DH987

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Again, welcome! ^{Babymissfortune} 09:02, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Rosa & Associati moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Rosa & Associati, does not have enough sources and citations 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 follow the prompts on the Articles for Creation template atop the page. ... discospinster _talk 19:25, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Rosa & Associati concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Rosa & Associati, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:31, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Rosa & Associati

Hello, DH987. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Rosa & Associati".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 17:49, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

January 2023

Thanks for contributing to the article Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that contributions must be verifiable through reliable sources, preferably using inline citations. Please help by adding more sources to the article you edited, and/or by clarifying how the sources already given support the claims (see here for how to do inline referencing). If you need further help, you can look at Help:Menu/Editing Wikipedia, or ask at the Teahouse, or just ask me. Thank you. Dormskirk (talk) 23:08, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

I restored my changes and added citations but as I was doing so you removed them, please do not do this, the information I put in was accurate and I was adding citations. Allow people time to edit. DH987 (talk) 23:38, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Dormskirk (talk) 23:15, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Please do not change my edits as I am adding citations at the moment - allow me to finish adding them! Please be patient! DH987 (talk) 23:33, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Documentaries as sources

Hi, I noticed your discussion at User talk:Revirvlkodlaku. That editor has requested that I don't post on his talk page, which I have to honour. However, they are way too often wrong in their reverts and the reasons they produce, so I keep an eye on their reverts and discussions. They stated:

"Wikipedia has standards according to which a documentary film is not deemed to be a reliable source of information, as far as I know. You don't have to agree with this (I do) but that standard was established over countless hours of discussion, so it must stand for something. Besides, I'm sure you realize that documentaries are seldom entirely truthful or reliable."

This is, as far as I can tell, nonsense. Documentaries are just as acceptable as sources as, say, magazine articles, and their reliability depends on who created and published the documetary, not on the medium. The same rules apply (e.g. a witness statement is not "the truth" but something that needs to be attributed, no matter if it appears in print or is taken from a documentary), but the dismissal of documentaries as reliable sources is a clear mistake and not something you should take as having any policy backing. If they insist, they should provide links to these "countless hours of discussion" and those "standards", as the main page about determining what are reliable sources, Wikipedia:Reliable sources, says nothing about this, and none of the rules there disqualify documentaries. Fram (talk) 09:03, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the message. I expect I will see it deleted again, but thanks anyway! I do wish editors would limit themselves to editing topics of which they have a reasonable level of knowledge. DH987 (talk) 19:31, 1 February 2023 (UTC)