User talk:Fosse8

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Zola

I was just looking at the Zola page and wanted to congratulate you on the wonderful articles on his novels. Wikipedia is very weak on literature and other arts (see Flaubert) and it's great to find exceptions. -- Simonides 06:12, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

• Um, thanks! It's been a while since I've visited. Fosse8 03:33, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Edit unattribution

Hi Fosse. Can you please have a look at Wikipedia:Changing_attribution_for_an_edit/Old_log_5 and compile a list of old IDs that are not you, so they can be reassigned back to the IP. Thanks — Kate Turner | Talk 06:45, 2004 Sep 5 (UTC)

• Um, sure - sorry it's been so long, I'm not sure what I'm meant to do now!

sockpuppets

Hi Fosse8, has anyone ever accused you of being a sockpuppet before, particularly of Wonderfool? --Thewayforward 10:18, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Er, not that I'm aware of! I can confidently confirm I am not a sockpuppet.

Les_Rougon-Macquart

Hi, I don't know if you're still active on Wikipedia, but I've got a piece of news that might interest you. I'm currently improving the page about the Rougon-Macquart which almost never changed since you created it in 2004. I'm not done yet, I still have a lot of things to add but I think you will agree that's already much better than before. I hope you will find it interesting. By the way, if you've got some English references on Zola or the Rougon-Macquart that might be useful, i will gladly take them, since most of the material available on the Internet about Zola is only in French. Ksempac (talk) 13:16, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

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All the best! "Carry me down, carry me down; carry me down into the wiki!" (talk) 22:15, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

June 2015 Wikification drive.

Greetings! Just spreading a message to the members of WikiProject Wikify that the June drive has been started. Come on, sign up! :) "A wiki of beauty is a joy forever." Seriously. That's how long it'd take to read! (talk) 04:25, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

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Badbea

Hi. A redirect for Badbea had already been created at Badbea (album), ready for anyone who wanted to make an article out of it to do so. There was no need to create the article at a new title as you did with Badbea (Edwyn Collins album). I've requested a page move to take care of it. Thanks. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 00:53, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Nothing Can Stop Us (album)

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Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Dan arndt (talk) 08:23, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Reply

I think you have missed the point to some extent. I redirected it because it's not clear to me why it meets the notability guidelines other than being by him. No awards, chart placings or similar, and the references don't stand up to scrutiny either.

You must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the artist or his company, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what he or a company claims, or interviews with him. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls.

You have bare url refs at the end of the article, rather than in-line, so we have no idea what facts each is supporting, although at first glance they don't seem relevant to any of your text. The Daily Mail is not considered a reliable source anyway. The refs contribute nothing to notability anyway; most are reviews, but notability doesn't depend on what people think of his work, we need objective facts rather than opinions. Also, several of the refs are quoting him, and he's hardly an independent third-party source for his own music.

As it stands, it has no chance of being accepted by a reviewer. I don't mind if you undo my redirect as long as you provide properly formatted in-line refs to better sources Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:12, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the clear and fair explanation, it's much appreciated.

Just as a general point (and not necessarily directed at you, but since you have administrative status you may be in a position to act!): whilst I've been here roughly as long as you have, I've not created a lot of articles since the very early days, and obviously it's rather more complex now than it was back then when you could just click a red link and type information into the box... However, it seems as though there's still some outdated guidance floating around in the article creation process which probably needs to be fixed - the page that appeared when I was trying to amend the draft to include the sources specifically stated:

Provide your sources.
All articles must cite at least one published, specific, third-party source for the information, such as a book or a page on a reputable website. Please provide a URL or link if you wish to use an internet source. We must be able to verify your source - sources such as Google or "personal knowledge" are not acceptable. Articles without sources may be deleted by other Wikipedians.
If possible use the format explained in Wikipedia:Footnotes to cite specific claims in the text. Those citations will appear automatically as footnotes in the References section.
Alternatively, just write your sources into the article, or in the reference section, any way you can - as long as the sources are there, someone more experienced will be able to fix the formatting.
If you don't have a relevant "external link" (i.e. a webpage outside Wikipedia) to add, delete the External links section. If you do, use it to replace the example shown.''

So, I completely accept the criticism - again, I've not stayed anywhere near up to date with evolving best practice over the past 20 years and freely admit I didn't do it right - but I think maybe it should be flagged that this "advice" (which I now see contradicts the information in Your First Article) is still showing up if one goes through a particular sequence of steps.

Anyway! More narrowly, in terms of this album's notability, I was confused because I requested an article be created for the artist's previous album, Badbea, which was not only accepted but I was also told the request was redundant because "A redirect for Badbea had already been created at Badbea (album), ready for anyone who wanted to make an article out of it to do so." (scroll up a bit on this very page) - there was nothing about that one (at the time) that was any more notable than this one. I'll wait and add more reviews (and get rid of the Daily Mail, I didn't know that had been deprecated as a source but certainly don't object!) before resubmitting. Thanks again. Fosse8 (talk) 16:57, 14 March 2025 (UTC)