Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk/Archives/2016 April 14

= April 14 =

Request on 06:44:02, 14 April 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by Rodeocowboy36
Hi We are relatively new to Wiki but we work on the admin team for the royal variety charity and the royal variety performance and have done major overhauls of the wiki pages for both these.

The charity is one of the oldest in the,uk and the queen is our sole patron.

We have also successfully created a page for our president laurie mansfield whch was approved almost straight away and is live.

Our elected Chairman (more senior to hon president) is more problematic to get approved - see draft page for giles richard cooper. We have made numerous edits based on the very small amount of advice given by The reviewer Sister Twister, including numerois third party refs.

However, despite repeated efforts we are unable to get the page approved or obtain any further feedback from the reviewer.

Our only motive is to create good pages for wiki and to have our very distinguished senior management represented

Please help us

Looking forwad to your reply

Best regards

Rodeocowboy36 (talk) 06:44, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Rodeocowboy36 (talk) 06:44, 14 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Please clarify what you mean by "we", "our", and "us". The policy on Wikipedia is "one user—one account". Usernames should not be shared by multiple individuals. --Worldbruce (talk) 17:49, 14 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Please remove the royal name-dropping, the draft is about Cooper, Wikipedia is not the Daily Mail, nobody cares which princess was at which concert. Next strip out most of the listed External links - only those that are specifically about Cooper are worth keeping. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 21:37, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Request on 18:46:12, 14 April 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by Pidgebird
I am the publisher of The Black Chronicle: Our History as News, a publication that presents African American History using a newspaper format. Fourteen issues cover the period from the Revolutionary War through the Civil Rights era. The material was researched at the Arthur C. Schomberg Collection in New York City and at many of the nation's finest collections of Black American history. I originated the Black Chronicle in the late 60s, and it was produced under the supervision of respected historians by Blackside, Inc., a well-known media company that also produced "Eyes on the Prize," the award winning Civil Rights documentary. The publication was distributed for several years by Holt Rinehart and Winston. It has been used in schools and churches nationwide, and is still highly regarded (it is currently available on www.ourhistoryasnews.org and in many bookstores). I submitted an article about it to Wikipedia some time ago, but it was not accepted. I would very much like to re-submit, and would welcome any suggestions or advice about revising my submission. Thank you very much for your consideration. Pidgebird (talk) 18:46, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Pidgebird (talk) 18:46, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi . If you re-submit User:Pidgebird/The Black Chronicles: Our History as News, reviewers will evaluate it against the general notability guideline and perhaps the essay "Notability (media)". The New York Daily News article is a good source, but multiple sources are expected. I've added three additional independent sources to a further reading section. That should be enough to clear the notability hurdle.


 * Forget everything you know about the subject, and rewrite the draft using as sources the four independent newspaper articles. The linked Jackson Advocate article is very hard to read because the formatting has been stripped out. You can get an easier to read copy via subscription services HighBeam Research or EBSCO (WP:RX can help you) or use Special:EmailUser to email me and I'll reply with the a pdf of the article as an attachment. Leave out anything that might be construed as promotional (such as where readers can buy The Black Chronicle), and your submission will stand a good chance of being approved. --Worldbruce (talk) 19:44, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

20:25:28, 14 April 2016 review of submission by AllieF16
My draft article was rejected with a note saying "Edit section headings". I'm unsure what steps to take to improve the section headings, and am hoping for some guidance. Thank you.


 * Assuming that you are using the normal "source editor", the main sections should have a heading of the form ==History==. This will generate a bold-type top-level heading. No additional apostrophes are required.
 * The introduction should not have a heading, so the first section heading would be ==History==.

--Boson (talk) 20:09, 20 April 2016 (UTC)