Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk/Archives/2017 July 16

= July 16 =

03:03:00, 16 July 2017 review of submission by Tomwadsworth1
My proposed article has been rejected, and I'm baffled. The only criticism I received was that it had no citations and the "formatting was messed up." In reality, my article had more than 100 footnotes, documenting virtually everything. However, my footnotes were originally drafted using the standard format for html citations, and most of them did not immediately translate to actual citations. So, I went through the entire article and manually fixed all 106 citations, and I fixed the formatting. Yet, I'm told the article is declined.

I spent months researching and preparing the article. I'm a veteran magazine editor and a doctoral student who is vastly familiar with professional writing and the need for documentation.

I hate to see my extensive labor thrown away, as if NOTHING in it is publishable. Can anyone help me?

Tomwadsworth1 (talk) 03:03, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello, Tom. Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia.  I just took a look at your submission and saw that the reviewer now seems more amenable to accepting it.  I also saw that some of your effort was misplaced, because when a single reference is used multiple times, Wikipedia editors typically use the multiple-use form of referencing.  I modified the ten or so references to the May 8 edition of the Daily Telegraph, which you can use as an example for simplifying the referencing for the other newspaper articles that are being used multiple times.  Unfortunately, I didn't know the paper's publisher and the article's page number, so you'll need to fill them in yourself.  You also can improve the formatting of the section headings, which should NOT be in bold font and which should use "sentence case" (i.e., only the first word is capitalised unless a subsequent word would be capitalised for some other reason).  I hope this response has been helpful.  If you have any further questions, feel free to ask.  NewYorkActuary (talk) 03:28, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

03:21:13, 16 July 2017 review of submission by Steve Quinn
Hello. I moved a newly created article to the draft space. The new title is Draft:Morten Jung-Olsen. Based on the sources provided and based on my own searches, it seems there is not enough support for this article as biography of a living person per WP:BLP, especially given the claims made in this article. This is contentious material and all the negative claims need to be backed up by independent reliable sources. I have translated the references and they do not seem to be sufficient. I contacted the article's creator User:Dans (see diff here ). I told them to please go through WP:AFC for release of this article. Thanks for your support in this matter. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 03:21, 16 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks. NewYorkActuary (talk) 03:31, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Request on 12:02:17, 16 July 2017 for assistance on AfC submission by J.L. Dayawon
}} Hi and goodevening sir/maam can you please help me on how to create an article ? This is a little bit difficult but i need to learn and i am a newbie here at wikipedia and i also want to learn more about on how to create a biography.Please leave a message at J.L. Dayawon's User:talk and i will respond a " Thank you " once i see you're reply.

J.L. Dayawon (talk) 12:02, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
 * See message on your talk page, DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 16:11, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

19:59:12, 16 July 2017 review of submission by Mhb20002000
Hello All, I am new to wikipedia and my draft got denied for notability. I would appreciate any help. Could someone explain why it got denied and how I can fix it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Adam_Cote Mhb20002000 (talk) 19:59, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello, Mhb. Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia.  Our apologies for the great delay in response.  The best source of information as to why your submission was declined will be the persons who reviewed it.  I see that you've already asked the most recent reviewer for information and I trust that you will receive a response in the near future.  For now, I took a look at the submission and found that I, too, would have declined it.  In and of themselves, being an attorney or businessman does not confer notability.  Neither does being a military reserve officer who saw active duty (unless one can demonstrate satisfaction of our notability guidelines for military personnel).  This leaves the subject's attempts at being elected to state office.  And here, our notability guidelines for politicians are fairly clear -- unless the subject actually becomes the governor of Maine, there will be no presumption of notability.  And despite your assertions to the contrary (as written at the bottom of the draft), the regional newspaper coverage enjoyed by the subject is probably not enough to convince a reviewer that the subject has enduring encyclopedic interest for a global readership. I recognize that this is not the response you were hoping to get.  But if you have any further questions, feel free to ask.  NewYorkActuary (talk) 20:46, 18 July 2017 (UTC)