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Cokodeal references challenge

Thank you sir for the review on the Cokodeal draft.

Please sir, the organization is a start-up organization and does not yet have enough review in independent reliable sources. With time, i hope that there would be reviews in independent journals and articles. Is there a way to get around this for now, and still make the article accepted?

Hey Matthew! Thanks for your input.

I saw that you had looked over the Wikipedia page I had submitted, and I would like to thank you for your time and suggested revisions.

I am still a bit of a newbie when it comes to putting up Wikipedia pages, so please forgive my ignorance on the subject.

Per your suggestions, I have added external references to my Step Afrika! article (1 from a book, 2 from major newspapers [LA Times, Wash Post], and 4 from other reliable external sources [WETA, Citizen {South African newspaper}, National Public Radio, and the magazine called The Source].

I have also reviewed the 'golden rule' for wikipedia and read up on what constitutes an effective reference.

I think that I have made this page a lot less 'about us' and have instead included concise, notable information that is more encyclopedic in nature.

Do you have any other suggestions as to how I can make this article more aligned to the philosophy of Wikipedia before I resubmit it?

Thanks again for your help !

Barrett Kinsella (talk) 18:38, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your help with Ernest Haskell article

Dear Matthew, Thanks for your helpful comments on my article about artist Ernest Haskell. I think I have fixed all issues, including adding links and pipe-links, except I am still kind of intimidated by doing references. Which section in that link pertains to my case? Thanks for your time, Ivy Chetwynd (Abigail) Ivychetwynd (talk) 15:43, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

No worries Abigail. Probably the main thing you want to read is Help:Referencing_for_beginners#Manual_referencing. It's not so confusing once you give it a shot, so just take your time, and use the "Preview" button to see if you've got it right, and once you get the hang of it it'll be easy to fix the footnotes. Take a look at how I did it; note in Read mode where the footnotes I fixed (all #1) appear as little blue numbers, that match up with the blue number under References. Take a look in Read mode, then go into Edit mode and you can see how I coded in the footnote.

Let me know if you try it a bit and are still having trouble. I'm going to go ahead and Publish your draft, since the content meets standards, and since there's a backlog I don't want to hold the approval up just over formatting. MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:35, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

By the way, my comments to you are now on the Talk page of the published article, for reference. You'll also need to apply WP:Categories to your now-published article; not broad ones like "Art" but specific ones like "Category:American lithographers"; not "American people" but rather Category:People from Woodstock, Connecticut, etc. In each category you should be as far down into the subcategories as applies to your subject. There's also a little "Persondata" form at the end of the article (visible only in Edit mode) to fill out for metadata purposes.

I know all the Wiki stuff is a bit overwhelming at first, but just take your time, and ask for help from the volunteers at WP:Teahouse if need be, and pretty quickly it becomes second nature. MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:38, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Matthew!!! Great news, and I will keep working on it. Best wishes, AbigailIvychetwynd (talk) 22:13, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

(Sunday November 23) Thanks again Matthew! I did get far enough to use the correct reference system on one book(when I returned to it someone else had finished the job. I will save my notes anyway!), and I added some Categories after checking what other artists had. Will attend to the other issues as soon as I can. This has been a fascinating experience and I appreciate your encouragement very much. The relatives of Haskell are happy about it, and we will tell the art people(curators and authors etc.) The fact that there is now a nice Wikipedia entry about Ernest Haskell will go a long way to help efforts to call attention to this wonderful artist who often gets overlooked, in my opinion for 2 reasons: early death (age 49) and not being part of the "modern" movement although some of them were his friends. Best wishes, AbigailIvychetwynd (talk) 18:17, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Hello again, thanks for the "polishing". I see why you made a couple of changes! Best, AbigailIvychetwynd (talk) 05:09, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

K.Amarnath

Hello MathewVanitas - Thank you very much for your help and advice with my article "K.Amarnath" (AmarnathManju (talk) 00:37, 23 November 2014 (UTC)). I have managed to resolve all the problems myself re formatting, references inbox, image etc. Just needed to have some patience!  :) Thanks again. (AmarnathManju (talk) 22:01, 24 November 2014 (UTC))

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20:51:51, 23 November 2014 review of submission by Bogancs

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The page for Eusociality only encompasses one facet of reproductive suppression. It talks in detail about populations that arise from a singly breeding female where some members are under reproductive suppression. However this phenomenon is not limited to just the eusocial colonies of ants, termites, and naked mole rats. The literature we provided clearly dictates it as a phenomenon that occurs much more commonly and with many more examples than just the few on the Eusociality page. Please look at this carefully before you reject our submission once again. It would not be accurate to simply edit the page of eusociality because the examples we provided are not eusocial organisms. May we suggest that a reproductive page is created with a link to eusociality because that is simply an extreme form. If anything eusociality should be under reproductive suppression instead of the other way around as it is now. Please reconsider.

Sanford

Walter Sanford article is now referenced, sourced and ready for re-review. Thank you.

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submitted for review

Dear Sirm

My post on MSTC Limited was resubmitted after incorporating the changes suggested by you some 9 days ago. Any chances of this being review again or being published? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sds7878 (talk • contribs) 06:41, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Ewan McLennan's Page

Hi Matthew,

All seems to have gone quiet with this submission. If it's in the queue for review and hasn't been looked at yet, then that's fine. However, if it's waiting for something from me, I don't know what it is. Ewan has emailed to say the pictures I uploaded could be used, and as 3 of them were album covers they should be fine anyway.

Is anything waiting for me, or is it just queued up?

Thanks, Naganata

Naganata (talk) 13:53, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Hello Naganata, you are still in queue, we're just really backed up. In the meantime, just carefully measure your draft up against WP:Notability (music) to ensure your subject clearly meets the standards.

Regarding images: whoa, hold up. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, as we use WP:Creative Commons licensing. So "sure, go ahead and use X" is not at all sufficient, would get an image deleted immediately. To be able to use the artist's photo or album cover, he would need to fill out a WP:OTRS for explicitly releasing the images to Creative Commons. However, clearly he doesn't want to do that for his copyrighted album covers, making them nearly Public Domain. And before you ask the common question, no "sure you guys can use it, but only for Wikipedia, not for anyone else" is not a legit licensing option, that's not how WP works.

Unless explicitly expired copyright or released in the public domain, album covers can only be used under very strict WP:Fair use criteria, such as a small, low-res image only on the specific article for that specific album (not a sub-section like yours). Put album covers out of your mind for now, focus on getting the draft published. If the draft publishes, then you can solicit photos of the artist, from photo creators/owners willing to release them under WP:OTRS. So yeah, really strict photo policy because we respect copyrights so don't want millions of people using an image that the owner hasn't explicitly released. Hope this helps! MatthewVanitas (talk) 15:24, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks Matthew,

I've tweaked the article a little. When I said Ewan had granted permission for the album covers, he did it via an email to the address specified in the Consent page. No problem though, as you say, we'll worry about that once the article is published.

Thanks again, Dave

Naganata (talk) 00:31, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Request on 14:26:36, 27 November 2014 for assistance on AfC submission by Dantewhyte

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Dantewhyte (talk) 14:26, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Hello Dantewhyte, what's your question? MatthewVanitas (talk) 14:31, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

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15:54:05, 1 December 2014 review of submission by Njuhasz

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Hello,

I am a social media and marketing professional for OFS company. I was given a task of creating Wikipedia page for my company. Can you tell me what exactly wrong with OFS page format, content or any information I supplied for this page. I can be contacted by email at redacted

Sincerely,

Natasha Juhasz

Njuhasz (talk) 15:54, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Hello Njuhasz, to be honest your draft is completely not what we need in a number of ways. I'd strongly suggest you read the following guidelines that explain the situation:

• WP:Conflict of interest, WP:Advertising and WP:Neutrality: draft has major issues with being blatantly written for the company, not about the company. Wikipedia isn't LinkedIn, or some place to share information with your customers, we aren't just webhosting. We're a compilation of objective articles about things that uninvolved people find significant about the subject, not what the subject thinks matters (which frankly we don't care about). Note of course that this means that if there is any negative information about your company out there in the news, it will inevitably end up in the article.
• WP:Notability (companies): any article about a company must show that the company is seriously discussed by uninvolved people. Not their own website, not PR fluff, not simple corporate listings. What we need is serious discussion of the company and why it matters from news articles, trade journals, academic articles, published books, etc.

Please take a glance at these guidelines and it should explain it pretty well. MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:53, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Quicksand (Welsh band)

Hi, this Draft came up in a search, have moved it to article space. Apologies if that's too early but it looks fine. If not please move it back, cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 22:50, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

Citizen Action of New York Stub

Hello Matthew,

I have a wide variety of online sources that mention Citizen Action of New York, but it is hard to find any sources that chronicle an objective history of the organization. I am going to revise my submission and include some of the sources (mainly local news articles) that mention Citizen Action of New York and the type of community events they are involved with. Hopefully they will suffice as eligible sources.

Thanks,

Michael — Preceding unsigned comment added by Colem2 (talk • contribs) 17:05, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Colem2, have you also checked out GoogleBooks for books that mention the organization? Also a good thing to cite. Note that http://reftag.appspot.com can also instantly turn any GoogleBooks URL into a full Wikipedia footnote. Hope this helps. MatthewVanitas (talk) 18:23, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

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Regarding the Step Afrika! Draft

Hey Matthew -

Thank you for your input on my previous submission. I realize now that in reaching out to you previously, I had forgot to sign my post… sorry about that.

I have re-submitted my draft of Step Afrika! again Draft:Step_Afrika! and was wondering if you could look at it to see if I had modified it to make it more notable and encyclopedic.

Does the exclamation point at the end of this Draft's title make it difficult to link or direct to the page?

I have stripped down the language a lot and I wanted to see if it needed further work to make it up to Wiki standards. I have included a lot of references from neutral sources - are these references strong or could they be better?

Thanks again for helping me with this process. Barrett Kinsella (talk) 18:44, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Hello Barrett Kinsella, I've approved your draft after removing some promotional material. If you are tied to the group, I suggest that you refrain from further editing the page except to remove any vandalism, so that the page can maintain objectivity as it is edited by uninvolved parties. One exception would be that adding photos would be great, and/or adding the official logo of the group. To add the logo (which is assuredly copyrighted) follow the instructions at WP:Logo so it can be displayed without damaging its copyright, and for photos of the troupe performing, ideally any photo should be uploaded by the person who took the photo, who alone is qualified to release it under Creative Commons and upload it to Wikimedia Commons for display. See WP:Images for guidance.

I'd only looked briefly at the article before to note it needed work, but at a finer reading I see that these folks are in DC, and come to think of it I think I attended one of their performances earlier this year over on H Street, one where the African DNA company did a surprise unveiling of one of the performer's genetic background, etc. Overall good show, it's just that we have very high standards for neutrality for artists/music/groups to prevent every garage band out there from demanding its own page, so your adding some news coverage, academic coverage, etc was a necessary step to publish the article. Nice work, and again I suggest you help with the visuals but avoid letting members of the group get too involved in the page lest it start drifting back towards promotion. I hope you'll stick around Wikipedia and help improve our coverage. In particular, if you or friends are DC-based, check out for pages that need a quick photo snapped to illustrate them. Thanks for your work! MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:01, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Hey there! Thank you for all the help! I made changes to the article based on your instructions, and I will look into uploading a logo in the near future. I will try to bolster the images on this page by reaching out to the people we have used as photographers in the past to see if they can upload onto this page - that's a great idea. And as a final note, I will actively discourage people that I work with from making edits to the SA! page.

Appreciate it!Barrett Kinsella (talk) 19:26, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Hello! I just uploaded the Step Afrika! logo onto the Wiki Commons and have linked it to the Step Afrika! page, but I was a bit shaky on what 'fair/free use' tags I should include … After uploading the logo, I got a message saying that the image met 'criteria for speedy deletion' :

"The given reason is: This file is copyrighted and not published under a free license, and the uploader asserts that the usage of this file is fair use, but fair use claims are not permitted on Commons. This file may be deleted without further notice. If the project that this file is to be used on allows fair use, and its usage would comply with the project's appropriate exemptions, please upload it locally."

Was wondering if you could give me some advice as to what details and tags are needed in order to keep this image up on the page.

When I added the image, I uploaded it as a copyright holder (the SA! Mktg. Department)… should I have uploaded it as a non-copyright holder?

URL = https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Step_Afrika!_Logo.JPG

Thanks  ! Barrett Kinsella (talk) 20:28, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

14:02:54, 5 December 2014 review of submission by Sachinshelar486

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Erno Polgar again

--Györgyné Pruzsinszki (talk) 16:18, 5 December 2014 (UTC)Dear Mathew! Erno Polgar literary side when it will be final? Thanks for the help! György PruzsinszkiGyörgyné Pruzsinszki (talk) 16:18, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

--Györgyné Pruzsinszki (talk) 18:33, 5 December 2014 (UTC)Dear Mathew! Erno Polgar of Hungary's best-known writers. Please help with the side to be public? The reference are on the site. I am wating for your helps. Best regards: Gyorgyne PruzsinszkiGyörgyné Pruzsinszki (talk) 18:33, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Hello Györgyné Pruzsinszki, I've requested help from WikiProject Hungary in reviewing your article. My request to them is posted here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Hungary#Notability_check_at_Draft:Erno_Polgar. MatthewVanitas (talk) 03:36, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

--Györgyné Pruzsinszki (talk) 19:45, 8 December 2014 (UTC)Dear Mathew, there are some comments for your question about Erno Polgar. Now You can help us? Regards Gyorgyne PruzsinszkiGyörgyné Pruzsinszki (talk) 19:45, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

End-of-the-year meetups

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downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement

Hi, Matthew. Thank you for your constructive feedback re: the page on protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD). I will make the edits you suggest, if possible, and will encourage others to contribute to the page as well. DCpolarbear (talk) 02:50, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

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Article For Creation (Simon)

Hello MatthewVanitas,

could you review the article that I have updated?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Universal_Everything

Simon373 (talk) 10:13, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Hello Simon373, I'm pretty booked on other things, so you'll have to wait in queue. Though I took a minute to tidy up your formatting slightly. MatthewVanitas (talk) 14:45, 8 December 2014 (UTC)