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Requested moves

• 05 Sep 2024 – Tyla (English musician) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Tyla J. Pallas by This0k (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Sep 2024 – George Heriot (died 1610) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to George Heriot (Edinburgh MP) by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Sep 2024 – Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Horatio Nelson by Crouch, Swale (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Sep 2024 – Hans Koch (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Hans Koch (lawyer) by 4meter4 (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Sep 2024 – Billy Richardson (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Billy Richardson (footballer, born 1920) by 162 etc. (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Sep 2024 – Hawk Tuah Girl (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Hawk Tuah by EoRdE6 (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Sep 2024 – John Davidson (actor) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to John Davidson (actor, born 1886) by 162 etc. (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Sep 2024 – Amadou Koné (Ivorian footballer) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Amadou Koné (footballer, born May 2005) by Paul Vaurie (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Sep 2024 – Celin Bizet Ildhusøy (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Celin Bizet by Iggy the Swan (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Sep 2024 – LimeLight (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Madein by 98Tigerius (t · c); see discussion

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religious figure infobox

FYI {{Infobox Buddha}} has been proposed to be merged into {{Infobox deity}} -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 15:05, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Has it, where?Slatersteven (talk) 15:28, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Follow the merge tags on the two templates, and you arrive at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 January 8 -- 65.92.246.142 (talk) 16:43, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

The discussion is at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2022_January_8#Template:Infobox_Buddha. Peaceray (talk) 16:50, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

People who have been tested positive for COVID-19

Is specifying that X person has been tested positive for COVID so necessary? I honestly no longer believe it's necessary especially when the person has been asyntomatic. Dr Salvus 16:55, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

A lot depends on context, and how RS treat it.Slatersteven (talk) 16:56, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Slatersteven, do you have any examples? Dr Salvus 16:59, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

No, as I have no idea what YOU are talking about. I have not looked into this, I assume you have.Slatersteven (talk) 17:05, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

If multiple reliable and independent sources cover the positive test result it may be covered in enough reliable and independent sources for it's inclusion to be appropriate. It's very difficult to give examples without knowing the sources and general context. For example, a positive test before someone goes to do a show may be covered in several reliable and independent sources (such as a news outlets) because the show was cancelled. On the other hand, a gossip magazine based on rumors about a positive result would not be reliable enough as a source. Therefore, giving policy based answers to your question will require details about what article and what sources before further useful advice can be given. Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 18:19, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

As in all cases, verifiabiility does not guarantee inclusion and Wikipedia is not a place for all possible information. If a biography is very short, shoehorning in the factoid that a singer or athlete tested positive may violate WP:DUE and WP:PROPORTION in giving disproportionate coverage to relatively trivial aspects that are not related to a subject's notability, even if myopic news outlets grant a day's worth of titillating coverage for that sweet ad revenue. As the article becomes more fleshed out, then it might be more acceptable to add a mention, as long as it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb. Far too many biographies (of living people or dead) are absolutely chock full of trivial garbage and recentism, because too many Wikipedians falsely believe their job is to compile everything ever published about a subject, with no consideration of whether the information makes sense as written or should be in a lasting encyclopedia. --Animalparty! (talk) 21:55, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Zelda Fitzgerald under FA review

Zelda Fitzgerald has been nominated for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. — Flask (talk) 04:52, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Cliff Clinkscales

I have nominated Cliff Clinkscales for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Hog Farm _Talk 21:10, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

FAR notice

I have nominated Michael Woodruff for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 07:15, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Template:Infobox comics creator - proposal to change coding

There is a proposal at Template talk:Infobox comics creator#Proposal to simplify the coding re images when template is used outside of article space that members of this WikiProject may be interested in. Nthep (talk) 13:47, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

FAR for George Fox

I have nominated George Fox for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. (t · c) buidhe 21:57, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Christopher C. Kraft Jr.

I have nominated Christopher C. Kraft Jr. for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 15:54, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Martin Luther King Jr. § Request for comment: Is it permissible to use "African American in lead" sentence?

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Martin Luther King Jr. § Request for comment: Is it permissible to use "African American in lead" sentence?. Sundayclose (talk) 23:49, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Notice of VP proposals on NSPORT, athlete biographies, and demonstrating notability

Editors may be interested in this RfC and the (more active) subproposals starting here regarding whether an athlete bio meeting an NSPORT subguideline must demonstrate GNG if challenged at AfD, have at least 1 piece of SIGCOV sourced from creation, etc. JoelleJay (talk) 17:30, 27 January 2022 (UTC)

A bio with a quotations section

Some advice please. In Draft:Brandon Wilson (writer) there was as section of quotes by the writer, which I deleted as part of cleanup. The draft's author (also the subject of the article) has questioned this and pointed me to Phil Cousineau#Famous quotes. While WP:OTHERCONTENT, is having such a section in a biography normality, or an anomaly? I think the latter? Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 15:35, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

@Curb Safe Charmer: That's an anomaly, it should be transplanted to Wikiquote and then interwiki linked (as with commons categories). Kingsif (talk) 19:30, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Manny SD Lopez#Requested move 25 January 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Manny SD Lopez#Requested move 25 January 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 16:30, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

Help finding sources

Hi! I can't find any sources (google, google scholar, jstor) on Louise Veltin and the NYT source on the article failed verification. I'd hate to nominate it for AfD for sources to come up during the discussion but genuinely can't find any right now. A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me! 13:14, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

There's a NYTimes brief piece "MISS VELTIN EULOGIZED.; Memorial Service Is Held for Founder of Girls' School" at [1]. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 18:58, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

And I think (but am not positive) that this [2] is the piece linked in the current article. OCR seems to have failed badly on this one, making it hard to search. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 19:11, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Much appreciated, Russ Woodroofe :) I don't have access to NYT to read the pieces, but I'll add them to the talk page in case someone finds them in the future that does have access. A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me! 20:01, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

February with Women in Red

Women in Red Feb 2022, Vol 8, Issue 2, Nos 214, 217, 220, 221, 222 Online events: New: Black women | Hong Kong and Macau | Women in sport Continuing: Climate (year-long initiative) | #1day1woman Other ways to participate: Encourage someone to become a WiR member this month by registering in the box at the top of our main page. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events. Follow us on social media: Facebook | Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter

--Megalibrarygirl (talk) 15:09, 31 January 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging

John Antioco: Infobox and Early life request

Hello Biography members! I'm looking for some help with John Antioco's article. The current version of his page is really spare and lacking in information. I've made an initial edit request, which you can see on the article's Talk page, to fix up the infobox and add a brief Early life and education section. I run a small consulting firm that has been contracted by Mr. Antioco to improve his page and cannot make these edits myself, so I'm hoping someone on this WikiProject might have an interest in reviewing my request. If that's the case, I would greatly appreciate the help. Thank you! Daryl at McGriffin Media (talk) 00:54, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Attempt to reach consensus on all medium/psychic BLPs

I have started a discussion over whether whether Wikipedia should describe psychics or mediums as "claimed", "self-purported", etc. I am hoping to reach a sitewide consensus w/r/t biographies of this type, and as such, I think it is of concern to this WikiProject. Thank you. —AFreshStart (talk) 14:28, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Joseph Lelyveld, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of the Articles for improvement. The article is scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 7 February 2022 (UTC) on behalf of the AFI team

FAR notification

I have nominated Black Francis for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. – zmbro _{(talk) (cont)} 23:39, 7 February 2022 (UTC)

GAR

Health and appearance of Michael Jackson 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.Quaffel (talk) 20:53, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

Sharon A. Hill has an RFC

Sharon A. Hill has an RFC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you.A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me! 17:41, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

A look in, invited

...at the John-Henry Krueger article, which was related as "stub" class, before the recent major re-write. I would appreciate a look in, to see if that class might now be elevated. Cheers. 2601:246:C700:558:2116:D61F:ECC0:1821 (talk) 23:50, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

Missing assessments

I would like to ask the team to please assess my following 4 BLPs from 2016 until 2022, as i cant do it myself! Rudi Domidian, Georges Jeanclos, Clayton Sam White, Eric Gauthier (dancer). Thank you !--Wuerzele (talk) 22:03, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Help on first article

Hello, I addressed some feedback a while back for a draft I made about Intuit’s current CEO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Sasan_Goodarzi). Any help with feedback on this page would be appreciated. Thank you! JenHart1981 (talk) 15:44, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Help required with author bio

Hi folks, my Wikipedia article Draft:Harrison Christian was pinged for not having enough secondary sources. I've added a few more and I'm wondering if this is enough, or it still need more. Thanks

Before even really looking at secondary sources, this is an author bio for an author of one book that doesn't seem to even meet NBOOK. It has no chance. Wait until the author is actually notable, or I have a half dozen friends you can also write drafts for. Kingsif (talk) 16:34, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Organized interference at Wikipedia by the Zemmour campaign for President of France

Multiple articles are being edited by members of a task force attached to the Eric Zemmour campaign for President of France. Please see WP:VPM#WikiZedia: an organized influence operation at Wikipedia by the campaign of a candidate for French President. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 21:37, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:James Reid (actor)#Requested move 18 February 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:James Reid (actor)#Requested move 18 February 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 14:21, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Isabella I of Castile, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of the Articles for improvement. The article is scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 February 2022 (UTC) on behalf of the AFI team

RfC notice

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Meat Loaf § RfC: Cause of death. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:43, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Boyz on Block

Draft:Boyz on Block Is this good to go? Someone approve or reject this please.