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February 23

Request on 02:20:21, 23 February 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by Buzzy anslem

Buzzy anslem (talk · contribs)
- User:Buzzy anslem (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hello there! I am writing to get assistance on a wiki article I am working on; gotten declined four times now and makes me wonder why. Can anyone advise why? this is the draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Tush_Magazine_NG

Buzzy anslem (talk) 02:20, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Buzzy anslem, quite simply, you have referenced no independent sources at all. Wikipedia does not really care much about what a subject has to say about itself, nor what the subject's employees, agents, contractors, owners or anyone else with a connection to the subject, have to say anout it. You need to find sources such as books, academic articles, mainstream newspaper articles, etc., written and published by people who have no connection to the magazine, that discuss the magazine in considerable depth and detail. If such sources do not exist the magazine is simply not notable and we cannot have an article about it. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 06:55, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

03:52:29, 23 February 2016 review of submission by Singhalamit22

Singhalamit22 (talk · contribs)

How I can prove that subject is notable.

Hello @Singhalamit22:, Authbridge research services is already published, though it is pretty flawed and needs a lot more citations to outside news sources that discuss (not just briefly mention) the company. Also I removed some language that was pretty clearly just advertising services that they offer, so please be careful that the article does not stray into advertising. I have marked it as still being too advert-like so please correct that. MatthewVanitas (talk) 10:11, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

06:27:07, 23 February 2016 review of submission by Laurent Demailly

Laurent Demailly (talk · contribs)

So Wikipedia has a fair amount of entries for Open Source projects or technologies, I wonder what is the standard for getting an entry accepted or what can I do to improve the article so it does get accepted ? Likewise for the various comparable ones listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_transfer_protocols

Edit: I added another citation in reference to the rejection reason (hopefully "facebook is not a reliable source" doesn't apply to information about facebook projects on official code.facebook.com pages)

Thanks!

Laurent Demailly (talk) 06:27, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Laurent Demailly, I think WikiProject Computing is probably best suited to assist you. I have posted a request for help there. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 08:00, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 12:59:34, 23 February 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by Tony Thornburn

Tony Thornburn (talk · contribs)
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I wish to re-submit a draft for publication, which was first declined as it was not written in an appropriate Wikipedia manner. I amended its tone etc, corrected the citations, but when re-submitting the article just before Christmas it was deleted, because of apparent copywriter issues - which was not the case actually but appeared so when cursorily reviewing the article. I have subsequently address the concerns raised and the editor who deleted the article authorised it to be re-instated. I now wish to submit the article but there is no button on the draft page to submit. The article is Draft: Nigel Konstam and my User Page is Tony Thornburn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Nigel_Konstam.

Also, I need this comment appearing somewhere so that when 'new people' review it they are aware of the background. Where do you suggest it is placed please?

"I have drafted this whole article in my own style from scratch, and not copied (certainly knowingly) directly from http://www.verrocchio.co.uk/cms/index.php/sculpture. Inevitably, because I am having to provide evidence to substantiate my statements or claims some citations will refer to that, and other Konstam publications. I spent some time correcting the tone and citations, making sure that they are correctly formatted, stemming from the initial criticism of the draft article. Indeed, I have specifically asked Konstam to post copies of various letters and articles and so forth, written by third parties, so that they can be visible to the public at large and properly referenced. A number are quite dated - before the internet age, hence difficulty in locating them". Many thanks.Tony Thornburn (talk) 12:59, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks.

Tony Thornburn (talk) 12:59, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done Published by Dodger67. MatthewVanitas (talk) 10:07, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

20:45:11, 23 February 2016 review of submission by Robertversteeg

Robertversteeg (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Richard René Silvin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I used references in text by adding <ref> and </ref>, but they show up in bottom list under "external link" instead of under "reference list". What am I doing wrong? Thank you

Robertversteeg (talk) 20:45, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Robertversteeg:

Fixed I've added a {{reflist}} in the References section, which makes the references appear there! Thanks, /wiae /tlk 20:52, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Wiae for your help. Robert V./ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertversteeg (talk • contribs) 20:59, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]