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I will embark upon a quality improvement project for this article.
First step will be to perform research to try to find the scope of coverage of this topic in secondary sources.
Also will try to format citations throughout the article so they are standardized to a format from WP:CIT as per WP:CITE to improve uniformity.
Will update here with more during the course of progress.
Cheers,
— Cirt (talk) 22:23, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
There are multiple problems with the current state of the article prior to above-mentioned quality improvement project.
I haven't begun the quality improvement project to the article yet, still in the research stage to determine additional secondary sources.
However it appears the article's current text itself is tagged with citation needed tags throughout, and it may be best to simply gut most of that weaker material and either start from scratch, or just start by removing all the material that has problem tags associated with it, and also remove primary sourced material in favor of finding better stronger secondary sourced material.
Just placing some ideas here on the talk page first of how to move forward with the ongoing quality improvement project.
Cheers,
— Cirt (talk) 23:51, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
As of 2006, Tim Shell was the CEO of Bomis,[citation needed] but it seems to have disappeared from the Internet around 2010 (the last date it was captured by the Internet Archive[1]).
The "Adult", "Babe", and "Entertainment" categories were the most frequently updated and the most popular.[citation needed] In addition, Bomis hosted a copy of the Open Directory Project search directory.[citation needed] These search-related pages generated revenue from advertising and affiliate marketing.[citation needed]
In addition, Bomis has provided hosting to websites supporting Objectivist and other libertarian political views, including the "Freedom's Nest",[2][failed verification] a database of books and quotes, and "We the Living", a large objectivist community website which is now defunct.
Bomis hosted Nupedia in 2000, and Larry Sanger was hired to manage and edit that project. A year into the development of Nupedia, Bomis decided the project was too expensive,[citation needed] and a so-called "wiki" was set up as a way to solicit free new drafts for Nupedia.
Wiki as a word, as a concept, and as a software technology for websites that allows multiple users to edit and update a text or program quickly and easily, was an invention of and created and developed by Ward Cunningham in 1994. The new online-encyclopedia based on Ward's wiki-technology, was named Wikipedia and it looked exactly the same as Cunningham's websites. While originally intended as a "feeder" project for Nupedia, Wikipedia—with its much lower barriers to contribution, and its much lower costs for Bomis—rapidly outgrew its parent in size and attention.
The Wikimedia Foundation was formally announced on June 20, 2003. All intellectual property and domain name assets, including "Wikipedia", were transferred or donated over to the foundation, which was registered as a non-profit organization, but the server hardware was not transferred.[3] Bomis CEO Tim Shell became the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the foundation, with Jimmy Wales as another board member.
Above info was moved to talk page from main article page.
Please don't move back to main article space unless properly sourced conforming to both WP:RS and WP:V.
Some of above also violated WP:NOR.
Cheers,
— Cirt (talk) 01:32, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
Noted already above but will add here for emphasis:
The article in its present state uses some primary sources.
For best durability and reliability, best to stick to secondary sources.
Will begin to shift to that format after a bit more research.
Cheers,
— Cirt (talk) 04:50, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
Regarding edits by QuackGuru to the lede intro sect of the article:
Do we really need citations in the lede intro sect?
It's all sourced later on to secondary sources in the main article body text.
Thoughts?
— Cirt (talk) 06:45, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Some things on my To Do list related to additional quality improvement for this article:
Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 07:23, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Comparison of quality improvements so far:
Next up:
Cheers,
— Cirt (talk) 06:18, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
I've nominated this article for review at WP:GAN as a candidate for Good Article quality.
Cheers,
— Cirt (talk) 06:51, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
I've submitted this article for copy edit by the Guild of Copy Editors through their request process at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors.
Cheers,
— Cirt (talk) 06:54, 19 January 2014 (UTC)
This article had a review and was successfully promoted to WP:GA quality. Review is at Talk:Bomis/GA1. — Cirt (talk) 01:19, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you,
— Cirt (talk) 11:31, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
This article had a copy edit through the Guild of Copy Editors process.
Result herebyMiniapolis.
My thanks for this copy edit by Miniapolis, the article looks much better for it!
Much appreciated,
— Cirt (talk) 20:05, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
I checked but failed to find any talk page discussion justifying this drive-by reference tagging -- so I removed those drive-by tags.
Cheers,
— Cirt (talk) 19:21, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
Note to self: Go through status of links at Checklinks. — Cirt (talk) 02:59, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
I'm using the publisher field in the citations to note the archival database used to access the article.
In most cases this is LexisNexis, it's possible if not there it was NewsBank.
Hopefully in the future people with bots and/or scripts won't come through and remove the publisher field, because that is very valuable and useful info namely the archive database name of which to access the article(s).
Placing here on the talk page in the hope that others will see this in the future in the event that information might (but hopefully not) get removed from those citation fields.
— Cirt (talk) 00:15, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
The 2014 book The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution cites a specific diff link to this particular article talk page:
Talk:Bomis, revisions made by Jimmy Wales, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=11139857
Also a positive mention on page 440:
Tellingly and laudably, Wikipedia's entries on its own history and the roles of Wales and Sanger have turned out, after much fighting on the discussion boards, to be balanced and objective.
— Cirt (talk) 02:43, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
— Cirt (talk) 03:01, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
Did some cite re-formatting, modeled after WP:FAs including The General in His Labyrinth and Mario Vargas Llosa.
Will try to break those cites into more specific ones with smaller page ranges and/or individual pages.
However I don't (at the moment) have immediate access to all the sources I once had when successfully bringing this article to WP:GA quality as I did in the past.
Fortunately I made sure throughout the Quality improvement project, that multiple references back up most facts and most sentences.
— Cirt (talk) 20:05, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
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For mundane claims the WorldNetDaily is reliable. QuackGuru (talk) 19:25, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
The current source for Bomis rhyming with promise is a presentation from an Information Ethics class at U of Michigan which mentions the fact in a parenthetical when linking to this article, and although it's admittedly not 100% certain that he got this pronunciation from the wiki page, it seems likely, which would mean this source is circular. The oldest version of the article with the pronunciation present (or at lest the last time it was edited back in) was Damian Yerrick's Revision as of 23:10, 13 August 2009. At that time it was sourced to bomis.com itself, specifically to its FAQ page. Using the Wayback Machine, I looked at an image of bomis.com from June 12, 2000, and the FAQ page indeed confirms the pronunciation, although rhyming it with "Thomas" instead. Should the source be changed to the Wayback image of the FAQ? Why was it changed? Should we change the pronunciation reference word to "Thomas"? or into IPA? Maondoza (talk) 04:06, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
In October 2017, Aquillion removed two bibliography citationsofWorldNetDaily (RSP entry) from Bomis § Bibliography. However, content linked to those removed citations is still present in Bomis § Aftermath, and without the citations, the content is incompletely referenced. There are two options:
Restoring the WorldNetDaily citations without the addition of reliable sources is not a valid option, since the source is deprecated and its published claims would constitute undue weight. — Newslinger talk 11:03, 17 February 2019 (UTC)