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14:35:04, 29 June 2014 review of submission by Relativityman

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I am not requesting a re-review. All I want to know is WHERE IS THE REVIEW DRAFT AND THE REVIEWER'S REMARKS, SO THAT I CAN EDIT IT? Relativityman (talk) 14:35, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

All Capitals is SHOUTING and impolite. The decline notice on your talk page leads directly to the draft. It is ad Draft:Natural Relativity. Fiddle Faddle 14:54, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

16:59:00, 29 June 2014 review of draft by SongsforLulu

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Dear Wikipedia editor,

This is my first Wiki article and I have a few questions:

With regard to references:

Is it enough to cite a reference or do I need to justify why I’ve cited a particular reference (for example if I say that somebody is German, do I need to show Wikipedia where in the source article this is mentioned (i.e. by quoting the relevant passage)? If so how do I do this? Where the source article is not in English, I’ve added the original sentence(s) and a translation after the reference. Is this the right procedure? See references [4] and [31]. Do I have to specify that a source quoted in the references is a blog, an online magazine, a website, a press release, etc.? In reference [30], the link to Wiki article If I Loved You: Gentlemen prefer Broadway does not work. Any idea why? When I quoted a publication name in the references, I’ve followed your guidelines and used a double apostrophe, however this didn’t italicise the name and I had to do it later manually, where did I go wrong? (I put the apostrophes in the right place outside the double square broackets). I’ve noticed that when I click on the blue arrow button after the name of an article, I am redirected to that article and I can then come back to my Wikipedia page (by clicking on the left arrow button on the top left hand corner of the screen). However if I do this a second time I am unable to return to my Wiki article. Is this normal?

Other questions:

With regard to categories, I’ve noticed that the subject of my biography is listed under J (for Jörn) and not under W (for Weisbrodt). How do I change this? With regard to the two photos, I’ve emailed Mr Weisbrodt’s office asking them to fill in your permission template and I will get back to you as soon as hear from them. The photos URLs are:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/Music_Mob-22-016.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2013_TimesTalk_Joni_Mitchell_photo_davidleyes-0345.jpg

Thank you very much for your assistance and I look forward to hearing from you.

Lulu 16:59, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

@SongsforLulu: I will answer some of this. Others can come and play for the rest {{Smiley}
You may quote snippets using the 'quote=' parameter in the {{Cite web}} (etc) template series of citation templates. The snippets should be short and directly relevant to the item you are citing. You do not need to specify what you are soucing, just the title and url (if it has a url) and the date written, author, and the date it was accessed, assuming it is an online resource. I;ve not read WP:REFB - I'm hardcore, and do it all manually - but I imagine fondly that it contains all this. Some of it is in User:Timtrent/A good article, too.
We never, not ever, use Wikipedia as a reference. It is a user edited source, so, by definition, is unreliable.
With Categories there is a magic word, {{DEFAULTSORT}} that is intended to handle it. The best way to learn is to find another biography and see how it is used there, right at the foot (edit the article and look in the edit tab).
I'm not a copyright expert on submitting material. I will leave that to others. There is a way of signifying that you are seeking permission, I htink, but I don;t want to mislead you. Fiddle Faddle 17:25, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

18:32:42, 29 June 2014 review of submission by Aliciasotomayor1

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18:32:42, 29 June 2014 request for review by Aliciasotomayor1


My big question is how can I add a photo, do you have steps to do itAliciasotomayor1 (talk) 18:32, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In order to add a photo you must first upload it. To be allowed to upload it you must either own the copyright, or have registered formal permission form the copyright holder, or the photo must already be available freely (a complex topic I will not cover here)
Once uploaded you insert it into the document thus   where you replace the name example.jpg with your file name after upload. There are sizing parameters. If you get stuck deploy {{Helpme}} on your own talk page and ask your question there. A helpful weditor will drop by and answer your question there.
I've answered your question here, but it is outside our normal scope, which is to handle article submission and review problems. Fiddle Faddle 09:12, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The user is unable to upload files as their account is neither confirmed or auto-confirmed. They would need to use Files for Upload; however, before they start to thing about images they should probably address the more pressing concerns of the text -- specifically, that they haven't written any. Bellerophon talk to me 19:11, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

19:16:45, 29 June 2014 review of submission by 154.5.121.207

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154.5.121.207 (talk) 19:16, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I recently submitted an article on the history, provenance, story and premiere of 'Pauline', a new chamber opera given its world premiere in May 2014 at City Opera Vancouver. Its libretto was written by Margaret Atwood (a well-known author) and music by Tobin Stokes. The event was reported across Canada, the States, and the United Kingdom, and sold out all five nights. It was Margaret Atwood's first opera, Tobin Stokes' fifth, and the first ever about poet, writer and performer Pauline Johnson. The latter is the subject of a major essay in Wikipedia.

To my surprise, the article was declined.

That said, I appreciate the invitation to review; that said further, there is no point, really. If it fails your test, it fails. No one takes it personally.

Thanks,


Dr Charles Barber (MA, DMA Stanford)

I hope you are not giving up. Do, please, edit Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Pauline (chamber opera) to make it acceptable, or merge it as suggested. We want articles, and the review process is designed to help you to construct them. Fiddle Faddle 19:22, 29 June 2014 (UTC).  .[reply]
Hello Dr. Barber. I wasn't the reviewer, but I'm a member of WikiProject Opera and took a second look at the draft when I saw your query here. The problem was that at the time the draft was reviewed and declined in February, the opera had not even premiered yet (it did not premiere until late May), and you had provided no references apart from its official website. We cannot accept articles like that. We require references in the article showing significant coverage about the entity, and independent of it, in reliable published sources. However, now that it has premiered, there are multiple published reviews and articles about it. I'll be adding them to the draft and updating it and then I'll move it to article space. Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 18:37, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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