User talk:GordiasAchos

C-SPAN

Hi there, Nimuaq! I apologize for only just noticing today that you had added a link from my list of C-SPAN Exernal links, back in mid-March. Thank you, very much! Please accept this barnstar-inspired award as an expression of gratitude. Plus, if you do 9 more (and if you live in the U.S.) I can arrange for C-SPAN to send you a logo-embroidered C-SPAN baseball cap. Cheers, WWB Too (talk) 12:34, 27 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

		C-SPAN award
		For assistance in adding missing C-SPAN related links to relevant External links sections.

Francine Van Hove

Hi, Thank you for your time reviewing my article. Can you please help me understand why it has been declined? After it had been declined the first time, I have added ISBN and ISSN numbers to the sources (published books and published articles I had found). Francine Van Hove is a well known French painter and she is represented in North America by a Canadian Gallerist (De Bellefeuille Gallery as stated in the Article) and by Alain Blondel Gallery in France. The article I proposed for WIkipedia US is an English translation of the French page + ISBN and ISSN references that have been asked. How can my sources be more reliable? You can check the ISBN at least in the browser listed by wikipedia for french books NiceBooks.com book search engine and price comparison service.

Thanks in advance for your time and your help.

pascaledesign : 021013 : 11:06 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pascaledesign (talk • contribs) 19:06, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! The sources are usually listed under the section References and I assumed the Bibliography section lists the works by the subject and not about her (as that section usually include literary works written or edited by the author). After I saw the References section empty, I -again- assumed there were no sources about her, thus I declined the submission for inadequate verification. I can see now that section actually lists the sources (general references without inline citations, but since I can't see any contentious material about her, inline citations are not a must). I'm not sure about the French wikipedia article since it seems there were conflict of interest (see: [1]. In any case, I apologize for my lack of attention, I will revert my edits and review the article -but first I will move the sources under the section References. Nimuaq (talk) 21:02, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ponta II

I know my article doesn't have much information but I have seen created articles with about as much if not less. I have almost no idea what I am doing but I know for certain that that article needs to be created. There is a Ponta I article that is out of date and basically incorrect because of it. If you allow the article to be created then won't it attract people to edit it? Plus, isn't an incomplete but accurate article better than one that is outdated and incorrect but complete? What if we had no article on a new cabinet for the David Cameron and someone created a skeleton page for that? Wouldn't it get accepted? I think just because the country is Romania instead of the Britain doesn't mean that their government should get ignored by Wikipedia. I am just trying to get people to do what I can't do myself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fshoutofdawater (talk • contribs) 09:39, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Fshoutofdawater! I declined the submission based on its content and nothing else. According to the general notability guideline, articles need significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject -regardless of what they are about. Note that if you're a registered user, you can crate the article yourself without AFC. I can check if there are reliable sources with significant coverage about this subject, would you like me to do that? Nimuaq (talk) 09:55, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah go ahead. I don't know if you know anything about politics but seriously there must be "reliable sources", I just don't know how many are in English. But Romania is not some third world country, they are a developed country and a member of the EU. There must be sources regarding their current government. Like I said, I don't really know what I am doing and I really don't care who does it or gets credit for it. I just think it is ridiculous that the government of a sizable sovereign state in Europe has no English language page.(Fshoutofdawater (talk) 10:01, 25 February 2013 (UTC))[reply]

We need reliable, third-party, published sources, but these sources can be in any language, not just English (especially if English sources of equal quality and relevance are not available). You can read more about it at Wikipedia:NOENG. Nimuaq (talk) 12:47, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Element Pictures

Hi Nimuaq

How do I appeal this decision?

ant_ie (talk) 11:29, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello ant_ie! If you think the article should have been accepted in its current form, you can re-submit the article for another editor to review or, as you're a registered user, you can just create the article without using Articles for Creation. I declined the submission since the golden rule states: "Articles require significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." and while there are three sources in the article, the first one is an imdb entry, the third is not an independent source, thus the second source ([2]) is the only reliable and independent source with significant coverage. However, a single source is never enough to establish notability (see: Wikipedia:CORPDEPTH), but I'm sure it will be accepted if you can find more sources like the second source. Nimuaq (talk) 12:29, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the update ant_ie (talk) 15:40, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiproject Articles for creation Needs You!

Hello GordiasAchos:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.

There is a backlog of over 3200 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! ~~~~

Delivered by User:EdwardsBot on behalf of Wikiproject Articles for Creation at 13:54, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

And to you...

		The Original Barnstar
		Thank you for your tireless work at AfC, and your intelligent approach to recognizing valuable topics which may have been obscured by new editors' unfamiliarity with Wikipedia's style and labrynthine ways. Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 17:19, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]