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Smmurphy, the new Omaha-related biographies you've written are outstanding. I stand in awe of the depth of your research and the breadth of what you've uncovered. By comparison, I feel my contributions here have been lazily minimalistic and unnecessarily narrow. Thanks for showing me a different way. • Freechild | talk to me 17:39, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
FYI, I left that letter out of The First National Conference of the Colored Women of America article because Maude Jenkins, Ruffin's descendant, specifically wrote, "The famous letter accelerated the timing for the call to meet in Boston. It was not the catalyst." [1] My personal feeling is that the name of that letter writer should be forgotten forever, and he should not be given credit for an idea that these women came up with on their own - but if we must mention him, can we at least not use the word "catalyst"? :) Rosekelleher ( talk) 15:09, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
p.s. Also, I think I remember reading that she sent out copies of the letter with the call to the conference, not before. Rosekelleher ( talk) 15:16, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
p.p.s. Sorry to keep p.s.ing. Jenkins also wrote, "A club member in New York City wrote a letter to the Woman's Era which expressed the fear that history might record the Jacks letter as a catalyst." And finally, yes, I remembered correctly, the letter was distributed with the call, not before it. Take a look at the actual call, if you get a chance: [1] I have to run but I'll be back Rosekelleher ( talk) 15:23, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, I'm Rasimmons. Smmurphy, thanks for creating U.S. national anthem protests!
I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. This is actually a really good article, I think - or at least it has the makings of one. It's just written like a research paper rather than an encyclopedia article. That can be easily remedied with some changes to diction.
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. R. A. Simmons Talk 17:42, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
What is Woodruff's connection to the AP Poll? WikiOriginal-9 ( talk) 20:44, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hello Smmurphy. You recently declined the above-named submission. Although I had submitted that draft, I did so only because the article creator had botched the submission process and requested help at the AfC Help Desk. The notifications that appeared on my Talk page have been copy-pasted into the Talk page for User:Ivana Petriskova. NewYorkActuary ( talk) 14:11, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Smmurphy,
As an AfC reviewer you're probably aware that a new user right has been created for patrolling new pages (you might even have been granted the right already, and admins have it automatically).
Since July there has been a very serious backlog at Special:NewPagesFeed of over 14,000 pages, by far the worst since 2011, and we need an all out drive to get this back down to just a few hundred that can be easily maintained in the future. Unlike AfC, these pages are already in mainspace, and the thought of what might be there is quite scary. There are also many good faith article creators who need a simple, gentle push to the Tea House or their pages converted to Draft rather than being deleted.
Although New Page Reviewing can occasionally be somewhat more challenging than AfC, the criteria for obtaining the right are roughly the same. The Page Curation tool is even easier to use than the Helper Script, so it's likely that most AfC reviewers already have more than enough knowledge for the task of New Page Review.
It is hoped that AfC reviewers will apply for this right at WP:PERM and lend a hand. You'll need to have read the page at WP:NPR and the new tutorial.
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I think the BPPE is the reliable source for reference: https://app.dca.ca.gov/bppe/view-voc-names.asp?schlname=california+science+and+technology+university&Submit=Search
which is a link from the government. Please let me know if you can agree.
I think the BPPE is the reliable source for reference: https://app.dca.ca.gov/bppe/view-voc-names.asp?schlname=california+science+and+technology+university&Submit=Search
which is a link from the government. Please let me know if you can agree.
02:03, 22 November 2016 (UTC) Qin790 ( talk)
Because of your good comments, I started a discussion (hopefully) at Wikiproject Law, here. MBUSHIstory ( talk) 18:12, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Smmurphy,
I've made several revisions to the page after looking at the page with a set of fresh eyes and realizing where I went wrong when creating. Wondering if it makes any difference if the sources cited are configured as footnotes--or if they need to be written in the form to go under the "References" section. Please let me know if one is more valuable over the other.
Thanks! Kaforney ( talk) 16:59, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Thank you Smmurphy for that response! Incredibly helpful! This is my first time creating an article so I'm still learning about what's considered encyclopedic vs. advertising. Your direct feedback and tips are much appreciated and extremely constructive for my understanding.
Kaforney ( talk) 17:53, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Smmurphy:
I looked at the Wiki pages on notability, verifiability, and the golden rule, then searched for Skye Canyon reporting from the third-party sources that you provided in your header and on Wikipedia's news sources. I can find plenty of news sources from Google News "Skye Canyon," but the sources are mostly local Las Vegas news channels (KLAS-TV, KTNV Las Vegas, and News3LV), in addition to Las Vegas Review Journal, with an 1-2 article(s) by VEGAS INC, Nevada Business Magazine, Las Vegas Business Press, and Builder Magazine in the mix. I found one article by Manufacturing Close-Up magazine when searching on the HighBeam Research database you gave me. I thought these sources had sufficient credibility, but I think I used many of the same or similar in the original draft I submitted, in which you commented that they weren't credible enough to be found reliable. I can't seem to find any sources other than those mentioned... Does that mean I'm out of luck? For example, here is the one I found on HighBeam: https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-35475353.html
Thanks again for all of your help! Much appreciated! Kaforney ( talk) 22:39, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
Have all the other accounting softwares listed in the article
Comparison of accounting software satisfied the notability requirement?
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For the article "Queensland University Exchange Student Society", I don't understand what the expectations are to make this article credible.
The article I'm trying to add is for a university society, it's not like there are peer-reviewed journals on the topic. All references to the club are within the online sphere of the university, as would be expected of most university clubs. Many of the clubs at UQ have wikipedia pages, despite much lower membership or notability, and judging by those pages, the referencing for this article is at least as adequate. Please see the approved pages of "University of Queensland Business Association" and "University of Queensland Medical Society" as examples and tell me how these are acceptable yet my article is not.
Thank you. I'll try and make some improvements but I don't understand the different standards.
Thank you for your feedback. I shall make the necessary changes relative to the tone in an attempt to avoid what you term as "peacock" terms, but I'd appreciate if you could elaborate a bit more with regards to the "Inline Citations" since I have included references below for source materials. Do you mean simply number them within the paragraph sections as well then cross reference them in the reference section?Bobby Salerno 18:57, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
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Today you declined my draft submission for the above-mentioned wikipedia article. You stated that the article "read more like an advertisement" and that it needed 3rd party references. I've just re-read the article, and need some help identifying any statements that "read like an advertisement". And the references I used were from the governmental agencies that own and manage the park ... which would seem to be pretty authoritative sources for statistics about the park. It does not seem to me like links to newspaper articles about the park would be necessarily accurate, or have a permanent presence on the internet.
I live in close proximity to this park, and would like to submit an accurate, helpful and informative article. The information I included so far in the draft is only a start ... but I wanted to see how everything here at Wikipedia works before committing a large number of hours to writing an in-depth article. I would welcome your help in pointing out specific sections of the article that you feel are in violation of Wikipedia's policies. pfh 02:02, 7 December 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paulfranklinherman ( talk • contribs)
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Hi Smmurphy! I've tried to create a better context starting off this article about Eress as per your advice, please check to see you think it's what we need.
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Dear Snmurphy
Thank you for reviewing my draft profile on Bassim Haidar. I am really keen to get it right but do not understand what you mean by your comment "It is preferable that citations not consist solely of bare URLs; any full format is fine". The citations do not consist 'solely of bare URLs' - you will see that I have already included several footnotes as substantiating references following Matthew Vanitas' initial feedback. I do not understand why linking to an external website for supplementary information is considered unacceptable as this seems to be accepted practice on Wikipedia. I have read the page you referred me to on Citing Sources but am none the wiser.
Please would you explain what I need to do, if anything, to meet the required standard as this is my first submission? Thanks in advance for your help. Wordsetc Wordsetc ( talk) 13:03, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Wordsetc ( talk) 13:03, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello again and sorry to disturb you with this matter again. I´ve included a set of external links to news articles from all around europe in order to show the notability of this subject. What du you think of this? I dare not to click on resubmit... Kind regards. Mark
MarkKosmopolit (
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Hi Smmurphy,
I've have seen that you have rejected my article due to unverifiable resources.As I am a new contributor to Wikipedia and still not familiar to creating and editing articles,I would really like to ask your help in adding the resources necessary for the article under the "References" section.I am doing this article for my parish church for the 110th anniversary.All your help would be appreciated.Below are the few online articles related to the one article i'm creating.Thank you, Yours truly,Davidrajamuthu
http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/11/190350/why-homes-are-still-needed
For the second time my article submission declined by Wikipedia of the name “Habib Construction Services” It is stated that I being a national of same country, i want to have complete knowledge regarding details about my country and its locations. While searching for new developments in Pakistan I came across many pages at Wikipedia few are listed below with few things in red fonts and carry very little info about them i.e.
Chowk Minar-e-Pakistan ( /info/en/?search=Chowk_Minar-e-Pakistan ) Saggian Interchange ( /info/en/?search=Saggian_Interchange ) Harbanspura Interchange ( /info/en/?search=Harbanspura_Interchange )
Lahore Ring Road ( /info/en/?search=Lahore_Ring_Road ) Lahore Metrobus ( /info/en/?search=Lahore_Metrobus )
And many more are on Wikipedia if you search above name in wiki… so I decided to put info about those in red fonts I started with Habib Construction Services.
One example I want to give here regarding the reason tagged while declining my request is about Turner Construction (
/info/en/?search=Turner_Construction ) which inspired me to lodge a request about my proposed contribution. Almost same words are being used in this wiki article and this becomes legal how can be? On the other hand you tagged my article as advertising… if this is the case then Turner Construction page is also advertising.
So my first point is why these double standards are on Wikipedia… my 2nd point is that I have edited my article for the third time to meet your requirements because I want to be a senior editor on wiki and want to contribute regarding info about my country Pakistan.
Another example is on wiki ( /info/en/?search=Suffolk_Construction_Company ) If I was the one submitting the above linked page article (Suffolk Construction) I swear one of your wiki moderator will reject my article… but because its from a US based company the page is alive. Kindly give me a reason why my article fall in advertisement category and these above examples are exempted, just give me one convincing reason. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.255.5.55 ( talk) 06:35, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Minor people is a reference to people who have not received much coverage in reliable sources in the context I meant when all the coverage focuses on one event. That is all I meant by the statement. They are people who have not made a major impact and not received major attention. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 00:33, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
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So, finally I've done a thorough update on the Eress page. Following your guidelines I've included a full citation (chicago style) where it's useful, but please note that in a very few places a found that inline citation made the page easier to read. Maybe it's just me not being in my native tounge...
I also erased a couple of blocks of text that I started to think wasn't needed.
There is still a couple of uncited lines of text. Do you think that will be a problem?
I'm thankful of all the help you've already given me in this subject. Best regards. Mark
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Hi again and thank you for your positive words, having a huge difference to me as I surely would have given this up already last year! I've redone the lede paragraph and I like it, I think I'm getting the hang of it, thanks to you. But what I would like to do at this point is to clean up the References a bit. One of the articles having several relevant facts are cited multiple times thus clogging the references part a bit. I've tried naming the REF's, but got an alert. How do I go about fixing this issue, and do you think we are ready to let this baby go public after this touch up? And if you notice more areas that can be improved, do not hesitate to tell me, please.
Best regards. Mark
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Thanks for helping at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Whiteside, Northumberland. I learned a bit from that. For the heck of it I followed you to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wholeness axiom. I tried to make my !vote there sound like I had a clue about the topic! :) -- do ncr am 05:05, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
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Smmurphy, the new Omaha-related biographies you've written are outstanding. I stand in awe of the depth of your research and the breadth of what you've uncovered. By comparison, I feel my contributions here have been lazily minimalistic and unnecessarily narrow. Thanks for showing me a different way. • Freechild | talk to me 17:39, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
FYI, I left that letter out of The First National Conference of the Colored Women of America article because Maude Jenkins, Ruffin's descendant, specifically wrote, "The famous letter accelerated the timing for the call to meet in Boston. It was not the catalyst." [1] My personal feeling is that the name of that letter writer should be forgotten forever, and he should not be given credit for an idea that these women came up with on their own - but if we must mention him, can we at least not use the word "catalyst"? :) Rosekelleher ( talk) 15:09, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
p.s. Also, I think I remember reading that she sent out copies of the letter with the call to the conference, not before. Rosekelleher ( talk) 15:16, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
p.p.s. Sorry to keep p.s.ing. Jenkins also wrote, "A club member in New York City wrote a letter to the Woman's Era which expressed the fear that history might record the Jacks letter as a catalyst." And finally, yes, I remembered correctly, the letter was distributed with the call, not before it. Take a look at the actual call, if you get a chance: [1] I have to run but I'll be back Rosekelleher ( talk) 15:23, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
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LOL. Whatever supplement you're taking, I want some! Rosekelleher ( talk) 15:27, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
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Thanks for creating Mary Louvestre, Smmurphy!
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Hi, I'm Rasimmons. Smmurphy, thanks for creating U.S. national anthem protests!
I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. This is actually a really good article, I think - or at least it has the makings of one. It's just written like a research paper rather than an encyclopedia article. That can be easily remedied with some changes to diction.
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse. R. A. Simmons Talk 17:42, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
What is Woodruff's connection to the AP Poll? WikiOriginal-9 ( talk) 20:44, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hello Smmurphy. You recently declined the above-named submission. Although I had submitted that draft, I did so only because the article creator had botched the submission process and requested help at the AfC Help Desk. The notifications that appeared on my Talk page have been copy-pasted into the Talk page for User:Ivana Petriskova. NewYorkActuary ( talk) 14:11, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Smmurphy,
As an AfC reviewer you're probably aware that a new user right has been created for patrolling new pages (you might even have been granted the right already, and admins have it automatically).
Since July there has been a very serious backlog at Special:NewPagesFeed of over 14,000 pages, by far the worst since 2011, and we need an all out drive to get this back down to just a few hundred that can be easily maintained in the future. Unlike AfC, these pages are already in mainspace, and the thought of what might be there is quite scary. There are also many good faith article creators who need a simple, gentle push to the Tea House or their pages converted to Draft rather than being deleted.
Although New Page Reviewing can occasionally be somewhat more challenging than AfC, the criteria for obtaining the right are roughly the same. The Page Curation tool is even easier to use than the Helper Script, so it's likely that most AfC reviewers already have more than enough knowledge for the task of New Page Review.
It is hoped that AfC reviewers will apply for this right at WP:PERM and lend a hand. You'll need to have read the page at WP:NPR and the new tutorial.
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I think the BPPE is the reliable source for reference: https://app.dca.ca.gov/bppe/view-voc-names.asp?schlname=california+science+and+technology+university&Submit=Search
which is a link from the government. Please let me know if you can agree.
I think the BPPE is the reliable source for reference: https://app.dca.ca.gov/bppe/view-voc-names.asp?schlname=california+science+and+technology+university&Submit=Search
which is a link from the government. Please let me know if you can agree.
02:03, 22 November 2016 (UTC) Qin790 ( talk)
Because of your good comments, I started a discussion (hopefully) at Wikiproject Law, here. MBUSHIstory ( talk) 18:12, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
Hi Smmurphy,
I've made several revisions to the page after looking at the page with a set of fresh eyes and realizing where I went wrong when creating. Wondering if it makes any difference if the sources cited are configured as footnotes--or if they need to be written in the form to go under the "References" section. Please let me know if one is more valuable over the other.
Thanks! Kaforney ( talk) 16:59, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Thank you Smmurphy for that response! Incredibly helpful! This is my first time creating an article so I'm still learning about what's considered encyclopedic vs. advertising. Your direct feedback and tips are much appreciated and extremely constructive for my understanding.
Kaforney ( talk) 17:53, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Smmurphy:
I looked at the Wiki pages on notability, verifiability, and the golden rule, then searched for Skye Canyon reporting from the third-party sources that you provided in your header and on Wikipedia's news sources. I can find plenty of news sources from Google News "Skye Canyon," but the sources are mostly local Las Vegas news channels (KLAS-TV, KTNV Las Vegas, and News3LV), in addition to Las Vegas Review Journal, with an 1-2 article(s) by VEGAS INC, Nevada Business Magazine, Las Vegas Business Press, and Builder Magazine in the mix. I found one article by Manufacturing Close-Up magazine when searching on the HighBeam Research database you gave me. I thought these sources had sufficient credibility, but I think I used many of the same or similar in the original draft I submitted, in which you commented that they weren't credible enough to be found reliable. I can't seem to find any sources other than those mentioned... Does that mean I'm out of luck? For example, here is the one I found on HighBeam: https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-35475353.html
Thanks again for all of your help! Much appreciated! Kaforney ( talk) 22:39, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
Have all the other accounting softwares listed in the article
Comparison of accounting software satisfied the notability requirement?
MattyJ44 (
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For the article "Queensland University Exchange Student Society", I don't understand what the expectations are to make this article credible.
The article I'm trying to add is for a university society, it's not like there are peer-reviewed journals on the topic. All references to the club are within the online sphere of the university, as would be expected of most university clubs. Many of the clubs at UQ have wikipedia pages, despite much lower membership or notability, and judging by those pages, the referencing for this article is at least as adequate. Please see the approved pages of "University of Queensland Business Association" and "University of Queensland Medical Society" as examples and tell me how these are acceptable yet my article is not.
Thank you. I'll try and make some improvements but I don't understand the different standards.
Thank you for your feedback. I shall make the necessary changes relative to the tone in an attempt to avoid what you term as "peacock" terms, but I'd appreciate if you could elaborate a bit more with regards to the "Inline Citations" since I have included references below for source materials. Do you mean simply number them within the paragraph sections as well then cross reference them in the reference section?Bobby Salerno 18:57, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
Bobby Salerno 18:57, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
Today you declined my draft submission for the above-mentioned wikipedia article. You stated that the article "read more like an advertisement" and that it needed 3rd party references. I've just re-read the article, and need some help identifying any statements that "read like an advertisement". And the references I used were from the governmental agencies that own and manage the park ... which would seem to be pretty authoritative sources for statistics about the park. It does not seem to me like links to newspaper articles about the park would be necessarily accurate, or have a permanent presence on the internet.
I live in close proximity to this park, and would like to submit an accurate, helpful and informative article. The information I included so far in the draft is only a start ... but I wanted to see how everything here at Wikipedia works before committing a large number of hours to writing an in-depth article. I would welcome your help in pointing out specific sections of the article that you feel are in violation of Wikipedia's policies. pfh 02:02, 7 December 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paulfranklinherman ( talk • contribs)
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Hi Smmurphy! I've tried to create a better context starting off this article about Eress as per your advice, please check to see you think it's what we need.
MarkKosmopolit (
talk) 12:19, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Dear Snmurphy
Thank you for reviewing my draft profile on Bassim Haidar. I am really keen to get it right but do not understand what you mean by your comment "It is preferable that citations not consist solely of bare URLs; any full format is fine". The citations do not consist 'solely of bare URLs' - you will see that I have already included several footnotes as substantiating references following Matthew Vanitas' initial feedback. I do not understand why linking to an external website for supplementary information is considered unacceptable as this seems to be accepted practice on Wikipedia. I have read the page you referred me to on Citing Sources but am none the wiser.
Please would you explain what I need to do, if anything, to meet the required standard as this is my first submission? Thanks in advance for your help. Wordsetc Wordsetc ( talk) 13:03, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Wordsetc ( talk) 13:03, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello again and sorry to disturb you with this matter again. I´ve included a set of external links to news articles from all around europe in order to show the notability of this subject. What du you think of this? I dare not to click on resubmit... Kind regards. Mark
MarkKosmopolit (
talk) 13:27, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi Smmurphy,
I've have seen that you have rejected my article due to unverifiable resources.As I am a new contributor to Wikipedia and still not familiar to creating and editing articles,I would really like to ask your help in adding the resources necessary for the article under the "References" section.I am doing this article for my parish church for the 110th anniversary.All your help would be appreciated.Below are the few online articles related to the one article i'm creating.Thank you, Yours truly,Davidrajamuthu
http://www.nst.com.my/news/2016/11/190350/why-homes-are-still-needed
For the second time my article submission declined by Wikipedia of the name “Habib Construction Services” It is stated that I being a national of same country, i want to have complete knowledge regarding details about my country and its locations. While searching for new developments in Pakistan I came across many pages at Wikipedia few are listed below with few things in red fonts and carry very little info about them i.e.
Chowk Minar-e-Pakistan ( /info/en/?search=Chowk_Minar-e-Pakistan ) Saggian Interchange ( /info/en/?search=Saggian_Interchange ) Harbanspura Interchange ( /info/en/?search=Harbanspura_Interchange )
Lahore Ring Road ( /info/en/?search=Lahore_Ring_Road ) Lahore Metrobus ( /info/en/?search=Lahore_Metrobus )
And many more are on Wikipedia if you search above name in wiki… so I decided to put info about those in red fonts I started with Habib Construction Services.
One example I want to give here regarding the reason tagged while declining my request is about Turner Construction (
/info/en/?search=Turner_Construction ) which inspired me to lodge a request about my proposed contribution. Almost same words are being used in this wiki article and this becomes legal how can be? On the other hand you tagged my article as advertising… if this is the case then Turner Construction page is also advertising.
So my first point is why these double standards are on Wikipedia… my 2nd point is that I have edited my article for the third time to meet your requirements because I want to be a senior editor on wiki and want to contribute regarding info about my country Pakistan.
Another example is on wiki ( /info/en/?search=Suffolk_Construction_Company ) If I was the one submitting the above linked page article (Suffolk Construction) I swear one of your wiki moderator will reject my article… but because its from a US based company the page is alive. Kindly give me a reason why my article fall in advertisement category and these above examples are exempted, just give me one convincing reason. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.255.5.55 ( talk) 06:35, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Minor people is a reference to people who have not received much coverage in reliable sources in the context I meant when all the coverage focuses on one event. That is all I meant by the statement. They are people who have not made a major impact and not received major attention. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 00:33, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, I was wondering if IMDB counts as a reliable source as my page has been declined.
Could you lend me a hand in getting it approved? What should I change?
Thank you!
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Stefanie Rabatsch, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Chris Troutman ( talk) 01:21, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
So, finally I've done a thorough update on the Eress page. Following your guidelines I've included a full citation (chicago style) where it's useful, but please note that in a very few places a found that inline citation made the page easier to read. Maybe it's just me not being in my native tounge...
I also erased a couple of blocks of text that I started to think wasn't needed.
There is still a couple of uncited lines of text. Do you think that will be a problem?
I'm thankful of all the help you've already given me in this subject. Best regards. Mark
MarkKosmopolit (
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MarkKosmopolit (
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Hi again and thank you for your positive words, having a huge difference to me as I surely would have given this up already last year! I've redone the lede paragraph and I like it, I think I'm getting the hang of it, thanks to you. But what I would like to do at this point is to clean up the References a bit. One of the articles having several relevant facts are cited multiple times thus clogging the references part a bit. I've tried naming the REF's, but got an alert. How do I go about fixing this issue, and do you think we are ready to let this baby go public after this touch up? And if you notice more areas that can be improved, do not hesitate to tell me, please.
Best regards. Mark
MarkKosmopolit (
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MarkKosmopolit ( talk) 13:07, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for helping at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Whiteside, Northumberland. I learned a bit from that. For the heck of it I followed you to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wholeness axiom. I tried to make my !vote there sound like I had a clue about the topic! :) -- do ncr am 05:05, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
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