User talk:Wikier55
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Downgrading of citations at Lafayette Morehouse
[edit]Hi! I am a former university reference librarian & a long time editor. I was surprised to find that you reverted three of my citation improvements & left only an explanation of Switched in the edit summary. Let's go through why I find your downgrading to be problematic.
- Aquarius, Institute of Human Abilities, OCLC 857504947
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(help), published irregularly from 1969 to 2004
- This citation points to the OCLC record for the journal, published "under the auspices of the Institute of Human Abilities" (search for that string in the article). This is important because it helps the reader to find the journal in libraries, albeit only three. I consider the OCLC publication start date of 1969 more accurate than 1970, unless you have a better source.
- "Lafayette 1". Flickr. 2018-06-05. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
- The previous citation,
Flickr page
, implies that this is the Flicker page of Lafayette Morehouse. It is not. It is a photograph of an individual who visited the property, & its full title is in the HTML title tag is "Lafayette 1 | Looking down towards the pool and the nightclu… | luckygirl | Flickr". I have added a more complete title & author information so it now looks like this:
- luckygirl (2018-06-05). "Lafayette 1 | Looking down towards the pool and the nightclu…". Flickr. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
- The previous citation,
- The previous version
Lafayette Morehouse - a brief history & resource guide
, was simply incomplete & inadequate. As I subsequently realized that there was a version in references, I removed the version from the External links section & combined my previous version with the reference citation to produce:- Beneteau, Marc. "A brief history & resource guide". Lafayette Morehouse and Victor Baranco. Adventures in Relationship and Community. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
I would invite you to read about how we do citation templates. I think that this would be useful for you, as most editors rather dislike it when they have placed a more complete citation template only to have it reverted to the previous incomplete & less informative version. Please remember that part of the Wikipedia:Prime objective is to provide free access to the sum of all human knowledge. I consider part of that vision to be the proper linking for references, external links, & further reading so that readers can easily access those knowledge sources.
Peaceray (talk) 16:48, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
Wikier55: Ok I'm not sure if this is the right way to respond but I didn't intend to downgrade any of those citations, if I did it was a mistake, thanks for your work and feedback Peaceray!
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