Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/feedback/Archive 20
Feedback from Castlepalace (5 January 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- yes
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- in about a day, much quicker than expected
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- not really — Preceding unsigned comment added by Castlepalace (talk • contribs) 18:09, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Yes, pretty much.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- Astonishingly... just a few minutes.
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- No, it was superb. It was rated as start quality, which is fair. I couldn't do much more on this subject.
E Wusk (talk) 17:48, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
Feedback from GRALISTAIR (7 February 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission? Blocked isocyanates
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- YES
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- PRETTY QUICKLY
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- Some articles seem to get reviewed quickly - others not so much. Would love to see a breakdown of what type of articles get approved quickly
GRALISTAIR (talk) 20:32, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- What was your submission? Draft:Organic Maps
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Not really. It was spread across many pages and ambiguos. There was no easy submit button and everything had to be done with clunky templates.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- 1-2 weeks I think? But creation and submission were the problem.
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- Make it easier such as adding a draft article button at the contribution page and have a submit for review button there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greatder (talk • contribs) 03:00, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
Feedback from LRFtheLion (9 February 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Very clear, and the resources were very helpful. This was my first article I have ever contributed, but I found everything I needed to learn how to properly format it, such that I was able to get it approved on my first try without having to resubmit after revisions. The one thing I was not entirely clear on was how to actively participate in the relevant Category tag projects to get feedback from those working on those projects on my draft article. But I think that has more to do with me needing to study up on how talk pages work on Wikipedia.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- Eight days, very speedy!
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- Maybe just some hand-holding instructions for how new editors and page authors can post a message on a category project to ask for feedback on a draft article. Thank you all, this was a very good experience, and I will think about whether there are other missing topics I am qualified to write articles on. LRFtheLion (talk) 01:02, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
Feedback from RexEstChristus33AD (18 February 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T25_Sherman
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
Yeah idk why, maybe It was an oversight on my part or someone eleses but the page is called the 'T25 Sherman' instead of 'T25 Medium Tank' needs fixed.
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Kind of. I had to read WP:COI several times to figure out if 1) I could actually create an article where I have a COI with the subject matter and 2) the right process (AfC) to do so.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- Fairly quickly, around a month
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- The message on my talk page said, "Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer." However, I went through the AfC process in order to properly create an article as per WP:COI. A future improvement might be to modify this message if someone made the article through AfC because of the WP:COI process (rather than because they are too new of an account to create articles themselves).
Feedback from Respectstherights (9 March 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Very
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- Just over three months
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- It would be good to be able to see some kind of progress indicator - there are X articles waiting for review, Y articles submitted before yours, Z articles submitted since - though I don't know how easy that would be. It was just slightly disheartening to wait that length of time and not be sure if what I had written was good enough - so I waited to do other edits. I understand there are only a limited number of reviewers though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Respectstherights (talk • contribs) 12:22, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
Feedback from NEOLANI2022 (10 March 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Jasmine Togo-Brisby
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Yes
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- I think all things considering, I am happy that it was reviewed in the timeframe.
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- Not at this stage sorry, as I am a new Wikipedian so am quite in awe of how this all works thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by NEOLANI2022 (talk • contribs) 21:53, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
Feedback from DongZhuo3kingdoms (13 March 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Yes and I have found wikipedia easy to use. The only trouble I had was saving the first time, more due to my nerves from "publish changes" then anything wrong with the instructions which told me it would save them and the officer infobox template as more used to visual edit but once got hang of it, found myself quickly growing comfortable with it.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- I submitted it on 13:09 12th March UK time, it was published 1:19 on the 13th. I felt that was very quick.
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- For draft articles, changing "publish changes" to save changes might be a helpful tweak? Generally has felt like wikipedia wanted to help make it easy to edit and create an article, I have appreciated the help and encouragement of other editors in my short stay here DongZhuo3kingdoms (talk) 10:26, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
Feedback from Moehrliblanchli (6 April 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
Yes.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- First submission takes about 4 months ? But second was very quickly
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- No - always first time - I need longer but now I am getting used. THANK you and looking forward wenn its published for the public. Wikipedia is very serious and useful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moehrliblanchli (talk • contribs) 16:25, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- The instructions were clear but incorrect. This is an article where all contributors have a COI, with the original creator blocked for username policy violation and spam, so extra caution was definitely warranted. It was clear from the start that this article would meet significant opposition, which it did.
- However, that it went as far as bending policy not to have it accepted, I found that surprising. With the exception of the last reviewer (User:Greenman), the AfC 'staff' involved invented policies ('Web site is down, so I cannot assess the ref, so I'm not going to accept it'), deliberately misjudged existing guidelines ('not notable' for a rector of a university), refused to communicate after they had beed notified of their mistake, and generally did not extend a iota of good faith.
- I mean, I have created hundreds of articles here, and expanded thousands. For this particular one I have a COI, but that does not suddenly make me a bad editor.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- The review process was reasonably fast.
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- If the intention was to drive COI editors underground, that might have been successful. The original creator will certainly never again hit the 'edit' button. As for me, I'm more resilient, so no worries. But I don't like the approach that was taken here.
Feedback from RexEstChristus33AD (15 May 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T25_Sherman
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
Name need to be changed to T25 Medium instead of shermanRexEstChristus33AD (talk) 04:12, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
Feedback from TheRealSerenaJoy (16 May 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Andra Ursuta
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Yes
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- about 7 weeks
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- I think the process is solid, no suggestions at the moment.
The Real Serena JoyTalk 22:32, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
Feedback from ཧེ་དར - སྦལ་ཏི། (20 May 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Absolutely
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- Within 24 hours
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- Not at the moment
(ཧེ་དར - སྦལ་ཏི། (talk) 16:04, 20 May 2022 (UTC))
Feedback from 82.164.156.239 (2 June 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
"Brox Sox" is deleting hours of good wikipedia work. Please do stop this mongering bafoon before he deletes half of Wikipedia concerning Norwegegian noble families. He's deleting things claiming "they're fictitious". Well, darling, all sagas that blend into the medieval times, to quite a large extent are mixed with fairytale. That is why they are the oldest families in Norway, being the very founders of the country and the text itself stated that it is not always easy to know what is true and what is not. It makes one sad and angry that someone would delete ones family history/genealogy, claiming it to be "fictitious" when one is very much breathing and alive, passing down the same true history opposed to Danish state propaganda that tried to exterminate the old pre-Danish Norwegian noble families for centuries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.164.156.239 (talk) 10:38, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
Feedback from NeverTry4Me (6 June 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Yes. It was great instruction.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- Within hours.
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- For users like me, senior reviewers should be involved. Kindly do not allow any reviewer who declines simply without checking the draft thoroughly.
Feedback from NeverTry4Me (6 June 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Sure and clear instruction.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- very quickly.
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- For users like me, senior reviewers should be involved. Kindly do not allow any reviewer who declines simply without checking the draft thoroughly.
Feedback from NeverTry4Me (12 July 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Yes. Very much clear.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- OMG. It's a lightning-fast review. I couldn't finish my cup of tea after submission.
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- So far, reviewers are doing a great job. Though backlogs are getting increased, they are really fantastic.
Feedback from NeverTry4Me (12 July 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Clear and much appreciable.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- It took a couple of weeks but as the refs and the subject to be reviewed thoroughly it was done per rule. Reviewer scope_creep did it finally.
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- To date, I have no such hassle in AfC submission though many of my submissions are pending for weeks, it's fine as reviewers are doing it as a volunteer. They are too human and have other works. I understand their hard work here. I must appreciate their valuable efforts to build the earth's largest Encylopedia. My best regards to them.
Feedback from Greenhill54321 (13 July 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- I'd say about 65% clear, although eventually I made it through the process successfully, so it must have been clear enough. I struggled with knowing what would minimally be required for getting the draft approved. I assume it will evolve and hopefully improve over time, but wasn't sure about the minimum reqs to get this process going.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- Initially, I received a message that it could take months for the draft to be reviewed. This was quite unmotivating, to be honest. In the end, it was reviewed the same day I submitted it, which was a very nice surprise and made me feel like my work was valued.
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- Providing prompt review of submissions is very motivating. Getting feedback from people more experienced is very useful, especially when phrased constructively and giving concrete improvement suggestions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greenhill54321 (talk • contribs) 15:03, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
Feedback from NeverTry4Me (15 July 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Pretty clear.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- Within an hour.
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- For the last few days, the page reviewers are being too fast. That's a great effort by them. My sincere thanks.
Feedback from NeverTry4Me (16 July 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Res, perfectly clear.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- Within a few hours.
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- Splendid efforts by the AfC reviewers. Many thanks to all of them.
Feedback from NeverTry4Me (17 July 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Very clear.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- It took a couple of days. But it's very normal for AfC submission.
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- DIVINE is doing splendidly to clear the backlogs. My sincere thanks to him. And of course, thanks to all reviewers for their precious times. All are doing very fast nowadays.
Feedback from NeverTry4Me (4 August 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Very clear.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- It took minimal time. Dwaipayan is very active in AfC review. They are handling Wikiproject WP:VILL too smoothly.
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- While WP:VILL is being handled very smoothly and quickly, some other categories are taking a long time. But it's ok as reviewers are doing volunteer here. Bigger drafts need a longer time as it needs to verify sources. I respect their efforts. My best regards
Feedback from Edward-Woodrow (12 August 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Moderately clear.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- Very quickly, I was quite impressed.
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- No. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Edward-Woodrow (talk • contribs) 19:44, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
Feedback from BrendaJaneF (17 August 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Yes
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- 10 days (draft created on 7 August 2022, accepted on 17 August 2022)
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- No, everything went smoothly. I like how the acceptance message on my talk page is written, especially the information about the class. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrendaJaneF (talk • contribs) 08:40, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Very well thank you
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- it took 1 year +
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- I really appreciate the voluntary efforts to review and create this article, however, I felt attacked by one of the editors I encountered in my difficult times trying to create and publish the article both in their comments and in trying so hard to get my efforts to create the article killed. I suggest that the friendly spaces rule be maintained as I was not paid or influenced to write the article. I was only trying to complete my 1Lib1Ref campaign assignment I started since 2020. I have the username of this editor and would make a formal report if I feel endangered by this user going forward. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Obuezie (talk • contribs) 20:21, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
- @S0091 thank you so much. I am getting the help I needed already AdaObuezie (talk) 21:21, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
- @Obuezie: We are volunteer editors and care deeply about how new editors are treated. You made an accusation that you
"felt attacked"
which seems strong language for an event you have not provided evidence for. Could you please explain? Chris Troutman (talk) 21:24, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
- @Obuezie: We are volunteer editors and care deeply about how new editors are treated. You made an accusation that you
- @S0091 thank you so much. I am getting the help I needed already AdaObuezie (talk) 21:21, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
@Chris troutman Please, kindly share an official email where I will make a formal report on that.Thank you AdaObuezie (talk) 21:32, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
- @Obuezie: We usually discuss matters of editor conduct on-wiki. If you want to send an email, please look at Wikipedia:Volunteer Response Team for contact information. Chris Troutman (talk) 21:35, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
@Chris troutman thank you for your assistance. I noticed that the comments I was referring to has been deleted for reasons best known to the executor. So I needed an email to send screenshots of my observations. That was why I requested for an email.I apologize, it wasn't to disrespect. Obuezie — Preceding unsigned comment added by Obuezie (talk • contribs) 21:58, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
Feedback from Djosefchak (20 September 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Limnopilos naiyanetri
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Yes! Everything was very straightforward. It took a little digging around through the tutorials but all of the info I needed was available.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- Within an hour
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- None — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djosefchak (talk • contribs) 18:17, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
Feedback from Qhqofficial2022 (3 October 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
yes
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
its take 2 weeks
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
Thank you very much for the introduction, I have made all the necessary changes according to your instructions and submitted the article.
- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qhqofficial2022 (talk • contribs) 22:38, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
- What was your submission?
- I submitted an article for Tommy Byars at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Byars.
- Did you find the instructions clear?
Because I am a lay person with no knowledge in writing an article, much less writing an article in Wikipedia language, it was difficult for me. I am a hands-on person; therefore, I am handicapped when it comes to reading and following instructions. I did not know the language, understand the templates, nor could I manuever around in Wikipedia easily with my disabilities and it was grueling; however, with perseverance, determination, asking questions and begging for help, I managed to find and get the help I needed as I crossed each brige, one at a time, and as things progressed. I am extremely thankful to the people that helped, revised and even critized what I had done, because I would not have managed to get the article where it has evolved today without their help. For this, I am intensely grateful.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- Extremely quick! I was expecting 4 months and it has only been a few weeks.
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- The only suggestion that I could think of would be to add a full page template laid out and outlined for an article where one could fill in the blanks and add their sources in the same template. This may be available on Wikipedia, but I have not found it yet. Also, I still have not figured out how to sign a post. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cjmodica (talk • contribs) 21:57, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- yes
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- around 30-45 days
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- sometime can't understand the process — Preceding unsigned comment added by MVD India (talk • contribs) 20:02, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
Feedback from Immanuelle (28 October 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
What instructions
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
145 days
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
Make reviews faster. The backlog makes it so an article with a clear and obvious flaw which can easily be fixed by an editor could end up getting submitted once, then rejected 145 days later with feedback, and then the editor immediately fixes it and submits it the next day and it takes 145 days (total 291 days) to get into article space.
Reject more articles if uncertain because a rejection after 5 days is more likely to lead to someone fixing it and submitting it again than a rejection after 145 days
Feedback from TransGobbledygook (5 November 2022)[edit]
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- Yes.
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- Three days.
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?
- No.
- What was your submission?
- Did you find the instructions clear?
- No
- How quickly was your submission reviewed?
- Slow
- Do you have any suggestions to improve the process?