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August 10

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Danny De Lillo

I created a new article with sources I cited. Each of them appears to be reliable. I am interested in making contributions to Wikipedia and I'm writing as factually as possible.

Would you help me understand specifically which sources had issues so that I can better understand it.\

Borntodeal (talk) 03:37, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Borntodeal,

We had a few technical issue with your submission, the computer gets really upset when you don't do thing the way it wants. We had a {{reflist}} in the middle of the article, which the computer HATES, and the infobox should always be the first thing. I fixed those up real quick.

The serious stuff is that all your references except the Sunday Mercury are not very reliable, it appears they are mostly blogs, which anyone can make. The "London Philosophy Club" is iffy, still sort of a blog, and it does not say very much at all about your subject. What really proves notability are references from companies that have big buildings, CEO's, and all that stuff. See if you can find some newspaper article, magazine article , TV or radio station website that mentions him. Those are the places that are considered reliable. If you want to be bored for an hour, have a look at WP:SOURCES. You've made a good start, we just need some reliable organizations to confirm your information.

Thanks for your work. -- :- ) Don 07:03, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

International Atlantic Economic Society article creation

Hello, I am wanting to create a new article on the International Atlantic Economic Society - Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/International Atlantic Economic Society. I think this would be a good addition to Wikipedia since many of the past presidents have been Nobel laureates and they have published many notable works. I am having trouble, however with the sources. There aren't a lot of third party sources for articles published by the IAES. For example, if I say that Dr. X has been published by the IAES, is it enough to simply cite the article s/he published? Any help would be appreciated, thanks! Kcastellanos1 (talk) 19:55, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I believe the situation is worse than that: There aren't a lot of third party sources for the IAES itself. The SJR discussing the journal is the best one we currently have, but it doesn't really say anything about the society. But we need significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject to establish its notability.

Once notability has been established, citing the articles themselves for the fact that Dr. X has published in the IAES' journal might be acceptable, but if no third party source bothered to note it, it's probably not all that relevant to the IAES. Huon (talk) 20:34, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]