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Brattleboro Museum and Art Center
Why are you recreating this article without explanation, and without fixing the serious issues? The sources you are adding do nothing to demonstrate notability - merely having exhibitions by a famous artist does not render an art gallery notable. Notability requires substantial, non-routine coverage by independent sources. If you are insistent on recreating the article, you also need to fix the POV language and lack of citations in the prose, and properly format your citations. If you are not willing to do this work, please stop edit warring and recreating the article. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 07:17, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
- The museum is indeed notable. A Google of "Brattleboro Museum" shows a great deal of press over decades. I will work on getting more citations in. Best, Thriley (talk) 07:22, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
- Is it actually substantial coverage, or is it merely run-of-the-mill coverage? I only see the former from a search. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 07:30, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
Ways to improve Alain Geismar
Hello, Thriley,
Thank you for creating Alain Geismar.
I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:
Hi (salut?) - thanks for creating the article on Alain Geismar, I would encourage a little more editing before publishing. I'm happy to do some work on it and I enjoy working on translations from French. Ping me in future if you wish to collaborate. Cordialement,
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Alaska dairy industry moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Alaska dairy industry, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. JJP...MASTER![talk to] JJP... master? 13:12, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
Ohio dairy industry
Hello! Thank you for your contributions! I have been doing some minor improvements to your articles about dairy industry and wanted to ask your help concerning the Ohio dairy industry article. Namely, there is a url that seems broken. I have tried to find the page but failed. Can you please add the correct link? Thank you! Best, Less Unless (talk) 23:21, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Mount Abraham Union High School
Hello Thriley,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Mount Abraham Union High School for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly indicate why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
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Bare URLs
Hello! I noticed your new articles, thank you for your contributions. When publishing articles it is a good idea to use this tool to fill out the references. If references are "bare URLs", they could be deleted later by their publisher and we would have no idea of what the source was. If we have the title, author, name of publication etc, we can track down the source. Thanks Possibly (talk) 03:34, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
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Andrei Yurievich Sannikov moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Andrei Yurievich Sannikov, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Hitro talk 06:49, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
I have sent you a note about a page you started
Hello, Thriley
Thank you for creating David Yacovone.
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Passes WP:NPOL because entity is an elected member of Vermont General Assembly. (Verified!)
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December 2020
Your edit to CAN-DO Foundation has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 11:49, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
About Rosemary Margaret Smith
Would you be okay with me submitting Rosemary Margaret Smith to DYK? It's just long enough now to qualify and we can always have more articles on women on the front page. SilverserenC 00:35, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
New categories
Please don't create "naked" categories as you did with eg Category:Plagiostachys - add at least one category (such as the one for the parent taxon, you can grab it from the equivalent article) so that humans and maintenance bots can find it in the hierarchy, and ideally a {{catmain}} as I did here. Also it's good practice to add a new genus category to the corresponding genus article, ie Plagiostachys. Le Deluge (talk) 10:33, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
Moving draft to mainspace
Please explain why you moved The Unknown Man (film) to mainspace Sonofstar (talk) 12:32, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
DYK hook help
Any ideas on what sort of hook should be used for the DYK submission on Rosemary Margaret Smith? You can find the nomination here. SilverserenC 22:19, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
I have sent you a note about a page you started
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Thank you for creating Appel du 18 joint.
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The article Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Non-notable journal. Not indexed in any selective databases, no independent sources. Does not meet WP:NJournals or WP:GNG.
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Julius Ehrentraut moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Julius Ehrentraut, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Onel5969 TT me 13:15, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
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The article PlantNetwork has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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Speedy deletion nomination of Shudu Gram
Hello Thriley,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Shudu Gram for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly indicate why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.
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Species stubs
Hi Thriley, could I ask you to employ a slightly more useful format for your new species stubs? As exemplified by Kathetostoma canaster:
- please include a {{speciesbox}}, or at least a manual {{taxobox}}
- don't use pointless high-domain references to, e.g., Fishbase - we don't expect our readers to navigate extended searches when checking a reference. Instead use links to the exact entry, e.g.: "Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2021). "Kathetostoma canaster" in FishBase. 1 2021 version.". (You'll note that for Fishbase, there's a handy shortcut template!)
- omit statements like "no subspecies are listed in CoI". That's the base state for species - if there are subspecies, we mention it, otherwise the assumption is that there are none
- check for name typos - it's canaster, not the originally used canister
Cheers! --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 22:27, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
January 2021
Hello. I have noticed that you often edit without using an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This helps your fellow editors use their time more productively, rather than spending it unnecessarily scrutinizing and verifying your work. Even a short summary is better than no summary, and summaries are particularly important for large, complex, or potentially controversial edits. Thanks! Wareon (talk) 04:53, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Patrick Gordon-Duff-Pennington
Hello Thriley,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Patrick Gordon-Duff-Pennington for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly indicate why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.
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John B123 (talk) 17:23, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
- I think that nomination was a bit hasty, but it shows that it's useful to add {{under construction}} while you're developing an article, to deter those who don't think that citing 7 newspaper refs is an indication of notability.
- But, talking of refs: Refill2 seems to make a pretty poor job of fixing newspaper refs. Please check that what it's done is reasonable: it doesn't seem to identify newspapers, for which "cite news" produces a better ref than "cite web", and for which the publication date and access date should both be given: it doesn't seem to bother producing a date at all. I've upgraded a couple of the refs, and also given a couple of them more civilised names so that they can be re-used more easily. Thanks for your work on this interesting character. PamD 21:23, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Why the rush
I've noticed that you are currently the user with the most unreviewed articles on English Wikipedia. Most of those articles appear to be partial (machine )translations. Why are you in such a hurry to create so many incomplete articles? Vexations (talk) 21:49, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
Copyright problem on Southern Poverty Law Center
Content you added to the above article appears to have been copied from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/opinion/southern-poverty-law-center-liberals-islam.html, which is not released under a compatible license. Copying text directly from a source is a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Content you add to Wikipedia should be written in your own words. Please leave a message on my talk page if you have any questions. This is your third warning for copyright issues. — Diannaa (talk) 18:11, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
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I have sent you a note about a page you started
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Thank you for creating Annmarie Christensen.
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Autopatrolled rights
Hi I’ve reviewed a lot of your new articles and I’d like to suggest that you apply for Autopatrolled rights. That way your articles will bypass New Pages Patrol altogether and be indexed by search engines right away. All the best Mccapra (talk) 07:45, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
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"Friedhof cemetery" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Friedhof cemetery. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 February 6#Friedhof cemetery until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. signed, Rosguill talk 12:30, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Oliver Tarbell Eddy
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- You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [25]
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- When admins protect pages the form will use the OOUI look. Special:Import will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [26][27]
- Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists or recording email bounces. This is because of database maintenance. [28]
- Last week Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS and Toolforge use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [29]
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17:40, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
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DYK submitted for Lillian
Hi, Thriley! I've submitted a DYK request for Lillian Michelson that you can find over here. SilverserenC 01:18, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
The Present Crisis
Hello, Thriley! I've done some work to beef up the article you created on "The Present Crisis." It's certainly still in its infancy but wondering if you thought it worthy of a DYK nomination. --Midnightdreary (talk) 14:51, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
The article Native Plants Journal has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
Non-notable journal. Not indexed in any selective databases, no independent sources. Does not meet WP:NJournals or WP:GNG.
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