User talk:Darren192

Deletion discussion about British Blues Exhibition
Hello, Darren192,

Welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username Elmidae and it's nice to meet you :-)

I wanted to let you know that I've started a discussion about whether an article that you created, British Blues Exhibition should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Articles for deletion/British Blues Exhibition.

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Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:58, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

. Hello Elmidae, darren192 replying. It's nice to meet you too. Thank you for starting this process off. It's my article and indeed my project, but I'm not going to complain about Wikipedia doing a good job of reviewing itself. With (often inaccurate) claims of fake news about Wikipedia needs to be authentic and accurate and I take this seriously. As to the exhibition itself, it has existed for about 5 years, and has ben referred to in the publications mentioned - but in print, so no link exists. John Mayall is also a significant figure in music and would not register his support on his website without the exhibition being real. You can see on the exhibition Facebook images from Cranleigh Arts Centre and earlier displays as well, and behind the scenes agreement has been reached to have the exhibition appear at the Barbican Centre Music Library in London next year, which will attract good verifiable press and be on their online presence. If the Wiki review does lead to removal of the article, once the Barbican is announced I would hope it can be restored. Please also note it is referred to by the UK Blues Federation, an official body for British Blues, here, https://www.ukblues.org/online/. Darren192 (talk) 22:25, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, it wasn't my intention to insinuate that the exhibition doesn't exist - but it may not have received the amount of coverage that we require to assert that a topic has sufficient notability, in the rather narrow Wikipedia sense (i.e., the Real World must have written about it at some length in reliable publications).
 * If you think that the added sources do constitute solid, in-depth coverage by reliable publications, then I would encourage you to make that point at the discussion I have started - Articles for deletion/British Blues Exhibition - because that's where the thing will eventually be assessed. You might also want to summarize what the sources say about the exhibition and whether they constitute dedicated coverage - that would be the best material.
 * Note that reliable sources do not need to be online; print is fine, as long as the material is theoretically findable by an inquisitive reader. This means that issue, page, author etc. need to be provided. As for the content of sources that can't easily be checked online by a random editor like me, WP assumes good faith on part of its contributors unless proven otherwise :) Cheers -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 22:59, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

. Thank you once more, I'll need to work out how to contribute to the discussion you started. I can bring up some evidence in the way you suggest, albeit some of the print is somewhat hard to locate in a less organised filing part of the exhibition content! I do, I think, understand the reasoning behind the approach taken by you and editors as a whole and as I said earlier, I appreciate it, even if this article ends up coming off till the Barbican publicity gives it more notability. Grateful if you could indicate any idea of how long it would be for the review process to take (whether I contribute as intended or not). If you happen to be UK-based yourself, consider yourself invited to the exhibition when at the Barbican (it will be free-entry in any case). Darren192 (talk) 23:32, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
 * To add something to the discussion, just pop in an addition at the bottom of the page. Convention in deletion discussions is to preface this with either your assessment - "Keep", "Delete", "Redirect" etc. - or a "comment". Particularly if you as the author are presenting sources for consideration, I would suggest placing a comment, starting off with * Comment - your text, which will place a fat bullet point. The discussion should remain open for at least a week, longer if the outcome is unclear. - Not in the UK at the moment, inconveniently, but in the Midwest by way of South Africa and New Zealand... postdocs get shuttled around :) -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 00:43, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Add: If things get deleted and notability demonstrably changes later on, as might be the case here, there's no barrier to recreation. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 00:45, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Billy Walton concern
Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Billy Walton, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Your draft article, Draft:Billy Walton


Hello, Darren192. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Billy Walton".

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! JMHamo (talk) 08:26, 28 April 2020 (UTC)