User talk:Sothomensch

Hi Sothomensch

Welcome to Wikipedia! Here are some pages you might find helpful:


 * Help:Contents
 * Five pillars
 * Manual of Style
 * Cheatsheet
 * Biographies_of_living_persons
 * Verifiability

If you're happy to draft the PvR article in public, you might like to work in a subpage of your user space: click on User:Sothomensch/sandbox to start one. I'll be able to edit the page too.

Look forward v much to working with you! Best, JackyR | Talk 11:31, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Format
According to Manual_of_Style_(biographies), "The opening paragraph should give:
 * 1) Name(s) and title(s), if any;
 * 2) Dates of birth and death, if known);
 * 3) Nationality –
 * 4) In the normal case this will mean the country of which the person is a citizen or national, or was a citizen when the person became notable.
 * 5) Ethnicity should generally not be emphasized in the opening unless it is relevant to the subject's notability.
 * 6) What the person did;
 * 7) Why the person is significant."

I believe subsequent paras should then cover Early Life, followed by work, followed by legacy, but I can't find any guidance on this. WikiProject_Biography/Assessment has examples that may be useful.

Length
Looking at WikiProject_Biography/Assessment, the Good Article on Theodore Kaczynski was about 5600 words, the A-Class article about Milla Jovovich 4600 words and the Featured Article about Mary Shelley 9600 words.

The van Rensberg article may attract comment under NPF, which says if people "are not generally well known ... exercise restraint and include only material relevant to their notability, while omitting information that is irrelevant to the subject's notability". But I think we could make a case for van Rensberg not being relatively unknown, altho' stereotypical WP editors may not have heard of him.

Content
According to BLPNAME, we shouldn't include the names of van Rensberg's family (unless there's something notable about them), but a brief "has been married x times with y children" I guess is fine - referenced, of course!

Your submission at Articles for creation: Robert Oakeshott (March 23)
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Onel5969 (talk) 15:43, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Robert Oakeshott (September 4)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by LaMona was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.


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LaMona (talk) 20:26, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Robert Oakeshott concern
Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Robert Oakeshott, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Your draft article, Draft:Robert Oakeshott


Hello, Sothomensch. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Robert Oakeshott".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing.  Onel 5969  TT me 12:34, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Contests
User:Dr. Blofeld has created WikiProject Africa/Contests. The idea is to run a series of contests/editathons focusing on each region of Africa. He has spoken to Wikimedia about it and $1000-1500 is possible for prize money. As someone who has previously expressed interest in African topics, would you be interested in contributing to one or assisting draw up core article/missing article lists? He says he's thinking of North Africa for an inaugural one in October. If interested please sign up in the participants section of the Contest page, thanks.♦ -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:37, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge
Hello. I've revamped the contest page into this, based on the new British model. Long term goal, but I've added entries since the beginning of July to give it some initial life. Please add anything you've done then this then too! I hope it proves productive long term. The contests are still planned, but will be more tools towards increasing bulk output in overall goal. It's a permanent goal now, and open! I would be grateful if you could keep a record of all your articles you do there, as I really think seeing the combined efforts will encourage others to create more content too! Please spread the word to the others, cheers!♦ Dr. Blofeld  09:25, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

Invite to the African Destubathon
Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing, whether it's a river in Malawi, a Nigerian footballer, or a South African civil rights activist, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. For those of you who signed up to the North African contest, that will hopefully be held in the new year. Thanks. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:11, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

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