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00:54:57, 25 July 2014 review of submission by 96.252.199.176

96.252.199.176 (talk · contribs)

96.252.199.176 (talk) 00:54, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm confused. This help desk, needs a little help, sorry. I would like some specifics on why my submission on Brian "Glaze"Gibbs is being rejected and what may I do to change the outcome?

@96.252.199.176: @Joe verola: The reviewer left comments on the draft. You should read those. Long story short, you need to provide adequate referencing (specifically in-line citations) when writing biographical articles. There's a lot of text dumped at the bottom of the article and that is not how we handle referencing. It remains to be seen if your referencing is enough to demonstrate notability.

Finally, I think this help desk does well at fielding questions from all-comers. The fact that you asked a question and got an answer in rapid fashion is proof of that. Chris Troutman (talk) 06:32, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

10:37:05, 25 July 2014 review of submission by Joan38

Joan38 (talk · contribs)

Hi,

The article "Titan (database)" that I created has been deleted for the reason "G12. Unambiguous copyright infringement".
I might have done a mistake but the process is extremely not pedagogue since the article I wrote has been deleted, so that we make sure that I can't learn why.
What I wrote is very similar to the article "Neo4j" so I guess the reason of deletion might apply to this one too.

Cheers Joan38 (talk) 10:37, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Joan38: Josve05a was the editor that identified the copyright violation so they might be able to explain. Sometimes if an editor can search for a random sentence in your draft and find that sentence word-for-word in another source (and it's not quoted or properly attributed) then it is considered a violation. Yes, our process for this is designed to quickly remove violations but it isn't good as a teaching tool and we end up destroying the example we could have used to explain the problem for you.

Although Neo4j may be about a similar subject, that article has been around for years and has been edited by many Wikipedians so a word-for-word copy becomes unlikely. The Copyvio Detector tells me that the Wikimedia Foundation paid Yahoo! Inc. $0.0072 USD to identify a close similarity to this entry on DBpedia. Because DBpedia is an open project that uses data from Wikipedia, it is more likely that information was copied from here to there, so there's no violation. To avoid having a draft identified as a copyvio, be sure not to copy information from other sources and note exactly what sources you're drawing from. Chris Troutman (talk) 11:40, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

11:35:23, 25 July 2014 review of submission by Keshavadas108

Keshavadas108 (talk · contribs)

Keshavadas108 (talk) 11:35, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I find the guidelines very confusing and have been given no reason as to why my article for creation has been dismissed. If there are specifics I need to address - please tell me.

Keshav Music Imports

        Keshav Music Imports http://www.keshav-music.com/index.php was created in 1995 when Keshav Hunter a musician after years of touring with devotional singer Krishnadas, saw that there was a dearth of shops selling authentic Indian instruments. The business began when the INTERNET was in it's infancy and quickly grew due to the company's reputation for quality in a market that was essentially serviced by other mom-and-pop online shops that sold only touristic quality instruments. Keshav Music quickly became an invaluable resource to the Indian music community by creating a free national teachers referral service page that has over the years has connected students to teachers all across the USA. They are also known for having created a large database of Indian music lovers that provides free notifications for Indian classical dance and Indian music on the East Coast in order to lend support to the struggling community of touring musicians from India. Initially the business was run out of Mr. Hunter's home in the East Village and then in 2002 Keshav Music grew  and became a brick-and-mortar business; then the only one on the East Coast, and now with the demise of the famous Ali Akbar Khan college in California, Keshav Music is the last remaining brick and mortar store specializing in sales and repairs of Indian instruments.
        
           Over the years this tiny shop shop on New York's Lower East Side has provided harmoniums to Alice Coltrane, Krishnadas, Dave Stringer, Vilayat Khan, Vishal Vaid, The Pharoah Sanders Group, Bill Laswell, Rick Rubin, Duncan Sheik,The National, Brooklyn Qawwali Party, Rusted Root, Babukishan Baul and Yaiyasaki Das as well as to the Jivamukti Yoga Centers in four different countries, numerous harmoniums to the Shivananda Ashrams, The Self-Realization Fellowship, Siddha Yoga Satsang, Amma Satsang, Vivekananda Temples of Boston and L.A., Integral Yoga and literally thousands of yogis around the globe.

          While KMI sells all Indian instruments they are respected in the industry for their harmoniums. Twenty years ago the harmonium was considered an exotic rarity, heard on the occasional recording by Nico or Allen Ginsberg, but due to the rising popularity of Kirtan (Hindu devotional chanting) as personified by artists like Krishnadas, Bhagwan Das and Jai Uttal the instrument now utilized in music of all styles. Harmoniums are used by many top studio musicians and can be heard on recordings by Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithful, David Sanborn, Paul Simon, Tom Waits, James Taylor, Tom Petty, Beck, and many others. Keshav Music is largely responsible for the instrument rising popularity in pop and country music because KMI influenced the Indian instrument makers into building better quality instruments for the Western market - but more importantly, because they insisted that the instrument builders abandon the practice of the use of Indian style "Just Tuning" in favor or "Equal Tuning" in order that the instruments could be compatible with Western style accompaniment with guitars, pianos, synthesizers and many Western wind instruments that are designed to be tuned to A-440 standard equal tuning.

        Some of the most prominent musicians in the business have looked to Keshav Music to provide instruments, repairs and support including Ustad Shahid Parvez, Kiran Aluwalia, Rez Abassi, Karsh Kale, Shilpa Rea, TV Gopalkrishnan, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Hamid Drake, William Parker, Omar Hakim, Victor Rendon, Jai Uttal and Cyndi Lauper.

@Keshavadas108: Your draft is not written from a neutral point of view and it sounds promotional. Phrases like "they are respected in the industry" and "Some of the most prominent musicians in the business have looked to Keshav Music" might be true, but they sound like an advertisement and you've given us no sources to prove these claims. You have a couple sources so the subject might be notable but you haven't really proven that, either. Chris Troutman (talk) 11:47, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

22:18:29, 25 July 2014 review of draft by Amelieamelie7

Amelieamelie7 (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Ron Riekki (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Amelieamelie7 (talk) 22:18, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very confused. Was the article done correctly? Can you help make it correct if not?

Hi, Amelieamelie7. Yes, your article is submitted correctly. I've removed the wrong "not submitted" notice to prevent any more confusion. Anon126 (notify me of responses! / talk / contribs) 03:16, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]