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February 1[edit]

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Mickey Boardman[edit]

The submission Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Mickey Boardman

seems to be copied from this web site:

http://www.pdnthescene.com/gallery/winners2012/2012TheScene_judges.html

—Anne Delong (talk) 01:19, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! It's actually from here, I believe, but it's a copyright violation anyway. I've tagged it as such. You can nominate copyright violations for speedy deletion by adding {{db-copyvio|url=http://www.example.com/}} to the very top, where the URL should of course be that of the page it's a copyright violation of. Huon (talk) 02:01, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Moneylife[edit]

Hi,

I have added more references to the page and resubmitted for review, however, they page still shows as declined and does not show as submitted for review. Kindly help.

Best regards,

Jasmon — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mldonnet (talk • contribs) 07:17, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You can resubmit your article for review by adding {{subst:submit}} at the top of it. In your instance however, I would first check the references, as many are unreliable, particularly a search for the company name in Wikipedia, which is never acceptable. Most of the other references are primary sources, self-published sources, or don't talk specifically about Moneylife in any great detail. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 11:38, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Benecke-Kaliko[edit]

Hey,

I've seen that there is a problem with the references on my Benecke-Kaliko article. Can anybody help and tell me what the problem is?

Thank you, Frieda-Marie (talk) 09:03, 1 February 2013 (UTC)Frieda-Marie[reply]

You need to add the references inline to the article. One instance of the reference needs to have the full citation such as {{cite web}}, whereas each other instance can just have the name with a closing slash (/) tag. I've fixed the article so it's now formatted properly. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 11:47, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Submit Topic for Approval[edit]

I want to know how to upload/submit a topic for approval?

Dhusain (talk) 11:21, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You can submit your article for review by adding {{subst:submit}} at the top of the article. In your case, I would strongly advise you not to do this yet without adding some reliable sources (see instructions for adding citations and referencing for beginners if you are unsure of how to do this) otherwise your submission will be declined. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 11:50, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Peter ames carlin[edit]

Dear Folks,

At the risk of sounding like a top-drawer egomaniac, I'm trying to figure out why a biographical page about me, written by Wikipedia member Craig Williams, has been rejected by the editors.

I'm a professional journalist and author who has published work in the mainstream media since 1985. As a freelance writer I published cover stories in the New York Times Magazine and the Los Angeles Time Magazine, and contributed to Men's Journal, the Wall Street Journal, Spy, Health, The Times and The Sunday Times (UK) and a wide array of other publications.I was a senior writer at People magazine from 1996-2000, and then a TV critic/writer for the Oregonian newspaper from 2000-2011. An investigative series I wrote about news director/con man Jeff Alan (a/k/a Jeff Brent), led to a year-long federal investigation, a 9-count indictment and then the imprisonment of its subject.

I have written or co-written five books, all published by major publishers, most recently widely-reviewed, internationally published biographies ("Catch a Wave: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson", Rodale 2006; "Paul McCartney: A Life", Touchstone/Simon and Schuster 2009 and a biography of Bruce Springsteen called "Bruce," Touchstone/S&S 2012). "Bruce," which was written with the cooperation of its subject, debuted on the New York Times Book Review bestseller list at #4, and remained on the list for more than two months, mostly among the top ten bestsellers.

I have appeared on CNN and other national television shows in the course of my career. My work is currently cited in 85 current Wikipedia sites.

I suppose it's possible that all of the above does not add up to the kind of significance that actually does merit a Wikipedia entry. But I wanted to double-check to make sure that is actually true, and if so, what else I need to achieve in order to be considered Wiki- material.

Cheers,

Peter Ames Carlin

Peteramescarlin (talk) 23:42, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia measures notability not by what you have written, but by what others have written about you. The book reviews might help establish notability, or maybe you were the subject of news coverage by other journalists?

However, significant parts of the article currently don't cite any sources at all, such as the "early life" section - in fact, I don't think we have secondary sources for any of the biographical information in that article. How can I verify that you "switched to feature writing in 2008" or that you "resigned from The Oregonian in May 2011"? Huon (talk) 01:06, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]