User talk:RDASmith

(Wikipedia) Notability
Hi RDASmith. You've recently created a couple of biographical articles, which share the same issue: lack of significant quantities of reliably sourced evidence that the article subjects meet either general or author-specific notability guidelines. Sufficient reliably sourced reviews (ie: not Amazon user reviews, etc) or other qualitative coverage of their books would also suffice to justify an article if independent biographical coverage is scarce. Their own works are primary sources and can only be used for limited purposes. I've not been able to see much that's at all usable on a quick look, but there may well be reviews and other coverage in offline or walled-off print sources. For new articles with sourcing difficulties, you can create these in your userspace or in draftspace (but the latter risks deletion after 6 months without edits). Thanks, ~Hydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)~ 10:29, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Many thanks Hydronium. There are very many printed reviews of the Gordons' lives and works. I will add them progressively; I had just made a very basic start. There is much less commentary available for Catherine Ives, but the books were influential and the Beaton cover is a significant early work of his; I'll add what I have. Thanks again.RDASmith (talk) 04:40, 1 January 2019 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, RDASmith, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


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Jan and Cora Gordon
Hi there and welcome to Wikipedia. Thanks for your creation of Jan and Cora Gordon. I'm sending you a brief note as some productive and well-meaning advice. The article needs some significant work that I will get to shortly. In the interim, my suggestion to you, before publishing an article is to create the article in your sandbox and then when you feel it is ready for publishing, you can submit that article for review via AfC. This process is really easy and it enables an experienced editor to review your article and provide feedback to you directly prior to its publication. It will also help with individual curation of your early edits and help guide you to create better articles in the weeks and months ahead. As you become more experienced you can bypass this process and publish directly. Anyway, welcome and thanks again for the contribution. Rangasyd (talk) 15:53, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the tip. RDASmith (talk) 04:40, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * and wow, there are some fabulous additions by others already. I'm very impressed. RDASmith (talk) 04:42, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * A pleasure. Happy to help or provide advice where I can...... and the 'fabulous additions' are all by me! :) Rangasyd (talk) 13:56, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * My thanks!RDASmith (talk) 13:42, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, RDASmith. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
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 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 01:08, 24 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you Mr. Ollie, there is no conflict of interest here and no organization represented. The article can certainly be made less abstract-like and will benefit from non-copyrighted graphics (I have some). Scale transitions and links to representative elementary volumes (REV) will be added. It's a fascinating and important area of quantitative description of the Earth's sedimentary systems. RDASmith (talk) 12:56, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
 * The majority of the citations were to yourself - that is a COI. MrOllie (talk) 14:05, 24 February 2023 (UTC)