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July 13

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/importance of computer networking

respected sir/madam, can you please give me the reason as to why my article was rejected? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nikhit123 (talk • contribs) 03:50, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings, as the tag at the top of your article notes, what you submitted is an essay, not a Wikipedia article. As a parallel, Abraham Lincoln (a basic biography of facts about his life and career) is an article, whereas "Abraham Lincoln Was the Greatest American President" is an essay (one person's perspective on a topic). If there are facts about the topic that are currently missing from the existing article Computer networking you can add them there. What I would suggest, go to Talk:Computer networking and tell the editors working on the article what you think should be added, and if they agree go ahead and add it. You could try adding it directly, but it may be that others would disagree with your additions, and you would end up having to discuss it anyway. But the main point is "essays are not articles" and we do have a current article Computer networking which you can contribute too instead. MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:50, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster

Hi there I am adding links to relevant pages for the article Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster and I would like to add the acronym NEPIC to the title is this possible? Gairderek (talk) 10:18, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You want to rename the article to "Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC)"? That's technically possible (see Help:Moving a page), but I don't think it's necessary or beneficial. People looking for the article will likely use either the full name or the acronym, not both, and we'd deliberately and needlessly make the article title less concise. According to the naming criteria an article title should be "no longer than necessary to identify the article's subject and distinguish it from other subjects", for which "Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster" is entirely sufficient.

If you just want to create links to the article that add the acronym, that's also possible, via "piped" links: [[Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster|Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC)]] will link to the article and be displayed as "Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC)". If you use the new VisualEditor to create the links, as opposed to editing the source, creating such links is even easier: Write the text you want to have displayed, select the part of it that should be turned into a link, click VE's "link" symbol, and enter the target article's name into the dialog box that pops up. Huon (talk) 17:24, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Catholic Church Reform

I have my article edited with endnotes and ready to resubmit. However, I worked on it in a Word File and have the bold, italic and endnotes embedded in the document. Is there a way that I can submit it to Wikipedia in this finished form? I'm worried about inserting this into your program for fear that the links to the endnotes will all be lost.

Thank you for you help, Rene Reid (Churchreform (talk) 14:43, 13 July 2013 (UTC))[reply]

I have reworked my article in a Word file complete with endnotes that are numbered in the body of the article and linked to the source. I don't know how to keep this format when I paste the article into your box. May I submit my article in the Word format? If not, please instruct me how to insert the endnotes.

Thank you, Rene Reid Churchreform (talk) 15:15, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

I have rewritten my article in a Word file which is already formatted with bold, italics, and most importantly the endnotes. The endnotes are numbered in the body of the article and linked to the source. When I copy and paste this into your box, I lose all of the endnote numbers and links. I can redo the bold and italic notations but I don't know how to do the endnotes in your program. Is there a way for me to submit the article in a finished format to you in a Word file? If not, please instruct me how to do endnotes. The above description doesn't show me how to do that.

Thank you, Rene Reid (Churchreform (talk) 15:25, 13 July 2013 (UTC)).[reply]

Greetings, generally speaking endnotes are created by placing the tags <ref> at the start of your citation and </ref> at the end of it, and placing the citation right in the body of the text where you'd like the actual little blue footnote number to appear. Then, at the bottom of the article you type {{reflist}} and that template will automatically number and list out all the footnotes you've pasted in the body of the text.

If you want a longer read, WP:Footnotes gives some more details, and there's a coding called WP:Refname you can use in order to create multiple footnotes to one book. NOTE: do not use "Ibid" or similar as a footnote, since paragraphs may get moved around over time, and the order of footnotes changed (which is also the great thing about Wiki footnotes, they automatically renumber themselves if the order is changed). MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:38, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Suleika Jaouad

Hi there, I'm wondering how to prove that New York Times columnist Suleika Jaouad is notable enough for a Wiki profile. Her columns/videoseries have been nominated for a duPont award and an Emmy Award. Here is my submission Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Suleika Jaouad

Resserpeizzil (talk) 22:30, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

To be considered notable, Jaouad must be the subject of significant third-party coverage in reliable sources. Interviews or her own writings are not considered independent sources, and passing mentions such as list entries don't help establish notability. Of your current sources only the Glamour magazine article may help in that regard, but "significant coverage" means more than one source; we usually require at least three to five good sources of at least a paragraph about Jaouad. News coverage of her award nominations could help, unless it's just a NYT report along the lines of "One of our own gets an Emmy nomination" - that probably wouldn't be considered a third-party source. Huon (talk) 22:57, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]