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&mdash; Ingenuity (talk &bull; contribs) 18:13, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia policy and suggestions
Hi Progressivepen. I'll go through the parts of your comments at the Mahsa Amini protests talk page and put responses that I think are likely to be directly useful for the debate over there. Here I'll put some comments that are rather tangential.

(1) The question of the degree to which research articles for use in en.Wikipedia could, should or must have passed through the acceptance stage of peer review depends on the topic, the degree to which information is available, and ultimately is up to the consensus of people editing on the topic. WP:RS gives the current description of the consensus: we could say that it's the theoretical description of what we think current practice is and should be.

In my own experience, the COVID-19 pandemic is a case where quite strict insistence on limiting "knowledge" to peer-reviewed articles was systematically applied and helped make Wikipedia coverage highly robust, with the disinformation and misinformation of centralised online social networks only present in articles about misinformation, such as COVID-19 misinformation. (The exception is COVID-19 official numerical data, in which statistically dubious, non-peer-reviewed official data is present at significant levels and is not systematically distinguished from reliable data; see Reliability of open government data.)

In the other extreme, the world's currently biggest genocide, the Tigray genocide in which about 10% of the Tigrayan population has been destroyed since November 2020 by a combination of the systematic killing of male adult and teenage civilians, the systematic rape of women (and some men), the destruction and looting of livestock, grain, other food and agricultural resources, industrial resources and medical centres and hospitals, and thus combining with genocide-by-tight-siege-and-famine, has had its most thorough academic study, the research paper Tigray: Atlas of the humanitarian situation, described as a WP:SELFPUBLISH (self-published source) by one very active Wikipedian, who was later blocked as a WP:SOCKPUPPET. Many of the uses of the source were removed by that person on the grounds that the source was "self-published" - despite the fact that it was by academics at a well-known, respectable university. I personally disagreed with that Wikipedian, but since I was already active in editing on the subject, and there were insufficient numbers of other people willing to participate in the debate, the editorial decisions of that person prevailed. So the effect is that a lot of the genocide is currently "unknown" in en.Wikipedia (unless someone checks the editing history of those pages), despite there being a good source. Anyway, my point here was that there is some subjectivity in the judgment, and in this case, my judgment was in favour of the not-yet-peer-reviewed research paper by known university researchers, but I was only one out of (more or less) two active editors.

In the current specific case in Iran, I asked about research papers since you used the word "research". Academics can and do make mistakes, and even though peer review doesn't detect all errors, and can slow down publication of some legitimate research, it generally leads to better quality research papers, especially with the knowledge that reviewers are fairly likely to complain about weaknesses in a paper. To what degree the article should rely on research papers, given the events' very recent (and ongoing) nature (and as you point out, the time scale for doing the research and the 3-18 month time scale for peer review are long - similar to waiting until November 2022 to write about the Tigray genocide), is open to qualitative judgment of the people editing the article. Rough consensus has to be obtained among those willing to edit, and the third-party onlookers willing to intervene or neutrally adjudicate within Wikipedia guidelines.

(2) I recommend that you remove tracking information from URLs that you post, since they may reveal private information about your computer's IP number, your FB account, the date and time that you clicked on a link or other private information. Generally, anything starting with a question mark "?" and the following character strings, e.g. in the format ?abc=def&ghi=jkl&mno=pqr should be unnecessary in a URL ("link"), e.g. ?rss=yes&fbclid=IwAR...rk and ?casa_token=GB_Euk-...Bs probably include encoded private information. It's in your own interest to remove them before pasting them into a Wikipedia discussion (or in references; robots are likely to remove these from references later on if you don't, but they will remain in the history).

Welcome to Wikipedia! :) Boud (talk) 22:19, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Iranian Revolution of 2022


Hello, Progressivepen. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Iranian Revolution of 2022".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. ✗ plicit  03:12, 30 June 2023 (UTC)