Talk:PLEXUS West Coast Women's Press/Archive 1

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Hi BananaSlug! I made a few edits to improve things.

• The one major change that I would recommend would be to delete the Notable US feminist periodicals of the era table. It looks like you are trying to implement a {{Side box}}, but as it currently stands, the other journals have nothing to do with this particular article. I think the List of feminist periodicals in the United States already guides readers to feminist publications of the last 170 years.
• I recommend adding additional properties to the Wikidata item. You can also add references to each property (ref URL).
• Be aware that the commons image is likely to be deleted because it is copyrighted material.

Peaceray (talk) 05:33, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Otherwise, I think the article is ready for prime time! Peaceray (talk) 18:34, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your help!

So far I only reformatted that wikitable (which I agree looked kind of awkward) into running text. (And noticed that one of those old publications now has a Wikipedia article, so linked to that.) Your point is well taken. But before I get rid of it entirely, I want to move the publications listed there (previously my table) which are not listed in List of feminist periodicals in the United States into the latter.

Did that wikidata:Q123576065 item exist before, or did you create it yesterday?

As I mentioned on your user talk page: “One of the images, an early staff photo, was published by the Berkeley Barb whose full archive is now available open access on JSTOR. I have gotten in touch with the copyright owner, oldest child of the now-deceased publisher. They indicated an intent to give me permission to use the photo from their article, but they are traveling overseas right now. I could use some advice about how to convert that intent-to-permit into a form that Wikipedia will accept.”

— BananaSlug (talk) 21:48, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

There are a few paths.

• The first would need to go through commons:Commons:Volunteer Response Team. See commons:Commons:Licensing for the acceptable licenses. This is preferable as it lets the image be used on all Wikimedia projects. I think that the most restrictive is the commons:Template:Attribution only license, AKA {{Attribution}}.
• The second is to go through Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. I think that this method would allow the more restrictive GNU Free Documentation License (GNI) (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).
• Third might be to go through Wikipedia:Non-free content, which would restrict the size of the image.

I am not well versed in licensing issues. It my be best to ask at the WP:Teahouse (I suggest starting here first), WP:Help desk or WP:Village pump (policy) on English Wikipedia (enwiki) or at commons:Commons:Village pump/Copyright (I suggest also asking here as well). Peaceray (talk) 23:46, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Still to do

There are still several items in the article that either come from the publication itself or refer to articles in PLEXUS. Specifically, the list of crime articles and the names of early staff members. This content is fine--we just need to back it with specific issues, article names, and pages, rather than the generic "microfilm" citation. If this info is not available, I suggest removing the content. (You can save it to the talk page until someone has time to find sources). Otherwise, I am ready to move this to the main space. Rublamb (talk) 02:54, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

I have fixed the above issues, including fixed text that was copied from the source. Rublamb (talk) 04:05, 2 December 2023 (UTC)