User talk:Rafffan

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Happy editing! Cheers, Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 11:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Raffaello Degruttola (May 26)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Praxidicae were:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Raffaello Degruttola and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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PRAXIDICAE💕 15:36, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Rafffan! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! PRAXIDICAE💕 15:36, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Canvassing[edit]

It appears that you have been canvassing—leaving messages on a biased choice of users' talk pages to notify them of an ongoing community decision, debate, or vote—in order to influence Draft:Raffaello Degruttola. While friendly notices are allowed, they should be limited and nonpartisan in distribution and should reflect a neutral point of view. Please do not post notices which are indiscriminately cross-posted, which espouse a certain point of view or side of a debate, or which are selectively sent only to those who are believed to hold the same opinion as you. Remember to respect Wikipedia's principle of consensus-building by allowing decisions to reflect the prevailing opinion among the community at large. Thank you. Velella ^{Velella Talk} 15:41, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know @Velella. Rafffan (talk) 16:22, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also, please do not bite the newcomers @Velella Rafffan (talk) 11:52, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion[edit]

Just remember: just because your submission was declined, doesn't mean it's not good. They'll think nothing bad about it, so just go for it! And remember, if you have any questions about AfC, or anything else on Wikipedia, please message me on my talk page (or even here!) Cheers! Fake scientist 8000 19:47, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the motivation and support, I really appreciate it! :-)

I've been looking at other filmographies to understand what I missed in terms of citations and have added a few more. Do you know of any examples of what good looks like so I can check I'm on the right track?

Also, what gets this German page accepted but not the version I've created? Is the section on Contro Vento too wordy?

Lastly, the four tildes ~~~~ I don't fully understand the reason for using them! Rafffan (talk) 11:33, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize for the delay in responding to you. You are still quite new around here, but if you want the key on how to do good editing, I suggest using source mode (you are currently using Visual Editor, which I find unhelpful). By just hitting the reply button, it automatically adds your signature afterwards.

I also happened to notice that you thought that Velella was WP:BITEing you. They weren't. They just used certain tools that help with warning folks who happen to remove content/vandalise/disrupt Wikipedia. If you are autoconfirmed (aka 10+ days on WP, and 4 edits), then go to your Preferences tab and click "Twinkle". It really does help!

To answer your question about the German page, all WMF (Wikimedia Foundation) subsidaries (Wikipedia included!) have universal policies. However, each of them also have individual policies, guidelines, and manuals of styles. I will accept the good faith nomination: However, it will be orange tagged for extra verification.

REMEMBER: If you ever need to ask anything, ask me on my talk page (or even on WP:DISCORD, where I could help you further.) Cheers! Fake scientist 8000 14:44, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Raffaello Degruttola has been accepted[edit]

Raffaello Degruttola, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thanks again, and happy editing!

Cheers! Fake scientist 8000 15:13, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wonderful, thanks so much @Fakescientist8000 for your guidance and support. Onwards and upwards :-) Rafffan (talk) 16:03, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Rafffan Anytime. Remember, message me for anything! :) Cheers! Fake scientist 8000 16:04, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again! Praxidicae added an undisclosed paid tag to my article, which just is completely unfounded. Can I simply undo the edit seeing as it's incorrect? Rafffan (talk) 20:36, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

June 2022[edit]

Hello Rafffan. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Rafffan. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Rafffan|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. PRAXIDICAE💕 19:44, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. You are indeed mistaken, I'm not paid for this. Rafffan (talk) 19:47, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Then please explain your connection to Raffaello Degruttola and how this is your own work PRAXIDICAE💕 19:53, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm simply a fan who noticed pages didn't exist for Raffaello Degruttola. I asked for a photo for setting up his fan club 💕 Rafffan (talk) 19:55, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

And yet you uploaded it as your own work, and have only exclusively edited about him. What are we to believe, in light of your dishonesty about the copyright? PRAXIDICAE💕 19:56, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I may be a bit lost how it's dishonest if I was given the permission? Should I have sourced him? Please help me to understand the issue. Rafffan (talk) 19:58, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Permission from who exactly? And you uploaded it by selecting that you were the copyright holder and that you physically took it. Combined with your excessive editing about the subject in a promotional way, I'm not inclined to believe such a statement. PRAXIDICAE💕 20:00, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ah I see - it says "own work" - is that the problem? I need to name the photographer? I'm not dishonest. Just new. Rafffan (talk) 20:00, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't it best practice to link the pages when new ones are created? I feel like I'm missing some key pieces of info here. Rafffan (talk) 20:07, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Raffaello Degruttola for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Raffaello Degruttola is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Raffaello Degruttola until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

PRAXIDICAE🌈 23:50, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Skye Lucia Degruttola for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Skye Lucia Degruttola is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Skye Lucia Degruttola until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

–Davey2010^Talk 12:33, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]