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OLIfanofmrtennant 04:15, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You thanked me for this edit. I always get thanks never something I can display like barnstars. Anyways congrats on the page but dont let it sit keep looking for stuff because while this did pass WP:GNG, it barely did. I would say its chances of losing at AfD would be about 60/40 OLIfanofmrtennant 04:43, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If you don't believe if would pass an AfD, you probably shouldn't have accepted. I'm obviously glad you did, but that's an odd thing to say. -- NotCharizard ^🗨 04:46, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think that it passes but not by much. OLIfanofmrtennant 21:11, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As it meets essentially the bare minimum requirements OLIfanofmrtennant 21:11, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Do not need independent sourcing if the subject meets WP:PROF as I believe Draft:Michael Charlton (academic) does. Espresso Addict (talk) 23:28, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Hywel R. Thomas clearly meets WP:PROF as an FRS!! Also his Royal Society bio is in no way a primary source from his employers. Draft:Helen Fulton also looks probably notable under PROF and will probably also be notable under AUTHOR. Please stop reviewing academics at AfC, you clearly have no idea how to apply the guidelines. Espresso Addict (talk) 23:42, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Espresso Addict I am sorry for making mistakes, I am still learning and it is difficult to keep in mind all the different guidelines for different proffesions. I'll try to avoid reviewing academics for now until I understand the protocol better. It is worth noting that the person who created those articles had been paid to do which made me more strict on them than I may have been otherwise.

I think your message is overly aggresive here, and I ask you to please more polite and patient in the future. I am trying my best and I do not doubt you have made editing mistakes in the past. -- NotCharizard ^🗨 03:18, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Espresso Addict I am thankful to you for bringing this to my attention however, to be clear. I have moved the drafts to mainspace now after reviewing them with the extra information you provided :) Cheers. -- NotCharizard ^🗨 04:16, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reviewing my submission. I've edited in more references to news paper articles and interviews, including The New York Times, but the article was rejected again. Any suggestions? Thanks for your time. KG Australia (talk) 23:30, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You have defintely made improvements since I reviewed the draft, so good job! Note that interviews are primary soruces and don't show notability, and it can be useful to check your sources on the perennial sources list to see what other editors think of them. Good luck! -- NotCharizard ^🗨 03:27, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hey NotCharizard, did you mean to move this draft to mainspace? You declined it not even two days ago for notability/sourcing concerns. In addition, since the move was done without the AfC helper script, all of the old tags are still on the article, and the draft creator has not been notified. Let me know what you think! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 04:31, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, was still cleaning up when you messaged this. I was informed by another user (above on my talk page) that I had misunderstood the notability guidelines in regards to academics, and that they do not need as many secondary sources as most other professions, so I moved the draft to mainspace today. Thank you a lot for checking! -- NotCharizard ^🗨 04:37, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, mistakes happen! In the future, if you come across a situation where you want to accept a draft that was previously declined and was not resubmitted for review, I'd recommend you use the helper script to initiate another review and then accept it yourself, which will save you the trouble of cleaning up. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 04:47, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I had wondered if it would be better to submit it as myself or just move it, but I was worried it would look odd/bias to accept an article I submitted myself which is why I decided not to. Hadn't considered the advantages of the auto clean up! I'll do it that way next time, thanks so much :) -- NotCharizard ^🗨 04:55, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Great article. Great images, particularly the crab!!

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scope_creepTalk 15:14, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much! That is lovely of you to take the time to give a kind feedback :) -- NotCharizard ^🗨 00:21, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there Notcharizard! I hope you are well (:

A few months ago you accepted the first biographical article I wrote (Draft:Cameron Driggers), but unfortunately it was quickly demoted back to draft-status apparently due to a lack of sources. I have recently updated the draft by adding much more well-sourced information. I technically received the grade I needed for this assignment as it was accepted onto the main space for a short time, but I felt bad knowing it was quickly downgraded back to a draft. I was hoping you could give it another look to see if its ready to be public just yet. Mrwriter2.0 (talk) 06:22, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mrwriter2.0 Hi! I've had a bit of a break from Wikipedia so am a bit out of practice, but will have a look over it.

main notes i have are that more references don’t make the article better, it’s about quality references. a good article with five quality sources is better than a long one with thirty poor ones. at this point notability is still the main issue. an article that mentions him in passing, or shows he went to a school doesn’t show that he’s notable enough for an article. a lot of the articles are also by local news (based on their own about page), which isn’t bad, but many people i know have been in their local news a few times and it doesn't show notability. you’ve got a great collection of sources about the protests and movements, but the majority of them aren’t about driggers.

just looking at only notability, specific sources feedback (i did a crtl+f search on most so may be wrong when i say he’s not mentioned in some):

1. good

2&3. published by the subject of the article

4&5. not relevant for notability in this context

6. only a passing mention

7. decent

8. not mentioned

9&10. local news

13. only mentioned in an image description

14. not mentioned

15. good

16&17. decent

18. good

19. only mentioned in passing

20. not mentioned

21. good article, but still only local news

22. i cant view this. it’s behind a paywall. which is allowed, but i can;t judge it

23. bestcolleges seems to have a thing where colleges can pay to be published about, so this seems a bad source for notability

24. local news, passing mention

25. not mentioned

26. not mentioned

27. local news, decent article

28. not mentioned

29. not mentioned

30. not mentioned in the book, based on searching the ebook

31. local news

32. 404 page

33. good

34. good

35-38. not relevant for notability in this context

it’s also worth noting that a lot of the articles quote Driggers, which makes them borderline on being a primary source -- NotCharizard ^🗨 01:23, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi NotCharizard! Thank you so much for coming out of your break to provide feedback on the draft sourcing. I have gone ahead and fixed many of the issues you raised. Mrwriter2.0 (talk) 00:53, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. ✗plicit 14:30, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:15, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please take your time and don't just revert edits without actually having context of the page's history, and please do not put templates with completely irrelevant reasons (in this case, POV). 35.141.142.199 (talk) 04:46, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies, I was not blindly reverting - I tried to revert it at the same time as you, and thus it reverted your revert. Mistakes happen, please be sure to assume good faith in future. -- NotCharizard ^🗨 04:48, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's ok, I forgive you. And I'm sorry I was a little bit rough. I'll be nicer in the future.35.141.142.199 (talk) 04:49, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings, I saw you opened a discussion about spray paint at Rfd at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2024_April_21#Spray_paint. What is needed for discussion of your proposal is a requested move discussion. I have speedily closed the Rfd discussion due it being wrong venue. Feel free to go ahead and start a RM discussion at Talk:Aerosol paint. Cheers, Mdewman6 (talk) 03:59, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Mdewman6 Thank you so much for explaining and removing the Rfd for me! Sorry about that. -- NotCharizard ^🗨 04:05, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You tagged the wrong redirect in trying to accept this draft. You tagged the second redirect in a sequence rather than the first one. I have corrected the tagging and have moved the tagged redirect out of the way, and accepted the article. Please be careful when tagging redirects for deletion. Robert McClenon (talk) 04:43, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Robert McClenon Thank you! I am sorry, I've never done that with a redirect before. Thank you for accepting the article for me as well. -- NotCharizard ^🗨 04:59, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You just declined my draft for "Samir Buzatu" with this motivation: "All of the sources are about the film, not him - except IMDB, which is unreliable as it's user-generated." which is okay, but in all the provided links, Samir Buzatu is mentioned in relation to the cast and his role as the production designer of the film. Could you please clarify why this isn't considered sufficient? and sorry for insisting, it's only because I genuinely want to understand, because venom is a very relevant film, and his position in the film is equally so as the production designer. RangoSangoA (talk) 11:34, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@RangoSangoA for a person to be notable according to Wikipedia there needs to be independent, reliable sources about them. The sources you provided were not about Buzatu, so they don't show he is notable. I do not have any interest how relevent a film reviewing a draft, I just care about the Wikipedia guidelines of notability. -- NotCharizard ^🗨 11:39, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I've added some more citations for the background information on Draft:London 19.08.2023, would you be able to take a look? Thank you! Beachweak (talk) 13:19, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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@Cowboygilbert Ah, thank you so much for the link to the tool, and thank you for marking it for me this time! -- NotCharizard ^🗨 03:11, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm surprised you haven't joined WikiProject Pokémon yet. It's more active than ever, and we could use people like you. TWOrantula^TM (enter the web) 14:07, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TrademarkedTWOrantula I tend not to edit many Pokémon articles because it's so popular there seems to usually be nothing more I can do for most of them! I would like to be able to do more though, and that's probably the perfect place for me to be able to, so thank you! -- NotCharizard ^🗨 03:15, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's alright. Feel free to do what you like. TWOrantula^TM (enter the web) 03:30, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There was no such intention on the numbers of members!!! so what u suggest? is it bad to quote the number of members a website has? as long as it is real? u want only the current number with no reference on previous ones? i am open to suggestions. leonidas z (talk) 06:40, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]