Wikipedia:Gale/Approved


 * 1)  YES! Finally! Gale has access to niche game-related publications to which we had crowdsourced access at WPVG. I don't have access to Gale through my current institution and would love the added coverage of OneFile. I also edit in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sometimes log my database usage.   czar  19:54, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 20:05, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 1)  I would love to have access to Gale since I have found various articles in the past relating to tropical cyclones on Gale but have not been able to access.Jason Rees (talk) 20:11, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 20:05, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 1)   At last! Wiikipedia Library Research Coordinator, Reference Desk regular, also contributing to Resource Exchange. I am familiar with the wide resources offered and would do my best to share our limited accounts with those who can further utilize these valuable resources to improve Wikipedia. -- Paulscrawl (talk) 22:30, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 20:05, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 1)  As mentioned by Nikkimaria here, it appears that this resource includes access to the New York Times archives. This would be very helpful for copyright clean-up, as when working on certain CCI cases I routinely use up my 10 free looks per month long before the end of the month. Thank you, -- Diannaa (talk) 23:04, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * 1) This would be amazing to have access to Gale's educational resources which includes the New York Times. I include articles from the NYT often as inline citations and I add reference details to other articles with only bare references.Oceanflynn (talk) 00:50, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 20:05, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I really appreciate this access.Oceanflynn (talk) 15:20, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 1)  My primary area of interest is old-time radio, but I also work on articles related to television and film. The periodicals in Gale's resources could be of much help in providing information about programs, productions, and the people involved with them. I understand that the last 30 years or so of the New York Times are included in Infotrac. Those issues alone would be valuable. I have used NYT obituaries when I found them online, but the site limits the number of articles a user can read via that method. My commitment to creating articles for Wikipedia can be seen in the titles listed on my user page. I have created more than 50 articles and have strengthened many others through editing (primarily via addition of material and citations). Eddie Blick (talk) 01:05, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 20:05, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I appreciate your help.Eddie Blick (talk) 20:13, 1 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 1)  I know the Gale databases and I know I could use them. I have made over 80,000 contributions to various WP projects since 2008. I am particularly involved in conflict resolution where finding additional sources helps finding a consensus. Thanks, &mdash;&thinsp;Racconish&thinsp;&#9742; 09:08, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * 1)  Many historical articles for which this would be useful. Philafrenzy (talk) 10:51, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * 1)  - NY Times would be useful. Carrite (talk) 03:57, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * 1) Very useful to keep creating in-line referenced articles. I am particularly interested in The Journal of Homosexuality and other similar resources, to work with WP LGBT Studies. I would also create more articles about the Gilded Age, the Antebellum South, Jewish Studies, etc.Zigzig20s (talk) 15:32, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * 1) I'm a long time contributor to thousands of articles related to Georgia, Caucasus, and Middle East. I find the resource very useful. --KoberTalk 16:46, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * 1) Would find this very useful across a range of articles! &#8209;&#8209; Yodin T 11:21, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * 1) I work to add sources to previously unreferenced biographies of living people, any additional resource would be most helpful.
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 * 1) I am a content creator with 18,000 edits on more than 1,000 articles since 2010. I rely heavily on scholarly journal articles so access to Gale would be of great assistance to me. Smallchief (talk  11:31, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * 1) I am an experienced editor, with a particular interest in Middle East-related areas. Gale would provide access to much otherwise unobtainable relevant material. RolandR (talk) 13:47, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * 1) I am an active editor and content creator. I am currently actively improving and creating article on women's biographies from all areas of the world. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:18, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:53, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) I have been an editor at English Wikipedia since August 16, 2006 and have amassed 66,046 edits as of this writing.  I primarily edit radio station articles and focus on those located in Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland.  I wish it use Gale Directories to access historic information regarding radio stations.  This would help with blank spots in histories, ownership changes, frequency changes, etc.  It would also be of use for radio stations that have long since signed off.  Gale Directories would of an immense help with that. -  Neutralhomer  •  Talk  • 07:32, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:53, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Active since 2006, initerests include Ireland and the Irish, Science, Food, culture. Have made use of BNA, Questia, Highbeam. Bogger (talk) 14:34, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:53, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Editor since 2005, administrator since 2007, 51000 edits, 34 articles created. A Reference Desk regular. Edit in science, technology, and biomedical areas. This would allow online access to reference tools currently unavailable to me. Edison (talk) 16:48, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:53, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) I am a regular contributor, with about 87,000 edits (including deleted). I write on a variety of subjects (though lately I've been working on a variety of bird articles, and am hoping the academic article component will include content on particular species): I've had 10 articles, predominantly written by me, achieve good status and 3 have been promoted as featured articles – with a few in the pipeline. I often use research access to help others with their writing efforts here, as well as to check sources for verification. I also spend quite a bit of time checking claimed and suspected copyright violations, which requires access to a diversity of sources.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:23, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:53, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Although I have a PhD, I live and work in a place with very limited access to English-language resources...Currently doing a total, top-to-bottom rewrite on the surprisingly inadequate article on Bengal famine of 1943 in my personal sandbox; shooting for FA in a month or so. After that will be scouting for new topics, perhaps with a humanitarian bent... Also help out with many friends on FA drives (seem to often be involved in painting/visual arts, but am open to any academic field).  Lingzhi &diams; (talk) 05:10, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:50, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) The area I mostly work on (Goa) has limited news sources online from a decade or two back. I hope this could help fill the gap. fredericknoronha (talk) 06:21, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:50, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Access to this resource would be valuable to me both for content creation and for copyright clean-up work. I edit in many areas, including biography, music, domestic livestock and Renaissance topics; list of article creations is here. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:41, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 17:50, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) The various Gale databases will be very helpful in further improvement of English language and related articles and especially improving psychology articles such as IQ classification and related articles like Intelligence quotient. I've won the Million Award for taking the first two of those articles to good article status, and now is the time to take them to featured article status and to expand and improve related articles, creating necessary new articles for related topics along the way. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (Watch my talk, How I edit) 23:39, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 21:52, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) I tend to edit all over the place, but my core subjects are in the geosciences. I see that Gale has many publications from the American Geophysical Union, which I have been wanting access to for years. I mostly work in incremental article improvement, and I've lately been focused on verification and citation; access to Gale's texts would clearly be a benefit to my work. I do not have any other access available. Thank you! — Gorthian (talk) 19:45, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 21:52, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) I'm a longterm major content contributor and heavy researcher for such content, and would really like this access. Softlavender (talk) 08:04, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 14:05, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) I'm an active editor of the project. I've created some dozens of articles and have promoted two articles to GA level. My main interest, as shown by my contributions, are political and religious issues. I need to have access to reliable news outlets so that I can keep the encyclopedia update. Having access to Gale would be excellent and will enable me to enhance the quality of those articles I edit. --Mhhossein (talk) 11:10, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 20:21, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Would be a great help to me in improving articles.  H.dryad (talk) 17:57, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Expect an email shortly with further details. Nikkimaria (talk) 19:35, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Hi this would be an excellent compliment to my British Newspaper Archive and help me improve articles.(UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Approved: Expect an email shortly with further details. Anup   [Talk]  09:51, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) I contribute in a lot of subject areas, including but not limited to engineering, history, geography and other sciences. The vast majority of my edits are focused on content creation on French Wikipedia, I have created over 1,500 articles, wrote 14 Good Articles, and edited too many to count. I can read resources in English as this is my main language of work, but French is my native language. Having an account at GALE would give me access to resources that I don't have access to in other databases that I have access to. Thanks, Amqui (talk) 15:50, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅ Sorry for the late attention; please check your mailbox for a Wikipedia Email with instruction to proceed. Anup   [Talk]  04:26, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) As I start to move more towards content creation, there are times when I have needed additional resources not found on line, such as a novel series that I am currently working with and needing access to past newspapers. My topic interests include theology, science, and literature, although I have been known to work on articles in many different areas. - Pax   Verbum  17:12, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Anup  [Talk]  13:16, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) --Florence (talk) 18:54, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Anup  [Talk]  21:25, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) I contribute mainly in the area of British football, biographies as well as historical content. My BNA and Findmypast subscriptions have just expired, so I'm going to be working on more recent stuff, and access to Gale's range of local newspapers going back to the 1990s, which aren't available to me anywhere else online, would be particularly useful. Thanks, Struway2 (talk) 08:53, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Anup  [Talk]  21:25, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Extremely useful for my article work in social history topics. Keri (talk) 15:19, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Anup  [Talk]  04:47, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Generalist editing for 10 years across various articles. Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 01:19, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Anup  [Talk]  04:47, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) I would like this resource to help me expand coverage on Women's biographies and sports. MWright96 (talk) 19:05, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Anup  [Talk]  01:25, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) I usually work with improving the sourcing of articles and I'm also active at AfDs. Gale has a lot of resources, particularly recent newspaper archives, which can help me to look for sources. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 23:08, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Anup  [Talk]  06:51, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello I'm yet to receive a response. Please check your mailbox for an email titled "Wikipedia Email (The Wikipedia Library)". If you changed your mind and do not want access to this resource, let me know so.  Anup   [Talk]  11:16, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Hey . Really sorry. Let me check. It must have gone into one of the filtered folders. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 11:18, 5 October 2016 (UTC). Update:, I just filled it up. Thank you. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 11:33, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for very quick response. I just sent you login credentials. Happy editing Wikipedia! Anup   [Talk]  11:51, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) I would like access, please, for the work I do creating new articles on mostly British industrial history and biography. Apwoolrich (talk) 19:32, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting wait.svg Pending: We have very limited number of accounts available. Do you need it for your draft in sandbox? If it is the only topic you need help with sources at this time, I'd suggest you to make use of WP:RX (see also: Shared Resources). Please let me know, if you plan to work on many others and access to this resource will be helpful for your work, and I'll very gladly approve your subscription request. Thank you.   Anup   [Talk]  20:35, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes please, I have ideas for other topics in the pipeline, the next one being Thomas Gilpin sr, Joshua Gilpin's father, and another on historical industrial espionage. Apwoolrich (talk) 07:32, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Approved: Expect an email shortly with further details. Anup   [Talk]  17:45, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) I would like to have access to Biography InContext. --Melly42 (talk) 23:06, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Approved: Expect an email shortly with further details. Just a FYI: Biography In Context is one of five knowledge database available through Gale's subscription, and each account has free and full access to all these databases (there is no separate login. see top of page for more details.). Anup   [Talk]  16:40, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Hello. I submit myself for your consideration. I am a new editor, but I could really benefit from this resource. To give you an idea of my commitment, when I couldn't find enough sources for West Coast Customs, I bought a subscription to Newspapers.com to help me fill it out. I have expanded 3x Deseret alphabet, I have expanded and cited everything needed to Vladislav Surkov, I have filled a ten year old request at Talk:Dust Bowl. When I noticed wrong information at the Japanese Wikipedia, I commissioned a translation to correct it. When Allen Quist complained at the Help Desk about his BLP, I found reliable sources for the disputed claims. The subscription is getting expensive for me though since this is a volunteer work for me. I work in private industry and live in Philippines. Every library here is very strict: students only, unless you know the head librarian (I don't). I never graduated even middle school and am self taught. My father was a foreigner who instilled in me a love of learning (as well as being, I think, the only Filipino native Esperanto speaker), but his early death put an abrupt end to my education. I have so much more I want to do: my area of greatest interest is writing systems and languages, which scholarly journals will surely help with; I love history, and surely the Infotrac NewsStand would help me out there. According to my research, Gale has some Filipino newspapers, I'd love to use it to expand Filipino topics here on Wikipedia also. I want to research the history of the Smiley face, I want to expand and reference our article about Baybayin, I want to dive into topics like American settlement in the Philippines, Baguio, and more.  Thank you very much for your time and I hope I've done enough to demonstrate my commitment to this great project to avail of this opportunity. Psiĥedelisto (talk) 07:54, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Approved: Expect an email shortly with further details. I'm convinced that you will make better use of resource. Happy editing Wikipedia!:) Anup   [Talk]  22:47, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much Psiĥedelisto (talk) 03:58, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) I have been a regular contributor since July 2010. I have created 111 article pages, many of which are biographies. I have begun work on two more biographies. I also have done much work in counter-vandalism where checking outside sources for verification is often necessary or helpful. Occasionally, I add references to unreferenced or insufficiently referenced articles. This library, especially with the added biography database, appears to be very useful for references for new and existing articles which I create or to which I contribute and for verification of new edits. Thank you. Donner60 (talk) 07:40, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Pictogram voting wait.svg Pending: I would love to approve your subscription request but before I do that, I need to state a few things. We have very few out of 50 accounts left to distribute, therefore would want to give away to who needs it most. While I was going through your contribution log, I noticed that most of edits made in last 6 months (~20,000) are automated, and there are probably no active drafts (at least online) you are working on. If you can (please!) specify for what articles/drafts you need this resource, I will be happy to take a second look. For now, I've put your request on hold and will approve it when more accounts become available (quite a few subscriptions are set to expire this month, so it could be in next 20-25 days). Anup   [Talk]  19:24, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
 * I am working offline on drafts for articles on George W. Smythe, a distinguished US Army colonel in World War II and brigadier general in the Korean War, Ebenezer Farrand, a US naval officer for 38 years who became one of nine flag officers of the Confederate States Navy, and the Battle of Butgenbach, an early part of the Battle of the Bulge. I wrote a section concerning this battle in my most recent article on John F. R. Seitz, which I posted in October so I have a start on it. This important action is not covered in other articles about the Battle of the Bulge. An entire book has been written about it so it is not a small engagement. Seitz was a US Army colonel in World War II and later a major general. Smythe had a similar record to Seitz's. While Seitz is my only original article in the last few months, it is comprehensive and uses quite a few sources. My earlier articles (both created, and substantial contribution) are shown in a section of my user page. I realize you may have noted them and admittedly, most of them date back a few years. I intend to transition back to more content creation and less patrolling in the next few months as I expressed on my user page but I know that may not be a distinguishing factor. (I had not realized there were such a limited number of accounts available.) Certainly I understand that these accounts should be distributed to those who need them most or appear most likely to use them currently. That means that others may need to wait for other accounts to become available. I can see that the limited number of accounts for this library have made this a more difficult task than the distribution of accounts to libraries to which Wikipedia has many more available. Thank you for your reply and your work on this library project. Donner60 (talk) 06:50, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Approved: Expect an email shortly with further details. Anup   [Talk]  18:45, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I have responded. I will use this account especially for research on biographies. I hope my use will be sufficient to justify your confidence. I also appreciate the reminder about citing the urls since this is an unusual aspect of the citations. Donner60 (talk) 04:16, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) I have been an editor on Wikipedia since December 2005, and I have made over 9000 edits. I have done a lot of research on amusement parks, ride manufacturers, and things generally from the 20th Century (which can range between the 19th and 21st centuries). This resource would be very useful. Thanks. -- hmich 176 00:42, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Approved: Expect an email shortly with further details. Anup   [Talk]  17:15, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Access to these features would help with hundreds of biographies of American diplomats that I have planned. Star Garnet (talk) 13:28, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Approved: Expect an email shortly with further details. Anup   [Talk]  17:15, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) I began working on Wikipedia in 2014, focusing primarily on old-time radio and its people. Since then I have also worked on articles about on TV and film of the past and the people involved with them. Gale's resources offer much that can help in these areas. Eddie Blick (talk) 18:58, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Approved: Expect an email shortly with further details. Anup   [Talk]  18:17, 5 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) I have been editing for 8+ years with 90,000+ edits. Often add references to unsourced BLPs. My current subscription is expiring. Thanks -- J04n(talk page) 15:22, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Approved: Expect an email shortly with further details. Anup   [Talk]  16:21, 11 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) I am editing Wikipedia regularly for past five years. I am particularly interested in adding articles on history, people and politics of India. Wikipedia lacks coverage of topics related to India very much and the access would be helpful in filling that gap. Especially biographies.--Nizil (talk) 04:43, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Approved: Expect an email shortly with further details. Anup   [Talk]  17:02, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Twelve years on the English Wikipedia with over 60,000 edits and active in music and literature content development; I do not have access to this resource, and would use it to find reliable sources for music and literature related articles. —Bruce1eetalk 06:57, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Approved: Expect an email shortly with further details. Anup   [Talk]  17:02, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) I have been editing Wikipedia for a relatively short time (around seven months with c.4,600 edits). I have two FAs and 3 GAs, with other articles waiting or going through PR and GAN at present. History (including military and art), current affairs and biographies are subjects of interest. All the best, - The Bounder (talk) 07:23, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Approved: Expect an email shortly with further details. Anup   [Talk]  17:02, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Hi I edit generally on ME eastern topic and do a lot of ref improve like access to this valuable source.--Shrike (talk) 08:32, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Approved: Expect an email shortly with further details. Anup   [Talk]  06:44, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Access to this database will be very helpful for my work on history, politics, films and non-fiction books. --Skr15081997 (talk) 08:03, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Approved: Expect an email shortly with further details. Anup   [Talk]  17:14, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 1) Access to this database would be helpful for my work on articles about American politics  Seraphim System  ( talk) 08:13, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Approved: Expect an email shortly with further details. Anup   [Talk]  17:14, 22 May 2017 (UTC)