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Marlon Bundo books has been nominated for Did You Know

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Hello, Dalsegnoalfine. Marlon Bundo books, an article you either created or to which you significantly contributed,has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know . You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. APersonBot (talk!) 12:00, 20 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

DYK

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Just a notification of Did you know nominations/Marlon Bundo's: A Day in the Life of the Vice President. Coffeeandcrumbs (talk) 00:55, 24 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

A coat for you!

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  Free black and white coat for the cold winters to come!  
For your contributions to articles about Marlon Bundo! wumbolo ^^^ 09:06, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

@Wumbolo: Thanks! Still completely lost when it comes to talk and discussion pages (hence my silence), so I hope you get this. Dalsegnoalfine (talk) 09:34, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

I did get it :) A notification is triggered if these criteria are met. I recommend turning on notifications for failed mentions. Cheers, wumbolo ^^^ 09:44, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Gerald Kelley

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Do you have any objection to me nominating your article Gerald Kelley for "Did You Know?" together with the other related articles? The hook would be something like this below. Or do you want a separate hook specifically about Gerald Kelley? Note that if we include Gerald Kelley in the multi-hook, it will appear on the Hall of Fame. wumbolo ^^^ 10:05, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

@Wumbolo: I do not, thought it seems a bit odd to exclude the author of the one book and the illustrator of the other. I never managed to beef up the Jill Twiss article though. I asked her about possible sources, but none of them were very informative of appropriate. But Karen Pence could be included, bringing the total up to six. Dalsegnoalfine (talk) 17:15, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Fyi, Template:Did you know nominations/Marlon Bundo books is the page where the DYK discussion is taking place. wumbolo ^^^ 17:30, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Excluding seems weird, but our hook should be of reasonable length, and we shouldn't link to bad or poorly sourced articles. Karen Pence could be included as a link (not bold) because we can't nominate it because it is too old. DYK is for articles which were created (or expanded fivefold etc.) in the last 7 days. The Jill Twiss article is a bit too old, which doesn't mean it can't be included in the hook. I don't exactly understand; did you ask Jill Twiss about sources? Do you know her? (you don't have to answer) wumbolo ^^^ 17:36, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

  Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Draft:Gerald Kelley a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Gerald Kelley. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. wumbolo ^^^ 18:32, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

User:Wumbolo No, I don't know her. I just came across her email address while doing the research and dropped her a line, but to no avail. Until she does a decent interview somewhere, the article is where it's at... Dalsegnoalfine (talk) 18:47, 31 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

References

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Please read this section of the Visual editor manual,

as you've been adding the same reference multiple times. For reference, WP:REFNAME describes how to do that using wikitext. Cheers, wumbolo ^^^ 13:20, 2 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Did You Know issues

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A review of Gerald Kelley has been completed and has some issues that have to be addressed in order to process the article through DYK:

The Gerald Kelley article is long enough and newly written within the proper time period for eligibility. The article has inline citations verify his role in the proposed hooks. However, there are unsourced sentence-paragraphs, which aside from being unsourced, do not look great from a MOS:LAYOUT standpoint. Also, use of "currently" is vague and "livened up the pages" is WP:PUFFERY. Article is not approved.

Cheers, wumbolo ^^^ 06:43, 9 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

DYK for A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo

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On 29 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a children's book illustrated by Gerald Kelley parodies another children's book written by Charlotte Pence about her pet rabbit Marlon Bundo (pictured) by portraying him as gay? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:01, 29 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

DYK for Marlon Bundo's A Day in the Life of the Vice President

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On 29 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Marlon Bundo's A Day in the Life of the Vice President, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a children's book illustrated by Gerald Kelley parodies another children's book written by Charlotte Pence about her pet rabbit Marlon Bundo (pictured) by portraying him as gay? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Marlon Bundo's A Day in the Life of the Vice President), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:02, 29 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

DYK for Gerald Kelley

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On 29 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gerald Kelley, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a children's book illustrated by Gerald Kelley parodies another children's book written by Charlotte Pence about her pet rabbit Marlon Bundo (pictured) by portraying him as gay? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gerald Kelley. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Gerald Kelley), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

Gatoclass (talk) 12:02, 29 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

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  Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give a page a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

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