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Kitty Gordon

Dear Colin, Re: Kitty Gordon I've been researching her stage appearances, not her personal life - which is why the "gun accident" on a Chicago stage caught my eye. (Shooting a stagehand during a performance is a real eye-opener to a performing arts archivist!!!) Thanks, DBY


Thanks

Dear Colin, I just wanted to thank you for your vote and constructive comments regarding the article IPA2. I wish you success and all the best. -DrMoslehi 22 September 2006, 03:47 (UTC+3:30)

Dear Colin,
I really did not get the impression you had wanted to keep my article and soothe my feeling, etc. I just thanked for the time you spent giving your opinion (to contribute to Wikipedia) and the instructions you gave (to guide others how to contribute). In case of Shashank, I just thanked to be grateful and when I used 'fan-style' I used the exact description. I did not give my opinion on whether showing fan-style support is good or bad (although you might think it as a kind of confirmation which in this case I really did not mean). -DrMoslehi 26 September 2006, 04:08 (UTC+3:30)


Dear Colin,

Many thanks for your prompt reply to my Wikipedia query, made earlier today!

Yours sincerely,

John L Bell

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Thanks

Dear ColinFine, I just wanted to say thank you for you have answered me everytime I came to Teahouse. May you have a good and happy life. I wish you very merry life.

Kamilalibhat (talk) 18:09, 14 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please review my article

The link is as follows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Mother_Bird_(sculpture) Sarika9140 (talk) 20:10, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) The same request is posted also (and answered) at Wikipedia:Help desk#Please review my article. --CiaPan (talk) 21:00, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sarika9140. I see that your draft has already been rejected: this is not surprising, as its sourcing is so poor that it was easy for someone to review. But I can tell you that I have a strong dislike of people gaming the system. Why are you so special that your draft should be reviewed ahead of others? Please don't ever ask me this again. --ColinFine (talk) 22:37, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ok sir, sorry for this. I want to ask u something. You have said that my article was rejected because if Poor Sourcing. I think that I have sourced thejapantimes which is a news website. When Wikipedia accepts The New York Times, why then lol it is rejecting thejapantimes. Plz tell. Sarika9140 (talk) 03:33, 18 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sarika9140, Japan Times is probably a reliable source. But that is only one of the criteria. We also require that most sources are independent sources, which that is not: it's based on an interview with the artist. If we allowed non-independent sources, then every band, every artist, every business, and every schoolchild with an ego, would all be "notable". --ColinFine (talk) 12:15, 18 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ok understood!!!! Sarika9140 (talk) 12:24, 18 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Question about an image

Hi ColinFine, i really apriciate if you can help me white the upload of an image. I tried to use the licence Fair use. Could you look at the image that i add on top, in the page Woodstock?. Waiting your answer i wish you a good evening. --TommasoRmndn (talk) 18:24, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, TommasoRmndn. I'm afraid not. The only kind of Fair use that Wikipedia allows is when the image and the way it is used meet all the criteria in the non-free content criteria: such images must be uploaded to Wikipedia, not to Commons, and the uploader must justify how it meets those criteria. I doubt if that image will meet criterion no. 8: "Contextual significance. Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the article topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding". I note also that your edit has been reverted by another editor who thinks the poster is a better choice. This means that as well as justifying using your image legally, you would also need to reach consensus with that editor and any other editors who were interested that yours would be a better picture there: see WP:BRD. (If you decided to add it elsewhere in the article, that particular problem might be avoided; but you still have to justify the use of a non-free image). --ColinFine (talk) 22:54, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
By the way, please ask questions like this on the Teahouse or the Help Desk, not directly on a particular editor's talk page. First, only that editor will see it, and answer it, so you may end up waiting longer. Second, it puts pressure on that particular editor to answer, for no good reason Thirdly, the question and answer may help others who come looking for an answer. --ColinFine (talk) 22:54, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, ColinFine thank you by the way. --TommasoRmndn (talk) 13:29, 21 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thank you for following up with a friendlier answer than mine. I was overly blunt to the poor scout. Kind regards, Zindor (talk) 01:56, 22 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

More Advice Needed

Hi ColinFine, Thank you for giving your comments on my article Draft:Direction Finding by Amplitude Comparison on Wikipedia:Teahouse. However, I'm not sure how to proceed.

Regarding your first concern, I don’t think the article can be considered as original research. The material in the article is based on techniques established some time ago and I believe that I have referenced them adequately. Your comment on Synthesis, however, is trickier to answer. Here are some possible problem areas.

The section “Comparison of signal levels from Adjacent Antennas”
This section discuses adjacent Gausian patterns in some detail, as an introduction to three antenna processing, which occurs later. The material is not original or contentious, but is simply a description of pattern properties. However, it does not appear in this form in any of the references.
The section “Choosing a value of K”
In his original article (my reference 35) O’Keefe suggests, as a guide, a typical value of K = 3 when signal levels are low or, alternatively, carry out system modelling. In my article the value of K = 3 is arrived at slightly more logically.

What do you think?

My original aim was to show, explicitly, how bearing was derived for two and three antenna combinations from an antenna array. I did not want to simply say that it could be done and give references. This information is not on Wikipedia at present, even though the techniques have been in use for many years. However if this is the material that editors have been objecting to then, perhaps I should give up. I added an introductory section that one editor thought would help, but that does not seem to be the basic problem.

Help!
D1ofBerks (talk) 17:44, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, D1ofBerks. I'm no expert, and I haven't looked at the draft, but from your description it does look like Synthesis. --ColinFine (talk) 19:22, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi ColinFine, Thank you for your comments. Do this mean that, provided I resolve the issues with Synthesis, my article will be accepted?
D1ofBerks (talk) 17:58, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

D1ofBerks. I have no idea. I haven't looked closely at the article or its sources. You'd do better asking the reviewer who declined it. --ColinFine (talk) 18:27, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thank you so much for your advice in the teahouse Whamrockers (talk) 06:13, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you

Hello ColinFine, I just wanted to say thank you very much for your time and support in the teahouse and in helping to improve the page for Hugh Mesibov. 2A02:C7D:8A84:3100:7917:C3A2:F37:3A0F (talk) 21:07, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note

Hello I am new at this and not writing about myself. I saw you mention that If you could help that would be great Thanks Goalmaker70 (talk) 20:50, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Goalmaker70. My advice would be to leave your draft alone for a few months as you learn how Wikipedia works by editing to improve existing articles. Would you expect to play in a regional competition after playing your first few games in a sport? That's what creating a new article is like for a new editor. You are likely to have an unhappy and frustrating time if you stick with this exceptionally hard challenge without having learnt the trade first.
As for your draft, I'll take a different analogy: it's like building a house without surveying the land to check that it is safe to build on. You've built something that looks like a house (your draft) - you're even asking people how to hang pictures on the walls. But if Oliver doesn't meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability, then your house is going to fall down. One of the reasons that creating a new article is so hard is that it needs to start by finding the independent reliable sources that are an absolute, non-negotiable, essential for a new Wikipedia article. If you can't find enough, then you know that the draft will never be accepted and not to waste your effort building it. If you can find the sources, then (for the first time) it is possible for you to write an article, because you will (for the first time) have information which can go into the article. Please see WP:YFA if you haven't read it already, and WP:V. --ColinFine (talk) 22:56, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There’s a lot of articles out there. So do i as then to the draft in the sandbox Goalmaker70 (talk) 23:08, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Meant to say so do i add the articles to the sandbox Goalmaker70 (talk) 23:12, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure what you're asking, Goalmaker70. If you mean that there are a lot of articles which are suitable as references, great. For each one
  • Make sure it is in a reliable source.
  • Make sure it is independent (not based on an interview with Oliver or a press release).
  • Add a citation to the source after any information in the draft that is verified by the source, and you haven't already provided a source for. (See REFB for how to reference the same source more then once, if needed).
If you decide not to work on that draft at the moment, you can of course park your sources on the draft for later.
Does that answer your question?

Loomain Legacy

So since you removed the Loomain Legacy section, we still need to put Loomain Legacy some where, since Loomain Legacy is still a remake of Pokemon Brick Bronze. JennilyW (talk) 21:51, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Then find some reliable independent sources for it, JennilyW. If the only sources you can find are from the company, or user-generated, then I don't believe it belongs in the article. --ColinFine (talk) 22:34, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Recent teahouse reply

Hi, Colin. I notice you've just replied to a querant at the Teahouse about his draft article on a horror writer, but that (uncharacteristically for you), your signature doesn't appear. This might be my fault.

I was composing a reply myself (I started when yours wasn't visible) but gave up halfway through and cancelled it. This might have somehow interfered with your post. If so (though I don't understand why), my apologies.

(I haven't heard of the writer before (I notice his 3 books are all from small presses), but he sounds as if I might enjoy his work! Regards {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.200.40.9 (talk) 13:52, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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