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Heather Howitt article
hi I edited the article a little. Heather Howitt Could you let me know if there is anything I need to do for notability? I did the article because Heather Howitt is the main founder of the company Oregon Chai which has a wikipedia article. Tk8kpgt (talk) 05:47, 9 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Hello, . The draft at User:Tk8kpgt/sandbox/Heather Howitt does not cite references which would demonstrate Ms. Howitt's notability (as Wikipedia defines that term). You should find three or more newspaper or magazine articles about Ms. Howitt (that are not interviews with her or her immediate family) and use those to cite information for the article. (The book you cite does not count towards notability because it was co-written by Heather Howitt and is thus not an independent source.) If you can't find any such articles, then Wikipedia cannot have an article about her. — GrammarFascist  contribs talk 13:24, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello I found 3 news articles and cited them here at the end of the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tk8kpgt/sandbox/Heather_Howitt I'd need help with formatting them properly into the article.  Could you let me know if this is adequate for an article?Tk8kpgt (talk) 12:47, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello again,. The Portland Business Journal piece is an interview, which as I said does not go to notability, and as a primary source it is not preferred for verifying content that should be covered by a secondary source. [REDACTED - on blacklist, bot can't archive] source, by contrast, is a tertiary source; I've posted about it over at Reliable sources/Noticeboard. Finally, even though it is not in interview format, some editors may consider too much of the Oregon Business article to have come from Ms. Hewitt for it to be appropriately independent of her.
 * Don't be too discouraged, though; the Reference for Business page lists its own references, which mostly look promising. Only a couple of them seem to be online, but if you can get paper copies, perhaps from a library archive, the rest would be usable too. You can check whether the articles listed are online by searching on the article title, with quotation marks, on Google. You've got more work ahead, but you've made significant progress by finding the Reference for Business page which, even if it turns out not to be a reliable source, has still given us leads on more secondary sources to use. Keep me posted on what you find, and I'll let you know what the consensus at the noticeboard is once it develops. — GrammarFascist  contribs talk 13:31, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for this. Makes sense.  It looks like the Reference For Business article was taken from Encyclopedia.com   All of the articles in the reference section are unavailable on the Internet.  Even the MSNBC Power Lunch television interview with Heather is not available on the Internet.  All are from 1995-1998.  Would it be possible to cite the Encyclopedia.com references for the wikipedia article?  What I put in Heather's article is in the Encyclopedia.com article...so the 5-6 references would cover everything that I put in the wikipedia article Tk8kpgt (talk) 03:31, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello again, . I think at this time I want to move this discussion to the draft talk page, because I am going to go through all the sources listed on both the Reference for Business page and the encyclopedia.com article (there's some overlap but also some unique to one or the other) (sorry, I could've sworn they were different; I guess I didn't get enough sleep last night?) and list, for each one, whether it's available online and, if so, if it can be used to support Ms. Howitt's notability. See you there! — GrammarFascist  contribs talk 22:17, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi GrammarFascist thought I'd check if everything is alright with the article. I added some Talk discussion but then removed some of what I added because it was irrelevant.  Your additions to the article are very helpful and read really nicely. Tk8kpgt (talk) 02:50, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi GrammarFascist thank you for your recent comments on the process with this article and for restructuring it. I tried my best but couldn't figure out, in your absence, what was being asked for. Tk8kpgt (talk) 14:19, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi thought I'd check how things are going with the article.....it became more complicated than I ever thought.....I'm curious if it will pass as an article, or what needs to be done.......thank you for your help with this. I'm at a loss 'bout what to do myself. Tk8kpgt (talk) 05:24, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello, . Sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner. I still think the draft should be able to graduate to article status eventually, it just takes time for the editors working on the article to reach consensus with the editors reviewing the article about what the article should look like. On Wikipedia, there is no deadline. My "IRL" life has gotten very busy over the past month or so, but I'll try to have another look at the draft this weekend. — GrammarFascist  contribs talk 04:59, 25 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi GrammerFascist, looks like a failure. I tried everything I can, I'm inexperienced, and you also tried many things, but the article has been declined by the 2 editors involved.  3 months now with the process......seems like 3 months about.  Anyway i suppose it's a failure?  i can't keep checking on this week after week, month after month.  Please help if you can. Tk8kpgt (talk) 06:33, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

I did a Talk page comment at the article at the bottom asking if anyone else can assist, seems your busy with a lot of other things, it's been difficult with months going by, I'm in need of someone like you (experienced Wikipedia editor), could you ask anyone if they have time, thanks much. Tk8kpgt (talk) 22:49, 15 December 2017 (UTC)

Past Article
Hi GrammarFascist sorry did you give up on helping me with my article on Heather Howitt ? I thought you were the lead help with it? Months and months wasted now? Could you finish up helping so it's over? Tk8kpgt (talk) 09:24, 11 January 2018 (UTC)