User talk:Clarefinin/Archive 1

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Clarefinin

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A tag has been placed on User:Clarefinin, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Contested deletion

This page is not unambiguously promotional, because on the wikipedia page about user pages it states that "Its normal use is to give basic information, if you wish, about yourself or your Wikimedia-related activities" --Clarefinin (talk) 00:27, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Art jewelry forum for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Art jewelry forum 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/Art jewelry forum until a consensus is reached, and anyone 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. Happy Squirrel (talk) 21:50, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) (July 8)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Sulfurboy was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

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Sulfurboy (talk) 22:53, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Hello! Clarefinin, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Sulfurboy (talk) 22:53, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

July 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Art jewelry forum, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Here you removed my last comment- I assume it was by accident, but be more careful in future, other users might be less forgiving about their comments being removed. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:19, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

I'm sorry! It was completely by accident. I am rather new to Wikipedia, and am still struggling a little on the learning curve. I will be sure to be more careful in the future. Clarefinin (talk) 13:40, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

No problem, it's a common mistake from new users. Happy editing. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:48, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Some issues

Hello, just a few things I would like to point out about best practices on Wikipedia.

• External links do not belong in the main body of articles. Only links to other Wikipedia articles.
• Please do not link to Wikipedia articles in other languages. First of all, most of our readers cannot read them. Secondly, the rules are different on the different language Wikipedias.
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— Preceding unsigned comment added by Happysquirrel (talk • contribs) 02:31, 12 July 2015 (UTC+9) (Added signature per WP:TPG#Attributing unsigned comments - Marchjuly (talk) 22:56, 11 July 2015 (UTC))

Just for reference, linking to other langauge Wikipedias can be OK if wikilinks are used (See H:ILL), but they should not be linked using embedded links and they should not be used as reliable sources to support information per WP:WPNOTRS. If you want to link to another language's Wikipedia, you can use one of the templates listed in H:ILL#Inline links or simply add a direct link. Similary, non-English reliable sources may be used per WP:NOENG though English sources are preferrable for obvious reasons. - Marchjuly (talk) 23:08, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Great! Thanks for the infoClarefinin (talk) 00:48, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

AJF

(Coming here from Haf's page) I had a look at search results, and it is difficult to determine whether the AJF is notable from its web presence. For example, the AJF staff writer is Dina Noto, who appears to be an animator and writer, not a jeweller. However a search for "art jewellery" (double l) produced JOYA Barcelona Art Jewellery Fair, which is part of the Barcelona Jewellery Week (I don't know what the Catalan is for these)- which sounds notable, but the available online sources don't seem to add up to much. That might be a problem of the art jewelry (jewellery) field- small-scale high-value production requires face-to-face selling. So not much "web presence" I'm guessing. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 21:47, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi @Xanthomelanoussprog::, Thank you for looking into this.

About Dina- Dina received her MFA in illustration, but she has worked for the past several years at an art jewelry gallery. Her work there was a crash course in art jewelry, and she eventually was hired by AJF for certain writings (usually donation requests and things of that nature). Most of the actual content AJF publishes is written by art historians, curators, professors, and makers. Art jewelry (or jewellery for the europeans) certainly is an incredibly small field that has clung to analog ways for far too long (probably due in part because EVERYTHING about our field is so physical). Personally, as someone who was trained both as a metalsmith and art historian, I am acutely aware of the problems that our field now faces. I am personally invested in helping digitize the field in order to help preserve it for the future. I started with AJF because I felt like they had one of the strongest cases; they are an incredibly respected and influential non profit in our field. The content they publish both online and in print only has a few competitors (friends?), mainly Metalsmith Magazine, American Crafts, and Current Obsession. As someone who teaches both metalsmithing studio classes and design history at a University level, I know how important these publications are to not only myself, but to my students education. AJF publications are widely used in academia. I am starting to become really frustrated that there is such a gap between what we as a field know, and what I can prove to Wikipedia.....Clarefinin (talk) 00:53, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Harassing posts

I assume the "mathematician who nominated the page for deletion" that you keep referring to in posts to other users such as [1] is me. I didn't nominate the page for deletion, I just supported a deletion, because I know the processes of notability, and I strongly believe this article does not pass it. Please stop posting implicit attacks about my lack of subject knowledge, especially since I wasn't even the person who nominated it for deletion. If you continue to make posts claiming that a clueless mathematician nominated for deletion, I will seek administrator actions, as I consider these unwarranted personal attacks. Joseph2302 (talk) 22:19, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

It wasn't referring to you actually. And the person who it does refer to I really don't have an issue with, they've actually been super super helpful.

All I am trying to do is reach out to other people who are more aware of what my updated reference list means. For example, if I were looking at a page on something math related, which I know absolutely nothing about, I would possibly misunderstand the reliability of some of the references. Given how small and insular the crafts are in general, and especially art jewelry, I am just seeking advice from people who are familiar with publications, galleries, etc that I have used as references and to see if they may be able to give any specific advice based on their knowledge.

So I am sorry if you prematurely got upset. But it really wasn't about you/ towards you/ referencing you/etc... At all. I didn't even know you were also a mathematicianClarefinin (talk) 22:31, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

I made a longer reply at my talkpage, but basically it's fine- also I hope you do find people who can help you. Joseph2302 (talk) 22:35, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi, I think I may be the person referred to here. If so, I freely admit that I know nothing about Art Jewellery, my interest is as a new page patroller. I think it is great you found people to help you sort out the article and its references. Notice I have changed my !vote. I second what Joseph said that this post could easily be misconstrued as a personal attack. Text only communication means you don't have cues from face or voice. However, clearly no offence was meant and none was taken. In actual fact, I have found you have taken all this really well and as a learning experience. Whether or not we decide to keep the article, I sure hope we get to keep you! Happy Squirrel (talk) 18:20, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

User:Happysquirrel, it was referring to you, but as I said, I harbor no ill will, you've been so helpful through all this. I'm glad that you've felt I've taken this well, I've tried to be too frustrated with the learning curve. Thank you again Clarefinin (talk) 19:26, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

July 2015

Hello, I noticed that you may have recently made edits to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Art jewelry forum while logged out. Making edits while logged out reveals your IP address, which may allow others to determine your location and identity. Wikipedia's policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow the use of more than one account or IP address by one person. If this was not your intention, then please always remember to log in when editing. Thank you. - Marchjuly (talk) 22:52, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Thats so weird. I never logged out, but was working from many tabs, in the same browser, on the same device at once.... I'll try to keep an eye on that in the future.Clarefinin (talk) 00:48, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

No worries. It occasionally happens even to experienced editors, especially when you're trying to multitask. One thing is that it does show your IP address. If you don't want that to be visible, see WP:OTRS and ask someone to remove it for you or add {{admin help}} to your talk page and ask an administrator to remove it for you. - Marchjuly (talk) 12:34, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

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Translation

Hello again, you mentioned being interested in making some translations, so I thought perhaps here would be a better place to discuss it.

The idea with translations is essentially to create the new article on English Wikipedia, but using references and translated text from an existing article in another language. It is not as much work as creating an article from scratch, but even with automated help, it will still take time. There is a new tool [2] which you can enable in your Preferences under Beta. It should help streamline the process, but you definitely have to review and correct the entire article, since machine translations produce notoriously bad grammar. Also style conventions vary between different Wikipedias. For example, in French, reference tags go before punctuation, and in Catalan, all years get linked. That means you have to do some style correction when translating as well. You may want to draft your translation first just so you don't have to do all the corrections in one sitting.

Other things to keep in mind is to make sure to provide attribution and say where the text originated from. Also, since notability guidelines vary between Wikipedias, make sure to review the English notability guidelines (for people, that would be wp:BIO) before translating.

If you run into any trouble or have questions, please let me know. Hope that helps! Happy Squirrel (talk) 18:42, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

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