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01:21:12, 18 March 2016 review of submission by LegalKorea

LegalKorea (talk · contribs)
- Draft:DR & AJU (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hello,

On 4 March, 2016, I submitted the page I've been working on "DR & AJU" for consideration. The same day, User wiae moved it into the Draft Namespace section, explaining that this would speed up the review process. The note at the bottom of the Draft page explains that review could take a week or more. The number of submissions under review posted in that message fluctuates between 300 and 520. Are these the number of pages ahead of the one I created? If so, why does it sometimes grow larger? Is there any way I can facilitate review or find out approximately when the process will be completed?

I appreciate how many thousands of pages you have to deal with and that most of the workforce is voluntary. It is my first submission and I just want to make sure I have done everything needed for proper review. Thank you for your consideration.

LegalKorea (talk) 01:21, 18 March 2016 (UTC) LegalKorea (talk) 01:21, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi LegalKorea, The fluctuating number is the total number of submissions awaiting review. This list orders submissions by age. At this writing there are about 100 drafts older than yours. All workers here are volunteers. Some choose to concentrate on drafts about certain topics - biographies or music, perhaps. Others focus on drafts than can be dealt with very quickly. So it isn't strictly first-come first-served. Wait times are averaging between two and three weeks. One draft has been waiting a little over a month. While you're waiting, check out what's happening at WikiProject Korea, WikiProject Law, or WikiProject Companies, or explore other ways to contribute. --Worldbruce (talk) 06:00, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Worldbruce for explaining the process. WikiProject Korea and WikiProject Law look interesting. I'll try to help them along. LegalKorea (talk) 06:52, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

02:48:08, 18 March 2016 review of submission by Styson25

Styson25 (talk · contribs)
- User:Styson25/sandbox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hello. This is Styson25. I hope your having a nice day. I am having trouble finding and uploading a picture to the infobox person. I read different articles but it did not seem to help. I was wondering if you had any advice on finding and uploading pictures. Thank you in advance for your help.

Styson25 (talk) 02:48, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Styson25, Many fine biographies have no portrait. You are unlikely to find online an image that you may use. If you want another Wikipedian to take a photo for the article, see Wikipedia:Requested pictures. Another possibility is requesting a photo directly from the subject of the article, a process for which many editors have found "Five Steps to Obtain a Free Image" a useful guide. Worldbruce (talk) 22:05, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

04:03:47, 18 March 2016 review of submission by Jtamad

Jtamad (talk · contribs)
- Draft:2016 yellow fever outbreak in Angola (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Thanks for the review. Actually, I'm not surprised that it was rejected. You're right, it doesn't meet notability guidelines. This might be an exceptional case however. I leave it to you to decide. I created a page last year on the Darfur yellow fever outbreak in 2012, which was overlooked at the time, probably because of low media coverage. I haven't determined what the media coverage was when it started, but it was eventually covered more extensively including this article in NYT. In the Darfur outbreak, there were 171 deaths over the course of about a year [correction: over about 5 months]. In Angola, the ongoing outbreak has killed over 250 in about 3 months so far. It has attracted little media attention, despite the fact that a case has been reported from a returning traveler in China, which is the first case ever recorded of yellow fever in Asia in history (I think), which to me is notable, but that's POV. Why yellow fever has never appeared in Asia, despite the ubiquitous presence of the vector, A aegyptii, has puzzled experts. An outbreak in Asia would be the biggest epidemic disaster ever, on a scale with the influenza outbreak in 1918.

As far as reliable sources, the primary source is not the usual news media, but it is highly reliable. ProMED-mail is an email reporting system developed by leading virologists and physicians and other experts. It's partly a secondary source, but also primary in that the moderator's provide expert commentary on media reports and other sources of information. It may deserve special mention on the reliable sources guidelines for medicine. In the absence of media coverage, I think it serves as a reliable source, and otherwise it certainly supplements reliable media sources.

juanTamad (talk) 04:03, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jtamad, I've asked colleagues at WikiProject Medicine for their input. Meanwhile, if you believe the topic is newsworthy, consider contributing at our sister project,

Wikinews. --Worldbruce (talk) 19:42, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Accepted See "Comment requested regarding ProMED-mail as source" for WikiProject Medicine's thoughts on the topic and ProMED-mail as a source. Thanks for the article! Worldbruce (talk) 16:06, 19 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

05:37:07, 18 March 2016 review of submission by Janep67

Janep67 (talk · contribs)
- Leonard Jacobson (Author and Teacher) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Janep67 (talk) 05:37, 18 March 2016 (UTC)Janep67 Hello, I have added several links to the page of Leonard Jacobson (Author). Please can you advise if these are now sufficient and that the warning can be removed? Secondly, there is a second 'Leonard Jacobson' on Wikipedia - an architect who died 23 years ago. Is it possible to add "architect' to his name to better differentiate him from Leonard Jacobson who is a Spiritual Teacher and Author? Many thanks, Janep67 (talk) 05:37, 18 March 2016 (UTC)Janep67 Janep67 (talk) 05:37, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Janep67, This page is for questions about the Articles for creation process. Once a draft has been approved, it's outside of our scope.

If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking and believe Leonard Jacobson (author) now has the proper links, neither too few nor too many, then go ahead and remove the {{Underlinked}} template from the article. If you're unsure, just leave it. It's not a scarlet letter. It puts the article on a list so that experts in wikifying articles know to check it over and improve it if they can. If you don't need their assistance, consider diving into Category:Articles with too few wikilinks and helping them reduce their backlog.

A hatnote has been added to Leonard Jacobson, in line with the guidelines for disambiguation. The existence of Leonard Jacobson (author) is unlikely to be sufficient grounds on which to achieve consensus for changing the article name to Leonard Jacobson (architect). By and large the first one to stake a claim to an article title keeps it.

If you have further questions, consider asking at the Wikipedia:Help desk, where editors will try to answer any question regarding how to use Wikipedia. Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. Or you could always try searching Wikipedia for any help related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps! --Worldbruce (talk) 19:04, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]