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Is this a notable company?

Hi, I wanted to create an article for the Indian company boAt which is one of the popular brands for mobile accessories. I have listed a few sources on my sandbox (User:Ibiza Gnome/sandbox) which describe the company's history, operations, etc. Can you take a look at these sources and let me know if this company is notable? I'm asking you because I don't want to put my time and efforts into creating the article before someone nominates it for AFD and wastes it all. Thanks. Ibiza Gnome (talk) 08:08, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Please Review this article Felix Idiga again

Please, kindly review Draft:Felix Idiga again, i have made adequate research on the subject and improved it article. Thank You.Chimaezeogoegbunam (talk) 08:26, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

The mostr reasonable thing to do will be to redirect it to the organization. I will do that. DGG ( talk ) 09:05, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Please Review The Leapfroggers: An Insider's Account of ISRO article that you moved to draft

I am not connected to the author or the book. So, there's no conflict on interest. I have added more facts, as well as citations. Please move the article from drafts to live. Scenecontra (talk) 10:05, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

It will soon be reviewed by. someo other editor,. What you could do in the meantime is add additional references to publsihed reviews, including perhaps a one sentence quotation from them to show the book's importance. DGG ( talk ) 10:08, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Opinion requested

David, what do you think of this edit? Thanks! --Randykitty (talk) 17:46, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

I removed and gave a warning. DGG ( talk ) 18:09, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Help. Thanks for edits. But

??? Talk message says created but link says not created.

Received the following talk message:

"Your submission at Articles for creation: Zhang Dinghuang has been accepted"

When I clicked on the link "Zhang Dinghuang", it says :

"This page has not yet been created. Create page No, thanks."

HELP PLEASE. Thanks again. (Not easy for a neophyte wiki contributor.) QSandai (talk) 13:43, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Another editor, Auric, moved it back toDraft:Zhang Dinghuang, saying "more work needed" without any detailed information about what work they think is needed. . I do not agree, I do not even see what is meant by that vague objection, and I assume that editor will come here to discus it with me. (The standard for acceptance is the likelihood that it would not be deleted at AfD;. the correct course in case we should not agree is to move it to main space , and nominate it for AfD. DGG ( talk ) 01:14, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

I was not the one who moved it back. That was done by Zanhe. I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion, since a simple search of the history shows that I did not. --Auric talk 16:59, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

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Help. Message Zhang Dinghuan accepted. But link says does not ecist.

Hi. I got mssge that above article accepted as B grade. Felt good, my first. But when I clicked on the link it said "doesn't exist Do you wamt to create?"

What's happening? Newby needs help wading thru wiki culture. Please help. Ed 😢 QSandai (talk) 09:03, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Just found your response after I wrote my 2nd post. Difficult to re-write without objective.

Just found your response after I wrote my 2nd post. Difficult to re-write without objective. It was tighter before all the edits. Still better than many stub articles. Rewrite without objective seem pointless. Three sentence synopsis. Zhang was a supporting but key figure of the very rich 20th c Chinese literary movements. Multi linguist who studied in Japan and France and was professor at Beijing U and Sino Franco U. Post WWII recovered core collection of antique manuscripts in Taiwan's National Central Library (literary equivalent of antiques of Palace Museum), doing so primarily by personal negotiation with US and Japanese officials without need for interpretors... Seems to me that is sufficient in comparison w many articles. Pretty much everything else in the draft are to support those 3 sentences. That third sentence is a billion $ legacy today. Auric has edited before. I'll write to him and ask what he wants. Would very much appreciate your help. Have a nice week, Ed QSandai (talk) 09:51, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

• Taking another look at it, it does need considerable additional work, and I should not have accepted it. Ȝeſtikl has cleaned up the beginning, but it still needs great abbreviation of the copies of his work that form the very long latter parts of the article. If nobody else does it in the next few days, I will. DGG ( talk ) 11:19, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

New Article: Yolanda Gampp

When reviewing the Requested Articles Biography/By Profession page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Biography/By_profession#Chefs) I saw that Yolanda Gampp is requested. I have found significant resources for this person and would like to post but the article title Yolanda Gampp is protected due to repeated deletion. Would appreciate your guidance as to how best produce an entry for her. Byzantine Stitcher (talk) 11:44, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

Question about redirected draft

I'm puzzled by why Draft:Viral metagenomics redirects to a talk page (which in turn redirects to itself), instead of to an article. Plus, if I'm reading the histories correctly, we already had an article on this topic before the draft was even started. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 20:01, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Zhang Dinghuan

I just finished my brief edit as noted earlier. Also checked overall organization of the article both with phone mode browser and desk top mode browser. In the desktop browser mode there is a table of contents which clearly shows the organization. This is missing on my phone browser. If your phone browser is missing the table of contents it is a handicap for this article which is long.

I also checked the tables and floating images. They are best used with the phone in a horizontal mode. Horizontal in desktop mode is best since you have control over size. But horizontal phone mode is also ok to my eyes. I have screen shots but don't know how to post them in this talk

My editing is basically done at this point since I don't know what numerous people want. You can make it more compact by cutting tables and vignettes. You can also rehash the whole thing by subject matter or timeline or something else like taking out all tables and use bullet points, or chop it up to several entries. My goal is to provide an article with substance and some color of life. That is the reason it is long. Now it is in your good hands. If you wish to edit further, the full table of contents will be helpful. QSandai (talk) 17:12, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

                   Looks like the talk template doesn't allow images. No screen shots then 😀 QSandai (talk) 17:57, 10 November 2019 (UTC)