Rickkoter
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Summa Technologies (December 31)
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Help request about paywalled sources
editThanks @KylieTastic for the quick response and Happy New Year! I now better understand the requirements and working on getting better sources for references. I plan to use regional broad-base and business-focused newspapers, but was initially cautious of their use because two of the best options have some content behind pay-walls.
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What impact does the use of (partially) pay-wall protected content have? Also does the same requirement for sources exist for external links that are not included as citations? For example the web-archive of the company site, or public posts? Summanoid (talk) 16:23, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
- I was accidentally still logged in as a now defunct user initially created to learn - I moved to Rickkoter (talk) 16:28, 2 January 2024 (UTC) under which the article was initial drafted and intend to publish.
- You need to be careful when using that old account. While it is allowed to have more than one account, there are restrictions on how you use them. Please see WP:MULTIACCOUNT for more details.
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- Generally, an article does not need external links; they are entirely optional and including them in a draft is probably a waste of time. — jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 16:55, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
- Basically as Jmcgnh said :) - frankly although accessible sources are best, a pay-walled one is way better than PR. Many reviewers and experienced editors also get access to a lot of sources via Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library. It can obviously take longer to find a reviewer with access if notability requires such sources. KylieTastic (talk) 17:04, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Summa Technologies (January 13)
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 09:08, 14 June 2024 (UTC)