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02:49:26, 12 March 2015 review of submission by Charlieshen0106[edit]

Hello there, I am wondering how can I make my articles to be accepted since I already used independent sources and neutral contents, just like many other corporate wikipages. For example, ECCO, shoe maker like Butterfly Twists, has been accepted and showed in wikipedia but with much less sources and all the sources are links of its own website and annual reports. Please advice. Thank you very much! Charlieshen0106 (talk) 02:49, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Charlieshen0106: Wikipedia is run by volunteers, so lots of bad articles can slip through the cracks (like the ones you mentioned). If you want good examples, look at the articles rated B or better at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Companies/Assessment#Quality_scale. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 13:18, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 04:08:31, 12 March 2015 for assistance on AfC submission by 24.9.139.246[edit]


My article weas rejected and I have no idea why! Steven Paul Fisher 24.9.139.246 (talk) 04:08, 12 March 2015 (UTC) 24.9.139.246 (talk) 04:08, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Steven Paul Fisher:@24.9.139.246: Your article was accepted as is located at Robert Earl Roeder. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 13:09, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! 130.253.229.146 (talk) 14:19, 12 March 2015 (UTC)Steven Paul Fisher[reply]

05:44:09, 12 March 2015 review of submission by Deepa Topiwala[edit]


I am unable to provide notable references because I have physical archives of newspapers which show the credibility of the subject. These archives don't have a soft copy online as they were published much before the news industry went digital...

Kindly guide on how to include these news items to establish the notability of the subject

Deepa Topiwala (talk) 05:44, 12 March 2015 (UTC) Deepa Topiwala (talk) 05:44, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Deepa Topiwala: You can cite offline sources. For newspaper article, make sure you include the name of the newspaper, the date the article was published, the article title and author, and, if possible, the page it appeared on. You can use Template:Cite news if it helps. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 13:21, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

07:02:58, 12 March 2015 review of submission by Elilat54[edit]


last editor lost my list of references some how, why is that ?. Now It won't let me put them back in order as a numbered list. simply says "" jump to "" because its in Sanbox. I had deleted my earlier work, and all that what I left went missing over night as well. It's becoming really annoying. I am wondering if all this old MS DOS data entry is really worth the effort writing in wiki  ???? .

ebliss54 07:02, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

@Elilat54: It looks like at some point, someone copied and pasted User:Elilat54/sandbox to User:User:Elilat54/sandbox, and the process of merging the two lost your references. I restored a pre-merge version from the history which seemed to bring them back. However, most of your references still have serious issues. You can't simply point to a web search, a magazine, or someone's writings in general as a reference, you need to give specific enough information that a reader could easily locate the information. If you're citing a newspaper or magazine article, give the exact issue date, the exact article title, and the author (if it's a print magazine, the page number is also helpful). If you're referencing a website, give a link to a specific site, don't just says "search google for xxx". If you're citing a book, give enough information for someone to find the book (title, author, publication date, etc.) as well as the page number or numbers where the information appears. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 14:26, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

10:47:12, 12 March 2015 review of submission by Tsanko Tsakov[edit]

I need some help for setting up a simple page as i find very difficult and confusing all the procedure what goes where and how to add a photo, im not so good with computers. Thas why i need a little support for getting the basic page done. Thank you

Tsanko Tsakov (talk) 10:47, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Tsanko Tsakov: It looks as though you are trying to write an advertisement for your company, but Wikipedia is not a place to promote products. Before putting any more work into this, please consider that Wikipedia only has articles about companies that have been written about extensively in news reports, magazine articles and/or books (social media sites like facebook don't count). If the company is small and/or new and hasn't been in the news or the subject of magazine articles, the page will not be accepted for the encyclopedia, no matter how well it is formatted. Finding and adding references to these publications should be your first priority (see WP:Referencing for beginners. In the mean time, please remove the links to facebook images; Wikipedia pages can't display images that are hosted on external websites. Then, once you have found references, rewrite the text in a neutral way, with just facts and without the word "we".—Anne Delong (talk) 13:24, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

14:45:00, 12 March 2015 review of submission by Neeraj Mehta123[edit]


Neeraj Mehta123 (talk) 14:45, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Neeraj Mehta123 - I already responded to you on my talkpage. Onel5969 (talk) 15:31, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 16:30:53, 12 March 2015 for assistance on AfC submission by Narges shiraz[edit]



Narges shiraz (talk) 16:30, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Narges shiraz: What is your question? Your article at Draft:Amir H. Nojan was declined because you failed to show that the subject of the article met the standards of WP:MUSICBIO. Your article needs references to significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article. Blogs, such as "New York Music Daily", are not considered reliable sources, and neither are Youtube videos. The artists website and the website of the academy that the artist started are not independent sources. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:44, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

20:21:39, 12 March 2015 review of submission by Pigpopper19[edit]

The page was denied creation based on the organization's notability. I'm confused as there are many businesses in the same industry on Wikipedia, which have fewer participants and have had less notable media coverage.

Some examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYC_Social_Sports_Club https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pickle23/Chicago_Sport_and_Social_Club https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Ski_and_Sports_Club

Is it just a matter of including enough references to prove ZogSports' notability?

Thank you for your help, Pigpopper19 Pigpopper19 (talk) 20:21, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Pigpopper19: Wikipedia is run by volunteers, so it's very likely that some articles which don't meet our standards have slipped through the cracks (and one of those examples you gave is a draft, not an accepted article). It's not enough to provide enough references, your references must show several examples of significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:31, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 21:03:56, 12 March 2015 for assistance on AfC submission by Sensoryoverloadmusic[edit]


Hello, several months ago I submitted an article for creation for the composer Bryan E. Miller who owns Sensory Overload Music company. I am his assistant, and worked with him to submit the article. I received a message that the article could not be published because it contained copyright material. 1) Can you tell me what material was copyrighted? 2) What happens if the material that was "copyrighted" was paraphrased from a website that we created?

Thanks! Sensoryoverloadmusic (talk) 21:03, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Sensoryoverloadmusic: Your draft appeared to contain content copied from http://bryanemiller.com. Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly exists under a compatible licence and is written in an acceptable tone—this includes material that you own the copyright to. You should attribute the content of a draft to outside sources, using citations, but copying and pasting or closely paraphrasing sources is not acceptable. The entire draft should be written using your own words and structure.
Also, please see the message I left on your talk page regarding your username. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:29, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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