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Articles for deletion nomination of Gerald Charles Ward
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Speedy deletion nomination of Walter T. Paluch, Jr.
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Nomination of Walter T. Paluch, Jr. for deletion
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The article Marshall S. Roth has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- doesn't meet Wp:Military
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Sportspeople stubs
Hi. Please include the miminum necessary for your page creations. There are be:
- Infobox
- Stub template
- Categories
- Sourced references
These items are available to you at the time of creation and only take a minute or two more. There is no reason to expect other authors to add thee details for you. You have been asked before - failure to do this in future may result in your articles being deleted again. Thanks.--Kudpung (talk) 08:13, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Categories and project tags
Packerfansam, I see you've been churning out the stubs for Green Bay Packers players. I've got two items I want to bring up.
First, if you categorize an article in college football team players category, there's no need to also list the alumni category for that team's college since the football player category should roll up into the alumni category. Sometimes there will be an intermediate category rolling up the players from that school's various teams, e.g. Category:Michigan Wolverines athletes. For example, you categorized Lou Midler under Category:University of Minnesota alumni and Category:Minnesota Golden Gophers football players. The later is a subcategory of the former. Category:University of Minnesota alumni isn't needed.
Second, it would be a great help if you could add project tags to stubs that you create. This will help other editors working on similar topics know about the new article and integrate it into their efforts. All articles about people should get a tag for {{WikiProject Biography}}. Anyone who played or coached college football should be tagged with {{WikiProject College football}}. Anyone who played, coached, or worked in the front office for an NFL team, should be tagged with {{WikiProject National Football League}}. See Talk:Lou Midler for the exact syntax for these tags.
Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 06:35, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
- Packerfansam, I see you tagged your most recently created articles with the project banners I mentioned above. Great. What would even better is if you could rate those as Stubs and flesh out the banner templates. Again, see Talk:Lou Midler. In the WikiProject Biography template, the living parameter should be filled out with yes or no, if the person is known to be alive or deceased; listas should simply be populated with last name, first name. Thanks. Jweiss11 (talk) 02:47, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
- Further to the above, and also further to the previous section, please don't use stub categories (such as Category:Defensive lineman, 1920s birth stubs) directly; instead, please use the relevant stub templates (such as
{{Defensive-lineman-1920s-stub}}). To find these, start by looking in Category:American football biography stubs and pick the relevant subcategory for the player's position; then pick the relevant subcategory for the decade of the player's birth. Under the heading "Pages in category" you should find one or more templates listed; click the most relevant one of those, then look for the "Usage" heading. This should show the template code in a form which you can copy&paste.
- Further to the above, and also further to the previous section, please don't use stub categories (such as Category:Defensive lineman, 1920s birth stubs) directly; instead, please use the relevant stub templates (such as
- Each biography needs two further categories, one to show when the player was born, and the other to show either that he's still alive, or the year that he died. The rules for selecting these are a bit involved, so I'll start with two common cases. First, a player whose birth year is known, and is also still alive:
[[Category:1967 births]][[Category:Living people]]
- Second, a player who has died, and where both the birth and death years are known:
[[Category:1896 births]][[Category:1975 deaths]]
- If you don't know the year of birth, then instead of the birth year category, use either
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]
- if they are still alive, or
[[Category:Year of birth missing]]
- if they have died.
- If you are unsure whether a person is living or not, assume that they are. However, if the person was born before 1887, it's pretty certain that they have died, so use
[[Category:Year of death missing]]
- instead of the death year category; and if they were born in 1887 or later, but more than 90 years ago (ie before May 12, 1934), use
[[Category:Possibly living people]]
- instead of
[[Category:Living people]]. - Further information may be found at the top of Category:Living people, Category:Possibly living people, Category:Year of birth missing, Category:Year of birth missing (living people) and Category:Year of death missing.
- Each biography needs two further categories, one to show when the player was born, and the other to show either that he's still alive, or the year that he died. The rules for selecting these are a bit involved, so I'll start with two common cases. First, a player whose birth year is known, and is also still alive:
- Finally: all biographical articles should have a
{{DEFAULTSORT:}}before the categories, even when the first name and surname begin with the same letter. When using this, don't use disambiguators - that is, on the page for John Doe (American football), don't use{{DEFAULTSORT:Doe (American football), John}}
- instead use
{{DEFAULTSORT:Doe, John}}
- Thanks. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:47, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry, I didn't mention: stub templates go after the categories, see WP:STUB#How to mark an article as a stub. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:39, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
- Finally: all biographical articles should have a
The article Dan Orlich has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.
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Nomination of Brian Bidlingmyer for deletion
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Zud Schammel
I commend you on starting new pages, even with a one line lead and a sports info box. I am writing to you concerning your addition of Zud's name in the Waterloo, Iowa#Notable people section. You must of overlooked the NOTICE section that has been recently added in the wikicode for that section. Here is a reprint for you.
NOTICE * * * NOTICE * * * NOTICE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *NOTICE * * * NOTICE * * * NOTICE
Only people who already have a Wikipedia article may appear here as Notable people. This establishes notability.
The biographical article should say how they are associated with THIS CITY examples = born, raised, residing etc.
An external reliable source of their association with THIS CITY should be cited in their Article and MUST be cited HERE.
Alphabetical by last name please. Use a short one line description of Notability.
All others will be deleted without further explanation.
If the person you think is Notable and does not have a Wikipedia Article for themselves create one.
Guidelines for the Notability of a person can be found by entering WP:PEOPLE in the wiki search.
Guidelines on what is needed and how to write the Article can be found by entering WP:MOSBIO in the wiki search.
END OF NOTICE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * END OF NOTICE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *END OF NOTICE
This subject has been discussed six times starting in 2007 at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline. The most recent discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline#References for Notable people has consensus that there be two conditions to being in this section. 1st the person needs to be blue-linked this establishes that they pass the notability standards of Wikipedia. 2nd there needs to be a external reference that cites the relationship of the Notable person to the city included with the persons blue-link entry in the Notable people section.
The first condition has been met (blue-linked), although a inline citation (or a citation in the infobox in this case) should be included in the person's article. The second condition is what I want you to be made aware of, and urge you to include proper references in the future.
In the case of Zud Schammel, I went to his article and that is where I found the in code line <ref>http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SchaZu20.htm</ref> which is basic and needs to at least be entered as code <ref>http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SchaZu20.htm PRO-FOOTBALL Reference</ref> which leaves only PRO-FOOTBALL Reference in the References section per WP:REFB and WP:FN or Help:Footnotes. I prefer using the one of the cite templates found at WP:CT in this case {{cite web}} which has the full parameters <ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= | title= |work= |publisher= |date= |url= |format= |doi= |accessdate= }}</ref> although not all parameters need to be used. I use a basic set of parameters unless more are needed. For example <ref>{{cite web|url= |title= |publisher= |accessdate=}}</ref>. In the Zud Schammel cite I added the combination of the "ref name" for multiple uses of the same reference (lead paragraph and infobox) thus in the code it looked like <ref name="prfZSchammel">{{cite web|url=http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SchaZu20.htm|title=PRO-FOOTBALL Reference|publisher=Zud Schammel|accessdate=2010-12-17}}</ref> and displays 1.^ a b "PRO-FOOTBALL Reference". Zud Schammel Retrieved 2010-12-17 in the References section. Lastly in the cite for Zud in the Waterloo entry I added (1910–xxxx) behind his name, leaving the xxxx as I searched the internet and did not find a date of death (frustrating) but he may be 100 years old.
In the intrest of full discloser the Notable people section in Waterloo's article only had one reference when I first put that notice in the code, now it has 12 out of 33 entries. I dedicated all this time in writing to you in anticipation that you change your editing habits, as this is not the first time I have added references to information you have added to Wikipedia. BTW GO Packers, I hope they win their division.
--RifeIdeas Talk 17:01, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
The article Larry Olsonoski has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.
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The article Ralph Olsen has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.
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The article Tom O'Malley (American football) has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.
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The article Rick Nuzum has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.
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The article Hamilton Nichols has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.
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The article Tom Neville (American football guard) has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.
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The article Tim Moresco has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.
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The article Dick Moje has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.
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The article Charlie Mitchell (American football) has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.
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The article Don Milan has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.
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The article John Miller (American football linebacker) has been proposed for deletion. The proposed-deletion notice added to the article should explain why.
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mass AfD
You should stop by Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Edward Hayhurst. It seems that ten of the military bio stubs you've created are up for deletion, specifically, all are Silver Star recipients. bahamut0013wordsdeeds 11:53, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
- You know, I actually considered that: "Sam can be a female name too... but the odds of a female liking Green Bay are pretty low, so I guess masculine articles would be OK." My apologies.
- Re: Kenneth Leroy Boggs/(mass AfD). Looked at the reference which currently also lists his posthumous Distinguished Service Cross for the same time period. I've been unable to locate an official government version to public domain cut and paste from; do you copy the citation from the reference with that rationale/justification? There are stray references to KIA/POW status, but I'm unable to locate actual details. This one will likely be kept regardless of the outcome with the others, and the article needs any additional sourced info, which I am frustrated at not finding. Dru of Id (talk) 03:28, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
- Having found no government site to source, I'd figured as much, but thought I'd check. IMO, Silver Star recipient articles are justified in and of themselves, and the citation is merely the starting point until the entry is expanded. I will wait for the response to my comments at the AfD, and see what the path forward is; oddly, it was Bresnahan who caught my eye, as there's another who received the Medal of Honor, but having checked one, I checked them all; Boggs was near the top, so thereafter I went through very carefully. Boggs has been withdrawn from the AfD. Dru of Id (talk) 10:59, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
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The article Barry Rubin (American football) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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Unsourced categories
Hi, please only add categories which are sourced. Thank you. Span (talk) 14:37, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
The article Andy Richman has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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Nomination of Adrian Battles for deletion
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Category:Irish Roman Catholics
Please stop adding Category:Irish Roman Catholics to articles on random Irish people. As per WP:BLPCAT and the category page's own description, it's for people whose notability derives from their religion - not politicians, actors, singers, etc., who don't derive their notability from their religion (or lack thereof). Regards, BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 14:57, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
On closer inspection, you appear to be adding religious categories willy-nilly to dozens of articles. This should not be done. Please read WP:BLPCAT and here. BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 20:04, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
- No, it really isn't, including for politicians, as specified in the general BLP and category guidelines. "Categories regarding religious beliefs of a living person should not be used unless the subject has publicly self-identified with the belief or orientation in question" and "the case for each category must be made clear by the article text and its reliable sources. Categories regarding religious beliefs or sexual orientation should not be used unless the subject has publicly self-identified with the belief or orientation in question, and the subject's beliefs or sexual orientation are relevant to their public life or notability, according to reliable published sources." Maybe if a politician says s/he's voting a certain way because of religious beliefs, or something similar, a category could be included, but it would still need a source. Adding the Draco Malfoy actor to "English Christians" because he sang in a choir when he was younger is a bit dodgy :-) Cheers, BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 21:31, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
Category:New Zealand Anglicans
As per the above correspondent, please stop adding random New Zealanders to this category. By rights it should only be for persons noted for their religious activity (bishops etc.), and not for anyone and everyone that happens to have religion=Anglican in an infobox. Fan
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I just wanted to let you know that I took a look at your recently created article Joseph R. Lamonde-- Jipinghe (talk) 19:14, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
Bernard E. Gehrmann
Hi I found an obituary for Bernard E. Gehrmann. I added it on the article. Please let myself know what you think-Thanks-RFD (talk) 15:39, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
- Many thanks for your comment. There was no problem finding the obituary. Occasionally, I come across an obituary for a former Wisconsin legislator and that becomes the next article to research and write. However, right now I have a case of political burnout and has nothing to do with Wikipedia. My area just had one of the Wisconsin Senate recall elections and as a result we have a special Assembly election to fill that seat vacated by Jennifer Shilling. I should do more articles about Wisconsin politicians but I am not into it right now. Many thanks-RFD (talk) 18:39, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Mayors of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Hi-There is a list of Mayors of Milwaukee, Wisconsin-there are still 6-7 of them that need to be done. I did do a stub for Henry Hase-he served as acting mayor for 1 month when Peter Somers resigned to join Congress in 1893. You may want to take a look at the list itself if you are interested. Thanks-RFD (talk) 17:35, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Dennis B. Danielson Article
Article: Dennis B. Danielson.
I came across your article since it is unassessed and it came up in the WikiProject Miliary History section. The Coordinators at WikiProject Military History encourage Wikipedia users to do top articles, would like to see this article and future articles you do that are associated with WikiProject Military History over the next year to be top articles. Adamdaley (talk) 07:17, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
- Top article, meaning highly assessed. We are encouraging users to expand existing articles which are "Stub" and "Start" to be a higher assessment and a bigger article. Adamdaley (talk) 10:50, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Lary Swoboda
Hi-I had to make a change in the article about Lary Swoboda; his first name is: Lary not Larry. I made the changes. My apologies for any problems-RFD (talk) 23:40, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
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Many thanks-
Many thanks for finishing articles about the Wisconsin Supreme Court. There are still many articles about people who were Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction that needs to be done. The information would be the Wisconsin Dictionary of History the Wisconsin Historical Society. I just got finished starting an article about Henry Jackson (Minnesota pioneer) who served in the Wisconsin and Minnesota Territorial Legislatures and help founded Mankato, Minnesota. Again my thanks-RFD (talk) 13:14, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Richard E. Peterson
Hi I started an article about Richard E. Peterson he died1-2 years ago and served in the Wisconsin Assembly. Hopefully I like to start articles on the remaining Wisconsin Treasurers and Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instructions that are red link and need to be written provided I do not go through a bout of burnout with politics and politicians. Many thanks-RFD (talk) 14:23, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
Grover C. Winn
In case you have the time/inclination to do anything before I do, this article may be of interest. Cheers.RadioKAOS (talk) 05:38, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
Looking for input
Could you please chime in at Talk:Jill Billings#Removal of the section discussing her opponent's attack on her religious activities? --Orange Mike | Talk 21:10, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
Wisconsin Superintendents of Public Instruction
Hi I was able to finish the list of Wisconsin State Treasurers and there are now articles for all Wisconsin Treasurers. This was not easy. Some like Thomas Purtell and Clyde Johnston did not have too much information. Okay there are only 6 names left to do with the Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction. I had been working on the articles but I am wondering if you please help myself finished this off. The information is in the Wisconsin Dictionary of History, Wisconsin Historical Society. Thank you-RFD (talk) 12:57, 16 November 2011 (UTC)
- Hi-I just got finished with the Wisconsin Attorney General-all the AGs of Wisconsin now have articles. That just leaves the 3 articles for Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instructions. Many thanks-RFD (talk) 01:08, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
- I just got finished with last of the articles for the Superintendent of Public Instruction. That means articles for the main constitutional officers, the Mayors of Milwaukee, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court justices are now done. Okay there are Mayors of Madison and the Wisconsin Court of Appeals judges that need articles. Many thanks-RFD (talk) 19:22, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
Military articles
Just a note that "died" is preferred rather than "Passed away" per WP:EUPHEMISM. Thanks, – Connormah (talk) 00:06, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Pennsylvania people
I see from Harlan P. Bird and prior articles that you are doing good work on a long series of articles on members of the Wisconsin legislature. When you create the discussion/talk page, I would appreciate it if you would consider using templates with the class and importance specified. For example, {{WikiProject Pennsylvania|class=stub|importance=low}}. --DThomsen8 (talk) 02:39, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Of interest
Hi-here are 3 articles I started: John Gower (Wisconsin politician), John Todd Trowbridge, and John Penn Arndt-many thanks-RFD (talk) 20:41, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks-John Gower's death just came on the internet. I prefer to work on article pertaining to Wisconsin Territory.-RFD (talk) 21:20, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
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NRHP articles
I see that you have been creating several articles about sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Wisconsin. I am currently going through and adding {{WikiProject National Register of Historic Places|class=stub|importance=low}} to the talk page of each of these to mark them for WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. If in the future any articles about NRHP listings are created, it would be helpful to add this tag at the time of creation, though obviously not necessary, as these were caught by the bot, and so will future articles. You might also be interested in collaborating with WP:NRHP, a wikiproject dedicated to developing articles about places listed on the NRHP not only in Wisconsin but around the country. Thanks for the contributions! Hope to see you around the project!--Dudemanfellabra (talk) 02:16, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
- There has been plenty of discussion at WikiProject NRHP about posting small articles on listings, especially using the automated tools available. I've been one of the people opposed to posting sub-stub articles, especially about Wisconsin. The main objection is that some people were just starting articles for the sake of making the red links into blue links without putting any effort into it. Something like this isn't good but this is just fine. I post in case you were thinking about doing mass production. Most of the ones that you posted in the past few days were quite small with about 2 sentences. I'm sure that you weren't aware of these discussions. I know I like it when someone lets me know when I accidentally walked into a hornet's nest. Royalbroil 14:11, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
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NRHP Infoboxes
I see that you are creating NRHP articles at a fast and furious pace. Since the ones I have found do not have nrhp inboboxes, they have been marked by another editor as needing an infobox. I have been working down the list of articles needing infoboxes that are on the Category:National Register of Historic Places articles needing infoboxes.
There is a simple way to get an infobox for articles listed before mid 2010. It is the Elkman Infobox Generator that has the NRIS database. Not all the information is correct, but it is a start. It also gives a standard set of categories that you can refine. KudzuVine (talk) 19:29, 1 February 2012 (UTC)