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Maxine Waters

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Your edit at Maxine Waters changed the meaning of who entered the Assembly. It was incorrect so I fixed it. Please be careful to not introduce factual errors with your edits. —В²C 12:46, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for pointing this out and fixing it. I will be more careful next time with accidental grammatical/factual errors. Stephenamills (talk) 03:57, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Help with my draft

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Hello I was hoping you can help me with my draft. It is a music producer who is very notable in his field, has released songs and credited with tons of major artists, has a #1 pop song, has a song on Spotify with over a billion streams, is part of the Internet Money collective and well documented as such etc.

I noticed you helped with the article KBeaZy and its a very similar article to mine.

can you help me understand what I need to change or fix? Or help it get reviewed/approved.

Draft:KC Supreme 166.70.242.243 (talk) 17:33, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You have to be more specific than that.

Which song by KC Supreme — that you are referring to — reached #1 on a Billboard chart, and where is link with them on the production credits, for verification? Stephenamills (talk) 19:10, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The best example:
Song: Falling by Trevor Daniel Falling (Trevor Daniel song)
[1]https://www.billboard.com/charts/pop-songs/2020-07-25/
Not sure what you consider a valid source for production credits but:
Rolling Stone?[2]https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/trevor-daniel-nicotine-interview-974504/ (search for KC Supreme on the article)\
[3]https://www.last.fm/music/Trevor+Daniel/Falling/+wiki
also, worth noting this song is at 1.3billion Spotify streams.
There are other Billboard #1 credits but most are Top 200 #1's but this should be sufficient. 166.70.242.243 (talk) 21:24, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hey 166.70.242.243, so I took a look at the draft article that got rejected.
So you mentioned KBeaZy above — I was the one who changed his article but that is a different situation.
Basically, at the beginning of this year I stumbled on his page and saw the notice at the top of the article about Wikipedia:Notability. It was saying that his article doesn’t warrant inclusion into Wikipedia, which might have been or probably was true earlier at the time the notice was placed there. But by the time I had come to his page, a song that he was a main producer on had reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (and, of course, was published in Billboard and verifiable). So I updated his article immediately since things had changed.
For that to happen with KC Supreme, I don’t think there is any specific thing you can do except for meet the requirements of that Wikipedia notability policy above. The draft article you submitted relies heavily on sources such as Wikipedia:ALLMUSIC which is a source assessed as marginally reliable (WP:MREL). Basically they’re saying it’s a low-quality source in terms of accuracy or recognition or editorial fact-checking.
It’s a similar story with the other sources in that draft article, or the info in the sources didn’t match up with the article content or were not verifiable (or were inaccurate and vague). For example, you said the music producer has a “#1 pop song”, but were deliberately vague about the fact that it’s not a #1 song on any Billboard chart. Editors would really not like something like that especially because you’re not associating any edits with an account name, you’re associating them with an IP address which is really suspicious considering how long the draft article is by a single person — and suggests that you’re an anonymous person closely associated with the producer or you are the producer themself creating their own article — and the editors really do not like that and/or potentially ban over that due to it violating Wikipedia policies and damaging the integrity and neutrality (WP:NPOV) of Wikipedia overall and its content.
I can’t speak for the other editors, but basically the main way to get the article published would be that the person needs recognized, reputable sources like Billboard writing about their concrete acheivements (like having a hit song on a Billboard chart, let’s say it could maybe be in the top 10, for example).
And also you need someone to create the article that is not anonymous behind an IP address and who is not a friend or business partner or family member or otherwise closely associated to the subject of the article. I hope that helps, and my apology if this is too long or not clear, trying to help anywhere where possible. Cheers. Stephenamills (talk) 22:59, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"you said the music producer has a “#1 pop song”, but were deliberately vague about the fact that it’s not a #1 song on any Billboard chart."
I just sent you the proof that it is a #1 song on a billboard chart that KC is the main producer of? From a direct billboard.com link? I don't understand?
KC also has numerous albums he was a part of and produced on that went #1 on the Hot 200 Billboard chart, as well as a handful of more songs in the billboard top 100 (just not #1) All with verifiable proof.
Once again comparing the KBeazy page, I notice he has barely any sources or references most of them local articles from his hometown (which KC has as well). the Page for KC however has dozens of references and sources.
for example, is variety magazine not valid?
[4]https://variety.com/lists/hitmakers-2020-full-list/charlie-handsome-kc-supreme-taz-taylor/
also, KC is a part of the Internet Money collective and is directly mentioned in tons of articles that are about Internet Money from XXL, Complex etc.
other members of Internet Money have their own Wikipedia pages, Internet Money has its own Wikipedia page etc.
The unfortunate part is producers don't usually get many articles about them for their accomplishments, like artists do. As you have stated with KBeazy "he was a main producer on had reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100", yet has no XXL, Complex or Billboard articles strictly about him. Unfortunately, producers don't get the shine, but I don't think that means they are not notable enough for a Wikipedia page, especially since the person in question Kbeazy was accepted with way less. 166.70.242.243 (talk) 23:20, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Would love a response or an opportunity to discuss further. Even if its outside of Wikipedia. 166.70.242.243 (talk) 20:18, 30 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Following a motion, the contentious topic designation of Prem Rawat has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.
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  • Following a motion, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the Macedonia 2 case have been rescinded.
  • Following a motion, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the The Troubles case has been amended.
  • An arbitration case named Industrial agriculture has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

Miscellaneous


ArbCom 2023 Elections voter message

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2023

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

  • Following a motion, the Extended Confirmed Restriction has been amended, removing the allowance for non-extended-confirmed editors to post constructive comments on the "Talk:" namespace. Now, non-extended-confirmed editors may use the "Talk:" namespace solely to make edit requests related to articles within the topic area, provided that their actions are not disruptive.
  • The Arbitration Committee has announced a call for Checkusers and Oversighters, stating that it will currently be accepting applications for CheckUser and/or Oversight permissions at any point in the year.
  • Eligible users are invited to vote on candidates for the Arbitration Committee until 23:59 December 11, 2023 (UTC). Candidate statements can be seen here.