User talk:Happysailor

Article Wizard submission declined

Thank you for your message. When I tried to find Wikipedia article Night of Emancipation I got a page that said 'Start the Night of Emancipation article, using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it'. Pressing 'Article Wizard' I got a page that did not mention redirecting at all. The next page did, but only said 'your proposed page title might usefully be redirected there'. It did not say this was wrong place for proposing a redirecting. My point is this page should also say 'and you can request redirecting at Articles for creation/Wizard-Redirects', otherwise the user who wants to propose does not know this is wrong place. I cannot edit that page but it is Wikipedia:Article wizard/Subject. 75.79.71.222 (talk) 18:42, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Article Submission

Hey there Happysailor. I am writing you due to your rejection of my article submission for 1-800-Law-firm. And I just wanted some clarification on why it was rejected. I was not trying to create an "add" for it. I was just talking about the company and what they do. As far as the references goes I noticed that on the Honigman law page that they have no references or resources listed and yet they are published. Did I perhaps label the page wrong? Any clarification you could give me would be appreciated. I am just attempting to create an informational page for the company.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honigman_Miller_Schwartz_and_Cohn Wildfiremedia (talk) 16:03, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi there, your submission was declined, because to me it read more like an advertisement for the firm than an article (See WP:SOAP). There were also no reliable & independent sources for the contents of the article (See WP:SOURCES) or any assersion of notability (see WP:N)

If you can re-write the article so that it passes these policies, then by all means re-nominate it for creation and it should be created.

In terms of you mentioning the other article, it does have some sources presnt, and asserts some notability, however please see WP:OSE for more info on comparing articles.

I hope this helped - Happysailor ^(Talk) 18:38, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Articles for creation/Gary MacDougal

I am having trouble posting the above mentioned article that you reviewed. Some of the text in the article comes from Gary MacDougal's bio on macdougal.com which I created. As such I don't that there is any infrignment as I am the author. I am new to wikipedia and could use any helpful advice to get this posting completed.

Separately, is it OK to post external links to copyrighted articles?

Thank You,

Winefan

Winefan60045 (talk) 16:47, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi there, I suggest you take a look at WP:DCM which explains about donating copyrighted materials, and also take a look through WP:C which explains all about copyrights and what you can and can't use etc etc.

You are more than free to edit the WP:AFC submission page again as long as the text is not a copyright violation. - Happysailor ^(Talk) 16:58, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

talkback|JohnKulczycki —Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnKulczycki (talk • contribs) 20:14, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Categorizing redirects

Hello. When you have time, please have a look at Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects. The redirect Opéras comiques you created was meant to be a {{R from plural}}. (I added[1] it.) 62.147.27.190 (talk) 02:37, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi there, Sorry about that, but I use a semi-automated script for AFC/Redirects, and I must've selected the wrong template to ammend rather than the Custom option which i had filled in :( - Happysailor ^(Talk) 18:52, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Clarification for why my article for creation was rejected

My article on Douglas B. Rasmussen used his faculty page at St. John's University, where he is employed, as its primary reference. The secondary reference was his CATO Institute page, where he has also worked. I do not understand how these do not qualify as reliable sources. What could be a more reliable source than a person's place of employment?

CvaughanCEE (talk) 21:42, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi there, All articles must be sourced by reliable, third-party (independent), published sources (See WP:SOURCE) The two sites you mentioned are not independent of the subject as they are his employer(s).

All you need to do is have a read through the Verifiability page (liked above and in the submission) and try and add more third-party (i.e. independent) sources to the article. If you can do that, then you can re-submit the article for Articles for Creation again.

I would also suggest you take a look at WP:FIRST which does through what you need to do to create a new article (take special attention to point #4). - Happysailor ^(Talk) 21:49, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Declined speedy WW1 Egyptian Camel Transport Corps

I declined the speedy WW1 Egyptian Camel Transport Corps because a redirect to Egyptian Camel Transport Corps was better than an A10 speedy deletion. Thanks. —MC10 (T•C•GB•L) 18:10, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

lol, i agree - i must have been in a trance not to just plonk a redirect in there myself :/ Thanks - Happysailor ^(Talk) 18:47, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome; I'm happy to help. Cheers, —MC10 (T•C•GB•L) 18:53, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Rejection of Submission re: Steven W. Plattner

I wanted to followup with you as to why this submission was rejected. I saw your comment that "We cannot accept blank suggestions." Are you saying that you only you didn't receive the body of the article submitted on this topic? If that's the case, is there any way to find or ressurect it? It was composed on the submission form, so unless there is some way to locate it, it will have to be redone. I clearly recall clicking on the "Save Page" button before submitting it. If there is some other reason that I don't understand as to why it wasn't accepted, I would appreciate knowing the reason(s). Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Synonymousvw (talk • contribs) 19:22, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi there, the reason the submission was declined was as stated - the submission was blank. If you look at this link [2], this is the only other edit to the page (and was the creation of the page) by yourself. There was simply no contents.

As the declined notice states, you are more than welcome to make improvements (or indeed add content) and resubmit the article for AFC again. However only add the {{AFC submission/submit}} once you feel the article is ready. - Happysailor ^(Talk) 19:37, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Please explain

Please explain why a user who posted content on the mainspace and posted it on their userpage still qualifies it as blatant vandalism. [3]. Steven Zhang ^{The clock is ticking....} 08:34, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

A user deleted a speedy deletion tag from a page that was tagged as blatant advertising.. This is classed as vandalism. I am wondering why you decided to revert the user who blanked their own user page though? - Happysailor ^(Talk) 08:36, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Because they were clearly irritated. Their page was tagged in mainspace, and rightly so, as it doesn't belong there, so they moved it to their userpage, where you speedy tagged it again. I don't see a huge problem with it on their userpage. Do you? If so, why? Steven Zhang ^{The clock is ticking....} 08:43, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

I suggest you look at the timeline of both pages. They created the article in their own userpage before they put it in mainspace (fine, they were creating a draft). The mainspace page was tagged for a speedy and they put a hangon tag on the page (fine, this is what they are allowed to do). They then put a hangon tag on their own userpage suggesting to me they kno0w that page shouldn't be there (and after looking through it imo it shouldn't) so i tagged it as well.

If you read WP:UPNOT it states that you should avoid substantial content on your user page that is unrelated to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a general hosting service, so your user page is not a personal website

It also states that examples of unrelated content are:

• Advertising or promotion of an individual, business, organization, group, or viewpoint unrelated to Wikipedia (such as commercial sites or referral links).
• Extensive self-promotional material, especially when not directly relevant to Wikipedia.

The user also obvioously felt that the page shouldn't be there, as they blanked the whole page. You then reverted this reinstating the text. Are users now not allowed to blank pages in their own userspace? - Happysailor ^(Talk) 08:49, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Alright, I accept I might've been out with the timeline, but back when I used to edit, rules weren't as strong and users were given more leeway with their userspace, simply because being there doesn't hurt anyone. Back then we were a lot nicer to new editors too. I guess that has changed as well. Steven Zhang ^{The clock is ticking....} 08:54, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Page on Hold: face2face

Hi

This page is on hold needing inline citations...but I added the inline citations yesterday...can you please take another look? Here's the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/face2face

Thanks! Nieuwenhuis (talk) 13:34, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

When a page is on hold, it is giving you 24 hours before an editor re-reviews the submissions and makes a determination. You do not need to re-add an afc submission template.

All I did was to remove the duplicate tag as your submission was still on hold, and would be reviewed again soon. All the extra tag did was to clutter up the page.

As you can see, Chzz has set the submission to pending again, so an editor will be around shortly to review the article.

I hope this helped explain what I did. - Happysailor ^(Talk) 21:19, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

JP Jones article

Hello-

Not sure I'm understanding your verifiable policy...

The JP Jones article was sourced with the following references:

• http://www.jpjones.net/johnpauljones.htm
• http://www.jpjones.net/about.htm
• http://www.opednews.com/articles/not_sh_steven_f_061025_jp_jones_2c_folk_rock_2c.htm
• http://www.bsnpubs.com/bell/windfall.html
• http://www.icogitate.com/~celticfolkmusic/fr-JPJones2.htm
• http://www.furious.com/perfect/jpjonesinterview.html
• http://www.wwuh.org/records/albums/fnd2.htm
• http://www.wwuh.org/records/albums/fnd3.htm
• http://www.lessampou.com/home.cfm

Could you help me out and let me know what I need to do to improve/specify citations?

Thanks, —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aquidneck1 (talk • contribs) 18:24, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi there, right then... None of those refs are visible on the submission page UNLESS you click the edit button (which I didnt do, because refs and the bulk of an article shouldn't be hidden like that) ALl I saw was three lines of text, and that's it.

All you need to do is to edit the article so that it appears on the page correctly with all the text & references, and then resubmit the article for review. Take a look at WP:MOS for any help you may need. - Happysailor ^(Talk) 21:22, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Hello, Happysailor. You have new messages at John Kulczycki's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

JohnKulczycki (talk) 03:40, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism cleanup

Thanks. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 16:13, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Your welcome - Happysailor ^(Talk) 16:14, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

hey dude man

please leave my artcle alone, it is toally rude of you Evangp (talk) 16:47, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Please could you review again my article. Its name is ILG Logistics. Please I need your help :(