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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:23, 18 March 2025 (UTC)
Hi Sdkb, nice to meet you! I saw that you are interested in journalism and part of related projects like WP:WPNEWS. I was hoping that you would take a look at the edit request that I posted about Substack here. If you think it would help the article, would you mind implementing the changes?
Thank you, LS4Substack (talk) 18:17, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm trying to create my wiki page --Anthony Vick (talk) 12:42, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Anthony Vick! We discourage that. See Wikipedia: Autobiography. Cheers, Sdkb talk 13:27, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
Make a title page and find out when the school was built and other significant events that have happened there --SigmaBoy2011 (talk) 11:02, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- @SigmaBoy2011, do you have a question? I'm not an AI that you can just ask to write an article (and if I were I'd still need the name of the school). Sdkb talk 14:18, 11 April 2025 (UTC)
- Catonsville middle school, 21228, catonsville,maryland. sorry i was late to respond, i lost my phone SigmaBoy2011 (talk) 10:58, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
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You undid my addition of a quote to the lead of Akira Kurosawa. I think that was a mistake. The lead for William Shakespeare (a Featured Article) rounds out with the following from Ben Jonson: "not of an age, but for all time". The lead for James Joyce has the following from the man himself: "For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal." That's also a Featured Article.
So I think it's entirely appropriate to have the Kurosawa quote in the lead, but won't press the issue until consensus has been reached. Charlie Faust (talk) 14:59, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for reaching out! I'll add on to the note I left on the talk page before I made the revert so that we can centralize discussion there. Cheers, Sdkb talk 16:11, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
How can I make my editing better --Blackcole.44 (talk) 18:49, 11 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Blackcole.44, the Help:Introduction tutorial has lots of useful tips and advice. Cheers, Sdkb talk 00:41, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
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- I edited that article only as part of an AWB run, so you may want to be a little more selective in your notices. Cheers, Sdkb talk 21:57, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
- Apologies. I wasn’t sure from the edit history comment exactly how automated your use of AWB was in that edit. Please forgive the intrusion. — TadgStirkland401 (TadgTalk) 04:13, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
- No worries; always better to err on the safe side of over-notification. For the future, I'd say that most uses of AWB are automated enough that people are only spending a few seconds per article, so if someone's only edit to a page has an AWB tag I wouldn't consider it necessary to notify them about a deletion/merge/etc. unless it somehow related to the edit. Sdkb talk 16:40, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
- Apologies. I wasn’t sure from the edit history comment exactly how automated your use of AWB was in that edit. Please forgive the intrusion. — TadgStirkland401 (TadgTalk) 04:13, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
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Thank you again, Trizek_(WMF)
17:48, 23 May 2025 (UTC)
- I went through some examples, Trizek (WMF). I initially got some
Failed to load resource. Server responded with: 500 ()
errors, which then mysteriously went away when I reloaded. There wasn't any sort of tracker of how many evaluations I made, so not sure if I did 30. Sdkb talk 20:31, 23 May 2025 (UTC)- Yes, we had a few 500 errors. They are now fixed; please let me know if they aren't.
- The tracker would be a nice to have feature, but I'm afraid it would be the next time. I checked a few edits for French as a test, and, as the process is quite straightforward, I rapidly passed the 30 threshold without noticing it. ^^
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Hello! I have submitted a Wiki page for Christine Huber and it has not been approved. Could you let me know what needs to be done to get it approved? TIA Kjeverett79 (talk) 17:46, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Kjeverett79, there is info in the note on your talk page about why it was not approved. You need to add references. Sdkb talk 18:01, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- I added in references at the end. Does it need to be done in a different way? Kjeverett79 (talk) 18:08, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- The article you submitted looked like this. On taking another look, it seems there was a hidden comment that was opened but never closed, causing the article to be cut off. I fixed that issue for you. I'd recommend using the preview function to catch stuff like that in the future and ensure the page looks how you're intending. You could try resubmitting it, but from a quick glance at the references, I don't think they're sufficient. The standard you need to show Huber meets is WP:NBIO, which requires references that provide "significant coverage" of Huber herself (e.g. a profile of her career, not just a mention that she commented on a sports event) from sources that are entirely independent of her (e.g. a newspaper article in a publication she does not work for). Sdkb talk 18:20, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Awesome! I found a bunch of article links. Do I just put them in at the bottom of my submission?
- Articles about Huber:
- UNH Hall of Fame Induction
- https://newhavenchargers.com/honors/hall-of-fame/christine-huber/120
- https://newhavenchargers.com/news/2013/4/7/GEN_0405131057.aspx
- https://newhavenchargers.com/news/2016/2/19/GEN_0210161841.aspx
- Tap Off College Basketball Player of the Year:
- https://books.google.com/books?id=cq5IAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA15&dq=%22Christine+Huber%22&article_id=1308,2601744&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiSs4i0q8uNAxUrTDABHY1uLd44KBC7BXoECAcQBw#v=onepage&q=%22Christine%20Huber%22&f=false
- Winning State Championship look back
- https://www.centralmaine.com/2021/02/19/center-court-rewind-in-1995-and-96-the-cony-girls-spent-two-years-on-a-mission/
- Coaching at Wilbur Cross
- https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Governors-hope-Cross-roads-lead-to-success-11626249.php
- Coaching at Hamden Hall:
- https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/SOCCER-Hamden-Hall-Hopkins-girls-teams-trying-11569127.php Kjeverett79 (talk) 14:30, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- You can add them as references anywhere in the article draft, and then try resubmitting it. Good luck! Sdkb talk 15:16, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- The article you submitted looked like this. On taking another look, it seems there was a hidden comment that was opened but never closed, causing the article to be cut off. I fixed that issue for you. I'd recommend using the preview function to catch stuff like that in the future and ensure the page looks how you're intending. You could try resubmitting it, but from a quick glance at the references, I don't think they're sufficient. The standard you need to show Huber meets is WP:NBIO, which requires references that provide "significant coverage" of Huber herself (e.g. a profile of her career, not just a mention that she commented on a sports event) from sources that are entirely independent of her (e.g. a newspaper article in a publication she does not work for). Sdkb talk 18:20, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- I added in references at the end. Does it need to be done in a different way? Kjeverett79 (talk) 18:08, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Just here to let you know that I undid your edit on Wikipedia:Task Center because it looked bad on mobile. Other than that, have a nice day! Mox Eden (talk) 13:14, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
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Just now, I submitted an article about iBeesoft Data Recovery. For the purpose of rigor, I asked the developer about the algorithm and listed some. However, after I submitted it, someone thought it was an advertisement. Now, I deleted this part. Is this okay? To be honest, iBeesoft helped me recover important files when I didn't have money to buy the full version of data recovery software. Therefore, I hope to help them publish this article. --Nicole Mensi (talk) 17:20, 12 June 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Nicole! I'll ping @User:Rambley, the reviewer who declined the draft submission, who will be able to tell you about what came across as promotional and how to improve it. Sdkb talk 17:39, 12 June 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Nicole. Currently, the article does not read like a neutral encyclopedia article which is expected of Wikipedia articles; rather, much of the text reads like an advertisement, discussing things like pricing and features immediately upon reading.
- Articles should instead be written neutrally and in your own words, taking information from reliable sources. On that note, many of the sources cited within the article are either unreliable or only somewhat reliable. A lot of the sources cited seem more like advertisements themselves than reliable articles about this software.
- The "Features" section cites no sources. Additionally, please do not include yourself as the author of the article on the article; nobody on Wikipedia "owns" any articles. Rambley (talk) 17:47, 12 June 2025 (UTC)
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