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Draft:Aleksandar Rogic (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hello,

I have submitted an article a month ago and other users provided me feedback about article, what should I correct. I had to add references about the subject, which I did(several news articles) but got no answer. Could you please tell me what can I do to get some information about the status of my submitted article?

Thank you in advance. Kind regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mici quattro (talk • contribs) 10:04, 15 April 2016‎ (UTC)

Article on"Baptists"

I tried to edit this article as it is incorrect, however, a box came up sarong it was protected to prevent vandalism. How then do I edit it? Robert Emerson — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.156.11.192 (talk) 13:04, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

You can click the "View source" tab and follow the instructions to submit an edit request. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:16, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

Determine consensus on merge discussion at time travel in fiction

Time travel in fiction (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Requesting an uninvolved party (preferably an admin or experienced contributor) to determine consensus or no-consensus for or against the merger of time slip (plot device portion) and time loop into time travel in fiction. BrightRoundCircle (talk) 00:07, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Since there seems to be significant disagreement there, I'd suggest doing an actual request for comment. If consensus still isn't clear after that, you can request a closure at WP:AN/RFC. But probably better to request uninvolved editors' participation via a real RfC, that can help break a logjam. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 09:25, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Urgent Help Required!

Hi,

Can you please assist me with the article I have drafted? This is my first article and I genuinely require help getting it on Wikipedia. I have added more source links and citations after the first two reviews. Please help me!

ForsakenRadical (talk) 06:37, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

@ForsakenRadical: I'm not sure why you think this is urgent. AfC submissions aren't deleted unless they haven't been edited in over six months (or otherwise meet deletion criteria). Even just a basic copyedit or wording fix "restarts the clock", as it were.
That being said, the article has a lot of problems beyond referencing. A good deal of it reads like ad copy. It starts with "Bharat Floorings & Tiles Pvt. Ltd.". The "Pvt", "Ltd", etc., aren't necessary, just the name of the company will suffice. A lot of it is full of the "™" and "®" symbols, which should never be used in an article. It's also full of puff like "...gained immense popularity..." (immense according to whom?), a laundry list of presumably non-notable awards (at least they don't seem to have an article), and the whole thing reads like a glossy sales brochure. If that were in mainspace rather than draftspace, I'd delete it as spam. I was considering it as is, but I'll give a little more leeway in draftspace.
Additionally, many of the "references" don't look to be to particularly reliable sources. They're either clear puff pieces, interviews, mention it only in passing if at all, or don't show any indication of reliability and seem more like blogs. They'd need to be reliable and solidly cover the company in depth to count toward notability.
Finally, between the apparent "urgency" here when there is actually none and the fact that this article has been your sole focus, it appears to me that you may be commissioned or employed to work on this article. If that is the case, or you are otherwise being compensated in any way or expected as part of your employment to work on this article, you must disclose that fact, as well as make all other required disclosures at the paid editing requirements. You may not have known that, but now that you do, those disclosures would be mandatory if this is the case. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 09:20, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

@Seraphimblade: Hi, thank you for your response. I am new to all of this. Bharat Floorings is a tile manufacturing brand based in India that was started more than 90 years back to support the Indian freedom struggle by contributing to the economic independence from the British colonial rule in India. To keep up with the modern times, Bharat Floorings has hired my team to mark their presence on the internet. Belonging to a country like India, it is a matter of great honour if someone (be it an individual, a family or an organisation) has served for the country's independence movement, and that is also one of the reasons why the respective brand should have a page available on a platform like Wikipedia. Thank you for informing me about the Wikipedia policies that I was unaware of. I will go through them, but will also be highly obliged if you would kindly guide me with them. The sources that I have used are legit and verifiable, however, your expertise will be a great help to me with the article. I will make the other changes that you have suggested. Please let me know if there is something more to be done with respect to the same. Thank you.

ForsakenRadical (talk) 10:53, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi ForsakenRadical. Looking at the most recent draft, it looks like there's only one really good reference in that article, the one to the Indian Express. Most of the other references are to the company website, which don't help establish the notability of the company. Keep in mind there is no guarantee that a given subject will ever have an article. You have to demonstrate notability first. Someguy1221 (talk) 11:09, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Created Family planning policy

While it was a redirect to one-child policy in the past, this page was semi-recreated due to the fact that there was no linkage to zh:中華人民共和國計劃生育. While wikidata can be edited, you will notice on the [1] that the user:Cwek refused to link them together. So there are three solutions

1. Create One-child policy in zh-wiki, which may ended up being deleted or redirected to zh:中華人民共和國計劃生育
2. Create The Family Planning Policy. This is what I did. Maybe I should name it as Family Planning Policy (People's Republic of China)
   1. Migration of items from One-child policy to Family Plkanning plicy as needed.
3. Dispute it as wikidata. Made it so that zh:中華人民共和國計劃生育 will be placed in wikidata Q221719.

206.226.72.100 (talk) 16:38, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Edit "Life" Synonyms

Life (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Two words are listed in parenthesis on the Life page headline text in addition to Biota. Vitae, and Eobionti, and from what I gathered they were supposedly synonyms of Biota. However, I checked the reference out of curiosity and looked around on Google and can't find any evidence anywhere that Vitae, and Eobionti are real words. Id love for them to be because they sound cool but the reference was the only source of information I could find and it was not credible as far as I could tell. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iiumbral (talk • contribs) 05:43, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Iiumbral (talk) 05:45, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I followed the links through and found a link to a Czech website that listed those as synonyms but that's as much as I could find. "Vitae" of course is Latin for "of life" but I'm not sure it's used in the scientific sense it was presented there. I took them both out. JohnInDC (talk) 11:52, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest

Draft:National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (Nigeria) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I declared a conflict of interest on this article I drafted and would like to invite an independent review. I decided I wouldn't attempt any further to publish this article unless I obtain the agreement of other more experienced editors. Thanks in advance. BroVic (talk) 17:33, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Remove redirect to “Island_ecology” and create dedicated page “Island_Conservation” with Sandbox draft content

'Island Conservation' currently redirects to Island_ecology (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views). Instead I believe there should be a dedicated page "Island_Conservation" to describe a non-profit organization also called "Island Conservation". This organization has been in existence since 1994 and is the preeminent group conducting conservation on islands having deployed teams to protect 994 populations of 389 species on 52 islands. The organization has a staff of 40 people working in the Caribbean, North America, South America and the Pacific. I have created a draft entry for this new page in my personal Sandbox:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angusparker/sandbox/Island_Conservation

I respectfully ask for an editor to remove the redirect and create the page "Island_Conservation" using the draft content in my sandbox. Thank you.

Angus Parker (talk) 02:45, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

I would recommend going to Articles for Creation and following the instructions there. The reviewers will evaluate the article for conformity with Wikipedia polices, and will offer constructive tips on how to improve it, if necessary. JohnInDC (talk) 13:43, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion JohnInDC. Alternatively, I could just remove the redirect myself and create the article I suppose. Would you consider a volunteer board member of an organization has a conflict of interest as the article creator? I obviously know a great deal about the organization and feel well placed to create a well researched article and I have noted where appropriate the controversies associated with the organization's work.

Angus Parker (talk) 13:56, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Since I already have a draft I assume I can do this below?

If you have already created the draft and want to submit for review you can add {{subst:submit}} on the top of your draft.

Angus Parker (talk) 14:02, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

I'd recommend going through the AFC process. (And, yes, I think you can do just that to get your draft reviewed.). I took a quick look at the article and noted that it seems heavily sourced to its own publications - that's not a bad thing in and of itself but it suggests that third party coverage of the organization might be thin, perhaps even too thin to warrant creation of an article. I also came away with the impression that it goes into an awful lot of detail about current projects, etc., which may not be appropriate when laid up against the actual amount of coverage such undertakings have received. The folks at AFC will give you some good feedback. As for your potential COI - I guess I'd call it that, yeah, but the fix is just to get an uninvolved party to look at what you've done. Helpful? JohnInDC (talk) 14:37, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks - I'll do as you suggest and lighten some of the self-referencing. Angus Parker(talk) 16:47, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Geographic Names

Unity Island (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Looking for any standards on Wikipedia for geographic names. Recently the page for Squaw Island was renamed to Unity Island after the City of Buffalo Common Council voted to change the name of the island. Everyone seems to be unaware of the federal Board on Geographic Names and the formal process to change a name, which apparently in this case has not been done. Shouldn't the page reflect the officially recognized name of the island until the name is officially changed? GullyWalker (talk) 13:16, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

I believe that a biased editor may be removing things from a page that I am trying to improve with facts.

Naam yoga (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Hello,

I am trying to used factual articles and references to edit the Naam Yoga article. I think the problem is that they are saying there are too many primary resources, however, fFor many months, the text on the article was the same and I came and made one small edit and the editor Ronz came and stripped the article almost completely bare after I made one small edit. I tried reposting using extremely valid sources. It seems very biased that other editors left the text up and then he came and stripped it down after many months.

Thank you for your help, Bob RilkensBobrilkens (talk) 19:49, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

It is premature for you to be asking for assistance here until you've actually tried to respond to the reasonable questions at Talk:Naam yoga#Recent expansion. Newcomers may not be aware that Wikipedia is so strict about finding good sources. We are also on guard against anything that sounds like promotional editing. EdJohnston (talk) 20:11, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Farman editing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmaan

There is regarding editing discussion on Farman talk page.

An editor removed the entire plot asking for citation. From what wiki pages I have seen of old TV shows, plots may not have citation due to lack of net pages/internet in those days. Same is the case for this TV show. Tried explaining to editor. The plot was deleted completely without discussion/explanation. What should be done? The editor also removed title song sentence from page, not sure why? If the information exists in clips of shows (on Youtube, for example), but not in form of article, should it be removed even if no one challenged it?

Lone1wolf (talk) 14:58, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Not sure where to take an issue

An editor has used multiple IP addresses to repeatedly add an external link to the website for a table-top RPG in to the lead paragraph of the "Low Fantasy" entry. The link seems to be WP:ADVERTISING for someone's pet project.

diff 1 diff 2 diff 3

I reverted twice, and left notes on the talk page and the user page for the IP address, explaining why this was reverted. The user has not responded to either message, but instead re-inserted the same material using a different IP address (diff3). This doesn't rise to the 3RR yet, but it doesn't look promising. I'm not sure if I should take this to AN/I, ask for page protection, or treat it as vandalism/spam, or something else entirely. Any thoughts? Nblund (talk) 20:57, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

I requested page protection. It ought to be granted, and hopefully the IP will lose interest. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 04:48, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Huh. Got denied. Guess the IP will have to be more disruptive to merit semi-protection. Another option is the spam blacklist, but I'm less familiar with the procedure for that. —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 14:41, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Mendaliv. I left another message on the IP user's talk page, and it looks like they're agreeing to stop adding the material. Hopefully that's the end of it. Nblund (talk) 15:39, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Commons and plagiarism

How can a website be posted to wikicommons by author to allow for it's use as a source for simple things such as list without creating a plagiarism problem? Understanding that the owner of the information must grant permission, must it be done with files and not urls?

Bbcard1 (talk) 14:27, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

@Bbcard1: It is not necessary or required that a site be posted on Commons to use as a reference, and Commons probably wouldn't accept the entire content of a website anyway, even if it were suitably licensed. If you need to cite a reference, the page here explains how you can do that. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 23:16, 28 June 2016 (UTC)