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[edit] Cromwell etc
I'm fairly new too. I've been forcing myself up a steep learning curve, trying to absorb the basic policies and technicalities, though I'm still a long way off. I started by happily editing articles in my own way, but I've rapidly come to the conclusion that my changes must take account of policies and guidelines and of what is likely to happen in the future. I believe that Wikipedia will evolve to a core encyclopedia, of very high quality, that supersedes all other encyclopedias, enclosed within a vast shambolic outer encyclopedia of variable and sometimes pitiful quality. The core encyclopedia will target articles on important topics, of which I'm sure Cromwell will be one. To achieve the necessary level of quality there will first be a drive towards increased verifiability (already underway); we can see in the "Featured Articles" (a good recent example is Dürer's Rhinoceros, which despite leaning on few sources makes citations for most of its information) and now also in the "Good Articles", an insistence by the reviewers on full and thorough citing.
The reason for this, I'm sure, is to armour-plate Wikipedia against accusations that an encyclopedia which can be edited by anyone must on that account be an unreliable source of information. The next quality level, in the future, will I believe be "verified" articles—in other words, articles that are not only verifiable but which have been verified by a fact-checking process; once an article passes that test, it will be protected as a prime article. If I'm right, then the best thing we can do for articles is to reference them meticulously and fully, even to the point of page numbers, so that they can be checked readily; if we don't do that work now, someone else will have to do it in the future. I say all this to explain why I might have come over a bit prickly the other day, for which I apologise. qp10qp 02:28, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Chaplin Society
FYI, this article has been nominated for deletion discussion Bwithh 22:47, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Chaplin cartoon
It is rather funny. Unfortunately, I didn't create it, had to get it from here
[edit] Protection for Cromwell article
Hi Greycap, I h=think we need to get the Oliver Cromwell article protected, as it is constantly being vandalised. If it was protected, thenonly logged in users could edit it, which would eliminate the problem. Do you know how to go about this? Jdorney 11:49, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Helping out with the Unassessed Wikipedia Biographies
Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of unassessed articles tagged with {{WPBiography}}. Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 20:47, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Age category
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[edit] Cromwell
Why the revert? Hughsheehy 00:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
I re-tweaked the article and added a ref from the 1900 Biography (and 2001 reprint) about how how Cromwell was hated in Ireland. I'm sure that any Irish history book would say the same. Will find some additional ref re perception of genocide. I saw the discussion on the page re this, but honestly, from the history it's hard to argue against it being a reasonable characterisation of what he (a) intended and (b) partially achieved. Hughsheehy 00:12, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Oh...here's a ref to hate for Cromwell today.. http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/civilwar/g5/cs2/s4/ Hughsheehy 00:13, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
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- Hi, I re-did some of the refs on Cromwell. I think the edit comments explain pretty well what I've done. Hughsheehy 07:56, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
