User talk:Researchdata99

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"Greetings! Marked Philippides of Paiania as reviewed. You might consider linking to the specific Olympiodoros you refer to, and/or create that article if it doesn't exist yet?"

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Elmidae (talk · contribs) 13:05, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Lourett Russell Grant


The article Lourett Russell Grant has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp/dated tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. Cordless Larry (talk) 08:10, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Help me!
ResearchData575. how do I validate an article with news clippings which are not available online with a url?

Please help me with...

Researchdata99 (talk) 20:21, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * It's not a requirement that sources be online. The citation just has to give sufficient bibliographical information about the publication for someone to be able to look it up. This means that just "clippings", without identification of the newspaper or magazine they were clipped from, can't be used. You would also want to provide a publication date. See WP:Offline sources.  &mdash; jmcgnh  (talk) (contribs)  20:43, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Help me!
I want to use a newspaper a reference but I don't understand all the questions asked in the cite news form. Can someone help me. Most are just directing me to a link and I don't have much time to validate the artist that was on a ticle. It is a singer that was on a disco billboard chart. I have the exact date but I still don't understand the question on the citation. Please can't someone follow through with me until I get this right. I would really be grateful. researchdata575Researchdata99 (talk)

Researchdata99 (talk) 04:30, 12 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Not every field has to be filled in:
 * Last name - of author - you can leave this blank if there's no author
 * First name - of author - you can leave this blank if there's no author
 * Green plus sign: click on this to add additional fields for additional authors
 * Title - Title of article. Sentence case is preferred, but title case okay. All-caps is not okay.
 * URL - your clippings don't have a URL
 * Access date - without a URL, you can't have an access date
 * Work - name of the newspaper or magazine
 * Agency- if there's a distribution network, like AP or Reuters, I think it would go here, but you can leave blank
 * Issue - newspapers don't usually have an "issue", but magazines and journals may
 * Publisher - sometimes it's necessary to list a publisher separate from the name of the publication, but you don't need to fill this in
 * Date - publication date in the format appropriate for the article or yyyy-mm-dd, which is always acceptable; month and year for monthly magazine, etc.
 * Ref - you can leave this blank
 * Ref name - the only reason you'd need to fill this in is if you wanted to cite this article in more than one place; it's a name you make up, but should be fairly short, can relate to the author, date, subject; name should be unique within the scope of the page you are editing
 * Ref group - you can leave this blank


 * Hope this is helpful.  &mdash; jmcgnh  (talk) (contribs)  06:44, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Hot to Trot (December 27)
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KJP1 (talk) 10:05, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Philippides (prosecuted by Hypereides) (January 11)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SeraphWiki was:

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SeraphWiki (talk) 10:14, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Olympiodoros Military leader, bronze original in 280 B.C.jpg


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Reliable sources and significant content
Hi, Researchdata99. Your additons to Cleopatra have now been reverted twice. It might help if you were to carefully read Wikipedia's advice and policies on reliable sources, especially for Good and Featured articles. Unfortunately, your sources were adequate for the content you added, but the content itself was not adequate or appropriate. I strongy recommend that you read up on these issues before you consider adding the same content, or content based on critiques or comments about the same dancer. Thanks for reading this, Haploidavey (talk) 07:35, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Layla Taj
Hi again. You appear to be trying to publicize Layla Taj by inserting statements about her and images of her dancing or photos of her impersonations in articles that essentially have nothing to do with her; for example, her impersonations of Nefertiti and Cleopatra VII. Please don't. Thanks, Haploidavey (talk) 08:42, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

With reference to some of the text you've added, very little of it seems supported by the sources you've used; some of it seems to reflect only personal opinion, and has no support or commentary from any independednt, secondary or scholarly source. Please read WP:Peacock. Haploidavey (talk) 08:52, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

We also should not depend on self-review, reviews at web-sites hostd by the subject, self-promotion by the subject or sites where by other editors promote sales of a subject's works (See Salome, and Dance of the Seven Veils). Haploidavey (talk) 12:19, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Promotional
The sources used for the Layla Taj article are almost all promotional press-releases, notifying the public of planned performances (and the performer's background) before the performances themselves, based on what the subject says about themselves, plus embellishments by the Wikipedia editor. The subject's web-site offers videos for sale. At least one source is actually a blog, and is misused; the article text has "Some have noted that Taj's bloodline of ancient Greek nobility is justification for her depiction." In the blog, it's not "some", and it's not a justification. It's an observation that Taj's performance as Cleopatra is the only one by an Egyptian that the blogger (Abdi Ferdosa) knows of.

Wikipedia doesn't usually allow blogs as sources (see WP:Blog - not even when a very positive comment is made in response to that tiny part of the blog pertaining to Taj, just 2 days before the access date given by the WP editor. Haploidavey (talk) 06:23, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

I've left the same information on Talk:Layla Taj. Haploidavey (talk) 06:48, 11 August 2021 (UTC)