User talk:Severenika

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Hello, Severenika, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Dahlia Lynley-Chivers. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Reaper Eternal (talk) 14:17, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
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In need for help! Or consolation.
Thanx for welcoming me. Now I need at least a comment, though I'd prefer some advice. The problem stays the same: my Dahlia Lynley-Chivers article stays pending after almost 7 days. So I wonder what else can I do to get it accepted (I've added quotations, references, pronunciation and more factual information and run out of ideas). Dahlia really is an important character in the Southern Vampire Mysteries and she can't be described through Sookie because in the Dahlia's stories another (both geographically and personally) perspective is represented. Probably I shouldn't worry and should just wait patiently. But it's my fist article, so I can't. There's also the question of uploading an image. Would someone, please, help me with it? The image in question is the one with the link in the "character box" (http://i.usatoday.net/life/_photos/2011/02/10/daylightx-large.jpg) Thank you in advance Severenika (talk) 19:25, 8 September 2011 (UTC) I'll try my best to help you   :)      Sorry but it appears to be a non-ecyclpediaic article and needs expert help but it's best to try an other article, sorry.

Picture: What about it?

Hope I helped, Bobherry (talk) 21:03, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

P.S. Sorry about spelling my hands hurt. Also I have no clue why it's making boxes.

Nomination of Deadlocked (novel) for deletion
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Reliable sources
Hi! I just wanted to talk to you about what is usable as a reliable source on Wikipedia. Obviously Examiner cannot be used, but there's other things that need to be known about reliable sources per WP:RS. I saw that you're pretty new here, so I didn't know if anyone had told you about this stuff yet. (I had people reverting my stuff for months before someone finally decided to point me in that direction!)

Primary sources cannot be used unless you have multiple secondary and independent sources to back them up. What this means is that anything that's released by Harris or her publishers do not count towards notability. You can use them, but only if there's a lot of other articles that also back up the claims in their articles. Basically put, there should be so many secondary sources that you shouldn't have to link to any primary sources. (WP:PRIMARY) Links to merchant sites such as Amazon really aren't supposed to be used for the same reasons. Even though the things you're using it for are the more basic things such as page count and to verify that it's on the kindle (which really don't need a source to back up, BTW), it should be avoided as a source. Sites like that fall under the primary sources umbrella.

Be careful of brief mentions in articles. Brief mentions can be used as trivial sources, but if the book/subject is not the focus of the article or talked about in-depth, odds are it's only really usable as a trivial source. For example, the Fearnet link is good, but by many it would be seen more as a brief passing reference to the book and would be more of a trivial source than a main one. The same thing goes for the other link, which only very briefly mentions the book with 25 other brief mentions in an article. It's frustrating, I know. If there were a bunch of other sources it wouldn't be as bad, but these two are really the only links in the article at this time that would really be looked at. It doesn't matter that you've linked to other websites- the amount of links isn't what keeps the article, it's the quality of them and whether or not they pass WP:RS.

As far as other sources go, be careful. It's easy to link to something, only to have someone say something like "oh, you can't use that- it's a blog". (Had that happen to me!) Blogs can only be used if they're by someone who is considered to be an absolute authority. If Kim Harrison wrote a blog about Deadlocked it could be used, but if I wrote one it couldn't be. The best thing to do if you're unsure of whether or not a link could be used is to check with the Reliable sources/Noticeboard. I've used it on occasion and it's really a great resource. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 05:08, 8 February 2012 (UTC)tokyogirl79
 * Oh, thank you very much for coming here and helping me out (out of my misery and confusion at least). I can see now that I was under the false impression that the closer the information is to the source the more reliable it is. I have a lot to think about now. Thanks again.Severenika (talk) 10:35, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

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"Unlocking" the Deadlock novel
Bookmarks: News and notes from First Coast literature(April 26, 2012): "The latest installment in Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series, “Deadlocked” (vampires and murder spice up Louisiana life), comes out Tuesday" (http://jacksonville.com/entertainment/literature/2012-04-26/story/bookmarks-news-and-notes-first-coast-literature)

Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris REVIEW (April 27 2012): "Paying attention to the mundane and human parts of Sookie’s life keeps her relatively normal. The problem is, there’s not enough depth to the emotional side of Sookie’s relationships, or enough complexity to the politics of the various supernatural groups, especially when all three main groups (vampires, werewolves, fairies) have to be fitted in at once." (http://www.sfx.co.uk/2012/04/27/deadlocked-by-charlaine-harris-review/)

Dead treat: A chat with Charlaine Harris: "Harris will be in Miami Tuesday to talk about Deadlocked, the 12th and penultimate novel in the Southern Vampire series"(http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/29/v-fullstory/2771583/dead-treat-a-chat-with-charlaine.html) is that enough? more to come. Severenika (talk) 19:41, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Dahlia Lynley-Chivers for deletion
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Dahlia Lynley-Chivers
Hello. I have noticed the recent undeletion, and I admit that there hadn't been sufficient discussion regarding the deletion. I would like to ask what sources exist that establish the character's notability (WP:N). I'm not saying that the character isn't important in the context of the books, but reliable sources must confirm that for a separate Wikipedia article to be viable. While, of course, there are sources presently cited in the article, they're not independent (such as the books themselves, the forum, or an interview with the author), aside from the Adventure Gamers review. toweli (talk) 14:45, 19 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I have converted the article to a redirect to the source material that the character is from, as the sources provided do not even begin to make a case for the character's notability. Please better familiarize yourself with our notability guidelines before challenging deletion discussion outcomes again. signed,Rosguill talk 14:49, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * there is no relevant information about the character in the article that you redirected it to.
 * The character has her own series and a computer game unlike any othe characters in the universe.
 * please, reverse your action Severenika (talk) 14:01, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * you've deleted hours of work and group effort! how could you?! Severenika (talk) 14:06, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

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