User talk:Brinley.knowles

Your submission at Articles for creation: Memory of Nations Archive (June 14)
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78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 13:57, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Memory of Nations Archive (June 16)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Legacypac was:

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Legacypac (talk) 01:59, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Disclosure of employment
Hello Brinley.knowles. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Draft:Memory of Nations Archive, and that 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Brinley.knowles. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:12, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Disclosure of employment reponse
@Drm310 I am an unpaid intern. Do I still need to disclose? -Brinley.knowles User:Brinley.knowles

AfC notification: Draft:Jiřina Tvrdíková has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Jiřina Tvrdíková. Thanks! -- RoySmith (talk) 23:49, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia conventions
Hi Brinley, thanks for all your recent contributions to Wikipedia, it's really interesting stuff that I am enjoying reading. I have a couple of suggestions, some minor, some more important, for the contributions you make in future:


 * 1) By convention, dates are written as "1 January 2018" or "January 1, 2018" on Wikipedia, no need to include "1st.." etc.
 * 2) The Wikipedia Manual of Style requests putting references after the punctuation, rather than before it . It's a small thing, but it will create quite a lot of work cumulatively for copyeditors!
 * 3) When adding references, the |website= parameter should if possible be the name of the website ie. "Memory of Nations" rather than the url. Then the |title= parameter should be the name of just the page, rather than the website. This makes it much easier for readers to interpret the reference.
 * 4) If you create a page, be sure to add to the talk page, to bring the article to the attention of other interested users. (Obviously if the article is about a different topic then use a different WikiProject!

Two more major things:
 * I understand that many of your contributions are based on the Memory of Nations oral history archive. However, some of the material included in such sources is not generally considered "encyclopaedic" by the wikipedia community. For example on Toman Brod you write: "Before World War II, Brod considered himself to be a regular Czech boy. After the Munich Agreement and the Nuremberg Laws, he felt like he didn’t belong anywhere. As it got harder and harder for Jewish people to do everyday activities, the Brods received help from their longtime cook, Anna Kopska, and some other Christians. In 1940, they believed the war would end soon and everything would go back to normal. This was sadly not so." This is fine for a journalistic profile, but I would say it violates wikipedia guidelines about writing in a neutral and objective style. Words like "sadly" and "unfortunately", among many others, are inherently subjective, and should be avoided. I will edit the rest of that article now to give you an idea how the text on wikipedia usually looks, but please bear that in mind for you future contributions.
 * The other big problem is that a lot of your contributions are based on primary sources. Primary sources can be ok for sourcing specific information, but the big problem in a wikipedia context is that secondary sources are the main way that we establish notability. The fact that someone is a holocaust survivor or a victim of communism and has spoken about it to an organisation does not alone mean they pass the threshold of notability to have a wikipedia article, they need to have been covered in secondary sources. I'm not going to be nominating any such articles for deletion because I do other stuff, but be aware that other users may well do so if the article doesn't clearly establish grounds for notability, ie. include secondary sources.

Thanks, and happy editing! :) Jdcooper (talk) 15:03, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Jiřina Tvrdíková (August 1)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Ravenswing was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

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 when they have been resolved.


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  Ravenswing   19:22, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Draft:Jiřina Tvrdíková


Hello, Brinley.knowles. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, Draft:Jiřina Tvrdíková.

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 03:13, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Memory of Nations Archive


Hello, Brinley.knowles. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Memory of Nations Archive".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Cpt Viraj  (Talk) 12:41, 6 June 2019 (UTC)