User talk:Ictinos4

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Ictinos4. Thank you for your work on Catharine Titi. Another editor, Cocobb8, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Nicely written and nicely sourced: thanks for your contributions!

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Cocobb8}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 18:36, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. Ictinos4 (talk) 18:38, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Augustin Labutte moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Augustin Labutte. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources and the only citation is a broken link. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. — Moriwen (talk) 22:53, 20 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ictinos4, this is good advice. I know this is not your first article, but please see Help:Your first article anyway; it has a lot of good advice that may help you prevent draftification of your future articles. Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 01:02, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Ictinos4 (talk) 11:37, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please start your articles in Draft space

Hello. I have moved two more of your recently translated articles to Draft space, because neither demonstrates that it satisfies basic requirements for a new article at Wikipedia. You can find your work here now:

Draft:The Poor Man of Assisi – two sources, neither is independent
Draft:Serpent and Lily – tinsufficient sourcing.

As a follow-up to Moriwen's comment in the section above about another article moved to Draft, I would advise you against creating any more articles directly in mainspace as you have been doing, until you understand the requirements better. That will come with experience. Instead, please start new articles and translations for the time being in Draft space, by prefixing the title of your article when you create it with the term Draft:, including the colon at the end. So for example, instead of creating a new article called Underwater astronomy you would create it as Draft:Underwater astronomy instead. When you are more experienced and have a better understanding of new article requirements, you can create them in mainspace again.

I want to be clear that this is just my advice to you as an experienced editor who wishes to help you, and you don't have to follow it. But I believe it is best that you do, because you don't appear to understand yet what the criteria are for accepting an article for publication here. Once again, I highly recommend you take a look at Help:Your first article, and use that as a yardstick to measure your translation against, and if it doesn't measure up, don't publish it in mainspace.

Since you are doing translations from French Wikipedia (as I do), it is *very* important for you to understand that there is not one set of rules for all Wikipedias. In fact, they are all different, and maintained by their local communities. I am pretty familiar with French Wikipedia, and there are many thousands of articles there that would never make it at English Wikipedia because they do not meet minimum standards of WP:Notability and WP:Verifiability here, even though they appear to be within the regulations there. Any time that you spend translating one of those articles is time wasted, because it will just end up being deleted here. If you are not sure if an article is worth translating, once again, please see H:YFA, section § Notability – should this topic have an article?. You can also ask for advice at the WP:Teahouse about a particular French article you have in mind to translate. Or, you can ask me on my Talk page.

My intention is to help you create the articles you want while avoiding the pitfalls, and I hope this introduction has helped you understand some of the factors involved. Please feel free to ask questions if you have any. Mathglot (talk) 08:45, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comments. They are very useful. Ictinos4 (talk) 20:16, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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