User talk:Wendybelcher

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Kristos Samra (February 10)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Onel5969 was:

This submission reads more like an essay than an encyclopedia article. Submissions should summarise information in secondary, reliable sources and not contain opinions or original research. Please write about the topic from a neutral point of view in an encyclopedic manner.

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Onel5969 (talk) 17:01, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Wendybelcher, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about 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! Onel5969 (talk) 17:01, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Kristos Samra has been accepted

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July 2015

Hello, I'm Stesmo. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the main body of List of open access journals. Generally, any relevant external links should be listed in an "External links" section at the end of the article and meet the external links guidelines. Links within the body of an article should be internal Wikilinks. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Stesmo (talk) 22:47, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Walatta Petros

User:Wendybelcher/sandbox sub-page can be User:Wendybelcher/Walatta Petros and you can make additional named sub-pages Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 16:23, 20 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Kebra Nagast

Hi Wendy. I see that Hubbard is used as a source for the 14th century date in its article. Doug Weller talk 16:41, 12 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Doug. The hubbard dissertation is very old, 1950s. There has been lots of controversy about the date, so only the more recent sources are correct.

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Footnote formatting at Kebede Michael

Hello Wendybelcher, great article but please fix the footnote formatting. Do not write footnotes just as "article name", please instead use the coding shown at WP:REFB to make automated linked footnotes. That way your footnotes will appear as little blue clickable links, making the article much more organized. I have fixed a few examples for you, please contact me on my Talk page if you have any questions. MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:46, 28 November 2016 (UTC) Thanks MatthewVanitas. My student worked on this, it is her article, I think she got everything straightened out.[reply]

"Fashion in Nigeria"

I've deleted this as an advertisement. It is not considered acceptable to start a WP article with the copy and paste of what appears to be an advertisement, even as a user draft. In any case, such a draft gives the impression of having been copied from an outside source, and this is never permitted except for public domain sources. 'll be glad to help you further, but I cannot as a responsible administrator here let such content remain in Wikipedia. The usual way of dealing with this is to do the initial drafting of the article off Wikipedia. DGG ( talk ) 01:59, 30 November 2016 (UTC) . DGG ( talk ) 01:48, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I see your student has now replaced this with an adequate article under a variant title, Nigerian fashion. I'm glad it has ended this well. I'll be glad to help you or your students with anything you need here. (As it happens, I retired from the Princeton Library about 10 years ago, as Biological Sciences Bibliographer. I've been working on Wikipedia as a volunteer ever since.) DGG ( talk ) 06:20, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you DGG, we are still learning, especially this student. However, can you move this entry from Nigerian fashion to Fashion in Nigeria, since that is the more common way of putting this? And then redirect from Nigerian fashion? See Fashion in the Soviet Union, etc.--WLBelcher (talk) 15:54, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

done. DGG ( talk ) 06:49, 1 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

December 2016

This is your only warning; if you make personal attacks on others again, as you did at Talk:Ufahamu, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. Randykitty (talk) 23:23, 30 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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MfD nomination of Draft:1947-48 French West Africa Railway Strike

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Communication on Wikipedia

Hello Wendy, thank you for your message, which was rather misplaced.

Please take the time to familiarize yourself with Help:Talk pages. A useful guide is found at Wikipedia:Tutorial/Talk pages, part of the tutorial which was linked here on your user talk page way back in 2012, and has been here ever since.

Talk page discussion on the English Wikipedia follows existing Western -- and global -- convention regarding discussions, in that the earliest comments come first, and then successively later comments come later. Ramming a comment into the top of a discussion from more than a year earlier, forcing it on top of comments from three years ago, can be perceived as rude, and at any rate risks your comments not being seen by others.

Where an article, like Castle, has already undergone a featured article candidacy and been successful, and has already seen substantial talk page discussion regarding its focus and wording, then unilaterally changing the lede to accommodate some alternative focus and wording is not practical. If some new reliable sources that challenge the existing consensus have been found, then starting a New Section on the talk page to discuss their implications with other editors, is by far the best idea.

I'm also very confused by your suggestion that the article Castle in its current form is nationalist. MPS1992 (talk) 20:28, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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A goat for you!

Hope you have a goat week!

Just learned i can send goats to people on wikipedia

Mlpollack (talk) 18:02, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Too funny! --WLBelcher (talk) 17:17, 3 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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AfC notification: Draft:Gay and Lesbian Organization of Witwatersrand has a new comment

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user page

Hi, Professor. Wikipedia appreciates your contributions to Wikipedia. I spent several semesters collaborating with professors bringing their classes to Wikipedia. However, your userpage should tell us about you, as a user. It should not look like an a biographic article. For that reason, I removed your promotional content. Chris Troutman (talk) 16:54, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help Chris Troutman! I wasn't sure how to format it. I will look, but if you have a good example of a user page, and want to give me the link, that would be great.--WLBelcher (talk) 17:02, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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About your email to me

(I hope you don't mind me bringing this up in public. Sorry for taking so long.)

I see your reasoning. I've reverted my undo. Sorry for the trouble.──post by kenny2wiki ( Talk | Contribs ) 17:24, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No problem at Kenny2wiki! I didn't explain it right so that was a good reminder. Also, I didn't carefully go through the information to make sure that it appears elsewhere in Wikipedia. I don't want to lose all that work! --WLBelcher (talk) 17:49, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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