Wikipedia:JSTOR/Approved/Round 3

Approved accounts, Round 3 - November 2014

 * 1)  I am planning to get involved in the GA review process, (See here )  particularly science articles. Many of the references are accessible only via JStor, and I would like to review the references to make sure they support the article. (I checked to see if I qualified under the alumni option of if a local public library had access, but came up empty.) ✅
 * 2) I actively edit articles related to the Partition of India, 1971 Bangladesh genocide and minorities in East Pakistan/Bangladesh. There are many scholarly articles on these topics, but unfortunately they are only accessible through JSTOR. Is it possible to get an account? ✅
 * 3) I am actively involved in several Wikimedia projects. I am a reviewer and an avid fighter of vandalism. My main interests include creating and improving Africa related content and the use of Wikipedia in Education in Africa. Because I feel users' good-faith contributions should not be removed outright even if they are not referenced I take it upon myself to Google and verify their edits and include citations if the information turns out correct. I have High-beam access but I could do more good if I was armed with JSTOR as well. Furthermore I am an M.Sc. Statistics candidate and my thesis is intended to assess the perceptions of professors and students in higher education in Ghana about Wikipedia and attempt to measure their confidence on its continued use as reference medium as well as a research or learning tool given that Wikipedia has often been derided by academics for containing misleading and factual errors. I could really use some rare resources (which I have only seen so far on JSTOR) to improve my literature. Thank you. —Sadat ( Masssly ) ❤Talk☮C☺Email☯ 14:26, 27 August 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 4) I generally work on history articles (especially military history) and I need access to a full range of historical journals for my research and articles.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 19:22, 30 August 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 5) I do a lot of article creation / broad edits across a wide range of topics - some are hard to research without journal access! I plan on citing all the things. Some links: 08:51, 1 September 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 6) In 2013 I was one of the top 300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. This is my: edit count; my interests are medical topics and other. Thanks!--OppidumNissenae (talk) 05:57, 2 September 2014 (UTC)✅
 * I have little in the way of a content-creation résumé, nor any particular specialty, but am increasingly finding lack of access to full papers an impediment to reference-, fact-, or copyvio-checking and other miscellaneous bits of research. JSTOR is one of the sites at which my trails end most often, with just an abstract or sample page. So if there’s a subscription available I think I could make some good use of it.—Odysseus 1 4 7  9  09:47, 5 September 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 1)  I'm mostly contributing on Korean Wikipedia, but I sometimes contributes here with Korean history and others, and JSTOR would be a good option to use.  &mdash;   Revicomplaint?  00:23, 8 September 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 2)  Hi, I'm active on Bhojpuri Wikipedia and Hindi wikipedia and sysop and self patrolled user on these wikipedias respectively and have more than 1000 edits on both. I love to contribute in the field of Geography, Ecology and Environmental Science and Indian Culture. My contributions can be seen here - on Bhojpuri wikipedia and on Hindi wikipedia. As a sysop I often find it difficult to verify facts and information on a variety of topics being added to bh.wiki and this access to JSTOR will hel me a lot. Also, with access to JSTOR I can improve articales related to Geography and geosciences on both Hindi and Bhojpuri wikipedias.--SatyamMishra (talk) 04:38, 12 September 2014 (UTC)✅
 * , I am active in articles related to Indian history and culture. I want access to some old Journals which are available via JSTOR in my work. I also feel its need for copyvio and reference verification. -- AmritasyaPutra T 07:37, 17 September 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 1) I am an active editor, often in the areas of the arts, architecture, and music. Access to JSTOR would greatly assist me in researching obscure content for new and existing articles in those areas and would help in verifying otherwise inaccessible source material. —Waldhorn (talk) 01:21, 18 September 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 2) Active in biographies of South African (and other) Anglicans and in people from the Eastern Cape and in South African Schools as well as in Naturism/Nudism and in scientists and engineers I have 3300 edits, created 41 new pages, on wikipedia since June 2012.  Jstor access would help me with the work I am doing on Christian naturism.  There are academic articles on this topic and some are available on JStor, but not available to me at present. Wayne Jayes (talk) 19:59, 19 September 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 3) I am active in editing articles pertaining to science, especially biology. I would like to use JSTOR to get better sources, as I find that many obscure things which I edit do not have many good sources available, and I would like to improve the reliability of Wikipedia. Llightex (talk) 23:31, 23 September 2014 (UTC)✅
 * I am editing articles on Buddhism since June 2013 (2900 edits). Access to JSTOR journals would help me to verify content and improve references. JimRenge (talk) 13:54, 27 September 2014 (UTC)✅
 * While I already have access to an enormous amount of resources as an Academic, the institution where I instruct let their subscription to JSTOR expire (cost?). Since I know it to be an extremely useful resource from past utilization, I'd like to be able to use it again. My areas of research and contribution to Wikipedia have been modern Germany and general military history. My contributions to Wikipedia over the last several years is around 3000 edits. Your consideration is most appreciated. --Obenritter (talk) 17:14, 30 September 2014 (UTC)✅
 * I'm active editor since 2006 and sysop since 2007 in it.wikipedia, editing mainly on history of XIX-XX centuries, more general history of sciences and paleontology. The access will be quite useful to improve citations and to search for articles not easily found in common libraries. --Bramfab (talk) 14:35, 1 October 2014 (UTC)✅
 * Active editor, mainly on Commons, Wiki-EN & Wiki-NL. Writing on a variety of subjects. More background info & reliable sources always welcome. Vysotsky (talk) 22:44, 1 October 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 1) Ancheta Wis   (talk  &#124; contribs); continuously active editor since January 2004. Admin on enwiki since 2005. Concentration on science and scientific method. Attempted to access JSTOR via 2-hour time slots at local university. Learned that these timeslots do not suffice for in-depth study or for  citations. Only one daily visit at a library workstation is provided. For example, Margaret Talmadge May (1968)'s translation of Galen's De Usu Partium is inaccessible otherwise, which is impeding my contributions. It is unavailable to Google Books, for example. Thank you, --Ancheta Wis    (talk  &#124; contribs) 03:45, 8 October 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 2) ; Active since January 2012, mainly on Freemasonry articles. Slowly patching holes in coverage, and enhancing important articles. As a project, we are desperately short of reliable references, and I know that JSTOR has material on the Gormogons and Freemasonry's relations with the Church and society which would assist in bringing more articles up to GA standard. Fiddlersmouth (talk) 21:46, 18 October 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 3) I've been relying on the Resource Exchange to get access to JSTOR articles for years, and been lamenting my inability to access it directly ever since leaving grad school.  My current area of interest is molluscan evolution, but am also interested in annelids and helminths and I dabble across the spectrum.  JSTOR access would be true blessing.  I have six years of edit history and more than 6,000 edits under my belt.  KDS 4444  Talk  23:48, 24 October 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 4) I am an active editor, currently working on AfD review, but I have many article revamps and new articles, sometimes in politics, arts, psychology, history, many biographies, some of my contributions are listed here (revamps and new articles), and I lack an affiliation with a university, so JStor access would be helpful to me.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 22:48, 5 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * , I am primarily active on WP:Primates (focusing on lemur and fossil primates), and I would use JSTOR to access journal articles about these primates. My work includes articles like Lemur, Strepsirrhini, Toothcomb, Ring-tailed lemur, Subfossil lemur, Evolution of lemurs, Taxonomy of lemurs, etc.  And yes, I was taking a break, but I'm now back.  I'm working on a few anime articles, but also have plans for many lemur articles.  –  Maky  « talk » 23:04, 5 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 1)  100k editor, I have a large to do list (offline) of materials relating to Indonesia (my user name is Indonesian and in early stages editing was heavily focused on Indonesia) and JSTOR access (or regaining access) would be very encouraging satusuro 23:57, 5 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 2) I'm an eclectic editor, however I've been wanting to add more profound content to and improve articles on classical music (mainly specific works mostly symphonies and chamber music), contemporary philosophers, kurt vonnegut novels and on political legislatures. At this point in the project I feel that enriching the content is more important than creating new articles. I feel pretty limited having only open-access journals to find sources for more detailed information. --Shabidoo | Talk 01:29, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 3)  Active editor since 2005, approx 20,000 edits on en, de and no. Additionally OTRS member for several years, currently on hold. Active patroller. I do al lot of reference adding/checking, so this access would be most useful. Asav | Talk 02:26, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * , I am active editor on English Wikipedia since April 2006 and work on the Middle East and Islam (WP:ISLAM) related articles. I need to access to JSTOR to improve these articles due to the fact that there is not enough online academic resource freely accessible in these field. In addition, I am active on Persian Wikipedia and review good and featured articles there and this access will help us to improve the articles' qualities. Seyyed(t-c) 03:50, 6 November 2014 (UTC) ✅
 * , I contribute to the English Wikipedia by writing articles and editing, enhancing the quality of the articles. I'm active on WikiProject Islam and WikiProject Novels but my major interest is to work on Islamic articles, so I need to work with free available sources which help me complete these articles. Having full access to reliable sources (which is not easy by now) will help with creating and editing articles and hence I need to use scholarly articles most of which are accessible only through JSTOR. Besides, I work on articles related to middle east and try to update and edit them using on-line sources and tools like AWB. Mhhossein (talk) 04:35, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 1) — I edit a lot of fringe subjects and other random stuff, but I prefer to make them as high quality as I can, with extra emphasis on comprehensive coverage. All that requires research and source material of really high grade. I have started using high beam already, JSTOR would awesome. Sending someone a link to a JSTOR article and waiting for a replay that I can use is a long, tedious and often unfruitful method. I guess you can find pretty high grade citation in most of my major editing targtes (i.e. the articles I worked hard on).  Aditya (talk • contribs) 04:46, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * , I contribute to Turkish Wikipedia mostly by translating FA from enwiki. My main domain of interest is animals and specifically birds. I would like to use this access to JSTOR to check on the references on FA articles in order to be able to check the sources to avoid disambiguity during the translation and to search for other sources which doesn't exist as references. Examples to articles that I translated and passed to FA status @trwiki: tr:Ağaç serçesi, tr:And kondoru, tr:Bayağı doğan, tr:Fil, tr:Jaguar, tr:Kılkuyruk, tr:Leylek, tr:Malurus elegans, tr:Öter ardıç kuşu, tr:Sıvacı kuşu, tr:Sığırcık, tr:Pelikan, tr:Denizyıldızı, tr:Koala, etc. Thanks. --Mskyrider (talk) 06:21, 6 November 2014 (UTC) ✅
 * 1)  Registered Wikipedia user since March 2008; over 3000 edits in Romanian Wikipedia; active in content generation; have no access to JSTOR resources via another avenue. --Vitalie Ciubotaru (talk) 03:46, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 2)  I am an active editor in ml.wiki and en.wiki. I was among top 300 medical editors across any wikipedia in 2013. --Drajay1976 (talk) 07:07, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 3) I'm admin and bureaucrat on the North Frisian wikpedia and working on historical topics sometimes. --Murma174 (talk) 07:01, 6 November 2014 (UTC)--Murma174 (talk) 07:01, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 4) I've been an active user since 2011. I have more than 14,000 edits on all the Wikimedia projects. I need this account because I'm active in Did You Know project on fa.wiki (fa:ویکی‌پدیا:آیا می‌دانستید که...؟) and I always need to add references to articles (see my 2014 activity: fa:ویکی‌پدیا:آیا می‌دانستید که...؟/هفته‌های ۲۰۱۴ (میلادی)). I also want to use JSTOR to write good and featured articles on fa.wiki. MRG90 (talk) 07:15, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 5) . Active since 2004 (most in de and data), interessted in Natural Science. In winter I will transcribe Orbis Pictus in German Wikisource and will explore sources of Johann Amos Comenius in JSTOS. Thank you, Conny (talk) 07:28, 6 November 2014 (UTC).✅
 * 6) I have over 7,000 edits to the encyclopedia and should have increased activity then I have in the past. I am active in DYK and would like to break in to the GA field as well. I feel JSTOR would help me find information and references to build those articles. -- Church  Talk  08:05, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 7) Active in several languages for over 10 years with more than 110,000 edits. My previous Wikipedia account on JSTOR has expired. I use it very often in my edits. JoJan (talk) 08:43, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 8) I have been active since 2008 and have been the primary contributor to, inter alia, 16 featured articles. I was a coordinator of Wikiproject Military history during the 2013–14 tranche (did not run for re-election for family reasons). I focus mostly on southern African military and political history. Access to JSTOR would be an invaluable help to me in finding sources for this. —   Cliftonian   (talk)  09:40, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 9)  active on de:wiki with more than 35.000 edits, especially in the fields of art history, film history and history in general. Access would help me in regard of my work on featured articles of which I so far have produced 20 as you can see on my German user page. --Julius1990 (talk) 09:46, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 10) I write and edit a large number of articles on linguistics, culture and religion, particularly Islam- and Buddhism-related topics. Finding citations without JSTOR access is frustrating. Ogress smash!  10:08, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 11) I've been active on Turkish Wikipedia since 2009 and made over 200.000 contributons on the project. Accessing this database will help me to improve articles.--Rapsar (talk) 10:36, 6 November# 2014 (UTC) ✅
 * 12) Editor for over seven years. Edit heavily in Malaysian politics; created over 200 articles within that subject area. Journal articles from JSTOR would be an enormously helpful resource for this purpose. Thanks. --Mkativerata (talk) 10:39, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 13) In 7 years I have made more than 18,000 edits and created a number of articles on diverse subjects (see my user page). I regularly try to improve scientific articles and contribute to the science reference desk. I often find sources I want to use on JSTOR but can't presently access them.  Richerman    (talk) 10:52, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 14) Though I have JSTOR access through my university, it is partial and does not let me access most of the material I would like to see. --Diego Grez (talk) 13:56, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 15) I mainly edit within the purview of WP:JAZZ and WP:ETHIOPIA, but sometimes I'll try and attempt to verify an article in any subject area and a relevant source is in JSTOR. Would appreciate access to the data.  I don't attend a University, and generally can't visit a public library during its operating hours. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 14:53, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 16)  I need it for articles about Crusades, Ottoman Empire and History of Islam. --Мурад 97 (talk) 15:07, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 17) ///: I am a PhD student writing my thesis on prehistoric food intake. Many resources stem from pre-1990 scientific publications many of which only to be found on JSTOR. Access to full content would be highly appreciated as my institute does not have access. I have been writing contributions on Wikipedia in German, Wikipedia in English, Wikipedia in French and on Wikipedia in Spanish since 2007 (My Statistics for reference).✅
 * 18)  I would like access to JSTOR, I tend to write a lot of my articles on historic figures and access to papers would be useful for me.  I have been less active lately but so far have > 17,500 edits since joining in 2007.  I am principally interested in content creation and looking to focus more in that area. WCM email 17:50, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 19) Active article creator for 10+ years in areas of history, technology, and geography. Would use access to find/research or verify scientific literature. Brianhe (talk) 21:07, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 20) I've been an active editor on frWP since 2006. I would like to use this JSTOR access to improve and create articles about Jewish history, I have written quite a few articles in this field some of them have been recognized as featured articles such as my article about the Jews in Libya--Kimdime (talk) 23:54, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 21)  I have edited articles on philosophy, sociology, political science, Christianity, and various films, among other subjects. I have used JSTOR before. Herzen (talk) 02:12, 7 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 22) I have been an admin in Telugu Wikipedia for 9+ years with 25,00+ edits. Usually write history related articles. Trying to improve several existing articles with reliable sources. I used to have access to several journals while I was in grad-school and miss having reliable sources on hand to write Wikipedia articles. Thanks --వైజాసత్య (talk) 03:18, 7 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 23)  Active in German Wikipedia since 2008, more than 20.000 Edits, substantial work in more than 250 articles including 25 featured/good articles, mostly about literature, on which a JSTOR account surely will help.✅
 * 24) Thib Phil I work on the WP-Project in french language, mainly topics in relation with military history. An access would give me the opportunity to use more sources in english Thib Phil (talk) 09:08, 6 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * Moved this user's application from pending/declined to new, as it seems that the user placed it in the wrong category. Please note that this user seems to have used multiple accounts before this one.
 * 1)  I'm an active user mainly in Portuguese Wikipedia since 2005. I'm creating a great number of articles about fauna and flora of Portugal, using this account or my bot (User:LijeBot in pt.wiki). Those articles are stubs so it would be useful an extra source to help add information. Thanks. lijealso (talk) 03:15, 24 September 2014 (UTC)✅
 * Moved this user's application from pending/declined to new, as it had no comment on it. I expect it was placed in the wrong category, and overlooked.
 * 1)  Active in editing and creating articles about the music industry (opera to bluegrass), particularly the years 1885 - 1970, and various historical figures.   78.26  (spin me / revolutions) 14:53, 7 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 2)  I'm an active user mainly in the German Wikipedia and sometimes also in the English Wikipedia. For my use of JSTOR see for instance my edit of Monty hall problem or my edit of T-Test. Until now I use JSTOR only by the limited (3 items) shelf of MyJSTOR and also in public libraries.--Lefschetz (talk) 15:13, 7 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 3)  I'm active on Hebrew Wikipedia (40K+ edits). Mostly writes articles on mathematics. Daniel B (talk) 16:39, 7 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 4) For five years I have created content, mostly but not exclusively, about the Greater Manchester area, settlements, churches, collieries, mills. I would use it in the same way that I use the BNA to create or improve articles. I have more than 30,000 edits of which more than 80% are to content and some are good articles. J3Mrs (talk) 12:48, 8 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 5) I have a high interest in botanical articles. Many academic refs in this field are on JSTOR. Full JSTOR access would really help in this area.  HalfGig   talk  18:00, 8 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 6) I have come across several articles from JSTOR when I contribute to Wikipedia articles related to ancient Greece or byzantine time period. Up until now I was using the free 3 articles on the bookshelf provided when subscribed with the free subscription they provide. Since JSTOR is offering to provide better access to wikipedians, then it will be useful to me. --FocalPoint (talk) 19:10, 8 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 7) - active (admin) on hebrew wikipedia, almost 15K edits and 45+ articles. Jstor account will help me Improve my articles alot. Yoav Nachtailer (talk) 19:31, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
 * 8)  Local history, electronic music and electronics mostly. Sometimes I come across good sources that are unavailable without a JSTOR login.✅
 * 9)  - Doing edits in math and physics articles and researching on my own for pure pleasure. Masters degree's in engineering physics and electrical engineering. Professional career as software engineer. Recent articles: Group structure and the axiom of choice, Closed subgroup theorem, new article draft: Draft:Derivative of the exponential map, mostly my work: Representation theory of the Lorentz group. YohanN7 (talk) 12:48, 9 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 10)  Editing since 2009 and meet the other prerequisites. Lots of content generation, particularly on American history and Middle Eastern affairs. I want to keep expanding existing articles and write more new ones. JSTOR would be immensely helpful for hard to source older events. Juno (talk) 17:07, 9 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 11) I'm author of about 20 GA and 6 FA in Russian wikipedia on different topics, mostly in Byzantine and Roman history, some cultural monuments and so on. Access to new sources allows me to be more prolific. kmorozov (talk) 17:52, 9 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 12) My special interest is the history and theory in music, literature and philosophy and I am working on these topics in the German WP and even more in German Wikisource. JSTOR (I know it from the time when I studied) offers reliable sources to rectify data. --Konrad Stein (talk) 18:43, 9 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 13) ) Mainly I do Quality improvement projects and new article creation in the areas of freedom of speech and censorship. Thank you, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 20:58, 9 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 14) I work revising articles related to China, specifically to ancient Chinese classic texts and scholars, and occasionally dabble in articles relating to the Latter-day Saint movement.  My local public library does not offer JSTOR access, sadly.  Thanks   White Whirlwind  咨   21:37, 9 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 15) I was very active for a year, mostly in copyediting and categorizing. One of the reasons that I wasn't more active in creating or expanding articles was because I do not have access to academic journals as I used to have when I was at my university (I'm no longer in a graduate program). If I could receive access, I'd work on improving articles in sociology, particularly in sociology and technology/internet. This is a rapidly changing area of scholarship and journal articles are the primary means of disseminating the results of recent studies. I have not been active on Wikipedia recently but I've been looking for a way to return and focus more on writing content and access to journals would greatly facilitate this. Thanks.  Liz  Read! Talk! 13:40, 10 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 16)  My main interest is in writing articles on heritage, for which I need access to information on the history and architecture of historical buildings, in particular churches, and for information about architects.  I also write articles on a wider range of subjects as they attract my interest. --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 08:28, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Peter I. Vardy, you need to have email enabled for us to get you the account, you can do this in Preferences. Alternately, you can email ocaasi@gmail.com with the email you wish to use.  The Interior  (Talk) 18:24, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry about the delay. Email now enabled. --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 11:17, 8 November 2014 (UTC)✅
 * 1) Active in WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration, good objective sources are very hard to find. &#8220;WarKosign&#8221; 09:54, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) * WarKosign, you're approved, but you don't have email enabled with your Wikipedia account. Please either enable it using your Preferences tab, or email me directly at earleypat@undefinedhotmail.com with the email you wish to receive your login info from JSTOR. Thanks, The Interior  (Talk) 20:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)