User talk:Pajz/Archive/2019

Robert Mellville Smith
Hey Pajz. I'm curious if you still have access to the book I requested here? Haven't had a computer for a while so I've been pretty absent lately. -  Floydian  τ ¢ 17:13, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, Floydian, I can take a look next week. — Pajz (talk) 12:40, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Floydian, sent. — Pajz (talk) 18:35, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks! -  Floydian  τ ¢ 18:13, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Reply
Hello, Pajz. You asked why I added "via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete" to the citations in the article "if EBSCO doesn't have the text." The answer is that, per the rules of EBSCO use, I am obliged to credit EBSCO whenever I add content cited to EBSCO articles. That applies whatever the content in question is. Thus, if I add content to an article about a book, stating that it was reviewed by particular person in a particular publication, I have to include the attribution to EBSCO. The fact that I may not have the text of the review itself in some cases doesn't make the slightest difference. It's not clear to me why you would make an issue of this. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 10:27, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
 * FreeKnowledgeCreator: First, despite your suggestion to the contrary, I did not ask anything, I told you I do not understand why you're doing it. (It is obviously incorrect since the via parameter is supposed to be used for the "Name of the content deliverer" per Template:Cite book, which was not EBSCO, and so you using that parameter for something else is of course misleading - nobody can get the article via EBSCO. If some dark forces allegedly make you to mention EBSCO, that is irrelevant to whether mentioning it makes any sense. Which it doesn't.) Second, I did not "make an issue" of that whatsoever, I simply pointed it out to you. The only thing I sort of did make issue of was your condescending response, in which you scolded me for my supposedly "not appropriate" use of WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request (whilst not acknowledging that I also just sent you one of the articles that you requested). Your accusation was as incorrect (we frequently discuss citations there as it is directly related to what we do, and my comment referred to your citation of the very article that I sent you) as it was unkind. It looks to me like you were unhappy with my comment and decided the best way forward is to lecture me over some technicality. — Pajz (talk) 16:47, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

Request
Could you look at specific numbers from Gazetteer of Afghanistan VI, p. 333 and Gazetteer of Afghanistan V, pp. 242-46? --Vyacheslav84 (talk) 10:38, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Jinfengopteryx paper?
I just want to ask about the Jinfengopteryx paper I requested on Resource Request, since you said you were working on it. Are you able to get the paper to me, or is there a problem with my e-mail address? Zach Varmitech (talk) 01:00, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Zach Varmitech, oh, I'm so sorry, this is the first time in years and probably hundreds of requests that I've really forgotten about one (I've been on vacation - technically, at least ... - for a bit and did not check WP:RX). I did request the journal but then later found there seems to be an online copy, at http://dzhtb.cgs.cn/gbcen/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=20050341&flag=1. I first thought the PDF link ("【下载PDF全文】") didn't work (subscriber-only?), but it actually does, their server just seems awfully slow (Chrome times out, but it did work with Firefox on my machine). I'll send you that copy, just to make sure you receive it. If I got something wrong / something is missing from this PDF, feel free to let me know, I'll have someone make a copy from the print version. Again, my apologies. — Pajz (talk) 07:35, 17 August 2019 (UTC)