Nicolekearney

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Finding the truth

	Protection of indigenous people
	As you rightfully recognized here. The land was not 'unoccupied' when the Europeans arrived. As Eddie Izzard once ascribed to Columbus "discovering" the Americas, claiming them for his Queen, and saying to the inhabitants: "Do you have a flag?" 7&6=thirteen (☎) 21:49, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

Ways to improve Castlemaine Field Naturalist Club

Hello, Nicolekearney,

Thank you for creating Castlemaine Field Naturalist Club.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

Hi Nicolekearney, nice work on your new article. Currently, it only uses the organisation's own website as a source, and needs external reliable sources added. It's also not been added to any categories. I would suggest doing this and also adding it to appropriate Wikiprojects.

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Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 12:19, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

@Bastun: Thank you for your suggested improvements to the new page. This is the first time I've started a page from scratch. I was able to find a few more references; there isn't much online about Victoria's regional field naturalist clubs. We're currently undertaking a Wikimedia Australia funded project to change that. I hope the additional citations I've added are sufficient. I have removed the issues boxes. Thanks again, Nicolekearney (talk) 00:28, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Ringwood Field Naturalists Club

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A tag has been placed on Ringwood Field Naturalists Club requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a club, society, or group that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club

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A tag has been placed on Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a club, society, or group that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Ringwood Field Naturalists Club moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Ringwood Field Naturalists Club. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources and it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:38, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and to survive in main space it needs to meet the criteria of WP:NCORP, which at the moment it does not. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:44, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi Justlettersandnumbers,

As you will have seen, I'm currently working on a number of pages for Field Naturalist Clubs in Victoria, Australia. This work is part of a Wikimedia Australia funded grant to share the history of these local community organisations. They currently have very little presence online, which is why it's been hard to find citations. As the Manager of the Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia project, I am concurrently working with these naturalist clubs to digitise their historic publications and make them freely accessible online. We will also be their digitising historic photographs and archives. We intend to add more links and citations to the Wikipedia pages as we make this content available online.

I've now added more links and citations to the Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club page. I hope you will consider republishing it. Nicolekearney (talk) 06:11, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi, Nicole! This sounds like a worthy undertaking, and I wish you success with it. However I'm not convinced that this is place to do it – I rather doubt whether you will be able to show that each of these (amateur?) clubs meets our somewhat stringent notability requirements for organisations (which please read!). Had you considered creating something like a List of field naturalist clubs in Victoria, Australia instead? – that could contain some details about each club and have a redirect to it from the name of the club, but might have a better chance of survival in mainspace. Or a List of field naturalist clubs in Australia, or History of field naturalist clubs in Australia, perhaps? Please see the invitation below this, that's a good place to ask advice. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:40, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi again,

I will certainly create a list page for the Field Naturalist Clubs. I already had this on my list of things to do. However, I will continue to work on making each club's Wikipedia page worthy of publication because I have received a grant from Wikimedia Australia specifically to create these pages. See https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/The_Regional_Field_Naturalists_Clubs_of_Victoria. Wikimedia Australia evidently believe that these pages are worth creating and funding. It's now my job to create them. It's quite disheartening that you've pulled them down, particularly after others in the Wikimedia community had added to them and provided helpful suggestions for their improvement (which I followed). We will continue to add to the drafts as we gather more information via our digitisation of each club's archives. It would be lovely to be able to show them the Wikipedia pages as they evolve, but instead, I will have to tell them that they and their long-standing community involvement/impact are not (yet) notable. Nicolekearney (talk) 05:11, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Invitation

Hello! Nicolekearney, you are invited to join other new editors and friendly hosts in the Teahouse. It's a good place to meet people, ask questions and learn more about Wikipedia. Please give it a try! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:40, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of Ringwood Field Naturalists Club for deletion

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Fram (talk) 12:44, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Ringwood Field Naturalists Club moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Ringwood Field Naturalists Club. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and per the consensus at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ringwood Field Naturalists Club. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Star Mississippi 02:32, 4 April 2024 (UTC)