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December 2

01:37:41, 2 December 2017 review of submission by Blueant2

Blueant2 (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Bugcrowd (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi, sorry I had to create a new account. I forgot my password over the past few months.

I created the Bugcrowd page and included links to several reliable sources, many of them were major national news networks/sites, and the articles do not promote the subject they just cover the news about the subject. Can you help me understand what the issue is with my sources?

When writing this page I looked at a similar company, HackerOne, which includes very similar sources and doesn't even cite sources for many claims. Yet it was deemed notable and worthy. Can you help me understand the discrepancy?

Thank you, BlueAnt

@Blueant2: Hello, Blueant. Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. Our apologies for the delay in response. As for why your submission was rejected even though a similar company has an article, Wikipedia has well more than 5 million user-generated articles and it is inevitable that some will exist even though they should not. But the existence of that article will not relieve you of the need to demonstrate that this particular new company has received substantial coverage from reliable independent sources. And even with the new references added earlier today, I don't see that you've made this demonstration. Most of your sources merely confirm that the company has particular clients and that it received financing from particular sources. But none of that is encyclopedic. Of the other references, some just make routine announcements of changes in management, one is an interview and another barely mentions the company at all except for quotes from an officer about bug bounty programs. And there's the piece from Forbes, which was written by a contributor and, thus, can not be considered a reliable authoritative source. In all, and despite your use of fifteen references, I don't see enough evidence to suggest that this new company is "notable" in the sense that Wikipedia uses the word. I hope this response has been helpful. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. NewYorkActuary (talk) 03:42, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

07:46:31, 2 December 2017 review of submission by LindsayUittenbogaard

LindsayUittenbogaard (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Social Alignment (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I recently drafted a page on Social Alignment. At the time I was not so close to this subject matter, so indicated this on the draft page creation. For one reason or another now I am close to it - it underpins the a business concept I am working on. Do I need to change this if if yes, how? Thank you! LindsayUittenbogaard (talk) 07:46, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi LindsayUittenbogaard. That doesn't sound like a conflict of interest as far as Wikipedia is concerned, so you don't need to do anything, no. – Joe (talk) 18:35, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

11:46:25, 2 December 2017 review of submission by Khannarahul

Khannarahul (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Pradeep Gupta (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

@Khannarahul: Hello, Khannarahul. Did you have a specific question? NewYorkActuary (talk) 03:48, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

18:58:38, 2 December 2017 review of draft by SteveLHarris

SteveLHarris (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Balch, Frederic Homer (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

This is the first time I've contributed an article to Wickipedia (Balch, Frederic Homer) and I need help in several aspects of the entry: When I click on the "I" button for italics to list book or magazine titles, a whole succession of letters appears on the line, but nothing I type is printed in italics.

  Also, how do I insert footnote numbers in the main text and what format do I use for the footnotes themselves?  How do I list items in a bibliography?  And how do I list news & magazine articles about the subject?

  Thanks for helping out.

Sincerely,

Steve Harris (User Name: SteveLHarris)

SteveLHarris (talk) 18:58, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi SteveLHarris. If you're editing the source, clicking the "I" button should insert the text ''Italic text'' where the text cursor is. If you were to preview the page you would see it rendered as Italic text. The idea is that you should replace the words with the text that you want to be italic, leaving the markup around the words intact. Once you know the markup, it's easier to ignore the button and just type two apostrophes before the words you want to italicize, and two more apostrophes at the end of the italic text. This technique works well for things like book titles in running text (such as The Bridge of the Gods). Footnotes are a bit different.

The best starting point to learn about footnotes is Help:Referencing for beginners. The most counter-intuitive thing about them is that you don't write anything in the "References" section. Instead you intersperse the references with the text. I've redone one inline citation in a recommended format, using {{cite book}}. It takes care of italics within the citation automatically. There are similar templates, {{cite news}} and {{cite magazine}}, for other types of sources. There's a lot more you can do, using the same reference again, avoiding Ibid, using groups to separate notes from references, and using shortened footnotes to avoid repetition (which may be what you mean by a bibliography). Start with the basics. --Worldbruce (talk) 02:27, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]