Improving the Stephen Holland article

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The place to start is always the talkpage, Talk:Stephen Holland. Write a couple of things you'd like to start with there. If it's a long list, don't try to do it all at once. Consider also posting something like "Hello, I'm Stephen Holland's wife, and I'd like some help to improve the WP-article about him, please." at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Swimming and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Australian sports. None may bite but the hooks are cheap. Good luck, and please don't tell me he's going to swim in the Enhanced Games. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:28, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for your help. Stephen Holland American artist , not the Australian swimmer.
I am the wife of the artist, Stephen Holland. We have new information to update his wikipedia page. Can someone look at the material and help post the updates? I have copy, images and citations of articles. JNGHfromStephenHollandStudios (talk) 17:19, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
Ah. The Enhanced Games will not be an issue then.
I'll take a look at the ones you posted here:[1], give me a few days (WP is a hobby). A WP-article on anyone is supposed to be a summary of reliable sources (WP:RS) that are at the same time independent of the subject and about the subject. What is best/most wanted are chapters about him/his work in books, articles in newspapers and magazines, BBC-documentaries etc. These don't have to be online, but of course it makes things much easier if they are. Some Wikipedians (like me) have access to online archives like ProQuest and newspaperarchive.com, and they can be quite helpful with people like Stephen Holland who actually did stuff before the internet! I quickly found an article on newspaperarchive called "Painter's pallette brings athletes into focus" (Santa Barbara News Press Newspaper Archives July 29, 2006 Page 28), so it seems to me that there are good WP-usable sources out there. That article even has a picture of Stephen Holland and his wife.
The deletion discussion seems to be going well: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephen Holland (artist). Obviously someone who painted Mats Sundin must be on Wikipedia. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:05, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Hello, JNGHfromStephenHollandStudios, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

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Thank you for your help. Stephen Holland American artist , not the Australian swimmer.
I am the wife of the artist, Stephen Holland. We have new information to update his wikipedia page. Can someone look at the material and help post the updates? I have copy, images and citations of articles. JNGHfromStephenHollandStudios (talk) 17:19, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for your help. Stephen Holland American artist , not the Australian swimmer.
I am the wife of the artist, Stephen Holland. We have new information to update his wikipedia page. Can someone look at the material and help post the updates? I have copy, images and citations of articles. we own the copyrights on the images. JNGHfromStephenHollandStudios (talk) 17:25, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
The correct title is Stephen Holland (artist) I have tagged it for deletion as it doesn't show how he passes WP:GNG or WP:NARTIST you can request edits on the article's talk page using the template {{edit COI}}. Theroadislong (talk) 17:30, 24 February 2024 (UTC)Reply