User talk:LilysBees

I need to ask the creator of the "Logan Family" page about solving some of the issues with the page, it is said to have several problems, including whether the subject meets criteria to even exist (notability, IIRC). I believe it does, and that it would be very useful to link it to the main page for the American daytime serial, CBS's "The Bold and the Beautiful". This is a show that has existed for 30 years, 31 on 23 March, 2018, so it is surely notable. I feel like changing the title or linking/merging "The Logan Family" with the main B&B page would resolve - or help resolve - this "notable" issue. Does anyone have any thoughts? It looks like the issues have been there for almost a decade, so I hope we can fix them soon. Forgive my newbie-ness, I hope I am going to sign this correctly!

LilysBees (talk) 10:41, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, LilysBees. Here are a few comments which I hope may be helpful to you.


 * 1) You were lucky that I noticed your message here. I saw it because I was checking new pages created by new editors, but it could easily have been that nobody saw it at all. If you post a message on your talk page inviting answers from anyone, put  above your message. That will cause your talk page to be added to a list of pages where editors are asking for help, and sooner or later someone will come along to answer it. (It may take a while, though.)
 * 2) Actually, in a situation like this, where you want comments relating to a particular article, it is better to put it on the talk page of the article, in this case Talk:Logan family. You can still use  if you want to, and in this case I would recommend doing so, as that talk page gets very little attention: the last edit by a human editor (as opposed to a computer program) was in December 2009.
 * 3) The creator of this article has not edited at all since March 2010, so there's not much chance of contacting him or her. However, the editor who created an article does not in any sense own it, and he or she has no more relevance to it than anyone else who has edited it, so even if that editor were still active, it would make more sense to make a general request for help from anyone than contacting that particular editor.
 * 4) If you ever do want to contact the editor who created a page, here is how to do it. Click on the "view history" link at the top of the page to see a list of the edits to the page. If there have been more than 50 edits, they won't all fit onto the page listing them, so click on the blue link that says "oldest" to find the earliest edits. At the very bottom of the list you will see the user name of the editor who created the page, together with a link to that editor's talk page.
 * 5) On the subject of notability, I agree with you that the subject is notable. What is more, it's not just you and me who think that: an editor nominated the article for deletion back in 2009, and as you can see at Articles for deletion/Logan Family if you are interested, there was an overwhelming consensus that it should be kept, which would not have happened if most of the people in the discussion had not thought the subject notable. I shall remove the notability tag.

There are many other things I could say that might be helpful to you, but I don't have time now. I hope these few points will help you, though. I suggest you go to the article's talk page to ask for help with the other issues you have raised. I am also posting (below) a notice with links to various Wikipedia policies, guidelines, and information pages. Don't try to read and absorb all of them before you do any more editing, as there is far too much there, but do have a look to see if anything there is helpful to you, and of course you can always come back to them in in future if other things become relevant. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 15:03, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

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