Talk:2008-09 Wikipedia for Schools goes online

Various emails for the interview segment

Various emails for the interview segment are available to accredited reporters on request. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 15:56, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Was that source material mailed out to the accredited reporters email list? Cirt (talk) 05:11, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Review

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Revision 713815 of this article has been reviewed by ShakataGaNai (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 16:34, 22 October 2008 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: --ShakataGaNai ^_^ 16:34, 22 October 2008 (UTC) The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.

Title

Why is "2008-09" part of the title? Should that be handled by a redirect? Cirt (talk) 18:49, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Because it is the 08/09 issue, and the "/" character should be avoided in titles. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 18:55, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Copyediting issues

Shouldn't it be "2008-09 Wikipedia for Schools going online"? The 's' in "schools" should be capitalized in the phrase "Wikipedia for schools" in the fifth paragraph as well.

Also, the italicization of "Wikipedia" seems to be inconsistent throughout the article. This naturally leads to the question of whether the term "Wikipedia" should be italicized. Perhaps there is a difference between italicization rules for Wikipedia as a print publication and as an online publication? I tend to see "Wikipedia" unitalicized -- compare the article on Wikipedia to the one on Encyclopædia Britannica. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emw2012 (talk • contribs) 03:29, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

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The capitalization is fixed, but indeed Wikipedia is not italicized. I don't know why he always wrote it that way. Heavy Water (talk) 17:55, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia should never be italicized, and indeed I don't think Wikinews should either. These are some of style issues I have never been able to iron out. There are indeed accepted style guides which uniformly support this. I had debates with Pi who sided with BSR (for no other reason than it was BSR) and AG who sided with Pi. If someone reads the Chicago Manual of Style, the AP Stylebook, or another quality style guide, it is apparent how titles of websites, books, printed material, songs, album, songs, etc. & etc. should be styled. The Wikinews:Style guide has a few things wrong. And, to me, it is absurd that every attempt to fix them has been shut down. Maybe there's something in Hart's Rules but I've never seen a free version of it. But I doubt it contradicts the others. SVTCobra 04:02, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Anyway, I think it is Done as italicization was removed from Wikipedia. BTW, I think Brian McNeil thought of Wikinews as a newspaper and thus wanted italics.

Yeah, I understand the rationale for italicizing Wikinews and I usually do it myself, it is just the Wikipedia italicization I've never understood. I guess he was applying SG's "Names of publications and articles" to it, but I haven't seen anyone else regularly do that for Wikipedia (I suppose it depends on whether one considers Wikipedia a "publication" and therefore something covered by that rule). And yes, I noticed your position on italic titles. Heavy Water (talk) 06:24, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Websites, whether one considers them to be a 'publication' or not, are not italicized. That's fairly universal, the limitations of our {{source}} template notwithstanding. SVTCobra 17:24, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

herself, not himself

herself, not himself Logictheo (talk) 16:59, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Er, where? More of a clue would be helpful. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 17:08, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Presumably they misinterpreted "a Wikipedia administrator himself" as referring to Cockcroft instead of Cates. Heavy Water (talk) 17:55, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

I sincerely hope you are not expecting a reply from Brian McNeil. SVTCobra 06:27, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

Of course not. I left the comment in the hopes of clarifying this matter for anyone who came across it in the future. Heavy Water (talk) 14:45, 17 January 2024 (UTC)