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Your submission at Articles for creation: Patricia Downes Chomley has been accepted

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Laplorfill (talk) 03:37, 4 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

Just a small note

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Many new biographies have missing country/state/city identification in the talk page project tags - just a small note has been partially fixed... More bios please! - good work! JarrahTree 07:41, 3 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Nurse Mary Kirkpatrick moved to draftspace

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An article you recently created, Nurse Mary Kirkpatrick, 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. Reading Beans (talk) 05:43, 28 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

Concern regarding Draft:Nurse Mary Kirkpatrick

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Mary Kirkpatrick (nurse) (April 28)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Asilvering was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.
asilvering (talk) 19:42, 28 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
 
Hello, NoelineKyle! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! asilvering (talk) 19:42, 28 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Women in Red

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Hi there, I'm the one who just declined the article above (sorry about that). Are you aware of the Women in Red wikiproject? That is another good place to ask for help with biographical articles on women. Experienced editors there are always happy to help less experienced editors adapt to Wikipedia's various formatting, referencing, and notability guidelines. -- asilvering (talk) 19:56, 28 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hi,
I am an historian and have written and had published many books. I find Wikipedia extremely awkward as there seems no real academic reason for the decisions made but mostly based on a complicated method of determining provenance etc. i am highly experienced re referencing indeed have written a book about that same topic, but referencing for printed books certainly seem very different to Wikipedia. I am aware that you seem to prefer a website instead of say an informal reference such as a letter or an email or such which are quite common in writing publications especially re women who are the hardest of all to find information on. I also know about RED but am quite happy to muddle on my own. I attended one workshop re Wikipedia and found it to be useless as it seemed to focus on writing which is not my problem. My problem is working out your convoluted, long and extremely confusing rules!!!
Cheers
Professor Noeline Kyle ,
University of Sydney NoelineKyle (talk) 00:49, 29 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
Yes, that's why I suggested going to Women in Red - people there are very familiar with the extremely confusing rules, and very happy to help! We're especially keen to bring down this particular barrier to editing. The more historians who are working on this project, the better. I suggest the citation gadgets because they've been developed to take most of the work out for you - basically, you can drop an ISBN or URL in there and not only will it format it correctly, it will add various working URLs to Worldcat, Google Books, and so on. I believe they're based on Zotero.
The principle behind "no informal references" is WP:V, verifiability, and WP:OR, on no "original research". The idea is that Wikipedia will say what published, secondary sources say. Archival material, interviews, and so on, are what historians writing those secondary sources use, but we want the references on Wikipedia to be something that anyone reading Wikipedia could theoretically follow up on. No one can follow up on an email to Noeline Kyle to make sure that Wikipedia was reporting its content correctly - unless, of course, you write it up in something that is published. Then, they can. -- asilvering (talk) 16:22, 29 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

License tagging for File:Hollywood Private Hospital Kempsey.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Hollywood Private Hospital Kempsey.jpg. You don't seem to have indicated the license status of the image. Wikipedia uses a set of image copyright tags to indicate this information.

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Question regarding File:Hollywood Private Hospital Kempsey.jpg

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Hi! I'm looking at the file now, and I see that it got tagged by a bot for lacking licensing information. This is because the licensing/public domain information for the file is not machine-readable. I'd be more than happy to convert the information you've provided into something machine-readable for you. To do so, I just need one more piece of information: do you have the approximate date that the photograph was taken? If you don't have the exact date, are you able to let me know if the photograph was taken before 1 January 1955?

Happy editing!

Red-tailed hawk (nest) 16:27, 30 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hi,
The photo of Hollywood Private Hospital was taken between 1913 (when Nurse Kirkpatrick first rented it for her new hospital) to 1916 when she left to open another hospital elsewhere. I would guess it was around c.1913-14 as the front has no actual street but is just a stretch of grassed earth. The nurses in the front yard indicates it was still being used as a hospital. The actual house was built in the same year as Nurse Kirkpatrick opened her private hospital there. (a ref for it at: Patricia Riggs A Portrait of Kempsey, Robert Brown & Associates, Bathurst, 1988, p.8 ISBN 0949267376
Thanks for agreeing to fix this for me. I must admit the idea of having a bot tell me to somehow fix it made me think I would just delete it and leave it at that. If you can do something that would be great.
The image is from a collection from the Macleay River Historical Society (Kempsey Museum) and they give me permission to use it also. After the photographer Angus McNeil died somebody took all of his precious glass negatives and was taking them to the local tip. Another good citizen rescued them and took them to the Kempsey Museum and over the years volunteers have scanned the glass negatives and they are now available at the museum to search and purchase for. researchers
Noeline NoelineKyle (talk) 00:09, 1 May 2023 (UTC)Reply
Thank you getting back so quickly! I've made a fix on the file page; the file should no longer get deleted by the bot. I do admit that the image upload process is a bit byzantine and in need of modernization, and I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you have any questions going forward, feel free to leave me a message on my user talk page—I'm more than happy to help :)
Red-tailed hawk (nest) 00:40, 1 May 2023 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for that. I am at an age, I am 82, where although I am computer literate (I worked as an academic) I am totally unable to deal with the pages and pages of notes and rules when I go to a help page!! It is partly that as I age I am losing my tolerance for such things and also partly perhaps a symptom of someone who thinks they know a lot having to deal with things they know very little.
I shall be in touch when I falter again. I am putting up NSW nurses and midwives who took leadership roles and were extraordinary for their times, for colleagues of mine who are volunteers at the College of Nursing Archives in Sydney. So it is my job as for my sins I am seen as more computer literate than they are....ha ha
Cheers
Noeline NoelineKyle (talk) 00:50, 1 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

June 2023

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  Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Georgina McCready, from its old location at User:NoelineKyle/sandbox. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. - RichT|C|E-Mail 05:34, 17 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hello.
I have no idea what you mean, and I can't find my article anywhere in a space called...Articles for Creation???? So you have moved my draft but where to< and why?// Was it wrong? Was it not suitable? I can't find the placed titled Draft Namespace as it simply doesn't tell me anything??/
Cheers Noeline, sorry to be so obtuse, but I am am bamboozled every time I press publish?? NoelineKyle (talk) 06:30, 17 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
@NoelineKyle: Your draft is at Draft:Georgina McCready - RichT|C|E-Mail 06:37, 17 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Georgina McCready (June 17)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by DoubleGrazing was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.
DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:44, 17 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Georgina McCready

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McCready is obviously notable, so I linked the ADB entry and resubmitted and accepted the draft for you. I'm not at all sure what the previous reviewer meant by sparse referencing, as there is lots here, but for future articles, here are some suggestions:

  1. avoid archival sources as much as possible, and use them only for basic facts; if you do use one, it's best if the item is digitized. The idea is that readers need to be able to verify them, which is quite difficult for most people if the source is an unpublished item in a box somewhere in Australia.
  2. separate your sources rather than combining them in a footnote. This might be what DoubleGrazing meant by "sparse". If a paragraph all comes from one source, it's fine to just stick one footnote on the end of the paragraph. But when you're using multiple sources, it's very helpful if you can be more specific about what comes from where. This makes it much easier for other editors to come in and add or edit the biography without doing damage to the attributions.
  3. for the same reason, please avoid "op cit" and so on. If someone comes by later and rearranges the article these can be difficult to disentangle.
  4. please give specific page numbers for the parts of the books you're using, especially if they're print-only.

By the way, if you're using Visual Editor (the WYSIWYG one, not the source code editor), there should be a "cite" button at the top (or you can press ctrl+shift+k). This can automatically generate references for you if you have the ISBN, doi, or URL. That's how I reformatted the ADB citation for you. imo this makes it much easier to add links and so forth, which makes AfC reviewers happy. -- asilvering (talk) 17:48, 17 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Oh hah, I see I've already mentioned the citation gadgets regarding another one of your drafts. Sorry! You are of course welcome to use them as much or as little as you like. But AfC reviewers will be much reassured by URLs, when they're available. :) -- asilvering (talk) 17:51, 17 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for your support , all these people contacting me is driving me a bit mad...ha ha NoelineKyle (talk) 01:16, 19 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Catherine Tully (July 25)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Asilvering was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.
asilvering (talk) 22:02, 25 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
Thanks. That is a good point. I kindof got carried away with the websites, and will in future make sure there are secondary sources. But I don't think I can do all of the 20 nurses? thanks for the quick response. I will take your comments into account when I do any more. cheers NoelineKyle (talk) 05:42, 26 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Mary Kirkpatrick (nurse) has been accepted

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Mary Kirkpatrick (nurse), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

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Thanks again, and happy editing!

scope_creepTalk 09:32, 25 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
Thank you very much Noeline 🌹 49.189.112.242 (talk) 23:25, 25 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Judith Cornell (September 12)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Utopes was:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.
Utopes (talk / cont) 09:15, 12 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

AfC notification: Draft:Judith Cornell has a new comment

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I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Judith Cornell. Thanks! asilvering (talk) 19:20, 13 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Judith Cornell (October 8)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Greenman was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.
Greenman (talk) 23:41, 8 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Concern regarding Draft:Catherine Tully

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Concern regarding Draft:Judith Cornell

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