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= September 26 =

Request on 08:19:14, 26 September 2015 for assistance on AfC submission by Alstah
The article I wrote was declined on the grounds of it not being notable. I have taken aboard the feedback and amended the article. Please review and let me know your thoughts, and what needs to be added to make it in compliance.

However, an article for the predecessor firm already exists: Herbert Geer, so it would make sense to create a new page for the merged firm. Many other Australian commercial law firms have pages, such as: Gilbert + Tobin, Clayton Utz, Minter Ellison, Corrs Chambers Westgarth and, Mills Oakley, just to name a few. Because of this precedence of similar firms etc., I think there's good grounds to consider that the article is notable.

Please let me know what to do to bring it into compliance.

Alstah (talk) 08:19, 26 September 2015 (UTC)


 * No precedent is ever set by any article for any other. If it were we would have a brutally fast descent into idiocracy. The firm may be notable, probably is, but the draft does not express this clearly. I have left you a substantial comment there. Fiddle   Faddle  12:45, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

15:21:06, 26 September 2015 review of submission by The original destroyers
Why was the article refused? The Destroyers were an important punk band which influenced many of the post-punk bands. They were cited as one of the 5 most influential bands in Bill Syke's book. They are referred to many times in the Jacky Florek Paul Whelan book. Why does a citation in two books not meet the criteria when wikipedia is full of pages for bands who have never been mentioned in a book? The original destroyers (talk) 15:21, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

16:33:11, 26 September 2015 review of submission by JennNorman16:33:11, 26 September 2015 review of submission by JennNorman
FIRST TELL US WHY YOU ARE REQUESTING A RE-REVIEW ON THE LINE BELOW THIS LINE. Take as many lines as you need. -->}} I am trying to make a wiki page for my husband who just published his first book. All the references I have is his website and information from him. We also have the sites that he wrote for previously. My submission was denied. how can I get his page on.


 * You cannot. Wikipedia requires substantial references. For a living person we have a high standard of referencing. Every substantive fact you assert, especially one that is susceptible to potential challenge, requires a citation with a reference that is about them, and is independent of them, and is in WP:RS, and is significant coverage. Please also see WP:PRIMARY which details the limited permitted usage of primary sources and WP:SELFPUB which has clear limitations on self published sources. Without those your husband, though notable to the who love him, is not notable in a Wikipedia sense. Fiddle   Faddle  17:08, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

17:26:47, 26 September 2015 review of submission by JonathanCross
Hello, I am trying to get Draft:Wei_Dai in suitable shape for publication. I have been working on it since it was rejected and I have made many improvements and merged in changes from others. I would like to know what steps to take next in getting this ready for another review. Here is a link to "wei dai" on google trends since 2012 for reference. I have also contacted user Prymshbmg who raised the WP:N issue with the previous draft I submitted. Unfortunately the user has not responded yet so I am reaching out to you for advice. The current version contains many more references, especially to journals and newspapers not connected to the subject. Please provide feedback. Thanks, -- JonathanCross (talk) 17:26, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

18:14:14, 26 September 2015 review of submission by Michael hobren
How can I add a photo and columnar data to my wiki page?

Also, I'm having difficulty organizing my citations within my text: my "References" section shows the name of the citation but not the URLs as such; I've had to enter the URLs manually on my page, while the citation name only is automatically displayed beneath this.

I hope these questions are clear...to some extent at least. My primary desire is to get that photo, and some 2-column data beneath it, on the page, which will greatly improve the overall format. Thanks for any help that you can provide. -- Michael Hobren

Michael hobren (talk) 18:14, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

21:08:38, 26 September 2015 review of submission by BCBADPHD
Hello, I am requesting assistance because I wrote a article on the topic listed above (Somnambulism alert dogs) entirely on my own, using my own words but was declined due to copyrighted material? I am not sure where the article contains copyrighted material as I wrote the entire article on my own but if I could receive assistance in locating and removing that portion of material that would be helpful. I am an academic scholar and professional writer so I do want to make sure all my writings are my own of course. Thank you BCBADPHD (talk) 21:08, 26 September 2015 (UTC)


 * You asked me about this on my talk page, and I have given you a reply there. It is to do with the areas of the draft that indicate that it has been copied and pasted from elsewhere. I describe these to you there. Fiddle   Faddle  21:48, 26 September 2015 (UTC)

21:53:22, 26 September 2015 review of submission by BCBADPHD
Hello, I created the entire page based on the format and structure of other pages on Wikipedia that are on a similar topic (i.e., service dogs). I felt it would be helpful to have clear headings that describe the background information on the medical condition the dog is trained to assist with as well how the dog is trained. If it looks as if it is copied from an external source, that is actually a compliment I believe as it looks professionally created but that is what I do for a living and wanted to make the post fit with the other pages on similar topics which in this case is service dogs. I can remove the headings etc if needed. BCBADPHD (talk) 21:53, 26 September 2015 (UTC)