User talk:Eddie891

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Welcome, welcome, welcome Eddie891! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

CactiStaccingCrane (talk)18:51, 1 February 2024 UTC [refresh]via JWB and Geardona (talk to me?)

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March flowers

story · music · places

in memory of the birthday of a friend who showed me art such as this, and of Vami --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:13, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Rossini's Petite messe solennelle was premiered on 14 March 1864, - when I listen to the desolate Agnus Dei I think of Vami. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:22, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Vacation pics uploaded, at least the first day, - and Aribert Reimann remembered. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:31, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Some days later, a calf in the mist and chocolate cake, and a story of collaboration --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:23, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Osama Said (producer) to Osama Said

hello, it appears that without the unnecessary disambiguation, the Osama Said article is salted. the notability of this newly created article seems doubtful, but could you move it/unprotect Osama Said in order to move it per naming requirements? She was ^afairy 09:19, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Sorry that I missed this point. Yes, if there is a notable Osama Said, I would be happy to un-SALT, but this doesn't seem to be the case here so the point is now moot. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 17:30, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Victor Daly

I saw this article on the unassessed military history project articles list. I have assessed it as B class for military history and biography. The Milhist Bot added erroneous parameters such as "African", which I have corrected. Donner60 (talk) 02:55, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look, @Donner60. I agree that the article is B-class, or thereabouts. I have not found more information on Daly that is not in the article. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 02:58, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. Since a higher assessment would require the more formal request and review process, I could not consider a higher rating on my own motion. I suspect a rater might want some more details for a higher rating but that is only a guess. Donner60 (talk) 03:10, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Question from Jackdrophammer on Wikipedia:Article wizard/Referencing (14:13, 25 March 2024)

"These include academic journals, books, newspapers, magazines, and media with a reputation for fact checking. Social media, press releases or corporate/professional profiles do not qualify." is what the article says for citations. I was thinking of writing an article on a *VERY* new band called "tonerico" whose members are well-known but the new band isn't. Their first MV has 67k views on yt. Now, there are *no* third party sources that mention them other than their own pages so the *only* source is their official pages, should I create a page on them? do you think it has a chance of getting deleted? The article is going to be *quite* short, afterall, the band released their first album last month and it went on sale in cd format on 20th march 2024, so last month if that's relevant. I'd also like to ask if search engines like google not list articles with same name on wikipedia(but in different languages), but it's ok if you can't answer this one. --Jackdrophammer (talk) 14:13, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi, @Jackdrophammer, if there is not independent and reliable coverage of an article topic, the article will be deleted, yes. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), not all topics can have a Wikipedia article-- there simply isn't enough reliable information to say about them. For instance, have a read about our notability criteria for bands. I don't think this band would meet any of these criteria yet. Sorry that that may not be what you want to hear :/.
Re your other question, to exclude wikipedia from your search results, you can append -wiki to your search query.
Happy to answer any other questions you may have! Best, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 17:24, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024

Hello Eddie891,

New Page Review queue January to March 2024

Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.

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TFA (Walt Whitman's lectures on Abraham Lincoln)

I love when I see a TFA and immediately know who wrote it. Great job on an interesting and challenging topic! Hope you are doing well. DanCherek (talk) 05:28, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, @DanCherek! I'm well, just about fully recovered from a surgery last week and hoping to get some more serious editing in in a couple months (been quite busy irl recently). Extending the same wishes to you and yours. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 19:42, 14 April 2024 (UTC)