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Your submission at Articles for creation: Brian Dailey (May 5)[edit]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Brian Dailey has been accepted[edit]

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Reply to your Articles for Creation Help Desk question[edit]

Hello, Gaw54! I'm Wikiisawesome. I have replied to your question about a submission at the WikiProject Articles for Creation Help Desk. /wia /talk 01:58, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Wikiawesome. That's awesome!Gaw54 (talk) 02:24, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Again, welcome! JAaron95 | Talk | Contribs 02:12, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks [[User:Jaaron95| for the cookies and warm welcome to Wikipedia. I'm looking forward to spending more time creating and editing articles and I appreciate the additional tips. I'm also going to continue to improve my first page with additional citations and the addition of an information box (I'm working on that now)Gaw54 (talk) 02:20, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help requested with uploading image to info box[edit]

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I am having trouble uploading an image to the info box of Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Dailey

I've spent the better part of the last three hours going around in circles as to how to upload a file provided by the artist to use as an image. This is this most convoluted process imaginable. I managed to upload the image to Wiki Commons (I think):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brian_Dailey,_Detail_from_14_Stations,_2011.jpg

Can anyone provide me with assistance on how to get the image into the info box?

Thank you,

Gaw54Gaw54 (talk) 03:59, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Gaw 54, I've added the image for you. Regards—☮JAaron95 ^Talk 04:02, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Amazing, thank you! I should have tried this route before wasting the better part of an evening on it. Would it be possible to add the caption: Brian Dailey, "14 Stations" (detail), 2011. Gaw54 (talk) 04:10, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Gaw54: I've done that. But, in commons your image is up for deletion. Please go to the heading 'Licensing' and read the details and release the rights of the image for free use if indeed the image is yours. Hope that helps. Regards—☮JAaron95 ^Talk 04:46, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Help me upload an image from Wikimedia to draft article[edit]

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Please help me with uploading this image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Johannes_Theodor_Baargeld

I want to add it to web page draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Dadaglobe

Gaw54 (talk) 00:27, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please see WP:IMAGE. If you want more help, stop by the Teahouse, Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Primefac (talk) 01:31, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Submission review process inquiry[edit]

Gaw54 (talk) 16:53, 22 January 2016 (UTC) I just posted this question on the talk page for my recently submitted article, but it is unclear to me how/if that is monitored, so I am repeating it here. This is only my second article, and I'm still learning my way around this process. Why does this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Dadaglobe keep getting kicked back to the "submitted one day ago" when the submission dates are listed as 18 and 19 January? I have continued to make minor edits, but I didn't think that this would change the submission date. Since an aspect of this entry is very timely (related exhibition to open shortly), I am anxious to get it reviewed and make any necessary edits. Any guidance on this matter would be very much appreciated. Gaw54 (talk) 16:49, 22 January 2016 (UTC[reply]

Dadaglobe[edit]

Thanks for alerting me to your article. I'm not really an expert on Dada and your article on the intended anthology was interesting news to me. However, I approach what you have written purely as a fellow editor with a rather longer WP history and would make the following suggestions.

Shorter paras; the article looks too congested.
More references, paticularly the source of your statement "Some of Dada's most iconic artworks....foremost in mind".
The Breton quote needs cutting down to its final sentence; the rest repeats what you've just been saying. And since you have a link for Breton, you don't really need to say that he went on to found Surrealism. That is beside the point in this context.
Translate the German quoted under the Baargeld illustration. Google Translate will give you something very rudimentary but it's a start!

Good luck with your future editing. Mzilikazi1939 (talk) 21:07, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Mzilikazi! I'm in the process of incorporating your suggestions. I hope that these will facilitate getting the article approved quickly. The related exhibition is opening shortly. Can you help me figure out how do I link to an image on Wiki Art, http://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/the-chinese-nightingale-1920

What happened to photo uploaded to Brian Dailey Wiki Page?[edit]

I followed all guidelines and permissions for the photo and it was deleted without any explanation. Please advise.Gaw54 (talk) 15:30, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for File:Self-Portrait (5 of 5).jpg[edit]

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Changing image file[edit]

I uploaded a revised version of an image on Wikimedia for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Dailey. The previous version is still there. I can't figure out how to have the new version show up. Please advise.Gaw54 (talk) 23:34, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (May 10)[edit]

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Change draft status[edit]

My recent entry is identified as a draft. At what point does this move to a final post? It's been a while since I created a new entry, and I don't recall how the process works. Thanks.Gaw54 (talk) 00:10, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I finally figured out how to submit. Now I see that the wait for review is up to 4 months. The subject of this entry is recently deceased and the posting is timely. Is there any way to move this up the queue or expedite the review process? It is a well resourced article and shouldn't be too difficult to review. Thanks. Gaw54 (talk) 06:17, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Citation format for Mequitta Ahuja page[edit]

I just added a citation to the Wiki page for Mequitta Ahuja https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mequitta_Ahuja and can't seem to get it formatted correctly. I'm out of practice in my editing skills. Please advise on formatting for footnote 34. Thank you. Gaw54 (talk) 16:44, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Problem resolved. Gaw54 (talk) 03:57, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Please help me with... Please help me with https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gaw54. I accidentally drafted the page on wikimedia rather than wikipedia. How can I most efficiently transfer the draft to finish it in the right format? Gaw54 (talk) 23:38, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There really isn't a way, you'll have to copy the content from there to here. Also, you have a sandbox for drafts, please put it there, otherwise people will think you have a close connection with the subject. Best, thetechie@wikimedia: ~/talk/ $ 00:03, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for replying. But this just made me more confused. The sandbox reverts to my user name, which is not what I'm trying to create. I feel like I've just wasted days of work and have no idea how to move forward. Why can't I just copy and paste the text from the Wikimedia page to a Wikipedia format. Color me very confused and frustrated. Gaw54 (talk) 03:27, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Because our copyright licence (and Commons', as they're one and the same) would require you to backlink to the original. This is a mandatory requirement of the licence and isn't negotiable; copy-paste moves get deleted all the time as copyright violations. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{Source assessment notes} 04:10, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jéské Couriano: What you're saying doesn't make sense. The user created the page on Wikimedia Commons, they own the copyright even if they licence it under CC. They can copy it wherever they want and they don't have to attribute it. Attribution is only necessary if you didn't fully make the work. If you want to be pedantic and copy all the page history, we can take a trip to Wikipedia:Requests for page importation, though IMO that would be extremely unnecessary.

Gaw54, if you're reading this, just click the "edit source" button at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gaw54, then copy everything, then paste it into User:Gaw54/sandbox —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 16:07, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to everyone who has attempted to assist my in this process. I really appreciate efforts to uncomplicate what should have been a very straight forward issue (i.e. moving my original copy from one platform to another) without all the unnecessary bureaucracy of backlinking. I have created a new page for the artist Bonnie Rychlak at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gaw54. Editing suggestions and assistance in getting it published would be much appreciated. In the spirit of raising the profile of women artists (who have been woefully underrepresented on Wikipedia as in the art whole as a whole), I hope that I will get encouragement, rather than being discouraged from working further on this. Gaw54 (talk) 16:38, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As I mentioned to you on IRC, your sources need to improve. As such, I will assess them here and now. Refer to User:Jéské Couriano/Decode:

https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/brian-gayman-1948-2014-59819/ is useless for notability (wrong subject). This is an obituary for her partner, and says barely anything about her.
Reference 2 is missing required bibliographical information (page numbers, article title). The way it is written is also somewhat confusing to boot (Is it from the May 1989 or February 1989 edition of the publication?)
Reference 4 is missing required bibliographical information (page numbers).
Reference 6's link is broken due to the parentheses in it. (Putting spaces between the brackets and the URL will fix this.)
Reference 7 is missing required bibliographical information (page numbers).
Reference 8's link is broken due to malformatting (You added an additional "https://" to it.)
Am I correct in assuming everything beyond Reference 9 is a museum collection?

With a couple exceptions, the first half of your references are not good, mostly due to malformatting or missing required information. Check your URLs, both on your sources and in your address bar. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{Source assessment notes} 16:52, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your input. Where do I find the edit source button? Gaw54 (talk) 16:49, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. After reposting the page, I realized that I had just reposted it to Wikimedia. I am just going in circles! Gaw54 (talk) 16:51, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've cut the knot and done it for you: User:Gaw54/sandbox. I included a backlink to the Commons userpage per policy. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{Source assessment notes} 16:55, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Your assistance is much appreciated in both moving the page and for the feedback on sources. I will work on improving them per your suggestions. Gaw54 (talk) 16:57, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note that I skipped over References 3 and 9 above. While I can't technically assess those (copy required) as a rule we give the benefit of the doubt to offline sources unless we have evidence suggesting otherwise, so assume those sources are OK. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v ^{Source assessment notes} 17:08, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK. I've spent the last hour trying to make the formatting corrections to footnotes 6 and 8 with no luck. I tried following your instructions to no avail. Since it appears that you know how to make those adjustments, your assistance would be appreciated.

I'm working on tracking down the missing bibliographic information you identified.

Regarding footnotes 9-15, these are all published exhibition catalogues that are available for purchase on Amazon or elsewhere online.

Footnote 16 references a local newspaper that does not maintain online archives: https://www.easthamptonstar.com/ Gaw54 (talk) 21:31, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]