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Mathew, thank you for your explanation of why Stratford Players was rejected. We will resubmit when there's a wider body of info about us! Mtnlass (talk) 16:54, 5 October 2014 (UTC) Mtnlass

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Occupy Democrats submission

Hello Matthew, I added several links from publications (Philadelphia Magazine) and the David Pakman Show that featured the Raise the Minimum Wage campaign, the who, what, when (with source). They should be a big help proving the notability and relevance of the Raise the Minimum Wage Campaign by Occupy Democrats.

23:35:18, 5 October 2014 review of submission by Norozco1

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I need help on making this article, can you help me on that? Norozco1 (talk) 23:35, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Well, right now you have footnotes without any content at all, so it's hard to know what you're even writing about. I strongly suggest you read WP:Your first article. Note in particular, read WP:Lead section, which explains how you should concisely introduce your subject in the very beginning. MatthewVanitas (talk) 00:06, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll start from there and see how it turns out, Ok! :-) Norozco1 (talk) 00:59, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Request on 02:54:49, 6 October 2014 for assistance on AfC submission by Ssl-corpcomm

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I am not sure why my article has been rejected. Kindly comment. Thanks

Ssl-corpcomm (talk) 02:54, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

User:Ssl-corpcomm/sandbox was declined because it is very clearly advertising. I provided the reason for rejection in the large pink box at the top of your draft. I recommend you read our policy WP:Conflict of interest. MatthewVanitas (talk) 03:05, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia DC Annual Meeting and more!

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16:58:49, 6 October 2014 review of submission by Courtney.Curtis15

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'Spinney's Restaurant rests on the edge of the beach toward Fort Popham. It is a seasonal seafood restaurant open May through September. Spinney's is run by Glenn and Diane Theall. Patrons may sit in house, or out on the deck over-looking the beach.'

Hello, I am wondering why my piece about Spinney's restaurant was declined? Could you please explain to help me understand if there are any mistakes or flaws. --Courtney.Curtis15 (talk) 16:58, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Courtney.Curtis15! Hmmmm, because it's not an article about the restaurant? To be blunt, you simply ripped-off Popham Beach and added like a couple sentences about the restaurant to the very end. If you want to write about the restaurant, write about the restaurant, not several paragraphs about the beach and then a mention. Start a new draft, start out with "Spinney's Restaurant is located in Popham Beach, Maine, United States, and was founded in 19XY..." something like that.

That said, before even starting, read WP:Notability and get your sources together. A restaurant article will not publish unless you provide clear footnotes to serious news/academic coverage of the restaurant. That is, it has to be famous, not just in the local area and not just for one time it caught fire or something. If it's not famous, per our policy WP:Notability, we don't need an article about it. Hope this helps! MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:13, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

My apologies, I did not rip off anything though. I simply stated about Spinney's restaurant which resides at Popham beach. The article is about Popham beach. I don't understand how the camp ground is any more famous than the restaurant. --Courtney.Curtis15 (talk) 17:48, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Maybe "rip off" was kind of harsh, but you did just simply copy-paste an existing article (without attribution) and added just a couple of sentences, with no WP:Sourcing at all.

And I'm not at all saying the restaurant isn't famous, I'm just noting that you did not provide us any sourcing attesting its fame. I took at look at GoogleBooks, and it appears that the restaurant may be widely noted enough (and not just in tourist guides, but in books of Maine history, etc) to merit its own article.

If you want to write a Spinney's draft, I'm fine to help you, to show no hard feelings. If you want to write about Spinney's, go to Wikipedia:Article wizard, click the "new article" button, and start right out with "Spinney's Restaurant is...". Now, remember, you can only include facts that you can cite. So go dig up all the articles/mentions of Spinney's you can (definitely check GoogleBooks), even paste the links at bottom of your article so you don't lose any. If you find a cite that says Spinney's was founded in 1923, then write "...founded in 1923" and make a nice WP:Footnote showing what book/article you got the fact from. For every fact in the article, a reader should clearly see "says who?" answered for the.

You raise a good point that Popham Beach is poorly footnoted, so I've marked it as needing improvement. I'd be glad to help you clean up that article too. Just ping me here on my Talk page if you need advice, but do make sure you read (or at least skim) WP:Notability and WP:Referencing for beginners since those will answer most of your questions.

Sorry if I came across harsh, let's get back on the right foot and make some good articles with rock-solid facts. MatthewVanitas (talk) 18:01, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

17:28:55, 6 October 2014 review of submission by Latency24

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Matthew -

I am a bit lost. Wireless Maritime Services was the first company to put cellular service on cruise ships. Today it is the market leader with service on over 140 ships worldwide with 360+ roaming agreements. I purposefully tried not to make it marketing piece so I need some guidance as to what the shortcomings were. As an example, the references were to just two of the press releases from the company's web page. I am unclear as to what other references you would be looking for. Thanks in advance.

Latency24 (talk) 17:28, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Latency24, I've added another comment at the top of your draft (also note the pink box at top, as well as my prior comment on the draft). MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:36, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Mekinges Conner

Than you Matthew for helping me organize my article. You need to know that English is my second language and I need help. To compound the problem I am a Mathematician, my brain is not structure to to be a good writer. I would appreciate any help you can give me by been specific. You set a set of question which are very reasonable, the why, when, who, how, etc. You know the who and the when, I am going to tell you the why and the how.

The reason why I wanted to have an article about Mekinges Conner is exactly because no much is written about her. She was extremely important in Indiana history because without her influence as an Indian princess it would have been difficult for the first pioneers to settle in the area. They would have not accepted the white men so quickly.

She was the liaison between the natives and the white men, something every article I run across about William Conner ignores or diminish. I happen to have an abstract of the title of a property that William Conner owned in Noblesville, Indiana. The abstract starts with the registration of land in 1822. The same abstract includes the trial about William Conner's estate between his indian children and his white children. Needless to say the indian children lost the trial. I just told you the why, the how is by integrating her husband into the indian society.

Since my problem sims to be the introduction, I am going to my comments here. I provably did not have a good introduction because I wanted to avoid accusing William Conner of using Mekinges for pure economical purposes and once he was established he got read of her. He was an interpreter and at the Treaty that expel the Delaware Indians from Indiana, something he favored. I fill no justice have been given to Mekinges and she needs to be recognize.

Changing the subject, I also need help navigating taking the many rools I have to follow. Sincerely, Marice — Preceding unsigned comment added by MariceEttlinCaro (talk • contribs) 19:01, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Request on 20:13:30, 6 October 2014 for assistance on AfC submission by Narimanansari

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Hi Matthew. You recently declined my draft on Iqbal Ansari due to citation references. I am confused about how to reference the article since there isn't much documentation of Pakistani entertainment history online. I have mostly wikipedia links as references or Youtube links to his work. He is my father and I am posting on his behalf so its an authentic account. But I don't know how to build references when there is hardly any interview or other acceptable sort of documentation online.. what do i do? please help.Narimanansari (talk) 19:44, 6 October 2014 (UTC) nariman

Referring to my draft: Draft:Iqbal Ansari, would these be eligible sources?

• http://www.dawn.com/news/1124905
• http://vidpk.com/p/611/Iqbal-Ansari/ or
• http://pakistanitvdrama.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bol06_01.gif or
• https://haroonriaz.wordpress.com/tag/iqbal-ansari/ or
• http://tribune.com.pk/story/708857/the-buzz-in-conversation-with-zeba-bakhtiar/ or
• http://www.viewpointonline.net/2014/10/ghazi-on-screen or
• http://www.showbizspice.com/is-tv-drama-industry-overreacting-to-turkish-soaps-blitz/
• http://www.harpalgeo.tv/details.asp?id=37&page=3

Hello User:Narimanansari! Of your above sources, Dawn and Tribune are undoubtedly WP:Reliable sources. The .gif image I would say no because it has no context, and generally Wordpress websites (Harooniaz) are not admissible. The other pages I'm not sure about since I don't know Pakistani showbiz journals, but apply your intuition and use only the ones that are seen as serious entertainment news websites.

I fixed a lot of the formatting on your draft, so please note what I did so you do not undo it. Most particularly, only use WP:Wikilinks to other Wikipedia articles, do not footnote them. Footnotes are just for outside sources which prove a particular fact. I would strongly encourage you to read WP:Referencing for beginners which explains how best to do footnotes.

What you need to do with your sources, is apply them as footnotes to whatever facts in the article they support. If you cannot support a given fact with a source, you must remove it, as we do not allow unsupported facts, because that does no good for the reader nor the subject. Everything must be WP:Verifiable by a solid source. Hope this helps! MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:44, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

THANKS alot Matthew Vanitas.. I have tried to add relevant sources. I hope they are acceptable. Thanks! Narimanansari (talk) 17:36, 7 October 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Narimanansari (talk • contribs)

Draft:Mir Sher Alam Marri Baloch

Dear Matthew please help me to to create this artical ,i dont understand how i create but please dont delete it, i am trying .thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sasha.1976 (talk • contribs) 07:23, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Sasha.1976, the published version Mir Sher Alam Marri Baloch has been deleted because it was not yet ready to be a published article. However, note you still have Draft:Mir Sher Alam Marri Baloch, so you can continue to work to improve the draft. Your draft will not be deleted as long as it stays in Draft space until approved by an editor, and as long as you do not leave it untouched more than 3 months.

What I recommend you do: find every significant media mention of Sher Alam that you can find online which is to a serious news site, or if you can find any books on GoogleBooks that mention him. Take all those links and list them in the References section, using a "*" to mark the start of each new line so it'll be tidy. Once you have gathered your sources, contact me or Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk to ask which sources look good.

If there is not substantial media/academic coverage of Sher Alam, then he cannot have an article, so finding good sources comes first. It does no good whatsoever to add any fact, unless you can show us a good source to WP:Verify it.

As a separate note, please be more careful in your spelling/formatting: all proper names are capitalized, while you're neglecting to capitalize some peoples' names and some cities. Also there is one empty space following a period or comma, but none before. Please take a close work and ensure that it is tidied up per standard rules of English grammar. Grammar is not cause to deny your article, but uncareful grammar does make it harder for reviewers to read it.

At the moment, please do grammar/format cleanup, and begin compiling any reputable news sources you can about Sher Alam, and we can proceed after that. You can only cite works which specifically mention him by name, so do not cite anything that mentions his father but not him, for example. And again note I have made many improvements to the article about his father, so your work here is already having a positive impact in bringing editor attention to Baloch articles. MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:38, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

THANKS alot Matthew Vanitas.. I have tried to add relevant sources. I hope they are acceptable. Thanks! Narimanansari (talk) 17:36, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Sasha.1976, your current sources aren't too great, since video is difficult. First, it's possible that those video clips are illegally uploaded since they don't appear to be on a news company's site. Second, if you cite a Pakistani newspaper we can easily use GoogleTranslate for Urdu to let a reviewer read the source; that we cannot do with video/audio. Is Sher Alam ever discussed in Pakistani or Russian newspapers? Have you tried searching his name, in its assorted variants, in Urdu spelling and in Russian spelling? Your current sources are not enough, so please keep looking and add any more sources to the References section. MatthewVanitas (talk) 18:13, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

13:57:39, 8 October 2014 review of submission by Trishtha

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Trishtha (talk) 13:57, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Please will you help me why my page is not aproved

Hello Trishtha, did you read the large pink box, and my comments below it, left at the top of your draft? Please read those comments, and let me know if you have any questions. MatthewVanitas (talk) 14:03, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Request on 16:58:22, 8 October 2014 for assistance on AfC submission by Nareh

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Nareh (talk) 16:58, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Hey Matthew.. Can you please suggest me what I can do so my article will be accepted.

Hello Nareh, did you read the large pink box at the top of your draft? Also I added a comment at top. Please read those first, then post back and tell me if you have further questions. MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:05, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Hey Matthew. I have edited the article. Could you please take a look? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nareh (talk • contribs) 06:11, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Request on 19:09:, 8 October 2014 for assistance on article creation on film-maker Digby Rumsey by user Mestin

Hi Matthew,

Thank you for taking the trouble to review my first article (on the film-maker Digby Rumsey) and for doing this so very quickly.

I'm in a bit of a quandary: in terms of independence (and, now I see, contrary to the guidelines) I am in fact associated with the subject because I interviewed him for the purposes of garnering sufficient factual information to create the article. Is this permissible? I have attempted to remain strictly neutral and as factual as possible in the creation of the article.

My name is Julian Grainger and between 2003 and 2011 I was manager of what was then called The Filmographic Unit at The British Film Institute in London. I was Editor of the BFI's Database of Film and Television and responsible for delivering detailed, accurate credits for the all the films released each month in the UK to Sight & Sound magazine. I am also Palgrave Macmillan's in-house credits compiler for their 'BFI Film Classics', 'BFI Modern Classics' and 'BFI TV Classics' series of books. As your guidelines state, by itself the IMDb cannot be considered an authoritative source because it allow users to submit their own information. The BFI's database, on the other hand, does not allow such public submissions and the data is entered by a trained and dedicated team.

However as you say, the most significant problem with the article is lack citations. Assuming that the BFI's Database of Film and Television can be considered a notable and reliable source (?), it contains quite a few records for Rumsey's films (as well as others where he functioned as editor or sound recordist). Would citing links to a film's Collections record on the BFI's database be sufficient evidence? For example, one such Collections record (for Rumsey's film Fallacies of Vision) can be found here. Similarly, the Collections record for Rumsey's film The Pledge, which is also held as part of the National Collection at the archive in Berkhamstead, can be seen here. As you can see, many of these records themselves cite notable publications such the British National Film Catalogue.

I have added citations for the BFI database Collection records for most of films mentioned in the main article (not the filmography) but I wanted to ask you before re-submitting the draft.

I apologise that this is such a lengthy missive but any guidance on the questions above would be much appreciated.

Thank you again for your time and interest.

Yours sincerely Mestin (talk) 20:09, 8 October 2014 (UTC)MestinMestin (talk) 20:09, 8 October 2014 (UTC) Julian Grainger — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mestin (talk • contribs) 18:06, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Zār Article Rejected

Hello Matthew;

I received a note from you that my article on Zar in Iran has been rejected. I would like to know why it was rejected so that I can work on it.

Thanks, Maria Sabaye. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Msabaye (talk • contribs) 18:57, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Maria, did you read my comment in the big pink box at the top of your draft? We already have the article Zār, and I think your contributions would be best made a section of that existing article vice a separate article. That way the main Zār article will have sections for the distinct regions in which the practice appears. So please place your materials in the existing article as a new section. However, please bear in mind the following:

• Do not just paste your entire draft into the existing article. Your draft is over-long/wordy, and also it spends time explaining things explained in the existing article, so bring over only those materials applying specifically to an Iran section
• Break your writing into WP:Paragraphs. Right now it's simply a "wall of text" which makes it very hard to read.
• It's good that you list sources at the bottom, but it will be far better to use footnotes so readers can see which sources support which facts. Please see WP:Referencing for beginners for how to do this.
• I recommend you add your draft into the existing article slowly, the most important pieces first, wait a few days to see if any other editors have comments about your additions, or want to reverse them, etc. That's easier than just putting it all in and having someone get alarmed it's too much and revert the change.

Hope this helps, and you can ask for advice from the mentors at WP:Teahouse if you need help in merging your draft into Zār. MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:55, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

04:22:13, 9 October 2014 review of submission by 96.244.143.182

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96.244.143.182 (talk) 04:22, 9 October 2014 (UTC) Mr. Vanitas, Thank you for reviewing my request. In 2005 "Davidsonville Park", a multi field recreational and youth fields. Facets of the Park are 1.5 miless of paved walking fields, completely covered by lights for night play. Mr. Bradshaw was instrumental in having this multi million complex,doing all as a volunteer. There was an article in the Baltimore Sun, dated 11/7/13 by Pam Wood, journalist about Mr. Bradshaw's efforts to get the Park built due to a burgeoning youth sports program at Davidsonville Athletic Association. Mr Bradshaw was President of the Association and the one who saw in the future that this Park would need to be planned for more fields for the growing Davidsonville Athletic Association group. In 2001 the children enrolled in our (DAA) was around 250. When Mr. Bradshaw stepped down as President there were almost 2,000 children playing under the DAA flag. The article writer wrote a very detailed article and the creation of Bob Bradshaw Way (the road that is the main road of the Park) All of this can be confirmed by talking to the Anne Arundel County Youth Recreation Director, whose name is Franklin Chaney. He can be reached at 410-222-7357. For further information, please contact Mr. Bradshaw at 443-867-8777. I hope this information can be entered for information on the creation of Davidsonville Park. Thank you for your time Mr. Vanitas.

Hello IP, see my reply at top of your draft, Draft:Bob Bradshaw Way. MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:48, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

interesting

Hi Matthew! ref. to article Sihanoukville (city)

i have the article published - just today, after i learnt the review takes 4 weeks. Obviously people have conflicting ideas about its quality. It would be interesting to learn more about all these varying forms of acceptance...anyhow the article is up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sihanoukville_(city)

All the best Wikirictor (talk) 16:51, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

clarification

Hi Matthew! it seems i have to enlighten you on the Sihanoukville story...

ref. to your statemnet: Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Sihanoukville instead.

The place is a city and a province. i happened to come across the old article around a month ago. It had been created around 2005. Contents did randomly refer to either the city or the province, the entire article was badly written with lots of mistakes (form and facts) etc. So i decided to go through the whole article re-edit and tidy up - and made it the province article. a couple of days ago i had it requested to move to Sihanoukville province and prepared the new one - Sihanoukville city. As soon as the old one is renamed i am going to continue to work on it as well. This is the third time i am writing this now. Maybe this time somebody is willing to look into the matter. so - both articles are being taken care of by me - one tackles the city, the other the province...- as is the case in many places in Cambodia.

Thanks for your attention....and i would really appreciate a reply and some form of clear and straightforward cooperation. All the best Wikirictor (talk) 17:58, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Wikirictor, thanks for the explanation! If you use AFC in the future and have a complicated thing you're sorting out like that, it may help to leave a big bold message at the top explaining, since reviewers are generalists and not topic experts. In your case I just noticed an article by a similar name and at a glance they seemed the same article. I'll defer to your judgment on the issue of dividing the cities, but you might have editors with the original article on their Watchlist come by to ask you what's up. Thanks for your cleanup work! MatthewVanitas (talk) 23:16, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

London Fell draft

Hi Matthew,

Thank you for your helpful detailed reply. Could you please let me know if many scholarly reviews in scholarly journals about my series would be sufficient? If so, how would I submit this evidence?

I look forward to your answer.

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by A.londonfell (talk • contribs) 19:13, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello A.londonfell, scholarly reviews of works are, I believe, an acceptable reference. Simply cite the review as a standard Wikipedia footnote. Don't type footnotes like [1], but use the coding shown at WP:Referencing for beginners. You also need to make it clear if the article is a bio of Fell, or an article about his book series. Whatever the subject is, make that the first words of the paper: "An apple is a small red fruit growing largely in the Northern Hemisphere", like that. The whole who-what-why-when-where of your topic should be in the first sentence or two (see WP:Lead section. It it's about books, read the Books policy I link at the top, if about the man, read the Writers policy I linked at top. If you yourself are Fell (as your username implies), ensure you read WP:Autobiography for cautions on writing about oneself. MatthewVanitas (talk) 23:19, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Panchashikha

This page is not on a living person as has been now categorized. Panchashikha is believed to have lived in the 1st century BC, his exact birth-date is not known.Aditya soni (talk) 01:59, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

I see we have similar concerns

We have each voiced them to the same reviewer on their talk page. I hope they are listening. If not then I wonder what the next step ought to be. Fiddle Faddle 16:36, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

07:44:34, 11 October 2014 review of submission by MMMOusley

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14:53:42, 11 October 2014 review of submission by 93.107.123.240

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93.107.123.240 (talk) 14:53, 11 October 2014 (UTC) Hi I will try to get more sources for you thanks... but I have checked what other community radio stations have used as sources and they are nearly all just pages from their own websites. Regards Ray

No worries Ray (93.107.123.240). I'm skeptical as to whether a 2013-established radio station is likely to meet WP:Notability, but if you've read the Notability guideline (have you yet? you really should, would really clarify things) it's your call.

So far as other radio stations not having proper sourcing: the usual Wikipedia reply is WP:Other stuff exists. That is, the existence of other weak articles is not a justification to publish another weakly-sourced article. And generally if we catch such unsourced articles (or sourced only to themselves) we delete them, so there's a steady winnowing process. The point of AFC is to help people make the strongest possible articles so theirs will survive indefinitely. MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:20, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

Jean Prosper Guivier

Hello,

Thank you for checking and approving my article on Jean Prosper Guivier so quickly. I am delighted that it has been approved as 'start class' and will work on improving the quality of the article further. I read your recent reply to the author of 'The Wood Nymph' (Sibelius) and was encouraged by your comments, which I hope may apply to me in some measure too. I wish you the best in your work with Wikipedia, regards, Stephen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smichok (talk • contribs) 20:27, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

Rare_Black_Diamond

The Natural Black diamond with a weight of 121.32 carats (24.264g) good round-cut rare diamond originally from India. The black Diamond has been certified by Golconda Institute of Diamonds, Hyderabad on 25th May 2012 and issue Certification of Authenticity.It's own to Prem Singh from West Bengal,India. References[edit] [1] [2]

[3]

Jump up ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonado Jump up ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golkonda Jump up ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal

This , I want to update in list of diamond. Page , but again again you reject and now I'm confuse If you need I can update link of google and youtube where this diamond will Update soon.But I can't able go give you and link Of news, news paper or magazine 112.79.38.75 (talk) 02:18, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

This below mention detail need to be approve by Wikipedia. I already edit below article please check it but again again you reject that's make me confuse .If you need the link of google and youtube where this diamond will Update soon.Will that's link Will be ok . But I can't able go give you and link Of news, news paper or magazine .

The Natural Black diamond with a weight of 121.32 carats (24.264g) good round-cut rare diamond originally from India. The black Diamond has been certified by Golconda Institute of Diamonds, Hyderabad on 25th May 2012 and issue Certification of Authenticity.It's own to Prem Singh from West Bengal,India.

References[edit] [1] [2][3]

Jump up ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonado Jump up ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golkonda Jump up ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal

Premsingh14 (talk) 02:41, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Premsingh14. See comments at top of Draft:Natural Black Diamond (2). MatthewVanitas (talk) 06:03, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Article

I am sorry I submitted that article. It was supposed to stay in my sandbox.Mkblue1 (talk) 03:45, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

battle of Batapur

Hi, i read your comment on my draft regarding battle of Batapur. You asked for more coverage or history of battle. The battle is already present and written in Indo pak war of 1965 war https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1965 (On 6 September, the 15th Infantry Division of the Indian Army, under World War II veteran Major General Prasad, battled a massive counterattack by Pakistan near the west bank of the Ichogil Canal (BRB Canal), which was ade facto border of India and Pakistan. The General's entourage itself was ambushed and he was forced to flee his vehicle). I wanted a separate article of the battle on it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zerefx (talk • contribs) 05:58, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Zerefx, you cannot cite one Wikipedia article on another. What we're asking you for is to find book/magazine/news articles which verify the facts of this battle, and footnote them. I see know it's more commonly spelled "Batapore", so I'm finding a lot more sources now. For any given fact, readers should clearly see a footnote to a WP:Reliable source. Please check GoogleBooks, or search Google for news articles, and cite those sources in. For other Wikipedia articles (which are not "references"), do not footnote, but rather WP:Wikilink. Also note for "defence journal" your written footnote shows no date, article title, author, etc; pleas fix that per WP:Citation so all the info is shown to the reader at a glance. Add a few more serious footnotes, and we should be good to publish. MatthewVanitas (talk) 06:20, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Okay thanks i will try get more soruces, books or news on the article. Just a correction the battle is Batapur not Batapore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zerefx (talk • contribs) 06:39, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Zerefx, are "Batapur" and "Batapore" two totally different battles? I'm seeing a lot on GoogleBooks about "Battle of Batapore", and the 1965 war article you linked me to says "Batapore" as well. It's not up to you to decide which is the "right" spelling, we use what the reliable sources use. Unless you're saying that they're two completely different battles. Also, dude, WP:Sign your posts, otherwise it keeps showing us a "Zerefx forgot to sign his post". Just type ~~~~ and it will sign automatically for you. MatthewVanitas (talk) 06:43, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Yes both are completely different battles. Batapur battle was foughted on 6 september and batapore was foughted near the ending days of war. Sorry since i am new here didn't knew i had to post that sign. Okay i will try get more sources on the article zerefx (zerefx) Zerefx (talk) 06:54, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Draft:Hubert Berchtold

The problem with this article was only, that the reference was a dead link, this link was replaced and after this was still not enough, I created in-line sources. The notability of this article was never in question! Simply bringing back the article would be great. Many thanks! 84.112.209.138 (talk) 09:19, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello 84.112.209.138! To "bring it back" all you need to do is hit the "Resubmit" button after you make the needed changes. The problem is not only what you describe, there's also that the draft is literally only one sentence, and the only sources are to statistics pages, with no cites to actual analysis of his importance. Please flesh it out a little, cite some sources which note his highest achievements, then hit Resubmit. Also, please log in prior to posting messages, otherwise I have what username you are. MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:34, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Many, many thanks for your great help! 84.112.209.138 (talk) 19:56, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

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16:53:46, 13 October 2014 review of submission by Allabel

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Hi All: Thank you for looking at my submission. I would like to be guided in the review and preparation of future submissions. My topic PEARL PRESCOD has not been written about before, but make noteworthy accomplishments as a West Indian female, who lived in England during the 1950s'.

I am reading the information from wikipedia on how to edit, but would like more direct guidance from you. beverly "Allabel" Allabel (talk) 16:53, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Allabel, I strongly suggest you read WP:Your first article before beginning. So far as Prescod, when you say she has "not been written about before", do you mean on just Wikipedia, or are you saying there are no books, news articles, etc which discuss her? If the latter, note such sourcing is mandatory for an article, you cannot have an article without such. MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:07, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

review of new page on European School in Central Asia

Hi Matthew Thank you for your quick review and response. I have now edited the page and resubmitted taking account of your helpful comments, so I tried to removed details that only students/parents would want to know, I tried to rewrite or leave parts that show the individual significance of this school from the perspective of an outside observer. No doubt more editing is required and I welcome your feedback. David1000000 (talk) 05:13, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello David1000000, we had an error there for a second where both you and I were trying to clean up the article at the same time. In any case, a few comments:

• Have you read the School Article Guidelines I linked at top? Definitely do so before proceeding if you haven't.
• Please take a quick glance at WP:Wikilinks (how to make those clickable blue links) since you don't appear to be using those. Do not link to outside websites for things not immediately pertinent to the ESCA; for example, do not link to an outside website about the "Cambridge curriculum" or whatnot. It's okay to wikilink to other Wikipedia articles, but the only links outside within the main body of the article should be WP:Footnotes to works that specifically discuss ESCA.
• At my last glance, you still have way too much stuff not of interest to general readers, like pricing schemes, phone numbers, how the board makes decisions, etc. As a broad hint, if there's a Fact X about the school, and no outside source such as a news article, book, etc has mentioned Fact X, that probably means our readers don't care about Fact X either.
• This page is not a place for ECSA to advertise itself. Period, full stop. Anything resembling advertising will cause the article to be Declined. What I suggest you do is find as many news articles, mentions in books, etc. that you can (in any language), and begin footnoting those in to support any facts about ECSA.
• Other than very basic non-controversial facts (founding date, location, etc), if you cannot source a given fact to an outside, objective source, that probably means you need to remove said fact, since evidently only people involved with the school have bothered to make note of said fact.

Does all this make sense? We only care about things outsiders care about, this cannot just be a place for the school to talk about itself. MatthewVanitas (talk) 05:28, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi Matthew. Thank you for this excellent advice. I will get back to working on the draft later today. I am sorry about the live page, which I uploaded before I got your feedback on the draft. I am new to this editing and still trying to make sense of how it works. I will stick to working on the draft and resubmit for your review after editing as you suggested. Thank you for the changes you have already made which are a great improvement on my previous version. David1000000 (talk) 06:39, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Hey David1000000, no worries. All this takes getting used too. Just stick to Draftspace and take your time, read any suggested guidelines folks recommend. Just keep patient, take constructive criticism, and things should work out. That's no guarantee that every draft will publish, but by working the process you can ascertain viable topics, polish them up, etc. I just strongly caution you from any attempt to advertise the school (see WP:Conflict of interest), and focus on outside commentary on the school. If there is no outside commentary yet, then the school does not yet meet our benchmark WP:Notability, and is not yet ready for an article. In the short term, please gather up any serious media mention of this school, in any language, and place it in the References section for the moment. MatthewVanitas (talk) 06:44, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi Matthew, I finally got time to make some changes. Thank you for giving a better structure to the whole article. I accepted most of your deletions but cut down the governance issues to a new section on governance. Although I still have not found an external reference for this, the governance of the school is a key notable issue since this is not a typical private school or part of a larger group. I see that as part of WikiProject Schools and WikiProject Kyrgyzstan we need some leeway on the references since this is not a part of the world covered widely elsewhere. I will create an infobox based a standard school template, so the editing is not yet complete. David1000000 David1000000 (talk) 10:54, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Graves submission

Thanks for your feedback on the O.E.L. Graves submission I made.

> ... Graves seems to have been written about as an artist enough.

I must be doing something wrong, as I have found almost nothing on O.E.L. Graves on the Internet, especially biographical and personal information, despite a lot of research. As a result, there is almost nothing to cite as reference. My hope was that getting a Wikipedia entry started would encourage anyone with information to contribute it.

> The problem is sourcing. Firstly, you cannot link to scanned images of articles. Firstly, it implicates Wikipedia in copyright violations. Secondly, in theory you could just be making said articles up.

That is the only source I have for that information. What else can I do? It is so much better to show what little we have than to deny the public any information. A flawed source is better than none when dealing with someone so poorly documented. For all we know, everything written about Graves in that Palm Springs Life magazine was made up, even if properly cited. Let the information be disputed, or ask readers for the missing information (like the article date that was missing) or a better reference. We are doing detective work here, from my perspective. I've been searching for any information I can find on Graves, and I'm laying everything I've found on the table here. Isn't that what an encyclopedia is for?

> Secondly, make sure you're sourcing serious media/academic sources. That does not count commercial gallery blurbs, photos of his work (also a copyright violation), etc.

Who decides what is "serious", or what constitutes "media" or "academia"? I am simply citing where my information comes from. The quality and veracity of that information is something I have no control over. My references to commercial galleries were to prove Janet Gaynor had an extensive collection of Graves' work that she sold. I wasn't citing any "blurbs" about Graves from those sites.

If the owner of a Graves painting takes a picture of it and posts it online, is that a copyright violation?

> I found nearly a dozen serious news articles about him.

Did you actually go to the links and read them? I have yet to find one serious news article about Graves online. Please send me just a few of those links, and I would be delighted (assuming I haven't already seen them)!

> Go through your draft and add serious footnote to everything you can, and remove anything you can't back up with a footnote.

I think if I did that, there would be nothing of interest on O.E.L. Graves left. That's fine by me, if you just want to have a stub of a Wikipedia article for O.E.L. Graves. I was trying to make it more interesting for the reader, using the information I found interesting from all the research I did on Graves. Can't we do a "disputed" entry to get the ball rolling? Seriously, I haven't found squat on Graves. Most of my information is coming primarily from two people -- Jack Midling who I mentioned at the end of the article (who is quite old and in a retirement home), and the owner of Graves' favorite painting that Graves refused to sell to Winthrop Rockefeller. That owner bought the painting from Jack Midling decades ago after Graves died, along with a collection of pictures and information on Graves that Midling had collected as part of his business.

I can prep a stub on Graves with no references, but even then I'm not sure I can reference his real name or birth/death dates if I exclude commercial gallery blurbs or have to rely on "serious media/academic sources".

There's very little out there on Graves, which is precisely why a Wikipedia article is so important. Did you see this link?

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006011704231

My experience has been the same as the person inquiring who couldn't find info on Graves. Even nine years after the question was posted, there are only commercial gallery blurbs referenced and the one website the painting owner posted, which is the most extensive source on Graves available by far that I have seen, but apparently it can't be referenced on Wikipedia because of photocopied articles.

You've got me almost bound and gagged when it comes to O.E.L. Graves. Somehow, that doesn't seem like much of a service to the inquiring public from Wikipedia.

Chicodoodoo (talk) 08:15, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi, thank you very much for accepting the English version of Hossein Shahshahani. I appreciate your support and dedication. As I saw the created page, I noticed that a section listing the References has been omitted. Not sure if you felt the Footnotes are adequate or perhaps the References were inadvertently dropped.

Best regards, Axshah95 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Axshah95 (talk • contribs) 10:30, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Axshah95, are you referring to the References which were identical to the Footnotes? If so, I removed them because they were repeated/redundant. If you're referring to the list of External Links, it was a large list of vague connection to the subject, whereas ELs are generally supposed to be a very small list immediately tied to the subject, like a person's homepage, etc. Not simply a list of other things tangentially related to their career.

Your article seems decent, but you had a lot of really weird coding errors, mostly odd wikilinks mistakes like trying to put http://Tehran&&&& (which creates nothing but a failed link), instead of simply [[Tehran]] which makes Tehran, nice and easy. So for any next articles, please make sure you glance at WP:Wikilinks to understand how to link properly. Nice work overall on the translation. MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:45, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Tay Dall - Notability Artist

Hi Matthew, i would just like to find out about Notability for artists and how that works. What is required? Do i perhaps have to add references for articles where the artist is mentioned etc.? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jarryd T Wood (talk • contribs) 12:22, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Jarryd T Wood, have you clicked the link to read Wikipedia:Notability (artists)? MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:50, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Notability of schools

According to Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Common_outcomes#Schools and my experience, all schools offering the secondary grades that can be verified are considered notable, even without extensive coverage in reliable sources. The assumption is that the coverage almost certainly exists, even though it may not be included in the article. I mention this in the context of the AfC submission about the international school in Kyrgyzstan. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 12:23, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

13:49:22, 14 October 2014 review of submission by Patricia Blount

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  • Draft:DocOps (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Matthew, there is a webinar on DocOps offered by the STC (Society for Technical Communicators) -- would that qualify as "serious media/academic coverage"? Here's the link: http://www.stc.org/education/online-education/live-seminars/item/docops-delivering-content-in-the-new-application-economy?category_id=53

Patricia Blount (talk) 13:49, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Information on a particular subdivision

My entry was rejected but I was going on the examples of ones that are similar that were accepted. I'm not trying to make this an advertisement but a general information about this community,. this is where I got my examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacoa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Club_at_Mirasol Can you tell me what I did wrong if these are accepted? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Evergrene_Country_Club_Community Thanks Personalseo (talk) 18:04, 14 October 2014 (UTC)Tammy

I certainly would not use either of those linked examples as a standard, both are very poorly sourced, use advertising language, etc. I've proposed that both of those be deleted since they appear to serve little purpose other than to advertise the communities.

So far as yours, the issue is that you're not meeting the guideline WP:Notability (click here for 10-second version: WP:42). That is, you're not showing that anybody not tied to the club finds it worth writing about. If nobody else on the planet finds the place worth writing about other than those that live there or make money off it, why should our readers care? What's more, how could we expect any WP:Neutrality from such involved people?

As it stands now, most of the article is stuff that only a customer would want to know, like As a resident in the Evergrene community, club membership is mandatory. Members are billed club dues and POA maintenance fees established by the annual operating budget. The Evergrene Master Association manages the entire community. However, the luxury condos, known as The Mansions East and Mansions West, are governed by specific condominium associations.. That does nothing to explain to a reader what makes this enclave distinctive, or worth reading about a century from now.

You might have some argument if people have widely written about the green-ness of the complex. If for example it were a pioneer in greening/environmentalism, such that we could squint and imagine that in the year 2114 someone writing a book about green buildings might say "looking back to 2014, there was this place called Evergreen that's a great example of this concept..." That sort of thing.

If it's written anything resembling an "About Us!" page, advert, etc., it can't publish. If however it has facts that are of enduring interest (stands out somehow for economics, environment, biz practices, unusual history, etc), then you can add those facts and cite them to Neutral info sources. Make sense? MatthewVanitas (talk) 23:49, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Matthew, I do understand yes. My only question is why do the other communities in this area get away with similar entries? They are nothing special either. This community does seem to have the unique Audubon award and it's set on a preserve which none of the other communities do. Also, I have been in contact with the manager of the community getting information directly from her. I don't know how to cite this as a resource since it's first hand knowledge and not an online source.

I do understand the goal to provide something someone would want to research years from now, but again, I'm confused why similar communities get away with it? There are numerous similar subdivisions with less information than I provided, like Abacoa and others in the area. Are they providing something I am not? Thanks for your help.

Personalseo (talk) 14:19, 15 October 2014 (UTC)Tammy

Both of the other articles are pretty bad; I proposed deletion of both, but the admin said that as "geographical locations" they might technically be inherently WP:Notable. I'm arguing the case with admins now that these should be held to the standards for businesses, not towns.

In any case, the big answer to your question is WP:Other stuff exists; that is, just because there are sub-par articles somewhere on WP isn't a good reason to produce more sub-par articles. The point of AFC is to make articles as strong as possible before launching, since a huge proportion of first-time articles are deleted. You've asked reviewers for their opinions, we're providing them based on Wikipedia guidelines.

Re your question: Also, I have been in contact with the manager of the community getting information directly from her. I don't know how to cite this as a resource since it's first hand knowledge and not an online source. . The answer there is WP:No original research. If it isn't clearly documented in a published product, it is not usable. Personal knowledge, unofficial interviews, etc are not admissible, otherwise just anyone could say "yeah I talked to the owner and he said X" and we'd have no way of verifying it other than every single curious reader having to phone them directly. So I would really avoid talking to the owners for content. I mean even if you're a paid PR writer, there's no point getting anything from them that's not published works since it's non-citeable. If they want to point out their press-clippings (not PR pieces or ads) to you that's one thing, but word-of-mouth is inadmissible.

Hope this helps, and in general if you see blatant advertising on Wikipedia, feel free to remove advert language, add the "advert" warning at top, or propose it for deletion. Your vigilance in preventing other companies from spamming is appreciated. MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:52, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

I understand. Thank you for the clarification. Personalseo (talk) 16:19, 15 October 2014 (UTC)Tammy

No worries; Mirasol is still a mess, but I just did a 10-minute cleanup on Abacoa, and now it's generally decent. Take a look and note the difference, with citations to third-party experts, removing promotional fluff, etc. Note too the downside to a company putting up a WP article; unlike a corporate page, a company can't control a Wikipedia article, so if there is interesting bad news it will invariably end up in the article. For Abacoa, I noted that it had brisk home sales, but trouble filling in retails spaces, which I'd expect Abacoa's owners would rather not publicize, but tough tiddliwinks, it's a documented fact of objective interest, so I added it. Do my upgrades to Abacoa make a little clearer what I'm saying? If you can write something kinda like that, with proper footnotes, that would pass AFC no problem. MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:51, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Ok Great. I will use that as my template. Yes, I'm not a company but I do write a lot about this community and when I search I never see it in WikiPedia so I thought I would make my own page. I don't care about bad PR, that's part of the general information. No rules as to Equal Housing Etc.. here. Lay it all out. Again, I really appreciate your help on this matter.

Personalseo (talk) 16:56, 15 October 2014 (UTC)Tammy

Sounds good, Personalseo, glad I could help. If you're local to the area, some good amateur photos would really spruce the article up. Some real slice-of-life stuff, give a feel for the area. MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:07, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

About Pages concerning Minecraft

Is this considered not worthy of the encyclopedia?

I can think of about 2,000,000 people who think otherwise!

Please respond in the next 5 min. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Link576 (talk • contribs) 20:40, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Ummmmm, how about I reply when I feel like it and I have the time. That work for you?

In any case, you're disagreeing with me because you haven't read up on Wikipedia rules. We don't cover things based on statistical popularity, we cover them based on coverage. I strongly advise you read our basic summary of the absolutely fundamental Notability guideline. Minecraft itself obviously meets Notability, but that doesn't mean every page of someone's opinions and stories about it do. Please read that page, and it'll make all this clearer. MatthewVanitas (talk) 04:49, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

I am very sincere when i say this matthew:

Im sorry for demanding your response. I realize you have more important things to do.

you are one of the lucky few that actually get to hear me say that

Anyways i totally agree on notabillity and minecraft wiki is denying my access right now

I would hope you change your mind about Entity_303.

       thank you.
        Link576  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Link576 (talk • contribs) 17:49, 16 October 2014 (UTC) 

Man's Gin wikipedia page

Hello Matthew- I resubmitted my article on the band Man's Gin, and I'm wondering if this draft will be published. My first draft didn't have any citations/references/external links, so I went through the article and added plenty of reliable 3rd party info. The article should be ready to go now. Please look it over and let me know if this is good enough to be published on wikipedia. Thanks! Erik W. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erikwunder (talk • contribs) 05:12, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

please approve my article

please sir you rejected my article, could you tell me wat criteria i failed to meet so i can better improve myself and understanding of this medium , and what to do to make my article created-max — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maxspecter92 (talk • contribs) 05:52, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Maxspecter92, did you read the advice given to you in the pink box at top of your draft? MatthewVanitas (talk) 06:14, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

regarding post

hi methew you have earlier declined this post due to formation. Please look at again please advice because this is our first time we adding anything here on wikipedia.

the info i am sharing is a person from indian congress.

Regards

Vikas — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaiveer singh shergill (talk • contribs) 06:23, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Jaiveer singh shergill, please read WP:Notability (people) and WP:Referencing for beginners, and let me know if you have further questions. MatthewVanitas (talk) 06:45, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Agni

Mathew saheb, I thank you for accepting Panchashikha and Mashafi. I have just now recast Agni to make it readable and purposeful to what extent I do not know. Kindly oblige me with your opinion and let me know what else is still to be done.Aditya soni (talk) 11:06, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Aditya soni, you've done good work on sourcing your articles (an absolutely vital skill many neglect), so that makes them easy to approve. Regarding Agni, I would recommend the following:

• Note which sections lack sourcing, and apply proper footnotes. While English is preferable on en.wikipedia, if a given fact is only/better attested in works in other languages, feel free to cite those as well. Note that with any GoogleBooks source you can instantly turn the URL into a footnote using http://reftag.appspot.com
• For the lengthy list of names, consider using WP:Columns coding to get them to list in column to take up less space
• I would submit the use of the name for the rocket is Notable, but that the use of the name in videogames is not signficicant enough to be in the article, so I would remove the video-game information at bottom.

Thank you for your diligence in working to improve India topics on Wikipedia! Have you yet introduced yourself at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject India? Participation in WikiProjects is entirely voluntary, but chatting with folks there may give you some chances for collaboration. Great work! MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:46, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Rejection of Self-Realization Riddle

Hi Matthew,

The riddle I had proposed has been rejected on the grounds that riddles are not published on Wikipedia.
But the riddle is not actually a riddle but a process to begin self-realization in a person.
The more a person thinks about this riddle, the more self-realized he becomes.
More-over the riddle is not yet complete and I had yet to add another set of riddles to complete the self-realization process.
So is it possible to publish this material if I give it the title 'Self-Realization Process'?
Or you would you like to make the decision when I complete my work?

Regards,
Your Friend,
balram_wiki_user
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Balram wiki user (talk • contribs) 12:29, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Balram wiki user! What you are writing is fundamentally not an encyclopedia article. Your own musings on the topic do not an article make. I would encourage you to see out other publication venues which specialize in such materials. MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:37, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

I respect and understand your views. An article of this nature perhaps belongs to a spiritual website. But the fact of the matter is that if one searches for words like 'Moksha', 'Mukti' and 'Enlightenment'..., the first result that shows up on the most popular search engine is Wikipedia. I am not an authority on Self-Realization and may sound a bit mad but I am a self-realized person. That's how I realized what we are made of and that's how I realized that the entire world is made of good people. Hence this article. Wikipedia has many articles on processes like the article on glass making process which defines each of the steps. If we publish this article on Wikipedia, the entire world can improve it by their own realization of the process. Please suggest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Balram wiki user (talk • contribs) 09:53, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Draft Submission Rejected - Gallery Arcturus

Hi Matthew,

thank you for your feedback! I understand you mentioned that the Gallery Arcturus draft does not meet Wikipedia's rules for notability. I would like to point out three things that do meet Wikipedia's rules. The gallery owns several sculptures from the Inuit sculptor Floyd Kuptana whose works are held at the National Gallery of Canada (I will have to check on that but 98 percent sure I'm right about that). The gallery owns many works by author and artist E.J. Gold. Gold's works are extensively documented and his Wiki page is quite clear. Would it help if I asked both artists to add Gallery Arcturus to their Wiki pages? I live in the UK but have met them both. And finally the gallery received a short review from The Globe and Mail which is Canada's national newspaper and I have the website address which features this review. Please let me know if these three points are indeed notable. Thank you very much for your time Msheering21 (talk) 16:43, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Tank you

This doesnt change your mind about entity_303 does it? Link576 (talk) 17:52, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Dude, again, WP:Notability. If no formal information sources (media, academics, etc) have recorded and commented on the 303 issue, then it is not a Wikipedia subject. There are plenty of places on the Internet to discuss Minecraft, but here we only discuss Minecraft issues that are significant enough to have been discussed by journalists or academics, like the social impact of the game, business model of the developers, etc. MatthewVanitas (talk) 18:04, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

Well im very sorry sir but minecraft wiki is currently OBSURD! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Link576 (talk • contribs) 16:10, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Man's Gin wikipedia page

Thank you for your feedback on the page Matthew- the changes you suggested were made and additional 3rd party citations have been included. Best, Erik — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:1:A800:A:FC32:E948:F951:A3D7 (talk) 03:55, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

05:10:18, 17 October 2014 review of submission by Airesriddim

• Airesriddim (talk · contribs)
  • Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Lamar Sternad (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Matthew,

"Generally political candidates do not merit their own Wikipedia article." However, this is not just any run of the mill candidate. I have searched Wikipedia, and have discovered that Wikipedia has another candidate from that same Primary race in 2012 with her own Wikipedia Page. Gloria Romero Roses was just a one-time political candidate. Not very notable and as little activism as Mr. Sternad. Mr. Sternad is notable in both South Florida politics and has had both local and national press coverage. Mr. Sternad's crime has set precedent for how Federal authorities are now treating/handing electoral crimes in not only South Florida, which is rocked by scandal after scandal, but also nationwide. As of recent, Mr. Sternad's name alone is being coined by both political parties as being synonymous with the term "straw candidate" and being used when describing certain types of political maneuvers. Mazzei, Patricia (October 13, 2014). "Insults fly between Miami GOP congressional candidate and former Republican foe". The Miami Herald Political Blog. Retrieved October 17, 2014. Please re-review. I can hardly see how Mrs. Roses, a one time candidate in the same race without any real notability herself merits having her own Wikipedia page and Mr. Sternad does not.

• Wikipedia contributors,"Gloria Romero Roses." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Retrieved October 17, 2014.

Airesriddim (talk) 05:23, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Decline of Jaiveer Shergill

I see you've declined Jaiveer Shergill because the references didn't use footnotes. However, according to the AfC guidelines, you shouldn't decline an article based on the use of general citations. Grognard Chess (talk) Ping when replying 05:38, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Help me (Erno Polgar)

Dear MatthewVanitas, I send to You a new form, but please to help me to edit the famous writer's page (Erno Polgar)! Regards, Gyorgyne Pruzsinszki) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Györgyné Pruzsinszki (talk • contribs) 15:11, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello Györgyné, you did good work greatly improving your formatting, and I cleaned it up a little further for you. The main issue right now is to work on WP:Sourcing

• Have you read WP:Notability (authors)? I strongly advise you do, as it explains the required level of sourcing to publish.
• You must show that other authorities (journalists, academics) have written about Polgar. Can you find news articles (in any language) discussing his career? Disussion of him in books about literature? We need to see that others have examined his career. Not simply that he has written books.
• While it is acceptable to just list references at the end, the article will be stronger with some footnotes; see WP:Referencing for beginners

• Other Wikipedia articles do not count as "Sources", so do not cite the Italian/German/Hungarian Wikipedias, we will just link to them at the end once this publishes. Note the other language versions are not well sourced, to the point they don't meet English Wikipedia standards. So don't necessarily use those as your models.

Fundamentally, you must demonstrate that other people write about Polgar, and add those sources to the article for it to pass. You have a lot of facts in the article, but almost no evidence that any authority has recognized/documented those facts. Hope this helps! MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:04, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Dear Matthew Vanitas,

I did collect informations and sources about Erno Polgar famous hungarian writer:

http://www.szepiroktarsasaga.hu/tagjaink/Polg%C3%A1r_Ern%C3%B4

http://www.zsido.com/search

http://www.litera.hu/kereses.php

http://www.spanyolnatha.hu/archivum/tata/17/szepirodalom/polgar-erno/924

Please help me to edit!

Yours truly: Györgyne Pruzsinszky — Preceding unsigned comment added by Györgyné Pruzsinszki (talk • contribs) 10:48, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Erno Polgar famous writer is the secretary general of the Barankovics Jewish Workshop (BIMA). https://www.facebook.com/BimaBarankovicsIzraelitaMuhely BIMA Barankovics Izraelita Műhely Györgyné Pruzsinszki (talk) 18:11, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

AMCHA Initiative

Hi, MatthewVanitas, you had taken an interest in the article AMCHA Initiative which you thought was non-notable and one-sided (correctly in my view).

You might want to keep an eye on my WP:NPOV addition of a criticism section and make sure that it doesn't get deleted. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=AMCHA_Initiative&diff=630214583&oldid=627950162 --Nbauman (talk) 09:01, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Would the Arise (musician) page be accepted as an actor page?

would the imdb reference be accepted if the Arise (musician) page were an actor page and not a musician one? If I just tweak it and omit the (musician) part? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.111.86.178 (talk) 22:10, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Hello, IMDB is not citeable in general since it is crowdsourced (see WP:IMDB), so like Wikipedia it cannot be used as a source at all.

You really need to read WP:Notability (people) and WP:Sourcing since you seem not to be getting some of our core requirements. You have a ton of facts on this page, everything from how she was in kindergarten and all. Any fact that you cannot source must be removed. That is, if you cannot provide a news article, magazine article, etc. which states those facts, Wikipedia cannot accept it. The only things you can source to her own website are non-controversial details like where born, what school, etc.

Sources come first, so don't bother writing down anything you can't source. I would suggest you go find any news articles, magazine articles, etc you can about Arise, and past the links at the bottom of the page, and then we can continue from there.

Note also, don't make footnotes by typing "[1]", etc. Instead use the coding shown at WP:Referencing for beginners. Let me know if you have any issues; hope this helps! MatthewVanitas (talk) 22:54, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Note, I also have no idea which editor I'm responding to since you aren't logged-in, so this comment was left anonymously. If you want to make it possible to reply to you easily, please log in before posting. MatthewVanitas (talk) 22:54, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

09:12:22, 20 October 2014 review of submission by Garmgarm

• Garmgarm (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Gabriel A. Rincon-Mora (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I am trying to address the deficiencies for which the above-referenced and below-appended article was declined and I am wondering if I am on the right path. Would you mind taking a look and letting me know?

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Gabriel Alfonso Rincón-Mora (1972-) is an American electrical engineer, scientist, professor, inventor, and author who was elevated to the grade of Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2011 and the grade of Fellow by the Institution of Engineering Technology (IET) in 2009 for his contributions to energy-harvesting and power-conditioning integrated circuits (ICs). Hispanic Business Magazine voted him one of "The 100 Most Influential Hispanics" in 2000, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineering (SHPE) awarded him the National Hispanic in Technology Award in 2000, Florida International University (FIU) awarded him the Charles E. Perry Visionary Award in 2000, the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) inducted him into its Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni in 2000, and former Lieutenant Governor Cruz M. Bustamante of California presented him a Commendation Certificate in 2001.

Dr. Rincón-Mora was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1972 and raised in Maracay, Venezuela, and migrated to North Miami Beach, Florida, when he was 11 years old. He graduated from North Miami Beach Senior High School in 1989, Florida International University (FIU) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1992, and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) with a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Mathematics in 1994 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1996. He worked for Texas Instruments (TI) in 1994-2003, was an Adjunct Professor at Georgia Tech in 1999-2001, and has been a Professor at Georgia Tech since 2001 and a Visiting Professor at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Taiwan since 2011. He hiked to the North Base Camp 1 on Mt. Everest in Tibet, climbed and summited Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, hiked through the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador, volunteered for Volunteers for Peace (VFP) to work with kids in Tanzania and India, and volunteered for Service Civil International (SCI) to work with kids in Mongolia and Vietnam.

His scholarly products include 9 books, 4 book chapters, 38 patents, over 160 publications, over 26 commercial power-chip designs, and over 95 invited international talks. He has lectured in the United States, Hong Kong, Slovakia, France, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Canada, Spain, Ireland, Egypt, Finland, México, China, England, Puerto Rico, and Korea. He has served as Distinguished Lecturer, General Chair, Technical Program Chair and Co-Chair, Associate Editor, Guest Editor and Co-Editor, and Chapter Chair and Vice-Chair on multiple occasions for IEEE, several international conferences, and several journal publications. His publications have drawn over 5200 citations.

His work and research is on the design and development of silicon-based integrated circuits (ICs) that draw and condition power from tiny batteries, fuel cells, and generators that harness ambient energy from motion, light, temperature, and radiation to supply mobile, portable, and self-sustaining devices like wireless microsensors for biomedical, consumer, industrial, and military applications.

Magazine Covers Featuring Prof. Rincón-Mora

"Bravo – National Award Winners," Official Magazine of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Spring 2000.

"The 100 Most Influential Hispanics," Hispanic Business magazine, Oct. 2000.

"A high-tech engineer with a low-tech lifestyle," La Fuente, Mar. 2000.

"Gabriel Rincón-Mora - Impacta en la alta tecnología," Nuevo Impacto, Aug. 2002.

"Profesionales Latinos – La nueva cara de Georgia," Nuevo Impacto, Oct. 2003.

"Gabriel Rincón Mora – Un ingeniero polifacético: Inventor, profesor, escritor y actor" - "Gabriel Rincón Mora – Outstanding Engineer and Writer," Nuevo Impacto, Nov. 2004.

Feature Stories about Prof. Rincón-Mora

"Passion for design, apathy for gizmos," Electronic Engineering Times, Jun. 2000.

"Designer has passion for work, apathy for gizmos," Planet Analog, Jun. 2000.

"By Day an Engineer," Intown, Aug. 2002.

"Notar – Short Stories and Poems to Boot," Official Magazine of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Aug. 2002.

"Innovators Matter," Hispanic Business magazine, Sept. 2002.

"Innovators Matter," Hispanic Business magazine, Dec. 2002.

"Hispanic Engineering Talent," Georgia Tech Society of Professional Hispanic Engineers, Feb. 2003.

"World-class training workshop on analog IC power management by top Integrated Circuit (IC) expert from the United States," Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks News & Newsletter, Oct. 2003.

"SSCS Subsidizes Short Course on Linear Regulator Design in Taipei," IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter, Sept. 2006.

"Alumni Profile: Gabriel A. Rincón-Mora," Summa Cum Laude, Florida International University Honors College, Winter 2011, vol. 1, no. 3.

"Featured Engineer: Gabriel Alfonso Rincón-Mora," EEWeb – Electrical Engineering Community, November 2012.

Other Recognition

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) presented him an IEEE Service Award in 2007.

Robins Air Force Base awarded him the Hispanic Heritage Award in 2005.

The Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation (HENAAC) featured him as the "Role Model of the Week" in 2005.

Robins Air Force Base awarded him the Orgullo Hispano Award in 2003.

The Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) elected him Distinguished Lecturer in 2009-2010.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) awarded him Thank a Teacher Certificates in 2010 and 2012.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) awarded him an IEEE Certificate of Appreciation for "Notable Services and Contributions towards the advancement of IEEE and the Engineering Professions" in 2012.

Ph.D. Dissertation

Current Efficient, Low Voltage, Low Dropout Regulators. Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996 (Advisor: Prof. Phil Allen).

Books

Voltage References. New Jersey: IEEE Press and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (192 pages), 2001 [Translated into Chinese].

Power Management ICs. Raleigh: Lulu (268 pages), 2005.

Analog IC Design with Low-Dropout Regulators. New York: McGraw-Hill (400 pages), Jan. 2009 [Translated into Chinese].

Analog IC Design with Low-Dropout Regulators, Second Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill (507 pages), 2014.

Power IC Design, Fourth Edition. Raleigh: Lulu (262 pages), 2014.

Analog IC Design, Fourth Edition. Raleigh: Lulu (244 pages), 2014.

Short Stories and Poems to Boot! New York: Vantage Press (86 pages), 2001 [Short Stories/Poetry].

Triple Engagement. New York: iUniverse (160 pages), 2004 [Short Stories/Poetry].

Vanish. Raleigh: Lulu (148 pages), 2009 [Novella].

Book Chapters

"Harvesting Microelectronic Circuits," Energy Harvesting Technologies (Editors: S. Priya and D.J. Inman), Springer, Jan. 2009.

"Energizing and Powering Microsystems," Integrated Microsystems: Electronics, Photonics, and Biotechnology (Editor: K. Iniewski), CRC Press, Oct. 2011.

"Vibration-Based Energy-Harvesting Integrated Circuits," Advances in Energy Harvesting Methods (Editors: N. Elvin and A. Erturk), Springer, Feb. 2013.

"Energy-Harvesting Integrated Circuits," Functional Materials and Microsystems for Energy Harvesting (Editors: M. Bhaskaran, S. Sriram, and K. Iniewski), CRC Press, Nov. 2013.

References

Garmgarm (talk) 09:12, 20 October 2014 (UTC)