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= July 28 =

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Allen C. Meadors
Please show me how to footnote this article. It is more than many that on Wikipedia. Very confusing.

Larry Marsen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pointer22 (talk • contribs) 10:02, 28 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Have you read WP:Referencing for beginners yet? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 10:32, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Smart Lock
Good morning,

I would like to know why the submission of Smart Lock article was declined. I understand that being these new to the market there are not too many papers about them. Same as with the Chromecast which has already the article there just based on some of the online magazines articles that I post below. I am writing my Master Thesis for the University of Oxford based on these devices and I think Wikipedia should include this term as it's now widely used across the Internet. Wired Magazine and some other well known IT blogs and sources of information are already talking about them.

Some articles that reference Smart locks:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/06/smart-locks/ http://gizmodo.com/are-smart-locks-secure-or-just-dumb-511093690 http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57587475-76/goji-could-lock-down-smart-home-security/ http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/04/goji-smart-lock/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/18/goji-is-a-smart-lock-for-your-home-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-berries/

I believe the spirit of the Wikipedia is to keep knowledge up to date and that everyone is able to contribute to it. When Thousands of people read Smart Locks in those well known magazines and blogs or news agencies they will look it up and Wikipedia and I believe it must be disappointing to not be able to find even a brief explanation that is what I tried to publish.

Thank you very much in advance for your time and attention,

Regards,

Mr. Vansan. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr.Vansan (talk • contribs) 10:49, 28 July 2013 (UTC)


 * The reason is given in the pink Review template. There are no references. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 10:58, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Dodger67, would you mind to have a look at the updates I have posted to justify why the article should go through and let me know if there is anything else I could add or modify to be able to get this knowledge out, please?

Thanks again.

--Mr.Vansan (talk) 11:28, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

I have added the references to the article and resubmitted. It was a bit confusing for me as this is my first article in Wikipedia. Thanks a lot for your help and assistance. --Mr.Vansan (talk) 12:08, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Sasha Bezmel
A new editor has requested a review of this draft User:Raintheone/Sasha Bezmel that myself and User:Raintheone were working on. We did not want this, particularly because we haven't finished working on the article (although we're not far off). Can we reverse/remove/delete the review? - JuneGloom    Talk  15:16, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
 * ✅ submission reverted. - Happysailor  (Talk) 15:45, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much! - JuneGloom    Talk  15:47, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Gil Gutierrez
How can I delete references 21-33 for this article as they do not appear when I select edit but are visible in the Read option?

References 3, 4, 6, 13 and 16 have red text that states: Check |url= scheme (help). Do I need to correct this before submitting again?

Should I give a reference for the Discography section as I looked at other wikipedia pages with this section and they did not have a footnote.

I cite two articles that are originally in Spanish but translate. Should these be deleted?

Appreciate the helpful guidance. Candice Michelle Lopez (talk) 20:57, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Candice Michelle Lopez (talk) 20:52, 28 July 2013 (UTC)


 * The references 22-33 did appear at the top of the "references" section itself. I have removed them with this edit. (Feel free to revert that if you want to salvage some of those references).
 * The references 3, 4, 6, 13 and 16 were to the same Examiner.com article. Examiner.com is not a reliable source and is in fact blacklisted on Wikipedia - thus the error message. It should not be used. I have removed those references outright.
 * The discography should be verifiable in some way. Usually I'd say a link to a discography on AllMusic or Discogs in the "external links" section suffices for that purpose, but I just checked those and they don't have more than a tiny fraction of the discography in the article, even combined.
 * Foreign-language sources are entirely acceptable. You may want to note the languae, though: The citation template has "langauge=" and "trans_title=" parameters for the original language and a translation of the source's title. Huon (talk) 23:04, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kanary Diamonds
Hi,

I would like to know why my article continues to be rejected. Because Kanary Diamonds is a very accomplished artist and I would like to know what more I can do to prove the information verifiable. I have been working on this for a while and I don't know what else to do.

Thank you

Aelshi1 (talk) 23:13, 28 July 2013 (UTC)


 * You need reliable sources that are independent of the subject, such as articles about Diamonds in newspapers or reputable art magazines. Your references are, in order, an MTV page that's not subject to editorial oversight and likely written by the artist himself (neither independent nor reliable), an interview (not independent), the artist's own website (definitely not independent) and a broken iTunes link (neither independent nor reliable, has a commercial interest in promoting Diamonds). These sources don't suffice to establish that Diamond is notable enough for an article, and they cannot form the basis of an article in the absence of third-party sources. Huon (talk) 01:22, 29 July 2013 (UTC)