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• The Wikipedia library has been a boon many times as I've been doing research. I doubt I could have gotten any of the articles I've worked on to FA without it. If you've never tried it, I strongly recommend it! Thanks for writing this article to spread the word. —Ganesha811 (talk) 06:14, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
• My thanks also for this article. I use the Wikipedia library frequently, especially JSTOR and Project Muse. I recall my pre-Wikipedia library days when I had to go to the local university library to access scholarly articles. On each visit, I would print several dozen pages of relevant articles at ten cents per page, but the library (perhaps because they noticed me printing sizeable amounts of stuff?) put a restriction on printing articles. Oh, the travails of writing articles for Wikipedia! Anyway, Wikipedia library has relieved me of the task of doing research at the university library and for that I am grateful, more efficient, and have a few more dimes in my pocket. Smallchief (talk) 08:31, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
• Great resource, if you can use it, you should. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 11:03, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
• A very useful resource for every Wikipedian editors, a must have!--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 00:01, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
• WPL is a great tool we all should know about. That said, let's not be hush-hush about extremly useful Library Genesis/Z-library. Last but not least, Internet Archive has a useful library of books too (although copyright trolls are about to kill it, I fear). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:11, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
• Aye, I'd be pretty SOL if I were to try to write the volcano/natural sciences articles w/o access to these sources. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 07:19, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

• Очень странно: меня не пускаю в этот проект, утверждая, что я имею активную блокировку. Однако, за все годы моего вики-участия я не был ни разу заблокирован. --VladimirPF (talk) 06:51, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

@VladimirPF You have a self-imposed block on ru.wikinews. Per the instructions in that image, you can contact us to request an exemption. Since you've posted here and I've looked into this, I've just granted you one, so you should now be able to use the library if you log out and back in :) Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 12:18, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

• I noticed it says "automatic access" and not general access... did I miss the part where it said how to gain access manually, or was there just not a way? UnexpectedSmoreInquisition (talk) 13:53, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

  @UnexpectedSmoreInquisition We don't currently grant access to editors who are below the requirements, so access to the library in general is automated by those criteria checks. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 13:56, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

  Understood. UnexpectedSmoreInquisition (talk) 13:57, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

• WML is an exceptional resource. Thanks to all who work to source these databases for us and all the engineers that keep it working. jengod (talk) 21:11, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
• I adore the Wikipedia Library; I've tracked down more sources than I can easily remember in it. Many thanks and much gratitude to the people who keep it working. Happy editing, SilverTiger12 (talk) 00:09, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
• Constantly great for the military sciences!! Buckshot06 (talk) 08:00, 1 October 2023 (UTC)