User talk:KnightCrown

June 2018
Hello, I'm Greyjoy. I noticed that you recently removed content from Reza Deghati without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks.  Grey joy talk 12:54, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your comment. I'm trying to add some info, text and links to this article. Please let me finish the editing and we can discuss what I added. I'm trying to combine the existing article and the infos I have without taking out what was already done. Thanks in advance for your help and cooperation.

I finished my editing I probably have some work to do to make the structure more wikipedia friendly and for that I might need your help. What I'm trying to do here is to develop this article without taking out anyone's contribution. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 15:13, 26 June 2018 (talk • contribs) KnightCrown (UTC)


 * You have a lot of work to do. I am sure we both agree that Reza deserves a good biography. One problem you have are that you are linking out of English Wikipedia in the article text. This is not allowed. You can link to an external page in a citation, but not directly in the text. Some of the links can be used as citations, but not all of them. You have added 65 external links to the article text.
 * Some examples copied from the article and comments below:
 * - 1) In 2009, after training 1,000 Afghans, including Massoud Hossaini, Pulitzer Prize 2012, the association became completely independent and Afghan-led.
 * - 2) By founding the non-profit organization Reza Visual Academy
 * - 3) His photographs are testimony to the chaos of war
 * - 4) The following year, Reza co-founded in Paris, with his wife Rachel Deghati, a writer, a studio around the image and words, the agency Webistan.


 * Comments


 * Problems that need to be solved:
 * a) To use a webpage as a citation the page needs to cover what is said in the article. In example no 1 and 4 pages do not document the text they belong to.
 * b) In example no 2 the link goes to Wikipedia in French. Links in the article text should go to Wikipedia in English. In addition the article does not exist in French.
 * c) In example no 3 and 4 the links are dead, the pages does not exist.
 * d) No 4, the text should not link to the main page of Webistan, this looks like advertising and the mainpage proves the website exists, but is not relevant to Reza's biography.
 * e) - As well as not looking good with all the CAPS LOCS, the section https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reza_Deghati&oldid=847650393#Conferences_and_Workshops and the following sections does not seem to be relevant. Having held one lecture someplace in the world is rarely relevant in a biography.


 * Some of what you need to do.
 * - All of the 65 external links you have added to the text needs to be removed. Some of them can be of use, see below.
 * - The external links that have value as citations, i.e. says something about Reza and documents the text in the article can be converted to citations.
 * - If you look at this version, section Exhibitions, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reza_Deghati&oldid=845018285#Exhibitions, you can see what I did to make citations in the section and what they look like. You click on Cite above the edit window and chose templates. You need the template "cite web". A citation should contain: author, title of page/article, publisher, date published, url-adress and the date you visited the page (retrieved) as a minimum.
 * - Webpages you use as a citation should be reliable and not "any old blog". This is why we prefer proper newspaper articles written by journalists in for instance Washington post or The Times or papers like them and pages that are more like a letter to the editor or a blog by a fairly unknown person.
 * - Please go through the article and remove all the links that either go nowhere or does not mention Reza Deghati. Then check what is left for content and that they actually verify the sentence they are connected to.
 * - When you have identified the web-pages that are useful as a citation, please convert them to citations.
 * - I can help with questions as you work, but I regret to say, I do not have the capacity to check 65 links and convert the useful ones to citations. I will answer as fast as my time allowes. Good luck with the work. --ツツDyveldi ☯ prat  ✉ post 21:31, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for your recent edits in the article. Much appreciated . I will take a closer look, but probably not till after the weekend. I will try to explain what now needs to be done and show you how. You have done very well so far and we all know it is not easy to be a newbe (new to editing in Wikipedia). All of us were new once so we do know. There is a lot to learn, but you are showing you are learning fast. Regards --ツツDyveldi ☯ prat  ✉ post 20:48, 28 June 2018 (UTC)