Talk:Protests against SOPA and PIPA

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Former good article nomineeProtests against SOPA and PIPA was a Engineering and technology good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
January 17, 2012Articles for deletionSpeedily kept
December 30, 2022Good article nomineeNot listed
In the newsA news item involving this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on January 19, 2012.
Current status: Former good article nominee


Image[edit]

Here's a good image of Aaron Swartz that could be used:

Aaron Swartz

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Victorgrigas (talk • contribs)

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Make a less-technical section please.[edit]

I'm worried I am dependent on wikipedia and am supporter of free-of-cost knowledge and preservation work. But I don't have the knowledge of server related terms. Also I usually don't understand legal statements because they are complex, big, and uses difficult terminologies. So I Plea to create a section in brief, simple and plain language on:

  • 1. How (by which mechanisms) the said controversial laws affect Wikipedia?
  • 2. How (by which mechanisms) the said controversial laws affect so many organisations who develop genuine/original but free software/content?
  • 3. How (by which mechanisms) the said laws affect free-of-cost knowledge and learning in-general?

Thanks and best wishes.

2405:205:6285:DCD9:8CB2:E7A1:700D:312B (talk) 07:14, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

GA nomination[edit]

@Pichemist I saw that you've nominated this for GA. I'm not up to doing a full review, but let me suggest that a first pass on getting this up to GA quality would be to find all the citations to primary and/or non-reliable sources and replace those with better sources. I see a bunch of citations to reddit and twitter posts. None of those belong in a GA article. For example, in the "December 2011 boycott of GoDaddy" section, we cite a twitter post by Jimmy Wales for moving domains away from GoDaddy. Any of [1], [2] , or [3] would be better. Of those three, the Network World one is probably the best. -- RoySmith (talk) 21:33, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "Wikipedia Makes Bold Move Over 'Net Censorship Bill". HuffPost. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  2. ^ McNamara, Paul (9 March 2012). "Wikipedia parent: We're officially done with GoDaddy". Network World. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Wikipedia is leaving Go Daddy because of SOPA". ZDNET. Retrieved 29 December 2022.

-- RoySmith (talk) 21:33, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help. I do not think I will go trough the article as when I nominated it I was not aware that you needed to be a major contributor of the article at hand. This is my mistake and I take full responsibility for it. Thank you for your time. Signed, Pichemist ( Contribs | Talk ) 08:38, 30 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oh snap, I started looking through this earlier. I was adding notes in a text editor did not check the talk page to read your comment. I've put a review in for the article already.
This is my first GA review, so I am not sure what steps I should take next. Do you need me to "fail" the article or is there a different "withdraw" process? Rjjiii (talk) 09:49, 30 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Pichemist Thank you for getting involved in GA, even if you bit off more than you could handle the first time. This was a big complicated article, so it wasn't the easiest introduction to the process. Might I suggest looking through the list of pending nominations and seeing if there's an easy one you can review, as a way to get your feet wet? @Rjjiii please see WP:GAN/I#N3. If the nominator informs the reviewer that they're withdrawing the nomination (which I guess we can consider has happened), you should fail the review. It wasn't a waste of time, however; the review is still available for people to look at and may well serve as a starting point for somebody else to dive in and make improvements, so thank you for that. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:43, 30 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I think I've taken care of it. The review no longer seems transcluded onto this page but is still here: Talk:Protests against_SOPA and PIPA/GA1 for future reference Rjjiii (talk) 06:05, 31 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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