshots for articles | |
| Adding refs | Add references to articles; websites, archived websites and magazine scans from archive.org
See "My stance on archive.org magazine scans as references". | |
| Add infoboxes | Add infoboxes to articles | |
| Typo fixes | General | General typo fixes found via Google searches: example search for typo "occured" |
| Spacing | Fixing for example "from1985" -> "from 1985" | |
| Copy edit | Random | Hitting the Random article button and copy editing the article if it requires it |
| Focussed | Copy editing on articles in the backlog in articles needing copy edit. | |
| Non-native words & phrases | Search for non-native words and phrases such as “fastly”, “called as/like”, “many a times”, “cope up”, “a xx years old...” which generally identify articles written by non-native speakers that require significant copyedit. | |
| General cleanup | Empty sections | Remove empty sections, especially "External Links" & "See Also" if they have been empty for 1 year+ |
| General improvement | Date error | Fix Errors in dates for references. |
| Replace Euphemisms | Euphemisms can lead to misunderstandings, especially with non-native speakers. Examples:
”Passed away” -> “died” “Make love” -> “have sex” | |
| Replace idioms | Literal language makes sure things can't be misunderstood especially by non-native speakers. Examples:
”The lion's share of” -> “most of” | |
| Add wikilinks | Wikify articles by adding wikilinks. De-orphan articles by adding wikilinks to it. |
My contributions[edit]
Aside from general contributions as stated above I have also created the following articles:
Barnstars[edit]
Nothing to see here.
My stance on archive.org magazine scans as references[edit]
I believe that linking to scanned defunct magazines as references within Wikipedia articles does not violate copyright as such and will continue to add these references wherever relevant. If another editor chooses to replace any of my references with standard magazine citations then so be it - I will leave it be at that point and will not engage in an Edit war. I will provide enough information in the archive.org reference so that if the scans are removed, it can be replaced with a standard magazine citation.
The argument against[edit]
Referencing copyrighted sources is against Wikipedia policy WP:COPYVIOL and these magazines are not yet in the public domain.
My argument for[edit]
Despite potentially being a copyright violation, specifically Contributory copyright infringement, I believe that Fair use applies due to the magazines being defunct, no longer for sale and unable to generate income for the copyright holder.
I choose to WP:Ignore for the above reasons plus:
- Generally it prevents me from improving Wikipedia
- Archive.org is a library as stated in the Internet Archive Wikipedia article, and the fact that it is part of the American Library Association, meaning they are granted provisions that make them exempt from certain aspects of copyright law.
- Such references/sources allow for any editor to verify claims in articles without having to track down and purchase a 20 year old magazine.
- Such references/sources allow readers to dig deeper into the subject of the article with one click, again rather than tracking down and purchasing a physical copy.
- I believe that this policy is in place more so to protect commercial book rights than out of print magazines that are hard to come by.
Useful sources/references[edit]
Computer Game Magazine (online) - 1996-2001 official magazine website archive
| <ref>{{cite magazine | date = 1998-09-11 | url = http://www.cdmag.com/articles/... | archiveurl=webarchivelink | title=A look at designer Tom Hall's 3D RPG | first = Jason | last = Ocampo | archivedate=2002-12-15 | magazine=[[Computer Games Magazine]]}}</ref> |
Cite archived magazine
<ref>{{Cite magazine||url=https://archive.org/details/EDGE.N031.1996.04/page/n21/mode/2up|title=An audience with Adeline|date=April 1996|pages=22-23|magazine=[[Edge (magazine)]]|archivedate=2019-11-07|first = name|last = name}}</ref>
Games & sources to pull info from[edit]