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April 13

Review of User:Abcd1994./sandbox

how can i make articles for wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abcd1994. (talk • contribs) 07:23, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Begin by reading the Your first article guide. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:55, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Spoken English Corpus

Please could someone explain to me the reason for the rejection if my article? It sounds as if the references are thought to be unsuitable in some way, but all are in peer-reviewed international journals or properly published academic books. The reviewer uses the unusual phrase "involved in some way".

The subject of the article is of some importance in the fields of phonetics and linguistics, and I am considered to be an international expert in this area. RoachPeter (talk) 15:20, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

IMHO that rejection reason was not correct. While we're on the topic of your sources, please include ISBN for books and DOI numbers for journal articles as far as possible. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 16:44, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/KingsRoad

Need help to check all references.Reliable or not.confusion with 1 and 4.

Arghya Roy (talk) 16:19, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The fourth source is a press release and thus not a reliable, independent source. The first is a little more difficult to judge, but I see no evidence of editorial oversight. At a glance I couldn't find any other instances of Wikipedia using Quick Gamer as a source either. I don't think it satisfies Wikipedia's standards for reliable sources.

Regarding the other sources, Business Wire publishes press releases and thus isn't reliable; the other sources look reliable to me, but I'm not familiar with them. The Reliable sources noticeboard would be the best place to ask about the reliability of sources. Huon (talk) 17:24, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks but I thought press release is acceptable

Material such as an article, book, monograph, or research paper that has been vetted by the scholarly community is regarded as reliable. If the material has been published in reputable peer-reviewed sources or by well-regarded academic presses, generally it has been vetted by one or more other scholars.

Arghya Roy (talk) 04:41, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's not what a press release is. A press release is written by the company releasing it (here the game's publisher), and sites like Business Wire publish them as-is without any oversight or fact-checking. And Business Wire certainly is not among "reputable peer-reviewed sources or by well-regarded academic presses" - the latter would be the likes of, say, Oxford University Press. Huon (talk) 05:10, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]