User talk:Mabalu/Archives/2015/July

Rayne (shoe company)
Hi Mabalu, would you mind taking a look at this page when you get a moment. I don't want to be precious, but an editor has made a whole host of changes; mostly unsourced from what I can see and some rather gushing. No edit summaries and the page also looks rather a mess due to some formatting and wikilinking issues. It might take rather a while to unweave what has been done (I don't have rollback), but I'd like a second eye on it anyway just to gauge best course. Thanks. Libby norman (talk) 18:12, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Of course. I've had a quick look and will get onto this as soon as I'm home as I saw quite a few alarm bells. Mabalu (talk) 20:05, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Some elements looked interesting and the article should be developed, but such a wholesale raft of changes with no edit summaries, no citations, material likely to be challenged and all the formatting issues left behind is likely to be flagged – especially when a company has recently been relaunched – as lacking neutrality. Thanks again. Libby norman (talk) 22:25, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I've already had cause to speak to this person about their Norman Hartnell edits in the past - I am just posting on their Talk Page. Mabalu (talk) 22:28, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Tetteh Plahar
Hello Mabalu sorry for bothering you once again. I found some sources for citations and wanted you to look at them if with those sources the speedy deletion tag could be removed.If you read this article from Ghana's leading newspaper a very popular actor in Ghana metions and upcoming project he was working on with Tetteh Plahar.Again this article too mentions Tetteh as a trainer for a very popular fashion designerarticle. I have added others too and his external links to buttress my points. Whatever the situation I will still respect your decision based on your discretion and I will still do my possible best to improve it. Thanks for your time. Regards.--Rberchie (talk) 22:14, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Hello Mabalu I added some references please check it out out for me if with these it meets the notability rule and if it could be moved back to mainstream Wikipedia.Regards--Rberchie (talk) 20:32, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Rberchie - Honestly? I'm afraid the answer is still no. Here is why not:

"Tetteh Phahar is a Ghanaian fashion designer who produced a line of clothing for Van Vicker."
 * I could not get the Graphic Showbiz/Mirror articles to load as the URLS just went to the main page and not to stories. So I cannot gauge those as sources. If I cannot view them, then nor can anyone else.
 * The three references that did load all just say he produced a clothing line with Van Vicker, using almost identical phrasing in each: "a new personality clothing line produced by Tetteh Plahar." That is far from sufficient sourcing.
 * EVERY claim and statement in an autobiographical article on a living person MUST be supported by a reliable source that is not affiliated with the subhject. If nobody has bothered to cover Plahar at length or in depth, then he does not meet Wikipedia notability requirements. Currently, the only article on him that could be created with the provided sources would read:


 * Everything else would need to be deleted as it is unsourced. This is nowhere near enough for a Wikipedia article. Plahar needs to be written about by reliable, unaffiliated third parties in depth and to get his work properly discussed and recognised. Currently, although Plahar may be successful, there is no evidence that he is notable enough for an article. I'm really sorry to disappoint, but I hope you understand. Mabalu (talk) 22:00, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Mabalu I am always ready to learn and also ready to abide all rules. I wanted to ask for citations in Showbiz and Mirror if I get a copy and scan and add to the references will it solve the problem of its inacessibility?What I have realized is most journals in Ghana went online no long ago and as such some news items that were captured prior to this evolution cannot be accessed online. Lastly can the article exist as a stub on mainstream Wikipedia? Let me know thanks once again. Regards--Rberchie (talk) 20:00, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
 * The problem with the scanned articles would be that you can't upload the scans as they would still be under copyright. As Tetteh Plahar has already been deleted at Articles for Deletion, anyone looking at a re-created article will want to see REALLY good evidence for notability, and will be very sceptical about anything offline or that cannot be easily viewed. The best advice I can give you is to hope that Plahar gets written about in depth (and not simply through reproduced press releases) in good online sources, in order to demonstrate his notability. At this point I cannot in good faith encourage you to post even a stub article for him - if he is to have an article on here, good sourcing and easily-checked citations are essential. Mabalu (talk) 21:42, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Pigache
I was surprised not to find any images on commons for this or the plural form pigaciae (which I hope I am spelling correctly) on Commons. I think I recall seeing images of this fashion statement in paintings from the period. Any idea on where I can find a suitable illustration? Fashion articles without images are sort of vulgar. :) Wikiombudsman (talk) 18:56, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I'll have to have a look round and see what I can find. Mabalu (talk) 18:57, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I just found the existing article Crakow (shoe), so perhaps it's all the same thing? I will investigate when I have some time. Thanks for all your help. Wikiombudsman (talk) 19:11, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Jigsaw
Hi Mabalu, just flagging up that I'm checking out Jigsaw on its dates after you removed the cat. Currently, the article contradicts itself in the article and cats as the article says it was started in 1969. Unfortunately, article refs aren't very helpful on this. Do we need to remove 1960s from the article for now as 1972 appears in a source (DT ref), although whether that is the foundation of the company or the opening of the first store I'm not sure. Libby norman (talk) 09:35, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Actually I think a 1969 date doesn't really count as 1960s fashion, as it's right at the very end of the decade. To be honest, I don't like seeing more than three consecutive decade categories in a row in categoroes as it looks excessive and bloated to me. If something has been enduringly popular over a 30+ year period then it's pretty obviously a fashion of the century rather than decade or two in my opinion. But that is my persoal opinion. Mabalu (talk) 10:27, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Aha. Looks like an anonymous ISP editor sneakily changed the date in the article without a summary or support for this. Undone that. Mabalu (talk) 10:29, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks Mabalu. I know what you mean about the decade categories – I've never been quite sure on them, so may go back and tweak. Up to now, I've tended to include every decade someone/a brand was in business. This is not especially useful if they were just a minor player or teetering along and it might be more useful for fashion purposes to restrict to the decades when something or someone was particularly influential/active. Libby norman (talk) 12:40, 14 July 2015 (UTC)