User talk:CharlieDelta/Archive 5

tjay songwriter / producer deletion ??

Hi

It seems my wiki page is being considered for deletion ?

as even though he's contributed to a number 1 single, he has not gained notability independent of that event. CharlieDelta (talk) 10:33, 17 July 2011 (UTC) Italic text

Im quite offended tbh.. I have worked very hard in the industry i work in and am well respected..

Can you tell me more ?

thankyou

T.Jay

tjaysemail@yahoo.co.uk — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.7.61.64 (talk) 19:01, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi there. First thing: it's not personal, so please don't be offended. Wikipedia has pretty clear guidelines about what it considers makes an individual "notable" enough to have a stand alone biography here. The guidelines for biographies of musicians is here. The point I was referring to is this: "...members of notable bands are redirected to the band's article, not given individual articles, unless they have demonstrated individual notability for activity independent of the band, such as solo releases.". There are also very clear guidelines about the need for the text of biographies to be "verifiable" (see here). That means that article text must be supported by at least one reference from a "reliable source" which is independent of the subject of the article (so a personal website doesn't count. Nor do MySpace, Facebook or other sites where you or one of your representatives could have written the text). If you scroll down to the "Notability" section of the guidelines, you will find: "If no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article on it."

So, those are the principles. Before I nominated the article for deletion, I searched online for quite a while, looking for something I could use as a reliable source to support the text so that it could be saved from deletion. I couldn't find anything to tell me that a biography on you would meet either the "notability" or the "verifiability" guidelines. That doesn't mean that they don't exist - just that I couldn't find them. The purpose of tagging the article for deletion is that it then shows up on other lists and gives other people an opportunity to come and have a look and see whether they agree. There is usually a discussion and, eventually, an experienced editor with administrator privileges (not me) will come a long and make a final decision based on the community consensus.

If you can provide a link to something like a mainstream news/magazine review or article about your work which would count as a reliable source which supports the text in the article, that might be enough to get the deletion process stopped. If you have had a verifiable top chart single or album as a solo performer, that would also help. Since Wikipedia strongly advises people from editing articles about themselves (see here), you are welcome to post them here and I will add them to the article if they meet the criteria. Any questions on any of this, just post here.--CharlieDelta (talk) 06:04, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

BLP Prod

I confirm your results. Seemed best to go to AfD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/J.N. Paquet DGG ( talk ) 20:51, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

The Invisible Detective

As I supported your merge proposal and nobody else has commented, I have closed the discussion (Talk:The Invisible Detective#Merger proposal) and merged all the individual book articles into the single article for the series (The Invisible Detective). mooncow 20:07, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know.--CharlieDelta (talk) 06:51, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Question

Thank you for your assistance and the offer for help, this is new for me but something I have wanted to get involved in for quite a while. I was wondering about the article I had edited. It is indicated on it that there is an issue that it "may contain improper references to self-published sources", however there is a link to adamsliterary.com with a bio about the writer. Does this not qualify? Again I thank you for the help. Also is there a guide or some resources that are available for beginners? Thanks again, Dan DanJohnson2010 (talk) 13:38, 17 September 2011 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by DanJohnson2010 (talk • contribs) 13:27, 17 September 2011 (UTC)

Replied on your Talk page.--CharlieDelta (talk) 07:00, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Amish life in the modern world

Hi Charlie!, Great article that you wrote about the Amish life in the modern world - I used some of the material from your article for an article on [Modern conveniences].

Question for you: I see several citations for a Kraybill book from 2001 - but I'm not sure what book that might be. Here's a search that brought up several books. Could one of these be the book you referenced? I need it for a couple of references I have in the modern conveniences article. (I'll put this on my watchlist for the moment, so you can just respond here if you'd like).

Again, great and interesting article! Thanks!--CaroleHenson (talk) 03:22, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Replied on your Talk page--CharlieDelta (talk) 07:01, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I appreciate it!--CaroleHenson (talk) 07:12, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi, this is a translation from Spanish to English with the tools of Google Language. Pardon my low level of English. Currently I have two problems with the English Wikipedia. 1 - My English level is low 2 - I'm learning how to edit Wikipedia. Perhaps I have been too bold in creating a Wikipedia article before I learn how. Thank you for your help. People like you make me feel good. In the coming days I will add more data in the article "Jose Ramon Hinojosa Montalvo." Greetings from Burjassot in Valencia (Spain).--Sigfridosanjuan (talk) 07:35, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

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Arlonoson Ricol

I couldn't find anything either. I checked a couple of his opponents at random, and their articles didn't mention him at all. I've deleted it, with the proviso that if he comes up with RS for it, I will restore. As the only ghits were here, I'm not holding my breath. Peridon (talk) 19:32, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Just been told by the author that he's fictional.... Nice catch. Peridon (talk) 21:15, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Kai Lu

Hi, I'm the author of the wikipedia article entry for "Kai Lu (author)" which has been suggested for deletion. I have removed any arguably personal-opinions of the author and have left only quantifiable information. I believe that the subject of the article is notable as the author (Kai Lu) is well-known and respected in the LGBT community of West Hollywood not only for literary work but also for participation in pride events and charity functions. I am in the process of gathering more empirical evidence of the article subject (in addition to other notable LGBT community authors) and request that the deletion-nomination be removed because the person Kai Lu is indeed notable not only as an author but as a LGBT advocate. Thank you and I appreciate you looking at the article I've written :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Starsforminerva (talk • contribs) 21:02, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi. The article is being discussed in connection with deletion. You'd be better to post at the discussion, which is linked in the tag at the top. The nomination cannot be withdrawn except by the nominator (or one or two other things which don't apply here). Please sign talk and discussion pages with ~~~~ which adds your sig and a time/date stamp - and don't take the deletion tag off as you can get into trouble for doing that (it won't stop any part of the process anyway). Thanks. Peridon (talk) 21:12, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Hello, Starsforminerva, thanks for coming by to leave this message. Please don't get discouraged by the reaction to your first article and your attempts to fix it. The thing is that there are quite strict criteria for biographies of living people on Wikipedia, one of the main points being that the text must be verified with references to what are considered to be reliable sources. The edits you've recently made to the article certainly help arrive at a more neutral tone but the article is still lacking the necessary references. That's one of the really fundamental missing pieces. The other is whether the author reaches the general notability standard and the specific notability standard for authors. This basically requires for the author to have received a significant amount of non-trivial coverage, or to have won major awards. From what I can see (and I did spend quite a bit of time looking), Kai Lu is not yet at that point. If I'm mistaken and you can provide links to articles or other coverage which you feel establishes Kai's notability, please go ahead and add them and mention it at the Article for deletion discussion page. There are some other editors watching the article and the discussion now and anything you do to the article will be noticed. If you need help with this, just ask by posting a message below here. I will reply.

While that's going on, I suggest that you take some time to familiarise yourself with the basics of editing on Wikipedia. I've placed a "Welcome" message on your talk page, which contains links to a number of really helpful articles for new editors. If you have a particular interest in a certain area, it can help to join the editors at a specific subject project, where you will find like-minded editors (some of them very experienced) to whom you can turn for advice. Helping improve articles tagged for the Project is also a good way of learning the basic editing tools before you jump in to create a whole new article.--CharlieDelta (talk) 08:43, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Avinash Sachdev

Please see User talk:Alarob#Proposed deletion of Avinash Sachdev. — ℜob C. alias ÀLAROB 00:05, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Replied on your talk page.--CharlieDelta (talk) 00:18, 24 December 2011 (UTC)

Do what you like

Ncboy2010 (talk) 21:21, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Copyright question

Well if you look through the edit history of Gun laws in the United States (by state) you can see that the material in that article has been there a very long time (the North Carolina material was there in this version from 2009) and that the material has been built up piece-by-piece (this paragraph was added seperately from everything else in 2008, for instance). One useful tool for this kind of situation is the Internet Archive which shows what a web page looked like at various points in the past. If you give it this link it returns no results. If they're indexing that site (and they are) then that usually means the page is less than six months old. Furthermore if you look at that last link you can see that the pages on that site don't have any versions earlier than Jan 2010, so Wikipedia has had that material for longer than that site has existed. It's true they don't have the legally-mandated attribution to Wikipedia on their website, but lots of people who use Wikipedia content don't bother and enforcement is virtually nonexistent. Hut 8.5 12:00, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the step-by-step explanation of how to unearth this sort of information. Very helpful. I'll save it somewhere useful for the next time I need to do something similar. --CharlieDelta (talk) 12:27, 31 December 2011 (UTC)