User talk:Rentsch42

Help me!
Please help me with... I have been requested to create a Wikipedia article about Jonathan Dorn, he is a living tubist. There is an existing article for him on the German site https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Dorn If I search on the English Wikipedia, Jonathan Dorn does not appear. How do I proceed? 1) can the existing German article be made accessible in English? Then I can edit it? or 2) Do I create a new article in English? Thank you! Rentsch42 (talk) 15:28, 9 January 2023 (UTC)


 * You would need to create a new English article, either from scratch or by translating the German article, assuming it meets the standards of the English Wikipedia. To establish notability you'll need a number of in-depth secondary references from reliable sources with editorial oversight which are independent of the subject. The sources need not be in English, although if there are English sources it would be good to use them. Geordie (talk) 16:06, 9 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Here are some more pieces of information which I hope will be helpful to you.


 * First of all, you say you have been requested to create an article. Who has requested it? If the person making the request is Jonathan Dorn or anyone connected to him or associated with him, then you need to read Wikipedia's conflict of interest guideline before you do any editing about him.
 * If you are being paid to write the article you must make a disclosure of paid editing. This applies if doing so is part of your work in a a paid job, even if you are not being paid a specific fee for writing the article.
 * One of the things which the conflict of interest guideline says is that you should not create an article about a person you have a connection to yourself, but should create a draft, and submit it for review as a possible article for creation. In fact you would be well advised to do that even if you are not subject to the conflict of interest guideline, because many new editors who go straight into creating new articles, without previous experience of editing Wikipedia, create articles which are not considered suitable, and which get deleted.
 * My advice to new editors is that it is best to start by making small improvements to existing articles, rather than creating new articles. That way any mistakes you make will be small ones, and you won't have the discouraging experience of repeatedly seeing hours of work deleted. Gradually, you will get to learn how Wikipedia works, and after a while you will know enough about what is acceptable to be able to write whole new articles without fear that they will be deleted. Over the years I have found that editors who start by making small changes to existing articles and work up from there have a far better chance of having a successful time here than those who jump right into creating new articles from the start. Probably that advice won't appeal to you if your only interest is in creating an article about Jonathan Dorn, but I offer it to you anyway.
 * You may post a translation of the German article if you like, but if so you must state in an edit summary that you are doing so, in order to comply with Wikipedia's copyright licensing terms. If you do start with a translation of the German article then you are perfectly free to edit it. Alternatively you can start a new English article from scratch. I can't read German, so I can't tell how good the German article is, but if it's a reasonably good article then starting with that is likely to be a good way to go.
 * Information on how to create a draft article and submit it for review is at Articles for creation. Information on some of the other points I have mentioned are either in the conflict of interest guideline, which I have linked to above, or in other pages which that guideline links to. JBW (talk) 16:18, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
 * thank you! Lots of good information here.  I think I will start a new English article from scratch.  I am not connected or associated with Jonathan Dorn, but I do have an interest in documenting his life as a tubist. Rentsch42 (talk) 20:40, 9 January 2023 (UTC)