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November 1

What does each knob mean on a digital voltage meter

Beginer, looking for very basic information on how to read and understand what each turn on volt meter means, plus what it stands emblem means.

any help will be help ful in laymen's term PLEASE. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.82.108.50 (talk) 01:15, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

This page is for questions about the Articles for creation process. Please consider asking this question at the Wikipedia:Reference desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what the Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. You could always try searching Wikipedia for an article related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps. Huon (talk) 01:50, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Problem with re-submitting an article

Dear Sir/Madam,

I have submitted an article for Wikipedia and incorporated the suggestions of the reviewers, and am now ready to re-submit.

Unfortunately, when I press SAVE - nothing seems to happen.

Could you please advise me if I am doing something wrong.

Thanks in advance,

Atlas255 (talk) 04:46, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

I have submitted the draft for you, but unfortunately I cannot tell what exactly went wrong. You apparently could save the additional references, so it's not a general problem. You can submit a draft manually by adding {{subst:submit}} to the very top. Huon (talk) 05:06, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

prakasam

who is the father of indian politics — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.169.153.214 (talk) 08:31, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

This page is for questions about the Articles for creation process. Please consider asking this question at the Wikipedia:Reference desk. They specialize in knowledge questions and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that is what the Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. You could always try searching Wikipedia for an article related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps. Depending on what you consider "Indian politics", I'd say Nehru or maybe Gandhi. If you take a wider view, you could go with Chandragupta Maurya, among the first to establish some kind of rule over almost all of India. I don't think Tanguturi Prakasam is significant enough for the title. Huon (talk) 14:19, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Richard Rolfe

I have submitted an article (Richard Rolfe) recently and had the submission declined on two main points: the subject is not sufficiently notable and the citations are weak. Before making the submission I reviewed like articles and pages in order to assess the worth of this subject.

Given the work for which Richard Rolfe has received a variety of accolades and the extensive national coverage he obtained for this work the subject appeared highly notable. In particualr when compared to some pages already within the Wikipedia pages. Although Jersey is a small country the citations I included all came from national media including the BBC and a region of ITV for example. Mr Rolfe continues to be interviewed extensively by the media and so the article I submitted seemed highly pertinent.

I would be grateful for advice as to how I might further meet the requirements for submission. Having reviewed again the extensive guides on submission I am at a loss to take this further, (although thoroughly enjoying the process of interacting with Wikipedia)Journeaux (talk) 14:46, 1 November 2012 (UTC) Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Richard Rolfe

At a glance Rolfe does appear to meet our notability standards. However, multiple sources cited to credit Rolfe with certain accomplishments in fact don't mention him at all. This includes the sources no. 2, 3 and 4, which combined are supposed to confirm much of the actual work Rolfe did at Le Rocquier. And the one source that mentions Rolfe's bout with cancer provides less detail than our article - where did the additional information come from?

I believe some of the information currently not supported by the cited sources could be salvaged by using others of the article's sources instead, but what cannot be sourced should be removed. Furthermore, the sources hosted at gov.je sites should probably be considered primary sources - in effect that's Rolfe's employer writing about Rolfe. They may be helpful, but we should treat them with greater care than true news sources. Huon (talk) 15:18, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Help removing submission

Hi, I submitted an article draft at AfC but in the meantime a couple of editors reviewed the draft in my userspace and helped to take it live. I'm not sure how to remove the submission now - can someone here help me to delete it? The submission is here: Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Apartment_Therapy

If this isn't the right place to ask, please let me know if there's a more appropriate venue. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 21:01, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

I've nominated the draft for speedy deletion as a page whose only significant author requested its deletion. I also declined the submission so no one else will bother to review it.

You could have nominated the draft for deletion yourself by adding {{db-author}} to the very top, but other than that, this help desk is indeed the right venue for all questions related to the Articles for creation process. For questions on Wikipedia in general you may find the main help desk a better place. Huon (talk) 21:39, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, really appreciate your help. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk · COI) 22:30, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Oliver McGee

Hi - I have added new references - not sure if I submitted my article for review again properly. Can you help? thanks!

Kathryn — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kmitch419 (talk • contribs) 21:41, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

You did submit the article properly; as long as there's a "review waiting" message and the page is categorized among the pending AfC submissions (the very last line), everything is ok.

However, I don't think the references are sufficient. Most of them seem to be primary sources such as McGee's own website or those of organizations he's associated with. Press releases are not considered reliable by Wikipedia's standards, and the ACE doesn't even write a single sentence about McGee. That's not quite the significant coverage in reliable sources we need. Conversely, most of the article (including all awards but one) doesn't cite any secondary sources at all. Maybe McGee has been the subject of newspaper coverage?

As an aside, you had pasted multiple copies of the draft on the page. I removed all but one of them. Please try to avoid having more than one copy; it's usually rather difficult for reviewers to check which of the copies is supposed to be reviewed. Huon (talk) 22:16, 1 November 2012 (UTC)