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Carrite(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - I've got 60K edits, 2/3 of which are to mainspace, and by my count 261 starts, zero of which are stubs and most of which are B or C class. No access via local libraries. As I concentrate on Labor History and Radical Politics, Labor History would be absolute gold for my area of interest. Anything else in the package would be gravy — that journal is #1 with a bullet in terms of sources i need for my WP work. Thanks, —Tim Davenport, Corvallis, OR USA /// Carrite (talk) 02:23, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
Worldbruce(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email)) My maintenance and AfC reviewer efforts bring me into contact with a wide variety of articles that need work on their sources, in terms of both verifiability and expansion. I cite something at least once a week found through the databases TWL already gives me access to, and would expect a similar level of activity for EBSCO. Access could make my work more efficient and allow me to help more articles more completely.
Zigzig20s(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been editing and creating Wikipedia articles for years, adding in-line referenced info from newspapers, books and journals. Ebesco would enable me to have access to even more journals like the Journal of Homosexuality, which is out of reach on other databases. I intend to edit articles about LGBT Studies, American local history, business sociology, etc.Zigzig20s (talk) 03:01, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
WikiBronze(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) A Wikimedian for over 5 years, mostly editing in Turkish Wikipedia (WikiBronze (talk·contribs)) on a wide range of historical subjects. I think, having an access on EBSCO would be very helpful both for checking citations and adding new material. Also, as a Translator, I would be able to help other non-English speaker Wikipedians of my community in their works. --WikiBronze[T]12:52, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
Paulscrawl(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Over 11 years editing widely, most frequently adding or improving quality of citations for existing articles. As a regular contributor to the Reference Desk and Resource Exchange (and newly-designated Research Coordinator for WP Library), EBSCO's Academic Search Complete, MasterFILE Complete and Business Source Complete will be awesome additions to my arsenal of reliable sources to cite and share with other editors upon their request. -- Paulscrawl (talk) 16:11, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Curly Turkey(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have nearly 45,000 edits and 23 FAs to my name. I'm active in Japan-related articles and would love to get access to Japan Forum, Japanese Studies, etc.
giantflightlessbirds(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I run a community Wikipedia group Whanganui Wiki Wednesday, and evangelise Wikipedia in the GLAM sector by running workshops for new editors – see userspace. Have only been using Wikipedia regularly for a year, but saw that I qualify with 501 edits! I work mostly on NZ fauna and NZ art pages, but my institution in provincial New Zealand has no electronic library access, and journal access from the local public library is very poor.Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 01:51, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Hgilbert(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been editing for 10 years, in which time I've accumulated more than 16,000 edits. I usually focus on articles related to education, philosophy, and -- more rarely -- politics. EBSCO access would be very useful both for checking citations and adding new material. HGilbert (talk) 17:19, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
JoJan(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email), I have been a contributor for more than 11 years with more than 125,000 contributions in several languages in Wikipedia and the Commons. I'm the founder of WikiProject Gastropods and therefore much interested in the journals "Molluscan Research" and "Journal of Molluscan Studies". I have no university access or any other access.JoJan (talk) 08:13, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
DaltonCastle(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I am a veteran editor with a wide range of topics I write about. Chief among them are politics, political corruption, human rights, law, history, corporate finance, economics, & tech firms. I would love to have access to EBSCO to provide additional resources for page creations! Let me know what more you need to know! Thank you for this opportunity! DaltonCastle (talk) 17:26, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Jbhunley(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) My current access to EBSCO is search only. I have run across several instances in just the last few weeks where I could not find a source for verification or failed to locate a source while reviewing articles where EBSCO would have allowed me access. In fact for the article I am working on now EBSCO is the only curated database I searched that had relevant sources. In particular access to 'pop culture' magazines and business sources which I do not otherwise have access to is important when verifying notability for new articles and expanding new poorly written.sourced articles.JbhTalk 19:12, 6 October 2015 (UTC) Amended application. JbhTalk14:09, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Silver seren(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have 25k edits to my name and i've been editing since 2006. I've been working on ramping up my editing again as of late and I will be continuing my focus on scientists and popular science books, both of which have articles on them frequently in academic journal publications. The Machine Question is a good example of the type of work I do.
Hmich176(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been on Wikipedia for nearly 10 years (since December 2005). I have more than 9,000 edits and I am particularly interested in 20th Century history. Access would be of great help in providing sourcing various subjects I research. Thanks. hmich17618:43, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
John Hill(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have made over 21,000 edits to Wikipedia, initiated many articles, and uploaded more than 545 of my own photos plus many other images to Wikipedia since January 2005. I edit articles on many diverse subjects including Asian history and geography, the history of the Silk Roads, Australian fauna and flora, and West Indian history and culture. I also constantly monitor changes to numerous articles, and regularly edit articles by other editors. I have published a book, now in its 2-volume 2nd edition:- Through the Jade Gate - China to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes 1st to 2nd centuries CE which includes the first complete English translation of the chapter on the countries to the west of China from the Hou Hanshu. I am preparing another book - a translation of the 3rd century CE, the Weilüe, which also describes the Silk Routes both overland and maritime between China, India, Central Asia and Rome. I am trying to incorporate much of this information into the Wikipedia and regularly find myself unable to access your precious resource as I live in a very isolated region a couple of thousand kilometers from a significant library.John Hill (talk) 08:58, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
@John Hill: Please associate an email address with your user account if you have not already done so. Please ping me when you've linked an email address. Thanks. -Thibbs (talk) 00:15, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
Epolk (talk·contribs) I have been an editor for about a decade. Per X!'s Tools I have over 17,000 edits, 14,000+ of which are on unique pages. As the number of articles on Wikipedia have reached a critical mass, I have moved from creating and proofreading articles to creating citations for existing articles. The publicly available sources for searching scholarly works usually point to an abstract for an article or a pay site (e.g. JSTOR) so my ability to provide accurate and complete citations are currently limited. As for my areas of interest, they tend toward history and the sciences, especially zoology as this area seems to be most in need of expansion and citation of sources. Epolk (talk) 03:48, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
@Epolk: Please associate an email address with your user account if you have not already done so. Please ping me when you've linked an email address. Thanks. -Thibbs (talk) 15:59, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
@Thibbs: Sorry about that. Had an email associated but did not have it set to receive emails from users. This has been corrected. Epolk (talk) 20:35, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
Oceanflynn(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) -- I have contributed over 10,000 edits over a number of years, mainly in English, creating new articles, sandbox articles, editing existing articles, adding categories, wikilinks and improving reference details on articles, etc. I have recently been accepted as volunteer with Wikipedia Library. I use ProveIt and I am a frequent user of "inline edit inline citation" summaries. I take great care with citations using DOI, PMID, ISBN, etc. I often cite peer-reviewed academic articles. I participated in an editathon. I would use EBSCO to add content and to improve references by adding reference details. I am no longer working with an academic institution so I do not have easy access to journals. I read The Economist regularly whenever I can. When I fly, the current print format provides reading material but I could not subscribe on a regular basis.Oceanflynn (talk) 18:15, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Brianann MacAmhlaidh(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I'm an active editor with almost 20,000 edits and several GAs under my belt. I edit articles concerning personal names and mediaeval British and Irish history with the aim of getting them up to GA standard. EBSCO appears to contain a couple journals I could make use of to improve such articles.
Continua Evoluzione(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) My main areas of interest are Greek mythology and more in general ancient Greece; thanks to other subscriptions through TWL (Loeb, de Gruyter), I've been able to expand several pages on the Italian Wikipedia about this matter. EBSCO would be very useful in particular to access articles about classical studies. Continua Evoluzione (talk) 11:55, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Skyfall(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) - I've got 6K edits, 2/3 of which are to mainspace, 8 years on WP. No access via local libraries. My areas of interest are Mithology and History, expecially Norse, German and Greek Mithology. As usual I spend lot of time searching online high-quality material for citations. Having an access to high-quality related material would be precious. --Skyfall (talk) 04:44, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
@Skyfall: Please associate an email address with your user account if you have not already done so. Please ping me when you've linked an email address. Thanks. -Thibbs (talk) 00:27, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
Keahapana(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Contributing to WP since 2006, most of my editing has been in articles concerning Chinese and Japanese languages, linguistics, lexicography, Eastern religions, and mythology. Obtaining EBSCO access to academic journals would be very useful in my WP research. Thanks, Keahapana (talk)
dirtyharry667(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I don't know how many edits or contributions I have, but I have been a member for many years. I have written several articles and have helped clean up several others. My primary interests have to do with corporate history and retail history. My most recent contributions were the August Wagner Breweries page and I am in the process of reworking the Gamble-Skogmo page. Having access to these data bases would be very helpful in nailing down acquisitions and mergers and their dates.dirtyharry667 (talk) 3:21, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Chuangzu(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been active editing on Wikipedia since 2006, my main area is Chinese Martial Arts and Taoism in the United Kingdom, in particular the history of the Lee style T'ai Chi and the author Chee Soo, I am also interested in the history of West Penwith in Cornwall, United Kingdom, where I live miles from the nearest University or Library which is why I conduct research using the internet.Chuangzu (talk) 17:52, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Checkingfax(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I am a 6-year editor with over 8,000 edits and always needing access to more references. Also, as a Pending-Changes-Reviewer many edit requests in the queue are good edits but lacking good references. I work on a multitude of subjects. Check my history. How do I get my email address to you or can you harvest it from my username? You have my permission to do that. Thank you.
Kevin Gorman(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I'm an ENWPian previously heavily involved in the USEP and in content verification of USEP students (including my own,) but currently find myself without access to many academic databases (including EBSCO) as I hae no present affiliation. EBSCO would be another useful tool in content addition/verification of material, and in future USEP activities of my own (since most California universities seem to have trouble setting up research access for anyone who isn't a student or faculty.) My activity dipped in the last year for health reasons, and is now rebounding Kevin Gorman (talk) 01:31, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
Lamiot(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I am french and actively present on wikipedia for 10 years. My favorite subjects are architecture and art history, environment and landscape ecology, and environmental health issues. Better access to fresh scientific information would be very useful to improve Wikipedia and other sister projects.--Lamiot (talk) 18:08, 17 September 2015 (UTC).
@Lamiot: Please associate an email address with your user account if you have not already done so. Please ping me when you've linked an email address. Thanks. -Thibbs (talk) 00:27, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
@Nick2crosby: Please associate an email address with your user account if you have not already done so. Please ping me when you've linked an email address. Thanks. -Thibbs (talk) 15:59, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
@Thibbs: Yes, I will. The reason why I haven't been editing lately is because I want to be sure that my contributions on Wikipedia is accurate and are factual.
Yopienso(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) User ID:1177838. I edit in U.S. Presidents and history generally, creationism/evolution, climate matters, and whatever catches my fancy. After graduation, I lost my Jstor privileges. :( I've been around since 2006 but not continuously active. I've made about 5600 edits. YoPienso (talk) 08:58, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Real life has become so busy I should cede this privilege to an editor with more time to conduct research. TY for your work here! YoPienso (talk) 22:10, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
kdammers(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I am a long-time editor, primarily in simple, en, german, and spanish Wikipedias, with concentration in German geography, archaeology, osteohistology, Korean poetry, and Michigan (mostly history and geography).
SMcCandlish(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) 10 years, 100K edits. Have created over 140 new articles, but mostly work on improving very short dictionary-like entries to encyclopedic quality. Most active in biological, anthropological, and linguistic topic areas. For example, I helped developed Albinism and related articles here, and am presently working on Race (biology), about the taxonomic term, and have long been working on a various animal breed-related articles. So, I'd be most able to make use of Academic Search Complete and MasterFILE Complete, though Business Source Complete might also be useful for business-related research in other topics I edit, like sports history. See, e.g., William A. Spinks, of which I wrote about 95%, and about 1/3 of Glossary of cue sports terms. One area in which our billiards/pool articles are sorely lacking is the history of the commercial side of the sport; very few present or historical manufacturers have articles presently. — SMcCandlish ☺☏¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 20:45, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
@Timmyshin: Wikipedia is offering access to three of EBSCO databases: "Academic Search Complete", "Business Source Complete", and "MasterFILE Complete". Access to the book you mentioned isn't available from of these three databases, so you might have better luck requesting it via WP:RX. Do you still wish to be considered for access? -Thibbs (talk) 18:16, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Smuckola(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Please add me to EBSCO, because I am a monstrously accomplished editor particularly in the field of retro technology and gaming, with a voracious need for sources. I need to verify existing sources that other editors have given, saying that they accessed it via Business Source Complete; I need to source existing unsourced content; and I need to find new sources for my own vast amounts of original content. As one example, I have probably doubled the amount of content on the history of the Nintendo 64 video game console and its games and accessories, covering most of a decade. As one tiny example, in Nintendo 64 Game Pak, I need to verify some sources and convert old junk-formatted citations such as "Ricciardi, John. "Still Super After All These Years." Electronic Gaming Monthly 14.9 (2001): 126. Business Source Complete. Web. 23 July 2013." into a real Wikipedia citation format, while verifying and expanding the content from it. As a Jedi master of these arcane arts, Thibbs knows what I'm talking about. Thank you very much for all your work in this miraculous new era of access. — Smuckola(talk)12:19, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
Bearcat(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been around here roughly since the dawn of time, and still seem to be one of the ten most active editors on the entire site. I'm frequently involved in article creation and referencing repair, particularly but not exclusively on Canadian and LGBT topics — and perusing the list of publications on EBSCO's site, I see several titles (The Advocate, Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, almost anything with the word "Canadian" in it, etc.) that I've long wanted and/or needed to get into. Just yesterday, in fact — and I don't mean "seems like yesterday", I mean literally within the past 24 hours — I was struggling to find enough referencing to start a new article, and came across an indication that there was content in EBSCO that would have helped. I managed, for the time being, to get the article started — but getting to that EBSCO stuff to see if there's anything else I can add to the article would still help. Bearcat (talk) 23:22, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
Of course! EBSCO database contains an enormous number of academic journals, including in my domains of activity. Accessing EBSCO would create an excellent opportunity for essential contributions. --Alexander Tendler (talk) 16:04, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
Fuhghettaboutit(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I am a regular contributor, with about 87,000 edits (including deleted). I write on a variety of subjects (though lately I've been working on a variety of bird articles, and am hoping the scholarly journals included might have articles on particular species): I've had 10 articles, predominantly written by me, achieve good status and 3 have been promoted as featured articles – with a few in the pipeline. I often use research access to help others with their writing efforts here, as well as to check sources for verification. I also spend quite a bit of time checking claimed and suspected copyright violations, which requires access to a diversity of sources.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:21, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
Owlsmcgee(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I'm relatively new to Wikipedia, but have recently started contributing in earnest to topics that are underrepresented on Wikipedia, such as women's biographies and aspects of Japanese culture. I'm at 398 edits as of today, but that does encompass five new articles and large improvements to several others. I'd like access to EBSCO to help me improve articles on women, Japanese art, customs and religion, and music (and sometimes combinations of the three). I understand if you'd prefer me to wait for the next 100 edits, but would love to have access to this resource to help me improve the work I'm already doing! Thanks. Owlsmcgee (talk) 07:27, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
@Owlsmcgee: Pending Your request is approved pending the last few edits needed to bring you up to 500. Please ping me (or post to my talk page) when you reach 500 and I'll send you further information via by email. -Thibbs (talk) 14:33, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
Delabrede(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I spend some hours each day doing research on American artists of the 20th century in order to make articles on ones who are under-appreciated. Access to EBSCO resources, particularly Academic Search Complete, would enable me to locate and use articles in art journals on the persons whom I'm researching, on the organizations of which they were members, and on the cultural climate of the times in which they lived. At present I'm limited primarily to news accounts in the New York Times and other New York papers and would benefit greatly from access to a broad range of journal resources. The Wikipedia library is an excellent tool and I'm glad to have the opportunity to apply for access. -- Delabrede (talk) 19:03, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
Dudley Miles(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I contribute on Anglo-Saxon history and have successfully nominated several articles for FA. I understand that EBSCO gives access to the journal Early Medieval Europe, which is the most important source for this field I do not currently have access to. Dudley Miles (talk) 00:06, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
@Sturmvogel 66: The entirety of EBSCO is not available to us at the present time, but I do see some materials of potential help to you among EBSCO's Academic Search Complete materials (to which TWL does provide access). Specifically, for the Byzantine topic I see Greek, Roman & Byzantine Studies and for the Ottoman topic I see such journals as International Journal of Turkish Literature, Culture, Education; International Review of Turkology; Turkish Studies; and Hacettepe University Journal of Turkish Studies. Were these the journals you had in mind or were there other specific journals in EBSCO's collection that you were interested in? -Thibbs (talk) 03:09, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
@Sturmvogel 66: Just to follow up with you on this request, can you explain how this particular resource will be helpful to you? Are the journals I mentioned earlier the ones from the EBSCO collection that you were intending to use or were there other journals you were hoping to access? Thanks. -Thibbs (talk) 13:10, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
I'm not interested in the literature and general cultural stuff, but more the history that I hope to find in Greek, Roman & Byzantine Studies, Turkish Studies, etc. I'm also hoping that y'all have access to War in History and the Journal of Military History as I'm contemplating on working on some Byzantine/Ottoman battles.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 21:37, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
Dan Mihai Pitea(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I'd like to rewrite the biographical article on Michael I of Romania (on ro.wiki and en.wiki), and I need access to the archive of time.com. Articles published over the years in Time are cited both in the en.wiki and ro.wiki articles, but are not currently accessible. Counting my former account (User:Hype supper) I have somewhere around 20.000 edits to Wikimedia project, mainly to ro.wikipedia, en.wikipedia, de.wikipedia and Commons. Nowadays my non-sysop edits focus on history. One example of my commitment to writing based on sources is ro:Constantin Brâncoveanu. --Mihai (talk) 08:55, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
@Dan Mihai Pitea: TWL's EBSCO access is intended facilitate a (semi-)regular use of the resource. If this is a one-time request for a small number of articles from Time.com, then you might want to try WP:RX or one of these editors first. But let me know if you think you might make regular use of this database and I would be happy to help. -Thibbs (talk) 13:04, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
I left out that I would also consult the time archive for other Romanian topics related to Romanian politics, spanning the Interbellum and the Communist period. There are also a number of historical publications at MasterFILE Complete which I would like to use for creation of Wikipedia content, like Central European History, Cold War History and European Review of History, so I would definitely go farther than research for a single article. --Mihai (talk) 13:40, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
Sadads(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Long time editor, lots of work on novels, frequently need EBSCO for various use cases. At the moment, interested in tracking down an American Libraries article about a "Book Slicer", but interested in other work as well, Sadads (talk) 23:36, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
MWright96 (talk·contribs) I have been editing for four years, with nearly 18,000 edits. My use of EBSCO will be to primarily improve the coverage of notable women in general, and auto racing on Wikipedia. MWright96(talk)07:09, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
Pax85(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) As I start to move more towards content creation, there are times when I have needed additional resources not found on line, such as a novel series that I am currently working with. EBSCO would help me greatly in this. My topic interests include theology, science, and literature, although I have been known to work on articles in many different areas. -PaxVerbum17:09, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
@Pax85:Approved With a little luck TWL will be offering expanded access in the area of literature in the coming months so I anticipate that you will be able to make good use of this resource. Expect an email within 24 hours with further details. -Thibbs (talk) 02:56, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
@Eartha78: Please associate an email address with your user account if you have not already done so. Please ping me when you've linked an email address. Thanks. -Thibbs (talk) 12:51, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
@Eartha78:Approved There are a large number of Academic publications concerning Africa and a decent number concerning the Caribbean in EBSCO's "Academic Search Complete" database. I hope you will find them helpful. Expect an email within 24 hours with further details. -Thibbs (talk) 17:01, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
@Czar: Can you explain how this particular resource will be helpful to you (i.e. your editing areas benefited by access)? -Thibbs (talk) 16:31, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
I had linked to a record of how I've used EBSCOhost in the past (User:Czar/db#EBSCOhost). I edit broadly in the humanities and social sciences, help others with lookup requests and at AfD and RX, and as mentioned, I have used my institution's access for these things until now. czar17:05, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
@Hmlarson:Approved There is a large number of journals in the "Academic Search Complete" collection that cover the topic of women's studies. I hope you will find them useful. Expect an email within 24 hours with further details. -Thibbs (talk) 18:35, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
@AFlorence:Approved Thanks for updating your application. There are a large number of medicine-related journals within EBSCO's Academic Search Complete database. I hope you will find this to be a helpful resource for you. Expect an email within 24 hours with further details. -Thibbs (talk) 15:10, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Yes of course. If you see the Afds that I have been participating in regularly over the past many months, I have strived to improve articles in the business, academic and general fields that have general notability. Access to this database would allow me to improve the articles much better. Thank you. Lourdes06:39, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
@Nikolaiho: You've written on your userpage that you are a student at a secondary school and although institution-wide access is more common at college or university, it would be good if you could check that you don't already have access to EBSCO through the school. Please let me know if you don't have access through the school. -Thibbs (talk) 17:10, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
From my knowledge, my school doesn't offer access to this resource. I probably would have known about it by now. Thanks. NikolaiHo☎️04:32, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
Teblick(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been active on Wikipedia since January 2014, both creating articles (more than 100) and editing existing articles. My areas of interest are old-time radio, television, and film -- especially the people who contributed to those fields in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Several titles in the list of EBSCO resources look promising for providing useful information as I continue to do research and write and edit in those areas. I would appreciate receiving one of the free EBSCO accounts. Eddie Blick (talk) 19:32, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
Smallchief(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been a wikipedia editor for more than 6 years, created more than 100 articles, and made more than 20,000 edits. I mostly create and edit articles about the history and pre-history of Native Americans and the explorers who first encountered them. The social sciences and history journals on EBSCO would be useful to me Smallchief (talk19:47, 1 November 2016 (UTC)
Mackensen(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I've been an editor since 2003 and have 50K+ edits. I've written one FA, 8 GAs, and somewhere north of 70 DYKs. I'm very active in researching North American railroading topics from the 20th century. Some of the enumerated sources in EBSCO should contain useful information on those topics. Mackensen(talk)01:40, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
SusunW(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I have been editing only 2 years, but I have created over 650 articles, the great portion of which are start class or higher and have over 25,000 edits and 186 DYK, as well as having been involved in 15 approved GAs. I work on articles having to do mostly with women, works created by women (such as conferences, organizations, artworks, books, etc.), and minorities. I do not restrict my writing to the US, but have written many articles on subjects from every continent, including several recent contributions to women working in Antarctica. I often encounter articles which would be accessible through EBSCO, but must rely on other contacts to obtain those articles for me. Having my own access would greatly facilitate the creation of quality articles. SusunW (talk) 03:43, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
Wasted Time R(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Contributor since 2005 with 68,000 edits and 135 total FA/GA/DYK credits, researching in a variety of subjects including history, politics, music, business, academia, and destinations. I have often seen where EBSCO access would be helpful in finding sources. I am long out of school and the local library's EBSCO access is limited to a few types of publications and not the ones I am interested in. Wasted Time R (talk) 23:28, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
@Hindustanilanguage: Sorry for the delay. You look to be a good candidate, but can you explain how this particular resource will be helpful to you (i.e. your editing areas benefited by access)? -Thibbs (talk) 02:10, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
@Thibbs: Thanks for asking this question. I work on a diversity of topics - some of my accomplished projects include areas of HIV/AIDS, Economics, Human Resources, Linguistics, Arts, History, etc. I am sure that EBSCO access will be a helpful tool for my work.--Muzammil (talk) 20:13, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
@Hindustanilanguage: I just tried to log into your account from my computer using the same login info I sent to you and it worked for me. Keep in mind that the username and password are case sensitive so you must copy all capitals and lower-case letters exactly as in the email. As a test could you re-try the login again by copy & paste-ing the login name and the password from my email into the appropriate fields in the url I sent to you? You shouldn't have to reauthorize your personal values, do let me know if the copy&paste-ing doesn't work and I'll be happy to continue to help you get connected. -Thibbs (talk) 01:41, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
Kober(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) Since 2004, I have made nearly 40,000 edits on English Wikipedia and created more than 1,400 new articles, mostly pertaining to geography, culture, and history of the Caucasus, Middle East, and Eastern Europe. I find many of the titles listed here very useful. --KoberTalk19:51, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
@Samwalton9: Well here's where I would normally ask you to clarify which specific parts of the EBSCO collection you were interested in or which of your editing areas would be benefited by access to EBSCO. My intent is to assess whether or not access will in fact help the applicant who may or may not be familiar with the specific titles in the collection and their respective scopes. But... I have private knowledge that you are intimately familiar with the specific titles and their scopes so no need for that. :) Approved Expect an email within 24 hours with further details. -Thibbs (talk) 02:19, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
DoctorWho42(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email), I've created about 350 articles and have 3 DYKs. While the subjects vary, I would be more interested in writing more articles on literature. Since graduating from CSUMB, I've been asking random friends with institutional access to help with research, buying back issues of old magazines for critical reception via AbeBooks (If or Galaxy Science Fiction) or cannibalizing old citations from research papers to bolster new articles, i.e. The Falling Astronauts, etc. Given much of what I need is only available via interlibrary loan or beyond paywalls, I feel like this would help my research a great deal.-🐦Do☭torWho42 (📼) 00:15, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
@DoctorWho42:Approved I think you'll be able to make good use of both the Science Fiction Studies journal within the Humanities Full Text collection as well as the Book Review Digest Plus collection. Expect an email within 24 hours with further details. -Thibbs (talk) 00:42, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
@Wolfdog:Approved There is a wealth of linguistics-related material within the Academic Search Complete collection. Expect an email within 24 hours with further details. -Thibbs (talk) 20:16, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
@Seraphim System:Approved There are several good sources for both of the topics you are writing about especially in the Academic Search Complete and Humanities Full Text collections, but also in the Art & Architecture Source and Literary Reference Center Plus collections. Expect an email within 24 hours with further details. -Thibbs (talk) 22:35, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
@Skr15081997: You meet the requirements and your editing history looks good. The only thing I'm curious about, though is the topic area (non-fiction books). From your history it looks to me like you've spent a lot of time editing articles on films, but not much on books. Is this going to be a new topic area for you? Or are the book-related edits just lost in the shuffle? And please note that I'm just asking this in order to assess the degree of a match between your stated intentions and the kinds of sourcing the collections offer. Based on your qualifications I'm happy to grant you access if you're intending to use it for film as well or instead because there are plenty of journals on the topic of film available through EBSCO. -Thibbs (talk) 21:21, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
@DannyMusicEditor: You meet the requirements and your editing history looks good, but I wonder if this is the best venue for your request. The access granted here is for use of the EBSCO databases for a 1-year period. If your use of the database is actually just limited to the duration of a single FA, then you may be more interested in asking for assistance from editors who use EBSCO (including users who have even broader access levels than what we offer) at WP:RX. Or do you anticipate making use of the database for other future projects in addition to the Fightstar article? -Thibbs (talk) 02:50, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
I would definitely love to use this for any future projects. There's one GA I have that I think has a good FA shot if I can find reviews for a certain album. I would use this for many future projects. dannymusiceditorSpeak up!02:55, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
@DannyMusicEditor:Approved You should be able to access Music Week, Rolling Stone, and Billboard within the MasterFILE collection. Expect an email within 24 hours with further details. -Thibbs (talk) 03:33, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
DejaVu(talk·contribs·central auth·count·email) I am Coordinator for TWL, active in Persian Wikipedia, access of EBSCO would be highly relevant for maintaining and verifying references, and creating and expanding articles, specially at this time I am propagating articles in music realm and linguistics pages, EBSCO is one of the best resources which I haven't found at any other database.--Déjà vu(Talk)22:18, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
@DejaVu: You meet the minimum requirements, but I'm confused about your status as a TWL Coordinator. I don't see your name listed among the other coordinators either at the en.wiki list or at the fa.wiki list. Are you a TWL Coordinator for some other language version of the encyclopedia? Or do you have another username? Apologies in advance, but please help me understand what you mean. Thanks -Thibbs (talk) 18:56, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
Approved Expect an email shortly with further details. -Thibbs (talk) 13:26, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
Cancelled by user request. -Thibbs (talk) 11:26, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
Pending Your request is approved pending the last few edits needed to bring you up to 500. Please ping me (or post to my talk page) when you reach 500 and I'll send you further information via by email. -Thibbs (talk) 14:33, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
