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Wikipedia:Highbeam/Nav This page is designed to manage the applications process for editors who want access to a free, full-access, 1-year HighBeam Research account. HighBeam has indicated that they will defer to the community's judgment about which editors will qualify for a free account. Because they do not have a strict limit on the number of free accounts they are willing to give us, there is unlikely to be a problem of too many editors trying to get too few accounts. The criteria and an explanation of the application process are listed below.

Requirements
  • You do not have free online access to HighBeam through your local library or university
  • You have your Wikipedia email enabled
  • You have an account that is a minimum of 1 year old
  • You have a minimum of 1000 edits to the encyclopedia
  • Ideally, you are active in content generation, research, and verification work.
Process
  • Promotion of the application process will begin on March 13, 2012
  • The free accounts will be widely advertised on Wikipedia community pages, content portals, wikiprojects, mailing lists, and available media (Signpost, Wikimedia Blog)
  • Applications will open on Monday April 2, 2012 at 10am Eastern Standard Time (EST) and remain open until Monday April 9 at 12pm EST
  • Applications will not be given on a first-come first serve basis; in the unlikely event that there are more eligible editors than accounts, they will be assigned randomly
  • Account access codes will be emailed to all participants by Monday April 16 at 12pm EST
Expectations for use
  • All editors are encouraged to apply where they have a need for background reading, research, verification, or content writing
  • Editors should try out and use the HighBeam account during their free access period
  • Editors should always provide original citation information, in addition to linking a HighBeam article, per WP:V and WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT
  • Editors should not provide bare links to non-free HighBeam pages
  • Editors should note "(subscription required)" in the citation, where appropriate
  • Your application suggests you've read this and will give it a fair shot :)

Example application

  1. User:Name. Active Wikimedia project(s). History of content, research, or verification work. Intentions for future research.
  2. User:Ocaasi. English Wikipedia. I write biographies about alternative medicine practitioners and Middle Eastern political activists. I intend to continue this work, specifically writing about Gabriel Cousens and the Egyptian presidential election, 2012. Ocaasi t | c 21:37, 13 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Applications

Feel free to add your name below, but no applications will be considered until Monday, April 2, 2012 at 10am Eastern Standard Time (EST). If there is a shortage, applications will be given on a random basis to all who meet the basic qualifications. Please tell your wiki-friends, WikiProjects, and other fora you frequent about this opportunity.

  1. User:Vejvančický. English Wikipedia. 4 years of experience, cca 24,000 edits, content related work (content creation, verification, referencing, deletion (mainly CAT:CSD), deletion discussions), WP:ADMIN, WP:CREDO. The access could be very useful for my work. Thanks for considering this application. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 13:41, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  2. User:Orangemike Admin on English-language Wikipedia; 8 years experience, 81,000+ edits, content-related work (creation, expansion, verification, article rescue) where access to Highbeam would be useful. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:35, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  3. User:Gobonobo. English Wikipedia. ~4 years experience, 40,000 edits, content-related work (creation, expansion, referencing). Intend to work on 20th century biographies and the backlog at Category:BLP articles lacking sources. --Gobōnobo + c 16:48, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  4. User:Racconish. English, French and Italian Wikipedias. 3 years experience, 18,000+ edits, content-related work (creation, expansion, verification, article rescue) where access to Highbeam would be useful.— Racconish Tk 17:56, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  5. User:Pharaoh of the Wizards English Wikipedia . 5 Years experience ,38000 + edits ,content-related work (content creation,expansion, verification, referencing) access to Highbeam will be very useful.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 19:21, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  6. User:Prioryman English Wikipedia. Between this and a former account, 8 years' experience and about 60,000 edits, primarily in content creation (see my userpage for various FAs, GAs, DYKs and other articles I've written). Prioryman (talk) 20:20, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  7. User:Wehwalt English Wikipedia. 5 years experience, almost 70,000 edits. Over 60 FAs in various fields, especially history, politics, and numismatics. Plan to keep working in those areas. See my userpage, although I don't update it much.--Wehwalt (talk) 20:24, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  8. User:Nikthestoned, English Wikipedia. ~2 years experience, >17,000 edits almost all in content creation / expansion; over 70 well sourced articles created. Nikthestoned 12:35, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  9. User:Dravecky, English-language Wikipedia, nearly 5 years experience and over 74,000 edits, am an admin but spend most of my time in content creation, especially broadcasting, Alabama and Texas history, and other areas that would benefit strongly from access to Highbeam's resources. - Dravecky (talk) 13:26, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  10. User:Resolute, English Wikipedia, 7 years experience and 37,000 edits. Like Dravecky, I am a content admin, with 50 good and featured articles to my credit. I tend to focus on ice hockey and Canadian history topics. Resolute 14:00, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  11. User:Djsasso, English Wikipedia and Simple English Wikipedia, 7+ years of experience and 90,000 edits. -DJSasso (talk) 14:20, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  12. User:MikeLynch, English and Sanskrit language Wikipedia, admin in both. ~2 years of experience and over 20,000 global edits. Active in content creation in English as well as Indian language Wikimedia projects. Lynch7 14:46, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  13. User:Vibhijain, English Wikipedia, 1 year of experience. 8500 local edits and 20,000 global edits. ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ Talk Email 14:48, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  14. User:The ed17, English Wikipedia, 4 years of experience, 39,000 edits, administrator. I've written 20 FAs, all focused around 20th century naval history. I'm really interested in the newspaper archives offered by Highbeam (see South American dreadnought race for how I'd use them). Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 15:08, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  15. --Aschmidt (talk) 15:31, 15 March 2012 (UTC) German Wikipedia since 2005, some 13,000 edits there, editing articles mainly on law, economics, media, current affairs, free software. The newspaper and journal archive would be a great help both for improving and for writing new articles on my subjects. Thanks for considering my application.--Aschmidt (talk) 15:31, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Liesel (talk) 15:59, 15 March 2012 (UTC) german wikipedia since 2005, over 22000 edits in articles, themes: railroad, motorsport, geography[reply]
  17. --Nicola54 (talk) 16:06, 15 March 2012 (UTC) German Wikipedia since 2004, some 57.000 edits, editing articles mainly on history of sports and cycling. The archive would help me to find out more about biographies of veteran sports people and historical sports events.[reply]
  18. Polarlys German Wikipedia, active since 2004, 49000 edits, 31000 in articles, topics: medicine, scientists/biographies, regularly had no access especially to newspaper archives for essential biographic information. Thank you for consideration. --Polarlys (talk) 16:10, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Emeritus German Wikipedia, 8000 edits since 2009, topics: Pacific history and politics, indigenous peoples. --Emeritus (talk) 16:41, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  20. DerHexer, editor since 2005; sysop on German and English Wikipedia, steward on Meta Wiki; 250'000 edits; 900'000 sysop actions; one featured and one good article (dozens written with main topic antiquity), three featured pictures (thousands uploaded); after having finished my Master thesis in summer 2012 I will not anylonger have access to journal archives.
  21. SlimVirgin, English Wikipedia, editor since November 2004; 120,000 edits, around 42 percent to articles, mainly focusing on content review and creation, including 10 featured articles and one GA. I write a lot of current affairs pieces, so access to a good news database would be very useful. SlimVirgin (talk) 17:05, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  22. -- Achim Raschka (talk) 17:11, 15 March 2012 (UTC) - editor and author since 2003 in the German WP, lots of edits, ~100 good article (‘lesenswert’) and ~50 featured (‘exzellent’) ones in the German WP -- Achim Raschka (talk) 17:11, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  23. NiTenIchiRyu, German and English Wikipedia editor since 2004, about 35,000 edits in the German and 1500 in the English Wikipedia, topics: history, biographies, art. --NiTen (talk) 17:16, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Ruud Koot, content creator on the English (and occasionally Dutch) Wikipedia since 2005. Working in particular on topics related to (the history of) science.
  25. Astynax, English Wikipedia, editor since 2006; 8,000 edits, approximately 74 percent to articles which include raising 10 to FA and 13 to GA status. I assist on various topics where the ability to provide citations from a news database would be helpful. • Astynax talk 17:29, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  26. Denis Barthel (talk) 18:55, 15 March 2012 (UTC), German Wikipedia (sometimes en), active since 2003, ~51.000 edits de, ~57.000 edits global, ~50 good and featured articles, topics: protozoology, botany, music (experimental, doom metal), quality TV.[reply]
  27. Zero0000 (talk), Editor since 2003 (over 15,000 edits), administrator since 2004. Mainly I edit historical articles related to the Middle East, with the particular emphasis of improving the quality of sources. Zerotalk 19:04, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  28. Marcus Cyron, Editor since 2005, Administrator en de:WP and Commons, more than 165.000 Edits in all WMDE projects (about 145.000 in de:WP; more than 15.000 on Commons; Author of more than 5.000 articles on de:WP, more than 30 are featured or good (mostly about the Classical world and Winter sports). And thanks again for showing, that only en:WP is important for the movement. Marcus Cyron (talk) 19:10, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  29. Binksternet, editing English Wikipedia for 4.6 years, top 300 users by edit count, with 2 FA, 35 GA and 134 DYK articles under my belt. I work primarily on article content, and I often find that Highbeam is holding a source that would greatly assist my work. Binksternet (talk) 19:27, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  30. tsor: user and administrator in de:WP, first edit July 2003, more than 81.000 edits. --Tsor (talk) 20:04, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  31. Elitre (talk · contribs · count) requesting an account for my activity on it.wiki. > 20,000 edits there (> 6700 in ns0) in 5 years, major contributor of a FA (1, 2, article stats), user of "Progetto Cococo" (local WikiProject Copyright Cleanup), sysop, OTRS agent. No access to reference works except for my Credo Account: I am going to notify the Italian community the same way I did for the Credo accounts, enabling some Italian fellow to get theirs. ----Elitre (talk) 20:14, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  32. Freimut Bahlo, editor since July 2007, 55,963 edits, Author of more than 2.000 articles on de:WP, part of the community Project jazz. 1 informative list (‘informative Liste’), 1 good article (‘lesenswert’) and 1 featured (‘exzellent’) in the German WP--Freimut Bahlo (talk) 20:20, 15 March 2012 (UTC) Anmeldezeitpunkt: 16. Juli 2007[reply]
  33. Redlinux editor since 2006; sysop on German Wikipedia and mentoring (with the largest number of mentees in de-wiki) (i.e. Adopt a User in en-wiki); cause I'm living in a rural area, I don't have access to journal archives. Most of my qualified articles [1] are on medical topics. Redlinux···→ 21:22, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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