Wikipedia:McFarland

McFarland
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Account Coordinator: The Interior

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McFarland & Company (Website) is an academic publisher based in North Carolina, in the United States. The company publishes works on a wide variety of topics, and specializes in covering areas often underrepresented in academic literature, such as video games, sports and popular culture. They also publish in a wide variety of more traditional academic areas, such as history, military history, performing arts, medieval studies, film studies, and more. McFarland has offered to send Wikipedia editors electronic copies of books that will aid in Wikipedia article research. E-books are available in PDF and EPUB formats. PDFs will be emailed as attachments to the requester; EPUB requests can be filled through the Google Play service (Google Account required). McFarland books will be distributed on a per-title basis, up to a maximum of five titles per editor per calendar year.*

• Exceptions can be made - please email the account coordinator with your rationale for an extended limit

Process[edit]

Please look through McFarland's online catalogue (advanced search) to find books in your area of interest. Log your request in the section below, and send an email to the account coordinator (earleypathotmail.com). Please include the book title, year and the author's full name in the request, and use "McFarland" as a subject line. Your titles (in PDF), or an access code for Google Play (for EPUB) will be sent to you through email. Requests will processed in two to three weeks.

Requirements[edit]

• You have an email account you are willing to share with McFarland and the account coordinator
• You have an Wikipedia account that is a minimum of six months old
• You have a minimum of 500 edits to the encyclopedia
• You are active in content generation, research, and/or verification work

If you don't quite meet the experience requirements but think you would still be a strong candidate for access, feel free to apply and you may be considered

Expectations[edit]

Approved editors may

• Search, view, retrieve, and display portions of restricted content
• Electronically save portions of restricted content
• Print out single copies of portions of restricted content
• Comply with any terms and conditions which appear on the materials they are accessing

Approved editors will not

• Mass scrape or mass download McFarland content
• Systematically make printed or electronic copies of multiple extracts of restricted content available for any purpose
• Datamine metadata without permission, in order, for instance, to use metadata for auto-created stub articles
• Use the access provided through the program for any commercial purpose

Private and confidential information

• You will need to have a confirmed email address to participate. You understand and agree that your username and email address may be shared with representatives of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia Library, and McFarland. While Wikipedia Library coordinators are volunteers (not employees or contractors of the Wikimedia Foundation or McFarland), they have signed confidentiality agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation with regards to the personal information they may handle for the Wikipedia Library.

Citation[edit]

• Editors should always provide original citation information, including an ISBN

Example

<ref> {{cite book |title=The Irish and the Making of American Sport, 1835–1920|author=Redmond, Patrick|isbn=978-1-4766-0584-5|publisher=McFarland & Company}}</ref>

• Redmond, Patrick. The Irish and the Making of American Sport, 1835–1920. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-1-4766-0584-5. 

Further participation[edit]

You can help The Wikipedia Library effectively leverage this partnership:

• Add {{Wikipedia:McFarland/Userbox}} to your user boxes. This helps us share our project with other experienced users.

Apply[edit]

Add yourself at the bottom of the list with a line starting with (eg. {{user8|Example|Project=en}}) followed by an explanation of what resource(s) you would like and for what purpose(s). It is a good idea to include in your application text your editing areas benefited by access to McFarland resources and examples of your commitment to content creation. Please specify the preferred format for your e-book, either PDF or EPUB (See "Process" section above).

1. NealeFamily (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I have been editing for over 5 years and have particular interest in WWII in present day Malaysia, New Zealand, biographies, and automobiles. I have made some 13,000 edits to several thousand articles and created just over 60 new articles. Access to McFarland would be useful in expanding some of these.NealeFamily (talk) 01:59, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

   Approved, NealeFamily, for this partnership, it's done through specific book requests. If you give me some title names, I can get them to you. The Interior (Talk) 21:31, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

2. Lingzhi (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email). Used to be Ling.Nut. 5 Fa's, etc. Will chip in at FAC/FAR/FARC; will add content (next project gender pay gap) Prefer PDF. • Lingzhi♦(talk) 07:06, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

   Approved, Lingzhi, I need specific titles if you want them - please see the steps at top. Happy to get them to you. The Interior (Talk) 00:09, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

3. dirtyharry667 (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I don't know how many edits or contributions I have, but I have been a member for many years. I have written several articles and have helped clean up several others. My primary interests have to do with corporate history and retail history. My most recent contributions were the August Wagner Breweries page and I am in the process of reworking the Gamble-Skogmo page. Having access to these data bases would be very helpful in nailing down acquisitions and mergers and their dates. I am not familiar with this database so it will be interesting to see what kind of content it has. Thank you. dirtyharry667 (talk) 3:21, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

   You have a total of 790 edits, @Dirtyharry667: :) --Soetermans. T / C 08:46, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

   At least twice as many; I wasn't as saavy about logging in until I got this invite. -- dirtyharry667 (talk) 08:46, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

   Pending - dirtyharry667, I'm happy to approve you, as we have lower the requirement to 500 edits for this partnership. However, please follow the steps listed above - this is not a database, but a catalog of books that must be requested per title. Once you've figured out which items you want, email me the titles at earleypathotmail.com and I'll get McFarland to send them on. The Interior (Talk) 15:32, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

4. Banej (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email)I have been editing on Wikipedia since 2009 and the bulk of my edits have been in present day Singapore, Video games, as well as companies and organisations. Access to McFarland would be useful, especially for video game related research.♠♠ BanëJ ♠♠ ^(Talk) 09:12, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
   • Pending, ♠♠ BanëJ ♠♠ - approved, but please see instructions at top of page. Need titles and an email. :) The Interior (Talk) 15:40, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

   I'm interested in the following titles The Video Games Guide, The Pleasures of Computer Gaming, Classic Home Video Games, 1985–1988 and Anime and the Visual Novel

   Excellent, ♠♠ BanëJ ♠♠ - please send me a quick email to earleypathotmail.com so I can get your email address to pass on to McFarland. Thanks!

5. SheriffIsInTown (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I would like to receive ebooks from McFarland to further my Wikipedia editing experience. Sheriff (report) 15:08, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
   • Pending, User:SheriffIsInTown - approved, but please see instructions at top of page. Need titles and an email. :) The Interior (Talk) 15:40, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
6. DaltonCastle (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I am a veteran editor with a wide range of topics I write about. Chief among them are politics, political corruption, human rights, law, history, corporate finance, economics, & tech firms. I would love to have access to MacFarland to provide additional resources for page creations! Let me know what more you need to know! Thank you for this opportunity! DaltonCastle (talk) 17:26, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
   • Pending, DaltonCastle - approved, but please see instructions at top of page. Need titles and an email. :) The Interior (Talk) 15:40, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
7. Checkingfax (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I am a 6-year editor with over 8,000 edits and always needing access to more references especially from books. Also, as a Pending-Changes-Reviewer many edit requests in the queue are good edits but lacking good references. I work on a multitude of subjects. Check my history. How do I get my email address to you or can you harvest it from my username? You have my permission to do that. Thank you. {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 09:22, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
   • Pending, Checkingfax - approved, but please see instructions at top of page. Need titles and an email. :) The Interior (Talk) 16:56, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
8. Coemgenus (talk · contribs · central auth · count · email) I've been edited for 10 years and many of the articles I write are about 19th-century American politics. McFarland publishes some reference work I often have a hard time finding, including United States Congressional elections, 1788–1997 and United States Gubernatorial Elections, 1861–1911. --Coemgenus (talk) 20:20, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
   • Very good, Coemgenus, email received. Approved The Interior (Talk) 17:05, 24 January 2016 (UTC)