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Robert McLachlan (mathematician), moved to draftspace

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An article you recently created, Robert McLachlan (mathematician),, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 23:41, 14 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Robert McLachlan (mathematician) (April 15)

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Aola Richards moved to draftspace

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An article you recently created, Aola Richards, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:38, 22 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi, the reason why I've moved this to drafts is that notability has not been shown, and therefore the article would have been a deletion candidate had it remained in the main space.
Notability can be established in one of two ways: either the person is inherently notable, in this case as an eminent scientist, but I cannot see anything in the career details to suggest that; feel free to review the criteria at WP:NACADEMIC and let me know if you think I got that wrong.
The other way is by the general notability route, per WP:GNG, which requires significant coverage in multiple independent and reliable secondary sources. Of the sources cited, the first half a dozen offer only the barest of passing mentions, if even that, and the last half a dozen seem to be scientific papers mostly authored by the article subject herself, which doesn't really help (we need to see what others have said about her, not what she herself has said). As it stands, I didn't see one source that meets the GNG criteria, although again I'm happy to be proven wrong.
There is also the problem of missing referencing, with too much of the content being unsupported.
If you can add better sources and more citations, to address both these points (notability and verifiability), please do so, and you are then welcome to submit the draft for pre-publication review by clicking on the blue 'submit' button. Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:46, 22 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for your message. Although I cannot determine that this person is inherently notable, compared to other entomologists with their own wiki page one can see she contributed at least as much. Morgan-weta (talk) 03:55, 28 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Creating stubs on insects

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Please try to avoid creating stubs on taxa, like you did at Micropathus, even if you intend to expand them later. They are unhelpful to the reader. Thanks, Edward-Woodrow :) [talk] 12:25, 11 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

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  Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give a page a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Sigaus nitidus. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

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thank you for this helpful information. Not sure what I do now? Should I try to move the old page? Or having cut-and-pasted is it too late?
I was trying to correct species names - I'll attempt to use the "Move" tab to get the page name to match the species name for other grasshopper species now in the genus "Sigaus" Morgan-weta (talk) 04:15, 8 September 2024 (UTC)Reply