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I noticed you have had Draft:Sean A. Ross marked as under review for 3 days now, do you want me to review it? Thanks Geardona (talk to me?) 23:24, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yikes! That was a mistake. Yes, go for it. Thanks for noticing and apologies for the oopsie :-) Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 23:43, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! Geardona (talk to me?) 23:45, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Crunchydillpickle! Similarly with Draft:Catherine Allsop Griswold. Are you still interested in completing your review? —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 01:46, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've unmarked the draft given it's now been a week since you started. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 06:57, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Appologies - I missed the section on William Cooley's page about the massacre. Thank you👍 Geraldine Aino (talk) 20:53, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! :) Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 23:52, 29 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There are nothing other than 901, and some number disambiguations from 203 to 205, 450, and 600 are already accepted as well. 176.33.244.31 (talk) 04:04, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the advice on adding more citations! Done, and resubmitted. Thanks for your help with my first article, trying to shine a light on forgotten female botanists! I've resubmitted, hoping for approval :)

Draft:Louisa Grace Fortescue LetsGetBotanical (talk) 22:11, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yay! I love your username and I can't wait to read more of your articles about female botanists :-) Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 22:43, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's been declined for not being notable enough :(

Is this how it works? Someone just deletes something based on their taste? Is there a way around this? LetsGetBotanical (talk) 19:45, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I'm seeing it now! After looking through a few newspaper archives, I have to agree with JBW that Lady Clermont doesn't meet Wikipedia's notability standards. Unfortunately, her media coverage is mostly passing mentions in articles about her husband. You could add a mention of her botany interest in his article, but an independent article isn't appropriate (We have no independent article Sasha Obama for basically the same reason — the press discusses her but only in relation to her parents). It can be discouraging to get a hang of notability standards but I hope you stick around! I am not very involved with WikiProject Women in Red but it seems to have a list of female botanists without articles. Feel free to ask me questions! Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 17:18, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Have a sweet treat, Crunchydill! (They were out of taro.) NormGottfried (talk) 04:51, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, thanks! This crunchy dill pickle loves boba! How did you know? Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 04:52, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, letting you know that I started the review of your nomination for DYK at Template:Did you know nominations/Cora Babbitt Johnson. There are some minor problems, but I think they are easily correctable. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 03:30, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

LOL, didn't even know it was nominated! All I did was add some sources when I accepted it at AfC. You can direct all communications with the article's nominator, User:Borg Axoim. Thanks! :) Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 18:20, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey Crunchydillpickle, I don't believe your acceptance of this draft was an appropriate review. The sources provided do not demonstrate the subject's notability under any of the musical ensemble criteria, some citations actually fail verification, and there is promotional language in the prose that violates the neutral point of view policy. I'd urge you to revert your acceptance and work with the page creator in draftspace to fix these issues. Let me know if you have any questions. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 17:54, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, will draftify. I agree the notability is iffy — I was too optimistic that Italian languages sources would come. My bad. For what it's worth, I don't see major NPOV issues, just poor sourcing. Anyway, sorry. Never my intention to make bad calls. Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 18:12, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No need to apologize, and I appreciate you for taking my feedback in stride! Hopefully, that can inform your process when reviewing in the future. For the record, I don't blame you for trying to accept a submission where you felt the notability was borderline (I think that's an excellent approach for an AfC reviewer) but that was simply not the case here — the closest the sourcing ever got was a couple of passing mentions. I would also not recommend making decisions on drafts based on sources that are not yet cited unless you have personally taken a look at them and determined that they demonstrate the subject's notability. I've done that before, and it's helpful to tag the article with {{Sources exist}} to inform other editors of their existence, or even leaving links in a {{Refideas}} on the talk page. Finally, some of the non-neutral writing I was referring to were these: "collaborate with all the most prestigious soundtrack authors", "became his greatest worldwide success", "dedicated themselves". I hope you can see that this is not encyclopedic language, and I'd recommend you keep an eye out for this kind of stuff in the future. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 18:26, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, I agree those pull quotes have a problem, but I'd say the issue (particularly for the second two) is more than they're unsourced, less that they're promotional. Really all I'm getting at is that NPOV issues and sourcing issues are sometimes two sides of the same coin. Anyway, thanks for noticing. I know I shouldn't apologize — apologies don't seem play much of a role in Wikipedia culture — but I always find it hard not to apologize when I do feel viscerally sorry for the (few, hopefully) less-than-stellar decisions I make here. Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 18:36, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

-- UPDATE; have completed another draft, thanks

I will go through and deal with these issues. Thanks very much for the efficient and professional work -- sorry for making work for you. I think I can get it up to BIO standards. Richardatlarge (talk) 03:14, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your contributions to Mary Target. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. GMH Melbourne (talk) 06:00, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi @Crunchydillpickle, thanks a lot for your contribution to my draft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Paul_D%27Amato_(photographer). I deleted the list of exhibition as you suggested. Have you any other advice to improve my draft? Thanks again Madamadore00 (talk) 12:03, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Yes, I actually ate It... And... It was strange XD It hadn't any pickle. I did a photo to that sandwich because I didn't like the original photo. Why are You asking me this? AnticoMu90 (talk) 06:55, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help on this article! I have now since nominated it for GA with you as the co-nom. 48JCL (talk) 00:58, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I didn’t have you as the official co-nom, but you can display a GA topicon or userbox about the county :) 48JCL (talk) 11:43, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, cool! Thanks for keeping me in the loop! Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 22:25, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the positive feedback on my Saint Diablo submission, Crunchydillpickle! I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know why it was rejected and how it could be improved, however I do have a question or two.

Is Eclipse Records (has a wiki page) considered an important indie label, as defined in item number 5 of WP:BAND? They have a large roster of bands over the years, many of which are independently notable such as Mushroomhead, and Saint Diablo has already released two albums through them, with a third coming out in July. Regarding them being published in newspapers/magazines, I just saw a new article from ghostcultmag about the new EP, but I did not include it because I had already been working so long on the version I submitted and planned to update it after the album was released.

Also, you probably saw this already, but just in case you did not, I cited/referenced articles written about them in The Free Lance-Star (newspaper), several online metal mag-type sites (independent of the band; not Eclipse Records or band published), and the lead singer/band was also included in a rather large, professionally published book about the culture of latin metal.

With the new album coming out, I would think they may get some additional recognition; would you recommend I keep an eye on them and resubmit or are the items I raised above sufficient? Thank you again for your help, I really appreciate it! ... and I'll be keeping an eye out for other bands that may need some help with their pages, too.

Thanks again!

Ghostcultmag link: https://ghostcultmag.com/saint-diablo-share-their-new-single-and-video-voice-on-the-phone-new-ep-coming-soon/ Metal Music Historian (talk) 22:45, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Metal Music Historian! Yeah, as you noticed, the "important indie label" provision on the notability standards for bands is vague wording. Wikipedia editors have been dealing with the vagueness for years, and since it's such an iffy criterion I don't like to use it as the deciding factor. Another thing to consider is the general notability guideline which applies to all articles and comes up so much that Wikipedia editors abbreviate it to GNG. Compared to those band-specific standards, it's a lot more broad: a topic can have a standalone article if it has "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject."

First up, are Draft:Saint Diablo's references significant? The Heavy Mag piece is so short and press release-esque that I wouldn't call it "significant" coverage. I'm also not quite sure if the "Heavy Metal Music in Latin America" book's brief mentions would count as "significant," but maybe. Next, are the sources reliable? Since most of the sources (Blabbermouth, Metal Shock Finland, and Ghost Cult Mag) are pretty small and specialized, none of them are listed on Wikipedia's big list of reliable sources. They're fine to use, but I wouldn't use them to count toward notability. The closest thing to a large mainstream publication is the regional newspaper Free Lance Star which looks pretty good. Lastly, are the sources independent of the subject? The record label's website, the YouTube videos, and the Amazon album listing are not.

All in all, this leaves the draft in a pretty tough spot since the only source that unambiguously counts toward the general notability standards is the Free Lance Star. In my experience, the bands that actually get Wikipedia articles have at least four or five really good sources. I feel confident in my decision to decline, but you're totally welcome to re-submit it if you'd like a different reviewer's eyes! You're also welcome to put it on a different wiki (my cursory search turned up this one) which might have different standards. Anyway, I appreciate your efforts! Also, I listened to Saint Diablo while I typed this up because I was curious. It made me feel very intense :-) Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 00:09, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, that makes sense and I really appreciate the detailed explanation @Crunchydillpickle! ... and thank you for the tips, as well. I'll keep an eye on the band and see where they go from here... and yes, their music is quite intense and I enjoy it, hence the reasoning behind taking the time to write the submission... thanks again for your help, it was very informative! : ) Metal Music Historian (talk) 00:27, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay good, glad it wasn't overly thorough. Wikipedia's guidelines can be extensive, vague, and even contradictory sometimes — but it's still a fun place, I promise! Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 01:15, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

More info is always preferred to not enough, in my opinion @Crunchydillpickle. Thanks again! = D Metal Music Historian (talk) 07:12, 27 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! I hope you keep contributing to Wikipedia. We always need more people like you — good at writing, passionate, not opposed to getting way too much info sometimes (actually, a lot of times!) Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 21:00, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks, @Crunchydillpickle! I'll be keeping my eyes open for future opportunities. = D Metal Music Historian (talk) 21:39, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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