User talk:TStivers

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Your question

I noted your question elsewhere about National Federation of the Blind, and have copied it to here because you will most probably get most comments here.

"I have joined Wikipedia because I would like to improve the National Federation of the Blind page, but I'm having a hard time getting my head around what JAWS reads me on the history page. I can follow a diff between revisions reasonably well, but are there any tips you can give me for looking through the history? I would like to get as much salvageable material from the old revisions as I can before I consider major rewriting. TStivers (talk) 3:31 pm, Today (UTC+13)"

I think there would be little in the history that you could usefully add to the existing article, otherwise it would already be in it. Or have I misinterpreted you? Whatever, good luck to you. Moriori (talk) 02:46, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There is a lot of "many believe" and "it is said that" in the current version. I noted an earlier version referenced on the article's talk page uses more unbiased language. I hope I'm understanding protocol and am replying in the right place. TStivers (talk) 02:55, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sure you can deal with it here, or if you prefer take it to the actual talk page and have it discussed there. Might be a better idea. The article needs some very serious work. Moriori (talk) 03:12, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The output of the page history feature is a bit bizarre with JAWS, but, in summary:

Each revision is a list item, so revisions can be moved to with JAWS using I/shift-I .
The cur/prev links show the diffs between the indicated revision and the current and previous revisions, respectively.
The radio buttons are for selecting two revisions to find the diffs between them. I have never gotten them to work with JAWS, but their are other accessible (if a bit more tedious) ways to do the same thing, which I can explain if you like.
The links to the timestamps (e.g. 16:23, 4 January 2013 – I have my preferences set to the Perth Timezone and British date format so what JAWS says will probably be different for you) take you to the revision on that date/time.
If the user who made the edit is not logged in, you will then find a link to their name (which takes you to the user's contributions) and one to their talk page. If they are logged in, except for some weird corner cases, the link to their name will take you to their user page and their will be separate links for their talk page and their contributions.
The next two numbers are the number of bytes in the given revision and the number of bytes added to and/or removed from the previous edit, respectively.
You may then find a link that JAWS will read out as "link?". This takes you to the specific section that the user edited in the given edit,and indicates that they just edited one specific section rather than using the "Edit this page" link to edit the whole article. It's actually an arrow character, but JAWS doesn't support it by default.
You will then find the name of the section (if any), the edit summary (if any), and an undo link to undo the edit. The edit may also be tagged to indicate something unusual (e.g. Section blanking).

You might also find the year and month boxes to be useful.

I think it's also worth noting that, contrary to the article's talk page, primary sources aren't necessarily useless for Wikipedia; however, as the relevant policy says, they should only be used]] for "straightforward, descriptive statements of facts that can be verified by any educated person with access to the source but without further, specialized knowledge". Independent secondary sources like newspapers, magazines and journal articles help to establish notability and it's better to use them where possible – the higher the reputation of the source, the better. An article should contain at least a couple of secondary sources.

Good luck on improving the article. If you have any further questions about Wikipedia, don't hesitate to ask me. Graham87 06:10, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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