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19:32:00, 27 March 2016 review of submission by Toreeva

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• Toreeva (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Natalia Toreeva (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hello, thanks for the Easter "gift" I got from you today. I don't understand why you rejected my input and use the same words as the prev. review person - exact words. From the prev. notes I did added many References, which in my opinion should satisfy you. But now, what is wrong now? I checked for the example another Russian artist, A. Belkin, who has only the couple of sentences, and his References section has 3 or 4 References which I could not even open, but still his input "pass" your acceptance. I don't even try to compare the artists, just checking the correct built structure of the input you could accept. My main point of making my input is our artists asked me to make my input into our Unofficial Russian art, which is unknown from outside of Russia. And because of my input into the sections of the Petersburg groups, included "School of Sidlin", "Sterligov group", "Arefief", and "Others", people asked me to make my input into "Natalia Toreeva", so people know that it is the reliable person, who has the good knowledge, and not just knowledge, but because she was a part of the art movement of 1970s. So I added there the "School of Sidlin". "Sterligov, "Arefief", and other sections there. My main point is about the "School of Sidlin", where Natalia Toreeva was the member of the group. Now only 4 students left alive, and only one person is alive in the "Ariefiev" group. I knew them all, but the time is ticking.. And because the "School of Sidlin" is very important from the art history point of view, since the teacher (O. Sidlin) was the student himself of the K. Malevich, etc. And this is the part of history now. And since I knew another artists and their importance, I wrote about them too. Those info is very important, since for example, our "School of Sidlin" included in the St. Petersburg Encyclopedia, where all students of this group are included there. Is it not notable to be included in the St. Petersburg encyclopedia? (A.Belkin, or Alek Rapoport were not part of any group movement, but still they are included in your wiki encycl.). Also, I included in my input that many of Natalia Toreeva's works were accepted by the different museums to their permanent collection. Is it not notable from your point of view? What is more important for the artist than to be accepted in the museums? And for the Spertus museum, for example, the famous American art collector (Norton Dodge), who had the best knowledge of the Russian art, was invited by the museum, to help them in the selection process. He gave me his published book with his note, that it is too late to include Natalia into his book. I also divided the input into 2 parts, since Natalia Toreeva was living in Russia, and than moved to USA, so, it is 2 parts of the life of real person. Also, Natalia Toreeva was accepted being in USA, as the member of the Artist Union of Russia (very important) and the member of the Writers Group in Illinois, USA. And for the artist it's important, as Natalia Toreeva was included in the Best 10,000 artists in the world by the Russian Art Union. Is it not notable again? Yes, I'm not compare Natalia Toreeva with Picasso, but she has her own role in the history, and as well as the part of the "School of Sidlin" art movement. If you can make the editing, and delete whatever you feel is extra written for this effort, them please help to do it. Why my input is accepted in the Unofficial art in Russia, but rejected here? I disagree with your opinion about the rejection of my input, because it would be loss not only for Natalia Toreeva name, but for the history of Russian art as well. Toreeva (talk) 19:41, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

First of all, writing autobiographies or writing with a conflict of interest is strongly discouraged.

Also, although I did use the same template to reject, I also gave comments. There is no evidence they meet any of the criteria for notability of creative professionals:

1. The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by peers or successors.
2. The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory, or technique.
3. The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. In addition, such work must #have been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews.
4. The person's work (or works) either (a) has become a significant monument, (b) has been a substantial part of a significant exhibition, (c) has won significant critical attention, or (d) is represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums.

And lots of the sources presented aren't reliable. Joseph2302 (talk) 21:18, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Hello Joseph, I don't know how to convince you, since I don't think you see in my input what you mentioned in your response. You mentioned museums, exhibitions, books, etc. I have included the exhibitions Natalia Toreeva participated. I have the museums section, where her art works were accepted into their permanent collections, and I named those museums. And in the Publication section, I included the books where her work was published. For example, she created 3 children's books (wrote the manuscripts and illustrated), that were taking in the International Books Fair, and also accepted by the museum into their perm. collection. In other published books she participated with her design and illustrations. You also mentioned works on the films. She worked on the "Lenfilm" film studio (her filmography also included), and the film where she worked as an artist, was on the International film festival in USA. Don't you think your request for needed input is there? And 23 References I think are the good input for the verification of the info. Again, when I compare the pages of other artists, I don't understand why you declined my submission? I am not trying to crit. their work, I am happy for them, I just trying to logically look why their inputs were accepted. For example, A. Belkin, has only 6 lines of the text, and 9 references, where 4 does not open at all. Artist, Afrika, has only 15 lines of text, and 5 references. Igor Polyakov page has only 4 lines of text and not Ref. at all. So, is it possible, if my text is too long? Then please, if possible, can you edit/suggest where to clean up the text. I would appreciate for your help. Thanks!Toreeva (talk) 12:46, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, just because some other crap exists on Wikipedia doesn't mean we should be accepting more. It's not about other articles, rather showing that yours passes Wikipedia's notability guidelines, which I don't believe it does.

Also, are you the subject of the article?if you are, you're strongly discouraged from creating an autobiography, and if you're not, then your username misleading, and should be changed at WP:CHU. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:15, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Hello Joseph, Thanks for your reply. I don't want to write the Bio since my main goal is to write about the art groups of 1970s, I was part of, and I knew almost all artist of that time, and specifically about the "School of Sidlin", which is the part of the art history now. I started to write about the St. Petersburg art groups in another article, very objectively, and without the problem, but I have the problem with this article. I am planning to write the separate articles about other artists, but don't understand and did not expect to receive these kind of rejections on this article. I will try to improve this article though hoping on your help on suggestions/editing or other reviewers as well. My addition question, besides how I can improve this article, should I include that Natalia Toreeva had her 5 patents when she worked as the computer scientist, or is it outside of the description part her as an artist? Thank you.Toreeva (talk) 17:19, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

If the fact she had 5 patents is reliably sourced, then it can be added.

Also, I've asked at the Teahouse if other experienced editors can look at the article, and give additional guidance. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:37, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply, Joseph! The patents are real, and I will add it to the text, but I can't discuss about it in deep since they are the patents. Also, I have the newspapers where the articles about Natalia Toreeva's art discussed, and also another newspapers and journal, where her drawings are included by the poet in his poems, and they are printed in the newspapers, New Your. They are also real newspapers, but they are from 1990s, so how I can include them to the article? I can include the printed books, but the newspapers? Should I make a copy and send you, or how I can prove that the sources are real, but I can't show it? I can include the name of newspapers/journal and the date of publishing and the issues number, but is it enough? Also, in the filmography, I mentioned about the film, where Natalia Toreeva was working. The director, Alexei German, was the number 1 in filmography of that time, and the scenarist was the number one writer in USSR (K. Simonov). The film was in USA for the show. Is it the things you want to be included in the article to prove notability, then I can include K. Simonov's name? The films are easy to verify, because the name in the titles, but the newspapers? I remember I was invited to the Teahouse when I started make my inputs, but I was so busy. So, if someone from your Teahouse can help with the editing, or deleting the extra text/info, or help with the structure itself, it will be appreciated. Any suggestions? Thank you!Toreeva (talk) 21:23, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

DYK nomination of Gehan Mendis

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Hello! Your submission of Gehan Mendis at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:25, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Gary and Dino Show

Hi Joseph,

Thanks for your reply! I did update the page with the Networks actual wiki page now.

Thanks, Ryan — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.169.40.246 (talk) 03:16, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Paid editing

Hello, Joseph2302. Thank you for the comments italicized below. This is my first attempt at editing anything on Wikipedia, and I see I have failed successfully. lol I have read the resources/links you provided and now have an understanding on what to do and not to do. I added disclosure information to my user page---please advise if I did not do so correctly. I will attempt to submit correct, third-party sourced content in the Talk section, and would appreciate additional feedback from you as necessary.

My message to them/ standard paid editing message

Hello Ravenking999. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Ravenking999. The template can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: . If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Joseph2302 (talk) 21:54, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Ravenking999 15:32 EDST, 31 March 2016 Ravenking999 (talk) 20:20, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi, @Ravenking999: The paid editor disclosure on your userpage looks good to me. And making suggestions on the talkpage rather than directly editing is also helpful, thank you. Also, if you add {{request edit}} with the talkpage edits then the page gets added to , which means more people see it and it usually gets answered more quickly. Joseph2302 (talk) 20:45, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Gehan Mendis

The DYK project (nominate) 12:02, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

19:31:25, 5 April 2016 review of submission by Andy at InfraUSA

• Andy at InfraUSA (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Steven C F Anderson (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi, thanks for the review! Disappointed to hear my article was rejected again, but I will soldier on! I am confused about a few things with my rejection, maybe you can help?

First, notability. I see there are many articles on Wikipedia with questionable notability and few references (retired mobile apps, 80s garage bands, my own father has a page for his appearance on a cancelled TV show!). This makes it difficult for me to gauge what is considered notable and what is not. I just find it hard to believe that Steven C.F. Anderson who has won awards for his work with UNICEF and Globalvision should be considered less notable than these other articles. It feels unfair.

Second, bias. I have been very open about my involvement with InfrastructureUSA. Does my involvement with the organization make this article unpublishable regardless of content?

I apologize if this came across as terse or frustrated, I just have great respect for this man and the work he has done around the world for human rights. Any guidance would be much appreciated. -Andy— Preceding unsigned comment added by Andy at InfraUSA (talk • contribs)

Hi @Andy at InfraUSA: The main thing we're looking for is independent reliable sources that cover them in depth.

Looking at your submission:

1. No mention of him at all: [1],[2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]
2. Written by a company/organisation that he works/volunteers for (and so not independent): [10], [11]
3. Couldn't access: [12] (blocked as "dangerous" by my firewall)
4. Not a reliable source: [13], [14], [15], [16], [17] (videos aren't reliable sources, and neither is IMDb)
5. Passing mention: [18], [19], [20]
6. Decent, independent sources: [21], [22], [23], [24]

So that leaves just 4 decent sources about him, which I don't believe shows significant coverage, as required by WP:GNG. If his work is covered in other sources e.g. books/newspapers/independent websites, then they should be added.

To address your other questions:

1. Just because other stuff exists on Wikipedia, that doesn't mean anything should. Things that no longer exist may still be notable if they generated coverage when they did exist.
2. Wikipedia shouldn't be biased against you as a conflict of interest editor, as Wikipedia policy states that editors with COI are allowed to edit. In fact, making your affiliation obvious and also using the articles for creation process is exactly the recommended steps for COI editors on Wikipedia. Joseph2302 (talk) 20:59, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

@Joseph2302: Thank you for the quick and detailed reply! I will do my best to fix these issues. -Andy

Thank you so much!!!

Thank you for your help!

I will do what you suggested and look into removing some of the links (was sent a note that I needed to do that) once I disclose, will this remove the flag on the page that says there is a close connection to the subject? I have actually never met the subject in person, but is friend of a friend who needed help with this. They have PLENTY of incredible writer friends, but wanted an unbiased point of view, as ironic as that sounds, at this point! 

Anyway, I absolutely want to be as honest, neutral and integral as possible and not cause any problems for the subject. This was my first article, and I'm afraid I'm a bit confused.

Thank you, thank you!

MelissBelle (talk) 20:39, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

About my editing as a paid editor for Free port of Ventspils

Hello Joseph, I received the concern about me being a paid editor. I am not, I am doing an internship which I am not being paid for, it's for the learning purposes to raise my skills in business management.