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April 29

Wikipedia article

To Whom It May Concern;

I tried to put an entry onto Wiki about the term Gran Fondo. I was rejected and so I am trying to determine how I can correct this and get the term posted. I was told that that term is not specific enough with enough legitimate background, but I think it was misunderstood. Is there a number I can call in order to speak to someone regarding my entry to help me clarify what I need to do in order to get my entry posted.

Thank you for your help, Brianna — Preceding unsigned comment added by TOITevents (talk • contribs) 00:05, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

We don't have a phone hotline, but there is a live help chat: #wikipedia-en-help ^connect What you need to do is add reliable third-party sources which serve to verify the draft's content, such as articles in reputable sports magazines. Right now major parts don't cite any sources at all. Furthermore, the subject seems to be already covered by our Cyclosportive article - it may be better to improve our existing article than to write a new one from scratch. Huon (talk) 02:12, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia doesn't create two different articles for the same thing just because it's called cyclosportive in French and gran fondo in Italian. If you want to move Cyclosportive to Gran fondo, go to Talk:Cyclosportive and suggest why gran fondo should be favored over cyclosportive. But first, you need a new user name; a user name the same as your organization, TOIT Events, is not allowed. Read Wikipedia:Username policy. And since you are obviously a promoter of gran fondos, please read and understand Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 22:20, 6 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Why was my wiki for Achromatik declined?

It's not copyright infringement if I personally wrote it word for word. I happen to be the artist that I was putting it up for. I was doing it because I am not starting to get recognition and everyone keeps asking my life story, so it's easier to put it up on here. I don't understand what copyrights were wrong, everything I posted was 100% my work and true. — Preceding unsigned comment added by HipHopInformation (talk • contribs) 07:35, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Technically you can send a release form to permission-en@wikimedia.org to verify that you are indeed the copyright holder and release the content under a free license so that everybody can re-use it for any purpose, including commercial purposes, but since the removed content didn't cite any independent sources, was unduly promotional and would have to be rewritten almost entirely anyway, I don't think that's worth the effort. Wikipedia content should be based on reliable sources that are independent of the subject, such as newspaper articles or reviewes in reputable music magazines. In short, we need others to have independently reported on your life story before we can write about it on Wikipedia. Huon (talk) 20:43, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Removing/deleting a page: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/DAN_NEWMAN_for_wiki_upload_d_stern_021413.pdf

Good morning.

I want to remove http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/DAN_NEWMAN_for_wiki_upload_d_stern_021413.pdf. How do I go about doing that?

Thanks!

DOUG

Dug2600 (talk) 14:20, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's commons:File:DAN NEWMAN for wiki upload d stern 021413.pdf, and since it's hosted at the Wikimedia Commons, it would have to be deleted over there; see their deletion policy. Since you have irrevocably released that document under a free license, they are under no obligation to delete it upon request, though. Huon (talk) 20:43, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Review of User:Ingenieuse/sandbox

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Scan-Optics how do I add references to make my article valid? (like this link: http://articles.courant.com/2001-02-05/news/0102050900_1_mavel-net-loss-delisted or this: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases-test/scan-optics-chooses-brainware-to-help-process-thirty-three-million-pages-per-month-91856254.html or this: http://www.cognitronics.co.uk/products/supplier-profile/scan-optics-usa.html) the companies listed are both on Wikipedia and so should Scan-Optics be, they are the leader in this. Ingenieuse (talk) 15:19, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:Referencing for beginners on how to add references to an article. The press release, however, is not a reliable source, and I have severe doubts about Cognitronics' supplier profile - if, for argument's sake, their supplier had a tendency to supply cheap but shoddy products, they probably wouldn't say so. Huon (talk) 20:43, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

find reviewer comments on Rittenhouse Elementary School Article

Greetings dear Help Desk,

I would like to find the reviewer comments for my first artice entitled Rittenhouse Elementary School, but I'm completely lost. Any suggestions?

Thank you gagegsGagegs (talk) 23:52, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The reviewer's comments are at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Rittenhouse Elementary School, and he just said that the draft was redundant since we already have an article at Rittenhouse Elementary School. We need not turn the draft into an article when we already have an article. Huon (talk) 02:38, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]