Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk/Archives/2015 June 15

= June 15 =

02:07:54, 15 June 2015 review of submission by Dave Truesdale
How do I add information below the photo of Dr. Bryant Villeponteau, and will I need to add a box around Contents on the left side and how do I do that? I'm so worn out from reading how-to pages I finally thought I'd just ask for direct help. Thank you very much.

Dave Truesdale (talk) 02:07, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * As for the table of contents: you do that a different way; see what I did here. —teb728 t c 02:28, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * For the infobox you probably want to use Infobox scientist. See Template:Infobox scientist for the parameters it accepts. —teb728 t c 03:01, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * For your file, File:Dr. Bryant Villeponteau-2014.jpg, you need to add source and author information to the File page. I have added an information block to give you a place to add it. —teb728 t c 03:08, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Another thing to do with your draft is to get rid of the external links from the body of the article, converting them to internal links (as in the case of Geron Corporation), converting them to references (as in the case of the Distinguished Inventor Award), or removing the link (as probably in the case of Genescient). —teb728 t c 03:43, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

06:10:42, 15 June 2015 Question from Jogi don
I want to create a new page for my userpage. How can I do it ? Jogi don (talk) 06:10, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

This wasn't the right place to ask your question, but I see that you have found out how to do it, when you created User:Jogi don/Userboxes/Lassi. I also see that you have found Teahouse, which is a great way to get help with questions like this. A belated welcome! --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 14:24, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

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08:55:40, 15 June 2015 review of submission by Editandsave
Hi, This is my first Biography article creation. The subject person is my friend who is budding director in the Indian film industry. I have created this by confirming all information from him. I had submissed this draft exactly a month ago. The status after submission was that "draft will be reviewed within 2 to 3 weeks". Its been more than a month. So thought would query if anything is missing or if I need to provide some more information for the quick review.

It would be great if someone can help me with this. Thank you in advance.

Editandsave (talk) 08:55, 15 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi Editandsave - You cannot actually use anything that you have been told, only actual published sources are acceptable, see WP:Verifiability for the reasons for the rule. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:58, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

15:45:34, 15 June 2015 review of submission by JohnM1055
JohnM1055 (talk) 15:45, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi, the intended name of the article was : /Rob_O'Neill_(Irish_Footballer) and not the current 'JohnM1055/sandbox/Rob_O'Neill_(Irish_Footballer)'..is it possible to erase the 'JohnM1055/sandbox/' so it looks more professional. Thank you in advance


 * Hello John, the Draft will be renamed (moved) if it is accepted as an article. At the moment it is not submitted for review to be accepted. Arthur goes shopping (talk) 10:30, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Request on 18:59:10, 15 June 2015 for assistance on AfC submission by JameswoodSK
I'm somewhat at a loss as to why some articles are allowed (for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Donnelly), which say very little about the notability of the person, and the one I submitted, which says much more. Does it really read like advertising??? I almost feel that it's not worth the effort to make any improvements -- I was told that the references weren't sufficient, so I changed them. Now a different reviewer is telling me something else. Is it time to throw my hands in the air and give up? JameswoodSK (talk) 18:59, 15 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi JameswoodSK - Firstly; forget about comparing your draft to "other worse articles", there are almost five million articles on the English Wikipedia, many thousands of them are pretty much guaranteed to be rubbish, but that is no excuse for adding to the problem. By the way, there is nothing in the history of the other article you mentioned to show that it ever went through a review.
 * Now about your draft, I've done some cleaning up as far as formatting is concerned. The main problem it still has is that there are no references for most of the biographical details. If you can solve that with solid reliable sources (mainstream press, literary magazines, academic articles), it would get a lot closer to acceptability. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:52, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

19:42:41, 15 June 2015 review of submission by 69.80.66.2
69.80.66.2 (talk) 19:42, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Why was article SUBMISSION for G1 SPORTS SUPPORT DECLINED?


 * The reason for the decline, together with links to guidance on how to fix it, are given in the pink box at the top of the page. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:55, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

20:53:04, 15 June 2015 review of submission by Cabsco
Cabsco (talk) 20:53, 15 June 2015 (UTC) Is there a limit or minimum character required as to each article submission? If yes, what is it and if no what's the maximum character each article must contain. Thanks.


 * Hi Cabsco There is no minimum except that the content must at least demonstrate that the subject is notable. That requires at least a few sentences, which must be verified by proper references to independent reliable sources. The maximum is around 100 kilobytes of text, by the time an article reaches that length some of the content should be split out into one or more "sub" articles. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 21:08, 15 June 2015 (UTC)