Talk:1930

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This article is part of WikiProject Years, an attempt to improve and standardize articles related to Years. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.

As per discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Years the year in topic paragraph is scheduled to be deleted as it largely duplicates the links in the top box, and is not consistent with other year. Any objections should be made on that page please --BozMo|talk 19:31, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Format 2 Restored 12 event month subheaders 3 If wiki software locked partial articles 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Magic Tape.jpg

[edit] Format

[See: Talk:1950#Format. -Wikid77 13:30, 14 December 2006 (UTC)]

[edit] Restored 12 event month subheaders

02-Jan-2008: I have restored the 12 event-month subheaders as "January" / "February"/etc. They match the 12 months in the compact Table-of-Contents. Editing to restore the format of year-articles has to be performed every few months due to the ease of hacking articles to change the subheaders to become anything, and wiki software cannot yet control/restrict the internal format of an article. -Wikid77 (talk) 14:28, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] If wiki software locked partial articles

02-Jan-2008: If wiki software could lock an article's subheader format, then random hacking of article subheaders could be avoided. Such locking would be analogous to semi-protected templates, but would restrict access to parts of articles, rather than external templates. A possible simple implementation would be simply to diff-compare another file (call it an article baseline) containing a series of text lines to ensure those lines still matched the edited file (in the same line order), during edit-preview, and before saving. Users could experiment with any changes, but would be warned or prevented from saving the hacked file. In warning mode, other editors editing a file would again see the warnings (in edit-preview mode) to allow them to restore the non-matching parts of an article: such a warning mode would not prevent saving changes, but would allow a balance of freedom and control. Again, such a capability would be easy to implement, but the main issue is just getting people to think of radical new methods for wiki software to work, even if those new ideas would be trivial to implement. -Wikid77 (talk) 14:28, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Magic Tape.jpg

Image:Magic Tape.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 14:08, 8 March 2008 (UTC)