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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a discussion, a new criterion for speedy category renaming was added: C2F: One eponymous article, which applies if the category contains only an eponymous article or media file, provided that the category has not otherwise been emptied shortly before the nomination. The default outcome is an upmerge to the parent categories.

Technical news

• As previously noted, tighter password requirements for Administrators were put in place last year. Wikipedia should now alert you if your password is less than 10 characters long and thus too short.

Arbitration

• The 2019 CheckUser and Oversight appointment process has begun. The community consultation period will take place October 4th to 10th.
• The arbitration case regarding Fram was closed. While there will be a local RfC focus[ing] on how harassment and private complaints should be handled in the future, there is currently a global community consultation on partial and temporary office actions in response to the incident. It will be open until October 30th.

Miscellaneous

• The Community Tech team has been working on a system for temporarily watching pages, and welcomes feedback.

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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:BMW 3 Series (E36). Legobot (talk) 04:29, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Anne Delong please reply this message is from mcelite. Thank you for your time.2600:1700:E5D0:CC30:AD0B:DAA8:B11A:B813 (talk) 14:39, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello mcelite.

I received your e-mail, but I prefer not to discuss Wikipedia business off-wiki, so this is my only reply. You were legitimately blocked for using multiple accounts to try to get around Wikipedia's policies. The admins who made this decision spent time looking into the matter carefully and were previously uninvolved. According to WP:SOCKBLOCK, you should now wait six months or so, and then make an unblock request without blaming relatives or anyone else, and explaining why Wikipedia would benefit from your edits, and promising not to make other editors and admins, who would rather get on with adding neutral facts and sources to the encyclopedia, spend their time dealing with sockpuppetry or edit warring instead. Not being able to edit Wikipedia in the meantime may be disappointing, but certainly not "terrifying", and saying so won't help convince anyone that you are a reasonable person who can follow the policies.

About the other editor you mentioned in your e-mail: he/she is not the reason you were blocked. Don't worry; there are tens of thousands of editors; if some inappropriate edits are made, someone will fix them eventually. If there's disagreement about the edits, Wikipedia has plenty of accepted dispute resolution mechanisms, such as Wikipedia:Third opinion and Wikipedia:Requests for comment.

Please do something else for a few months before making another unblock request.—Anne Delong (talk) 15:10, 8 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Anne, thank you very much for replying it means a lot. I accept my punishment even though yes it's hard because I want to do more. I just wanted to show that I didn't just start trouble to just to be difficult and that I'm not blaming Corbie for my block. I did want to show what Corbie was doing so it could be brought to the attention of others. I made a serious mistake and I know apologizing right now won't change my current standing. Again thank you for your response and time.2600:1700:E5D0:CC30:C571:DBCD:3C38:8C99 (talk) 15:50, 10 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Sabine Weyand. Legobot (talk) 04:30, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Anne, hello again! I want to write an article about this incident. It is notable as it has historic implications both politically and otherwise. It also has SIGCOV to support content. I think I can take it cautiously enough with WP:BLP open in the other tab. My concern is, whether the very idea of an article is improper or TOOSOON as, all the sigcov notwithstanding, the accusation itself still remains just that. Would it be WP:GOSSIP to create an article before the crime is proven, considering the SIGCOV is mostly focused on the alleged perpetrator, rather than the victim? Etcetera. Usedtobecool ^TALK ✨ 14:42, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Usedtobecool. If reliable sources have reported the arrest, then it is not gossip, as long as only the facts in the sources are summarized. However, I don't see why this incident would need an article separate from the article that already exists about Krishna Bahadur Mahara. It's only because he is a well-known person that the incident is in the news. I suggest that instead you start a section about the incident near the end of his article, being very careful not to add any speculation, only reported facts. Even if he is later convicted, mistreatment of women is unfortunately all too common, so unless there is something particularly unusual about the case, a few sentences in the existing article are probably enough. The text can always be moved to a separate article later in the unlikely case where the story expands beyond him (if, for example, investigators find a pattern of mistreatment involving other officials).—Anne Delong (talk) 06:00, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC was closed with the consensus that the resysop criteria should be made stricter.

• The follow-up RfC to develop that change is now open at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2019 Resysop Criteria (2).

• A related RfC is seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure.

Arbitration

• Eligible editors may now nominate themselves as candidates for the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections. The self-nomination period will close November 12, with voting running from November 19 through December 2.

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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Idles (band). Legobot (talk) 04:29, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Help talk:IPA/Standard German. Legobot (talk) 04:33, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

		The Gold Maple Leaf Award
		This maple leaf is awarded to Anne Delong for continued tireless work in creating, expanding, cleaning up and sourcing articles, including collaborations with and kind encouragement to numerous other editors, during the third year of The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 16:28, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, way back in 2013 you made a statement at Talk:Druhá Tráva calling for that article to be improved. Fortunately you are still active at Wikipedia, so perhaps you would be interested to know that I have finally improved the article. I myself had thought about doing this since I saw the band play about 18 months ago. Check it out if interested. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 21:33, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2019).

Administrator changes

EvergreenFir • ToBeFree

Akhilleus • Athaenara • John Vandenberg • Melchoir • MichaelQSchmidt • NeilN • Youngamerican • 😂

CheckUser changes

Beeblebrox

Deskana

Interface administrator changes

Evad37

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC on the administrator resysop criteria was closed. 18 proposals have been summarised with a variety of supported and opposed statements. The inactivity grace period within which a new request for adminship is not required has been reduced from three years to two. Additionally, Bureaucrats are permitted to use their discretion when returning administrator rights.
• Following a proposal, the edit filter mailing list has been opened up to users with the Edit Filter Helper right.

Technical news

• Wikimedia projects can set a default block length for users via MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry. A new page, MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip, allows the setting of a different default block length for IP editors. Neither is currently used. (T219126)

Arbitration

• Voting in the 2019 Arbitration Committee Elections is open to eligible editors until Monday 23:59, 2 December 2018 UTC. Please review the candidates and, if you wish to do so, submit your choices on the voting page.

Miscellaneous

• The global consultation on partial and temporary office actions that ended in October received a closing statement from staff concluding, among other things, that the WMF will no longer use partial or temporary Office Action bans... until and unless community consensus that they are of value or Board directive.

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– North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:43, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2019).

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether partial blocks should be enabled on the English Wikipedia. If enabled, this functionality would allow administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces, rather than the entire site.
• A proposal asks whether admins who don't use their tools for a significant period of time (e.g. five years) should have the toolset procedurally removed.
• Following a successful RfC, a whitelist is now available for users whose redirects will be autopatrolled by a bot, removing them from the new pages patrol queue. Admins can add such users to Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist after a discussion following the guidelines at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Redirect whitelist.

Arbitration

• The fourth case on Palestine-Israel articles was closed. The case consolidated all previous remedies under one heading, which should make them easier to understand, apply, and enforce. In particular, the distinction between "primary articles" and "related content" has been clarified, with the former being the entire set of articles whose topic relates to the Arab-Israeli conflict, broadly interpreted rather than reasonably construed.
• Following the 2019 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: Beeblebrox, Bradv, Casliber, David Fuchs, DGG, KrakatoaKatie, Maxim, Newyorkbrad, SoWhy, Worm That Turned, Xeno.

Miscellaneous

• This issue marks three full years of the Admin newsletter. Thanks for reading!

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Thank you for edits on the Dotmobile page. Requesting any feedback that could aid in speedy review and publishing of the page. Thanks. --WindowPlant96 (talk) 18:06, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, WindowPlant96. The fact that the article has not yet been approved may be at least partly because the information in it is mainly about things that are planned and announced for the future, rather than facts about what the company has actually done. If the company's products are still in development it may be Wikipedia:Too soon.

To comply with Wikipedia's requirements (Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)), and to confirm the accuracy of information, a company has to have been written about extensively by journalists and/or other independent authors in published documents. Press releases, or articles which just copy information from press releases saying something like "according to company sources", or quotes of comments made by company officials in interviews, don't help, because they are not independent.

It's surprising how much difference there can be between what company representatives think is important for the public to know and what independent writers find interesting enough to research and write about.

To improve the article's chances of passing a review, I suggest that you check the current references, and if they are based on material spoken or written by the company's staff, remove them and find articles written instead by business or tech reporters.(I didn't see anything in the Toronto Star, the Toronto Sun, the National Post or the Globe and Mail.) If you don't find anything, you may want to wait until there is more coverage. If you succeed in finding some, then change the tone of the draft so that there is less of "aims to" "announced", and "under development" and more "this happened" and "that was reported", to avoid the appearance that the purpose of the draft is to promote the company (per WP:PROMOTION).—Anne Delong (talk) 20:45, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

	The Special Barnstar
	For your prolific work on Canadian topics and effort to contributing towards the 10,000 Challenge! You're such a valuable editor! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:34, 30 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Dr. Blofeld; 10,000 improvements is a challenging goal - I hope we get there someday...—Anne Delong (talk) 05:40, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, partial blocks are now enabled on the English Wikipedia. This functionality allows administrators to block users from editing specific pages or namespaces rather than the entire site. A draft policy is being workshopped at Wikipedia:Partial blocks.
• The request for comment seeking the community's sentiment for a binding desysop procedure closed with wide-spread support for an alternative desysoping procedure based on community input. No proposed process received consensus.

Technical news

• Twinkle now supports partial blocking. There is a small checkbox that toggles the "partial" status for both blocks and templating. There is currently one template: {{uw-pblock}}.
• When trying to move a page, if the target title already exists then a warning message is shown. The warning message will now include a link to the target title. [1]

Arbitration

• Following a recent arbitration case, the Arbitration Committee reminded administrators that checkuser and oversight blocks must not be reversed or modified without prior consultation with the checkuser or oversighter who placed the block, the respective functionary team, or the Arbitration Committee.

Miscellaneous

• Voting in the 2020 Steward elections will begin on 08 February 2020, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 28 February 2020, 13:59 (UTC). The confirmation process of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility to vote.
• The English Wikipedia has reached six million articles. Thank you everyone for your contributions!

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the blocking policy was changed to state that sysops must not undo or alter CheckUser or Oversight blocks, rather than should not.
• A request for comment confirmed that sandboxes of established but inactive editors may not be blanked due solely to inactivity.

Technical news

• Following a discussion, Twinkle's default CSD behavior will soon change, most likely this week. After the change, Twinkle will default to "tagging mode" if there is no CSD tag present, and default to "deletion mode" if there is a CSD tag present. You will be able to always default to "deletion mode" (the current behavior) using your Twinkle preferences.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2020 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: BRPever, Krd, Martin Urbanec, MusikAnimal, Sakretsu, Sotiale, and Tks4Fish. There are a total of seven editors that have been appointed as stewards, the most since 2014.
• The 2020 appointees for the Ombudsman commission are Ajraddatz and Uzoma Ozurumba; they will serve for one year.

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Passing along sincere thanks from the originator of the Nancy Dillow page, whose editing skills do not extend to talk pages, but who is extremely grateful for your incisive editorial efforts! the artchivist (talk) 14:50, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your input may be appreciated at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Revive the Rose, if you haven't already seen it. Tpdwkouaa (talk) 16:49, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads-up, Tpdwkouaa. —Anne Delong (talk) 09:31, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2020).

Guideline and policy news

• There is an ongoing request for comment to streamline the source deprecation and blacklisting process.

Technical news

• There is a plan for new requirements for user signatures. You can give feedback.

Arbitration

• Following the banning of an editor by the WMF last year, the Arbitration Committee resolved to hold a Arbcom RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. A draft RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC (Draft) and not open to comments from the community yet. Interested editors can comment on the RfC itself on its talk page.

Miscellaneous

• The WMF has begun a pilot report of the pages most visited through various social media platforms to help with anti-vandalism and anti-disinformation efforts. The report is updated daily and will be available through the end of May.

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I have revised this article that was immediately denied by someone that appears to have a history of just denying articles immediately with little reason. This is regarding Mark Johnson the banjo player. I am looking for feedback on if the page is acceptable or if it needs further revision. I have corrected the concerns addressed in the first denial. Thank you for any help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Mark_Johnson_(musician) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harpgear (talk • contribs) 02:22, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Harpgear. This draft interests me and I may be able to improve it. However, I have been working on two music projects in real life right now, plus I am in the middle of improving another draft, so it may be a few days before I can get to it.—Anne Delong (talk) 17:19, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much!!!! — Harpgear (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:15, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, Harpgear, I have fixed it up and accepted it. It needed a lot of changes - not enough facts in the body of the article, too much promotional language and namedropping for a neutral encyclopedia article, and some superfluous information that was about the awards rather than about Johnson. Most of the references were not to independent sources - company blogs in particular always have an agenda. I had no trouble finding news articles to use instead.—Anne Delong (talk) 08:31, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you again!!!! I am learning and I appreciate your help very much!! — Harpgear (talk) 13:55, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Anne, could you tell me why my submission for Douglas Wilson was declined? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thumper1001 (talk • contribs) 12:30, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Thumper1001. I can't find a submission called "Douglas Wilson" in the Draft area, but I did find a short paragraph in your sandbox here: User:Thumper1001/sandbox. Is this what you are talking about? It's the only thing I can find in your contributions.

Sandboxes are just for experimenting, so no one would notice what you wrote there unless you notified them about it. However, if this is the "submission" you are talking about, it would in no way be suitable for an encyclopedia article. For one thing, it has a long phrase taken from a press release in the Globe and Mail, which would be a copyright issue. For another thing, it's written more as a CV than as a biography. Thirdly, Wikipedia has inclusion criteria (read about them here: Wikipedia:Notability (people). To show that Mr. Wilson is well-enough known to be the subject of a world-wide encyclopedia article, his life and activities must have been written about extensively in books, magazines, news reports, business journals, etc., by authors or journalists who are not connected with the companies and organizations with which he's connected (ie, not press releases or company documents). The article has to include references to these sorts of things to demonstrate this to the other Wikipedia editors. Here's an example of an article with appropriate references - Alan Gertner; if you click on "edit" and look at the code you can see how these are added.

If this is not the one that you mean, please indicate the exact name of the page you submitted.

I hope this helps.—Anne Delong (talk) 13:55, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2020).

Administrator changes

Gnangarra • Kaisershatner • Malcolmxl5

CheckUser changes

Callanecc

Oversight changes

HJ Mitchell

Guideline and policy news

• Discretionary sanctions have been authorized for all pages and edits related to COVID-19, to be logged at WP:GS/COVID19.
• Following a recent discussion on Meta-Wiki, the edit filter maintainer global group has been created.
• A request for comment has been proposed to create a new main page editor usergroup.
• A request for comment has been proposed to make the bureaucrat activity requirements more strict.

Technical news

• The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. You can review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.
• Enterprisey created a script that will show a link to the proper Special:Undelete page when viewing a since-deleted revision, see User:Enterprisey/link-deleted-revs.

Miscellaneous

• A request for comment closed with consensus to create a Village Pump-style page for communication with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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Hello Anne,

I'm fairly new to wiki, and created this draft about Yiannis Papadopoulos (guitarist) a month ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Yiannis_Papadopoulos_(guitarist)

I saw your name in a few articles for musicians including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannis_Anastassakis

and I thought I'd ask your if you could maybe have a look and let me know if you see sth that I could make better or if it's ok? Sorry if I'm asking sth that I shouldn't, I'm not very familiar with all the wiki policies.

I appreciate your time, I know you're busy. Thank you very much. Rhythm Zero (talk) 18:29, 2 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Rhythm Zero. It's fine to ask for help; Wikipedia is a giant collaborative project. I took a look at the page, and I have some suggestions:

First, be careful of name-dropping, because anything that seems as though it is included only to boost the importance of the subject is inappropriate. For example, you mention the well-known band Creed in the lead section, but Mr. Papadopoulos has nothing to do with that band, really. If he plays Creed songs it could be mentioned further down in chronological sequence of his career.

Tone down or remove any text that is about feelings and ideas rather than about facts; for example "influences" instead of "inspirations" is more neutral; musicians whose work he enjoyed shouldn't be in the article - Wikipedia is not a fan magazine - but sometimes those who had an influence on his style of playing are included.

Announcements of upcoming projects are inappropriate, as other types of press releases and promotions. Concert reviews by music writers are good. I removed a reference to "discogs"; this isn't an independent reliable source - it's user-contributed like Wikipedia. Be careful about the use of interviews as references; only what the interviewing journalist says can be used as a reference, not what the interviewee says - that is, avoid relying on Mr. Papadopoulos' own words - these are not neutral or independent verification. Interviews where the journalist just asks questions and has not included his or her own research shouldn't be included.

Promoting his sponsors is definitely a no-no - if there's equipment that he is so known for that independent journalists and music critics are writing about it (like Willie Nelson's guitar or Paul McCartney's bass), that's okay; otherwise don't mention brand names - Wikipedia has a policy against advertising. The same goes for using promotional videos of the band as references - I haven't heard of gshow, but it sounds like that, and definitely facebook references are out.

A musician who is mainly known for work in one band is often included in Wikipedia as a section of the article about that band. To be eligible for a separate article, he/she has to have been written about extensively, not just a sentence or two in an article about the group, so look for those sorts of references.

One more thing: when adding references, be sure to include the name of the journalist, the name of the magazine or newspaper, and the publication date, not just what website it was posted on. These items help to show that it is an actual published document, not just somebody's social media or personal blog. I fixed one for you that just said "issue.com".

Okay, I hope this helps. If I get some time I may work on the draft a bit. I've been surprisingly busy for an old lady that can't leave her house these days.—Anne Delong (talk) 12:33, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Anne, first of all I'd like to thank you for your quick and in-depth reply, it really shed light on aspects I would be able to understand and correct on my own. I edited the article following your guidelines, deleting parts and the "not good/not acceptable" sources, correcting the language and the format of all the sources. If you can find some time to have one more look I'd appreciate it. Thank you very much once again. Rhythm Zero (talk) 20:59, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

--KaziKamrulOfficial17 (talk) 19:06, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello sir, My name is Kamrul. This is my first article on Wikipedia. I am now the new Wikipedia editor. I am bored sitting at home all day because the university is currently closed. So I thought let's do something. That's why I came to Wikipedia. I thought of writing the article "Iftekhar Rafsan" because I am one of his super fan. I don't know how successful I was in writing this article but I tried my best. If I have any mistakes, I have a request to correct them. Finally, my request was that the article be reviewed once. Thank you

Hello, Kamrul. Welcome to Wikipedia! I took a look at your draft; you've done a good job with the formatting. Before the draft is reviewed, it's important that the information in it verified by independent, published sources. If journalists or other authors not connected to Iftekhar Rafsan write about him extensively in magazines, news articles or books, then he is well-enough known to be the subject of an encyclopedia article.

Some of the references you have included seem to be this kind, but I am unfamiliar with news sources in that part of the world; you will know better which are well-respected sources. However, others seem to be press releases, advertising, and videos of the subject these are not independently written. About the statistics you have included in the article: References to the databases of results show that the sentences are accurate, but they don't show that they are significant; for that you once again need to show that journalists or feature writers (not people close to him) who cover these topics have written and published articles about his involvement in the sport.

I hope this helps; I will have to leave the reviewing of the page to someone who knows about gaming, food reviewing and Bangladesh.—Anne Delong (talk) 21:08, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Anne Delong:Thank you so much sir for replying to my message. Honestly I was a little emotional when writing the article because this is my first article. I wasn't really familiar with Wikipedia Guideline. I didn't understand many things at all. I have tried a lot to learn as much as I can by Google. So I apologize if I made a mistake. I have tried a lot to collect data from verified by independent, published sources. Among them The Daily Star (Bangladesh), Dhaka Tribune, The Prestige Magazine are many established newspapers in Bangladesh. HLTV, ESL (company) has his profile. Where news and statistics of professional esports players are published. Various official sports tournaments are arranged at challonge.com. These tournaments are arranged by the official sports clubs. CHALLONGE's parent organization is Logitech. As a fan of his, I follow him all the time. Moreover, he has a lot of TVCs that are not mentioned anywhere. For being involved with YouTube, Esport and many creative works, Iftekhar Rafsan is currently the most influential personality in Bangladesh, especially among the youth. So my request to you is to reconsider my article as a new Wikipedian. --Kazi-Kamrul-Hasan (talk) 13:51, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

KaziKamrulOfficial17, it seems that you have deleted that draft. Perhaps you misunderstood me - I did not reject your work. I just said that I thought someone more familiar with the topic of YouTube personalities and online gaming should take a look at it rather than me. You could ask the guys at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Bangladesh or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Internet culture to find editors who know about this stuff. It is too soon to give up!—Anne Delong (talk) 20:14, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I know administrators are not supposed to resolve dispute but this isn't going anywhere. You might be familiar with User:Kazi-Kamrul-Hasan. I'm just trying to improve the article Iftekhar Rafsan which he created. He is constantly reverting my edits without reasonable conclusions. He told me about putting citations but the parts I edited doesn't require any. I've been trying get to get to the bottom of this but he is making it difficult. He should also know that Wikipedia isn't a personal blogging website and he cannot 'own' an article he created. I would like your opinions in this matter. Thanks. Human (talk) 21:44, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:35, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have created a page for a Mark Johnson collaboration album he recorded with the Rice Brothers. I was wondering it you might review it at your convenience for any corrections I may need to make. Thank you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Harpgear/sandbox — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harpgear (talk • contribs) 21:25, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Harpgear. Sorry to take so long to reply; I've been busy this week with my own (non-notable) album release.

I took a look at your draft, and I think there may be an insurmountable problem. In order to have a separate encyclopedia article about an album, the album itself (not just the musicians) needs to have been written about extensively by music reviewers or other independent journalists and authors. I did a Google search, and didn't find anything, really. There's a chance that paper music magazines may have written features or reviews about the album which haven't made it online because the album was out before the internet.

AllMusic can be a good source in some situations. Just being listed there doesn't mean anything - the site tries to list every release, no matter how obscure. If the AllMusic review staff have added a review of the album (not "user reviews"), then that counts as an independent source- they are experienced reviewers. Discogs is just a database which anybody can add to, so it doesn't indicate that the album is well-known; it belongs in the "External links" section, not as a reference.

Unless you can show that the album has had some notoriety now or back in the day, you run the risk that the article will be deleted if you move it to mainspace. This is often a problem with bluegrass topics; in many places it's a niche market; the magazines were often small and disappeared without a trace after a few years.

If you can't find multiple album reviews and/or feature articles about the album, my suggestion is that you add a section at the end of the article about Mr. Johnson, but before the discography, called by the name of the album. Trim your text of info that's already earlier in the article, and then copy the remaining text and tracklist there. Then you can create a "Redirect" article which will send anyone searching for the article to that section. If you decide to do this, I can help you with the last bit. The good thing about this is that people will be able to read what you've written, and if you later find good references you can always move the text to its own article.

I hope this is clear.—Anne Delong (talk) 18:07, 31 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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