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Another Google search gives you a bunch of sources saying the "Islamist" government of Eritrea is persecuting Christians. The bottom line is that a section without any sources and with accusations of such gravity doesn't belong here. 83.86.123.208 (talk) 09:14, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Didn't mean to leave you hanging here...forgot to leave a note I was on vacation. Replied on my talk-page. DMacks (talk) 09:09, 29 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I added a comment on W.w.p's talkpage, so I hope you don't miss it. Happy editing and good luck. ~ AdvertAdam talk 08:47, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I have fixed it. Hope it's fine now. — westeros91 (talk) 15:11, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm concerned that this may not be a valid license. As one minor point, can you explain why you chose CC-BY 2.5 rather than CC-BY 3.0 or CC-BY-SA 3.0 . The latter two are common, you one you chose less so, and I'm just curious how you came to choose it. If you found it at the site, it would be quite helpful. I am not familiar with PLOS, although I gather they are a publisher of scientific papers. I looked for clear terms of use, and did not find a clear statement about copyright. If you have seen one, please point it out.

I did find PLOS ONE Editorial Policies:

By submitting to PLOS ONE, authors agree to make freely available any materials and data described in their publication that may be reasonably requested for the purpose of academic, non-commercial research. Authors should make every effort to allow immediate and unrestricted access to all data and replaceable materials that are relevant to an article, except where this would breach confidentiality rules related to human-subject research.

Unfortunately, the word " non-commercial" is inconsistent with CC BY 2.5 I haven't looked closely, so please let me know if you think I've missed something. If I am correct, then the image cannot be added to Commons.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 13:34, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a more positive sign, on their main page PLOS they state:

All site content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

It seems their clear intent is to license the material as CC.

That page links to the {{Cc-by-3.0-us}} license.

For completeness, it might be nice to write to them and point out the inconsistency between their author guidelines and their license terms, but their main page clearly indicate an intention to use the Creative Commons licensing, except where otherwise noted, and I don’t see any notations of an exception of the source article, so I think you are fine if you replace the license template with {{Cc-by-3.0-us}}.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 13:58, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I responded at the help page, but I'll copy my response here:
If you go to the text on that page which says "Creative Commons Attribution License." and click on it., you will be led to this page, which is why I suggested using (CC BY 3.0 US). Yes, I think you should make the change.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 22:27, 24 February 2013

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Eek. now the link that was 3.0 [1] also leads to a 2.5 license. Staticd (talk) 05:25, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Here are suggested readings: WP:SECONDARY and WP:COI. The gist of these guidelines are:

  • Wikipedia prefers citations to reviews and books, not primary journal references (tens of thousands appear annually). Citing secondary sources is the encyclopedic style. How many of the thousands of references to Fd do you think we can handlee.
  • Do not cite yourself or your colleagues. It's called conflict of interest. Many newer editors have difficulties with this rule. COI behavior is unacceptable.

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I am sorry if this is violating wikipedia policy. I have been on a bit of a break in researching and updating wikipedia articles so I may be rusty or the interpretations of the policies may have changed over the last five years.
The reason I am citing journal articles is that the topics I focus on for wikipedia are the topics that don't have books written about them as they are niche topics. Or the books are not up to date due to the speed the field is moving, or the books are rare and heavily paywalled making verifying the citations hard.
As far as possible I have been citing review articles. When I can't I have been trying to use primary articles that have a mini-review in them. e.g, I cited a primary biophysical characterisation paper because they had a table reviewing all the older literature along with their original results. In niche fields, a lot of what counts as secondary sources is hidden in the introduction section of primary research articles. As a last resort I cite primary articles when I have to mention a certain fact or number for completion.
the trade off I am looking at is whether i should add this material at all vs citing journal articles. I am making it a point of erring on the side of more rather than fewer citations so readers can easily verify what is written with a quick ctrl+F in the paper. Maybe a future editor will expand this or another article. If someone finds a better citation, they can easily replace it in future. There will be instances where a better citation exists, and I will try replace them as I make further revisions in case no one else catches them first. wikipedia is a collaborative work in progress and I believe that having a substandard citation is better than no citation.


Finally: In all my years editing I have never personally experienced the popular culture notion of how editing wikipedia can be toxic and discouraging because of certain editors, but hoo boy do I understand it now. I have published NOTHING in the field of biochemistry so there is no conflict of interest. I've just been keenly interested in the topic for a long time. After spending over twenty hours researching the topic and trying to assemble a set of citations that will make a good starting point for a future reader or editor it is supremely unpleasant to face a thoughtless and unhelpful criticism made without WP:AGF or any effort at all in seeing whether WP:RAP applies here at all. This sort of attitude towards other editors will chase away anyone who is conscientious because writing good content is hard enough when you are triple checking every fact because you worry that you'll write something wrong or incomplete. Keep this up and you will leave behind a barren wasteland of incomplete articles. The only people who will stick around are the people who don't give a shit about the rules anyway and thrive on fighting and carving out their own personal fiefdom.
You have a problem with the edits, make a good faith attempt at helping me fix them. If you think they are violating wikipedia policy so egregiously then revert them and report me to the admins. Don't dump an irrelevant template because it's your personal wikilawyering hobbyhorse.
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