Mazda1973

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Teahouse question answered

Hello,

Thank you for your question at the teahouse Q&A Board! I have responded to your question if you would like to look at your article here, I have fixed it up a bit!

Happy Editing!

Gibboboy 10:07, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Kumi Taguchi (journalist)

The article Kumi Taguchi (journalist) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

An article on a living person sparsely sourced and only through primary and non-independent sources. A look for secondary, reliable, independent sources finds a some reportage by her, but little about her.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:52, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Teahouse advice

Hey Mazda. I'm afraid you did not receive very good advice at the Teahouse in response to your post there. That is something that those of use who answer questions there are concerned with. Sorry about that. Specifically, you were told everything looked okay with the article you asked for a review of (although a second user did say something different later, but often, by that time, the damage is already done). Unfortunately, the first post was not from an experienced Wikipedian at all, and he was incorrect. For example, the article was at the wrong title, spaced all its citations away from the content on new lines, and familiarly used the subject's first name throughout. I took care of all those issues, and you can follow what I did from the pages history. However, here were much more fundamental problems: in addition to the article being only sparsely sourced, all of the citations were to primary sources or sources that are not independent of the subject.

As you may have noticed, I have proposed the article for deletion. The templated notice above provides my rationale, but I'd like to explain a bit more clearly.

An encyclopedia is, by its nature, a tertiary source, providing a survey of information already the subject of publication in the wider world. Accordingly, and because Wikipedia is open to editing by anyone, we require that information be verifiable in reliable sources. Primary sources can be used, but they should only be used for very basic factual claims, and not for any synthesis, interpretation or analysis. For that, we need secondary sources that are independent of the topic.

We also require articles to be on notable topics, which requires the existence of those same reliable secondary, independent sources – and they need to have published detailed material about the subject – not just passing mentions. Having looked for such sources and finding unfortunately precious few, I proposed the article for deletion.

Of course, I would be happy if in response you were able to find the types of sources we look for and cite them to rehabilitate the article. I want you to succeed. It's just that in this case I think you picked the wrong topic to write about. If the article is deleted, please don't let this discourage you from continuing. Now you know the single most important metric to gauge before starting another article and, so armed, your next effort should be successful. By the way, there are lots of ways to help out here that don't require new articles to be created. I recommend the Wikipedia:Community portal. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:18, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you. Gibboboy 09:04, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Kumi Taguchi Headshot.jpg

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Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Mazda1973! Your additions to Adrienne Francis have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. DanCherek (talk) 21:11, 21 September 2021 (UTC)