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Oregon has a "oregon encyclopedia", since they thought the Wiki model was too fast and loose. It's called The Oregon Encyclopedia. User:Peteforsyth has discussed the project on local radio, and it also led WikiProject Oregon to create a faux article about every Oregonian's Aunt Betty. tedder (talk) 00:19, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

• If Matthew Lewis wants a better image in his article, by all means he should send Wikipedia one (under a free use license, of course). I would have to believe that he has several commissioned professional portrait photographs to choose from. All he has to do is follow the easy steps at WP:IOWN. Sven Manguard Wha? 00:43, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
  • I doubt he reads our internal newsletter. I found a new image, but the best thing to do would be to contact him. I tried searching for his FB account, but no luck. Perhaps someone can (politely) contact his agent.--Chaser2 (talk) 04:38, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
    • If I were Matthew Lewis, I'd be even less pleased with the pic of the nerdy-looking 14-year-old than with the pic of the hot 20-year-old with the slightly derp expression on his face. Angr (talk) 05:11, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
      • Well thanks to the current round of PR for the last movie in the series, Matthew's getting to a number of premieres and interviews which means there's photos being taken of him. I found one nice image on Flickr and got the account holder to change the license so we can use it. <G> Tabercil (talk) 00:41, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
        • Ah, good. Thanks for doing that Tabercil.--Chaser2 (talk) 20:56, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

• "Wikipedia now flags pages that have fewer citations" <chuckle> nice to have that recognised in the Sci Am blog, we have been flagging such articles for at least four years. Rich Farmbrough, 02:29, 19 July 2011 (UTC).
  
  • Though when you read the article, the impression is that there is some sort of system (human or automated) that takes care of this: Some individual pages may still need caution, but for these, you will get a warning right at the top. (As we know, whether or not an article has a tag/template at the top, regarding its quality, depends simply on whether one of the Wikipedia editors has decided to post such a tag/template, or not.) It's quite counter-intuitive (to someone not involved in editing Wikipedia) that there really isn't anyone in charge, let alone someone (or a system) that is able to ensure consistency. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 19:40, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

• When you try to access Tennessee's "free rival encyclopaedia" you get this message: "You must be a resident of Tennessee in order to access these databases. Please click here to validate your Tennessee zipcode and telephone number." --Guy Macon (talk) 11:57, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

So may be not so free. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:51, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

On the plus side, that means that this dubious "rival" is rapidly on its way to being obsolete. Dcoetzee 18:07, 20 July 2011 (UTC)