TotallyNottheroc

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:50, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Photographic Lighting Patterns moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Photographic Lighting Patterns, does not have enough contentand citations as written to remain published. It needs more content and 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. Schazjmd (talk) 19:21, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Notes

Hi! I saw that your draft was moved back to the draftspace, after you'd moved it live. I have some notes on this:

• This needs to be written in a more formal fashion, as it's written very casually and feels like the beginning of a research paper.

• You need to avoid using wording like "I" or similar - the article should not come across like it was written from the viewpoint of a specific, singular person. This type of writing style also makes it easier to include or for work to seem like original research - that is, content you came up with on your own based on sourcing that may not make those specific claims. We can only summarize what has been explicitly stated in the source material.

• It looks like the article is discussing photographic lighting, however keep in mind that there is already an article on this topic. That article needs a lot of work, so it would be better to improve that article by making it sound more encyclopedic and to add sourcing.

• With sourcing, make sure that you have enough sourcing to establish notability (even if the topic seems obviously notable) and to back up claims. You also want to use the strongest possible sourcing. Google can produce good reliable sourcing but the majority of links that come up will not be considered reliable. For example, the SLR Lounge looks like it accepts user submissions, which poses an issue when it comes to reliability, editing, and fact checking, as most sites that accept user content do not edit or fact check information. Breathing Color is an e-commerce site, which poses an issue since many of these sites don't really put a lot of fact checking or editorial oversight into blog posts and may predominantly use the blog as a way to promote their site. The same thing goes for the third link, which actually has a link to courses that readers can purchase.

It would be better to search your college library's holdings to see what they have on the topic. Books like this would be better to use.

I hope this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:58, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Photographic lighting pattern concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Photographic lighting pattern, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:40, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Photographic lighting pattern

Hello, TotallyNottheroc. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Photographic lighting pattern".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 02:03, 1 May 2020 (UTC)