Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk/Archives/2013 October 8

= October 8 =

Reply to your Articles for Creation Help Desk question on Barani Institute of Information Technology
Hello, WikiProject Articles for creation! I'm Ikramafzal. I have replied to your question on the Articles for Creation Help Desk about Barani Institute of Information Technology. You can read it at WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk. I have submitted my draft that was reviewed by few people.One reviewer said that it was copyrighted. But actually it was not.I want to know the weaknesses in my page. Please help me in this.Ikramafzal (talk) 11:15, 8 October 2013 (UTC)


 * The bulk of this submission was copied directly from the Institute's own website, which is not permitted. I have therefore declined the submission. Arthur goes shopping (talk) 12:02, 8 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Your previous submission, at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Barani institute of information technology was deleted for the same reason, as you were notified on your user talk page (with links for further detail). - David Biddulph (talk) 12:23, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Fight For Peace
The following question is in regard to this entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Fight_for_Peace

I would like to address the comment left by the reviewer:

"Comment: There is ample proof that FFP is widely known and important, but much of this article is either about Luke Dowdney and his ventures or lengthy reports from FFP funded research. Please write the article based primarily on what the news sources say about FFP. Where the news articles are hosted on the FFP website, please give the date, author, title of the news article so other readers can identify the sources. Sionk (talk) 21:18, 17 September 2013 (UTC)"

1) I since left a response regarding the comment about "much of this article" being about Luke Dowdney, to which the second reviewer agreed with the contention of the original reviewer. The article has now been updated to include only three sentences about Luke Dowdney, and I believe mention of the founder of why and how he was influenced to create the organization belongs on the same page as the organization itself. I believe now the majority of the article is about the organization itself and only mentions Dowdney to give the reader a better context of the organization's inception. If a completely new page about Dowdney needs to be created, please let me know.

2) All articles hosted on the FFP website have been cited with dates, author and title, and/or have been linked directly to the site of the third party.

3) The ECROYS report and any relevant findings have been removed from the page due to the organization being sponsored by the Laureus, the primary funder of the report. The only report that has been used is from the University of East London, which is an independent third party source with no financial ties to the organization.

4) I have removed mention of two of the awards that were awarded to Luke Dowdney and now the only award mentioned is to Fight for Peace and is clearly labeled as such in the article.

I believe I have addressed all issues raised in the comments from reviewers, but if there are any other issues found in other sections, please let me know and I will do my best to resolve the issue. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nickwong84 (talk • contribs) 15:32, 8 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Two quick comments. Firstly, I don't think all articles hosted on the FPP website have been cited with author, date and so on. In fact, the references to neither The Evening Standard nor Boxing News come with that kind of information. That's comparatively easy to fix (see Template:Cite news for the standard way to format such references). Much worse is the second issue: The sources don't actually say what they're cited for. For example, the Evening Standard is the lone source for the Global Alumni Programme section - and doesn't even mention that programme. It also doesn't mention FFP Academies, for example, or the UN Habitat. Similarly, the LUTA Clothing section cites a single source, a speakers' list (about whose reliability by Wikipedia's standards I have doubts anyway) that doesn't confirm multiple of that section's claims. Huon (talk) 16:04, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Sreeja
Buffbills7701 left a message on my talk page

Saying that article got declined. Why and How I can resolve this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ganeshmanohar (talk • contribs) 21:49, 8 October 2013 (UTC)


 * The article tells us next to nothing about what Sreeja is - for instance, the one sentence of prose in the article lacks a finite verb, so isn't even proper English. Sorry. We can see that she's an actress and has appeared on television, but at least one source of the two you have used is a self published blog, which unsuitable to use as a reference. If she's well known in India, there will be national newspaper and magazine coverage she has appeared in. Ritchie333  (talk)  (cont)   10:26, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/North American Indigenous Image Awards (NAIIA)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/North American Indigenous Image Awards (NAIIA)

Can you please tell me what I need to do to my article to pass the review?

Thanks much,

Maryl Hamilton

Azmaryl (talk) 22:10, 8 October 2013 (UTC)azmarylAzmaryl (talk) 22:10, 8 October 2013 (UTC)


 * MatthewVanitas has given you a detailed description of what you will need to do for the article to pass in the "declined" submission box. As stated, you need more than two news pieces to prove that the article is a suitable subject for Wikipedia. Ritchie333  (talk)  (cont)   10:19, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Barry M. Greenberg
Hi There! Just wondering why the article was not accepted. Are there any suggestions I can take to make the article stronger so it can be accepted? Thank you!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by HeatherM PDX (talk • contribs) 23:50, 8 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Your article was deleted because it was a copyright infringement. Wikipedia's copyright policies are a little unusual, but basically all content on here is free to copy and sell to others. Since this isn't what most people expect, we cannot take prose or content from other sites without a specific licence, and any that do get copied have to be instantly deleted to comply with our legal policy. Sorry. The easiest thing to do is rewrite the article again in your own words. Ritchie333  (talk)  (cont)   10:14, 9 October 2013 (UTC)