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April 13

10:38, 13 April 2024 review of submission by Trafalgar54

Trafalgar54 (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Roberto Giovanni Carbone (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I have submitted my draft but there is always some query regarding not adequately supported by reliable sources. I ask your precious help please. Please realize that many documents and informations are original and personal of the subject of the draft and is very difficult to see in the website whereas the information and the letter of commendation are very important to plan the draf page. Thank you very much. All the Best Trafalgar54 (talk) 10:38, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A Wikipedia article should be based completely on published sources. Unpublished material can never be cited, and nor can information which is validated only by unpublished material. ColinFine (talk) 16:10, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

10:51, 13 April 2024 review of submission by Siralex1973

Siralex1973 (talk · contribs)
- One for the Mockingbird (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi, according with the band, i'm going to create pages for every single they made. I started with the one mentioned above but the submission was declined maybe for not enough references?. Please can you suggest me what can i do to make the right articles? is my first work in wikipedia... thank you very much in advance Alessio Siralex1973 (talk) 10:51, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Siralex. If you were starting to learn engineering, would you make your first project to build a car from scratch? If you took up a musical instrument, would you arrange a public recital as the first thing you did? No, you would practise on less demanding projects while you learnt the craft.
I would very strongly advise you that you will save yourself a great deal of frustration and disappointment if you forget about creating a new article for several months, while you gradually learn about how Wikipedia works (and most particularly about Verifiability, reliable sources, and Neutral point of view) by making improvements to some of our six million existing articles..

If you do this, then by the time you try creating articles, you will know that creating an article begins with finding independent reliable sources that cover the subject in depth, and that if you can't find enough, your quest for that particular article ends there. ColinFine (talk) 16:14, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

11:17, 13 April 2024 review of submission by Dineshgopal

Dineshgopal (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Dinesh Krishnan B (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

All are reliable links like IMDB and even the linked wiki pages contain the name of the person. Please let me know what I need to do for approval. Thanks. Dineshgopal (talk) 11:17, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:IMDB it is never a reliable source. Theroadislong (talk) 12:01, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

And nor are Wiki pages a reliable source.

And interviews, even if they are published in a reliable source, are not independent, and do cont contribute to establishing notability.

Wikipedia has little interest in what the subject of an article says or wants to say about themselves, or what their associates say about them. Wikipedia is almost entirely interested in what people who have no connection with the subject, and who have not been prompted or fed information on behalf of the subject, have chosen to publish about the subject in reliable sources. If enough material is cited from independent sources to establish notability, a limited amount of uncontroversial factual information may be added from non-independent sources. ColinFine (talk) 16:18, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]