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January 25

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Dams in Amaravati District

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Dams in Amaravati District I knew it was sub standard effort and done without sufficient homework,hoping some one may help out and clean it up.That has not come to pass,It has naturally been, denied. One of the reasons for denial is notability. Large dams of National Importance are covered in National Register of Large Dams , Released by Central Water Commission Of India. Wiki has few articles on Dams in India , Dams in Maharashtra , etc citing this as a reference. Obviously the source includes dams in Amravati District as well . I thought that an article where collated information on the dams in districts is available at one place would be of encylopedic interest hence the effort . I am now on the editing job of the article . I want to include a jpg image of Amravati district giving locations of dams ,extracted from India WRIS web site , which being a govt. web site to disseminate information on water resources of India I assume to be a Public domain.Please guide me in learning howto do it ie put up the image . various wiki pages/ tutorials have been too complicated with too many cross references for me :( Pmvelankar (talk) 06:15, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

To be considered notable by Wikipedia's standards, a topic must have been the subject of significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. None of your given sources deals with the topic of "Dams in Amaravati District". As the title says, the National Register covers dams all over the nation; it doesn't sort them by district nor even gives the district a specific dam is located in. A map which shows dams probably wouldn't be considered significant coverage.

Regarding the image, for all I can tell it would be considered a government work and is copyrighted for 60 years since publication; compare our copyright law of India article. Thus the image would be unsuitable for Wikipedia. Huon (talk) 15:50, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

How to resubmit something

How do I get a second review after having corrected my article? The "resubmit" button is no longer there... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kunstasa (talk • contribs) 10:27, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

• I assume this is relating to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Lise Skou. Type {{subst:submit}} at the top of the article and save the page. However, before you do that, I would check the previous comments about improving the sourcing carefully and add the best possible sources that you can, as none of them appear at first glance to be directly about her as a subject. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 11:02, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Writing in red

My computer writing in red colour this File is not correctly: y=l.jQuery can I delete them? or what can I do? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.10.36.188 (talk) 14:20, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

My computer writing in red colour this File is not correctly: y=l.jQuery can I delete them? or what can I do?

Thank you for help91.10.36.188 (talk) 14:22, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

This page is for questions about the Articles for creation process. Please consider asking this question at the Wikipedia:Help desk. - This is where editors will try to answer any question regarding how to use Wikipedia. Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. You could always try searching Wikipedia for any help related to the topic you want to know more about. I hope this helps. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 14:24, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Regarding Article Draft MacWise

MacWise was an existing article in Wikipedia for years. It was an accurate article. Recently I tried to add more information to the article and the entire article was removed because I am affiliated with the company that publishes the MacWise software (Carnation Software).

Now I am trying to re-create the article from scratch and it was rejected for the same reason. I am the developer for MacWise. Nobody else has better knowledge of the subject. Why am I getting rejected as an author? Seems very ironic to me.

Also, Why was the original MacWise article removed? It was accurate and was created by someone that was and is not affiliated with Carnation Software. Why should it be removed just because I made changes to it? It seems to me that if anything, the original article should be put back on Wikipedia.

Richlovecsw (talk) 15:25, 25 January 2013 (UTC) Rich Love ( Richlovecsw )

• MacWise was deleted following this discussion on 26th November last year. The discussion is rather hostile to non-Wikipedia regulars, but the basic problem was that the article didn't cite any reliable sources, such as major national newspaper and magazine articles, that allowed anyone to verify that MacWise was a notable piece of software. Because the article didn't have this, it was always at risk of being deleted.

A further problem mentioned is that the editors who commented felt that one of the problems was that you shouldn't be creating articles about your own product on Wikipedia. It's generally impossible to write fairly about something you've created, as a strong conflict of interest is created.

As it is, I have added three magazine reviews to your article, so it should have a better chance of passing. In particular, one of the reviews was quite critical of the software's features - I think this is important to put in, because it shows a demonstration of a neutral point of view, where the good and the bad about the software should be mentioned. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 15:49, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Article Rejected

I have recently submitted an article for creation and was told that it read too much like an advertisement. What suggestions for improvement do you have? Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/APTelecom Arthur.katz2010 (talk) 17:44, 25 January 2013 (UTC)ArtArthur.katz2010 (talk) 17:44, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

First of all, you currently seem to have two copies of the draft on that page; you should remove one of them so reviewers won't have to guess which one is the current one and which is outdated. Secondly, both copies seem to be heavily based on press releases or other sources that directly originate with APTelecom. To be considered notable, the company should have been the subject of significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, such as news coverage or maybe articles in trade magazines, and the draft should be based on what those independents sources have to say. Thirdly, the draft uses quite a few buzzwords such as "emerging market advisory-based solutions" - that means they're consultants in certain developing countries, right? If so, we should say so as plainly as possible. Or take this statement: "APTelecom also provides clients with a range of telecom products and cloud solutions" - that gives me no idea at all of what they do. Are they an internet provider? Do they produce communications sattelites, cell phones, software? Do they just serve as a broker and supply products manufactured by others? All of those activities would be covered by that vague statement. Huon (talk) 21:55, 25 January 2013 (UTC)