User talk:Jkaharper/2023/March

John Davis (paediatrician)
Hi I had to revert your good faith edit on the John Davis article. Who's who is non-RS. It not a reliable source. I see there is still one ref there that uses it, which I'll removed. If you can find anything that confirms he is alive then please add it, or update the article as you see fit.  scope_creep Talk  15:47, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, I've used Who's Who/Who Was Who thousands of times as a source on here, and you're genuinely the first person to ever flag it as an issue. Who's Who (by A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing) is a highly respected reference book (with an online subscription version) published annually by Oxford University Press, the publishing arm of the university itself. It's researched and edited annually. It's used in government and organisations around the UK and is considered to be highly reputable. Can you please point me to where it is blacklisted? I believe you're confused with minor Who's Who publications (which are completely unrelated despite the same title) that were mass produced during the 20th century and have become known as Who's Who scams – they are blacklisted on Wikipedia. --Jkaharper (talk) 16:23, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes. I think its the function of the size of the place that news doesn't reach everybody equally. The fact that it comes from a prestiguous source got me as well, but it is non-rs and has been for sometime, at least five year anyway. The reason is that the profiles are prepared by the person in question. A form is sent out, the person fills in the form and returns in, then its formatted and published. So it kind of WP:SPS. It might be worth getting the script that flags up what is a good and bad in terms of references. Any bad reference from a non-rs source comes up as red, dubious is green, yellow is check the source. There is a couple of these scripts floating about. They are worth getting.  Folk ask me where it was decided. Likely RSN but I don't know. Hope that helps.     scope_creep Talk  17:41, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

David Marsh (financial specialist)
Hello since you added information, imo this most probably is Shoreham-by-Sea. Cheers :-) Lotje (talk) 17:00, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I will add :) --Jkaharper (talk) 17:05, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Precious
You are recipient no. 2831 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:10, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Very kind of you. --Jkaharper (talk) 10:49, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Olympedia
So, should I or should I not use Olympedia as a death source? Because the guys who edit the 2023 deaths thing use it as a source and I don't see that's a problem for them. Death editor (talk) 01:19, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * , sure! Olympedia is a perfectly acceptable source. My problem with your edit was that you did not cite it as a source on the page itself. It was already listed in external links, but every source must be cited precisely as per WP:BLP. --Jkaharper (talk) 01:21, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Ah, that makes sense, I just cited it because I wasn't sure, I am kinda new to this, and wanted people to know where I got my death source from. Death editor (talk) 01:22, 18 March 2023 (UTC)