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00:25:52, 14 November 2016 review of submission by Count Turdula

• Count Turdula (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Clay Higgins (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I am wondering if a review can be expedited. I wrote a page for a US Congressional candidate who didn't have one and his election is on December 10th. It would be helpful (and prudent) to get this article published sooner than later, I'd think. Thanks! Count Turdula (talk) 00:25, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi Count Turdula Wikipedia has no interest at all in participating in any election campaign (see WP:PROMO), no "deadline" will be entertained either (see WP:DEADLINE). You need to carefully assess whether the subject qualifies for inclusion per WP:NPOLITICIAN. It is very rare for a politician to qualify for an article before having won an election for at least a state-level position (a common exception is mayors of large cities). Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:39, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

00:58:46, 14 November 2016 review of submission by Mattlee0905

• Mattlee0905 (talk · contribs)

Hey, so this is the reason for rejection "The content of this submission includes material that does not meet Wikipedia's minimum standard for inline citations. Please cite your sources using footnotes. For instructions on how to do this, please see Referencing for beginners. Thank you." I cited my sources but I don't know to to create footnotes as opposed to what I did, or if its a specific sentence that doesn't have a citation that is the issue? So I'm just not sure if its a format issue or a content issue. Any help would be much appreciate. - Matt Mattlee0905 (talk) 00:58, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi Mattlee0905, I'm afraid that decline was an error by the reviewer, all your references are inline footnotes. Such errors do sometimes happen as the decline reasons are presented to reviewers in the form of a list, a "slip of the mouse" can easily select the wrong one. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:36, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Request on 01:06:26, 14 November 2016 for assistance on AfC submission by Gangactor

gangactor (talk) 01:09, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

• Gangactor (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Gangadhar Panday (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I created two articles: one Gangadhar Panday and two Gangadhafr Panday. the second one is marked as draft. I want to delete the second article so that I can continue with the first one which has the right spelling. The second one has an extra character f at 9th position in the name part.

gangactor (talk) 01:06, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi Gangactor, to request deletion you simply add {{db-user}} to the top of the page. As you are the only significant contributor to the page it will be deleted on your request using that tag. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:39, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you Roger for the inputs. I wanted to do that but find that it is already deleted. thanks for the guidance. Now I want to create an article about myself. I am writing it in a word document giving the references whereever possible by putting them between two ref xxx ref s like the following:

My idea is to copy paste the content in the word document on to Draft Gangadhar Panday Let me know if this works. best wishes - Ganga gangactor (talk) 01:09, 15 November 2016 (UTC) hope I have fixed the cite referencing errors. gangactor (talk) 08:50, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

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02:53:51, 14 November 2016 review of submission by RTAFleet

• RTAFleet (talk · contribs)

i meed to know why my page was not approved so I can correct the issue.

RTAFleet (talk) 02:53, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

The draft is Draft:Ron Turley Associates. As my decline said, the references all appear to be associated with Turley and his agency. As such, they do not establish notability. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:52, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

However, I have a question. Your user name is very similar to that of the subject of the article. What is your connection to the subject of the article? Please read the conflict of interest guideline and make any appropriate declaration. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:52, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

03:27:35, 14 November 2016 review of submission by Sydneycitybuzz

• Sydneycitybuzz (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Jim P Stefan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I can't understand why this person is not "notable", he has been a huge contributor to the community in Australia but has been remembered as one the first men in Australia to change the lobby for the change in truth in sentencing laws in NSW. Working with Gary Lynch, the father of murdered nurse Anita Cobby to change our laws for the safety of our people is not notable? Being on Boards such as Homicide victims support group in NSW helping victims of homicide is not notable?

This comment isn't about notability and so doesn't answer your question. However, your frequent use of bold face to call attention to the names of other people is distracting. If the other people are the subjects of articles in Wikipedia, link them. If not, not. Use bold face only rarely, as specified by the manual of style, such as in the lede sentence. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:30, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

07:29:57, 14 November 2016 review of submission by Cashewdattel

• Cashewdattel (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Ernst Böcker (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi, I don't understand why I got a first review for the article which asked for improvements of a certain kind - the requested changes were made, then the article was reviewed by someone else (and not the original reviewer), who did not talk about the requested changes, but in turn asked for other changes. Of course I could adapt the article again, but who guarantees that it will be granted then? That could be an endless discussion if every person who reviews adds their own requirements for having the article pass. It confuses me a little.

There are many requirements, and not enough reviewers to deal with all the drafts that are submitted. They do not have time to describe all the defects of every article submitted to them. And no-one here is in a position to offer guarantees. Maproom (talk) 16:41, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

16:34:24, 14 November 2016 review of draft by EricGrunwald

• EricGrunwald (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:The Murder on Via Bel Poggio (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hello, When do I have to include a table of contents in an article? After a certain number of sub-headings have been added? How many? EricGrunwald (talk) 16:34, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

You don't have to include a table of contents in an article. If you use proper markup, the Wikipedia software will generate a table of contents for you when one is appropriate. In fact, please don't include a table of contents. Because the table of contents is generated automatically, including a human-generated table of contents creates two tables, one of which gets out of sync with the contents, while the automatic one is kept up-to-date automatically. Thank you for asking a reasonable question to which the answer may be a surprise. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:25, 14 November 2016 (UTC)