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Hello there. Could you take a look at this article please. I tagged it with {{db-band}} but the author used {{hang on}}. The hang-on template is used to give him time to explain why the article should be kept; but he has made no attempt to justify inclusion on the talk page, and has ignored my attempts to communicate with him on his user page. Meanwhile he's adding more and more pointless, non-notable content. The article makes no attempt to justify the significance of the subject, the references don't support any of the (non-notable) claims, and the subject clearly doesn't meet WP:MUSIC.— Fly by Night (talk)22:59, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
It was a valid CSD A7 as there was no claim of significance or importance. I normally hold off and watch if people are still editing but he blanked it in any case so I've deleted it per CSD G7. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 23:20, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for that. He'd used the {{hang on}} template to buy more time, so admins were giving the article space, but then he was ignoring everything and carrying on to edit. It felt like he was playing the system. It was really frustrating. — Fly by Night (talk)23:32, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
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Hi! Are you joking? The largest Hungarian label - Hungaroton - released 9 Első Emelet's albums, so I totally can't understand why it couldn't meet the criteria. And when it comes to sources: first, second. Greetings Yurek88 (talk) 13:53, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Hi Yurek88. The notices simply advises all editors how to improve the article. In this case, the article would be improved by the addition of reliable published sources that are independent of the subject, such as books and newspapers, that have written about the band. This serves two purposes: it enables readers to check what is written; and it demonstrates that the band meets the general inclusion criteria for an article in the encyclopedia. I expect that most sources for this band will be written in the Hungarian language (I can find very little in English though I gather Első Emelet were a "top teen group"); if you can find reliable sources, then feel free to add them to the article. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 20:08, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
Please if you have time and you know anything to it (I have seen that you have made edits in the article area which owns relations on it --- The Mark of Zorro (radio drama)) , please look on the article Audio theatre, somebody placed a erase discussion on it. after we have had a merge discussion. It would be interesting what you would say to the merge and the delete discussion. And possibly it could help to contact other people that they should help also. )-: Merry Xmas --Soenke Rahn (talk) 17:54, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your response. I should've checked the page history at the time of your edit. I've now looked on Google and the only references that Morcon was the original name for Prosafe comes from Wiki mirrors. The Prosafe website's History section does not go that far back. I don't like leaving in unreferenced material but am assuming the original fact was correct, and thus I have just added a bit more explanation at the Morcon page. Regards. Eldumpo (talk) 11:36, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
Joanna Yeates
Hi could you check out the Joanna Yeates Afd discussion as I personally feel that a consensus has been reached by now and its time to perhapss close. And you seem like just as perfect as any user to end the Afd.--BabbaQ (talk) 21:47, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you, I have had a look at this. There is not a unaniminous decision here and the discussion still seems to be ongoing with some comments having been made today (one just over an hour or so ago). I don't see any compelling need to close early or for the discussion to not remain open for the full seven days so I would just suggest just waiting for a few more days, there is no rush. Relax, enjoy the New Year weekend and come back to it in three days time by when it will have been resolved. Have a happy New Year. :-) 22:49, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
Okay, so what is the Speedy Delete template for no such person existing? There's no source that the child has been given a name, let alone that name. What do I need to do to get the article deleted? ✝DBD22:50, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
could you please tell me why the article was removed? I think it was pointing to the first article wrong. I rewrote the article and it was a much better and improved content with more references. Mecheng761 (talk) 20:04, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
Looking at it, it seems to me that the concern was for a lack of multiple reliable published sources, such as books and newspapers, that are independent of the company and have written substantially about it, which would demonstrate that the general inclusion criteria for an article in the encyclopedia is met. The sources that were in the article do not appear to have achieved that. Kind regards, Malcolmxl5 (talk) 20:58, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello, Udanax. What we are looking for is to improve the article by adding references that show significant coverage about the subject in reliable published sources that are independent of the subject (see WP:GNG) and, yes, once these are added, you (or any editor) can remove the tags. :) Malcolmxl5 (talk) 21:25, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
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In general, if the musician or ensemble is notable, and if the album in question has been mentioned in multiple reliable sources, then their officially released albums may have sufficient notability to have individual articles on Wikipedia.
Jorge Ben is unarguably a notable musician, and Sacundin Ben Samba is unmistakably one of his official releases, so I think the album meets notability standards.
I am admittedly a pretty new and casual Wikipedia user, so it's quite possible that I'm missing something here. Let me know what you think of the above argument. Thanks.MxxL (talk) 18:30, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello, MxxL, welcome to Wikipedia. :-) The notice is simply advice to editors on how the article might be improved. The first line of Wikipedia:Notability (music) says "All articles on albums, singles or songs must meet the basic criteria at the notability guidelines, with significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." The two sources given are not "significant coverage in reliable sources" so the article would be improved by the addition of further sources, perhaps reviews in newspapers, magazines, books? Malcolmxl5 (talk) 19:17, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
Trade secret
http://www.freetranslation.com/ is great. I find it the most accurate when I need to check my reading of something. (I can speak passable French, and read quite a few languages, but I like to check things out properly as there can be 'false friends'.) Peridon (talk) 22:35, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
I'd like to talk to folks who edited the Greeley Park article that I created, as part of my newspaper article. Care to give me a call or email in the next day or two? 603-594-5831, dbrooks@nashuatelegraph.com - DavidWBrooks (talk) 14:20, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
My User page
Thanks for the cleanup on my User page. How did you notice it? Tracking changes by BooksRule? :) Anyways, much appreciated. Ccrashh (talk) 15:37, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Yes, I glanced at his contributions. He has done it again so I've given him a warning this time instead of a friendly pointer towards the Harry Potter wiki. He is being a little disruptive elsewhere too and I (and others) have reverted his undoing of articles for minor characters in the Harry Potter books. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 02:01, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Saw your comment on the page for Mike Bonifer. I have had brief email exchanges with him and agree that his page seems to only be self-promotion. What would be the next steps beyond your 2007 comment? I have only experience editing minor things, not necessarily the rules of Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ctsinclair (talk • contribs) 04:33, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Hello Ctsinclair. The general inclusion criteria for an article in Wikipedia is that there should be significant coverage of the subject in reliable, published sources that are independent of him; basically, has anybody who is not associated with him written about him in newspapers, magazines, books? The first step would be to do a search for good quality, published sources to see if we can satisfy the inclusion criteria. If these can't be found, then we would propose deletion. As this does not look like it would be a controversial deletion, I would suggest following the procedure at Wikipedia:Proposed deletion, which is basically to place {{subst:proposed deletion|concern= reason for proposed deletion}} to the top of the article page with your rationale for deletion replacing the text: "reason for proposed deletion". The rationale would probably be that you 'can't find significant coverage of the subject in independent, reliable, published sources so to meet the general inclusion criteria'. When you add the template to the top of the page, you will need to write something like "Proposed for deletion" in the edit summary and not mark the edit as minor. After a week, if no-one objects, it will be reviewed by an administrator who will check that the rationale is valid and delete it. Does that make sense? :-) Malcolmxl5 (talk) 05:52, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Hey this is regarding the 197 Administration post.
I noticed you deleted it, but in no way was it meant to be spam or promotional. The post is simply explaining what 197 Administration is. It's pretty much the same thing as http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... So do tell me what I need to improve here rather than bluntly deleting it without any advise.
Hello TippyTank. Yes, as you probably saw, an editor nominated the article for deletion as they felt it was promotional and would require fundamental rewrite in order to become encyclopedic. When I reviewed it, I came to much the same view and I also observed that the company was some way off meeting the inclusion criteria for an article in the encyclopedia.
The inclusion criteria element is what you should address first. You should familiarise yourself with the general inclusion criteria, which is "If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article or stand-alone list." By "reliable sources", we mean "reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy", such as newspapers, magazine, books. By "independent" sources, we mean sources that have no significant connection to the subject.
Your first step is to gather these independent, reliable, published sources. When you've done that, you can summarise in your own words, what has been written about the subject in these sources. So far as the style is concerned, for a company, you would probably cover the history, products and brands, areas of business, shareholders, organisation, corporate governance, financial infomration, and any other significant issues, all cited to the reliable, published sources. These articles are pretty good good examples of the style to follow: BAE Systems, Apollo Management, PepsiCo, Drexel Burnham Lambert.
at first glance, i thought it was a good solution you did to change the old redirect from fatah to the palestinian christians page where he is listed. but...then i realized that if everyone listed on that page had a redirect, the top of the article would just read like the bottom with a full list of everyone. so, i think we need a different idea. not sure why Daniel Saba George gets a special page/redirect? Soosim (talk) 13:01, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
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This article was not properly checked by Dougweller. It had all the right sources and crediting necessary to be up on the net. I would like to post this again and know that you will make sure that this is not deleted as, once again, it contains appropriate and ACCURATE information that I believe Doug did not read correctly. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abriotelon (talk • contribs) 23:47, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
I wasn't the Admin who closed the AfD. It was recreated this morning, speedy deleted, recreated again and taken by an editor to AfD but I speedied it again as it should go to WP:DRV if the editor disagrees. --Dougweller (talk) 06:13, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
please give me more time to move digital data to that location
I'm not the sharpest pencil in the box anymore Malcolmxl5 I'm geetin old but no one else knows this case history like I do I still need to move somehow my digital files these are all original cases that are verifiable not only through ligitament court document but also newspaper and magazine but I need time to figure out how to move them. thank you for your considerationQui Tam Relator (talk) 01:16, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
I'm not really sure what this is about. :) I see I deleted some pages that you created; this was becuase you blanked them and that is normally taken to be a request for deletion. Kind regards. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 01:21, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
Notability for Lee Aaron albums
I completely understand why the notability tags were added for this article and its subsequent ones, due to their current sources being only non-official fan websites, but at this point I'm unsure of how to progress. I know Wiki has its own list of suitable review sites, but I wouldn't know where to begin with those. Do I check them all to see if the albums are mentioned on their websites? Three of the seven albums have an Allmusic review/star rating, so would that count towards notability? For the remaining four which don't have said reviews, do you have any suggestions as to what should be my next step in verifying their notability? Mac Dreamstate (talk) 02:32, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
John B. Kimble deletion
Different search engines are showing different people as being the admin who deleted John B. Kimble from Wikipedia. Are you also Guy or are you really a different admin and can you relist the article that was incorrectly deleted? 69.243.59.171 (talk) 00:07, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
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To bring all other top priority articles (currently 15 with 2 at FA) to at least Good article status
To set up a weekly or monthly selected article improvement drive (See this month's feature below)
To produce a regular news letter for circulation to members
and apropos of the above a 2010 New Year article improvement drive/collaboration is being organised.
Commons images
For those of you who missed it, April saw a milestone for images on Commons with the upload of the 10 millionth image. There are images on most subjects, if you can find them, to illustrate articles. With the major work of transferring Geograph images to Commons nearing completion then most location articles should have images available for use in illustrating the subject. All of the village and civil parish articles that had articles in December 2009 had categories created on Commons for them so that the Geograph images can be placed into them. Thus the {{Commons category}} template can be added to all village and civil parish articles to link to all the available images on Commons for the location. Though beware that if the template does not have any arguments, moving of the article to a new name will break the link to Commons so it is wise to include the article name in the template call e.g.{{Commons category|Rotherham}}.
Those of you interested in helping out at Commons are more than welcome to help organise and categorise all of the uploaded Geograph images so that they can be found and made available to users.
The project is subscribed to a clean-up listing which lists articles tagged with various clean-up tags that need attention. The listing is refreshed by a bot on a regular basis.
Monitoring is essential Use the watchlist to keep an eye on changes to the project's articles so that vandalism and spamming can be removed as quickly as possible.
Moves Please be careful when performing articles moves and ensure that you also move all the talk sub-pages and update any image fair use rational. Otherwise the archives, to-do lists, assessment comments and GA reviews get lost and the image may be deleted as it has an incorrect FUR.
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