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Walter Görlitz ( talk) 20:35, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi SavageAlpaca7. Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.
Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.
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Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.
I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. -- Ronz ( talk) 17:14, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
Nomination of Noah Hayden for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Noah Hayden is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Noah Hayden (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Cubbie15fan ( talk) 17:26, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
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Hi SavageAlpaca7. I noticed that you recently used famousbirthdays.com as a source for biographical information in Noah Hayden. Please note that there is general consensus that famousbirthdays.com does not meet the reliable sourcing criteria for the inclusion of personal information in such articles. (See Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_153#Is_famousbirthdays.com_a_reliable_source_for_personal_information). If you disagree, let's discuss it. Thanks. -- Ronz ( talk) 18:59, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Witt Lowry
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A tag has been placed on Witt Lowry requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a real person or group of people that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.
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Hello, SavageAlpaca7,
Thanks for creating Witt Lowry! I edit here too, under the username Atlantic306 and it's nice to meet you :-)
I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-
Hi, wikis and wikis are not reliable sources so please replace them with WP:Reliable sources such as Billboard where it confirms he charted
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Atlantic306}}. And, don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ . For broader editing help, please visit the
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Atlantic306 ( talk) 13:39, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I'm
Walter Görlitz. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article,
NF (rapper), but you didn't provide a
reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to
include a citation and re-add it, please do so. If you need guidance on referencing, please see the
referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on
my talk page. Could you please look at
Template:Infobox musical artist#associated_acts and explain on the article's talk page how the acts you added meet the criteria? Also check your additions using preview and follow the links. Several of the ones you added are not articles about people or bands.
Walter Görlitz (
talk) 05:30, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
- I'm sorry. You did not seem to read the documentation. Let me quote it for you here: "one-time collaboration for a single song" "should be avoided".
- Ruelle is a disambiguation article. Ruelle (singer) is the musician article, but as they worked on only one song together and do not have a "professional relationship" which is "significant and notable to [NF's] career", he should not be listed as an associated act.
- Marty is a disambiguation article. There is no article for a musician using that mononym.
- In short, there needs to be a lengthy discussion about all of the times NF has worked with a suspected associated act in the article itself before it could be considered an associated act. Walter Görlitz ( talk) 13:29, 8 February 2019 (UTC)