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WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)
Along with getting the year wrong in the newsletter that went out earlier this week, we did not mention (as the bot did not report) that Cas Liber (submissions) claimed the first Featured Article Persoonia terminalis of the 2016 Wikicup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email).--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:06, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Beginner help
Hi Liance, and thank you for your quick review today. I've tried to fix the references, but this is my first translation of a wikipedia article, and I'm not quite sure i understand what "lead sentence missing" really means. I could't find a lead sentence in the original article, and I've tried to look at other similar wiki pages, but without much insight gained. Could you give me an example of what I need to do? QUADRANGLE Band, Joker Game TV anime — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkouhosei (talk • contribs) 05:54, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
- I have responded on your talk page. -Liancetalk/contribs 22:01, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
16:08:45, 2 March 2016 review of submission by Dmytryk2008
- Dmytryk2008 (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Rentberry ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Hello Liance,
Thank you for reviewing my article. I wanted to include Rentberry to Wikipedia because it is actually the first platform which offers transparent bidding on rentals. It is surely one of a kind, revolutionary platform which is very notable. Let me know if I can do anything else to facilitate the submission process! Thank you very much!
- I have responded on your talk page. -Liancetalk/contribs 22:01, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Request on 10:41:27, 3 March 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by 95.152.242.6
- 95.152.242.6 (talk · contribs)
- Draft:We Want Any Car ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Hi
I am a little unsure about the citation requirements, I have been asked to create the Wikipedia page and have found a number of faults that I have tried to correct. The main one being the citations. Please could you advise what they are and how to implement them?
Thank you
95.152.242.6 (talk) 10:41, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
Request on 05:32:17, 7 March 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by Wikicontrib2016
- Wikicontrib2016 (talk · contribs)
- User:Wikicontrib2016/sandbox ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Want to check if the page I have created is only the English translation of a previous approved page also with similar amount of content.
Can this be then approved?
https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sembilan_bahan_pokok
Wikicontrib2016 (talk) 05:32, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
17:19:25, 7 March 2016 review of submission by Holowiki
Hi Lance,
I had resubmitted the article for review but have not received any updates. Can you kindly look at the article? I want to make sure all my edits are good to go (I took out the links and additional references.
Thank you,
Jhelen
Message misplaced on userpage
Dear wiki/editor/Lance, How are you, today? I've read your comments & on my article live biography. I really accepted your comments constructively, as per wikipedia.org/article compliance standard which you indicated did not meet the wiki standard at this time. However, you indicated areas where my anomalies will be fixed. Paradoxically, i've focused on the references & external links which are my major areas of deficiencies. I,ve with meticulous, carefully revamped, modified these areas of your comments with renaming my user: names & articles still bears the avalanche of the original contents with expansion & new opened categories/subcategories. Please, i'm requesting another "review" of the similarly article with residual changes focused mostly on the titled which elicits the primarily "article live biography" "references & external links" I therefore placed this request for your another "review". I will like you or any other wiki editor, who may have the chance, since you gentlemen & ladies are very busy editing other articles; in this light therefore, I implore you, please, review this article requested from wiki accepted edit/contributor. Thank you. (message originally by User:Dr. Anthony Jones Okafor Offu.)
- I have responded on your talk page. -Liancetalk/contribs 14:31, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
Help in improving the Her Story Draft
Hello,
I was wondering if you could help me to correctly edit the Her Story page I am trying to put up. I am new to wikipedia and have already tried to remove references from the article that were considered unreliable by Wikipedia. However, my attempts so far have not been successful!
This is the draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Her_Story_(documentary)
I'm sure any tips you could give me would be helpful.
Thanks very much!
Best,
Marion — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarionBowles (talk • contribs) 14:29, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
Declined article "Max Headrooming" curious as to exactly why you declined it
Hello Liance I'm Robert Haazen (Username Ezee Posse) I am curious as to why you rejected my article "Max Headrooming", I am new to all this so please forgive my ignorance if any. You say that articles need verified and such like. But what about articles that make debut show on here, there won't be any way of verifying anything because the article is the first of its kind. Now as much as most of us know that the TV character Max Headroom did exist at one point. The item explains about a video lag and/or glitch that I personally nic named "The Max Headroom effect" and wanted some form of way to make it official that it was myself who coined the idea and no one else. I have seen many times where people take credit for things that they are not responsible for creating which leaves out the actual creator of what ever item, term or saying that they created. I wanted to put my name on the term/saying "Max Headrooming" so if it did catch on and in years or decades that someone wished to research it and find out where the saying came from that it would lead back to me as the creator first ever posted in Wikipedia. How am I supposed to be able to do this when there is nothing to reference it as this will be the first ever reference to the subject that could then be used to verify other people who may write about it if my saying caught on. How do other people with similar ideas manage to post their creations here as a first foot into making something theirs. Could you advise me on how to do this and what changes I would need to do to my original article to have it allowed publicly on Wikipedia for all to see and read about it. I wish no one no harm or anything, I just want my name on something that I come up with first instead of some other person doing so without me and to find they take all the credit for something I did. I don't mean to seem like a pain in the ass with all this. I just want to somehow make my little mark on the world and have proof it was me who did it. I know you probably have a back log of items to get through so I will wait for as long as it takes for you to get to me in regards to this.
Thank you for your attention.
Robert Haazen (Username Ezee Posse) Ezee Posse (talk) 16:26, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
Request on 02:28:24, 25 March 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by Brittjohnson73
- Brittjohnson73 (talk · contribs)
- Draft:IPS Group ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Just FYI, the contested content was not taken from the page cited. Good job.
Brittjohnson73 (talk) 02:28, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
Request on 15:56:59, 29 March 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by OMagas
My article was declined as a result of in-line citations, please could you provide a number for me to call to get some clarity on how to deal with this? OMagas (talk) 15:56, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
Your help desk question
You have a response.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:57, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
Request on 14:44:58, 31 March 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by Penslips
Good Morning -- I wanted to confirm whether my article on the subject of Dean Faulkner Wells, was published on Wikipedia. I received your note saying the article already exists, but I never received an email from Wiki notifying me that the article was published/accepted - though I have actually received a few emails from outside interested parties saying they can see the article on Wiki. In any case, I have been updating the article as much as possible in the hopes of it being published and as I said I just wanted to confirm that the article is available to the public. Thank you very much for your assistance. Sorry for the long note. ~~Penslips
Penslips (talk) 14:44, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
- I have responded on your talk page. -Liancetalk/contribs 14:54, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
13:41:54, 1 April 2016 review of submission by TrumpDumps
- TrumpDumps (talk · contribs)
- User:TheGhostOfBobSaget/sandbox ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Why did you decline.
It's informative.
- I have responed on your talk page. -Liancetalk/contribs 13:45, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
13:42:58, 20 April 2016 review of submission by New Baneshwor
- New Baneshwor (talk · contribs)
- User:New Baneshwor/sandbox ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
I am trying to make a wikipedia page on New Baneshwor , which is a city located in Kathmandu, my request to make the page was rejected. What improvements can i make to improve this page.
- I have responded on your talk page. -Liancetalk/contribs 22:34, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
09:49:09, 25 April 2016 review of submission by OMagas
Hi, I have asked a number of times about the inline citations yet haven't received any feedback on this? I have tried to do it according to the suggested help topics but I keep getting rejected. Please can you tell me what exactly is wrong with the citations?
- I have responded on your talk page. -Liancetalk/contribs 22:30, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
Race Car Replicas page
Thanks for the suggestions about improving the article. I removed the references to wikipedia in most of the cases, and replaced them with external links.
As to notability, please see the Kit Cars wikipedia page[1], and the dead reference to Race Car Replicas. A similar company, Factory Five Racing [2], also has a page that is referenced from the Kit Car article, and I loosely modeled the RCR page on that already-approved page.
Thanks, VMAX211Vmax211 (talk) 00:14, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
03:45:54, 27 April 2016 review of submission by Vmax211
I don't know if this is redundant- I'm still a noob in terms of article creation, and I think I have already answered these questions elsewhere. But if not, here are the responses:
The two stated reasons for rejection were a lack of notability and inadequate external references.
Re the notability issue, Race Car Replicas has a link to a dead page from the Kit Cars page. Another company, much like RCR, is Factory Five Racing. They are also linked from the Kit Cars page, and have their own article.
My submission for the RCR page was to add an article in the same vein as that of the Factory Five article, as they are very similar companies in the same general marketplace (though one serves the lower-end, and one the higher end).
The existing Factory Five article also has relatively sparse external references- I think the one I submitted has more.
I tried to replace internal references to the RCR page with externals where it made sense to me. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
Thanks!
WikiCup 2016 May newsletter
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Round 2 is over and 35 competitors have moved on to Round 3.
Round 2 saw three FAs (two by Cas Liber (submissions) and one by
Montanabw (submissions)), four Featured Lists (with three by
Calvin999 (submissions)), and 53 Good Articles (six by
Worm That Turned (submissions) and five each by
Hurricanehink (submissions),
Cwmhiraeth (submissions), and
MPJ-DK (submissions)). Eleven Featured Pictures were promoted (six by
Adam Cuerden (submissions) and five by
Godot13 (submissions)). One Featured Portal, Featured Topic and Good Topic were also promoted. The DYK base point total was 1,135.
Cwmhiraeth (submissions) scored 265 base points, while
The C of E (submissions) and
MPJ-DK (submissions) each scored 150 base points. Eleven ITN were promoted and 131 Good Article Reviews were conducted with
MPJ-DK (submissions) completing a staggering 61 reviews. Two contestants,
Cwmhiraeth (submissions) and
Cas Liber (submissions), broke the 700 point mark for Round 2.
If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Thanks to everyone for participating, and good luck to those moving into round 2. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) -- MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:00, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
Request on 17:02:28, 25 May 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by Dmytryk2008
- Dmytryk2008 (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Rentberry ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
hi, i'd like to re-submit an article about Rentberry company. they got a lot of press coverage last week and I think now it makes sense to have them on Wiki.
please elt me know if I can edit this draft.
Dmytryk2008 (talk) 17:02, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
11:19:52, 1 July 2016 review of submission by ResearcherTony
- ResearcherTony (talk · contribs)
- User:ResearcherTony/sandbox ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
The statement is not new but is feared by many professionals to be a threat to job security. Only some have dared to mention it openly. There are references. It is the most agreed modern view, but a silent back room consensus.
To make this fly, what is needed besides references to establish it as the modern view among scientist today?
Your draft article, Draft:Mega Jump
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Hello, Liance. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Mega Jump".
In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}
or {{db-g13}}
code.
If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. GamerPro64 12:55, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
Invitation from Wikipedia Asian Month 2016
New Page Review needs your help
Hi Liance,
As an AfC reviewer you're probably aware that a new user right has been created for patrolling new pages (you might even have been granted the right already, and admins have it automatically).
Since July there has been a very serious backlog at Special:NewPagesFeed of over 14,000 pages, by far the worst since 2011, and we need an all out drive to get this back down to just a few hundred that can be easily maintained in the future. Unlike AfC, these pages are already in mainspace, and the thought of what might be there is quite scary. There are also many good faith article creators who need a simple, gentle push to the Tea House or their pages converted to Draft rather than being deleted.
Although New Page Reviewing can occasionally be somewhat more challenging than AfC, the criteria for obtaining the right are roughly the same. The Page Curation tool is even easier to use than the Helper Script, so it's likely that most AfC reviewers already have more than enough knowledge for the task of New Page Review.
It is hoped that AfC reviewers will apply for this right at WP:PERM and lend a hand. You'll need to have read the page at WP:NPR and the new tutorial.
(Sent to all active AfC reviewers) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:33, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!
Hello, Liance. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
Request on 21:30:29, 22 November 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by Prerobin
- Prerobin (talk · contribs)
- User:Prerobin/sandbox/Reading Hebrew Congregation ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
In rejecting my revised draft page on Reading Hebrew Congregation today, you highlighted notability and the independence and substantive nature of sources. It may be that the source "Portrait of a Community" appeared not to be independent of the Congregation. I have confirmed
that it was written, published and paid for independently of the Congregation. The text was approved by editors who were not the author or the Congregation. Copies were purchased by individuals. Sue Krisman, the author, is a professional author. The book of 80 pages cites and displays many original sources and discusses the Congregation directly and in great detail. Reading Hebrew Congregation has been in existence for the entire period of the organised Jewish community in Reading, has many unique features and believe is sufficiently notable to justify its own Wikipedia page. Please can you advise what more I need to do to make the page acceptable.
Prerobin
Prerobin (talk) 21:30, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
- I have responded on your talk page. -Liancetalk/contribs 22:36, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
Please explain why you deleted inclusion of two newly invented squat exercises?
Hello Liance,
Can you please help me understand why my edits on the Squats (Exercise) Wiki were deleted? The SmithShaper Squat and the SmithShaper Wall Facing Squat are in fact two new types of squats made possible by a newly invented and patent pending wearable rolling wall exerciser known as the SmithShaper Ab & Squat Roller. These are completely different that "Smith Machine" squats and forward facing wall squats. Maybe that was the confusion. Let me know.
Regards,
Louis — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moraleslou (talk • contribs) 22:17, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
- I have responded on your talk page. -Liancetalk/contribs 22:33, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
In response to your message on my talk page
Hello Moraleslou. I removed your edits on Squat (exercise) because I felt that the two entries you added to the list were not as established as the other entries. On Wikipedia, content must be significantly covered and established, and I felt that those two squats you added weren't very established. If you have any more questions, please feel free to contact me again on my talk page. -Liancetalk/contribs 22:28, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
Liance,
Thanks for your response. I understand and agree. I will check back in a year or two, if and when the SmithShaper squat routines become more mainstream and established.
Regards,
Louis — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moraleslou (talk • contribs) 23:38, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
- Great. -Liancetalk/contribs 23:39, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
New page reviewer granted
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Hello Liance. Your account has been added to the "New page reviewers
" user group, allowing you to review new pages and mark them as patrolled, tag them for maintenance issues, or in some cases, tag them for deletion. The list of articles awaiting review is located at the New Pages Feed. New page reviewing is a vital function for policing the quality of the encylopedia, if you have not already done so, you must read the new tutorial at New Pages Review, the linked guides and essays, and fully understand the various deletion criteria. If you need more help or wish to discuss the process, please join or start a thread at page reviewer talk.
- Be nice to new users - they are often not aware of doing anything wrong.
- You will frequently be asked by users to explain why their page is being deleted - be formal and polite in your approach to them too, even if they are not.
- Don't review a page if you are not sure what to do. Just leave it for another reviewer.
- Remember that quality is quintessential to good patrolling. Take your time to patrol each article, there is no rush. Use the message feature and offer basic advice.
The reviewer right does not change your status or how you can edit articles. If you no longer want this user right, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. In case of abuse or persistent inaccuracy of reviewing, the right can be revoked at any time by an administrator. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 04:10, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
New Page Review - newsletter
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- Breaking the back of the backlog
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If each reviewer does only 10 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
Let's get that over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
- Second set of eyes
Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work. Read about it at the new Monitoring the system section in the tutorial.
- Getting the tools we need - 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey: Please vote
With some tweaks to their look, and some additional features, Page Curation and New Pages Feed could easily be the best tools for patrollers and reviewers. We've listed most of what what we need at the 2016 WMF Wishlist Survey. Voting starts on 28 November - please turn out to make our bid the Foundation's top priority. Please help also by improving or commenting on our Wishlist entry at the Community Wishlist Survey. Many other important user suggestions are listed at at Page Curation.
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17:15:22, 30 November 2016 review of submission by AndyEWeber
- AndyEWeber (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Upper Hudson American Viticultural Area ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Liance, I've added many more references and external links, updated the text and added a picture. I don't know why the kit car links are showing up bellow...
Andy AndyEWeber (talk) 17:21, 30 November 2016 (UTC) AndyEWeber (talk) 13:05, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
12:57:43, 3 December 2016 review of submission by AndyEWeber
- AndyEWeber (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Upper Hudson American Viticultural Area ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Liance, I have provided additional external links and references. Also I have added more information in the text section to include a map of the AVA.
Thanks for your review
AndyEWeber AndyEWeber (talk) 12:57, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
- I have responded on your talkpage. -Liancetalk/contribs 13:28, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected
New Page Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:55, 7 December 2016 (UTC))
BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected
AfC Reviewers are asked to be especially on the look out 08:00-20:00 UTC (that's local London time - check your USA and AUS times) on Thursday 8 December for new pages. The BBC together with Wikimedia UK is holding a large 12-hour editathon. Many new articles and drafts are expected. See BBC 100 Women 2016: How to join our edit-a-thon. Follow also on #100womenwiki, and please, don't bite the newbies :) (user:Kudpung for NPR. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:02, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
New Page Review - newsletter #2
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- Please help reduce the New Page backlog
This is our second request. The backlog is still growing. Your help is needed now - just a few minutes each day.
- Getting the tools we need
ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT TO VOTE
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Fush listed at Redirects for discussion
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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Fush. Since you had some involvement with the Fush redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs) 00:25, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
Season's Greetings!
Misplaced message
Liance, I understand that you have edited my page on Tolland, Connecticut. As, I had seen it, there was some vandalism on it in regard to the names of the people. However, the three people you removed from the page are notable citizens of the town. If you wish, I can go and make edits to the names and descriptions to fit their actual titles. But, they are notable people. Contact me if you have any questions. Huskies.irish (talk) 18:23, 22 December 2016 (UTC)Huskies.irish
New Page Review - newsletter No.2
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- A HUGE backlog
We now have 799 New Page Reviewers!
Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October.
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The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work!
It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to 70,000.
- Second set of eyes
Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten.
- Abuse
This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody, and
- this very recent case of paid advertising by a Reviewer resulting in a community ban.
- this case in January of paid advertising by a Reviewer, also resulting in a community ban.
- This Reviewer is indefinitely blocked for sockpuppetry.
Coordinator election
Kudpung is stepping down after 6 years as unofficial coordinator of New Page Patrolling/Reviewing. There is enough work for two people and two coords are now required. Details are at NPR Coordinators; nominate someone or nominate yourself. Date for the actual suffrage will be published later.
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New Page Review-Patrolling: Coordinator elections
Your last chance to nominate yourself or any New Page Reviewer, See Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Coordination. Elections begin Monday 20 February 23:59 UTC. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:17, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
New Page Review - newsletter No.3
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Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed.
- Still a MASSIVE backlog
We now have 799 New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced.
If you asked for the New Page Reviewer right, please consider investing a bit of time - every little helps preventing spam and trash entering the mainspace and Google when the 'NO_INDEX' tags expire.
Discuss this newsletter here. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:35, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
19:46:45, 10 March 2017 review of submission by Shian pryce
- Shian pryce (talk · contribs)
- User:Shian pryce/sandbox ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
I am currently doing an article about a Canadian photographer, Nicole Jolicoeur and I am wondering why it has been denied. Maybe I am not doing something correctly.
List of International Schools in Rome - Acorn House - Rejected
Hi there Liance, I wonder why the draft I have submitted, was rejected as this page was created to add an existing school to the page of international schools in Rome and international schools in Italy. Both list are filled with other schools whose notability may be arguable, however the idea behind my submission is to complete the list of international schools to readers looking for this kind of information on Wikipedia.
If this doesn't makes sense, both the categories above should be removed.
I will be awaiting for your thoughts.
Thanks
15:37:14, 5 April 2017 review of submission by Dredlongwiki
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Thank you for the comments on the article. I have added some additional news coverage of the subject (and clarified some existing references where it was not clear that the reference was to national press).
Also please note that the subject is mentioned in the Wiki pages for Alexander Campkin and that events produced by or featuring the subject are included in the articles Tobias Menzies and Linder Sterling.
Let me know if any further revisions would be helpful. Dredlongwiki (talk) 15:37, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
Draft articles
Are draft articles started by an establshed editor (me) subject to publication by anyone, regardless of status? I had an article published from Draft before I was done when Draft was first started, and thereafter I have alwasys developed new artices in my sandbox. I see you are active in this regard, and seek your advice, now that I have a Draft article Draft:SplashData by my own mistake. No hurry, article is barely started.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 13:33, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
Request on 16:39:35, 20 April 2017 for assistance on AfC submission by FloH340
Hi Liance,
You rejected an article I submitted based on notability. This was the first article I wrote and I tried to follow the rules meticulously including citing several different published books.
The person I was writing about James Durgavel Irving, was prominent in his time and was the founder of what is now a I believe a multi-billion corporation in Atlantic Canada. The family, the Irvings, and their many companies are the subjects of many other pages that are poorly written and don't follow the wiki rules (see a partial list below), so I decided to read as much as I can and take on the project starting with the person and history about how this all began. It is a very interesting and relevant story that spans 150 years that has been documented and cited in several books from various authors as well as in newspaper articles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._C._Irving https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Group_of_Companies https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J._D._Irving&action=history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Oil
Below is my clarification of the intros and all the citations below it.
Can you let me know more specifically why it would not be considered worthy of a wiki page or if it should simply be part of one of the other poorly written pages that are already online?
Many thanks!
SUBJECT James Durgavel Irving James Durgavel Irving (1860-1933) was the founder of J.D. Irving Limited, a privately-owned, vertically integrated Canadian business that is now in its fourth generation of family leadership. He was the father of K.C. Irving, one of Canada's leading industrialists and entrepreneurs who built the company into one of the largest corporations in Atlantic Canada, with business interests that span from forestry to shipbuilding, transportation to consumer goods.
• 1 Early life and family
James Durgavel Irving was born in Galloway, Kent County[1], New Brunswick in 1860 to Herbert Irving and wife Catherine Durgavel. One of seven children, he was the fifth born and second son. [2]
James Durgavel Irving grew up on a farm in the New Brunswick forest between the Richibucto and Bouctouche rivers. He became known as J.D. to distinguish himself from other Irvings in the area.[3]
In 1881, at 21 years of age, J.D. Irving left home, bought a small sawmill and settled in Bouctouche, New Brunswick, a village surrounded by forest, farmland, river and sea. [4]
In 1884, J.D. married his first wife Minnie Irving(nee Hutchison).[5]. They had three children, one who died in infancy. Minnie Irving died in 1889 at age twenty-five. He later married Mary Elizabeth Gifford, and had three children including Kenneth Colin Irving, born in 1899. [6]
2. J.D. Irving Limited
In 1882, J.D. Irving Limited was established in Bouctouche, New Brunswick. The original holdings included a sawmill, gristmill, carding mill, a general store, lumber business and a farm. J.D. also marketed fish and other produce.[7]
Between 1882 and 1900, J.D.'s company letterhead listed its activities as general store, lumbermill, gristmill operator and fish dealer.[8]
The December 1912 edition of the Maritime Farmer commended J.D. for his use of vertical integration, producing things in one enterprise that would feed another.[9]
J.D.Irving died on June 6, 1933, during the Great Depression.[10] The company owned a sawmill, the family store in Bouctouche and some woodlands in Kent County. [11] His son Kenneth Colin Irving (K.C.) acquired full ownership of J.D. Irving Limited, buying out his siblings. [12]
From the 1930’s to the 1970’s, K.C. Irving expanded and diversified the company his father J.D. had spent his lifetime building, through vertical integration. [13]
Today J.D. Irving Limited business interests include forestry and forest products, consumer products, agriculture, food processing, transportation and logistics, shipbuilding and fabrication, retail and distribution, industrial equipment and construction. Headquartered in Saint John, New Brunswick, it is often referred to as JDI.[14]
3. Legacy
J.D. Irving’s name lives on today, as J.D. Irving Limited continues to be a family-run company, now led by members of its fourth generation.[15]
James Durgavel Irving
Sawler, Harvey (2012). Twenty-First Century Irvings. Halifax: Nimbus. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-55109-944-6. How, Douglas (1993). K.C.:the biography of K.C. Irving. Toronto: Key Porter. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-55013493-3. DeMont, John (1992). Citizen Irving. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. p. 12. ISBN 0-7710-2614-5. DeMont, John (1992). Citizen Irving. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. p. 12. ISBN 0-7710-2614-5. Sawler, Harvey (2012). Twenty-First Century Irvings. Halifax: Nimbus. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-55109-944-6. How, Douglas (1993). K.C.:the biography of K.C. Irving. Toronto: Key Porter. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-55013493-3. How, Douglas (1993). K.C.:the biography of K.C. Irving. Toronto: Key Porter. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-55013493-3. Sawler, Harvey (2012). Twenty-First Century Irvings. Halifax: Nimbus. p. 10. ISBN 978-1-55109-944-6. Sawler, Harvey (2012). Twenty-First Century Irvings. Halifax: Nimbus. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-55109-944-6. DeMont, John (1992). Citizen Irving. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. p. 36. ISBN 0-7710-2614-5. DeMont, John (1992). Citizen Irving. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. p. 36. ISBN 0-7710-2614-5. DeMont, John (1992). Citizen Irving. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. p. 38. ISBN 0-7710-2614-5. Sawler, Harvey. Twenty-First Century Irvings date=2012. Halifax: Nimbus. p. 13-14. ISBN 978-1-55109-944-6. "About Us". J.D.Irving. Retrieved March 14, 2017. Sawler, Harvey (2012). Twenty-First Century Irvings. Halifax: Nimbus. p. xv. ISBN 978-1-55109-944-6.
FloH340 (talk) 16:39, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
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