User talk:Beamer.Backdrop

Your submission at Articles for creation: Birch.Lydell (December 29)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Pahunkat was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:Birch.Lydell and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Pahunkat (talk) 22:10, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Lydell Birch has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Lydell Birch. Thanks! Robert McClenon (talk) 00:30, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Lydell Birch (February 6)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by AngusWOOF were:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Lydell Birch and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Lydell Birch, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 03:46, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Birch.Lydell! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 03:46, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

rename

per request --Deepfriedokra (talk) 21:40, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for reply, rename whaT???

Teahouse replies

Hi Meagan, a few of us have replied to your question at Wikipedia:Teahouse#Someone please help me with my page. Just wanted to also reach out directly and thank you for your edits, whether or not your draft is accepted, because we appreciate every good faith effort people make to contribute. It's a very steep learning curve so please don't feel embarrassed about finding things difficult. What you've written looks better than the vast majority of "first article" attempts I see, and it may be possible to get this draft accepted (though as I say at the Teahouse, you may be better off planning for the outcome where it isn't). The Teahouse is a great place to ask any questions you have in the future but you can also reach out to me directly at my talk page if you want, especially questions like "what do you think of this source, is it good to use?" or "I read this Wikipedia guideline but I don't know how it would apply in this context, can you explain?". Thanks! — Bilorv (talk) 01:33, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Is this how I reply? I'm so confused

Yep, this is broadly the way to reply, by using "Edit source" and typing your message underneath. At the end of your message, you need to type ~~~~ to produce a signature: mine's personalised and looks like, well you'll see it at the end of this comment, but yours will look like "Beamer.Backdrop (talk)". Some other information:

• You asked how to use a photo without copyright issues, in response to me saying If you took this somewhere from the internet then it's (almost certainly) copyrighted and we can't host it on Wikimedia Commons. We have very, very restrictive policies on using images in order to maintain the "free" part of "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" as much as possible. No, you cannot just do a Google search and pick a picture—all images are copyrighted in the United States by default. It is likely the case that no suitable picture of Birch exists and so the draft must remain without an image entirely. It happens for articles quite often that there is just no suitable image. Though some other users gave you feedback at the Teahouse, I would advise against trying to find or create an image at your current level of knowledge, as it's a difficult and likely impossible process (the suggestions made are "photograph Birch yourself in person", which I imagine you can't do, and "ask Birch's agent to release an existing image under a free license", which is a really difficult process to jointly navigate with the agent even when the agent is willing, which is rare in my experience).
• You asked above "what rename?" That message was a reference to your rename request, so that your username could change from "Birch.Lydell" to "Beamer.Backdrop", and just there to let you know the request was implemented by another volunteer. You and I don't have permission to see the page at the link given there but it's not important.
• On my talk page, you give a URL at which I supposedly gave feedback, but it's not the right URL. You may be getting confused because your userpage is currently set to redirect to Draft:Lydell Birch. If you click on "User page" at the top of the page you're looking at now, you'll be taken to the draft but at the top it will say "(Redirected from User:Beamer.Backdrop)". Click on the words "User:Beamer.Backdrop" and then "Edit" and blank the page and it will remove the redirect. If you can't work out how to follow these instructions, ask again and I can do this for you. The other point is that on Wikipedia, we use wikitext rather than URLs to link to other Wikipedia pages. Just like you did at your draft when linking, for instance, Lady Leshurr, you can produce a link to this talk page by writing [[User talk:Beamer.Backdrop]] (the link will work at any page other than this one, where it will just look like bold text because you're already on the page).
• I'm using some code to make my comment here look pretty, but the only thing you need to know to understand talk page conversations is that (... because this website and the people on it are still living in the year 2001) the way to format a reply is to indent it slightly more than the comment that you're replying to, as you can see at the Teahouse questions you've asked. You indent by using a number of colons (:). So I'm using one colon at the start of each paragraph in this message, and to reply to it you would use two colons at the start of each paragraph and write your message underneath.

Since you mentioned registering an email, if you still find communication within Wikipedia difficult, I have a public email at bilorvwikipedia@yahoo.com where you could email me. Thanks! — Bilorv (talk) 08:22, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Lydell Birch (March 25)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by GoingBatty was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Lydell Birch and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Lydell Birch, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

GoingBatty (talk) 05:21, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Moka Blast has been accepted

Moka Blast, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. It is commonplace for new articles to start out as stubs and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider .

Thanks again, and happy editing!

Devonian Wombat (talk) 22:52, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Copyright violations

Please don't continue to upload the same copyright violations after it has already been explained to you what the problem is, here and here. If you don't understand something then ask rather than trying to do the same thing again. This just creates more work for volunteers. — Bilorv (talk) 15:28, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi, Thank you. I have permission from the original photographer, how do I submit proof? He was not hard to get in touch with: https://neptune1983.com/ Can only the photographer submit the photo? I guess I can ask him but he probably wont do it. I'm surprised he even replied to me. I wrote him a lengthy message about how Moka Blast is my favorite modern day hip-hop artist (etc) and sent him a link to the wikipedia page. I have one photo from a concert I went to, but its a not a good one.

Okay, well thank you for your efforts in this area so far. The simplest process for someone to go through is the Wikimedia OTRS release generator (though I've contacted some people who struggle with even this process), but if you forward your communications with the photographer onto info-en-o@wikimedia.org then they can tell you whether what you have is/isn't sufficient. I'm afraid it may well not be enough. It's not okay to just to know that the photographer is fine with using it on Wikipedia: you need an actual legally binding release of the material under a CC-BY-SA or Creative Commons or public domain (or similar) license, otherwise someone could sue somebody else, and also because the photographer is waiving away most of their rights to the work everywhere, because our content can be reused with attribution for almost any purpose (including commercial). — Bilorv (talk) 21:36, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

Oh, I see. Okay, thank you for explaining that. Yes, I'll do that as you instructed. Thank you!