Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk/Archives/2018 January 3

= January 3 =

01:08:56, 3 January 2018 review of submission by Orual1963
Can someone look over my sandbox page? I am waiting review, but have made significant changes. Will I be able to add images after the page is created, or must I add those when I create the page? Thank you. Orual1963 (talk) 01:08, 3 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi . Draft:Dr. George S. Flinn Jr, MD has been in the pool to be reviewed for a month. With the current backlog, you can expect a review within another month. While you wait, check out other ways to improve Wikipedia at Community portal. --Worldbruce (talk) 04:54, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Request on 01:18:42, 3 January 2018 for assistance on AfC submission by Leehanson100
I need to combine duplicate citations, and even after following suggestions on various Wikipedia pages, I'm still been unable to combine a few (they become duplicates).

I've used the ref toolbar in some cases, and that seems to have worked, but only in the case of seven of the references. Under the "Named References" tab, only _seven_ of my 20+ references are listed (see below).

The first number in the list below is the number of the footnote; the colon-number combination is the reference (which doesn't seem to have _any_ relationship to the number of the footnote itself). I've put in the name of the author (just for my own convenience) as well as the reference names which have been working.

Named References; 2.  :1 Lindall 3.  :5 Buhadur 5.  :O Andersson 6.  :3 Bartels 12. :4 Chamberlain 15. :9 Madia 22. :10 VanderMeer

I Have a dozen or so duplicate references that I would like to get listed under a single citation (a b c d) instead of separate entries. I also have another half dozen I have yet to insert, but am reluctant to do so since they will also become duplicates. Any help you can give would be appreciated.

LeeHan 01:18, 3 January 2018 (UTC)Leehanson100

LeeHan 01:18, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi . You don't have to worry about combining duplicate references unless you want to; someone else can always clean them up later. The most pertinent documentation is WP:NAMEDREFS. I combined the two references to Tenhovaara as an example. I've also changed the machine-generated named reference ":1" to the human-friendly name "Lindall", to show how named references can be made easier to understand.


 * The quality of sources is much more important than technical formating issues. The draft leans heavily on Tulika Bahadur's On Art and Aesthetics, which appears to be a self-published blog. Self-published sources are generally not considered reliable sources. They may not be used to support statements about living persons other than the author. --Worldbruce (talk) 04:51, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

01:33:11, 3 January 2018 review of submission by 68.191.37.27
Hi, I added several more sources for the draft article for Momoko Tanabe. Since I am not re-submitting, I want you to look at my sources for this draft to see if they establish the notability of this subject.

To be specific, most of my sources come from promotional announcements as well as user-generated content, which is why I decided not to continously re-submit the draft. But then again, please check the references to see if any of them establish notability. Thank you. 68.191.37.27 (talk) 01:33, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

08:21:29, 3 January 2018 review of submission by Sylvie Demouchy
Dear wikipedia team. I would like to complete the Dana Medal page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Medal) by writing a short bilbiography of prof. Patrick Cordier. He hs received this international prize in 2016. I have already work on a kraft, which is sumitted for review. I will be patient and wait for the review in the mean time I wish to upload a picture, that I took myself in 2014 of Prof Patrick Cordier. It is a jpeg file, 799 Ko. The system does not let me upload this picture and the reason are unclear to me. Can you explain me why the file is rejected when I try to upload it? Thank you. Dr. Sylvie Demouchy

Sylvie Demouchy (talk) 08:21, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi . I don't know the answer, but I suggest you try again now that Patrick Cordier (mineralogist) has been accepted. Adding an image is a two step process: first upload it, then use it in on a page. Commons:Special:UploadWizard will lead you through uploading. If you encounter an error again, there is a different help desk for image uploading. They'll need to know how far through the process you were able to get, and any error message you received. Once you've uploaded an image, the picture tutorial can guide you through how to use it on a page. --Worldbruce (talk) 01:34, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

09:59:17, 3 January 2018 review of submission by DondeEstaElBurro?
DondeEstaElBurro? (talk) 09:59, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Are mainstream media news sources like Fox News or CNN considered reliable?
 * Yes. Thank you, by the way, for creating this. I saw it on Portal:Current events a little while ago and was surprised that no one had created an article for it.  JTP (talk • contribs) 14:55, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

14:04, 20 December 2017 review of submission by Ituah Ighodalo
Please can you edit to approve the draft, many thanks. Ituah Ighodalo (talk) 14:04, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

18:09:31, 3 January 2018 review of submission by Officefan0385
My article was declined for reliable sources. I would really appreciate some help in this regard. Vic Firth, Modern Drummer magazine, Drum magazine, gretsch, etc. should all be reliable sources. As would the other magazines and podcasts, etc. I'm new to this (obviously) so if I can have someone help me understand in lay man's terms what would be considered a reliable source that would be helpful. If well known companies and magazines independent of the artist are not reliable then I'm truly unsure what is. Help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Officefan0385 (talk) 18:09, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree, the sources you mentioned are reliable, but you also cite Wikipedia, Facebook, and iTunes, which are not reliable per WP:USERGEN (not reliable), and WP:FACEBOOK (sometimes reliable), and iTunes simply does not establish notability.  JTP (talk • contribs) 18:33, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

19:00:10, 3 January 2018 review of submission by Alfons Helbert
I am completing the Article Georges Deicha. I want to insert some pictures as they did in the French Wikipedia. Best Regards an a happy new year from Alfons Helbert.


 * Hi . Adding an image is a two step process: first upload it, then use it in on a page. Commons:Special:UploadWizard will lead you through uploading. If after that you have any questions or doubts, there is a different help desk for image uploading. Once you've uploaded an image, the picture tutorial can guide you through how to use it on a page. --Worldbruce (talk) 01:38, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

20:57:23, 3 January 2018 review of submission by Bbarmadillo
Hi. I would like to help for the assistance with the content of the article about an American law firm Reid Collins & Tsai. I've asked specifically at WP Law Projects what needs to be done to improve the article, but got not much valuable feedback. Some of the editors that I asked for advice, think the article is promotional, but they don't give exact suggestions how to make the article less so. I am a bit puzzled when I have feedback from people with the law background like User:7&6=thirteen and User:Mendaliv that the article is OK and then some other people saying it is not OK and promotional. I would appreciate some very precise exact guidelines on what needs to be done to this article. -- Bbarmadillo (talk) 20:57, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It is a factual article reliably sourced. It is also a better article than many of the law firm articles I've looked at.  It has pertinent information in a non-promotional voice.  We ought to have content in our articles, and those who insist otherwise are misguided.  7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 14:17, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 * User:7&6=thirteen the article has been reviewed and published. Thanks a lot for your help again (especially with fixing references and notes). -- Bbarmadillo (talk) 14:30, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Law firm articles are tricky, laden with land mines. Trying to get it approved was (obviously) difficult.  7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 14:32, 4 January 2018 (UTC)