Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk/Archives/2020 October 1

= October 1 =

03:23:56, 1 October 2020 review of submission by Venicestan
Overly Sarcastic Productions deserves its own page as it is increasing in subscribers and has become a very widely-viewed channel in history youtube. Venicestan (talk) 03:23, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * What you just said is completely irrelevant. No sources, no article, no exceptions. —A little blue Bori  v^_^v  Hasteur Hasteur Ha-- oh.... 03:26, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

06:00:28, 1 October 2020 review of draft by Spmenon33
Can you shorten the timeline to publish my draft? also, is there a paid page online which can be locked against editing by unwanted elements?

Spmenon33 (talk) 06:00, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * (1) We do not accept text taken wholesale, or closely paraphrased, from another website. (2) Protection is not for enforcing content. —A little blue Bori  v^_^v  Hasteur Hasteur Ha-- oh.... 06:55, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Request on 07:35:50, 1 October 2020 for assistance on AfC submission by JaredsBios
Good Day Team, I would like to find out further info as to why my article is being rejected? If perhaps you could assist me with this info as to how i can possibility get it accepted? I am busy writing a article about Mark Alpha Abrahams with references and links but i keep getting a message back saying its not from a reliable source. Please can you explain what a reliable source would be?

How does one qualify to have an article in Wikipedia? Your assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated

Best Regards

JaredsBios (talk) 07:35, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * We are not interested in a rerun of the Seigenthaler incident. EVERY claim made in the draft MUST be cited to a credible secondary source that corroborates it. No exceptions. —A little blue Bori  v^_^v  Hasteur Hasteur Ha-- oh.... 08:08, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

08:39:23, 1 October 2020 review of draft by Violeta Čapovska
Dear Wikipedia, I have created a new Wikipedia page about the Macedonian writer Ivan Čapovski. Wikipedia page in Macedonian already exists. My page is in a Draft form. Can I please ask for help from an experienced editor in the English wikipedia to review the Draft:Ivan Čapovski? Many thanks and kind regards, Violeta Čapovska (talk) 08:39, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Violeta Čapovska (talk) 08:39, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * , ✅ The English is fine. I have flagged certain improvements that we need and left a comment on the new article's talk page Fiddle   Faddle  11:31, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Request on 09:12:48, 1 October 2020 for assistance on AfC submission by Clarealev
Hi there! I'm looking for some help with an article I've been working on, Draft:Sano Genetics. I've been through lots of rounds of edits and asked for help from multiple Wikipedia users to improve it but I'm still having no luck with it. I'd really appreciate some help of what I can do next, where I'm going wrong, and any other tips you may have! Thank you so much. (Sorry my original message didn't show for some reason, thanks for the pointer!) Clarealev (talk) 15:25, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Clarealev (talk) 09:12, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * , Traditionally a help desk is a place where questions are asked and then answered. Perhaps we might start with your question, please? Fiddle   Faddle  11:32, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

17:18:35, 1 October 2020 review of draft by Whintl
I made some changes in my submission on June 8, but it has not yet been reviewed. This seems like an unusually long time, do you know when it will be reviewed? Thanks.

Whintl (talk) 17:18, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * You havent resubmitted the draft for review, so no one looked at it. The Resubmit button is in the first red box at the top .Victor Schmidt (talk) 17:25, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

20:25:37, 1 October 2020 review of draft by EldenSelections
I work for Elden Selections and we want to create a wikipedia page for our company. I took the content off of our website and cited it and it was rejected. I was wondering if wikipedia can just create us a page. If Elden Selections has to do it, can we use any of the content off of our website? Do I just have to source every sentence? EldenSelections (talk) 20:25, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * , as I have told you on my talk page, We require references from significant coverage about the topic of the article, and independent of it, and in WP:RS please. See WP:42. 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. Providing sufficient references, ideally one per fact referred to, that meet these tough criteria is likely to make any draft a clear acceptance (0.9 probability). Lack of them or an inability to find them is likely to mean that the topic is not suitable for inclusion, certainly today.
 * Reading the primary sources element will help you, as will the selfpub element
 * Writing an article is the absolute hardest thing to attempt on Wikipedia. Writing a neutral article about your employer is even harder. Generally you will find that Wikipedia editors, almost all of whom are volunteers, will not do as a volunteer something you are being paid to do by your corporation.
 * I have no idea why any corporation would even want a Wikipedia article about it. It is not 'your page' (see WP:OWN) and you have no control of any description over it. It is a true two edged sword Fiddle   Faddle  21:26, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Because Alexa ranking and preferential treatment. —A little blue Bori  v^_^v  Hasteur Hasteur Ha-- oh.... 00:17, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
 * , And, as you have seen, editors using Wikipedia for promotion find they are blocked for infringing that very solid rule. That happened between my starting and posting my reply to you here.
 * Should you choose to create a new account you must follow WP:PAID in all respects. This is an area where second chances are very few, and are exceptions, not a right  Fiddle   Faddle  21:30, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

22:17:48, 1 October 2020 review of submission by Niharika Sahoo Nayak
Niharika Sahoo Nayak (talk) 22:17, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * , Traditionally a help desk is a place where questions are asked and then answered. Perhaps we might start with your question, please? Fiddle   Faddle  22:25, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

22:23:53, 1 October 2020 review of submission by Niharika Sahoo Nayak
Niharika Sahoo Nayak (talk) 22:23, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * , once is enough to ask a question and to get answers. There is no need to duplicate a submission here. Fiddle   Faddle  22:26, 1 October 2020 (UTC)