User:Fabrickator/special interest

thoughts on List of countries by age of consent
I would have strenuously raised my objections to the creation of List of countries by age of consent if I had been aware of it. The most obvious concern is that it's redundant content, which also means that keeping the content in sync is an issue. As it is, we have disputes as to how to interpret exactly what "age of consent" ought to mean in the context of these web pages.

Here are additional issues to raise:


 * different cultures have different expectations about how such laws are to be interpreted
 * in the U.S., the laws are expected to be applied strictly, so that there is little discretion; almost any legal finding of guilt will have quite severe consequences
 * "close-in-age" exceptions are designed to mitigate this
 * whether or not a belief that person was "of age" is a defense
 * in the U.K., there is a lot of discretion how such laws are enforced
 * Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) guidance will commonly indicate much more mild treatment
 * in many countries, whether criminal charges are brought is at the parents' discretion
 * some cultures have very specific perspectives
 * fornication (i.e. sex outside of marriage) is a crime in various societies
 * because adultery can also be a crime, this implicates the right to have consensual sex, even though not dependent on age
 * certain Latin American countries have the concept of "estupro", while some U.S. states have statutes that specifically apply when a chaste woman is involved
 * related crimes can also confuse the picture
 * delinquency of a minor or interference with parental rights
 * underage drinking
 * possession of child pornography

The new page attempts to "parameterize" some of these, but this makes for a very confusing presentation.

Enough said (at least for now).

suspected expertlaw.com link spam
Procedure to research expertlaw.com link spam:


 * search for insource:"expertlaw.com"
 * for each expertlaw.com link, observe "accessdate" parameter
 * find revision from accessdate and observe whether the expertlaw link replaced an existing link
 * did expertlaw link replace a lectriclaw.com link?
 * alternatively, was the expertlaw link an improvemenet over the pre-existing link?

foreign text in reference label
I believe it's normal that the title displayed in a reference would be in its native language. In this case, it's more than the title that's in the foreign language, it's lengthy, and just to exacerbate things, the text is Cyrillic. I don't know the precise "English Wikipedia" standard, but at least sometimes, this doesn't work out too well, as shown in the following diff:


 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pardon&type=revision&diff=807049339&oldid=805324110

Rosalina Tran Lydster

 * Rosalina Lydster
 * date of birth: September 16, 1962
 * posted details: https://archive.fo/20150404131819/http://www.localcrimenews.com/city-arrests/arrest-details/?arrest=9488555
 * Santa Clara courts
 * case search page: https://portal.scscourt.org/search
 * person search: https://portal.scscourt.org/search/party?firstName=rosalina&lastName=lydster&dateOfBirth=09~2F16~2F1962
 * case B1578355: https://portal.scscourt.org/case/MjM2NzM1OA%3D%3D
 * case B9842263: https://portal.scscourt.org/case/MjQ0Mjk3OA%3D%3D

unfettered age of consent discussion from Guarapiranga talk page
On the new "Ages of Consent" pages (e.g. Ages of consent in the United States), which column is supposed to correspond to the "unfettered age of consent"? Fabrickator (talk) 06:30, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * The last set of 4 columns to the right contain the ages of consent unfettered by differences of age, experience or authority, . Guarapiranga (talk) 07:15, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * This is going to be really confusing.
 * While you have attempted to try and fit the age restrictions into different categories, it just doesn't work very well. Although we say that WP should not be considered reliable, people do rely on it, and people come to this page to establish whether or not a particular relationship would be illegal.
 * As to the meaning of "unfettered" in the context of the "age of consent" pages, it has never been interpreted to refer to an "absolute" lack of restrictions, assuming the age requirements were met. Whether this was an simply understood at the time that the age of consent pages were evolving, or whether the sort of "relationship" restrictions that are now on the books in the U.S. were less common, I don't know, but that "limited" interpretation is how it was interpreted, and for good reason.  If we treat this in an absolute sense, this simply fails to meet the real needs of the people most likely to be coming to this page for information i.e.. high school students.  The presumption is that if you're a teacher, or you work in some kind of institution, you should know what special restrictions that apply in your situation, so those restrictions are not taken into consideration when determining the "highlighted" age of consent.
 * Even with regard to the way you have defined "unlimited", this does not account for all scenarios. For instance, there are prohibitions against adult incest in various states, which is not taken into account.  Another example that might not be taken into account (for the non-U.S. pages) is that there are jurisdictions in which adultery is criminalized.
 * I understand the appeal of just making up a table which can capture the necessary information. To the extent that the pre-existing version of these pages established the idea that there should be a "highlighted" age of consent, this was being done.  But even with that single definition, ambiguous cases (e.g. laws based on chastity, "delinquency of a minor" laws, etc.) were still present.
 * Even for an adult of reasonable intelligence, this page is hard to interpret. I don't think it can be fixed by offering more explanation.  We really need to have a page which adolescents can turn to and understand the potential for serious legal consequences when getting involved in a sexual relationship (assuming it were to come to the attention of authorities).  Sure, this information isn't going to keep everybody who checks it from getting involved in a relationship that violates the law, but if we provide the information, but in a way that is highly likely to be misinterpreted, then it will become a problem to Wikipedia when high school students start pointing at the source of their misinformation that led them to think that their relationship was legal. The situation wasn't perfect  before this major change, but in this form, it no longer serves its purpose, and it puts WP at much greater risk.  Fabrickator (talk) 17:12, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm confused; is there a problem with summarising the information at the top of the article? You say these pages are valuable in communicating to youngsters what laws are in their jurisdiction—I agree—yet summarising it to make it more accessible is bad? It doesn't make sense. Yes, the summary doesn't encompass every single possible scenario, but incest and adultery are not addressed by age of consent laws anywhere. Basically, in every jurisdiction, age of consent laws make exceptions and exemptions, when they do. The exemptions allow a lower consent age when the age difference between the parties is small, and the exceptions require a higher consent age when the older party is in a position of trust, authority or care relative to the younger one. These are the three categories in the summary table. Guarapiranga (talk) 19:31, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * The point about incest and adultery is that a "completely unfettered" age of consent is not being presented (though it would not be particularly useful anyway). I raise that point because the "unlimited" age of consent is a "more unfettered" age of consent than what was previously used as the "highlighted" age of consent.  (This is just a thought ... if you consider this from the position of the younger person, perhaps it seems like it's less confusing, but that's the wrong way to think about it, because age of consent is primarily of concern to the older person rather than the younger person.)
 * Anyway, it is definitely the case that this summary table will grab people's attention quickly and distract from the per-state sections. Unfortunately, the reader will then try to figure out which of the three choices applies, which IMO is likely to be very perplexing. This is really the point behind the idea of having a single highlighted age of consent: establish the most useful definition of age of consent, and highlight that one.  If a different age of consent applies in certain circumstances, then we rely on text to explain it.  This isn't neat and clean, it's really the best we can do, because we can't dictate to each legislature how they should structure their laws. Fabrickator (talk) 21:04, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * How is summarising synonymous with dictating, ? I'm utterly confused. I'm not opposed to highlighting anything.
 * You say the summary will distract from the detail, but it's linked and leads directly to it. Guarapiranga (talk) 21:12, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * By saying that we cannot dictate how the laws are structured, I am pointing out that the laws don't fit any neat categories, which would otherwise make a summary table be straightforward to do. The table gets the primary attention because it makes it look like it's simple to read and presumably to understand.  Why bother to read the novel when a short synopsis appears to provide all the pertinent details?
 * In principle, the numbers in one column could be "highlighted", but none of the columns correspond to the existing usage.  I think the table loaded with extra columns will still be more confusing than the pre-existing form, and merely serves to make it look like things are more well-defined than they actually are. Fabrickator (talk) 21:50, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't underestimate people's ability to read, follow a link and discern summary from detail.
 * Would you like to highlight specific cells on the table? I don't have a problem with that. Guarapiranga (talk) 21:56, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * These are high school students (or even middle school students) ... they are going to look at this and get incorrect information. I'm lots older than these high school students, I can generally parse the statutes (or recognize that they're actually ambiguous as written), I can make sense out of various judicial opinions, but I scratch my head looking at this table.
 * I wonder if your failure to appreciate the seriousness of this issue is a cultural thing. Unlike the CPS, there's very limited discretion in enforcing the law in the U.S.  One day, sexual contact is child sexual assault with a 20-year prison sentence, the next day, it's perfectly legal (and in some cases, even backwards ... what's legal one day becomes illegal the next).  Law enforcement wants to avoid being accused of selective enforcement, so they make arrests and prosecute cases without regard to how ridiculous it seems to even charge the person with a crime.  So when there's something confusing about the information, that can have incredibly serious consequences.
 * I am concerned that presenting different ages in a table, even with some cells (or some column?) highlighted is ambiguous. "Highlighting" is used figuratively.  In the textual descriptions, one age is listed first (or at least should be), that's the "highlighted" age of consent.  I don't think that's going to be clear.  In essence, what you've got now is in contradiction with both the rules as stated and as intended in the "ages of consent" template. Fabrickator (talk) 22:38, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Precisely. Hence the need to summarise.
 * You say they are going to look at this and get incorrect information. What information in the summary table is incorrect? It's all sourced from the same sources in the text. Just summarised. Guarapiranga (talk) 23:22, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not pointing out the presence of errors in the summary table, I'm saying that it's not apparent what the table even means. If I'm a teenager and I'm looking for the "general" age of consent in a particular state, meaning without respect to being a person's teacher, etc., it won't be apparent which cell to look in.
 * The non-obvious answer is to look at the "limited by relationship" column, assuming that column is populated. I can only figure this out by diligently studying how things are arranged, most people won't have the patience to figure this out, and even those who try are likely to be perplexed. Fabrickator (talk) 02:07, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Then their alternative is what, parse the statutes [and] make sense out of various judicial opinions? If the summary isn't clear, we should clarify it.
 * If you were a 16-year old teenager in, say, New Jersey, who felt taken advantage of by a teacher in an otherwise consensual sexual liaison—e.g. compelled to engage sexually to ensure good grades—and simply saw that the highlighted age of consent is 16, you might feel like there's nothing you can do. The summary attempts to give the full picture of the general framework, that there are basically 3 ages of consent: one for small age differences, a 2nd for people unrelated by trust, care or authority, and a 3rd unfettered of any such limitations. Putting them all on the same table for all jurisdictions enables the reader to compare across them too. Guarapiranga (talk) 03:24, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Obviously I can't dismiss the scenario, but you're describing a situation where someone has a lot more motivation... and this source is not complete for all the sources of prohibitions on such activity.. even if the interaction between teacher and student were totally legal, since it's probably not just state law that would restrict such behavior. Far more plausible is that the victim would contact an adult who can bring resources to bear.  But seriously, if you just look at a state that restricts teachers (e.g. Alabama), just read through the whole thing, there's a clear explanation that there's a rule applying to school employees.  This is far simpler than decoding your mystery table.
 * When the senior who wants to date a sophomore looks at this page and can't figure it out, he might just give up. Or perhaps he will misconstrue that the page says it's okay when it isn't, because, although you fail to recognize it, the table will not actually be comprehensible to him.  And how do I know this?  Because it's only comprehensible to me after scratching my head spending 30 minutes trying to figure it out.  What is the point of offering this information but putting it in a form that's so unusable? Fabrickator (talk) 04:21, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Sounds subjective. Guarapiranga (talk) 04:45, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * You could embed an explanation of how to interpret the table (hidden by default), to help people make sense of the table. Such an explanation should make it possible for someone to evaluate the accuracy of specific data in the table. Fabrickator (talk) 06:00, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, I can do that, . Actually, that's what I tried to do with that Definitions subsection. What else would you like it to say? Guarapiranga (talk) 22:10, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Alternatively, the summary table could be moved below the State laws section. Guarapiranga (talk) 22:14, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I've read the definitions. While they purport to tell me what the columns mean, they don't explain how to use the table. With considerable patience, one might be able to figure this out, but something that's so difficult to use can't be a good thing.  If you don't see a problem, you need a third party to help you with this, but inasmuch as you've already rejected my opinion, I am clearly the wrong person to ask. Fabrickator (talk) 03:16, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I've read the definitions. While they purport to tell me what the columns mean, they don't explain how to use the table. With considerable patience, one might be able to figure this out, but something that's so difficult to use can't be a good thing.  If you don't see a problem, you need a third party to help you with this, but inasmuch as you've already rejected my opinion, I am clearly the wrong person to ask. Fabrickator (talk) 03:16, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

citations for Rasmussen Reports

 * https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-midterms-popular-vote-worst-ever-1226441

Truth Serum
initial citycyclops.com strip: https://web.archive.org/web/20081121232957/https://citycyclops.com/meth-for-dinner.php

viewing redirected pages with pageviews tool
If you want to view stats on a page which has been renamed or converted into a redirect, the pageviews tool will not let you select it, but you can manually add it to the url.

discussion of unfettered age of consent
There is a good discussion of the "unfettered" age of consent at Talk:Ages_of_consent_in_South_America

customizing wikipedia
Just edit the "common.css" file in your "user:" space.

How to change the skin
Once you have an account, go to your preferences and go to the "Skin" section of the Appearance tab. With the default skin, this page can be accessed at any time from the "my preferences" link placed on the top right corner. Choose your skin and then click Publish changes. Then, all pages will be loaded with the new selected skin.

However, any user may change the skin of a page for them only, but only one each time, by typing ?useskin=skinname to the end of the URL (e.g. ?useskin=vector)

Wisconsin age of consent -16 or 18?

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ages_of_consent_in_the_United_States&type=revision&diff=941025274&oldid=940929758
 * This edit accurately states the Wisconsin age of consent is 18. Multiple Wisconsin statutes impose penalties for consensual sexual activity involving someone under age 18. Fabrickator (talk) 14:39, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I am not sure what I was thinking in the above. The indicated edit moves Wisconsin from the "age of consent is 18" list to the "age of consent is 16" list.  In fact, it should be on the "age of consent is 18" list. Fabrickator (talk) 19:51, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

New Mexico age of consent -16 or 17?
New Mexico's very poorly worded law has been this way since the 'Age of Consent pages were first created ... and when New Mexico was first added to the AOC for North America', it specified the age of consent as 16. Fairly shortly thereafter, it was changed to 17, and it stayed that way for many years.

The law as written is ambiguous, that's the only way to describe it. As a matter of law, this ambiguity would seem to be a nearly surefire defense for someone charged with violating it by having sex with a 16-year-old. But our policy on this page ought to be the "conservative" one, i.e. when in doubt, treat the sex as unlawful.

When someone deigned to change the age of consent back to 16, I challenged them on it. A case was presented about how the age ranges specified in the law were obviously intended, but this left something to be desired.

So I set out to search if I could find any court case where this issue had been adjudicated. The answer was that I couldn't. I didn't find any mention of a court case where the victim was age 16. I also looked for newspaper reports of persons being charged, and in each case, the victim was under 16.

It's true that if you look around, the majority of sites will tell you the AOC in New Mexico is 17, and you will also find this in newspaper stories.

So if the AOC is really 16, how can it be that most sites claim the AOC is 17. How can that be? The answer is: "You're looking at it!".

Admittedly this is speculation, but I suspect that many sites checked Wikipedia and reported what they saw there, which certainly wasn't contradicted by what they saw if they happened to compare with what's in the statutes.

The right way to find this answer is WP:OR, e.g. contact district attorneys in various counties of New Mexico. Tee hee, the ever so forbidden practice on WP. But that's only on every other page, as the AOC pages are sui generis ... subject to their own unique set of rules.

About this time, I posted the disclaimer, and so now I no longer really care. We've got a "flashing sign" to pay no attention to what's posted here. But I don't disagree with the claim that the AOC in New Mexico really is 16. Fabrickator (talk) 11:54, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

updated article talk page
See Talk:Ages of consent in the United States for discussion of the opinion in. Ha ha, it's a bad opinion, but it seems like we're stuck with it. Fabrickator (talk) 03:06, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

michael moore references

 * Why Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" matters now more than ever: https://www.salon.com/2019/10/19/why-michael-moores-bowling-for-columbine-matters-now-more-than-ever/ (10/19/2019)
 * Michael Moore Left Out a Crucial Element in 'Bowling for Columbine': https://medium.com/@GiacoFurino/michael-moore-left-out-a-crucial-element-in-bowling-for-columbine-58190d28b6f1
 * 9 people who really hate Michael Moore: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/where-to-invade-next/michael-moore-enemies-feuds/ (9/14/2015)
 * michael moore's imperfect diagnosis: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-moores-imperfect-diagnosis/ (6/22/2007)
 * (identical to above: "Michael Moore's Imperfect Diagnosis"): It's no fun to agree with Michael Moore: https://newrepublic.com/article/62883/shticko-its-no-fun-agree-michael-moore (7/1/2007)
 * Health Care's War Against Sicko: http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1636978,00.html (6/25/2007)
 * documentary rattles health care giants: https://adage.com/article/news/michael-moore-documentary-rattles-health-care-giants/111424 (8/21/2006)
 * health care industry issues internal notices about Michael Moore film: https://californiahealthline.org/morning-breakout/pharmaceutical-companies-issue-internal-notices-about-michael-moore-film-on-health-care-industry/ (12/22/2004)
 * Michael Moore turns camera onto health care industry: https://web.archive.org/web/20041010021406/http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/business/9824781.htm (10/3/2004)
 * Health workers Moore-wary: http://web.archive.org/web/20041210235608/http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/9794353.htm (9/30/2004)
 * Michael Moore takes on Glaxo : https://web.archive.org/20041124145617/www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/9794410.htm?1c (9/30/2004)
 * The lies of Michael Moore: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/06/the-lies-of-michael-moore.html (6/21/2004)

rant against the bots
This is intended to be the basis of an essay: "rant against the bots".

The bots we are referring to are those that go around and check links (with url-status = "live") and if unable to successfully retrieve a page, they mark the link as "dead". They never do the reverse, for the sensible reason that it's difficult to determine whether the page retrieved from a "dead" link actually contains the expected content.

Given enough time, the bots will mark all links as "dead", as long as there are components in the network that fail from time to time, whether due to an actual component failure, slow response times, etc. That's the primary problem, but there's an insidious secondary problem that derives from this, which has to do with the fact that the url-status also determine which link, the "original" link or the "archive" link, is listed first.

The operation of the bots ensures that "url-status=dead" cannot be trusted. So if we click on the primary link, which is actually an archive, we might choose to click on the secondary link, which is the "original" ... and often, we will be rewarded with a superior link, one not hampered by the limitations of an "archived" link.

And this is the insidious part ... as users, we learn to try the "original" link, and while we are often rewarded, other times we are disappointed. We should like to know that the link is really dead, but given the way the bots are, we don't. Fabrickator (talk) 06:13, 17 December 2019‎ (UTC)

Here's an example of the bogus results that one of our friendly bots provided:


 * Revision of 01:58, 1 April 2020
 * here's the replacement link inserted:
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20200113095418/http://www.carbontradefinance.com/articles/IETA_GHG_Market_Report_2008%20AAU%20Trading.pdf
 * here's the live link:
 * https://www.ieta.org/resources/Resources/GHG_Report/2008ghgreport_final.pdf

Admittedly, it required a bit of detective work to find that one. Fabrickator (talk) 20:02, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

some helpful urls

 * locate official historic election results for Mariana Islands: https://votecnmi.gov.mp/archive
 * whois lookup
 * https://talosintelligence.com/ (formerly senderbase.org)
 * links to search for people
 * Spokeo
 * Whitepages
 * Been Verified People Search
 * Check People
 * The Real Yellow Pages
 * True People Search
 * Verizon whitepages
 * FastPeopleSearch (search by address is very helpful)
 * bot stuff
 * report false positive urls
 * manage individual urls
 * iabot enable/disable page
 * iabot talk page
 * archive stuff
 * wayback contacts
 * freezepage web page archiver
 * find User:Fabrickator subpages
 * MakeRef citation tool

fix for caps lock on-screen display
This applies to Windows 10 Lenovo T450s model.

Symptom: see following steps:
 * 1) pressing and releasing "caps lock" display causes an icon to display showing either "abc" or "ABC"
 * 2) instead of the icon vanishing after 2 or 3 seconds, the icon remains visible indefinitely

Fix:
 * 1) close laptop cover, causing computer to lock
 * 2) unlock it by entering your password
 * 3) observe that icon now vanishes after "caps lock" key is pressed

Windows generic program manager fix
Numerous symptoms occur because the Windows program manager, a.k.a. Windows explorer, gets bent out of shape. Bottom line is that restarting program manager fixes a boatload of different symptoms. Of course, rebooting or doing an update or logging out and logging in will also achieve this effect, but if you can fix things just by restarting program manager, that's far less annoying. Here's the procedure:


 * 1) use task manager to kill the explorer.exe process (your task bar and the like will disappear)
 * 2) start explorer using "run new task" ... do not start with administrative privileges
 * 3) observe your task bar re-appear

Here's my list of symptoms this resolved:
 * 1) "start menu" does not display, nor other control panel things started from task bar, like starting network settings from the task bar (5/2021)

sources for Edgar_Robb citations

 * http://www2.tbo.com/content/2007/oct/20/pa-club-in-holiday-became-focus-of-fbi-probe/
 * dead link, no archive copy found
 * seems like google entry is gone as of 2019-12-28
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20150524111156/nytimes.com/1982/08/19/nyregion/fbi-agent-warned-by-judge-on-zingers-in-his-testimony.html
 * New Port Richey: Myth and History of a City Built on Enchantment
 * U.S. v. Benjamin RUGGIERO, Nicholas Santora, Anthony Rabito, and Antonio Tomasulo, Defendants-Appellants
 * https://www.tbo.com/news/gift-of-gab-was-fbi-agents-secret-weapon-405444
 * not linked on page, in google index but dead link with no archive found
 * this is evidently about the death of Michael "Barry" Carmody on May 16, 2012.
 * a google search on ("michael carmody" dozen-other-tampa +"2012" fbi) returns the link with the following description:
 * TAMPA Michael Carmody died of cancer Wednesday at age 73. ... Published: May 19, 2012 ... team that arrested three Hillsborough County commissioners and nearly a dozen other Tampa businessmen on corruption charges in the 1980s.
 * a google search on ("michael carmody" 2012 obituary +"fbi") returns the link with the following description:
 * TAMPA Michael Carmody died of cancer Wednesday at age 73. ... Published: May 19, 2012. Updated: March 18, 2013 at ... He was part of the FBI team that arrested three Hillsborough County commissioners and nearly a dozen other Tampa ...
 * http://web.archive.org/web/20120531051503/tampabay.com/news/obituaries/fbi-agent-barry-carmody-worked-some-of-tampa-bay-areas-historic-cases/1231314/
 * specifically, this mentions involvement in setting up a fake bottle club (presumably King's Court Bottle Club in Holiday, Florida)

dubious edits to Queen Mamea
This set of changes to Queen Mamea is presumably supported by the 334-page thesis submitted by Lorenz Gonschor towards a Master of Arts at University of Hawaii, which was presumably approved. Without identification of specific references in the thesis, it is quite onerous to verify this.

FWIW, the thesis seems to be highly politicized (Gonschor cutely asserts that the "Laws of the Hawaiian Kingdom" apply to his 2008 thesis, in spite of the Republic of Hawaii having supplanted the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1894). It is difficult to know how seriously to take this paper. Fabrickator (talk) 05:12, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Springboro, Ohio "Garage" references
Fabrickator (talk) 15:45, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * the 1919 Ford Service Station / old school bus garage a.k.a. "The Garage"
 * 550 S. Main St
 * site of former Mahlon Wright house
 * most recently (2020): Midwestern Wealth Management
 * bikeshop1919.com
 * closing of Springboro bike shop
 * pictures of the garage
 * cropped bike shop picture
 * image for bike shop poster
 * wordpress bike shop picture
 * photo by William Fischer, Jr. (11/1/2008)
 * historical marker
 * Midwestern Wealth Management
 * picture only
 * artist(s) that played the 1919 garage
 * Goodwen (Goodwen flyer no longer available on Wikipedia ... or elsewhere)
 * Goodwen poster (unable to find any working links)
 * other pages related to Springboro, Ohio
 * Springboro High School
 * Springboro Star Press
 * Springboro Historic District
 * File:Oktoberfest_Springboro.jpg
 * File:Map of Warren County Ohio Highlighting Springboro City.png

crtc.gc.ca "archive/ENG" directory moved
For example:

becomes
 * http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/1994/DB94-339.HTM
 * https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1994/db94-339.htm

lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu redirects to top level
For example:

redirects to:
 * http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclr/vol45/iss5/11
 * https://lira.bc.edu/

A search on the website for "progressive taxation and happiness" (the title mentioned in the article) returns: which has a direct link to the article at:
 * https://lira.bc.edu/work/ns/f0c95568-7c4a-4372-927f-01c02a33e2c7
 * https://lira.bc.edu/work/ns/f0c95568-7c4a-4372-927f-01c02a33e2c7/reader/1d837ff7-9e53-4e86-84b5-71315eebec7b

However, it appears that these links only work in sequence, after first going to lira.bc.edu. It seems like more research is required to determine an appropriate link. Fabrickator (talk) 00:02, 19 October 2022 (UTC)

work items

 * History of the Staten Island Railway : fix broken links (LIRR?)
 * consider http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/ST._GEORGE_HISTORIC_DISTRICT.pdf on this and other pages
 * Irving Greenfield: Wagner library links on this page and others
 * related link: http://wagner.edu/library/files/2017/11/nsrr_study_complete2.pdf
 * insource:"url=http://www.talktalk.co"
 * Chittaranjan Park and any pages referencing East Pakistan Displaced Persons
 * insource:"tbo.com/content" (310 matching articles as of 2020-02-03)
 * when looking for archive urls, you may be able to use alternate top-level domains, e.g. suncoastpinellas.tbo.com
 * potentially dubious edits performed on 4 April 2024
 * Automatic transmission fluid‎
 * Ciudad de las Ideas (conference)
 * List of birds of Finland‎
 * Madagascar
 * Talish–Mughan culture
 * Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic
 * Peel Library links
 * There are currently 313 articles matching "peel.library.ualberta.ca"'
 * Typically, there are Wayback entries, which display a page titled "Peel's Prairie Provinces".
 * The website's home page has a "visual redirect" to "https://library.ualberta.ca/peel", which is the new "home page" for Peel's Praire Provinces. Managing to navigate from this home page to the desired content is not obvious.
 * We should probably capture the list of these links, since they would be difficult to identify if they are deleted from the "current revision" of the article.
 * There is a new repository, somewhat obscured by the "library.ualberta.ca" reference. The new repository is https://archive.org/details/peel/, but the instructions on use are at https://www.library.ualberta.ca/peel/how-to-use-this-collection and it is just not immediately apparent how one makes efficient use of the navigation mechanisms that are provided.

completed work items

 * hambastagi.org (2020-01-27, completed 2020-01-28)
 * http://hambastagi.org/new/en/english-section/reports/ moved to http://www.hambastagi.org/new/en/report/
 * affected pages:
 * Islam and blasphemy
 * Murder of Farkhunda Malikzada
 * Quran desecration
 * Selay Ghaffar
 * Solidarity Party of Afghanistan
 * comments
 * as written, the description implies a rule to change "en/english-section/reports/" to "en/report"
 * that case only applied to the "memorial" link, the general rule was simply to change "english-section" to "en"
 * there were other problems with the "memorial" link, but a properly working live link was found
 * Purnima Sethi: fix reference 1 "Welcome to Organiser" (completed 2020-01-28)
 * archive link: archive copy of organiser.org
 * related link: https://www.rediff.com/news/1998/apr/02sethi.htm

James Burney's Explorations of the South Seas
Chronological history of the voyages and discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean

The easiest to use version is at Darwin's Beagle Library:

http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/search-results?freetext=burney

Considerably easier to search and easier to read than the "archive.org" version (e.g. https://archive.org/details/chronologicalhis05burn/page/199)

O. Peschel's Geschichte der erdkunde
Why use a German book for research? Because it's there!

An example page about the travels of Pedro Fernandes de Queirós: Pedro Fernandes de Queirós here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ssd?id=uc1.$b141181;seq=385;num=358.

South Pacific Official Standard Names
Full title: "South Pacific; official standard names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names" (1957)

Hathi Trust catalog page: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002528131

The catalog page includes links to full text versions are shown in the "viewability" section (as of January 2020, there are 2 links).

This includes latitude and longitude for each island. At least in some cases, these match the values from the original European explorers, e.g. as published in Burney.

useful searches

 * insource:"dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East"
 * insource:"website=glamsham"
 * insource:"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v"
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=20&offset=100&profile=default&sort=create_timestamp_desc&search=insource%3A%22tbo.com%22+%22tbo.com%22+-tribune&advancedSearch-current={%22fields%22:{%22not%22:[%22tribune%22],%22plain%22:[%22\%22tbo.com\%22%22]}}&ns0=1&ns6=1
 * insource:"tbo.com"
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=250&offset=0&ns0=1&ns6=1&search=insource%3A%22splc.org%22&advancedSearch-current={}
 * insource:"splc.org"
 * insource:"multiarticlesub"
 * domain (usually exclaim.ca) is dead
 * recent archive copies may be 404 pages, while older archives have valid content
 * insource:"comicbookdb"
 * insource:"splc.org"
 * insource:"glamsham.com/music/reviews/"
 * insource:"decennial.html|archive-date"
 * The issue here is that the original census.gov url was being detected as dead (even though it seemed to be working) and IAbot was adding a dubious archive link that was very different from the currently-working live link. At the very least, the url-status should be marked as live, and preferably, the archive link should be pointing to an url corresponding to the live url.  Nevertheless, it's not clear how usable any of these links are at enabling one to verify the citation.  Additionally, it seems like we may be using the API provided by the census bureau to populate the data (we certainly should be), making it unclear whether this citation really makes sense, because locating the data manually seems to be inordinately tedious.
 * insource:"Most Popular E-mail Newsletter"
 * This search identifies citations in which the title field is populated with the specified erroneous text.
 * insource:"caribbeannewsnow"
 * This is a real mess. There are at least a couple of suspected predecessor/successor domains (e.g. "islandjournal.net", "carribeannetnews.com"), the "caribbeannewsnow.com" domain always returns a 522 error.  Some urls include an "archive" directory, which may not be available in wayback or archive.today archives.  Other archived urls redirect to a useless "project shield" url. It may be possible to identify article based on the article name (perhaps to an unofficial copy of the article) or to find an alternate article.  The original url is often unfit because they are redirecting to the home page of some domain.

open access and online resources
See also Free English newspaper sources

active resources

 * List of open-access projects (archive copy of a deleted Wikipedia page)
 * Databases freely available to the public (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
 * Century Past cross-site directory of online resources
 * List of online newspaper archives
 * User:Pashute/List of online newspaper archives
 * Digital Library of the Caribbean
 * DigitalNC collections list (North Carolina)
 * Gaste Arşivi (random historical foreign-language and U.S. newspapers)
 * Hathi Trust
 * High Plains Library District online resources


 * Latin-American Virtual Library (BIBLAT)
 * University of Manitoba newspaper search
 * Old Newspaper Research
 * Papers Past (newspapers, magazines, books, letters and diaries, andmore.... not just NZ)
 * Project Gutenberg
 * SmallTownPapers (estimated 500 "small town" newspapers around the country as of 2021)
 * Trove (Australia historical newspapers and gazettes)
 * University of Pennsylvania Online Books Page

newspapers by state

 * California
 * California Digital Newspaper Collection (includes PDF downloads)
 * Santa Clara County (California) online magazines and newspapers (non-residents may need to have obtained id on physical visit to library)
 * Florida
 * University of Florida Digital Collection seems to have various presentations, difficult to determine the best way to navigate.
 * On the one hand, this is a real mish-mosh, containing older newspapers (at least back to beginning of the 20th century and as recently as a month before the current date). The range of newspapers includes mainly Florida local newspapers and newspapers from around the Caribbean.
 * UF Digital Collections
 * Original site
 * University of Florida Digital Collections
 * different type of search
 * Indiana
 * Hoosier State Chronicles (Indiana)
 * Missouri
 * Missouri Digital Newspaper Project
 * New Jersey
 * South Brunswick Public Library (including {Princeton) Central Post, South Brunswick Post)
 * New York
 * New York State Historic Newspapers
 * New York Times from UPenn
 * Brooklyn Public Library newspaper archives
 * North Dakota
 * North Dakota Papers from the Past
 * Virginia
 * Virginia Chronicle

defunct resources

 * Library Wiki: most cited sources for popular topics and issues (defunct as of December 2020)

other accessible resources

 * American University Law Review
 * (6 issues/year?)
 * digital commons, e.g. http://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/aulr/vol58/iss2/5/
 * (it seems that this starts with volume 40 issue 2 and as of May 2021, goes through volume 69 issue 6)
 * wayback archive, e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20150910021213/http://www.aulawreview.org/pdfs/55/55-6/davidoff.pdf
 * full wayback list: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.aulawreview.org/*
 * (this seems to be good for all issues up through volume 65 issue 2)
 * live link, e.g. http://www.aulawreview.org/au_law_review/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/HrdySandeen.to_.Printer.pdf
 * currently goes from 2015/12 (volume 65?) through 2021 (volume 70)
 * directory listing available, e.g. http://www.aulawreview.org/au_law_review/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/
 * broken link, e.g. http://2017.aulawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/matthews.pdf
 * linked from: http://www.aulawreview.org/administrative-law-the-status-of-qsubstantial-evidenceq-part-one/
 * alternate: http://web.archive.org/web/20160705042654/http://www.aulawreview.org/pdfs/3/3-2/matthews.pdf
 * complete list of articles: http://www.aulawreview.org/category/volume-01/volume-1-issue-1/ through current (non-working links for older issues)
 * this is no longer working, though a limited amount of content can be accessed through wayback
 * research guides / pathfinders
 * Cornell University research guides
 * Library of Congress research guides
 * Library of Congress Science Tracer Bullets
 * numerous other "research guides" can be found through a web search''

resources of limited value

 * BAnQ: BAnQ catalog
 * Worldcat includes BAnQ content as an "open access" resource.
 * However, BANQ is restricted to residents of Quebec.
 * UC Davis Digital Collection
 * Range of content is fairly narrow.
 * Some resources are restricted.

Google translate weirdness
Copy the following Hindi text to https://translate.google.com : Police wale phone karenge aur aap ko bulayenge police station. "Ya" nahi hai, "Aur" hai. Police aapko contact karegi aur uske baad aapko police station jaana padega.

Google correctly identifies the text as Hindi, but the translation is unsuccessful, but removing any one of the statements and the other two statements translate okay.

consideration of edits for deletion
Fabrickator (talk) 23:33, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 2020-04-07: Opposition to the partition of India: mention "composite nationalism", characterize partition as "talking point" rather than "contentious"
 * 2020-04-07: Indian reunification: mention "composite nationalism"
 * 2020-04-07: Hindu–Muslim unity: mention "composite nationalism"

Fabrickator (talk) 20:24, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
 * 2020-10-06:
 * states as fact that the facilities and teaching at the black and white schools were substantially equal
 * NPOV violation: statement points out that the white students were not provided with bus service, while the black students did receive such service, without pointing out that distance the black student walked to the school bus stop was almost as great as the distance the white student walked to get to school

Aldo Leiva: Texas sexual performance by a child
The current (c. 2019) version of Texas statute 43.25(b) Sexual Performance by a Child prohibits the "inducement" of sexual conduct with a child under age 18.

In the Aldo Leiva case, the victim was age 17 at the time, so this case stands out as a situation where a person was charged under Texas law for having sex with a 17-year-old, while many parties operate under the belief that 17 is the age of consent.

Although Leiva was a tutor apparently employed by the Houston Independent School District, the statute under which he was charged is not related to his employment by the school or his role as a teacher. Even though Leiva was acquitted of this particular charge, the significance of this case, with respect to ascertaining the "unfettered" age of consent in Texas, is that the state even pursued the charge with a victim of age 17.

Here are pertinent links and commentary as appropriate:


 * 2016-05-20: probable cause warrant
 * scribd.com/doc/314805233/Aldo-Leiva-Probable-Cause-Warrant
 * warrant image (criminal case 1510910 files 2016-05-20):
 * page 1 of warrant: https://html1-f.scribdassets.com/4doetm3lfk5an5df/images/1-7b614e07da.jpg
 * page 2 of warrant: https://html2-f.scribdassets.com/4doetm3lfk5an5df/images/2-53265b2a09.jpg
 * 2016-05-22 suspect charged
 * http://web.archive.org/web/20181007011146/https://abc13.com/news/sharpstown-hs-tutor-charged-with-sex-crimes/1350480/
 * 2016-05-23 suspect charged
 * https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Harris-County-DA-charges-Sharpstown-tutor-with-7940392.php
 * 2016-05-24 suspect faces charges
 * https://www.houstonpress.com/news/sharpstown-tutor-allegedly-did-batman-roleplay-sex-stuff-with-underage-student-8424438
 * 2016-05-25 suspect appears before judge
 * https://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/local/article/Math-tutor-faces-20-years-for-explicit-texts-with-7945102.php
 * https://archive.today/20210222031725/https://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/local/article/Math-tutor-faces-20-years-for-explicit-texts-with-7945102.php
 * https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/article/Math-tutor-faces-20-years-for-explicit-texts-with-7945102.php
 * 2016-05-31 mixed-up result
 * https://www.courthousenews.com/tutor-student-sex-deemed-legal-photos-not/
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20160923071608/http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/05/31/tutor-student-sex-deemed-legal-photos-not.htm
 * https://www.courthousenews.com/tutor-student-sex-deemed-legal-photos-not/
 * 2016-06-01 teacher charged for sexting
 * https://www.miragenews.com/houston-tutor-learns-hard-lesson-on-age-of-consent/
 * https://www.jewworldorder.org/houston-math-tutor-facing-20-years-in-prison-for-sexting-with-17-year-old-student/
 * https://www.vocativ.com/324312/in-texas-sex-with-a-teen-is-ok-but-sexts-could-land-you-in-jail/index.html
 * 2016-06-02
 * https://services.newser.com/story/225979/cops-sex-with-teen-was-ok-topless-photos-werent.html
 * 2016-06-04
 * https://www.digitaljournal.com/world/texas-sex-with-17-year-old-legal-but-sexting-is-a-crime/article/467004
 * copy and paste to access this Wikipedia-blacklisted site www.breitbart.com/border/2016/06/04/texas-tutor-faces-20-years-prison-lewd-selfies-text-messages/
 * 2016006-06
 * https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/legally-weird/inconsistent-law-yields-bizzarre-charges-for-tutor-dating-teen/
 * 2017-02-21
 * the charging document in the following story specifically calls out the inducement
 * https://www.click2houston.com/news/2017/02/21/math-tutor-sentenced-for-child-porn-charges-still-dating-teen-involved-in-case/
 * charging document
 * 2017-02-22
 * https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Teen-and-52-year-tutor-back-together-after-he-10948003.php
 * https://www.expressnews.com/news/houston-texas/article/Teen-and-52-year-tutor-back-together-after-he-10948003.php

The Courthouse News story states:
 * The age of consent in Texas is 17, but it’s considered possession of child pornography for an adult to have explicit photos of anyone under 18.

There's no explanation of the basis for the statements made about the age of consent, other than (presumably) that the charge was dismissed. The statute defining the "performance" charge has no mention of age 17. This suggests that the judge failed to recognize that the "performance" statute applies to mere inducement of sexual conduct (i.e. to the actual sexual conduct, provided it was "induced").

Alternatively, the judge "knew" (as a case of common knowledge) that the age of consent was 17, and determined that the statute could not be applicable, because that would have meant that the real age of consent was 18, thus such an interpretation of the statute must be incorrect. Or perhaps this statute is only intended to be applied to African-Americans?

Multiple stories indicate that the sex with the 17-year-old was legal,the age of consent in Texas presumably being 17. These are clearly in contradiction of the opinions rendered by the Texas Court of Appeals in John Perry Dornbush v. State of Texas and in Summers v. State

Saving the Declaration references
Here we go:
 * Scribners Monthly
 * Jasper Weekly Courier
 * New York Times
 * Prologue
 * White House Historical Association
 * Perth Amboy Evening News
 * Ordway New Era'
 * Washington Standard
 * Archiving Early America
 * National Archives
 * Washington Post
 * Washington Post
 * Salida Mail

pennsylvania railroad references
Supplements to NY Times citation on electrification.


 * PRR Historical Society 1937 chronology
 * PRR Historical Society 1938 chronology
 * Rails and Trails Pennsylvania Railroad Electrification History (to 1948)
 * Worcester Democrat February 12, 1937 (Pennsy Road Will Electrify to Harrisburg)
 * Explore PA History: The Railroad in Pennsylvania
 * Evening star January 28, 1937 (Electrified Rails Trend is Pushed)
 * Indianapolis times. |volume|, January 31, 1934 ($80,000,000 Project Begun by Pennsy)

kingdom come settlement school references
Location of Kingdom Come Settlement School is Linefork, Kentucky (sometimes known as "Line Fork") in Letcher County.

The site/building is also known as:
 * Kingdom Come Elementary School
 * Kingdom Come High School
 * Kingdom Come Community Center

Here goes:
 * The Mountain Eagle (newspaper, select articles dating back to 1907 are online)
 * Facebook
 * Letcher County, Helen F. Randolph
 * Kingdom Come Settlement School—Letcher County, Kentucky
 * digital photo album (UMC)
 * Linefork/Kingdom Come Community Center
 * Kingdom Come Settlement Elementary School (Closed 2008)

France age of consent nonsense
Numerous articles published asserting that France did not (and presumably that it still does not) have an age of consent.

Sources:
 * The Telegraph: France tightens rules on sex with minors but stops short of creating a legal age of consent
 * Snopes: Did France Pass a Law Saying That ‘Children Can Consent to Sex with Adults’
 * The Connexion: I was raped from age of 8 but law does not protect the young
 * FactCheck: Putting France’s Consent Issue Into Context
 * BBC: France to set legal age of sexual consent at 15
 * AP: When child sex isn’t rape: French to set age of consent
 * US News: 'Finally': France Seeks to Set Age for Sexual Consent, at 15
 * The Atlantic: France, Where Age of Consent Is Up for Debate
 * That's Nonsense: Did France pass law saying children can consent to sex with adults?

Since 1945, France has considered anybody under age 15 to be a "sexual minor". Having consensual sex with a sexual minor had been subject to a prison term of up to 5 years, prior to recent laws increasing the penalty for sexual contact with a person under the age of 15. As per The Atlantic article listed above, an alleged perpetrator would have been charged with sexual infraction and not rape, thereby being subject to a somewhat shorter prison sentence. One may argue whether or not a prison term of 5 years is sufficient, but it's hardly the case that this length of a prison term is insufficient to be a meaningful deterrent. Fabrickator (talk) 17:20, 5 June 2021 (UTC) (updated from 28 February 2021).

wmf presentations
what wmf presenter is very excited about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az4BpuVrOhI&t=4725s

Time url mappings
The same Time magazine article will generate "related" url formats.


 * original url: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,745142,00.html
 * updated url: http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,745142,00.html
 * archived url: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,745142,00.html

Search the Time Vault to find live links to any "published" stories.

urls that cannot be invoked directly
Think "CQ Almanac" and ft.com websites ...

If you find the link with a google search and select that it works, but if you copy the link into a page and click from there (or simply do copy and paste), then it doesn't work.

Here's an example (not necessarily with one of the affected urls):

https://testgoogle.com/url?q=https://www.att.com/

This needs to be upgrade with additional details and actual working example, just putting here to help my memory. Fabrickator (talk) 04:23, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

interesting events log

 * 12-13 April 2024 (denial of paid editing) So the subject in question is an award-winning author, that doesn't exempt him from WP:AUTO or WP:PAID!
 * 11-13 January 2024 (critique of edit)
 * 18-19 January 2024 (defense of edit) (I rate this at least 3 stars)
 * 19-28 January 2024 (apologies to Graham and accusation of a presumably willful misquote)
 * 18 March 2024
 * 14 October 2023 (partial ... to be completed)
 * part 1
 * part 2
 * part 3

interesting observations
Fabrickator (talk) 06:34, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Be careful about trying to apply your own logic, as there may already be rules that resolve the issue in dispute, so that what seems like logic and reason just doesn't apply.


 * The problem of identifying reliable sources Fabrickator (talk) 04:33, 1 April 2024 (UTC)


 * An unspecified but evident goal of the inter-language environment is visibility of all language versions for a given article subject. Any article in any language shows all the language links.  But if there is no article in English, then how do you find the article in other languages, if not by having an ?  However, what if this is not a link to an  article, but a link to a section?  Now you will not have access to the interlanguage versions of that article.  So this is a shortcoming of any link that goes to a section, because of the omission of a full-fledged article?  Thus, the evident design goal of providing access to all the language versions of an articles on a given subject is broken, unless we actually incorporate the section redirect into an . Fabrickator (talk) 08:54, 3 April 2024 (UTC)


 * "Speculative links": see, for example, the comments at Talk:GWR_6959_Class. In the case of an interlanguage link, we necessarily have a Wikidata entry, but Wikidata doesn't guarantee the required uniqueness.  In either case, it's an ad hoc process. Fabrickator (talk) 20:32, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Ludington
Fabrickator (talk) 09:34, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Ludington expert reaches milestone
 * archive copy