User talk:McFarlandDana

Your submission at Articles for creation: Canadian Nursing Students' Association (January 1)

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

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage (not just mere mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies, the golden rule and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners and Help:Introduction to referencing/1), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

The comment the reviewer left was:

The sole reference in the draft is to a poster produced by the association. Please add references that clearly show that the association has been written about in depth by independent, reliable publications.

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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Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 16:34, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! McFarlandDana, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that 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! Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 16:34, 1 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Remember that when adding content about health, please only use high-quality reliable sources as references. We typically use review articles, major textbooks and position statements of national or international organizations (There are several kinds of sources that discuss health: here is how the community classifies them and uses them). WP:MEDHOW walks you through editing step by step. A list of resources to help edit health content can be found here. The edit box has a built-in citation tool to easily format references based on the PMID or ISBN. We also provide style advice about the structure and content of medicine-related encyclopedia articles. The welcome page is another good place to learn about editing the encyclopedia. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:45, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Basically we try to use high quality secondary sources rather than primary ones. Best Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:49, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Canadian Nursing Students' Association

Hello, McFarlandDana. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Canadian Nursing Students' Association".

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. » Shadowowl | talk 13:26, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Cowichan Leader (January 5)

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

The proposed article does not have sufficient content to require an article of its own, but it could be merged into the existing article at Cowichan Valley. Since anyone can edit Wikipedia, you are welcome to add that information yourself. Thank you.

The comment the reviewer left was:

This newspaper article can be merged into a newspapers section in the Valley article so it can highlight all the major newspapers printed there.

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AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 19:20, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red

Hi there, McFarlandDana, and welcome to Women in Red. It's good to have another librarian interested in covering women and their works. I see you have already created one biography and hope there will be many more. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties or need assistance. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 11:02, 5 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

No one seems to have welcomed you, and it has been several years now! I will leave a standard welcome next. BY the way, you can delete anything on your talk page that you don't want to have here, like the notices above. --- Possibly ☎ 18:19, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A belated welcome!

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, McFarlandDana! I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may still benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! --- Possibly ☎ 18:19, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Kuper Island Indian Residential School

Hello. I reverted your recent addition of the listening circle information to the above page. Much of what you added was quite subjective. Writing on Wikipedia merely restates that which has been published in reliable sources. Language like "led a virtual listening circle to better understand what reconciliation requires of us." and "they reach out to neighbouring communities in shared grief and loss, and with an invitation to take courage in action for mutual support and healing." is what we call unencyclopedic language. The listening circle material, without a reliable independent source, basically amounts to an advertisement for that process. We don't include that kind of thing. If a number of sources had reported on the listening circle, that would be fine. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the Wikipedia page is not a site for reconciliation: we merely restate what others have said that has been reported on in reliable independent sources. Thanks. --- Possibly ☎ 20:11, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. I'm pasting here what you said on my talk page, to keep the discussion together.

"Hello, thanks for your advice. I consider that the edits that you reverted were paraphrases of the source material, and that the sources themselves, one of which you have removed, represent local, expert Indigenous perspectives that are critical to represent in an article on this topic."

"I appreciate that this may not be an approach that aligns tidily with Wikipedia guidelines regarding encyclopedic writing and use of sources, however it is an approach that I believe is necessary to improve equity of representation."

I too can appreciate your intent, but there is extremely strong and very, very established concensus that we do not exist to right social wrongs. In fact, see WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS. To repeat what I said above, we publish material that has been already reported on in independent sources. If you do not agree with that, I would encourage you to go to the Neutral Point of View Noticeboard and ask there. We are absolutely not a platform for political expression or reconciliation, although you may gain some traction in raising consciousness by simply creating articles, which is what I did in the case of Kuper Island Indian Residential School. Thanks. --- Possibly ☎ 20:47, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly Thank you for the direction to these resources. We are going to disagree about what's actually happening here and I am not going to waste time in processes that valourize neutrality as defined by folks who find ourselves more or less comfortable in here. I do agree this is absolutely not a platform for many things, but since people use it, I will continue to offer substantive edits when I have them, within its limited affordances. Appreciate the talk, thanks for your work. Dana McFarland | Librarian (talk) 21:50, 22 July 2021 (UTC) McFarlandDana[reply]

See: Danielle Robichaud, Krista McCracken (2018). Doing the work: Editing Wikipedia as an act of reconciliation. UWSpace. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/14198 Dana McFarland | Librarian ([[User talk:McFarlandDana#top|talk]

Kuper Island

Thanks for the thanks. I am trying to improve articles on this topic and it gets lonely. There is definitely a disinformation campaign going on about residential schools, for reasons that are unclear to me. Maybe we can discuss this sometime soon. Elinruby (talk) 07:43, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. I appreciate your persistence with it. Dana McFarland | Librarian (talk) 14:58, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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