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Your submission at Articles for creation: Panamá Oeste (May 12)

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This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability—see the general guideline on notability and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing, so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia.
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Constituent country

Are these your edits:

  1. 16:18, 7 July 2015 (UTC) "Undid revision 670379675 by Rob984 (talk)"
  2. 16:14, 7 July 2015 (UTC) "Undid revision 670259851 by Snowded (talk)"
  3. 21:35, 6 July 2015 (UTC) "Undid revision 670227011 by Rob984 (talk)"
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No, they are not. Mr.Bob.298 (talk)

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You also made this edit, but again, did not leave an edit summary to explain it. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:56, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

August 2015

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You can find out why by reading the discussion... Bearcat (talk) 17:20, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

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Bob Vogel (American football)

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Sortable tables and mixed format dates

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Peru national rugby league team

Thanks for the tips! I will be adding categories ASAP and hopefully a Spanish version too. Therealflea (talk) 00:46, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

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As someone who has recently edited related topics, I thought I'd let you know United States presidential election, 2020 has been nominated for deletion here - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United States presidential election, 2020 - in case you want to weigh-in on whether it should be kept or deleted. LavaBaron (talk) 02:29, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Just did! MB298 (talk) 03:45, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

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Chen Ter-shing

If only all of the Taiwanese politicians have complete biography detail and data (like Justin Trudeau or Barack Obama), that would make life much easier to write their articles in Wikipedia. But the reality is, even for their Chinese name, I have to browse through secondary source (e.g. news website) instead of from the ministry website. The information is very limited around. You just have to make the article first, hoping that other people will try to add more and more info later to make it more complete. But someone just has to start it first with the very minimum amount of information which can be found. Sometimes it's very hard to find their date of birth, or even the date of their office term and their predecessor, either both in English or Chinese sources. The problem with Wikipedia is that those famous politicians from the west get too much publication (and of course hundreds of information sources & thousands of editors willing to contribute). Yet at the same time, other "less famous" countries or regions, sometimes the available information is extremely limited on the web, sigh. Chongkian (talk) 03:29, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Jovenel Moïse

Will be updated later. Mostly from his own website, it's a "he" not a "she", thanks.

Ok, thanks for the clarification. MB298 (talk) 03:34, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

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Addisalem Getaneh

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Addisalem Getaneh is an Ethiopian Actress/Director who contributed a lot for Ethiopian Cinema. Most of her fans tried to know about her. But there is no much on the internet. So I decided to contribute my part. But for this I need some time to make a research on this. As soon as I complete my research I will include all the necessary information about her.


Thanks for asking. I am waiting your action. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcgech (talk • contribs) 08:27, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

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WP:ALT Why would you remove alt text? It makes media more accessible for users. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:58, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

It may have been a spur of the moment; the description seemed fitting at the time. MB298 (talk) 05:00, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Regarding Russian Church, Qazvin

Added more refs. Thanks for having reviewed it! Bests - LouisAragon (talk) 06:36, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

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Your draft article, Draft:Panamá Oeste

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Tina Bell

Hi MB298,

i'm working on the Tina Bell page. please let me know if the content of the page looks better now.Lilshortyfontenot (talk) 19:59, 11 December 2015 (UTC) Lilshortyfontenot (talk) 19:59, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

This article definitely has a good start, however unfortunately even articles with substantial content can sometimes be deleted. For example, while Tina Bell was a musician of Seattle she may not meet the WP:MUSICBIO criteria. Given the fact that the band itself does not have a Wikipedia article she most likely is not. I listed the criteria below as general reference. MB298 (talk) 01:14, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
  1. Has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable, not self-published, and are independent of the musician or ensemble itself.[note 1]
    • This criterion includes published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, books, magazine articles, online versions of print media, and television documentaries[note 2] except for the following:
      • Any reprints of press releases, other publications where the musician or ensemble talks about themselves, and all advertising that mentions the musician or ensemble, including manufacturers' advertising.[note 3]
      • Works consisting merely of trivial coverage, such as articles that simply report performance dates, release information or track listings, or the publications of contact and booking details in directories.
      • Articles in a school or university newspaper (or similar), in most cases.
  2. Has had a single or album on any country's national music chart.
  3. Has had a record certified gold or higher in at least one country.
  4. Has received non-trivial coverage in independent reliable sources of an international concert tour, or a national concert tour in at least one sovereign country.[note 4]
  5. Has released two or more albums on a major record label or on one of the more important indie labels (i.e., an independent label with a history of more than a few years, and with a roster of performers, many of whom are independently notable).
  6. Is an ensemble that contains two or more independently notable musicians, or is a musician who has been a reasonably prominent member of two or more independently notable ensembles.[note 5] This should be adapted appropriately for musical genre; for example, having performed two lead roles at major opera houses.
  7. Has become one of the most prominent representatives of a notable style or the most prominent of the local scene of a city; note that the subject must still meet all ordinary Wikipedia standards, including verifiability.
  8. Has won or been nominated for a major music award, such as a Grammy, Juno, Mercury, Choice or Grammis award.
  9. Has won first, second or third place in a major music competition.
  10. Has performed music for a work of media that is notable, e.g., a theme for a network television show, performance in a television show or notable film, inclusion on a notable compilation album, etc. (But if this is the only claim, it is probably more appropriate to have a mention in the main article and redirect to that article. Read WP:BLP1E and WP:BIO1E for further clarifications)
  11. Has been placed in rotation nationally by a major radio or music television network.
  12. Has been a featured subject of a substantial broadcast segment across a national radio or TV network.

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NASL transfer list move

Hi, I understand that changing "List of North American Soccer League transfers 2016" to "List of North American Soccer League transfers in 2016" might be slightly better grammar, however the latter is not consistent with similar pages, e.g. List of English football transfers summer 2015, List of Major League Soccer transfers 2016, List of Spanish football transfers summer 2015. Moreover, a title which says "in 2016" would be misleading because the article covers the 2016 season and not the year 2016; i.e. it includes many transfers from 2015 and will exclude many transfers from 2016. Cheers, QQ2NFLD (talk) 03:03, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

I somewhat agree, after viewing the examples (and due to the fact that there are hundreds of those articles out there). MB298 (talk) 03:10, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Monacan Americans

Greetings MB298. I noticed you left the European Microstates WikiProject template on the Monacan Americans article talk page. When I looked at that, I noticed that the main template has a parameter for Monaco so I added that. I also noticed several other things related to the template. I was just wondering, is there a reason to use the European Microstates instead of the Monaco or without the Monaco parameter? I added it but I started second guessing myself thinking that project may not want to do that so I thought I would ask. Maj Turmoil (talk) 23:15, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

I didn't know that there was a Monaco parameter, so I just added the European Microstates template and thought that was as good as it would go. I am not in any way affiliated with the project and added the European Microstates tag out of past experience (as I had added the "WikiProject San Marino" template on a couple of the Captain Regents' talk pages, and it automatically converted it to the Microstates template). It seems to be better to add the Monaco tag (even though the project is largely inactive) than to add the larger Microstates template. MB298 (talk) 03:05, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
Ok thanks, I can set the template redirect to work a little better then. I saw how to do it on another template the other day. Maj Turmoil (talk) 13:00, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

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Deletion of Fuertes Hoteles

Go ahead and delete it. I don't really care. Sorry for, maybe, spamming? If you could make a better version of the page, that would be great, but I was just trying to make somebody's wish come true. Sorry. Sydney4363 (talk) 22:35, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

No need to apologize, and I actually don't have the power to delete articles (only administrators can do that). The article may meet Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion, and it would need to be translated by somebody who is fluent in both English and Spanish. MB298 (talk) 22:37, 25 December 2015 (UTC)

List of mayors of Portland

Hi, MB. Although I appreciate your effort to try to clean up the List of mayors of Portland, Oregon, to address the problems I noted there, I'm afraid your changes did not fix the problem, because the city auditor's page you used as your main source only gives the date elected for each mayor. That auditor's page gives no information as to the term-start or term-end dates for any mayors. (However, for the three who are listed as being initially appointed to the office, to fill a vacancy, the date given can arguably be considered their term starting date.) In recent decades, the elected date and date on which a mayor-elect took office are usually about two months apart, as I'm sure you know, and it can be almost eight months. Bud Clark was elected in May 1984, for a term of office that was not scheduled to begin until January 1985 (the auditor's page mistakenly gives the wrong election date, as he won outright in the May primary election). The anonymous editor who added all of those dates to the article last June, without citing any sources, appears to have based most of the dates on assumptions (of a pattern being followed precisely). Personally, I thought the list was OK as a years-only list, but I do believe that having more precision would be beneficial. However, I'm not interested in spending time trying to find those details myself.

Unless you or someone else can find a reliable source for the term starting dates (which would also effectively provide term ending dates for all but the few who died in office or resigned), I think the list will have to go back to being a years-only list, without giving months and days. If you still want to use all of the dates from the auditor's page, you could change the heading of that column to "Date elected" and then create a new column for the dates, not yet given in this article, of the term start for each mayor, but any of the latter that didn't cite sources (inline) would need to be tagged as unsourced (unless there's a reliable source cited for that in the article on the person). Anyway, I didn't want to do a complete revert of your good faith edits without first leaving a message here and giving you the chance (and some time) to work on the article more. By the way, if you do choose to spend more time on this list, I recommend you change the dates to MDY format, per MOS:DATETIES, and add {{Use mdy dates}}. The dates in DMY format were added only relatively recently, in that aforementioned single extensive edit by an IP editor. I considered posting this message to the article's talk page, but I thought it would better to try here on your talk page first. – SJ Morg (talk) 10:25, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately, it may have to go back to being a years-only list for the mayors we don't quite know the specific dates for, however they can stay for the ones we do know (for example, John Gates or Charlie Hales). I noticed that in some of the articles, they state the date the mayors were elected as the date they assumed (or left) office, as in Van B. DeLashmutt's article. It states, "He was then elected to the position on June 18, 1888, and served until June 15, 1891, when William S. Mason took office." While it does specify that June 18 was the date elected, it makes it seem like he left office on June 15, 1891, the date his successor was elected, which would not be correct unless the mayor (in this case, Mason) took office the same day he was elected. The options would be to contact the auditor or the Oregon Historical Society to confirm the dates said mayors took office, or tediously search through the newspaper archives (something I'm not that interested in doing), so it would most likely be better to keep it a years-only list for now until we can find proper sources. MB298 (talk) 16:53, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
Thanks. Looks like it will have to go back to being a mostly years-only list. Also, thanks for pointing out that issue in the Van B. DeLashmutt article. That sentence was added years ago by someone other than me, but I've edited the article a couple of times since then and never spotted what appears to be a clear error in the last phrase of the sentence (although it's only apparent if one looks at the cited source and sees that it gives no "term start" and "term end" dates, which evidently I didn't do). I imagine he actually was in office until circa early July 1891, but I'll need to check. In any case, I'll clean up that misleading sentence. – SJ Morg (talk) 10:00, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

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Eddie Davis (producer)

Hello, I see you have popped a POV / Neutrality tag on the Eddie Davis page. Please tell me where the issue is? If there is one, I'd like to rectify it. Thanks Karl Twist (talk) 04:39, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Some direct quotations from the article:
  • He is an important part of the L.A music scene for that period, especially in the history of Mexican-American rock music."
  • "In 1991, Davis developed Cancer and eventually went down hill."

It's not huge and maybe a better tag could go in place. However, the article doesn't seem encyclopedic and needs several important aspects (categories, talk page, bolding of name, etc.) MB298 (talk) 04:43, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I created the article in a bit of a rush. I have a few more things to add. I'll rectify the others later. Thanks. Karl Twist (talk) 04:47, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

the delete of my page

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