Benjamin Trovato

Boo!Benjamin Trovato (talk) 05:44, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I removed the quote on the share of GDP of SUGHD province of Tajikistan that you provided (i.e that Sughd accounts for 70% of the GDP), because there was no source listed for this and I could not verify the information. Can you provide the source please? Thanks. 5 May 2009 Misha

Conquest of Turkestan

Tajikistan is a Iranian-speaking country and also a large number of Iranian-speaking people live in Uzbekistan. So, I think the term 'Central Asia' is more appropriate as Turkestan literally means 'land of the Turks'. 'Russian conquest of Turkestan' suggests that they conquered the whole of Turkestan, but Russian camapign didn't cover East Turkestan (a large area). I know that 'Central Asia' isn't perfect either. But it's better of the two, according to me. Himel Rahmon (talk)

Nogai Horde

Hi, thanks for expanding the Nogai Horde article. However, there are some problems and I've added the necessary tags. I noticed you added the sentence, "There appears to be no academic book in English on the Nogais, so this article is weakly sourced." Keep in mind that non-English sources are permitted on Wikipedia. If you have sources, and they aren't in English, feel free to add them to the article anyways. It is preferred that you use the <ref> ([1], [2], etc.) system (see an example at Ali Akbar Abdolrashidi). Also, keep in mind that we can't cite other Wikipedias, as Wikipedia itself is not a reliable source. Cheers and happy editing. Khoikhoi 09:05, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Keep in mind that it is unnecessary to say "This article is derived from Khodarkovsky(2000) which appears to be the only readily available source in English" as you already have a References section below. In addition, consider using more in-line citations (i.e. page numbers). I see you've already done that with your "Sunderland, p26" ref, but consider doing it more throughout the article. Also include in-line citations from Khodarkovsky as well. Cheers, Khoikhoi 03:23, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Tuckahoe / Cohee

Many thanks for adding to the Tuckahoe/Cohee article. I haven't visited this article in some time, and I'm happy with its development. Your comparitive sociology segment is just what is needed to continue its development.

Incidently, as a root cause of small holders being successful in mountainous regions, it seems to me to be self-evident that the cost of military imposition of control on areas which are easily defended and favorable to guerilla-style warfare are high, while the marginal advantage of establishing such control is slight. In other words, the effort is not worth the reward of trying to bring such people under tight social control as long as they maintain a stubborn resistance to such control.

Lee Mathers Gwyncann (talk) 23:12, 12 October 2008 (UTC) new email is gwyncann@gmail.com

Siberia

I took a crack at making a map for you, take a look at Image:Siberiariverroutemap.png and let me know what you think. Any needed edits? Kmusser (talk) 20:38, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Map updated, in addition to your suggestions I fleshed out the northwest a bit. 00:41, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Also based just on looking at an atlas, the names of the rivers that you're missing are probably the Turuchan River (between the Taz and Yenisei at Turukhansk) and the Kuta River (between Illim and Lena at Ost-Kut) - it would be nice to have confirmation from another source though. Also to keep your eyes out when looking at other sources, the description from the Chusovaya to the Tavda seems a little weird, to do that portage you'd be crossing two other major rivers that also link to the Tobol, the Tura which is a direct tributary to the Tobol and the Sosva that is a tributary to the Tavda and closer to the Chusovaya than Lozva is. To your earlier question, there is no index to the commons, the closest thing is the categorization scheme, but that only works if someone bothered to categorize whatever you are looking for - best bet is still just using search. Kmusser (talk) 14:37, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Updated the map - take a look and see if it looks correct, I have the Amur route stopping at Nerchinsk, which I added in, and added the short spur to Kyatkha. I thought about adding Chita as well but the map is already pretty crowded in that area. I also corrected the river route there - I had been showing the Onon River but it should have been the Ingoda River which goes through Chita. Kmusser (talk) 21:43, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Updated the map, sorry it took so long, I had forgotten about it, take a peek and make sure it looks correct. Kmusser (talk) 18:35, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Global wind patterns / Winds in the Age of Sail

While the attempt was valiant, please don't "fix" moves/renames by means of cut-and-paste or reverts. They do little more than obscure the page history and make unreadable articles. To correct a "broken" cut and paste, it takes an administrator (such as myself) following extra steps to fix. See Wikipedia:How to fix cut-and-paste moves for more information.|

If you'd like to move or rename a page, there is a "move" tab at the top of your screen which you may use instead. Using this function brings the page history along with the text, which is a requirement of the GFDL license that Wikipedia uses for its text.

The title is still not perfect, of course, but it may be a good idea to start a discussion on the article talkpage to get more ideas on page names. There may be better titles that we simply haven't thought of yet.

Let me know if you have any questions. Kylu (talk) 02:43, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Dzoosotoyn Elisen Desert (continued on my Talk Page @ Teledildonix314)

Hi Hi, thank you for inquiring about the Dzoosotoyn Elisen Desert article. If you would like to converse on my Talk Page, feel free to add it to your Watch List, and i will keep answering any questions there. Here are some links i hope will help.

Conversation thread here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Teledildonix314#Dzoostoyn_Elisen_Dessert

Help pages associated with this area here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_mergers

The two topics, which may or may not be Mergeable (i don't know the technical details, and i don't know any Chinese desert geography): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurbantunggut_Desert http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzoosotoyn_Elisen_Desert

Replies here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Teledildonix314&action=edit&section=12

Thank you kindly, reply if you need more help suggestions, i'm sort of a newbie also. Teledildonix314 ^Talk ~ _{contributions} 16:27, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Dobryi

Hi, I moved your sentence about the Russian location to a new article, Dobryi, which you might like to develop further. (It doesn't seem to have any connection with Dobry, Poland.)--Kotniski (talk) 08:20, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

I was going to ask about this one, too. "Dobry" is a very generic and a very common name, and I am having trouble finding anything on this garrison. Could you, please, expand the stub, at least so it's clear what it's about? Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 13:53, April 23, 2009 (UTC)

Dezhnyov

Great; major improvement on the old article. I'm looking forward to seeing Fedot Dankarl (talk) 02:49, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Sorry no help on Altasov.Dankarl (talk) 13:00, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

I added some references and a little text to Anadyrsk; see what you think. Where does 1652 founding date come from?Dankarl (talk) 02:49, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

So we have Atlasov to thank for the Fedotov story, and Stadukhin was appointed an Ataman. I had always thought the term Cossack was used pretty loosely in the context of Siberian colonization; use of the title Ataman is interesting.Dankarl (talk) 17:14, 30 September 2009 (UTC) Is Ivanov building the stockade from Fisher?Dankarl (talk) 23:25, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

You might be interested to know that the Petit Fute Chukotka is available on Google books [1]; there does not seem to be much, if any, restriction (though sometimes the number of views is limited on Google Books). Dankarl (talk) 03:19, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Have you seen anything on Kurbat Ibanov exploration of Gulf of Anadyr, Kresta Bay, Provideniya Bay circa 1660? Dankarl (talk) 03:41, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks Dankarl (talk) 13:57, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

There is a spit (Napkum in 1 source) within Provideniya Bay, and some beaches on either side of Cape Chukotsky. A spit at the cape itself seems unlikely since the water gets deep there fast. Any indication broadly are they using the term Cape Chukotsky? Dankarl (talk) 14:54, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Petit Fute says that the suggestion to rename East Cape as Cape Dezhnev came from A.E. Nordenskiold. I can't find confirmation of this information, but a Google search seems to suggest Fisher might mention it. Do you recall any such mention, or know another source? If you have it at hand, does it say when and where Nordenskiold made the suggestion?Dankarl (talk) 19:39, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the thorough answer.Dankarl (talk) 00:54, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Siberian Cossack

Please see my response at my talk page. Vmenkov (talk) 03:12, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

I replied on my talk page to your 2nd comment as well. And, by the way, thanks for your contributions to the articles on Siberian history! Vmenkov (talk) 08:05, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Ivanov

Thanks for the heads-up. What I don't get is that Ivanof was a mapmaker, he supposedly visited Provideniya Bay, but the bay did not wind up on Russian maps.Dankarl (talk) 04:51, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

distance units

I ran across (actually back across) a passage you might be interested in:

"The next day I discovered one of the reasons why reports of distances given us by different natives vary so much. Some of them calculate distance by 'sabachi,' the long or dog verst, and some by 'kony,' the short, or horse verst." Olaf Swenson, Northwest of the World Dodd Mead, NY, 1944 p 229. The conversation reported took place in a Yakut house in the Kolyma district in 1928, or possibly on the trail in the same region. Note Swenson spells phonetically.Dankarl (talk) 19:26, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

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Warring States Map

Hi Benjamin, thanks for adding the Dutch map - it's a good interim solution. I'm currently creating a series of eight maps - one for each of the states with its territory highlighted then a generic one for things like the Warring States article. The problem I have is that I am stuck behind the GFC and can't upload anything to commons. Any chance you could help me out when the maps are complete? Best Philg88 (talk) 05:53, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Fisher's work on Dezhnev

Hi. I noticed for Stadukhin's page you cited Fisher's work. What does his work say about Stadukhin's expedition along the northern coast of the Sea of Okhotsk from 1651-57? Does it go into detail, or just mention it in passing? I would like to know whether it would be worth getting a copy, so I could perhaps cite it for an article I'm editing on wiki. Jonas Poole (talk) 04:30, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Bely Yar

Hi, Benjamin! I was wondering if you could give me some context for this entry (a town or fort)? I'm trying to determine whether it corresponds to any modern places called "Bely Yar". Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); December 1, 2010; 18:34 (UTC)

Thank you very much, Benjamin! While I still have no idea how to best take care of the entry on the Bely Yar page, this information is very helpful for research. Much appreciated.—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); December 2, 2010; 02:57 (UTC) 02:57, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

Well, I was going to whine about how my to-read list is too long already to add yet another book to it, but when I saw the title and the cover, I knew it's a must-read :) Thanks for the pointer!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); December 6, 2010; 14:46 (UTC)

Chanyu List

Dear Benjamin Trovato, I will respond on my page where you posted your note [2]. Barefact (talk) 06:50, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

I have completed the draft for the tree as far as I could go, but before I move it to post, I would appreciate if you could review it [3]. I did not find any references for the following four characters, so I do not know how they fit in the picture. If you can help me, I would be grateful.

劉務恒 Liú Wùhéng  ??? 341-356

劉閼陋頭 Liú èlòutóu  ??? 356-358

劉悉勿祈 Liú Xīwùqí  ??? 358-359

劉衛辰 Liú Wèichén Posthumously named "Emperor Huan" 359-391

Barfield appear to follow Wade–Giles, without parcing into names and titles. Bichurin is citing comments from the annals that after Huhanye, Shanuys added Jodi to their name, Shanuy => Jodi Shanuy; Jodi in Hunnic means "respectful to parents" (in Chinese interpretation, which might be somewhat inaccurate), and it corresponds to the Chinese Hou "respectful to parents" that was added to the Chinese emperor's title; we see it in Yap's Shanuys Fuzhleirou(di) and Cheyaruodi as pin. ruodi and in Barfield's Wade–Giles in Hsi-lo-shih-chu-t'i as chu-t'i; these are not parts of the name, but of the title Jodi-Shanuy. The pin. ruodi is Wade–Giles juodi, which matches Bichurin's Jodi.

In some cases Chinese appended to the Shanuys's title their term for "posessor", "head of posession" hou, making it a composite Shanuy-hou; the choice to do it was up to the compiler, so there is no consistency, a few have it, most have not. Since the titles are not included in Touman, Maodun, Laoshang names, inclusion of the titles as names for other entries is inconsistent, confusing, and simply misleading. I think that where it can be done, the titles should be stripped and given separately. Ditto for the Chinese-assigned "family names", the use of family names in Hunnic context is a special topic. Ditto for the Chinese-style temple names, these are fictitious names peculiar to the Chinese anscestor cult.

Would it be too much to ask you to send me a good resolution PDF of the Barfield's table showing the family relations between the various Chanyus? [4] I will run it against Bichurin's translation and flag out any discrepancies, in addition to educating me, that might save some subsequent questions.

My best wishes to you for the New Year. Barefact (talk) 08:39, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

No, the wiki-email did not come through (unless I deleted it from the Spam folder without looking at the contents). I hope you sent yourself a copy and can re-send it. When that happens, it is terribly distressing, I am very appreciative of the efforts it takes to compose. Regards Barefact (talk) 01:21, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

[5] (((from BillMasen)))

Sino-Russian relations

If I span off the early part of History of Sino-Russian relations into its own article, would that be ok by you? And reduced the early history to a summary? You clearly know more about the subject that I can claim to. BillMasen (talk) 14:52, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Answer

• See User_talk:Yug#Thank_You (in 5 mins, I have to expand my answer) Yug (talk) 15:47, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

New Map

Hi, long time no see, hope all is well. There are a couple issues with this new map that you've added to Cai (state) amongst othera:

• 1) There is a typo in the title "Automn"
• 2) 5 BC is not Spring and Autumn - it is Han Dynasty and these states no longer existed.
• 3) Hangzhou is spelt wrong, if it even existed
• 4) Inconsistent capitalization

And that's just after a quick look. I haven't reverted your edits out of courtesy but please get this sorted out. Thanks and all the best. ► Philg88 ◄ ^talk 07:01, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Citation of reliable sources

Hello Benjamin. Congratulations on your new article Exploration of the Pacific. It is a very high quality article. I noticed that you nominated the two references you used. So far you have not identified in detail the source of any of the information in the article. Wikipedia requires that any information that is challenged, or likely to be challenged, must be independently verifiable by the use of in-line citations leading to the document, page number etc from which the information was taken. See WP:VERIFY.

Please have a look at WP:RS which provides a lot of information about the need for reliable sources being identified for all material published in Wikipedia. Please also return to your new article and add in-line citations to allow independent verification of your material. Keep up the good work! Dolphin (t) 03:56, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for adding an in-line citation pointing to the book by Derek Hayes as the source of information in a sentence. I have added a new banner saying "This article has insufficient in-line citations."

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It's not that the winds in the tropics are "strange" between Mexico and the Philippines

Trade wind easterlies are constant in the tropics of both hemispheres, north and south, within 20 degrees of the equator, on the poleward side of the subtropical ridge. The problem is, people who initially sailed from the Philippines to Mexico in the 16th century would be sailing headlong into the easterlies (which blow FROM Mexico to the Philippines). It wasn't until they discovered the warm water currents like the Kuroshio and Gulf Stream that sailors found a quick way from west to east across the ocean. The problem is, the warm water currents that flow from west to east lie north of the 35th parallel, which is well north of Mexico and the Philippines, so it took them a while to figure it out. Eventually, they discovered the winds drove the currents, but that took another 2-3 centuries. Thegreatdr (talk) 22:11, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Fisher references in Dezhnyov article

I don't know whether you have noticed recent additions to Semyon Dezhnyov; there is now material drawn from several sources other than Fisher, with inline citations. I wonder whether I could persuade you to return long enough to add inline citations for the parts sourced from Ficher? Dankarl (talk) 16:41, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

If you have Fisher or can get ready access again, I'd suggest 1 note per paragraph, with pagination. You'd only need to go by sentence in a couple places. Dankarl (talk) 20:08, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Russian Social Terms for deletion

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Kenai settlement

This is probably the site at a location called called Kasilof, I have seen it variously attributed to Eskimo (presumably Aleutiq), Indians, and Russians, but the Russians I have seen mentioned are the group led by Kolomin of the Lebedef-Lastochkin Company and it's not clear whether the writer meant the Russians lived in these houses or that natives who moved there for trade did (looks like the author of the WP article read the same thing I did). I think I remember seeing some speculative mention of a Deshnev angle years ago but I can't turn it up now. Likewise I remember something about some unexplained Russian artifacts maybe from the same place or maybe nearer Anchorage. The site always seems to be presented as being a little mysterious; I have the impression the archaeologists are a little nonplussed at not being able to immediately classify it. A stretch. Very little available. Dankarl (talk) 03:02, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

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Pine Island Fort

Hi! While doing the probable correction to this article, the inline citation to DoCB was also removed. It was intended to confirm Mackay at Pine Island Fort which it does. I presume it was removed in error. Will you put it back? Thanks! Stormbay (talk) 03:41, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

A couple questions...

Hi Benjamin Trovato, I have a couple questions regarding your recent edits to Alberta-related articles.

1. At North Saskatchewan River, you added a book as a reference yet no content was added that may have been derived from the reference. So why was the reference added? If the intent was for further reading, then I will move it from the "References" section to a new "Further reading" section. If the intent was to support existing content within the article, it should be listed as a reference through an inline citation rather than how it is listed now.
2. At Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, you added a lot of new content with no inline citations, although the book "Let Them be Remembered:The Story of the Fur Trade Forts" was added to the "References" section. It is unclear what content the book supports. Does it support the entire new "Fur trade details" section or only portions of this new section? Regardless, this book should also be listed as a reference through inline citation rather than how it is listed now. Otherwise, the entire new section you authored will appear to be unreferenced and may be challenged.

Please clarify on both. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 03:03, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

1. . I took your suggestion about North Saskatchewan River. I don't think the distinction between references and further reading is clearly maintained.

1. . On Rocky Mountain House, how should this be handled?. The problem is when a section is the summary of a book. I had the same problem with Pamir Mountains#Exploration. Apparently you can't put a footnote in a section title. The device used in Pamir Mountains is not used anywhere else in wikipedia that I have seen. I have never seen a "===references===" subsection, although it is logically possible. A footnote normally implies that it is about the word or sentence footnoted, not the whole section. You could say in a footnote "this entire section is from..." but not many people would notice. A footnote before the first word might work, but this is also odd. I don't know a standard way to do it. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 03:59, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for confirming on the former. For the latter, WP:Inline citations states "Inline citations are often at the end of a sentence or paragraph", while WP:Inline citations#Ref tags explains how to use multiple citations for the same source. As the whole section is a summary of the same book, what I'll do is place the main ref tag at the end of the first paragraph, and then repeat the citation at the end of each subsequent paragraph. Hwy43 (talk) 04:18, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

I see you made the change. Thank you. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 04:37, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

No problem. I suggest that doing the same at Paint Creek House should address the {{No footnotes}} tag there. Hwy43 (talk) 05:38, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Citation of reliable sources 2

Hi Benjamin. In August 2011 I left a message on your Talk page about your new article Exploration of the Pacific. I drew your attention to Wikipedia’s policy that the information in articles should be attributed to a reliable published source. See my diff1 and diff2. You added one in-line citation. Since then, no additional in-line citations have been added so the article remains incomplete and incompatible with Wikipedia’s policy. For this reason, the article has the “Refimprove” banner.

Since August 2011 you have done a commendable job of creating many more new articles. With some of these articles you have added a suitable number of in-line citations to identify reliable published sources for your information. Those articles are:

Verendrye Brothers' journey to the Rocky Mountains – 8 citations. Well done!

Hungry Hall – 3 citations. Well done!

Louis Primeau – 3 citations. Well done!

List of Rocky Mountain passes on the continental divide - 4 citations. Well done!

Brandon House – 7 citations. Well done!

Assiniboine River fur trade - 8 citations. Well done!

Asleep by the frozen sea – 8 citations. Well done!

Unfortunately, with many of your other articles you have supplied either no in-line citations, or an inadequate number. Other Users have observed the inadequate use of in-line citations and have added banners to eight of your articles, as follows:

Pine Island Fort – 1 citation. “Nofootnotes” banner added by User:Deor 2012/06/01

Pedlar (fur trade) – No citations. “Sources” banner added by User:Stormbay 2012/06/13

Paint Creek House – No citations. “Nofootnotes” banner added by User:117Avenue :2012/05/31

Jan Prosper Witkiewicz – 2 citations. “Refimprove” banner added by User:AllyD 2012/10/27

Early knowledge of the Pacific Northwest – 1 citation. “Refimprove” banner added by :User:Altered Walter 2012/12/28

Fort Montagne à la Bosse – 2 citations. Brief article. “Orphan” banner added by :User:Indefatigable 2012/09/10

I have added the “Refimprove” banner to six of your articles because they are incomplete due to insufficient use of in-line citations, and therefore incompatible with Wikipedia’s policy:

Okhotsk Coast – 2 citations. Added “Refimprove” banner

Gizhiga – 1 citation. Added “Refimprove” banner

Henley House – 1 citation. Added “Refimprove” banner

Fort Lac la Pluie – 1 citation. Added “Refimprove” banner

Fort Sturgeon – 1 citation. Added “Refimprove” banner

Fort des Épinettes – 2 citations. Added “Refimprove” banner

Rock Depot has only 1 citation but it is a very brief article only, so I haven’t added any banner.

I have added the “No footnotes” banner to six of your articles that contain a reference or two but no in-line citations:

Yudoma River – No citations. Added “Nofootnotes” banner

Asp House – No citations. Added “Nofootnotes” banner

Lac Île-à-la-Crosse – No citations. Added “Nofootnotes” banner

South Branch House – No citations. Added “Nofootnotes” banner

Fort de la Rivière Tremblante – No citations. Added “Nofootnotes” banner

William Pullen – No citations. Added “Nofootnotes” banner

Your article Athabasca Country contains no references or citations of any kind. (This suggests you don't comprehend Wikipedia's policy regarding verifiability.) I added the “Nosources” banner.

Please don’t imagine that when you create a new article a group of Wikipedia volunteers will come along and add all the necessary in-line citations. Wikipedia doesn’t work that way. The User who adds a piece of information has primary responsibility to add sufficient in-line citations to identify reliable published sources from which that information can be independently verified. Please read WP:RS and WP:VERIFY – they clarify and confirm Wikipedia’s policy regarding the vital importance of having all published information able to be independently attributed to reliable published sources. Information that is not attributed to a source can be removed!

You have become a prolific creator of new articles and I congratulate you for that. However, before creating any new articles please return to the articles listed above, starting with Athabasca Country, and begin the process of adding sufficient in-line citations to allow the information in your articles to be independently verified as coming from a reliable published source. Happy editing! Dolphin (t) 06:32, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Dolphin, not that the goals that you describe aren't good ideas, but actually you have interpreted/applied wp:ver incorrectly here. In the area in question, it basically requires all material to be sourcable and "challenged or likely to be challenged" material to be sourced. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 11:17, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi North8000. You haven't explained why you believe my interpretation is incorrect, and you have made no attempt to quote any guidelines or policy to support your belief. I can point to WP:VERIFY which contains the following:

This page in a nutshell: Other people have to be able to check that you didn't just make things up. This means that all quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation.

Using that quotation as a starting point, you might explain why my interpretation is incorrect. Regards. Dolphin (t) 11:25, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Actually, my previous post did 3/4 explain it and such is further reinforced by the part of the policy that you just quoted. The missing "1/4" from my original post is that you are implying that adding unsourced material is categorically against policy, and that is not correct. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 13:51, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

It appears we are both in agreement that Any material that is likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation.

I'm not implying that adding unsourced material is categorically against policy. Wikipedia clarifies that point very well at WP:BLUE. Dolphin (t) 23:46, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

That's an excellent essay. It reinforces my point. Your critique of Benjamin Trovato in essence was based on an (incorrect) assertion that adding unsourced material is categorically against policy. I don't want to beat this to death because your goal is good. North8000 (talk) 13:58, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Reply: In general, footnotes are only needed by a person who is checking the accuracy of an article. He should have the books listed in *==references==* and should be able to find everything in the index. I would use footnotes in the following cases: 1) There are many sources, or information is hard to find from the index: Russo-Crimean Wars#Incomplete list of Tartar Raids is an extreme case, 2) Minor source different from the main source: Asleep by the frozen sea, 3) Sources contradict: Louis Primeau, 4) source might be wrong:Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye. Otherwise footnotes are just clutter (Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye has 6 footnotes, 4 of which point to the main source which is only one page long). As for the objectionable articles almost all are summaries of a single source and need no footnotes (Okhotsk Coast, Fort Lac la Pluie). Exceptions are Athabasca Country - this is a stub that I will expand when I get back to the area. Everything in it is common knowledge to people who know about the fur trade. ; Exploration of the Pacific - in this case I noticed that we did not have an article on this fundamental subject, so I wrote a summary of all the relevant Wikipedia articles. Sources for each statement are in the linked articles. If I am missing something, let me know.Benjamin Trovato (talk) 02:59, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi Benjamin. Thanks for your prompt and considered reply. You ended by saying If I am missing something, let me know. I think you are missing something important and I will try to explain. You appear to believe writing an article for Wikipedia is like writing a blog for Facebook. On Facebook, people are allowed to write whatever they like, and present it in whatever format they like. Wikipedia is nothing like that. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that is being produced by an on-line community of people. The Wikipedia community has determined what the encyclopedia should ultimately look like, and has written a number of policies and guidance documents to achieve uniformity across the encyclopedia and to achieve a high level of credibility. One of the most important policies applicable to the entire encyclopedia is the policy of verifiability. You can read about it at WP:Verifiability. In your reply to me you did not mention any of Wikipedia’s policies or guidelines. Instead you told me about some of your personal views regarding Wikipedia. For example, your reply includes:

• In general, footnotes are only needed by a person who is checking the accuracy of an article. This is only your personal view. It is not compatible with Wikipedia’s policy regarding footnotes or verifiability.
• He should have the books listed in *==references==* and should be able to find everything in the index. This is only your personal view. It is not compatible with Wikipedia’s policy regarding references or verifiability. The Wikipedia community has determined that the encyclopedia will have a high degree of credibility for readers. This will be achieved by ensuring that all information of substance can be independently verified by a regime of in-line citations. There is nothing written anywhere in Wikipedia’s policy and guidelines to support your notion that readers should have the books listed in “References” and readers should find everything themselves. The quality of Wikipedia will be achieved by its regime of in-line citations to allow independent verification. When a User creates a new article or adds some new information it is primarily the responsibility of that User to supply sufficient in-line citations to allow independent verification that the material comes from a reliable published source. It is not the responsibility of the reader to perform his own check on verifiability.
• Otherwise footnotes are just clutter. This is only your personal view. It is not compatible with Wikipedia’s policy regarding footnotes or verifiability. Wikipedia regards footnotes as an important part of achieving its objectives as a quality, credible encyclopedia. If you look at any of Wikipedia’s Feature articles you will see they all employ a large number of in-line citations. (Today’s Featured article is Terang Boelan – it has 38 in-line citations. Three days ago the Featured article was The Notorious B.I.G. – it has 111 in-line citations. There is no support among Wikipedia’s Featured articles for your personal view that in-line citations are just clutter!)
• As for the objectionable articles almost all are summaries of a single source and need no footnotes. This is only your personal view. There is nothing written anywhere on Wikipedia to support your idea that some articles need no footnotes. If a topic is so insubstantial that its content is unlikely to be challenged, it is a topic that lacks notability so it does not deserve its own article on Wikipedia. See WP:NOTABILITY.
• Everything in it is common knowledge to people who know about the fur trade. Wikipedia’s article titled Athabasca Country (which you started and gave to Wikipedia as a gift) is not intended solely for people who know about the fur trade. Like all articles on Wikipedia, it is intended for anyone and everyone who wishes to look at it, regardless of whether they know anything about the topic.
• Sources for each statement are in the linked articles. It is only your personal view that readers can go looking in linked articles to find information about the source documents. It is not compatible with Wikipedia’s policy regarding references or verifiability.

Wikipedia’s policy on verifiability is very simple and very clear. WP:Verifiability begins with the following summary in a box at the top of the page:

This page in a nutshell: Other people have to be able to check that you didn't just make things up. This means that all quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation.

The Wikipedia community is entitled to determine policies regarding the accuracy and credibility of the final encyclopedia, and to determine standards to ensure a uniform appearance. Those policies and standards are now readily available to all Users in policy documents such as WP:Verifiability. When we contribute to Wikipedia there is an expectation that we will respect the policies and standards determined by the community. There is nothing written anywhere on Wikipedia that invites individual Users to invent their own style of writing, compose their own policies or apply their own personal views in contravention of the view of the Wikipedia community.

You are clearly a competent and prolific writer. We want you to produce articles that are of high quality and do not require a lot of repair work by others. Unfortunately, your personal views regarding in-line citations means your articles fall substantially short of Wikipedia’s quality standards because it is not immediately possible for your information to be independently verified as coming from a reliable published source. (See WP:RS) For many of your articles to reach an acceptable standard of quality in the area of verifiability it is necessary for other Users to add banners regarding finding and adding in-line citations, and ultimately for a large number of others to find suitable sources and add them as in-line citations. Why should you expect others to do this work for you? You are capable of doing it yourself.

The Wikipedia community’s policy regarding verifiability is not burdensome. It is entirely legitimate. Please respect that policy and apply it in your work on Wikipedia. Your personal views about footnotes and verifiability are not relevant here. Best wishes! Dolphin (t) 06:18, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Well, I guess I disagree with Dolphin on their interpretation of policy and with Benjamin on their interpretation of common practice in Wikipedia. In this case, more footnotes would have been good and common practice in Wikipedia, but not required by policy. North8000 (talk) 11:19, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Reply: A statement without a footnote implicitly says "The author thinks that this information can be easily found in the listed sources or is a matter of common knowledge." A footnote only adds to verifiability if the information is hard to find in the source. If you read the sources for my articles and can find anything that does not seem to be in the source, or is contradicted by another source, please add a {*{citation needed}} and I will be happy to add a footnote or make the correction. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 23:27, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

IMHO You do an immense amount of excellent work in important enclyclopedic areas that are not well covered, and your work is within policy. Everything else (where I see things a bit differently than you) is small potatoes. Happy to discuss the small potatoes if you wish.  :-) North8000 (talk) 13:13, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

@Benjamin: Many editors have reviewed your articles and placed a banner at the top of articles, saying "its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations." For example:

Pine Island Fort – 1 citation. “Nofootnotes” banner added by User:Deor 2012/06/01

Pedlar (fur trade) – No citations. “Sources” banner added by User:Stormbay 2012/06/13

Paint Creek House – No citations. “Nofootnotes” banner added by User:117Avenue :2012/05/31

Jan Prosper Witkiewicz – 2 citations. “Refimprove” banner added by User:AllyD 2012/10/27

Early knowledge of the Pacific Northwest – 1 citation. “Refimprove” banner added by :User:Altered Walter 2012/12/28

Fort Montagne à la Bosse – 2 citations. Brief article. “Orphan” banner added by :User:Indefatigable 2012/09/10

This is the official Wikipedia way of saying the whole article does not meet quality standards because more citations are needed. So rather than these editors placing a "citation needed" tag on one or two statements, they have flagged the fact that the entire article is in need of proper attribution to reliable published sources.

Wikipedia's policy on verifiability is available at WP:VERIFY. If you think this policy is inappropriate or in error, please discuss your desired changes at Wikipedia talk:Verifiability. Don't simply dismiss Wikipedia's legitimate requests and replace them with your personal views. Please respect Wikipedia's requests and don't make work for others unnecessarily. Thank you. Dolphin (t) 22:42, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Reply: The people who posted these banners made no changes to the articles, did not mark as citation-needed any statement they could not find in the sources and left nothing on the talk page. I see no evidence that they looked at the references and were unable to verify any statement from the listed references. To justify a footnote or correction we need a specific case of something in the article that cannot be easily found in the references.Benjamin Trovato (talk) 05:33, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Benjamin, clearly you are a very intelligent and competent writer. I am puzzled as to why you continuously pretend you haven't read WP:Verifiability, or that you have invented a quality regime that is superior to the one developed by the Wikipedia community.

I have added "Citation needed" to some of the statements in the following articles, where they are most in need of in-line citations to establish the reliability of the content:

Yudoma River

Asp House

Lac Île-à-la-Crosse

South Branch House

Fort de la Rivière Tremblante

William Pullen

Dolphin (t) 10:58, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Here's the short version. Dolphin, you have been mis-representing policy. There's nothing in policy that says that what Benjamin is doing is wrong. Benjamin, you are misunderstanding the norms and norms for good editing practice of Wikipedia. The norm is to cite a large amount of the material that you write, much more than you have been. Besides being normal and good practice, it can lead to many problems (e.g. tagging and deletion of material once challenged, and even disappearance of the article if wp:notability of the topic is unclear and not established in sourcing) if you don't do that. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 11:28, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

@North8000. At no time have I stated that Benjamin is doing anything wrong. If you believe I have stated Benjamin is doing something wrong please post the diff so that Benjamin and I can see what you are talking about. I repeat - at no time have I stated that Benjamin is doing anything wrong. Dolphin (t) 22:52, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

You have implied that his edits and arguments are in conflict with wp:ver. I can get into supporting detail on that but I don't see the point of doing so, and the general direction that you are advocating is good. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 23:02, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

@North8000: Firstly you claimed that I have stated Benjamin is doing something wrong. (That would be Ad hominem; something I scrupulously avoid.) I asked you to post a diff. You didn't post a diff but you radically changed your claim to I have implied ... Also, you radically change the focus of your claim from what Benjamin is doing is wrong to his edits and arguments ...

I have never made any statement about Benjamin. I have pointed out, correctly, that his articles are of low quality because they do not contain sufficient in-line citations to allow independent verification that the information comes from reliable published sources. Where Benjamin has offered an explanation or argument that is inconsistent with WP:Verifiability I have pointed out, correctly, that his explanation or argument is merely his personal view and is not an acceptable alternative to WP:Verifiability. You actually agree with everything I have written because you have written:

Benjamin, you are misunderstanding the norms for good editing practice of Wikipedia. The norm is to cite a large amount of the material that you write, much more than you have been.'

Dolphin (t) 23:18, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

I could beat this to death and dissect your arguments (starting with your complete misfire on what Ad hominem means) but I have no desire to and feel no need to fight or win such battles) Your goal is good. Sincerely, 23:33, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Seeing we are in agreement on everything that is relevant to Benjamin's Talk page, let's agree to collaborate in showing Benjamin how to get his articles up to Good article status? I suggest we both focus on Benjamin's articles rather than on each other. All you have to do is to cease your theme about how I am incorrect in my interpretation of WP:Verifiability, and about how I am implying something that I should not be implying.

If you want to dissect my arguments, or beat something to death, I would welcome that but my Talk page is the place. Dolphin (t) 23:59, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

On your first paragraph, cool. On you second one, no need. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 01:28, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

• In Okhotsk Coast, I inserted a couple of inline citations and reverted other templates since this activity is unconstructive. Please if you have doubts that the statements in the article are accurate discuss them at the talk page and make an effort finding sources first. I left the top tamplate which outlines the problem. Having said that, I do think that it would be beneficial to insert the page numbers from the book which is the main source of the article all over the page as inline citations, to help the reader to check these statements or find more details if necessary.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:21, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

@Ymblanter: What is your authority for saying that inserting "Citation needed" templates is unconstructive? Or is it just your personal view? Dolphin (t) 11:44, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

This is my personal view, based on the policies.--Ymblanter (talk) 11:46, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

"Based on the policies?" Are you willing to let us know which policies? Dolphin (t) 11:55, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

I am afraid we are talking about Wikipedia:Disruptive editing. You wanted to make a point: that the article does not sufficiently comply with WP:V. Fine, you added a big nice template on top. Nobody complained. Then you apparently got frustrated with the fact that only two or three inline citations were added, and decided to randomly insert {{cn}} templates around the article. These templates make the article look extremely ugly, and did not add anything to it which was not there before. I assume if you were interested in getting online citations confirming statements which you really found doubtful, you had to look for citations yourself as WP:EP suggests. I have not seen any traces that you have done this. You knew that there was opposition t such behavior, as we witness in this discussion. Hence, it looks more like you wanted to illustrate the point, which WP:POINTY considers as unconstructive. On the other hand, I consider you proposal in this discussion to start working on these articles definitely constructive. Please do. I could help, depending on my availability. This is why we have Wikipedia as a collaborative project. But to start working on them you do not need {{cn}} in every second sentence.--Ymblanter (talk) 12:14, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Replied on Ymblanter's Talk page. Dolphin (t) 12:42, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Dolphin, I just saw your too-obvious-to-be-accidental mis-statement of my conversation at Ymblanter's talk page. Together with other things in the conversation above, this is starting to look like you want to conduct arguments more than you want to get cites added. North8000 (talk) 13:04, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Reply: As for WP:Verifiability I see nothing that requires inline citations when they are not needed. Oddly, it talks of inline citations rather than references and says nothing about the case in which something can be found by looking in the index of the reference. As for being called wrong, I have no objection to that. If two people disagree each thinks the other is wrong and until the matter is discussed each has a fifty-fifty chance of being right. As for persuading or educating me on Ymblanter's talk page, when two people disagree they are trying to help each other by correcting each others mistakes. If you seek to educate and not be educated you are missing half of the problem. Oddly, this is a religious issue. It is the old puritan-cavalier debate that was first recognized by Pericles in the Funeral Oration. Briefly, the puritan thinks that ethics is a matter of obeying rules and following orders while the cavalier thinks that one should know the problem and use good judgment. Dolphin appears to be a puritan who thinks that There Must Be Footnotes regardless of particular cases. I am taking the cavalier view that footnotes should be added only when they are necessary. We seem to be still at the original question: why should a footnote be added if the information can be easily found by looking in the reference? As for the multiple citation-neededs I checked Asp House and found everything in the reference with one minor exception. See the talk page of that article. I will probably check some of the others, but I have better things to do than check articles when there is no positive evidence that they need checking.Benjamin Trovato (talk) 06:03, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

@Benjamin. Thanks for giving us your views. We are all in agreement that Footnotes only need to be added when they are necessary. Where we differ is over the issue of what is necessary and what is not.

Here is an illustration of why in-line citations are extremely valuable in demonstrating that Wikipedia's information can be attributed to reliable published sources. Imagine you write an article and you identify one reference book. Someone else comes along and adds a couple of extra reference books. If I want to check the verifiability of one of the statements you inserted, which reference book do I turn to? Obviously I should turn to the one reference book you identified, but I don't know that. I see three or more books identified in the list of references and unless I do a substantial amount of research into the history of the article I am unable to see who wrote the statement that I want to verify, and what books that person inserted in the Reference list.

Here is another one. I want to verfiy the validity of a statement you added to an article. One by one I look at the books you inserted in the Reference list; I go to the Index but I find multiple page numbers associated with the topic. I could go through those pages one by one in the hope of eventually finding the one you had in mind when you wrote the statement. You wrote the beginnings of the article so it would be so much easier if you inserted the in-line citation at the time of writing. That is Wikipedia's preference, for obvious reasons. Dolphin (t) 06:57, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Reply: I went through William Pullen and found everything in the references except as noted on the talk page. I assume we agree on the following: Footnotes are sometimes needed and sometimes not. What is true in a hypothetical case is not necessarily true in a particular case. Counting footnotes is a good rough-and-ready way to guess that footnotes might be needed, but it remains a guess until someone does the work of comparing the article to the sources. I just realized that I have never attempted to verify someone else's article except in cases of contradiction, so I might not be a good judge. On the things I have checked I cannot remember a case where lack of Wikipedia footnotes caused a problem. In the future I will try to footnote anything that cannot be easily found by looking in the source index. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 10:17, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Idea relating to in-line cites

Hi Benjamin. I have been noting that you have not been violating any rules when you have been writing without in-line citations, so this is not about that.

From our previous interactions I know that you write from sources. In that context I would like to make a suggestion to just put some in-line cites in as you are adding that material. One other observation is that IMHO it is 10 times easier to put them in initially (when you have the book or web page source open and also know where the just-inserted material came from) than it is to put them in later (including figuring what came from where). I would like to present a few more thoughts for my suggestion:

• It's unusual in Wikipedia for a solid articles of the type that you make to have so few in-line cites. So at first glance, that would cause some people to associate it with the not-as-solid articles.
• I think that some of your articles would make good candidates to become Wikipedia Good Articles, Wikipedia Featured Articles, and even the a Featured Article of the day on the front page. However, an article with so few cites could not meet the criteria in that areas of even the least-stringent of these (Good Article). So putting in more cites at the moment when it is easy to do so gives these a chance of becoming those.
• If some material gets challenged and tagged (or deleted for not having sourcing) then per policy, the material would need a cite in order to stay in or go back in. This part of the policy is pretty tough, and sometimes even gets misused, but such is life. In either event, it is very easy to preventatively "protect" the material you put in from this by just putting the cites in as you put the material in.
• Another thing is protecting your articles against getting deleted on wp:notability grounds, or even from getting nominated to have to go though that wp:afd review process. Under wp:notability guidlines, the subject must have in-depth coverage in wp:reliable sources in order for the article to survive. This is less likely for the types of articles that you write, but you can easily protect them from even having to go through that review process by having the sources in there from the start. And having cites to those sources avoids other tags.
• There are a lot of people reading the article who are ready to spend a bit of time looking one step deeper into the sources. Having a direct connection to the sentence/paragraph in the article that they just read makes them more likely to do that (then they would be, at that stage to just go and get the book or start generally exploring a whole website). I was thinking that on some of the northern/historical topics that we write about that don't get enough prominence/attention that would be pretty cool.

So my suggestion would be to just routinely put in more cites when adding the material and I hope that I have provided at least some support for that being a good idea. What do you think of my idea? Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 13:59, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Reply: Small things first. As for featured articles, I don't give a hoot. As for erasing my stuff, I usually respect the opinion of the other editor unless I have a strong case. These are usually questionable and it is better to err on the side of quality. As for footnotes to books, they are of no use unless you have the book and if I had the book I would just read it. A Wikipedia footnote would be good only if the information were in an odd place.

We seem to be dealing with a difference of personality or personal experience. My guess is that the Lotsa Footnotes idea came from people who had to deal with an edit war or had to clean up an article that had been messed up by many editors using many unfootnoted sources. They then applied this to normal articles which they had not looked at. Much of what I read has few footnotes and I have never noticed that the quality of a book or Wikipedia article was proportional to the number of footnotes. Since I rarely check other people's work to see if their article matches its sources (how often is this done?), I do not have a good feel for when footnotes are necessary. We seem to be where we started: Lotsa Footnotes as a general rule versus the hard work of looking at an article and seeing if footnotes are needed.Benjamin Trovato (talk) 12:47, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

It occurs to me that you or someone you know is using footnotes for something that I am not aware of. As I understand it, footnotes are needed in the following cases: 1. The article is built from many sources by many people and the statement is unique to one source. 2. The statement comes from a source not in the references. 3. The statement cannot be found in the references by normal means. 4. The sources contradict. 5. Someone cannot find the statement in the sources and has marked it with a citation-needed. Are footnotes used for anything else? Benjamin Trovato (talk) 02:49, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi Benjamin. Just to clarify one point (and to completely separate my post from previous conversations). In several places your discussion seems to be on when footnotes are needed, and seemingly responding to a "needed" assertion. My post to you has nothing to do with footnotes being needed. My post is only a suggestion that putting them right in away when you are creating the material and have the book open is a good idea, and that it is is the norm for quality articles such as those that you create. Sincerely, North8000 (talk) 19:24, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

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YOur revert

"unexplained changes" is not a valid reason for reverts. If you think that adding categories to article and making an intro that follows wikipedia standards is something strange and unwelcome, then probably you should not edit wikipedia. -M.Altenmann >t 19:39, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

• A change that removes information without explanation is an excellent reason for revert. If change is to align with Wikipedia standards then change should give reason by pointing to the standards document. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 19:59, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Rivers

Hi Ben. Most European rivers (except UK) are most commonly referred to in English (and often in their native language) as "Foo", although you will see all the other variants as well. "Foo River" is used in N America because "River" is part of the official name. This is not the case in Europe, where the Rhine is the Rhine and the Danube is just the Danube. Currently most European river articles follow this pattern; I have simply been trying to tidy up the anomalies. If you look at Azerbaijani river articles, you'll see that they are either "Foo" or "Foo River". The latter is just being used for disambiguation. The Aras is the same: Aras goes to some disambiguation page and the article was only called Aras River to disambiguate it. According to Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers#Naming that is wrong; it should be disambiguated by "(river)" which is what I've done. Hope that helps.

P.S. British rivers usually have "River" in front, but some place it behind too e.g. Fivehead River, East Lyn River. But here again "River" is part of the official name. --Bermicourt (talk) 10:01, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Ways to improve Kyakhta trade

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I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Great work. Would like to see it improve further.

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Thanks

Heh, thanks for notifying, had missed this error myself in the reference. Its fixed now. Oh, and in case you're still wondering, that language (pagina's, etc) is Dutch. :-) Bests - LouisAragon (talk) 06:23, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Duh-- stranitsa is Russian, pagina is Spanish. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 19:28, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

I believe in Spanish they say página, rather than pagina as we use it in Dutch. If I'm not mistaken - LouisAragon (talk) 21:57, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

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Inline citations

Thank you for your interesting contributions such as the History of the western steppe, but please, can you add Wikipedia:Inline citation (footnotes) to your articles? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:00, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Why? I only add citations when they are necessary. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 03:23, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi, Benjamin Trovato, I will reply, as I don't think Piotrus saw your message as you didn't add a ping. I came to your page to add exactly the same comment as Piotrus. For a reader trying to see where a fact has come from, inline citations are always necessary. Without them, others are reluctant to add information and clear sources because it then gets confusing as to where each piece of information is sourced from. Also if the sources aren't inlnie, the article can never get Good Article or Featured Article status. The most important point, however, is simply that it is less clear for the reader, especially if they are looking to use the article for research. Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 21:37, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Indeed on both counts (I didn't see your reply for the stated reason - essentially you replied but never notified me you did so), and see also Wikipedia:Why most sentences should be cited. Your article is useful, but it is difficult for others to improve it because they can't guess what sources you used. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 14:43, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

As indicated in the article, nearly every sentence is a short summary of a linked article. These contain the sources. References for Sarmatians belong in that article. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 23:15, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Benjamin Trovato, it is not clearly indicated in the article. Let's say there is a point of interest or use to the reader - do they then need to buy/look up all four books that are there as references to find out where you've got it from - and the whole books not clear page numbers? It's so unhelpful, and as explained below, against community consensus. Now this has been explained to you, will you add inline citations? Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 06:16, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Exactly. If I want to verify a claim you made in the article, I'd need to buy and read those four books, because you didn't feel like stating which book/page this info came from. You create useful content, but someday, someone will have to painstakingly verify each claim you've made. Or perhaps they will decide it's not worth their time, delete your text and start their own from scratch? :( --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 17:48, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

You only add citations when you consider they are necessary? That is your practice but it is not what the vast majority of contributors to this project have determined is the best practice. Wikipedia’s principles on this subject are specified at WP:Verifiability. Those principles include All quotations, and any material whose verifiability has been challenged or is likely to be challenged, must include an inline citation that directly supports the material. Any material that needs a source but does not have one may be removed.

Wikipedia’s criterion for when an inline citation is required is any material whose verifiability has been challenged or is likely to be challenged, ... What Piotrus and Boleyn are saying is that they are challenging the verifiability of some of the information you have added. Whether you consider such citations are necessary is irrelevant. Your additions have been challenged so, according to Wikipedia’s principles, you are expected to supply inline citations.

This is not the first time your practice regarding citations has been challenged and explained to you in painful detail. See:

• HERE 1
• HERE 2
• HERE 3
• HERE 4

You choose to contribute to Wikipedia. Wouldn’t it be a good idea to choose to abide by the Wikipedia community’s principles? It's not difficult. Dolphin (t) 01:11, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Reply: The debate seems to about the conflict between general rules and individual cases. Footnotes is a good general guideline but does not tell us what to do in a particular case. I would not try to criticize an article until I had read the sources. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 21:51, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

So if I wrote an article and supplied no sources, you would never criticize my article? Dumb. Dolphin (t) 22:12, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

I am also ugly, have a wart on the end of my nose and wear clown shoes. Smart people can easily criticize things they know little about. Us dumb people have to read two or three hundred pages before making a judgment. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 20:16, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Let's avoid such impolite judgement, I am sure that's not exactly what Benjamin meant (hence your argument is even less valid, Dolphin, being a straw man). Back on topic: Benajmin, Wikipedia general guidelines do not allow for good faith until sources are read. Per WP:V, content that's not clearly verifiable can be challenged and removed. Wikipedia has higher referencing standards and requirements than most academic article or books. It's best practice to reference everything. Just take a look at any recent Featured Article. All we are asking is that you consider adhering to those standards. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:41, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

The latest edit (10 May 2017)

Hello. The edit you made may have changed the whole page. May you explain this please? --George Ho (talk) 22:47, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

i've reverted the edit, it's clearly a mistake. -- Aunva6^{talk - contribs} 00:22, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

I recovered the reply and made a note in small text. --George Ho (talk) 00:26, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for correcting my mistake. I have no idea how it happened. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 22:01, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

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Ways to improve History of the central steppe

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I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Your work on the History of the central steppe is fantastic. However, I noticed that you didn't make use of inline citations, which is essential for helping others verify the source of factual information in an article. Since many of your sources are offline, it would be extremely helpful if you would consider adding your sources into the text of the article.

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RAC activities in Okhotsk Sea

Hello. Do you know if the RAC ever built a settlement on Big Shantar Island? In particular, a whaling station? I've seen photos and video of old rusted machinery on the island, including an old steam engine. Do you know anything about its history? ST1849 (talk) 15:57, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

My main source is Martin (Okhotsk Coast) and he has nothing that I could find about whaling or the Shantar islands. Forsyth, Hist. Peoples of Siberia, says that there was Russian-government-sponsored whaling in the southern Okhotsk Sea, but has only one sentence. User:Dankarl knows a lot about the Russian-American company. Whale oil is too heavy to haul across Siberia and there was little Siberia-to-Europe shipping. There were a huge number of US whalers in the area in the nineteenth century. My guess is either US whalers or Soviet period. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 01:03, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

The RAC did build a station in Tugur Bay, which is probably the one Forsyth was talking about. I'm skeptical that it could've been built by US whalers. In researching Whaling in the Sea of Okhotsk I didn't find any sources in English that mention any American whaling stations on the islands. I'll ask Mr. Karl. Thanks for the reply. ST1849 (talk) 15:45, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

You may be right about it being left over from the Soviet era. There appears to have been Russian military stations and villages on the islands. Looking through news articles about recent clean-ups on Big Shantar Island images of that old steam engine keep popping up (I had to use google translate though, as my Russian is limited to a handful of geographical terms). ST1849 (talk) 20:18, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

The translate option on Google Chrome (3 dots at upper right/ More tools / Extensions) is now about 98% accurate for Russian. Before a few months ago you needed a dictionary to clean up the errors. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 22:07, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

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Caught by a web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. Place any further information here. I have no idea why this happened. Have been using this for years. Recent changes. Updated Firefox, which I rarely use. Have Chrome also on. My condo is putting in a network, but my connection is independent of it. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 17:13, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

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As per below, you are using a proxy/VPN and will need to disable it. Yamla (talk) 17:43, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

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You are not blocked. Could you please a bit more info on what is going on? (I would probably not understand it anyway, but useful for more technical-oriented admins).--Ymblanter (talk) 17:19, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

"Editing from 173.244.192.0/19 has been blocked" Communication goes thru Cox cable at Alexandria VA or nearby. Condo says this is independent of their new network.Benjamin Trovato (talk) 17:41, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

That IP address range does not belong to Cox Cable. Instead, it's a proxy/vpn. You'll need to disable your use of this proxy/vpn in order to edit here. --Yamla (talk) 17:43, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

I smell a virus. Do you know something bad about MILHIST.com? Get same wiki block on Chrome. How do you disable a proxy?Benjamin Trovato (talk) 18:16, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Benjamin...not lurking...you and I worked together several years back on north woods stuff I still had you on my watch list. A proxy (server) is sort of like a "front man" which people use to go onto the internet for them to hide their IP address. It shows them its IP address instead. The notice is claiming that the IP address that is going on the internet for you is a known "front man" and they are blocking it, "not you". They are assuming that you are using some extraordinary measures to go through the front man, and are saying "stop doing that and just surf in the normal manner and you'll be OK". Of course the whole thing could be a mistake on their part. North8000 (talk) 18:36, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

SOLVED? 13jul, late: I found something called 'Ethernet2 AnchorFree TAP V9 installed 11:38, 13jul to expire in 2 days. Disabled it and can now edit. AnchorFree is standard code to make a proxy IP address. AnchorFree and McAfee help could not pin down problem. Closed 1600 mon.16jul.

Ways to improve Kuban Nogai Uprising

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Anyone who reads Russian can find the sources by clicking the left language link. I hesitate to include sources I have not read. 03:31, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

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Ğazı II Giray

Could you please stop messing up the Ğazı II Giray article? You persist on bolding text in it which is not an accepted practice here and reanranging text so that huge chunks of text remain unreferenced. I understand you have good intentions but your actions are actively downgrading the quality of the article from B class which it was at the timeframe I rewrote it to start class.--Catlemur (talk) 22:44, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

You must be seeing something that I don't see, so I will leave the article alone. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 02:50, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

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That was not an upgrade

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Xingu River

References and citations (see WP:CITE) are rather important. The problem with your edits [6] [7] were 1) you removed existing citations and article material without justification, those sources seemed to be valid; and 2) your addition to the Description was not properly supported with citations. The Smithsonian Atlas you mention would seem to be a valid source, but it should not be the only or predominant source for the article; the description should not be changed without adding supporting sources/citations and those changes should retain the existing sources where appropriate. Please take some time to review WP:V and WP:CITE before making significant changes such as a new version of the river's description. Dl2000 (talk) 16:47, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

In my POV 99% of Wikipedia footnotes are useless. In this case I prefer not to update the article if it must be cluttered with meaningless citations. Close this.

Central Asia is russia

Central asia was part of the russian empire Look at the map--2601:3C5:8200:97E0:11A0:BA:8EAC:6579 (talk) 04:50, 31 March 2021 (UTC)--2601:3C5:8200:97E0:11A0:BA:8EAC:6579 (talk) 04:50, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

• They became part of the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century and then Soviet republics after the revolution. They were never 'Russian republics', whatever that means. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 05:04, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi guys, I've edited the sentence to clarify that the Central Asian states were Russian-ruled, i.e. under the Russian Empire, and not "Russian republics". Certainly the latter would not make sense - as far as I know there are no subnational republics during the imperial period, and to start one in the time of the tsars would be unthinkable. 203.106.220.76 (talk) 07:44, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

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Hello, can you check the situation in this article? You might want to check this first. This user has been making Russian nationalist edits and calling people who revert his edits as his "opponents". Now they reverted your and mine edits at attempting to fix that horrible nationalist POV article calling them "strange edits", and when I undid this act of vandalism it seems they have blamed me for WP:EDITWAR and WP:BATTLEGROUND, which I say is ironic since that's exactly what they have been doing. I think we need a third opinion to avoid an edit war, so can you check that? Adigabrek^Talk 16:14, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

If I got involved I would support Karakorum. Since I wrote most of the article I do not see what needs to be changed. Of course, no one is a fit judge of himself and this probably means that I don't understand something. (Also, could you tell me how to ping you (Alert or Notification)? I couldn't figure out how to do it. Thanks.)Benjamin Trovato (talk) 03:49, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

You do it like this: {{ping|USERNAME}} Adigabrek^Talk 16:26, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Ways to improve Persian crisis of 1722-1736

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• @Mccapra: Please delete the draft. I have a copy and will not be able to get back to it for at least a month. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 05:14, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

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History of slavery in Indiana

I made this edit because I think that you meant it to apply to the end of the next sentence that talks about cannibalism.

In addition, the proper way to handle an issue is to tag it, in this case with {{better source}}.–CaroleHenson (talk) 23:51, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

I see you reverted my edit. I went ahead and made the change based upon my first comment to you here. See this.–CaroleHenson (talk) 02:03, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you. Benjamin Trovato (talk) 18:53, 3 October 2022 (UTC)

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Washington Post and the Methuselah tree

I removed the note you added to Methuselah (tree). I have a subscription to the Washington Post, and did a search, which did not return any article about the tree. If you wish to reinstate the note, please add a URL in order for other editors to verify the material. The 4854-year age is currently supported by both The Rocky Mountain Tree Ring research group and The Gymnosperm Database. — hike395 (talk) 04:36, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

Found it -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/10/16/ancient-tree-secrets/ it wasn't October 18, it was October 16 (at least, online). Let's discuss at Talk:Methuselah (tree). — hike395 (talk) 04:50, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

16oct must be the post date. Printed copy, which I have before me, is 18oct, page E6. Since I was only copying from a newspaper, I will leave this to those who know better. 02:30, 30 October 2022 (UTC)Benjamin Trovato (talk) 02:31, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

Re: Right Hand Rule

Hi there Benjamin,

I was wondering if you could explain in more depth why you reverted my edit? I think the conceptual content of the original text remained unchanged - my edit was mostly to remove the use of "you", which is against Wikipedia style guidelines. Thanks, RaisedArizona (talk) 03:24, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Your edit was only about screwing in. Point your thumb away from the hole and the screw comes out, so the thumb rule works in both directions. "You" is informal but I thought it was clearer and shorter. "(most screws are)" needed because its true until you learn otherwise. "Helix" should have been "a helix" or your "helical".Benjamin Trovato (talk) 12:02, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

That's fair about me not mentioning unscrewing, and I would support an added sentence to the end of my text clarifying that.

The phrase "(most screws are)" is ancillary to the point of the article. There is no encyclopedic reason to have information about the typical threading of screws (which we both agree is right-handed) in an article about the right-hand rule, since the threading of screws is only very tangentially related. "Helix" is only a noun - it would be fine for the article to read "are a helix", "form a helix", or "are helical", but "are helix" is improper. RaisedArizona (talk) 12:28, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Fix it anyway you want. "Most screws" was practical advice. I would try to put in and out in the same sentence since it's the smae rule either way.Benjamin Trovato (talk) 06:33, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

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