User talk:Lou Renwick

Welcome!

Hello, Lou Renwick, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Cragside did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or in other media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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Cragside

Hi Lou and welcome again. Your edit to Cragside contains some interesting material, but it also has some problems. I've tried to set the issues out below:

Wikipedia:Verifiability - Wikipedia's an encyclopedia so it's very important that material added to an article can be Verified by readers. We achieve this by citing...
Wikipedia:Reliable sources - have a look at this, Help:Referencing for beginners, which tells you how to do it. Your entry for Cragside didn't have any sources at all, so it can't be verified.
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section - the Lead section of an article, the opening, summarises the article's content. When you're adding material to an existing article, you need to think carefully where it best fits. You can't just bang it into the lead.
Wikipedia:Featured articles - Cragside's a Featured Article (FA). This means it's gone through a number of reviews and is among the best Wikipedia's produced. Only about 0.1% of our articles are Featured. You can tell them by the little bronze star in the top right corner. Of course, editors can work on FAs, but you need to take particular care to make sure you're not weakening the article rather than strengthening it. Adding unsourced material in the wrong place doesn't help.

Your content had some interesting material, and it may well be a great addition to the article - with sources and in the right place. Lastly, looking at your other edits, I think you may need to be aware of Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. Wikipedia's not an adverting medium and shouldn't be used as such.

Happy to advise on any of this. Just drop me a line, here or on my Talkpage. All the best. KJP1 (talk) 14:12, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Cragend Farm Hydraulic Silo (February 8)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.

This submission appears to be taken from https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101153196-hydraulic-silo-building-70-metres-east-of-cragend-farmhouse-cartington. Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly and verifiably has been released to the world under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license or into the public domain and is written in an acceptable tone—this includes material that you own the copyright to. You should attribute the content of a draft to outside sources, using citations, but copying and pasting or closely paraphrasing sources is not acceptable. The entire draft should be written using your own words and structure. Note to reviewers: do not leave copyright violations sitting in the page history. Please follow the instructions here.

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Bkissin (talk) 16:03, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Lou Renwick! 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! Bkissin (talk) 16:03, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Cragend Silo (April 2)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Praxidicae were:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject. Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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.

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Praxidicae (talk) 16:00, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Cragend Farm (April 3)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Girth Summit was:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

The comment the reviewer left was:

No sources, no indication of notability, and there's not really enough context to work out what the article is saying - does it mean it's a 16th C farm house, or is it a farm that existed in the 16th C but no longer exists?

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.

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GirthSummit _(blether) 11:02, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Cragend Farm (April 3)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Girth Summit was:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

The comment the reviewer left was:

See WP:RS - sourced need to be published and accessible to other editors to ensure verifiability. If you are basing this content on your reading of maps from 1642, that sounds like original research.

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:Cragend Farm 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:Cragend Farm, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{db-self}}" 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.
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GirthSummit _(blether) 13:06, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Cragend

Hi - I noticed that you'd left a message at the Tearoom asking for help with creating pages for these places. Are the buildings listed by any chance? If they are listed, there will likely be published records about them, which would be reliable and would demonstrate notability - that would be a good place to start building an article about them, and I'd be happy to help you do it. If they're not listed, are they perhaps mentioned in any published source, like a guidebook to the area? We need reliable, published sources that we can use to build an article around before we can do anything I'm afraid.

If you reply, please ping me (see WP:PING for instructions) - my watchlist is pretty massive, and I don't always notice updates to pages on it unless I get a ping. Cheers GirthSummit _(blether) 13:11, 3 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your thread has been archived

Hi Lou Renwick! You created a thread called Create a new listing and add to an existing one help at Wikipedia:Teahouse, but it has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please create a new thread.

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My talk page

Hi - I replied to you on my talk page. (Hopefully you received a notification about this, but though I'd drop you a note here just in case.) Cheers GirthSummit _(blether) 08:55, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Lou Renwick. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Cragend Farm, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
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In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 19:38, 24 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Cragend images

It would be useful if you could take digital photographs of Cragend Silo and upload them to Wikimedia commons [1]. There are no good ones I could find at present.SovalValtos (talk) 01:25, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Cragend Silo

Hi Lou, I haven't heard back from you about the images, but I've worked up your draft for Draft:Cragend Silo and resubmitted it. If you can get around to uploading some images, we can add them to the article, and if you are able to uncover any more sources to add detail to the article let me know. Cheers! GirthSummit _(blether) 06:26, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Cragend Farm

Hello, Lou Renwick. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, Draft:Cragend Farm.

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it. — JJMC89 (T·C) 01:49, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]