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Trinity GAN

Hi, @MediaKyle! With classical theism nomination being passed, are you willing to start a review of Trinity? If so, then feel free to start it whenever you are ready. Brent Silby (talk) 15:27, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi there Brent Silby, I'm definitely still willing to take on that review, just wanted to take some time to work on my own projects for a bit. There's no need to rush to get articles to GA, anyways - Wikipedia has no deadlines, and improving an article is always a worthwhile endeavour in any case. I know of one editor who has a backlog of around 150 articles they haven't sent to GAN yet because they don't want to overload it. If you want, as you go along and continue working on these articles, you are able to assess them up to B grade yourself. You also have the option of continuing to work on either of your GAs to bring them up to Featured Article status, and ask for a peer review, although FAC is way more intense than GAN and I don't have any experience with it yet personally. MediaKyle (talk) 15:44, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi, @MediaKyle! Thanks for your suggestions.

I have actually found what to work on in the meantime, while I am waiting for you to start the review. There is a Wikipedia program called vital articles. It collects the most important articles on Wikipedia by their relevance to humanity as a whole.

This program sorts articles into groups: level 1 (10 most vital articles on Wikipedia), level 2 (100 most vital articles on Wikipedia), level 3 (1000 most vital articles on Wikipedia), level 4 (10000 most vital articles on Wikipedia), level 5 (50000 most vital articles on Wikipedia).

I am planning on improving vital articles that are related to my main area of interest/specialization (philosophy/theology). All level 1/level 2 articles about philosophy or religion that are of interest to me are already GA or FA (excluding religion and deity, which are too broad for my liking) so I am starting with level 3. Brent Silby (talk) 09:02, 30 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi, @MediaKyle! While I am waiting for your review to start, I was refining the article even further. Everything appears well-polished except for one thing.

I have noticed an image captioned "The Holy Trinity on the stained glass windows of the Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Brockdish". It appears to be marked as own work. What are the rules around that? I think you can use such images, but not completely sure.

Other than that, I think the article is very well-polished and ready for a review. Brent Silby (talk) 17:22, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi Brent Silby, that's great! Sorry I didn't reply to your previous message right away - I meant to, I think I was caught up with editing at the moment and got distracted. There's a lot of good stuff in those vital articles lists. If you're looking for some more inspiration as well, have you found Good Topics yet? I only just found that page recently myself. I think I'm going to aim for making Canadian provincial/territorial awards and honours a good topic myself, starting with Order of Nova Scotia. Maybe there's a philosophy and religion topic you could work towards! I will take a look at the image you're referring to and let you know shortly. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 17:43, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi, @MediaKyle! I didn't know about good topics. That's a really neat thing. I am mostly interested in a relatively narrow group of topics, so I will se if I can unite them under some topic. Brent Silby (talk) 21:49, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

@Brent Silby Alright, I took a look, and honestly it's kind of unclear in this case - assuming good faith, one would say that this appears to be a photograph that was likely taken by the person who uploaded it. The Good Article criteria actually only says in regards to licensing: "media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content". Therefore, the media is tagged with a copyright status, and it's not overtly incorrect, so I'm gonna say it shouldn't be an issue for GAR. If you really wanted to be thorough, you could always just ask the person who uploaded it, but it won't be necessary as far as the review goes. MediaKyle (talk) 17:53, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree. I doubt someone would intentionally upload images that fail some criteria, so I think we should be good to go in that regard. Brent Silby (talk) 21:50, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi, @MediaKyle! I have just finished a huge project I was working on and I think I will have some free time on my hands these weekends. Do you think you will be able to review Trinity on these weekends? Brent Silby (talk) 20:12, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi there @Brent Silby. I've been thinking about that article, and after reading over it again just now, I'm thinking it may be best for me to leave Trinity for another reviewer. Sorry to back out on you, but the issue is that I just don't comprehend the sources quite well enough to be able to say for certain that a lot of the information is verifiable. I took a look at the other articles you have nominated currently, and it looks like Abraham might be a bit more my speed, although I can already see that one needs a bit more polishing up before a review - there's some maintenance tags, external links in the body, etc... If you really want to do Trinity first, I looked at the other nominations, and the user Chiswick Chap currently has Sivananda yoga nominated. Perhaps you might reach out to them about reviewing Trinity? They seem to be quite prolific at GAN, and might be smarter than me. Just a thought. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 20:40, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

@MediaKyle No worries, I am totally fine to review Abraham with you (I don't how I missed that "citations needed" tag). I will try to find a different reviewer for Trinity, might potentially reach out to Chiswick Chap. Brent Silby (talk) 20:45, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi again, @MediaKyle! I believe I have fixed all the maintenance tags and replaced all external links with internal links. Brent Silby (talk) 08:11, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Right on, I should be able to start the review over the weekend. As I'm looking over the article again now though, I'm seeing that it seems to sort of go back and forth on how it discusses the Bible. There's a delicate balance between not indicating that these are "just stories", but also not giving them too much weight either, or using them to lead the reader to a particular conclusion. The part about "The Abraham cycle" could be made a lot more clear as well, in particular to the nonspecialist reader, it just jumps right into it without actually explaining why it's called "The Abraham cycle" or any context. Best thing to do would be to read over it again as if you were the one reviewing it and go from there. MediaKyle (talk) 11:18, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for all the suggestions! I will try to implement them tomorrow when I wake up. Brent Silby (talk) 22:58, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi, @MediaKyle! I ran the Abraham article through copyvio check, and it returned a 98% similarly with this page. However, when I entered it into Internet Archive, the earliest version of that webpage is from late 2021. The paragraphs on Wiki that are exactly the same, has been there since much longer than 2021. So it is very much possible that this page copied Wikipedia article and not vice versa. Brent Silby (talk) 10:46, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Based on the information you've given me, I'd say that's very much the case. I've seen this before a few times, where an article was thought to be a copyvio, but it turned out that the Wikipedia version was older. Nothing to worry about. What a shame that they didn't provide attribution though. MediaKyle (talk) 11:03, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

@MediaKyle Yep, I have added this info about copyright to the talk page banner. I have also added some context (literary overview) of the Abraham cycle as you have requested for the GA review. Brent Silby (talk) 14:09, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Great, the article is definitely looking better now. Sorry that I haven't yet started the review, I ended up working on my own at Order of Nova Scotia and I'm dealing with some image licensing issues.

I was just thinking about it, and I reckon going forward it would be better if you post discussions pertaining to particular articles on their respective talk pages, that way other editors are seeing them and can weigh in as well. Of course my talk page is still visible but people interested in the Abraham article likely don't know we're discussing it here. I have all the articles you nominate added to my watchlist so I see when you post on the talk pages. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 14:41, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, that's a good call, I will do that in the future. Brent Silby (talk) 14:55, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

I will look into what I can help with about image licensing on that article. Brent Silby (talk) 14:57, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

It's all good, I think it's just about resolved, just going to take a couple of days. I appreciate it, though. MediaKyle (talk) 15:05, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Oh, I see, if you are going to message the officials for the permission, then that should suffice as far as I can tell. Brent Silby (talk) 15:09, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

I do think that it's weird that all images used on Wiki are not under fair use rationale. You cannot get more fair use than a free non-profit online encyclopedia. Brent Silby (talk) 15:18, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

I think the main distinction is that media has to be provided without restrictions to fit within the "vision" of the Wikimedia projects. Many organizations are willing to release their work but only for non-commercial purposes, or not allowing for derivatives, and that doesn't really work here. If you're curious about how non-free use rationales work there's a writeup about it at WP:FAIRUSE, in particular the section WP:NFCCP outlines the policy in a concise way. Copyright gets particularly confusing in Canada because of Crown copyright though which is the main point of contention on my nomination. MediaKyle (talk) 15:25, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

That's certainly interesting. It's all pretty new to me, since I had never dealt with (serious) copyright before. I guess it makes sense why Wikipedia leaves messages like this: "By clicking "Reply", you agree to our Terms of Use and agree to irrevocably release your text under the CC BY-SA 4.0 License and GFDL. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license." Brent Silby (talk) 19:41, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Since you're interested in Nova Scotia

You might like this article I made, Earl Bailly. It was suggested by someone who said he has an art gallery in Lunenburg, and if there was a WP-article, there was a grant he could get. So I thought "That's a fun version of WP:PAID, but who is this artist? Ok, it's criminal we don't have this article already, so I'll make it." I told the suggester that if there are news-articles about him being the meth-kingpin of Nova Scotia, that will be mentioned. He replied "I'm not worried about the meth, there are stories of him being a bit of a ladies man but as he was paralyzed from the neck down I doubt anything too controversial will pop up." Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:51, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

That gave me a good laugh. What an interesting story and a great article, thanks a lot for sharing! I hope buddy got his grant. MediaKyle (talk) 17:57, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

On digging in the digital newspaper archives. I was working on Charleen Kinser, her daughter had found the Teahouse and I offered to make an article. She put some stuff google drive, and I was scrolling through my hits on NewspaperARCHIVE.com, supposedly sorted by "relevance". I think to myself "I have enough now... I'll look at one more." Oh shit. Did not expect that. Luckily, the daughter was ok with it. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:13, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

My word, that's dark. I felt the same way when I started working on Joy Laking only to realize she had lost three friends in the 2020 Nova Scotia attacks... You can't just not include that stuff, but it always feels a little uneasy doesn't it. MediaKyle (talk) 14:19, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

Very true.

Something lighter: From Skeeter Reece: "In Florida, he had a chance meeting with a cousin who was a member of the King Charles Troupe" That's my writing, WP-style. Now go to 4:33 in this video and hear his version of the same story.

Skeeter Reece is my favorite "Teahouse-foundling" article, you can see my discussions with his wife at User talk:Mamadancer. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:40, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

That's the best thing I've seen all week, and probably amongst the "most American" stories I've ever heard. Thank you! These "Teahouse-foundling" articles as you call them are so cool. Not that my opinion matters any, but I have to tell you I think you're a truly exemplary Wikipedian for doing this stuff. International collaboration on random people and topics we've never heard of before is part of what it's all about, in my eyes. Do keep me updated on any new developments! Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 15:25, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

@Gråbergs Gråa Sång I don't suppose you'd be interested in writing a bit about another sculptor? I've been called to action over at Charles Stankievech, there's so much information on him available but I could use a hand with turning some of these short sentences into longer prose, if you're interested at all. Maybe don't vote in the AfD though - wouldn't want someone to accuse me of canvassing by posting this message. MediaKyle (talk) 16:21, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

Never mind, I rescind my invitation. I thought this was going to be entirely uncontroversial, apparently I was wrong. No need for me to drag anyone else into it. MediaKyle (talk) 17:15, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Order of Nova Scotia

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Hi there. I was wondering if you can review Pile of poo emoji? Thanks! 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 17:11, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi Boneless Pizza!, thanks for reaching out. I should be able to get to that quite soon, although I do see a couple issues right out the gate - first of all, the lead says it's known informally as "poomoji", this is never addressed again in the article. I took a look at the source regarding the poop statue on Nancy Pelosi's desk - the source says: "The scatological statue, which was installed on Thursday, features a swirl somewhat resembling the common "poop" emoji sitting on a desk with Pelosi's name." This is not really coverage about the poop emoji, and should be removed. Also, the statement "The poop emoji has received mixed reviews." is quite vague, to the point where I actually had to laugh a bit when I read it. I'd recommend going over the article more thoroughly before we start a review. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 17:38, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Many thanks! Removed it. 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 17:44, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks a lot for the review! I didn't realize that I should connect all the flow in the receptio section until you pointed it out. I knew reception is always a nightmare. Is it okay with you to bear with me for couple of days? or possibly next week? I think I'm willing to work with this one on my day off. Thanks! 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 20:23, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

Absolutely, no problem at all. I think the article can definitely be brought up to GA status with a little work. I'll go ahead and put the review on hold for now, and you can feel free to ping me whenever you're satisfied with it. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 20:27, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

I asked people on disckrd but they ignored me so I don't know what to do but I left also at wp:Japan, hoping someone will answer but I kinda doubt it. 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 06:22, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

No worries. I'll take another look and see if I can figure something out. MediaKyle (talk) 10:53, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

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Nova Scotia barnstar

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Thank you! I appreciate it. MediaKyle (talk) 10:41, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

Bay of Fundy

Hello there, I noticed that you were interested in potentially improving Bay of Fundy for a possible GA nomination. I've wanted to do that for quite a while myself, so I was wondering if you'd like to do it together and maybe co-nominate when the time comes. P.S., I thought you'd might also be interested in Isthmus of Chignecto, I currently have a nomination to grant it Vital Article status here.

All the best, B3251_(talk) 00:18, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi B3251, thanks a lot for reaching out. I'd love to collaborate on these articles with you. If it's all the same to you, I'd like to switch the referencing system for the articles before we get to expanding them - Shortened footnotes like I used on Order of Nova Scotia I think make for a much more professional looking article, and makes it a lot easier on us to edit when we end up with hundreds of sources at the end of it.

Isthmus of Chignecto is an exciting prospect as well, there's so much available information on the topic due to current events that hasn't yet made it on that article. Do you happen to know of any good books that cover either topic off the top of your head? Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 11:28, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Changing the references system would work! I haven't done much when it comes to organizing the referencing system aside from my work destubbing Walter W. White (which I nom'd for GA, just didn't have the time to address the review's concerns so I withdrew it. Will renom again sometime), but from what I've done on that article and from what I've seen you do I have an understanding of what you mean and how it'll work.

As for the Isthmus of Chignecto, these may be useful resources:

• Howard Trueman, The Chignecto Isthmus and Its First Settlers
• Will R. Bird's nonfiction bibliography, particularly A Century at Chignecto (not sure if there are any digitized versions but I haven't really checked. I do know that UNB Fredericton has one physical copy)
• John Clarence Webster, The forts of Chignecto : a study of the eighteenth century conflict between France and Great Britain in Acadia (1930)
• William Cochrane Milner, Records of Chignecto (
• Chignecto Canal Committee, The Story of the Chignecto Barrier (194x)
• William Francis Ganong was a prolific NB-based cartographer. His works include some information about Chignecto that might be useful. I'll link a couple of his documents:
  • A monograph of the evolution of the boundaries of the province of New Brunswick
  • A monograph of the place-nomenclature of the province of New Brunswick (this is a toponymy directory by Ganong, I linked to the page where Chignecto's record is located)
• Government of Canada, Report of Chignecto Canal Commission (1939) (worldcat listing)
• Louis-Léonard Aumasson de Courville, Mémoires sur le Canada depuis 1749 jusqu'à 1760 (LOC / Canadiana)
• Vocabularies of Identity contains text transcripts from 19th-century newspaper archives from New Brunswick, with some work under the topic of Acadian history (with some information about Chignecto), including the paper The Chignecto Post

Some of these materials might not be accessible digitally, though I'm sure some more information can probably be found using services on WP:TWL like Newspapers.com and ProQuest. That being said, this should (hopefully) be a fair amount of material for it! B3251_(talk) 12:55, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

I had just realized that I forgot to look for material for the Bay of Fundy, haha. That being said, the bay I'm sure has a similar if not more extensive list of publications (even more accessible resources on the Internet Archive) along with plenty of entries in scientific/academic journals. B3251_(talk) 12:59, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the list, that's all quite helpful. I have a couple loose ends I want to get tied up first - I've taken way too long writing Draft:Joy Laking, turns out it's kind of difficult to write a biography about an artist when you're not all that invested in the arts. Once that becomes suitable for mainspace I'll get to working on these articles. I've had many thoughts about ways they can be improved after reading through them but I'll bring all that to the respective talk pages after I have more time to think about it. MediaKyle (talk) 13:50, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

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	Thank you for updating and adding short descriptions to articles on Wikipedia. With your help, the WikiProject's top 3000 list has been cleared for April 2025, the second month in a row! Your work has made Wikipedia better :-). LR.127 (talk) 12:52, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you! I appreciate it. MediaKyle (talk) 14:47, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

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List of newspapers in Canada

Hi, thank you for your contributions. I note your recent edits adding content to this list.

Note that List of newspapers in Canada is " a list of newspapers printed and distributed in Canada". Any online-only outlets, or outlets which were formerly printed and later moved online only, should not be included. 162 etc. (talk) 18:05, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

Right, gotcha. Thank you. I'll take a look and undo what isn't applicable. MediaKyle (talk) 18:06, 5 May 2025 (UTC)

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GenAi tag question

Hi. In this edit you mentioned heavy use of incorrect quotation marks as a hallmark of GenAi work. I was wonder you meant by that. Was it just ” use, or is it something else I'm not aware of? Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:20, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi Ian, thanks for reaching out. I've picked out two things that when found together are basically an assurance that generative AI was used, that being the use of the "fancy quotes" as you mentioned, and seeing ?utm_source=chatgpt.com at the end of the references. I believe all generative AI makes use of those quotes in their outputs. However, I will note that I've since discovered that use of "fancy quotes" also happens when editors write their article in Google Docs and then transfer it over, as Google Docs automatically switches them. Let me know if you have any other questions, or if you think my tagging of the article was unjustified. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 19:36, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

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NS1000 challenge ?

See Wikipedia:The Challenge series - like The Canadian 10,000 Challenge. If your interested in a smaller 1,000 Challenge for a province,User Dr. Blofeld can help set it up. All articles could be listed in both Challenges. Moxy🍁 04:41, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the message. I've been thinking about those challenges for a while actually, the main reason I haven't gone for it yet is because I'm not sure how much it would actually do for encouraging contributions. I imagine most people interested in Nova Scotia are already chipping away at the articles without a challenge, and for me at least, I'd never remember to list them all... If it were to be styled as a de-stub-a-thon and there was interest from the wider Canadian WikiProject in participating I could see it being more effective, but I've gathered that the spirit of collaboration isn't always the strongest in our ranks. A while ago I threw together a basic idea for a Maritime content drive for the "important articles" of NS and NB that could potentially be turned into a contest, but that one is still on the drawing board. Let me know if you have any thoughts, MediaKyle (talk) 13:01, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

Maritime Content Drive is a great idea let me know if you need some help. Moxy🍁 13:36, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi MediaKyle. Thank you for your work on Statue of Winston Churchill (Halifax). Another editor, Noleander, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Nice article!

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Well thanks! I try my best :-) -- MediaKyle (talk) 21:59, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

Disappearance of Lilly and Jack Sullivan

I have left a reply to your request to remove the article at my talk page: User_talk:McRandy1958#Disappearance_of_Lilly_and_Jack_Sullivan.McRandy1958 (talk) 01:17, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

Draft: Chisholm Academy

Hi MediaKyle,

Thanks for reviewing the draft for Chisholm Academy. I appreciate the clear feedback on notability and sourcing.

I’m reaching out to better understand how I can improve the article.

Chisholm Academy is an independent school in Oakville, Ontario that serves students with learning differences — every student at the school has an Individual Education Plan (IEP), which is not common in most school environments. As demand grows for specialized education that supports students with ADHD, autism, anxiety, and dyslexia, schools like Chisholm are playing an increasingly vital role in the Canadian education system.

I’ve included multiple secondary references from sites like Inside Halton (which covered events at the school), OurKids.net, Goally, Smapse Education, and Oakville News. While these may not be major national outlets, they do reflect consistent, independent coverage across several domains (education directories, community media, and parent guides).

I understand Wikipedia has high standards for notability, and I want to respect those. I’m wondering — would further coverage from local media or an education-specific journal help establish notability in this case? Is there a particular threshold I should aim for?

Thanks again for your time and service to the project. I want to make sure I’m approaching this the right way.

Best Wishes,

MrVanDigital MrVanDigital (talk) 00:08, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi, @MrVanDigital, thanks for reaching out. Let me provide you with an assessment of the sources to try to make things clearer for you:

• Source 1: This is a primary source, presumably a listing generated by Chisholm Academy themselves. This does not contribute to notability, and an entire section is based off of this one primary source, which is not good. Details about the academy should be able to be backed up by a secondary source, if the academy is notable.
• Source 2: This is a routine, local news type story. This typically wouldn't contribute to notability, but could be used as a source for minor details.
• Source 3: The OurKids report here may contribute to notability. It's difficult for me to determine at a glance how independent this publication is. This is definitely a good source for details about the academy.
• Source 4: This article mentions Chisholm Academy moreso in passing, in that they're included in a list. This doesn't seem to be an overly reputable publication, from the look of their website, and I would question the independence of this source.
• Source 5: Another passing mention in a list, by local news. Doesn't contribute to notability.

What I would aim for is finding any academic publications that discuss Chisholm Academy; or national news publications discussing Chisholm Academy, like CBC News or Global News. If you can't find adequate secondary sourcing to fully describe the academy, it's possible they may not meet the inclusion criteria. I should note that if you have any connection to Chisholm Academy, you should disclose this - it's not a bad thing if you are, Wikipedia just values transparency with such things. Please let me know if you have any more questions. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 00:21, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

DYK for Joy Laking

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On 9 June 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Helen Kendall, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Helen Kendall (pictured) was one of 446 Canadians to receive the Royal Red Cross for her service in World War I? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Helen Kendall. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Helen Kendall), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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List of clock manufacturers

I saw your recent removal of a red link on this list, and thought that you might care to comment on the general issue at Talk:List of clock manufacturers#Inclusion criteria. Meters (talk) 19:15, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

Dawn Wells

I'd definitely say you've made a solid start on improving it, but I'm not sure it's quite ready for mainspace just yet.

The significance of AIFF is much more regional than national or international. That doesn't make it a non-notable event, obviously — since I'm the guy who started giving the bigger regionals like AIFF and Cinéfest and FNC the kind of yearly-article treatment that TIFF already had, I'd obviously never say that — but it does mean that an award from AIFF isn't as highly mega-notable as an award from TIFF or Cannes or Venice or Sundance would be. It'd be fine if she had a clear pass of WP:GNG on her sourceability, but isn't really enough to hand her an automatic presumption of notability just because of that award alone — it's an award that can help to build a notability claim if there's other stuff working alongside it, but it's not highly prominent enough to nail a winner's notability to the wall if it's the entire foundation of her notability claim all by itself.

So you've certainly done a good job of nudging her toward GNG with the available sources, but I'd say we still need to find a couple more GNG-worthy sources before I'd consider her to be on really solid notability ground. Bearcat (talk) 11:33, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for getting back to me on this, I appreciate it. I figured this would be the case, but I always have to wonder how far one can stretch the well-known and significant award or honor part of WP:ANYBIO. I suppose I'll have to put this one in my back pocket until more sources come up. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 11:59, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

declining of my article

I recently tried to post my first wikipedia article on LS AUTO. Unfortunately, I have no experience in publishing articles on Wikipedia. I ask you to point out my mistakes so that the article can be published. when writing the article, I was guided by pages about other automobile companies from China, but for some reason I was told that my article did not correspond to the rules and was an advertisement. could you please help me fix the errors in order to publish the article? Frederik Scheidgen (talk) 12:56, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi, @Frederik Scheidgen. Writing your first article on Wikipedia is one of the most difficult things to do here, and I would typically recommend an editor tries editing some existing articles first. That being said, your draft comes across as very promotional to me, and the sourcing does not reflect a range of reliable, secondary, intellectually independent sources as needed by WP:NCORP. Do you have a personal or professional relationship with this company? If so, this is something you should disclose before moving forward. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 13:04, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

I want to clarify that I have no personal or professional relationship with LS AUTO. I first came across the vehicle on YouTube, became curious, and looked for more information on Wikipedia. When I saw that there was no article, I decided to give it a try and create one — it’s my first attempt, and I now realize it’s more challenging than I thought.

I’m willing to rewrite the text to remove any language that sounds promotional and focus strictly on verifiable facts. I understand now that neutrality and sourcing from independent, secondary sources are essential, and I’ll do my best to align with those standards.

I really appreciate any guidance or suggestions you can offer so that I can improve the draft and hopefully have my first article published.

Thanks again! Frederik Scheidgen (talk) 15:38, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

LS AUTO (official name: Jiangxi Longsheng Automobile Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer established in 2022. The company is a joint venture between Shanghai Launch Automotive Technology Co., Ltd. and Jingdezhen Hesheng Industrial Investment Development Co., Ltd., and is based in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province."Jiangxi Jingdezhen: Longsheng NEV Project Accelerates". Sohu (in Chinese). 2024-03-12. Retrieved 2025-06-19.

== History == The company was founded as part of a 5 billion yuan investment to develop a local electric vehicle brand. Its parent firm, Shanghai Launch Automotive Technology, has been active in automotive R&D since 2000, operating design and testing facilities in China and overseas."National Industrial Design Centers List". MIIT.gov.cn. Retrieved 2025-06-19. In 2015, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recognized Launch as a national industrial design center.

== Products == The company introduced its first production model, the LEV 01, in 2024. The vehicle is a compact electric SUV designed for urban and light off-road use. Media in Nepal and the UAE reported on its entry into those markets in 2025."LS AUTO Launches LEV 01". Nepal Drives. Retrieved 2025-06-19."LS AUTO to Launch New EVs in 2025". Aarthik News. Retrieved 2025-06-19.

Future models include the LEV 03 and LEV 05, scheduled for release in 2025."LS AUTO Unveils LEV 05". EV Magazine. Retrieved 2025-06-19.

== International Presence == As of 2025, LS AUTO operates through distributors in Nepal and the United Arab Emirates. In Nepal, the company partnered with Nexon Venture to offer localized models."LS AUTO Launch in Nepal". Corporate Khabar. Retrieved 2025-06-19. A visit by Zambia’s ambassador in 2025 indicated potential collaboration in EV assembly."Zambian Ambassador Visits LS AUTO". Zambian Observer. Retrieved 2025-06-19. Frederik Scheidgen (talk) 07:06, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I've significantly shortened the text, trying to avoid any associations with advertising. please tell me if there are any errors again. and I would be grateful if you could help with tm so that my first article could be published after all. Frederik Scheidgen (talk) 07:33, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

Kim Novak / Ieonine COI

With a possible exception, I have stuck to attacking leonine's arguments, not the person, unlike leonine. I'm puzzled how my saying that I would report them could be considered offensive, rather than simply a statement of fact. In any case, I found MOS:IMAGERELEVANCE, which stated the obvious, and that should end this silly dispute. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:16, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, allow me to explain what I meant by that. When I said that your conduct towards Ieonine was "unbecoming", I was suggesting that you had acted unnecessarily aggressive towards this user. Between snide comments like This isn't Fanboypedia, and Cease being stubbornly obstructive, and finally threatening to "have them blocked", this does nothing to solve the dispute at hand and only serves to heighten the tension. My old man once told me ... "You never threaten, you just do it." For what it's worth, I think you're right about the images, but sometimes being right isn't enough. -- MediaKyle (talk) 11:17, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

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WP Banners and listing people

Hello Kyle - thank you for adding WikiProject Banners to articles, but there's something I would ask you to add: When you add WP Banners to articles about people, please include a listas= tag to the WikiProject Banner shell so that they are listed in categories with their surnames first. For instance, I just corrected an article for Marnie Fleming, so the WPBS needed "listas=Fleming, Marnie".

Keep up the good work! ....... PKT(alk) 11:47, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the message, I appreciate your feedback. As you've noticed I tend to leave them unrated so that other editors see the new articles coming in, but I definitely should be adding listas every time, so thanks for getting after me about it. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 11:52, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

The Text template and harv errors

Hi, I've recently edited some pages to correct harv/sfn false-positive errors raised by use of the Text template in the author parameter. I am guessing that you are trying to avoid having a bot declare the author name generic or numeric or whatever it is bots don't like. I replaced the Text template with accept-this-as-written markup (double parens), which should accomplish the same thing without corrupting cs1 data.

If I've got the wrong end of the stick, please let me know. Andy02124 (talk) 17:38, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, should have included an example: James Murray Beck

Andy02124 (talk) 17:40, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, thanks for reaching out. To tell you the truth, I only started doing this when someone else adjusted my references at Helen Kendall and I liked the way they did it, so I just switched over to that format going forward - no clue what the text template is supposed to do. Oddly it seems like sometimes it causes an error, sometimes not? In any case, I'll just use double parentheses instead from now on. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 18:07, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

All the citations in Helen Kendall with the Text template also have sfnref, which bypasses the false-positive harv error but does raise "CS1 maint: ref duplicates default".

It's always something.

Andy02124 (talk) 02:11, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for taking a chainsaw to many Canadian articles. I find WP:CCSG difficult to work with, otherwise I would spend more time cleaning up Canadian city articles. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 11:26, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

Well thanks for the message, I'm glad to know that somebody appreciates that. Seeing Manitoba on the main page the other day really put it in perspective for me how awful the rest of the provincial articles are by comparison... I'd like to see them all hit GA someday but maybe that's a stretch. If you want a good laugh, compare the History section of Nova Scotia to History of Nova Scotia. That's for another day, though. MediaKyle (talk) 12:00, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

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Draft:Christopher Meyn

Hey! thank you for reviewing this one; I am not understanding the criteria for notability. The references provided are GQ magazine that made a whole piece on the subject and not passing, and brazil journal a major publication that made a non passing piece on the subject, i see a bunch of random wikis that have dubious sources and non notable people. I am not understanding what was not notable about this one; i am having the same issue with Draft:Luiz Fraga and Draft:Paula Bellizia, both are incredibly notable with luiz fraga being a huge name in p.e and cousin of the ex president of bank of brazil,and paula bellizia , like i can find a ton of "interviews" with all of these people like https://www.russellreynolds.com/en/insights/articles/qa-with-paula-bellizia--winning-over-hearts-as-well-as-minds, but would this qualify? I am sorry if this is a ton of questions i am just super confused Eloquentverse (talk) 17:35, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, let me try to shed some light on this for you. There's actually two main issues with the specified draft: sourcing, and neutral point of view. The basic notability guideline for people is summed up nicely at WP:NBASIC. Your references to GQ Magazine and the Brazil Journal would contribute to notability based on my assessment, but only two publications covering a subject is not enough for notability. Unfortunately, businesspeople can be very hard to prove notable under Wikipedia's quirky definition of notability, but it's possible. See for example Georges Elhedery or Jim Spatz. Interviews are considered a primary source, and are alright to use, but may or may not contribute to notability depending on the source and format. The interview you just linked can be used as a primary source under WP:ABOUTSELF, however it does not contribute to notability - notability requires secondary coverage by a range of intellectually independent sources. The draft you mentioned also uses language like "completed high-profile deals" and "His contributions supported the growth of Brazil’s nascent tech ecosystem..." which reads as promotional. Finally, I'm not sure if you have a professional relationship with any of these subjects or are writing for payment, but if so these are things that must be declared before moving forward. See WP:COI and WP:PAID. This isn't me accusing you of anything, just bringing it up based on some of the language in the draft. Let me know if you have any more questions. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 17:49, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

well to be fair i had AI help outline the drafts so i yeah i understand how they read as promotional, i learned from a different rejection that ai tends to have promotional language. i am gonna rewrite and handwrite, and i understand I am just trying to fill in gaps on Wikipedia i noticed like Draft:Fabricio Bloisi ex ifoods ceo and other people who are notable when i was going through university we even studied the Fragas for example. thank you for your feedback seriously Wikipedia is insanely overwhelming but i would like to contribute and get good at it!!! Eloquentverse (talk) 18:07, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

and again thank you for your time!!! i can image you guys get hella spam Eloquentverse (talk) 18:09, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

My recommendation would be to spend some time improving existing articles before jumping into creating new ones, to give yourself time to understand what makes a subject notable. It will likely be a lot less discouraging that way, and there's plenty of articles out there that are in need of improvement. If business biographies are your thing, see for example Category:American business biography stubs, ripe for the pickin'. You'll figure out all the finer details after a while. Using AI definitely isn't the way to go - not only does it use promotional language as you learned, but they tend to hallucinate random details. Not a great look if accidentally publish falsehoods about someone. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 18:12, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

thank you kyle!! i will heed your advice Eloquentverse (talk) 18:22, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

Revisions of Draft:United States and Canada professional chaplaincy organizations per Wikipedia Guidelines

Thank you for your input and time. As a new editor I deeply appreciate your feedback and guidance. Based upon your comments I have done further research into Wikipedia standards, and I am making the following changes:

1.        Phrases like “promotes excellence,” “robust standards,” “premier accrediting body,” “shapes the future” are being replaced with neutral, descriptive phrases (e.g., “provides certification,” “establishes standards,” “is active in…”)

2.        First-person tone (“their work continues to…” “helps members integrate…”) has been changed to third-person, factual tone (e.g., “provides resources,” “certifies individuals…”)

3.        Inconsistent formatting (“edit”, bold headings, embedded in paragraphs) is being replaced with consistent Wikipedia section headers (e.g., “== Association of Professional Chaplains (APC) ==”)

4.        Primary-sourced descriptions of impact (e.g., “plays an important role,” “ensures contributions are valued”) are being omitted or rewritten in factual terms without claims of importance

5. More independent, reliable, published sources have been researched and added.

The draft is significantly different than when you first saw. I have documented the various changes.

StephRab18 (talk) 12:17, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi there. I typically leave articles for other reviewers after the first decline. It seems like you've submitted it again, so you're good to go. That being said, it seems an awful lot like AI wrote this message - so I looked at the draft again, and I would hazard a guess that you're also using AI to generate your content, which certainly isn't doing you any favours in this endeavour. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 12:34, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

Help on Revising my Draft

Hi! I've been trying to revise my draft on an article about HelperChoice [ Draft:HelperChoice ], but I'm having trouble trying to navigate what to revise/change. It says that I am not writing from a neutral pov, and I have revised my draft accordingly but keep getting the same feedback. Can you help me specify which sentences are still problematic and need revisions, and maybe some tips and tricks for me to revise this article? Thank you so much! Ray53463657 (talk) 05:17, 23 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi there. Your article comes across more like a brochure than an encyclopedia article, in that it's telling me what HelperChoice wants me to know about them rather than summarizing what has been reported about them in secondary, reliable sources. For example, your entire "employment process and service" section can be cut. I'd also recommend you take a look at WP:COI. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 10:22, 23 July 2025 (UTC)

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Request for feedback on revised Draft:Bioneer Corporation

I’ve carefully revised my Draft:Bioneer Corporation based on your feedback, aiming to remove any promotional tone and improve the use of independent, reliable sources. I tried to ensure it adheres more closely to Wikipedia’s content and notability guidelines.

If you have time, I would greatly appreciate it if you could take a look at the updated version and let me know if there’s anything else I should address.

Thanks again for your time and help! SYParkOfBioneer (talk) 08:47, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi, SYParkOfBioneer. You've taken on the most difficult task possible on Wikipedia - writing about a company of which you are employed. I can tell you with some certainty that this article would not get accepted if you submitted it for review again... If you really want to keep going with this, the best thing I can tell you is to forget everything you know about Bioneer, and start over. Exclusively summarize what is said about Bioneer in secondary sources. You're going for quality over quantity with the references - the less press releases and paid coverage you use, the more likely your draft will be accepted. You can seek more input at the WP:Teahouse if you wish. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 12:30, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi MediaKyle,

Thank you for your clear and honest feedback. I understand the conflict of interest concerns and the importance of relying on independent, reliable sources.

Taking your advice to heart, I plan to start fresh—reassessing every source and removing any promotional or company-derived content. I’ll focus solely on what reputable secondary sources say about Bioneer to meet Wikipedia’s standards of neutrality and notability.

I truly appreciate your guidance. SYParkOfBioneer (talk) 23:57, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Your review of my draft page

You declined my my draft page because the "sources do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article". I really don't wish to come across as rude, but I have seen many other pages with only 1 or 2 references that "qualify". I just want to know why my draft doesn't meet the notability criteria and what can I do to help it meet the criteria. Thank you. GeorgeM2011^{(talk to me) | (My Edits)} 11:05, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi there. Comparing to other articles is not a good idea, because these articles you see with 1 or 2 references actually likely do not qualify, and many are being deleted every day at WP:AfD. I would advise you to review WP:NCORP and try to provide a wider range of in-depth coverage. Your reference to IGN, for example, is just a listing of the company's games and doesn't confer notability. You might have some luck digging through Newspapers.com and Google Books if you haven't tried that yet. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 11:10, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

DYK for The Republic of Nothing

On 1 August 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Republic of Nothing, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that The Republic of Nothing inspired Rush drummer Neil Peart to write a letter to the author, leading him to write his own book? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Republic of Nothing. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Republic of Nothing), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Since the articles you create will no longer be systematically reviewed by other editors, it is important that you maintain the high standard you have achieved so far in all your future creations. Please also try to remember to add relevant WikiProject templates, stub tags, categories, and incoming links to them, if you aren't already in the habit; user scripts such as Rater and StubSorter can help with this. As you have already shown that you have a strong grasp of Wikipedia's core content policies, you might also consider volunteering to become a new page patroller yourself, helping to uphold the project's standards and encourage other good faith article writers.

Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! asilvering (talk) 18:01, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you, asilvering. It's good to know that I have your 'stamp of approval'. The guidance you provided while I got my footing here was no doubt a large part of the reason I've been able to get this far. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 18:30, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

A little birdie at WP:NPP told me they didn't think you ought to be in the new pages feed. They were right, of course. So it's not just me. :) -- asilvering (talk) 21:34, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

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story · music · places

Congratulations! Thank you for the soprano you announced on my talk! - Can I interest you in the art of Herbert Brandl? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:28, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

Today's story - short version: ten years ago we had a DYK about a soprano who sang in concerts with me in the choir, - longer: I found today a youtube of an aria she sang with us then, recorded the same year, - if you still have time: our performances were the weekend before the Iraq war ultimatum, and we sang Dona nobis pacem (and the drummer drummed!) as if they could hear us in Washington. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:39, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much for sharing Gerda Arendt, what a lovely story. As I listened to her sing, I gathered these sources for you from Newspapers.com, in case you want them:

• Concert offers medieval music of Hildegard of Bingen (8 November 1998)
• This time, soprano Rosa Lamoreaux will set aside Bach (8 August 1999)
• 'Opera on the Half-Shell' in Queen Anne's County (18 September 2002)
• Vocalist passes the test of time (16 September 2004)

All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 19:28, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for listening and the clippings. Feel free to use them in the article. I just returned from rehearsal, and the rest of the night will go into improving the Bach cantata that will turn 300 tomorrow ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:30, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

Check out my talk for an Independence day, or: the pic of Oksana Lyniv was taken on 24 August. There's listening and reading in today's story, and I like both. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:26, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

Declining Articles

Hello, MediaKyle and thank you for your speedy review of the article on the book “Third World Ideology” which I submitted on Aug 4th. Your speed and effectiveness in declining articles is commendable, as I noticed that you declined approximately 10 articles from various contributors within the space of one hour or so. I admit to using multiple LMMs and Google to do research, as well as spell check tools for spelling and grammar. The use of these does not indicate lack of care, just as a typewriting does not an anti-luddite make. The fact that you took approximately 10 minutes between my submission and your declining (as well as many others) makes me suspect that either you did not take the time to go through my numerous revisions since my previous submittal or that you used an LMM (or are) yourself to superficially make a judgement, perhaps based on the controversial nature of the book itself, even as I crafted and framed it in as much of neutral language as I coud. However, if that is not the case, I would be very appreciative of a more demonstrable and specific determination as to your reasons for declining the article. I believe I thoroughly researched and carefully wrote its content, including valid secondary sources, both contemporaneous with the subject matter and recent. I would truly appreciate your useful feedback in order to improve the article to the standards we all expect for Wikipedia. Sincerely, 1CJR1 (talk) 1CJR1 (talk) 12:55, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

You've made a lot of bold assumptions here, largely based on a misunderstanding of how the Articles for Creation process works from a reviewers' standpoint. The only advice I can offer you is to start over, and write the article yourself instead of using a chatbot. If you'd like, you can seek more help at the WP:Teahouse from others, since you do not trust my judgement. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 13:27, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

Echoing the comment above... you have a tendency to reject many articles quickly. In my case, you didn't offer one word of comment on my article. If you'd read the comments below, you would have seen my explanation that this is my writing. Please do not just say "oh this is an LLM and I'm not going to put in the work to see if that's true." It seems like you're just trying to clear a large volume of draft articles. My advice: slow down, engage with each article, and resist the urge to make hasty decisions. Seriously: read it and offer actionable suggestions. What you are doing is not helpful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gunderson555 (talk • contribs) 10:48, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

@Gunderson555, like the above user, you are simply misunderstanding Articles for Creation. I advise you to try writing the article yourself instead of using AI and it won't be declined out of hand. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 11:59, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

I did write it myself. And I used an LLM to smooth out some jargon-y prose and make it more public-friendly. You seem to be using the LLM argument as an excuse not to read articles. Best of luck with your blitz rejections. I'm sure the other authors appreciate your efforts just as much as we do. Gunderson555 (talk) 13:19, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

@Gunderson555: There's a lot of AI slop that comes through AfC, and all reviewers are volunteers. No reviewer will take the time to carefully examine an article that looks like it was generated by a chatbot, because it only took a few seconds to create it, and the human effort required to review it is far greater. Even if you're telling the truth, that you wrote all of that yourself and an AI just "edited" it, that doesn't change the fact that it immediately comes across as an AI output. Three different editors so far have highlighted concerns regarding AI use so far, which you continue to dismiss. The best course of action here would be to start over, without using an AI at all, or you will likely find yourself stuck in this cycle of declines. MediaKyle (talk) 13:32, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

I have not 'continued to dismiss' anything, but have instead responded to the actionable feedback given by editors who took the time to read the article. Each version has undergone significant revision.

I get your point: there's a river of submissions and it's hard to manage the flow. But again: maybe do fewer reviews and put more time into them. Make it about what the text says and the sources it uses. Gunderson555 (talk) 13:43, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

Request on 03:51:53, 5 August 2025 for assistance on AfC submission by רונית ארזה לוי

• רונית ארזה לוי (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Danielle Mano-Bella (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I need help with editing the draft Danielle Mano-Bella. I don’t understand what need to be fix for published the article and I would like to get help with this editing because I already edit all that I know in this article from my knowledge. Thank you!

רונית ארזה לוי (talk) 03:51, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

Regarding Draft:Howard Ellis Cox Jr.

Hello @MediaKyle! I am messaging to ask if you are planning on resubmitting Draft:Howard Ellis Cox Jr. to AfC at any point? This draft has been declined multiple times dating back to 2020. It also appears that the original creator JasonWeingartner has not been active since 2020. If there are no plans to resubmit or move the draft to mainspace, it may a good idea to request a speedy deletion per WP:G13. If this isn't the case then please disregard this message entirely! Happy editing! 11WB (talk) 22:32, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for reaching out. I won't be submitting it, no, I don't think the subject meets GNG. The only reason I tried is because it came up on Jimmy Wales' talk page. There will be no need to CSD it though... Someone else might come along and work on it more, and if not, it will get deleted again after six months of inactivity. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 22:38, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

Oh! That certainly is interesting! No worries in that case, kudos for trying to improve the draft in any case! 11WB (talk) 22:41, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

Georges Elhedery

Hi MediaKyle, dropping you a line to let you know that I reworked my proposed updates to the Georges Elhedery article based on your feedback. Let me know what you think. Thanks, Danilo Two (talk) 19:58, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi again MediaKyle. Heads up that I left you another note in our ongoing discussion. When you get some time, let me know what you think. Thanks, Danilo Two (talk) 13:28, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Novo Nordisk

@MediaKyle hello, was just going back through some old pages and saw you put the COI undisclosed tag on Novo in April after I made an edit. Mostly concerned if you feel I did something wrong there or it was based on my most recent edit? Can leave or revert the tag, not concerned about it just trying to learn. Thank you. WikiWillo3 (talk) 15:37, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi, WikiWillo3, thanks for reaching out. I tagged that article for undisclosed paid editing along with several others which were potentially edited by the same public relations firm. If you're not being compensated for your edits, then you have nothing to worry about - if you are, then you should immediately make a disclosure of this pursuant to our paid editing policy and the Terms of Use. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 15:53, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

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File:Mikmaq State Flag (vertical).svg Moxy🍁 18:20, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi, yes that's the one, but the only place I could find that says the flag is supposed to be hung vertically is here... When I see the flag out and about, it's hung horizontally like normal on flagpoles, so I'm a little confused. Felt like the safer option to use the horizontal one. MediaKyle (talk) 18:23, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

Seems the government recommends it to

☁https://www.princeedwardisland.ca/sites/default/files/publications/eco_flagpro.pdf Moxy🍁 21:47, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

I think either orientation works, upon further investigation... I've dug pretty deep into this now, and I've learned that the flag was originally flown somewhere around 1901, but there's no official documents from back then depicting the flag or describing its use that I can find... this website has Mi'kmaq folks holding the flag vertically, but even at the nearest reserve to me, it's only displayed horizontally. Benoit First Nation has it displayed horizontally, and says nothing about it being displayed vertically. I think the idea that it was "traditionally" flown vertically might just be wrong, and it's okay either way... Don't quote me on that though. I don't feel strongly about which one we display. MediaKyle (talk) 22:08, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

Wow 1901..... we should have a little paragraph about this... that's really old for an Indigenous Nation. I was thinking the Mohawk warrior flag was relatively old. Let me see what I can find and write. Moxy🍁 23:28, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

Interesting, eh? Unfortunately our Grand Council (Mi'kmaq) article is not very well sourced. On the age of the flag, I did find a couple leads: Cape Breton University says: "1900 – The Mi'kmaw flag was first raised in Restigouche, Quebec, on October 4, and in Halifax in 1901". I was unable to find any coverage about this on Newspapers.com around October 4, 1900... this microfilm on the Internet Archive also gives a date, but no more details on the history. Will be interested to see if you can come up with anything else. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 23:42, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

Regarding Beluga (YouTuber) draft

Your comment "Needs to at least have better references than Draft:J. J. McCullough" didn't make much sense and lacked proper explanation. Please explain in detail. MarcChess (talk) 23:51, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

Well, take a look at the depth and volume of coverage at Draft:J. J. McCullough, which was declined. The draft in question, Draft:Beluga (YouTuber), has practically no significant coverage by reliable secondary sources, and certainly nowhere near the amount in the draft I highlighted. Fame and YouTube subscribers are not a measure of notability - take a gander at the notability guidelines located at WP:GNG and WP:NBASIC. There's also an advice page, WP:NYOUTUBE, which may offer you some insight. Let me know if you have any more questions. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 23:56, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello there, sorry if I'm replying too much. I do have a question about this YouTuber page with few sources that got accepted, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HowToBasic. What did this article do right? MarcChess (talk) 00:11, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

It's really more about quality over quantity when it comes to references - an article with 10 citations to news articles with only passing mentions is likely not notable, but an article with only 3 or 4 citations to articles exclusively about the subject from reliable, national publications is usually enough to do it. In the case of HowToBasic, I see significant coverage from Forbes, Tubefilter, and The Daily Dot, plus significant coverage from a some smaller newspapers, which would presumably be enough to satisfy GNG. What I mean by "significant coverage" is that these are articles specifically about HowToBasic, and not an article that just happens to mention HowToBasic in passing or includes them in a list of other YouTubers. "Reliable sources" essentially means they're not blogs, and they're not being paid to write the article - we want independent sources with a reputation for fact-checking. Hope that all makes sense, let me know if there's anything I can clear up. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 00:20, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

Why was my page declined?

I added sources and said all the correct information, why was my page declined? Chrisexplorzs (talk) 00:22, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

It appears you've improved your draft substantially since I declined it and have now submitted it for review again. I imagine it will probably be accepted now once the next reviewer gets to it. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 00:24, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

Alright sounds good, thank you! Chrisexplorzs (talk) 00:25, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

Another article citing question

Hi again from Southern New Jersey! (I mentioned Southern New Jersey bc I, yk, live there) I’m still looking for references for the Wonderoos draft, and I was wondering (no pun intended), do you cite Common Sense Media? There’s nothin but truth and reviews on there! Ur not gonna find false talk on there bc editing’s not allowed. Tarpat2 (talk) 14:56, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi, Tarpat2. You're doing a great job on your draft! Common Sense Media would be a reliable source, based on what I'm seeing on the article about them. What you don't want to cite is websites like Wordpress blogs, because random people wrote those and we don't know if they're experts.

If I may, I'd like to recommend that you read the essay "Guidance for younger editors". I think you'll find the information there to be helpful. If you have any more questions, please feel free to reach out. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 15:23, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

Speaking of younger editors…

I may or may not be 13… Tarpat2 (talk) 15:26, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

Anyone can edit Wikipedia, so your age is mostly irrelevant as long as you "keep it cool". The Guidance for younger editors page should tell you everything you need to know. Just be careful not to put too much information about yourself out there, because all your edits stay on permanent record forever unless an administrator steps in to hide them. The Internet can be a shady place! Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 15:30, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

y r u saying cheers when I’m an American Tarpat2 (talk) 14:25, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

Also do u cite KidScreen?

It’s this website:

https://kidscreen.com Tarpat2 (talk) 14:30, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

KidScreen appears to be a trade magazine, published by Brunico Communications. "Trade magazine" here basically means it's a magazine meant for people who work in the kids TV industry. While this wouldn't count towards Wikipedia's quirky definition of "notability", it would be perfectly fine to cite in your article. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 14:35, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

Speedy deletion reminder

Hi there, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! You recently nominated Speak White (poem) for speedy deletion via G15. I have gone ahead and deleted the article. However, I noticed that you did not inform the article creator about the deletion nomination. Informing the article creator and major contributors about speedy deletion is highly recommended. Notifications are especially useful to new editors who may not know what they did wrong or even that their article has been deleted. I have heard many newbies ask, "Where did my article go?" Beyond this, notifying the creator and major contributors gives them an opportunity to contest the deletion. Given this, I highly recommend you make sure to notify editors when you nominate their work for deletion. If you want, you can use a tool such as Twinkle for deletions as it automatically sends the notification at the same time you nominate for deletion. I hope all this makes sense! Let me know if you have any follow-up questions, comments, and/or concerns. Take care, Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 15:25, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder. MediaKyle (talk) 16:16, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

Seeking advice on NPOV concerns and possible rewrite process

Hi MediaKyle, I saw your recent addition of the NPOV tag to the Alen Hadzic article and your comment,echoed by other editors, that it’s “just short of an attack piece.” I share that concern. In my view, the article not only gives disproportionate weight to allegations compared to Hadzic’s fencing career,but also uses language and structure that may not meet WP:BLP, WP:NPOV, and WP:UNDUE standards. For transparency,I have a Conflict of Interest in this topic,so I won’t edit directly.I’m wondering what the appropriate process would be if editors felt this article might warrant a stub or substantial rewrite to restore balance.Would that start on the article’s Talk page, or should it go to a noticeboard such as WP:NPOVN or WP:BLPN? Thanks for any guidance you can give, Goricah3 (talk) 04:34, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi, @Goricah. I think you're absolutely right, there are some big problems with the Alen Hadzic article. Your best best would be to go to WP:BLPN, but I would like to offer you some advice:

• First of all, I should establish for you that it's very clear that Mr. Hadzic is notable by Wikipedia standards. You would have a very difficult time convincing the community to get rid of the article altogether.
• In many cases, when we have a conflict of interest editor show up wanting to remove information about allegations of crime from an article, that is not something that is obliged. See, for example, the history of Mike Kelly (gridiron football) and the mention of his arrest. All that is to tell you, you first need to accept that the article about Mr. Hadzic is going to have to mention the controversy he was involved in. The entire article shouldn't be based upon it, as it is now, but you should make it clear in your message on BLPN that you're not aiming to entirely scrub that information from the record.
• Effectively, your job here is to make it clear to the community that the article is not in compliance with our policies, mainly WP:BLP, WP:NPOV, and WP:UNDUE. I suggest you read all three of those carefully – and understand them – before making your report. Policy based arguments which highlight specific content will bear the most weight for editors. Present the information in a clear and concise manner, and avoid emotionally charged language. Editors are volunteers and the easier you make the investigation, the more likely someone will take action.
• You have previously mentioned there is information about his achievements in fencing missing from the article. It would also be helpful if you could highlight this missing information in your report, along with URLs to back up what you're saying. This will provide contrast between what has been added to the article so far and what prior editors chose to omit.

I'll keep an eye out and help out if I can. If you have any other questions or you need me to clear something up for you please feel free to reach out. Good luck, MediaKyle (talk) 10:57, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi MediaKyle,

Thank you for your thoughtful and constructive reply. I really appreciate the time you took to guide me through the right process to follow. I’ve read through WP:BLP, WP:NPOV, and WP:UNDUE carefully, and I agree that the article needs to mention the controversy, but it must do so in a way that is fully compliant with those policies. While I understand the article will remain, I believe it’s important to ensure it reflects the official findings and rulings of 'misconduct,' and that certain terms currently in the article — specifically “rape” and “targeted drunk women” — should not appear,as they are hearsay and not supported by those findings.I also see the value in balancing the content by adding verified information about his fencing achievements, which are currently missing.

I won’t edit the article myself, both to avoid any appearance of impropriety and to respect the work of volunteer editors.I’ll prepare a policy-based post for BLPN outlining these concerns and providing sources, as you suggested.

On that note, my BLPN post may need to be fairly detailed to cover all the problematic instances and include the relevant sources — do you think a longer, fully sourced post would be welcome, or should I try to keep it as brief as possible to avoid frustrating busy editors?

Thanks again for your guidance and willingness to keep an eye on this. It means a lot.

Best, Goricah3 (talk) 12:44, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

@Goricah3: I've just looked into this a bit more and read over the discussion so far on the talk page. I see you've already raised some concerns there, but I worry that you're not quite going about it in the right way. First of all, the tone and style of your messages suggests that you may be using an AI chatbot to assist you. This is something many editors are rather hostile to, and if they think they're "talking to a robot", they may not engage at all. Beyond that, AI chatbots are incapable of grasping the complexities of Wikipedia policy at this time, and advice they give you will probably be wrong. This is a situation where you will have to do all of the heavy lifting yourself.

My suggestion would be to write a concise summary of the situation for BLPN, in your own words. More detailed information with additional sources can be provided on Talk:Alen Hadzic, similarly to what was done before, but in your own words. You can link to this new post in your BLPN report. You may also wish to apologize to Pigsonthewing / Andy Mabbett on Talk:Alen Hadzic for the suggestion that he was harassing you or trying to push you out. I understand that emotions are running high for you about this, and rightfully so, but it can be dealt with through the proper channels. If all else fails and you're at a loss, there's an email you can contact at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Help along with some other general tips. Let me know if you have any more questions. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 13:05, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to review this and for your thoughtful advice.For my initial use of AI,I provided all the information and the AI simply helped organize it,but I understand your concerns and was already reprimanded for that by other editors. Rightfully so. I know the case inside and out,so there’s no “robot talk” here.I’ll work on summarizing the situation for BLPN in my own words,provide additional sources on the talk page as needed,and ensure that all communication remains neutral and policy-focused. I also understand the importance of clarifying any misunderstandings with Pigsonthewing/Andy Mabbett on Talk:Alen Hadzic and will make sure to do so.Thank you again for pointing me toward the appropriate channels and resources. It’s very helpful. Goricah3 (talk) 15:49, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

@Goricah3: I received your email regarding your draft for a BLPN report, and given how this situation has unfolded I would prefer to keep our communications on the matter out in the open. You indicated in your email that you're nervous about posting on BLPN again, which is understandable given the difficulties you've had here so far. I'm going to save you some trouble here and post to BLPN myself. Could you please point me to some specific career details or achievements that are missing from the article with sources to back them up? Regards, MediaKyle (talk) 16:11, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

@MediaKyle: I understand. And thank you very much.

I’ve included his high school achievements as part of the overall picture of his documented academic,athletic professional activities.

== Alen Hadžić – Career Summary ==

=== High School ===

Academic Achievement

• Recognized as an AP Scholar (June 2009) by the Montclair Board of Education for completing five Advanced Placement (AP) courses with scores of 3.3 and above.

Fencing Achievements

• 2010 Junior Olympics (Memphis, Tennessee) – First place in men’s épée.
• Two-time New Jersey State Individual Champion in men’s épée (2009 and 2010), representing Montclair High School.
• Team captain by junior year
• U.S. Junior World Team – Selected in senior year of high school.

=== Columbia University ===

Academic Background

• Bachelor of Arts in Financial Economics
• Named athlete scholar 2011–2012: Academic All-Ivy League (2011–12).

Fencing

• Four-year letterwinner
• Team captain
• Academic All-Ivy League fencer
• Alen Hadžić – Fencing roster profile

=== Post-College ===

• Two-time national (North American Cup) champion:
  • 2021 North American Cup – Gold in men’s épée.
  • 2019 Charlotte NAC – Senior Men’s Épée gold-medal bout.
• Qualified as alternate for the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games.

=== Vlerick Business School, Ghent, Belgium ===

• Master’s in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• Led his team to victory in a Shark Tank-style competition, demonstrating innovative business acumen.
• YouTube video

=== Professional Life ===

• Clinical Trial Scan – Founder and CEO of a company specializing in patient enrollment for clinical trials.
• Take the Lead Advertising – Founder and CEO of a marketing agency focused on digital advertising strategies.
• Alen Hadžić – LinkedIn profile (Founder & CEO of Clinical Trial Scan and Take the Lead Advertising)

== References ==

Goricah3 (talk) 19:36, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

I would also to add this: Even though A.H. was born and raised in the U.S., phrasing that emphasizes ancestry or a non-English language seems to intend to frame him as culturally or ethnically foreign, which is unnecessary unless directly relevant to his story. It’s a form of subtle “othering”, marking him as :ethnic" and distinct from the assumed American norm despite being fully American by birth, upbringing, and citizenship.

If at all necessary to mention his knowledge of languages, a neutral way to present relevant personal information would be to note that he speaks fluent English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Spanish, and semi-fluent German, without linking it to ethnic origin. This keeps the focus on his skills and experience rather than implying difference. Goricah3 (talk) 20:52, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

@Goricah3: I see what you're saying in regards to ancestry, and in fact, the citation attached doesn't say anything about "Bosnian roots", only that he's fluent in Serbo-Croatian - that being said, let's not worry about that right now... You don't want to distract from the real topic at hand. Unfortunately, the sources you've provided like LinkedIn and YouTube aren't much good for us, however it is interesting to note that the terms "gold" and "team captain" don't even appear in the article right now that I can see. I've done my part by bringing it to BLPN, and I'll keep an eye on things, but I'm only one editor and I'd like to let some other folks take the reigns from here. If my BLPN report doesn't amount to anything in the next week or so, your next step would be to send an email to the Volunteer Response Team, you'll find details about that at WP:BLPHELP. Regards, MediaKyle (talk) 22:04, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

@MediaKyle: Thank you. I can definitely look for sources other than Linkedin and Youtube if the content they're attached to is still acceptable. Goricah3 (talk) 22:14, 14 August 2025 (UTC)

@MediaKyle Hi!Thank you again for posting on the BLP talk page on my behalf earlier. I’ve been trying to find the discussion but can’t seem to locate it.Would you be able to share the link so I can check if there were any responses?

So far, I don’t see that anything is happening in any direction regarding my son’s page, despite my attempts to attract editors’ attention.

Thanks again for your help and guidance!Goricah3 (talk) 19:02, 16 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi Goricah3, my post on BLPN is located here. The best advice I can give you at this point is to hold tight for a while and this can hopefully be dealt with normally by other editors. If not, the Volunteer Response Team may be able to take action. Just so you're aware, I looked into the page history to see if there was a better version of the article to restore, and I discovered that not only has the article been like this since it was created, but the user who created it was blocked for disruptive editing, including relating to ancestry (which ties back to the "Bosnian roots" thing - you hit the nail right on the head) and the article as it is now is actually full of text copy-pasted directly from the Buzzfeed articles, so there's likely copyright issues with it to boot. If it comes to a VRT ticket, include this information. The article really is a hot mess. Try to be patient - give it at least a week or more until you resort to emailing them. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 22:40, 16 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi @MediaKyle,thank you so much for taking the time to go back to the source and for discovering that the author of the article was blocked for disruptive editing and that there might be copyright issues.I really appreciate your thoroughness and guidance. Much of the article is based on the BuzzFeed article, which itself contains claims that are not supported by evidence. I would add that there is definitely overuse of repeated or circular sourcing which inflates the appearance of independent verification, which appears to violate WP:CIRCULAR. I will wait for a while to see how things develop. Again, thank you.Goricah3 (talk) 05:55, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

NOTABLE ALUMNI PAGES: By examining the page creator’s contributions,I noticed that they added content to the "Notable alumni" section of the Vlerick Business School page where Alen Hadzic earned his master’s in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship. They did the same on the Montclair High School Notable Alumni list @ List of Montclair High School (New Jersey) alumni These additions raise concerns due to the author's disruptive editing and what appears to be questionable intent.

I wonder if I can now raise the issue on those pages' Talk space because Wikipedia’s Notable alumni sections are supposed to highlight alumni for achievements relevant to the institution or their professional accomplishments—not for unrelated controversies or disciplinary actions. ::::::: Goricah3 (talk) 06:39, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi Goricah3, no need to bring that up anywhere, I've adjusted the list entries myself. List articles generally shouldn't contain such things so that should be a relatively uncontroversial change. Thanks for letting me know. Regards, MediaKyle (talk) 11:38, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

@MediaKyle Thank you so much! Goricah3 (talk) 20:22, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

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This is fantastic, thanks a lot. Those numbers are quite manageable too. Will give me something to pick away at. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 14:44, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

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That means a lot, thank you Moxy. I reckon I still have a bit to learn before I get into anything like that, but it's certainly something I would consider... At this point I probably don't have much need for all the extra tools. I'll keep your offer in mind. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 15:27, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

Parrot Kindergarten

Hi @MediaKyle, thank you for your review of the Parrot Kindergarten page and helping to make it as reliable as possible. I've tried cleaning things up more, removing IMDB, and adding additional citations. Please also consider the films relevance under the Inclusionary criteria: The film features significant involvement (i.e., one of the most important roles in the making of the film) by a notable person and is a major part of their career. As this is both the directorial debut for Amy Herdy, and is Executive Produced by Doug Liman and Richard Arlook. Richidenmark (talk) 23:28, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, Richidenmark. After I decline an article once, I usually leave it for the next reviewer when folks submit again, that way you can get different opinions from more editors. That being said, the main piece of advice I can offer you is to lose the citation to Twitter and the associated text. It also still has a lot of puffery, for example, "Parrot Kindergarten features the groundbreaking work ..." is not encyclopedic. Articles must not editorialize like this. It is very unlikely this will be accepted until you clean this up. Based on your username, I can infer you are likely the producer of this film - I suggest you check out WP:COI to get an idea of our conflict of interest guidelines before moving forward. Further, I notice the name "Rich Denmark" is a redlink on these articles. You may also wish to read WP:FAMOUS before considering trying to turn this blue. Good luck, MediaKyle (talk) 23:39, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

Red Sift

Hi there, Thank you for the review of the Red Sift draft page. I noticed you declined it because you said it shows signs of having been generated by a large language model, such as ChatGPT.

I did not use ChatGPT to write it or edit it, and have been working hard to address previous feedback from other reviewers. Can you please provide specifics as to why you thought this was written by an LLM so I can address it? Beck.warren (talk) 15:20, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

I don't mean to be rude, but this article was definitely at least edited by an LLM. I have zero doubts about it. Beyond this, the draft is also quite promotional, and I don't believe notability is properly established. I would suggest you start from scratch, writing the article in your own words, only summarizing what has been reported about this company by secondary, independent, reliable sources, not including press releases and paid coverage. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 15:39, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

I don't mean to be rude, but I did not use an LLM to edit it so this feedback is not helpful.

I have edited my sources already to meet wikipedia's rules on reliable sources, and press releases and paid coverage are not included. The articles cited are from legitimate coverage. But I guess i will try to go through this with a fine tooth comb in hopes the next round of feedback I get is more specific and actionable. Beck.warren (talk) 15:49, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

Help with rejected draft article

Hi @MediaKyle,

I posted a request for help with my draft article on the Journalism Wikiproject a couple of months ago, to which you replied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Journalism#c-Pistachio89-20250616154600-Request_for_help_with_rejected_draft_article_https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner -- I missed a notification since my browser logged me out of my Wikipedia account, and haven't had much spare time since to work on this.

If you're still able to, I would be glad to have your help on improving my draft into something that would be more readily acceptable.

I have tried to find more third-party sources, but with little luck. I have contacted the subject (Deen) and asked if he could provide some further information and he has indicated he would provide details on where such references could be found (though I have been careful to stress that I will maintain a neutral and objective outlook on the article). I'll add the appropriate disclose on the article if necessary.

Thanks. Pistachio89 (talk) 19:29, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi, Pistachio89, thanks for reaching out. You'll want to take a look at WP:COI for the applicable guidelines and information about how to make a disclosure. If you're being compensated financially for your edits, that's different, the appropriate policy is WP:PAID. Are you sure there's no third-party sources available? Surely there must be reviews of his books out there or something. I took another look at the draft, and the awards do contribute a great deal towards notability but they can't be the entire basis for it. I did manage to find some routine coverage but nothing overly substantial. Non-English sources are also good, if any exist. If you come up with anything more let me know and I'll take a look. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 12:35, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks!

I have found a German review of his newer book

https://zeitschrift-vereinte-nationen.de/suche/zvn/artikel/blick-hinter-die-kulissen

and a couple in English in the Sri Lankan media:

https://lmd.lk/bookrack-23/

https://www.sundaytimes.lk/211226/columns/no-comment-not-from-our-loud-mouthed-466598.html

Would these suffice? Pistachio89 (talk) 18:27, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Yes, that German book review is great, as is the Sunday Times. The other piece I'm not so sure about - I looked into that publication and I do have some questions about its independence. By my assessment, though, Thalif Deen is "wikinotable". My advice would be to pare the article back quite a bit, and try to only use good secondary sources like those as much as you can... If there's any major gaps after that, then you can fill them in with appropriate primary sources per WP:BLPPRIMARY (very conservatively). I see the article includes another piece from the Sunday Times that provides some biographical details, so that's a great source. The article should likely be somewhere around the length of Joan Baxter or a bit longer by the time you're done with it. Alternatively, I could probably fix it up and publish it myself if you want, but at that point you'd be more restricted as to your ability to edit it and it might not be as comprehensive as you'd hope. Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 19:35, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

RE: Draft:J._C._H._King

Hi Kyle,

Many thanks for reviewing my first Wikipedia article. Unfortunately, I hadn’t read the guidance on using LLMs in the creating of articles and as you flagged I had used a GPT to summarise some of his most popular books/ achievements.

I have now re-written all the sections where a GPT was used, specifically to remove any Promotional tone, generic, or speculative statements. Before I resubmit can I double check this is sufficient? Please do let me know if there are any sections that need further work/ re write. Thanks again for your time on this. JamesOB12 (talk) 20:56, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi JamesOB12, thanks for reaching out. The simple fact is, LLMs are not suitable for writing encyclopedia articles. They may serve as a rather efficient spellchecker, but they cannot do the heavy lifting for you. If you'd like to keep working on this draft, my advice would be to start completely from scratch and write the article yourself without any assistance from an LLM. At the moment, the draft still appears to be entirely an LLM output, and likely cannot be made suitable to accept. I should note that the article is still rather promotional, for example recognized for his expertise (by who?), responsible for curating numerous notable exhibitions (why are they notable?), the article also seems to directly attribute the repatriation of these cultural objects to King despite the fact that there was surely many people involved. Not to mention the unsourced paragraph about his family, which contravenes the biographies of living persons policy. I might infer based on all this that you may have a personal or professional relationship with Mr. King - if that's the case, you should review the conflict of interest guideline and make a disclosure before moving forward. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 12:46, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

Many thanks for the confirming the role of LLM in creating Wikipedia entries and again sorry for being slow on this. As you suggest will start again completely in my own hand with purely factual statements. JamesOB12 (talk) 15:00, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Your nomination of The Republic of Nothing is under review

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Tag on Novo Nordisk

I've noticed an "undisclosed payment" tag that you've placed in the Novo Nordisk article. Why? FSlolhehe (talk) 17:49, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi there. I tagged this article along with several others in April which I have reason to believe may have been the subject of sustained undisclosed paid editing by a specific public relations firm over the past five years or so. The Novo Nordisk article in particular needs to be gone over very carefully, as many of the sources are less than adequate. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 17:57, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

I'd like to see some proof. So a public relations firm edited using poor quality sources? FSlolhehe (talk) 18:01, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Unfortunately, my ability to provide you with proof is rather limited due to Wikipedia's rules on outing. If you'd like to follow the trail, it starts here. Rest assured that off-wiki evidence has been provided to the parties who need it. Regards, MediaKyle (talk) 19:43, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

TMMi article declined

@MediaKyle: Dear MediaKyle!

I am writing you in connection with the "decline" that was given to our article about TMMi, to ask for your supprt. Your argument for declining was "Your draft shows signs of having been generated by a large language model, such as ChatGPT. " There are no further comments within the text.

I am writing now in the name of the Technical Committee of TMMi Foundation (https://www.tmmi.org/board-of-directors/). I would like to mention the following:

We developed the TMMi model and most of the materials mentioned in the article. We wrote the Wikipedia article together, reviewed each-others's work and submitted it for review in early July 2025. We got the first "decline" on 9th July, stating that the articlewas too long, more an essay and we were adviced to look to how other Wiki articles are written. We did review, and used Copilot of Words to obtain a shorther version, which we reviewed again (more times), edited and submitted it. So, our actual text is based on our longer , previous version, and it is completely our work, edited. All information, all references are correct and valid. We also looked to the Wikipedia article on the CMMI model (which is related to the entire software development process, and is partly reused in TMMi). We think our article is following the same standards.

Can you please advice us on how to go further? It is important for us to have a Wikipedia article on our work.

Thank you in advance.

Katalin Balla / technical chair of TMMi Foundation

<span data-dtsignatureforswitching="1"></span> TMMi TC (talk) 09:23, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello there. I hate to rain on your parade, but I do believe you may be wasting your time. Wikipedia is not Crunchbase, and there are many topics which are simply unsuitable for an encyclopedia. It appears TMMi is your own model, trademarked by your foundation, and the work related to it comes only from your foundation and associates. The article is effectively a brochure for TMMi, and I don't believe it can really be anything but that. I'm sure that's not particularly what you wanted to hear, but my honest recommendation would be to publish these materials elsewhere. If you choose to keep going, please see WP:PAID and make the necessary disclosures on your userpage and the draft article itself. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 11:27, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

@MediaKyle: Hello! Thank you for the answer.

TMMi is not a commercial model. It is freely available to the whole world to use and maintained by a non for profit organisation working only with voluntairs. We are just sharing the knowledge.

Does this change your opinion? Thanks again for the answer. TMMi TC (talk) 15:49, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi there. Unfortunately the nature of the model doesn't mean much for the purposes of notability. I've looked into this more since my last message, and I've been unable to find any academic coverage related to the model that isn't somehow tied to the TMMi Foundation - are you aware of any papers about it created entirely independent of the foundation, without your input? You could also try asking for help at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing, but I can't promise you'll get a response there. There's a good chance I could be wrong on my assessment of TMMi, and I'm only one editor - but if the only coverage relating to it is from the foundation itself, then I would say it's likely not suitable. MediaKyle (talk) 11:02, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello @MediaKyle! Following your message, I looked to references about TMMi, that have authors outside TMMi Foundation. Only in Google Scholar there are plenty of them. Looking to the sources (academic journals, presentations on conferences, books...) I would dare to state that TMMi is one of the well-known and frequently used maturity models within the software engineering and testing community. It is mentioned many times in connection with CMMI, TPI Next, SPICE etc. Comparisons, analyses are available of how it can be used in Agile environment, DevOps environment etc. I list in the end of my message some references- the list is far not complete, but can be completed. My question is how to proceed? Shall we resubmit the article adding such independent references? Will you review it if resubmitted? Or shall I send the revision to you specifically? If the independent references are added, is it likely that the article will be accepted? Or do you still want reformulation of the text? Thank you for the next answer, as well for the previous one.

Here are some independent references:

Characterising the state of the practice in software testing through a TMMi-based processhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40411-015-0019-9

Identifying a Subset of TMMi Practices to Establish a Streamlined Software Testing Process . In: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/6790352/proceeding

TMMI Integration with Agile and Test Process, in : https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3383219.3386124

Towards Agile Implementation of Test Maturity Model Integration (TMMI) Level 2 using Scrum Practices. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283767162_Towards_Agile_Implementation_of_Test_Maturity_Model_Integration_TMMI_Level_2_using_Scrum_Practices

Improving Test Process for Test Organization assessed with TMMi Based on TPI NEXT inhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/293141369_Improving_test_process_for_test_organization_assessed_with_TMMi_based_on_TPI_NEXT TMMi TC (talk) 10:43, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

If there's a lot of sources like this discussing TMMi, then in that case it likely is suitable. I apologize for being so negative! I think I got caught in the trap of "if I can't find it, it doesn't exist". Let me offer you some advice: first, see WP:RESEARCHGATE. Ideally, you don't want any of your citations to point to ResearchGate if you can help it, we'd rather the original publication be cited. At the moment, your draft lacks inline citations throughout most of it. You can generally assume that everything you write down will require an inline citation at the end of the sentence/paragraph. See WP:Citing sources for more help on that. Your draft does appear to have been formatted or edited by a large language model as well, the bold-faced list is a major tell. Don't worry about whether the article looks nice and is 100% properly formatted, other editors will help with that once the article makes it to mainspace. Many editors will simply decline outright if they smell AI. Finally, to increase your chance of a speedy accept, you could divide up your sources by primary and secondary, i.e. at Draft:J. J. McCullough - not necessary by any means, but it would allow editors to see at a glance which publications came from the TMMi Foundation and which came from independent academics. Once you're satisfied with it you can go ahead and resubmit and another reviewer will take a look - I usually only review a draft once so that you can get a wider variety of opinions, although in this case I might end up just publishing it if notability becomes super obvious. Let me know if you have any more questions. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 13:32, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

David Evans Shaw

Hi MediaKyle I have tried to take your suggestions and corrections on the David Evans Shaw submission and would appreciate you having a look at the resubmitted draft. Profberger (talk) 10:02, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi there Profberger. After I decline an article once, I usually leave it for the next reviewer upon resubmitting, that way you can get feedback from a wider variety of editors. That being said, I'm not sure if notability has yet been established for the subject of your draft. Take a gander at WP:GNG - from where I'm standing, the references in the draft do not contain significant coverage from reliable, secondary sources. I see plenty of routine coverage and passing mentions, but not much in way of GNG-worthy sources. Nothing in the article really seems to be a claim to notability - I'm reading that he has founded some businesses, been involved in a number of organizations, made some donations and founded a sculpture park... This is all pretty run-of-the-mill stuff for a businessman. Draft:Howard Ellis Cox Jr. would be a comparable draft that was determined to not meet GNG. I'd start with looking for reviews of his book, if you want to keep going with it (Goodreads doesn't count). Also, if you have a personal or professional relationship with Mr. Shaw, please see WP:COI. If you're being compensated financially for your edits, please review WP:PAID and the terms of use. Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 10:43, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

Draft:Talitsa_(Slutsk_district)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Talitsa_(Slutsk_district) So i can't to see the mistake. Would you like to understand what is incorrect directly? Igor Viktorovich Yakhno (talk) 19:10, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I'm not sure I completely understand your question. I assume you're asking why the draft was declined - what you have there is a good start, but you need more citations. WP:Citing sources may help you. Basically, the "ref" tag you added after the first sentence under "History" - you need those all throughout the article, with sources that back up the information you wrote down. You don't need them in the lead or the infobox though, because that information should be cited in the body of the article. Hope that helps. MediaKyle (talk) 19:20, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Got it, I added the inline citations to every part of the article. Would you like to check again? Igor Viktorovich Yakhno (talk) 19:58, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Can you help with a review of a rewrite?

Hi, I work for journalist Vicky Ward. I recently rewrote her career section in my sandbox to add many more citations and improve the organization all while removing promotional phrases. I am looking for an editor who can review it and replace the current section if they think it meets all policies and criteria. Since I have a conflict of interest I won't do this myself, but I would appreciate your feedback.

I noticed that you are from Nova Scotia, I did my undergrad at Dalhousie for English. Nova Scotia has a special place in my heart. Living in the states now, I miss a good Keith's beer.

Thank you! - Tatiana Tatianacooper16 (talk) 19:45, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

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I looked around for a reference documenting population, but wasn't able to find one. I'm still going to mark as reviewed- based on g-maps and other strong albeit circumstantial evidence, this appears to be a populated place and thus meets WP:NSETTLEMENT.

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Thanks. I added another reference to make notability more clear. Needed to create this to differentiate from Belmont, Colchester, Nova Scotia -- MediaKyle (talk) 15:37, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

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AfC review request: Draft:Mamdouh Salem Baajajah

Hello MediaKyle,

I’ve been working on a draft titled Draft:Mamdouh Salem Baajajah (discussion page: []).

I would greatly appreciate it if you could review the draft for Articles for Creation, and if it meets the notability and sourcing requirements, help move it to the mainspace.

Thank you very much for your time and assistance!

Best regards, Maisa Khudair (talk) 17:36, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi there Maisa Khudair. Unfortunately your draft is a bit out of my wheelhouse, and I'd be unable to assess the sources. I'm afraid you will have to wait for someone else to review it. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 19:08, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi MediaKyle,

Thank you for taking the time to review and for letting me know. I completely understand.

Would you happen to recommend someone who might be a good fit to review this draft? Your guidance would be greatly appreciated. Maisa Khudair (talk) 06:06, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

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Well thanks for noticing! I appreciate the goat, it can live on my talk page for awhile. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 22:20, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

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I have updated the draft to address the earlier feedback: - corrected references and removed promotional tone - added verifiable sources about international performances (September 2025 Switzerland tour)

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Dear MediaKyle,

Thanks for reviewing this entry 2 months ago. The rejection note highlighted the initial submission's failure to satisfy the standards for inline citations. This has hopefully been remedied, with footnotes of sources added. I would appreciate if you could take another look at this. This article of Irene Virgolini, an established and notable Austrian physician, is based on her German Wikipedia entry which has been up for over ten years.

Thank you again in advance.

-JM

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Georges Elhedery revisited

Hi MediaKyle, a friendly ping to let you know I replied to our conversation regarding the intro sentence of the Georges Elhedery article (link to discussion). After looking at sources and the rule you pointed out, "French banker" is the way to go. Let me know what you think. Danilo Two (talk) 18:10, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Re: Abusive submission of an article on 10 Aug 2025

Hi! I want to get in touch about an incident from a couple months ago that I just found out about: In which an IP editor submitted a draft article, along with a host of others (largely created by the editor themselves), to AfC—without regard to their readiness for submission. As the sole substantive contributor to one of the drafts submitted, I can't help but feel a little piqued that the draft I've put a fair bit of work into has been dragged into some sort of vandalism or LTA. The IP address was blocked two times, once for 31 hours, and once more for two weeks, which ended (I think) 4 September 2025. Since then, the (to all appearances) same person has made only a few more edits linked to that IP address, those being of dubious quality. I'm hoping to put you on your guard for submissions coming from this IP address that could necessitate procedures against abuse rather than earnest, good-faith engagement.

Also: Is it all right for me to remove the big, fat red "failed submission to AfC" notice box from the top of the draft page? It's of no use to me; and it may turn away any would-be contributors, who will be predisposed to think that the main author of the article so completely lacked judgment as to submit it: Whereas I'm well aware that the draft doesn't nearly meet the verifiability criterion for main space articles. But it's been just me working on it, thus far, and my busy schedule has meant that I've taken long breaks between small edits. The topic is so complex that to actually write a decent article on it would easily take me a year of dedicated, full-time work.

These are the relevant edits, for your convenience: Notice of failed submission to the IP editor, the entry in your personal AfC submission logs, failed submission notice at the top of the draft article. §§ LegFun §§ talk §§ 08:19, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi there, thanks for reaching out. I'm aware of this LTA - I don't think it's anything too sinister, I figured they were just trying to waste everyone's time. You can absolutely remove that big ugly decline notice, it's just getting in your way anyways. Usually what I do is suppress the AfC buttons in the draft template, with {{Draft article|noafc=yes}} but you don't need to have anything at all there if you don't want to. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 10:55, 19 October 2025 (UTC)

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Draft Oaklands neighbourhood, greater Victoria a

Hi MediaKyle, thanks for your recent review of my webpage about the local neighbourhood I live in. Your comment that the article suggests it was created by an AI model I not correct. I have written the article with the help of other authors and we have not used AI model in any way.

Do you have some time to show me a few areas where I need to improve the content of my submission. I have followed the advice of the different wikipedia topics online, as well I have looked at similar neighbourhood content published in Wikipedia from the Victoria BC Canada area, as well as, cities/neighbourhoods farther afield. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thank you - harry 2001:569:BDF1:6500:19D8:3C81:DF4E:52FB (talk) 21:10, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello Harry, thanks for reaching out. I revisited your draft, and I must apologize for my erroneous decline. Reviewing the article history, I can see now that what I thought was an indicator of LLM usage was a regular human error. It is very common for articles generated by ChatGPT to contain a level one header at the top of the article ("Oaklands, Greater Victoria Area") along with bolded headers throughout the article, but now that I've checked I can see that's just the way the article came together. I will fix these formatting issues for you. Beyond that, the article is still largely unsourced, and in order to be accepted you will have to add citations for everything you've written. If you're unable to provide a source for some parts, and it's just stuff that you know from living there, unfortunately that will have to be removed as Wikipedia does not allow original research. I recommend you take a look at articles like Near South Side, Chicago or Bergen Beach, Brooklyn for inspiration - these are rated as "Good Articles" so they would represent the higher quality work on Wikipedia about neighbourhoods. Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 01:03, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

Can you tell us what keeps going wrong and help with the rewrite?

Hi there! I'm working on this Draft:Carepatron and it's been flagged for LLM use for a couple of times even if the content has been written organically. We tried narrowing it down to just facts to avoid promotional-sounding content, but it seems like it's causing us to be flagged as AI. I've tried to follow the guidelines as much as I can but this draft still keeps being rejected. May I ask for help on this? JamiefrewSF (talk) 00:11, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello JamiefrewSF, thanks for reaching out. I declined your draft because it displays several common indicators of LLM usage as outlined here. All that aside, after I saw your message I took a more careful look at your draft and did some research into Carepatron, and unfortunately I do not believe that this is a suitable topic at this time. Wikipedia has quirky rules regarding "notability", and topics such as these can very seldom meet them. I see Carepatron is a pretty new software product, and the coverage about it is very routine. For software to be "notable" by Wikipedia standards, the sources would have to express a certain level of significance in its field, and I'm not seeing that for Carepatron. The guidance on the notability of software may help clear things up for you a bit. I know it's not the answer you were hoping for, but I would recommend you look elsewhere to publish this information. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 00:50, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

Response to review from MediaKyle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Andreas_A._Andreadis

Hi @MediaKyle, thank you for your helpful feedback. I’ve added reliable sources for birth, education, and family (from Thessaloniki Summit and CapsuleT) and removed any unsourced personal details per WP:BLP. The draft has been resubmitted for review. Kind regards, User:YourUsername P.Serdaris (talk) 11:35, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Don Campion

Hello, and thank you for your help at NPP! I wanted to let you know that I have declined your G11 speedy deletion nomination of Don Campion. Although the article has a promotional tone, it does not contain blatant advertising and does not need a fundamental rewrite. As such, it is not eligible for G11. If you disagree or have any additional questions, please let me know. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 15:36, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm disappointed. The article includes such passages as The facility includes multiple hangars, a Part 145 maintenance repair station, a large avionics shop, a runway-side restaurant (“Jet Runway Café”), a spacious pilot terminal, and one of the largest on-site pilot shops in the world. Banyan provides comprehensive services such as heavy aircraft maintenance and interior modifications, structural repairs, turbine engine servicing, avionics upgrades, parts sales, aircraft acquisitions and sales, flight training, and charter operations. It also offers full FBO amenities (fueling, ground support, concierge services, rental cars, etc.) for owners, crew, and passengers. ... who's Don Campion again? Anyway, I'm slowly learning to live with the fact that we can't keep out all the CVs and advertisements. Hopefully someone will stubify it or something. Best, MediaKyle (talk) 15:45, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

You are free to do remove the promotional content. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 15:46, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Article of Peter New

I added a new category to my article, can you make it public now? Youngblue2005 (talk) 00:34, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi, that article is not ready to be made public yet. You'll have to add more sources to assert notability - specifically, you need more independent coverage about the subject. Once you've done that, you should submit it for review using the template at the top of the draft. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 11:26, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Al-Agha Company

Hello MediaKyle. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Al-Agha Company, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguously promotional. Thank you. Salvio ^giuliano 12:21, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

Haitian International and Pagaya Technologies

Could you explain to me why you see these as Unambiguous advertising or promotion. They are normal articles about companies. Pagaya even has critical references (https://fintechtakes.com/articles/2025-02-21/pagaya-doesnt-make-sense-to-me/). This is clearly not promotional.--Afus199620 (talk) 10:53, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

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Hi, MediaKyle. I've declined your G11 nomination of Resurgam (now draftified, but for unrelated reasons). I understand that new page reviewers are often a bit broader in what they tag for G11 than what admins delete for, and arguably that's a feature of the system rather than a bug since ultimately the admin decides, but I'll admit I'm concerned about this tagging. Usually, when I decline G11 nominations, it's for articles that still at least have a few sentences of promotional material, or have a puff-piece air to them, and I have to point to the criterion's actual wording, which is pages that are exclusively promotional and would need to be fundamentally rewritten to serve as encyclopedia articles. However, this is nowhere near even that "promotional but not G11" situation. Across the entire article as existed at time of tagging, the only wording I spot is that is even slightly promotional—of the "would be flagged at GAN" kind of promotional, not the "urgent NPOV issue" kind—are the phrases threats posed to the free world and A significant part of its work is dedicated. The article also has quite a few citations, including to unquestionably reliable sources like SVT Nyheter . While being well-sourced doesn't directly conflict with G11 deletion, it does mean that potentially puffy language is less obviously problematic, since an actual analysis of the sources is required to determine whether the statement is promotional or accurately reflects what sources say.

Again, people make mistakes, and this is why we have a multi-step CSD system, but I notice above similar notes from Significa liberdade and Salvio giuliano, neither of whom I know as an admin who shies away from deleting spam. Looking at time-of-nomination Don Campion (admin link) and Al-Agha Company, I find in the first case a puff piece (more like what I'm used to declining G11 on) and in the second case an article with no promotional phrasing, although it goes into slightly too much detail about an award the company received. Please keep in mind that the criteria for speedy deletion are not a shortcut for deleting articles that are non-notable, poorly-written, or likely to be deleted at AfD. They exist for a specific set of recognized, narrow circumstances that generally simplify to "A complete rewrite would be needed to fix this." Please be a bit more careful on what you tag for G11. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 12:08, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

I don't think I understand. This seems like part of the editorial process, to me. I thought it was spam, so I nominated it for CSD. You disagreed, you declined it. Isn't that how this is supposed to work? Don Campion was rightfully deleted at AfD, because it was spam. Al-Agha Company is a repeat offender, check out the AfD. I didn't use CSD for a long time, but it's the most effective tool we have for fighting spam. As you'll see from my log I have a decent eye for it by now. If I've done something wrong, I'll need more of an explanation. Thanks. MediaKyle (talk) 12:24, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Yes, tagging and un-tagging is part of the ediitorial process. However, there's an expectation that a tagging will be based on a reasonable reading of the relevant CSD criterion. And honestly I just don't see how you can read G11, look at Special:Permalink/1321325870, and say that that applies. It's not enough that an article feels like spam. And it doesn't actually matter, for CSD's purposes, whether the article's been created before or whether the creator appears to have a COI or something. If your logic is "I thought it was spam, so I nominated it for CSD", then you're misapplying the CSD. G11 is not for just anything that seems spammy. The question, under G11, is a practical one: Could you make the article not read like an advertisement without completely rewriting it? With Don Campion, a copy-edit for puffery and the removal of some unsourced statements would have been enough to avoid promotionality, so G11 is not met (although I do think that one comes closest, but still shy). With Al-Agha, cutting the Awards section to a sentence and merging it into History would be enough to avoid promotionality, so G11 is not met. And with Resurgam, rewording those two slightly-puffy snippets would be enough to avoid promotionality, so G11 is not even close to met. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe|🤷) 12:40, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

I see what you're saying. I suppose maybe I took a more liberal interpretation of the G11 criteria. I'll take your feedback into account. Thanks, MediaKyle (talk) 12:44, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

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Dear MediaKyle, I hope you're well. I am wondering if you could clean up Reference 2 on the Derek Pratt (watchmaker) page? Many, many thanks in advance! Louisetarp (talk) 13:31, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi Louisetarp, good to hear from you. That must be a popular article, because just as I was going to make that change, someone else did it first. If there's anything else I can do, let me know. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 13:50, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

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Thanks for the message, happy to help. Personally when I hear "manifesto" my mind goes straight to Industrial Society and Its Future but that's just me. All things considered the article has done very well for a Wikipedia-adjacent topic. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 17:27, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

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No problem, thank you for letting me know. I thought that one was a bit of edgecase too. I'll likely send it to AfD soon for discussion. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 21:12, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

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You seem like a courteous, competent wikipedian. Note there is a problem with the Lunenburg, Nova Scotia population table. I tried to fix it without success. Can you have a look? HISTORBUFF (talk) 13:22, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for reaching out. I fixed the table, there was just an extra pipe messing it up. Let me know if you need anything else. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 13:38, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

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I'm just mentioning it because it says Nova Scotia. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 20:30, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

I appreciate that you thought of me, I try to rescue every Nova Scotia-adjacent draft that I can -- I think this fellow might just squeeze by on notability, but not by much. Not sure if being a professor emeritus of philosophy at that particular university would satisfy NACADEMIC but I'm seeing some good material floating around. I'll keep an eye on it and see if I can help out. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 20:49, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Draft:Patricia "Patsy" M. Scarry saw this one at the Teahouse, will try to do some digging myself. Canadian woman who wrote 40 children's books, if that gets your WP-juices flowing. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:09, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Well this one is right up my alley, thank you. I'll add that to the list. Looks quite promising... Lots of hits on Newspapers.com. MediaKyle (talk) 11:40, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

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I'm hoping you can help! The Wikipedia post on me is populated with a lot of misinformation and also very bad grammar, etc, and I am wondering if I get someone to work on it, if they will be able to edit out all the problems. It seems university students are editing it, but really badly.

Also, I've noticed that some people have two Wikipedia entries--one like mine, that's quite poorly done, and then another that is much better. Is setting up another one a possibility then, and if so how can this be done? But in reality the one that already exists is truly awful and does me a disservice and should be taken down. Is this possible, and to start all over?

Thanks, and I hope this has found you well,

RabbitSkinGlue (talk) 12:05, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you very much Topoli-onpoli-canpoli, I appreciate the kind words. MediaKyle (talk) 11:48, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

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May you please help me out with this draft, it keeps getting declined and I am a bit confused. Sherry180 (talk) 08:01, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Harambee (neighborhood)

Hi MediaKyle. I wanted to ask about this draft and why you accepted it, as it doesn't appear notable to me. — Tenshi! (Talk page) 12:23, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

Milwaukee Magazine, the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee, and the book under further reading culminate in a GNG pass in my eyes. The James Groh article from WTMJ-TV is good too. In any case, apparently to be accepted at AfC an article only needs a 50% chance at surviving at AfD and we surely cleared that hurdle here. MediaKyle (talk) 13:14, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

A curious question

Greetings MediaKyle, I am curious how one is able to mention previous AfDs in an AfD proposal when the previous one was spelled in an alternative way. I noticed this was done on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Appinventiv (2nd nomination) where it mentions Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Appinventiv Technologies. I have attempted to learn myself but was not able to discern where this is explained. The article I plan to propose for deletion is Escape from Scorpion Island series 5, which was first deleted as a result of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Escape from Scorpion Island (Series 5). Thank you for your contributions to this wonderful website. Aneirinn (talk) 23:31, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi there Aneirinn, thanks for reaching out. When you nominate an article for deletion, the template automatically creates that box with the previous AfDs as you see there. Somehow, the system magically connects the dots when you have previous titles which are very similar. I recommend using Twinkle for this, it makes the process a lot easier.

All that being said, in this case I think the easiest and preferred way to deal with this would be to blank and redirect it to Escape from Scorpion Island#Series 5 (2011). If someone reverts it, then you can send it to AfD for discussion. In general, it's better to take a reasonable alternative to deletion if one is available. You'll want to consider what to do with the other four articles, though -- I'm assuming Escape from Scorpion Island is notable, it might be worth expanding that article first and then redirecting all of them, if the individual series don't have enough coverage on their own. If you have any more questions let me know. All the best, MediaKyle (talk) 23:59, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

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