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== Request on 11:43:48, 25 June 2017 for assistance on [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation|AfC]] submission by Rachitasinha28 ==
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I wanted to create an article on this person as I have seen their work having big impact on the society, or rather children. This is my first attempt in publishing something on wikipedia and I genuinely want to contribute something by writing/initiating this article. I have gathered information about this person from various articles published in newspapers and have picked up words from them and mentioned the source as well. I may not be accepted as a full contributor, but can I start this article and mention some important links that i have information about. Please assist me in getting this through as I am new to it.

thank you
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June 18

00:50:10, 18 June 2017 review of submission by Writer wiki1


I submitted the article a month ago but haven't received any feedback. Kindly let me know what I can do to have the article published.

Is the first part too long? How many words should I reduce it to?

Writer wiki1 (talk) 00:50, 18 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Writer. Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. Right now, there are about 200 submissions in the queue ahead of yours. I expect that it will be the better part of a week before a reviewer takes a look at your submission. As for your questions, yes -- the lead is far too long. And if my quick reading is correct in suggesting that Wong's chief claim of significance is being the founder of a venture capital firm, then you probably don't need to have a lead section that is longer than one or two sentences. I hope this response has been helpful. NewYorkActuary (talk) 01:17, 18 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

06:29:14, 18 June 2017 review of submission by Jud Hudon


I have just submitted a short article on William Cecil "Billy" Christmas who was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2015. There is very little about Billy Christmas on the Internet. I therefore decided to write a brief, fact-based biography about him. I was able to write the text and included my references but don't know how to include a photo of Billy Christmas in his 1898 Winged Wheels Lacrosse Uniform. Could you help me with that? I also need help with the "Personal Information" that goes underneath the photo. I have included that with my text but lack the skills to put it into the correct cells.

Thank you.

Jud Hudon

Jud Hudon (talk) 06:29, 18 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Jud. Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. Uploading images can be a complex process. You can begin learning about it by taking a look at WP:Uploading images. As for the "personal information" section, you probably want to use the {{infobox sportsperson}} template (and you'll find instructions on its use by clicking through the link). But before doing these two things, you really ought to work through our WP:Tutorial. Your submission is seriously deficient in its layout and its sourcing, so much so that it probably will not be accepted in its current form. By working through the Tutorial, you will learn the basic techniques that are needed for crafting an acceptable Wikipedia article. And while working through the Tutorial, it also will be helpful to take a look at some of our better-quality articles on sportspeople, such as Adam Gilchrist or Jackie Robinson. Doing so will serve to show how the techniques taught in the Tutorial can be applied in practice. I hope this response has been helpful. NewYorkActuary (talk) 11:11, 18 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

22:24:07, 18 June 2017 review of submission by Rpahuja25


Requesting a re-review because I did not finish the page.

@Rphahuja: Press the resubmit button once you're ready, but you've only added one reference since the last review. You should add inline citations- for a guide on how to do this see Help:Referencing for beginners. jcc (tea and biscuits) 22:34, 18 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

22:26:23, 18 June 2017 review of submission by Rpahuja25


The content of this submission includes material that does not meet Wikipedia's minimum standard for inline citations. It is still being working on. Accidently submitted. Please do not delte.

@Rpahuja25: No problem- it won't be deleted for at least six months from your last edit. Hope that helps! jcc (tea and biscuits) 22:32, 18 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
One of the reasons to use Draft space and the Articles for Creation process is that your draft will not be deleted if it doesn't meet notability or verifiability standards. It will only be declined, and you can continue to work on it. If an article in article space does not meet Wikipedia standards, it is subject to any of three deletion processes. As long as you use draft space, you only need to work on your draft every six months, but are encouraged to work on it and submit it as appropriate. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:49, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

22:43:51, 18 June 2017 review of submission by Rpahuja25


HI JCC-I forgot to ask one other question. Does I need references for the wikipdedia page. A couple actor friends do not have a reference page.

@Rpahuja25: Could you point to some examples of actor articles without references- all biographies of living people should have references!
Secondly, I'm sorry about this but one of Wikipedia's guidelines is that articles must be on people who are notable by Wikipedia's standards. That links to a guide, but for a person to be notable, they need to have been discussed in in-depth sources, like media reports or interviews, and I don't think that you/Rajeev meets that guideline.
I realise that this may sound frustrating; creating articles is generally considered the hardest thing to do on Wikipedia due to this standard, and generally I recommend to new editors that they rack up a couple of hundred edits improving pre-existing articles, getting used to the writing style, getting feedback and reading the notability guide before creating new articles.
If you find this topic interesting, perhaps you might want to host this content on your own blog or website? jcc (tea and biscuits) 22:51, 18 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

June 19

06:39:12, 19 June 2017 review of submission by Bmoy94

I submitted an article Innova Market Insights. It was recently reviewed but unfortunately, it didn't get approved due to the referencing part. Could you try to explain to me why in more details please? Also, could you help me about how to improve? Thank you. Bmoy94 (talk) 06:39, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

NOTE: Question has been answered at WP:Teahouse#Advice on referencing notability. NewYorkActuary (talk) 12:42, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

17:45:43, 19 June 2017 review of submission by Prairiefire2

Regarding Draft: Election Audits ... I submitted the Election audits article for review five weeks ago and was told review would take three weeks. I responded to the first editor's comment; the last message I received regarding its review was from Dodger61, if that helps. Prairiefire2 (talk) 17:45, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

21:34:39, 19 June 2017 review of submission by Slovo69


I had not intended to send my article for publication just yet, I do not know how it came to be considered for deletion or otherwise as I was still in the process of adding references. Is it possible to have more time to include the references? Slovo69 (talk) 21:34, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Slovo. Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. Your submission is being considered for deletion because the nominator believes that the submission will never be ready for publication. I assume you disagree and, if so, you should participate in the discussion that is currently taking place. You will find a link to that discussion in the box at the top of your submission but, for your convenience, we'll repeat it here -- WP:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Chris_McCafferty. I hope this response has been helpful. NewYorkActuary (talk) 23:39, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Slovo69. The best argument against deletion is to add references to three independent, reliable sources that cover McCafferty in some depth. In future, always start with the sources and write the text based on what they say, rather than writing some text and then looking for sources. If the draft is deleted, you may continue looking for sources. If you find them, you may create another draft. If you don't find them, write about something else - we have millions of articles, most of which can be improved, see how to help at Wikipedia:Community portal. --Worldbruce (talk) 00:03, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

June 20

17:44:28, 20 June 2017 review of submission by Hssupres


I need to upload a picture.

Hssupres (talk) 17:44, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Hssupres. The copyright holder (generally the photographer) will need to license the photograph appropriately before it can be used here. That is straightforward if you are the photographer. If not, read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials and the how-to guide Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. After you have the correct permissions, there are two main steps: first upload the image, then use it on a page.
Go to Commons:First steps and carefully step through the tutorial. When you get to "First steps/Uploading files", don't dive in too hastily. First follow the link on that page to learn about the different licensing options. Other useful advance reading includes Wikipedia:File names and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images, which will prepare you to answer important questions the upload wizard will ask you. If after that you have any questions or doubts, there is a dedicated help desk for image uploading.
Once you've uploaded an image, the picture tutorial can guide you through how to use it in an article. --Worldbruce (talk) 19:15, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

18:15:06, 20 June 2017 review of submission by Devialet

Hello, I am trying to create a page for Devialet on the English Wikipedia page. There is currently an existing page on the French Wikipedia (as this is where the company was started) with plenty of relevant sources and articles on the company. The issue I am facing is Devialet is new to the US (though 10+ years old in Europe), and so there are not many articles available in english as of yet. I'm wondering if there is a workaround for this considering there is a legitimate page in existence for the company on the French Wikipedia, and I am trying to recreate a similar type of page to exist on Devialet in English. Please let me know if there might be a way to help me with this issue I am facing. If I take out the significant claims like "they are the best audio system..." will that help my chances to have the article be published?

Thanks! Chelsea Devialet (talk) 18:15, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Devialet (talk) 18:15, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Devialet: English-language sources are preferred on the English-language Wikipedia, but reliable French-language sources may be used if no comparable source exists in English. For the article to be accepted, you'll likely have to entirely remove, or radically cut back the products and awards sections. The draft also shouldn't have any external links in the text. Turn them into references if possible, or remove them, or move them to an external links section at the bottom. --Worldbruce (talk) 19:30, 20 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

June 21

14:14:43, 21 June 2017 review of submission by 195.103.86.68



Dear Wiki reviwer,

It's been a while since i'm tryng to Insert a page in Wikipedia regarding Fiocchi of America Inc.

Since the company Fiocchi Munizioni (you can find the Wikipedia page) is part of the history of my city (Lecco Italy) and part of the italian history in general i tried to complete the subject in wikipedia creating a dedicated page for Fiocchi of America in order to let also people form other places of the world to learn about it.

I got three denials from various reviewers, could you please help me?

Thank you

NOTE: Comments have been left on the draft. NewYorkActuary (talk) 14:16, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

15:11:32, 21 June 2017 review of submission by Marianaeva


Hello, I already did yesterday the article in wiki spanish but it does not entered as well. can you help me please? Best, Mariana

Marianaeva (talk) 15:11, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

NOTE: Question was raised and answered at WP:Teahouse#I'm trying to improve my own article. NewYorkActuary (talk) 14:26, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

15:25:29, 21 June 2017 review of submission by EleanorLC


EleanorLC (talk) 15:25, 21 June 2017 (UTC) I would like assistance in finding any more relevant sources to add to my article on the North Highland Way e.g. newspaper articles etc.[reply]

I would also be really interested to hear/see any more information about the route anyone may have. Any contributions are welcomed.

NOTE: Question is being discussed at WP:Teahouse#I am looking for some feedback on my first article written around the North Highland Way. NewYorkActuary (talk) 14:30, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

20:30:52, 21 June 2017 review of draft by SAR1


SAR1 (talk) 20:30, 21 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@SAR1: Hello, SAR. Your submission was declined for being blank. And because you haven't actually asked a question here, I'm not sure what else can be said. NewYorkActuary (talk) 14:33, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

June 22

02:03:29, 22 June 2017 review of submission by IM3847


How to decline a draft at Articles for Creation. IM3847 (talk) 02:03, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry IM3847 if you have to ask here, you are clearly not qualified to do any reviewing. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:09, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Dodger67: Sir, Can I know who can review these draft i.e., Users with specific types of Rights.—IM3847 (talk) 16:10, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@IM3847: The criteria are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants. jcc (tea and biscuits) 18:50, 24 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

16:14:38, 22 June 2017 review of submission by Mastercourington

I had posted an article concerning Brenda J. Sell, a Taekwondo personality.

I am trying to understand the whole citation verifiability ordeal. I cited several links (though, admittedly, I did not do the reference tags within the body, as you can literally find the information within the links I provided), I have linked to her husband's wiki page, as well as a couple of other wiki pages (Kukkiwon, being one of them as well).

Where am I going wrong?

Mastercourington (talk) 16:14, 22 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Mastercourington: Hello, Mastercourington. Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. I see that you have already engaged in some discussion with the reviewer who declined your submission. Here, I'll just make two additional remarks. First, you ought to work through our WP:Tutorial, which will provide an introduction to the craft of constructing an acceptable Wikipedia article. Right now, your submission falls short of several of the basic elements of our Manual of Style and working through the tutorial will help improve your draft. You might also take a look at some of our better-quality articles on martial artists, such as Zhou Tong (archer) and Ernest Emerson. These articles will show how the principles discussed in the Tutorial are used in practice. My second remark has to do with what you call the "whole citation verifiability ordeal". Although this is addressed in one of the Tutorial chapters, it merits special emphasis here -- a biography of a living person must have "in-line" citations for the facts that are presented to the reader. It simply is not acceptable to place a bunch of references at the end of the article and expect the reader to search through all of them if they want to verify any particular statement. The failure to provide in-article citations will, in itself, be a sufficient reason to decline your submission. I hope this response has been helpful. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. NewYorkActuary (talk) 18:10, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

June 23

17:39:50, 23 June 2017 review of submission by Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz

The submission of my page is rejected based on the lack of "notability". Trying to be objective (obviously writing about myself this is impossible) - however I am "trying" as much as I can. I am researcher, MD,PhD. I understand that quantity of the publications (I have ~700, PUBMED) itself is not adequate. The number of Google citations (I have <43,400, h index 104) also may be inadequate, because Google includes also the non-peer reviewed articles). However my Web of Knowledge h-index is 174 and the number of citations, excluding self-citations is 220,140. http://apps.webofknowledge.com/CitationReport.do?product=WOS&search_mode=CitationReport&SID=4DnSmB4YG6mgxGe3qkB&page=1&cr_pqid=3&viewType=summary&colName=WOS .

After reading the Wiki instructions I realized that while trying to cite as many achievements as possible perhaps I "diluted" the most important ones with the not so important ones, making the former less "visible". Among the former I have to mentions the following: (1) I was the President (and the Congress Program Chair) of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (1994) the Society of over 2,000 members from over 45 countries; (2) I am the principal author of the papers that introduced the key method to detect cell death by apoptosis commonly known as the TUNEL methodology. My several papers describing this method and its key applications have over 10,000 citations; (3) Another widely used methodology detects DNA susceptibility to denaturation and DNA fragmentation in infertile sperm cells was accepted as one of the methods to test male fertility by WHO. I am best known author (Google Scholar Citations) in the fields like "cytometry" (#1,http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=label:cytometry), "DNA damage" (#1, http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=label:dna_damage , "fluorescent probes" (#1, http: //scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=label:fluorescent_probes; "cell cycle" #3, http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=label:cell_cycle. I think that collectively these achievements may place me above the threshold for the acceptance to be listed in Wikipedia Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz (talk) 17:39, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]


Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz (talk) 17:39, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Zbigniew. Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. I think you hit the nail on the head near the beginning of your posting here -- it is indeed impossible to be objective when writing about yourself. So much so that writing autobiographies here on Wikipedia is extremely discuouraged (and see WP:AUTO for more discussion of this). But with regard to your particular question, your posting here doesn't address the major concern raised by the person who reviewed your submission -- you haven't shown that you've attracted substantial notice from reliable third-party sources. And being cited by other researchers is not what we mean by "substantial coverage".

When assessing the notability of researchers, we often look to the criteria under WP:NACADEMIC. My quick reading of your draft didn't satisfy me that you have met any of those criteria, although I did think twice when I saw that you were a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, because we sometimes view membership in a selective national society as strong evidence of notability. But looking deeper raised questions. Although the PAS limits itself to 350 national members, the most recent membership data that I could find (late 2016) shows that the Academy hasn't reached that limit (having only 316 national members). So, there's a question of just how much selectivity is actually being practiced by the Academy. But there's another problem -- the limit applies only to "national members", and your status with the Academy is as a "foreign" member. I could find no limits on the number of foreign members that are admitted to the Society and the only requirement that I could find was the assembling of a certain small number of recommendations (and if that were a sufficient indication of "notability", we'd have millions of articles on academics).

In all, I think the reviewer was correct in declining your submission. I recognize that this is not the response that you were hoping for and, if you have any further questions, feel free to ask. NewYorkActuary (talk) 18:54, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

, I did not realize that being the member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) makes me more "notable" that my other, scientific achievements and I did not emphasize this point. . Please notice that all the Foreign Members of PAN (except of me) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Academy_of_Sciences are listed in Wikipedia. In fact The list of Foreign Members is more inclusive that the list of "ordinary " members. Please notice that all foreign members except me are listed in Wikipedia. I am also the Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the Member of Polish Academy of Learning (PAU, Krakow)which is as inclusive as the PAN. Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz (talk) 21:22, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

June 24

Request on 23:14:58, 24 June 2017 for assistance on AfC submission by Tabloc



Tabloc (talk) 23:14, 24 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Request on 11:43:48, 25 June 2017 for assistance on AfC submission by Rachitasinha28


I wanted to create an article on this person as I have seen their work having big impact on the society, or rather children. This is my first attempt in publishing something on wikipedia and I genuinely want to contribute something by writing/initiating this article. I have gathered information about this person from various articles published in newspapers and have picked up words from them and mentioned the source as well. I may not be accepted as a full contributor, but can I start this article and mention some important links that i have information about. Please assist me in getting this through as I am new to it.

thank you


Rachitasinha28 (talk) 11:43, 25 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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