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:{{ping|LouisAragon}} It may be 2-3 weeks before I'm next at a library that has ''Titles & emoluments in Safavid Iran'', but when I am I'll try to find and scan the relevant pages. --[[User:Worldbruce|Worldbruce]] ([[User talk:Worldbruce#top|talk]]) 03:46, 2 August 2016 (UTC) |
:{{ping|LouisAragon}} It may be 2-3 weeks before I'm next at a library that has ''Titles & emoluments in Safavid Iran'', but when I am I'll try to find and scan the relevant pages. --[[User:Worldbruce|Worldbruce]] ([[User talk:Worldbruce#top|talk]]) 03:46, 2 August 2016 (UTC) |
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{{u|Worldbruce}} & {{u|Oshwah}} I submit a [[WP:RPP]] for [[Bangladesh Air Force]] here [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection] because IP(s) blanking the page again & again. [[User:Spartacus!|<b style="color:orange">Sparta<span style="color:green">cus!</span></b>]] <sup>[[User talk:Spartacus!|<i style="color:navy">'''t@lk</i>''']]</sup> 05:13, 3 August 2016 (UTC) |
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I see that you haven't done a lot of editing over the years, so a warm welcome seems appropriate at last. It's very gratifying to see you working on the Bangladesh upazila articles, which could use all the help they can get! I look forward to seeing you around. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 16:03, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
SM Sultan
It was done automatically by the software, rather than being a change that I intentionally applied. Looking over what happened, though, I believe the problem was that you were using the <ref name=german><!-- Gloss by itself --></ref> format in the article body. That doesn't work as intended, unfortunately — a gloss can't be split off from the reference content in that manner so that it's standing alone as the only content nested inside a particular invocation of the ref tags, but rather has to be directly next to the actual content of the reference it's glossing.
So in this particular case, if the gloss is necessary for one particular invocation of the reference but not applicable to others, it might be necessary to create a separate ref=german2 citation for the content that needs to be specifically glossed as "supports solo", citing the specific page number in the source that "supports solo" instead of the entire page range of ref=german, so that the gloss can be left in the references list alongside the content of that particular citation.
Hope that helps a bit. Bearcat (talk) 15:30, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
Up for a challenge? Yes!
Hi Worldbruce,
Yes, I'd be interested in improving the article about the luthier Brian Lisus. I do need help getting hold of the sources. I've already searched and there isn't much. Please send me what you have. I'm not sure how to use sources that you have to subscribe to read. I avoided them when I wrote the Schenkman article.
My husband used to work for a violin maker and I'll ask him if he has any ideas for this project.
RoseSong — Preceding unsigned comment added by RoseSong (talk • contribs) 03:30, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
Bugwah, Bangladesh
This is an old post office location, found in P.D. Allen's list, at http://worldpostmarks.net/HTML Countries/IndiaandStates.htm
Rajshahi division may have been superceded; on maps it appears to be almost due east of Rangpur.
http://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-3770753&fid=548&c=bangladesh Latitude in decimal degrees : 25.716667 Longitude in decimal degrees : 89.716667
"The information regarding Bugwah in Bangladesh on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the United States of America, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency."
They then print this disclaimer: "No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Bugwah information contained here."Fconaway (talk) 02:06, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Fconaway: Thanks! With that additional information I found that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency records "Bugwah" as a variant of "Bagua, Anantapur", which is a village in Hatia Union, Ulipur Upazila, Kurigram District, Rangpur Division, Bangladesh, very close to the coordinates in the article. Anantapur appears on the upazila maps, and appears on Google maps as Onantapur.
- Bagua, Anantapur is quite small, so I'm not sure that it is the same as the early Indian post office using killer cancel 158. There are at least five other Baguas in what is now Bangladesh, some of which seem more likely candidates for a match. Our local philatelic library has a copy of Jal Cooper's Early Indian Cancellations, so I'll check that as soon as I get a chance. Worldbruce (talk) 18:16, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
- Good progress! Jal Cooper's Early Indian Cancellations may not have what you are looking for. The latest word on this is Denis R. Martin, Numbers in Early Indian Cancellations, 1855-1884. I would look it up, but my copy is in storage. I hope your library has it. Remember, it must be specifically the B/158 in the Bengal Octagon, or "Bengal spiderweb": that is Renouf's Type [7], which would also be Cooper's Type 7. Renouf, the pioneer, listed this as Bugwah.Fconaway (talk) 02:06, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
- Here is a scan of a letter cancelled B/158, dated 29 September 1869. It was back-stamped "Traveling P. O. Bengal"; it may have been carried by a river steamer. This appeared in a Feldman auction lot in Sept 2013.Fconaway (talk) 00:22, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
- @Fconaway: Intriguing. I don't actually see a scan ... am I missing a link?
- Here is a scan of a letter cancelled B/158, dated 29 September 1869. It was back-stamped "Traveling P. O. Bengal"; it may have been carried by a river steamer. This appeared in a Feldman auction lot in Sept 2013.Fconaway (talk) 00:22, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
- Good progress! Jal Cooper's Early Indian Cancellations may not have what you are looking for. The latest word on this is Denis R. Martin, Numbers in Early Indian Cancellations, 1855-1884. I would look it up, but my copy is in storage. I hope your library has it. Remember, it must be specifically the B/158 in the Bengal Octagon, or "Bengal spiderweb": that is Renouf's Type [7], which would also be Cooper's Type 7. Renouf, the pioneer, listed this as Bugwah.Fconaway (talk) 02:06, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
Syed Hedayetullah
Hi Worldbruce. Thank you again for your help a little while back and suggestions for the article I have been working on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Syed_Hedayetullah
Recently, I took another round adding three more sources, and citing the obituary that I have taken some of the material from as it relates to his research. I had thought notability would have been established by now given the important positions Syed Hedayetullah had. Would you be able to review the article and let me know if there's anything else I can do? I feel that the entry is so much better than many many existing Wikipedia articles and it just got rejected out of hand with no comments. Thank you for your help!!
-BWhitesides — Preceding unsigned comment added by BWhitesides (talk • contribs) 13:51, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
Cloudreach draft
Hi,
Thanks for the recent response about the Cloudreach draft. It's been updated - can you have a look and see if it's appropriate for mainspace now? Thanks again. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 09:47, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Thumperward: I recommend that you or the author resubmit it if you think it's ready for another review. To do so, click the blue Resubmit button on the draft, or to do so on behalf of another user, use {{subst:submit|username}}. There are 700 other submissions in the queue, so the next review may take two or three weeks, but I'm juggling several thousand articles, so continuing with AfC will be faster than relying on me specifically to look at it. Worldbruce (talk) 18:25, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
I saw that you added Harris to the Requested Articles page, so I just wanted to let you know that I created the article for you. — Chevvin 11:34, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
- @Chevvin: Nice work, thanks! --Worldbruce (talk) 23:06, 30 May 2016 (UTC)
SW
Hey, Bruce, I don't know if you saw that in this edit I said I would like to know what "SW" stands for. Also, I would like to confirm if the content is located in the first page (there is something like an "I" in the right bottom of the page). Regards, Gabriel Yuji (talk) 23:47, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Gabriel Yuji: Yes, the review comes from page 1, and yes, I saw your note. It didn't come as a surprise because in your position I'd want to know who SW is too. Who knows why they didn't include a reviewer key in the 2003 edition. Checking the 1997 edition again is on my list, but will have to wait until I'm next at a library that has it - probably about three weeks from now. Even then the mystery may not be solved - SW may not have been a contributor to the first edition - but we can hope. Worldbruce (talk) 04:58, 4 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Gabriel Yuji:
SW - Steve Whitaker is a respected colourist, with credits for all major publishers. It's less well known that he's also a repository of recondite information of all kinds.[1]
- --Worldbruce (talk) 16:53, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Gabriel Yuji:
References
- ^ Plowright, Frank, ed. (1997). The Slings & Arrows Comic Guide (First ed.). London: Aurum Press. p. xiii.
The Genealogist pdf
Thanks for the pdf, it is seems excellent. Alexis Ivanov (talk) 04:25, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
Responding to your request to "contact the editor"
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.
Dorlee Michaeli (talk) 13:33, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Dorlee Michaeli: I do not know what you mean by "I received a notification to email you with respect to 'Wikipedia page Draft talk:Financial Social Work.'" My only editing to that draft has been to add two wikiprojects; I did not ask you to contact me.
- Glancing over the draft, I would suggest you read Help:Referencing for beginners#Same reference used more than once and apply the technique described there to the draft's references. It will make the list of references shorter and emphasize which ones the draft depends on the most heavily, both of which will make the draft more reviewer-friendly (and reader-friendly). --Worldbruce (talk) 15:19, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
I'm sorry - Reading the notification more carefully, I see that the page I submitted for a review was listed as within the scope of WikiProject Finance and WikiProject Business and that one needs to contact you if one has a question about this. And that the article is still in the queue for a review. I apologize for my misunderstanding!
Dorlee Michaeli (talk) 16:38, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
Bakhit pages
Hey Worldbruce
Not to trouble you, but if you haven't returned the Bakhit book yet, would you mind scanning me some more select pages? I'm interested in expanding the Damascus Eyalet and Ottoman Syria, i.e. pages 88–92, and the Arab tribes in Syria at the time, i.e. pages 193–197 and 205–208. If it can't be done, no worries, I'll post a request on the WP:RR page in the near future. Cheers --Al Ameer (talk) 18:54, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
- Sent Worldbruce (talk) 22:36, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
Thanking for attachment of the Label Wikiproject Chemistry on the 2 newly created pages. RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 14:26, 17 June 2016 (UTC) |
A cupcake for you!
Thanking for your work on pages granatane and granatanine. RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 14:29, 17 June 2016 (UTC) |
Untitled
Thank you @worldbruce. I'm still not understanding how the communication on WIkipedia works. For some reason it is very confusing to me. I thought i was writing to the user. And i hope i am writing directly to you now. I did not see a way to reply to your comment to me — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jtothez (talk • contribs) 16:23, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
Your comments on Draft:Ravensbourne Morris Men
Thanks for taking the time to look at this for me. As a novice at this, I've been looking at the AfC assessment flowcharts and at the grading criteria. Are articles ever published at Start / C / B grades or do they now need to be graded higher before being accepted?
I am relieved that you feel that the subject is notable and I will now need to go away and try and gain access to some of the other written material. I am guessing that this will need to be done offline at the local library as I think I found that some of the online resources I'd need to pay for if I accessed them from home.
CPBearfoot (talk) 23:10, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
- @CPBearfoot: Most drafts, when accepted, are assessed as Start class. Next most common is Stub class, with C class a close third. It is very unusual for a reviewer to initially assess an article as B class, and impossible to initially assess it higher than that. Quality grading, perhaps counter intuitively, actually has nothing to do with whether a draft gets accepted or not, so I wouldn't worry about it if I were you. It's just an extra step routinely performed after acceptance.
- The British Library will be your best bet for research. If it isn't your local library, or you don't have access to it through your local library, Wikipedia's Resource Exchange may be able to help – but it's only really effective if you know precisely the article or book pages you need. Good hunting! --Worldbruce (talk) 23:35, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
Create subpage for Wiki Editors of San Diego
Worldbruce, would you have time to create a subpage for Wiki Editors of San Diego? It would be deeply appreciated. We have been requested to create a subpage to [|Wikipedia Meetups in San Diego]. The purpose is to make it easier to find our activities. It would also be easier to add to our activities if we had a subpage. What do you say? Swedam (talk) 19:56, 27 June 2016 (UTC)SwedamSwedam (talk) 19:56, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Swedam: @DrMel: To get an idea of best practices, I examined the meetup pages of groups I believe to be the most successful (because they have the highest numbers of watchers and highest page views): NYC, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, and DC. Having studied them, unless there are grant-related reasons for doing so, I recommend against creating a subpage for the "Wiki Editors of San Diego" group. Instead I recommend a subpage for each event.
- The subpages for named Wikipedia-wide events would have the event name and year in the title (e.g. Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/ArtandFeminism 2015 and Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/Wiknic 2016). The subpages for "ordinary" local events would simply be numbered sequentially (e.g. Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/8). Each subpage would be linked from Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego. Check what I've done for the wiknic and for last weekend's edit-a-thon.
- A few questions about the edit-a-thon pages:
- Should end times be included?
- Should the specific name of the room be included, and if so, what is it? The library's publicity says Mary Hollis Clark Conference Center, but that's wrong.
- Parking for the full three-hour event, after two-hour validation, runs about $5, depending on the Padres schedule. That may deter some attendees, so if there's an alternative it should be explained on the event page.
- It would be a good idea to tell people what to bring - explain that the room has PCs with the Internet Explorer and Chrome browsers, but they may prefer to bring their own laptop.
- If the basic format for edit-a-thon pages meets your approval, I'll use the same format to back-fill the photo safari and March 26 Mission Valley Library events with information I removed from the main San Diego page. --Worldbruce (talk) 05:02, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Worldbruce: You are brilliant. That is exactly what representatives for the WMF requested and I didn't understand, i.e. a subpage for each event. 1. The Editathons are 11 am to 2 pm (end time). 2. The name of the room is the Wells Fargo Technology Center, fourth floor. 4. Yes, please explain what the technology center has and that people can bring their own laptops. The library provides WiFi. 3. If attendees register with Swedam (talk) 15:08, 28 June 2016 (UTC)SwedamSwedam (talk) 15:08, 28 June 2016 (UTC) or wikisandiego@gmail.com in advance, the library will provide them with a parking voucher. A voucher can be obtained at the Editathon, however, it is time-consuming and entails hunting down our liaison to get one.
You have done an excellent job on the subpages and on the wiki picnic invite. Please continue with your chosen format. Thank you very much!
- Great to see the work on this, Worldbruce. I organize some of the NYC pages, let me know if you ever need help, or want to talk.--Pharos (talk) 19:00, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks, Pharos, that's good to know. --Worldbruce (talk) 02:39, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
GREAT to see the progress - thank you so so much for joining us, Worldbruce! You rock... DrMel (talk) 21:46, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Swedam:, @DrMel: All of the above is complete. Also:
- A nationwide geonotice for the Wiknic is running. Interested editors can click through to the San Diego Wiknic 2016.
- The San Diego Wiknic has been added to the meetup calendar.
- Invitations to the San Diego Wiknic have been placed at talk pages: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject San Diego and Talk:San Diego as suggested at Wikipedia:Meetup#Procedure and advice.
- A mass message list, Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/Invites, has been set up.
- Please add to Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/Invites the names of any Wikipedians who attended your events to-date. This is urgent because a mass message should be sent soon inviting people to the wiknic. (I don't have mass message privileges, but I can have it done by someone who does).
- Consider adding something to the sign up sections of your past events. People are more likely to sign up for future events if they see that you're consistently drawing a critical mass. You probably can't add more than a total number of attendees, unless individual editors consent to reveal that they attended.
- Copy the announcement of the previous meetup to the red link for the next library meetup (updating the date and reseting the sign up list). This should be done before the Wiknic so that you can point people to where to sign up for the next event. You may notice some commented out sections at the bottom. From my 'vast' experience (two events), edit-a-thons are usually more structured than last Saturday's. This is born out by Wikipedia:How to run an edit-a-thon. Something to discuss at the wiknic.
- Add line items to Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego for any firmly scheduled events between now and WikiConference USA, and create the subpages as above. There's no need to do this before the wiknic.
- Backfill information for the February 27 and April 23 events. This is not urgent, but it will make things look better organized and more reliable.
- --Worldbruce (talk) 01:25, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
- @Worldbruce: You rock! How can San Diego wikipedians have functioned without you? We have been looking for someone like you since forever. Thank you for performing these vital tasks Swedam (talk) 01:39, 30 June 2016 (UTC)SwedamSwedam (talk) 01:39, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.
--Pharos (talk) 19:27, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
- @Pharos: I received the automated email notification that {{ygm}} generates, but no actual email from you. I believe there's a known bug with wikimail from yahoo addresses, so if you used one, try sending using a different provider. --Worldbruce (talk) 15:56, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- OK, just sent again, although I don't have a yahoo address. If you haven't received, it might be something on your end.--Pharos (talk) 16:09, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- Did receive it this time, so don't know what the glitch was. I can't give you a quick and simple reply, but I'll mull over your request and get back to you soon. Worldbruce (talk) 16:48, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- OK, just sent again, although I don't have a yahoo address. If you haven't received, it might be something on your end.--Pharos (talk) 16:09, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
23:46:46, 27 June 2016 review of submission by BioWriter818
- BioWriter818 (talk · contribs)
- Draft:Maralou Gray ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Hi,
Thank you for your feedback. I do have a question for you: as you suggest that Maralou's career in television and film isn't notable enough to justify a Wikipedia presence based on the guidelines, as you can see she did have several articles in the Los Angeles Times and Successful Meetings magazine, referencing her special events career and business, working with notable high-profile individuals. If I removed a significant portion of the TV/Film content and focused more on her later career, and just added in the references that highlight her more extensively, would you reconsider the submission? While she did have some interesting moments working as an actress and singer, I believe her later career in special events was more notable, considering the many high profile people she worked with. I do have photos to submit to substantiate this. Her entity, the National Special Event Locations (NSEL) was an original business of its kind, handling large privately owned estate locations around the country. Her event clients represented a who's who of the film and corporate worlds. Thank you! BioWriter818 (talk) 23:46, 27 June 2016 (UTC)biowriter818
- @BioWriter818: The draft's description of her early career routinely goes beyond what the sources say, but that can be fixed by editing.
- The 1985 and 1988 Los Angeles Times pieces contain very little biographical information about Gray. She is quoted briefly, but Wikipedia is interested mainly in what people say about Gray, not so much in what she says. Who Gray worked with, be it the Pope, President, or Prince, is immaterial. Notability is not inherited from them. Successful Meetings Magazine sounds like a trade journal. Trade journals don't necessarily count towards notability, because they often have a limited audience, little editorial oversight, and a too-cozy relationship with the companies in the industry they cover. The fact that their website features "supplied content" is a bad sign.
- If you nontheless feel that there are reliable sources with really substantive coverage specifically about her, you're welcome to resubmit. When I've declined a draft, I don't review it again at AfC if it's resubmitted. This policy gives authors the benefit of a fresh look by a reviewer who may have different strengths. --Worldbruce (talk) 02:35, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
San Diego Wiknic: Mass Message
Hey Bruce! DrMel pointed me towards you as the go-to for on-wiki support of the 2016 San Diego Wiknic. I wanted to check and see if a mass message is planned to invite Southern Californians to the Wiknic? ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 01:00, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- @SuperHamster: Affirmative. I've requested one here. Good luck with your Great Buckeye Wiknic. --Worldbruce (talk) 15:43, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
San Diego Wiknic
Saturday, July 9: San Diego Wiknic | |
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You are invited to the San Diego Wiknic on Saturday, July 9, from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm in Fanuel Street Park, a grassy park on the Mission Bay side of Pacific Beach. Join San Diego-area Wikimedians at the "picnic anyone can edit" as part of the Great American Wiknic celebrations being held across the United States. Visit our event page for full details. Remember it's a wiki-picnic, which means potluck. Sign up today! We hope to see you there! --Worldbruce (talk · contribs) 16:04, 4 July 2016 (UTC) |
(You can unsubscribe from future notifications for San Diego-area events by removing your name from this list.)
You've got mail!
Message added 02:27, 6 July 2016 (UTC). It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.
~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 02:27, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
How the heck create an event page
Worldbruce, Of course I can copy and paste and update information on an event page. But where do I click to start an event page? I am comfortable with Wordpress and Blogspot, but Wikipedia is an absolute nightmare. Swedam (talk) 18:25, 11 July 2016 (UTC)Swedam
- @Swedam: Thanks for moving the Wiknic from the "Upcoming" section to the "Earlier" section. The entry you added for the July 23 edit-a-thon duplicates a placeholder entry I had already put there for you, so I've commented out your addition for the moment. Below I'm going to answer your question in the context of my placeholder entry, after which I think you'll see you that the line you added earlier today can be removed.
- A simple way to create a new page is to follow a red link. On Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego, for example, I had already created a list entry for the July 23 event, but the link on that line is red, indicating that the page doesn't exist yet. When you click that red link, it will take you to a page headed "Creating Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/9".
- Paste there a copy of the content from Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/8.
- Update the date.
- Clear the sign up list.
- Click "Save page".
- Presto, you've created the new event page.
- For ordinary meetups and edit-a-thons, I've adopted sequential numbering as the naming convention, so the July 23 event is page 9. Events that are part of a Wikipedia-wide event, such as the annual Wiknic or Art+Feminism, instead use an "event name and year" page naming convention. These conventions may seem arbitrary, but they are best practices among local chapters.
- To create event pages for August and September, start by adding bulleted list entries for them:
- Edit Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego.
- Copy
* Saturday, July 23, 11:00 am – [[Wikipedia:Meetup/San Diego/9|Edit-a-thon @ Central Library]]
- Paste it twice between the July event and the WikiConference.
- Update the dates to August 27 and September 24, and update the page names in the link to 10 and 11 respectively.
- Click "Save page".
- I advise keeping the list entries as short as possible, and saving all details for the event pages. The more information you put on the main San Diego meetup page, the less the key points stand out. When you save the page you'll see two new red links, which you can use as above to create the detailed event pages.
- Give it a try and let me know if anything doesn't make sense. --Worldbruce (talk) 00:05, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
SICPA submission
Hi Worldbruce. First let me thank you for taking the time to read and comment on my SICPA article. I am very aware of the conflict of interest issues and extremely keen not to fall foul of the rules. I'd just like to ask two favours from you.
The first is just a bit of clarification. You say that links to organisations that SICPA has a relationship with are not so good but I thought that close connections with organisations like the World Bank and Interpol - given the industry that SICPA is in - would be relevant. The problem is finding independnet references that aren't directly from those organisation's websites. Is it still best to simply remove this?
Secondly, would you be happy to review my next draft? And, if so, what is the best process to go about this?
Again, many thanks for your help. IainIainplunkett (talk) 09:31, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
- @Iainplunkett: Wikipedia doesn't prohibit the use of non-independent sources like the press releases from the World Bank and Interpol, but the bulk of any article has to come from independent sources. To get the draft into article space it must clear the hurdles of notability and neutrality. Press releases don't help because they can't prove notability and don't present an unbiased view. In practice, they can hurt; one reference a reviewer doesn't like can sour their view and result in a declined submission. I would keep such sources only if they support unique information vital to an understanding of the range of the company's operations.
- The best references are books or journal articles written by academics and published by academic presses, for example [1]. Next best are journalistic sources from reputable newspapers or magazines, such as [2]. The latter is not an in-depth source, but contains some choice nuggets, like "The ink for more than 80 percent of the world's currency, including the dollar, comes from Sicpa S.A."
- Take your time improving the draft. When it's as good as you can make it, resubmit it using the blue button in the big pink box on the draft. Odds are another volunteer will review it. They may give you different feedback, which can be frustrating, but they may have different strengths than I do. --Worldbruce (talk) 14:59, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Draft:Brian Rolapp
The content that I have posted, a biography for Brian Rolapp, is being investigated for copyright. The page gives credit the National Football League for giving the biography on the website. How can this problem be solved? This is Brian's official biography and credit has been given — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.141.128.141 (talk) 16:22, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
- You're focusing on solving the wrong problem. Wikipedia does not republish official biographies. So even if the copyright problem were resolved (by licensing, for example), the material still couldn't be used verbatim - it isn't suitable here.
- No action will be taken on the copyright investigation for five days. At some point after that, an administrator or copyright clerk will evaluate the case and decide what to do. They have a considerable backlog, their oldest case is from February 2016, so don't expect a quick resolution.
- Meanwhile, the copyright notice on the draft and the notices left on your talk page contain a plethora of useful links. Which path you go down is up to you, but I strongly recommend that you write a new article using reliable, arms-length, third-party sources (i.e. not his employer), of which there seem to be no shortage. Whatever you do, don't copy or closely paraphrase any source.
- P.S. Familiarizing yourself with Help:Using talk pages will help you collaborate more effectively with other editors. --Worldbruce (talk) 17:35, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Bangladesh Army
@WB, Bangladesh Army has no reserve troops. Please carefully see the references given on that article where it is not written that the force has reserve soldiers. Senthoora poove (talk) 11:01 AM, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
Boston Network Users Group
Thank you Worldbruce for your explanation of the situation with my (yes, I'm the author) article on Boston Network Users Group. I'm not sure what will happen with the article, as I have to see how the author feels about rewriting it (I talk to myself sometimes) (is there a Wikipedia article on holding a conference with oneself, I wonder?) but your explanation is a big help! -steve — Preceding unsigned comment added by StevenInMA (talk • contribs) 21:14, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
The Titles & Emoluments book
Hi Worldbruce,
Regarding my old request, for some odd reason the search function within the "Look Inside" tool itself doesn't seem to work anymore for me. Tried everything; cleaning the caches, switching browser, etc. That being said, I can't therefore specifically name which pages I need from the book, but perhaps if I'd name the keywords/titles of the subsection, we could perhaps work it out. I need the pages regarding the governors of Derbent/Darband (city in Dagestan), those of [the cities/towns] Dagestan/Daghestan as a whole, and Yerevan/Iravan. Oh, yeah, I wonder whether you could find the page regarding the governor(s) with the surname Daghestani, as well as those with the surname Cherkes. Shouldn't be too many pages I think. I hope you can help me out with this, if it ain't too much effort. Bests - LouisAragon (talk) 04:20, 1 August 2016 (UTC)
- @LouisAragon: It may be 2-3 weeks before I'm next at a library that has Titles & emoluments in Safavid Iran, but when I am I'll try to find and scan the relevant pages. --Worldbruce (talk) 03:46, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks much. Really appreciate it. - LouisAragon (talk) 12:57, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
Worldbruce & Oshwah I submit a WP:RPP for Bangladesh Air Force here [3] because IP(s) blanking the page again & again. Spartacus! t@lk 05:13, 3 August 2016 (UTC)