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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:49, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Draft

Hi! I wanted to drop you a note about the draft. Make sure that you find something other than local coverage for the post office as local coverage tends to be greatly depreciated on Wikipedia as far as asserting notability goes. I'm not sure if regional postal facilities as a whole are independently notable outside of the main US Postal Service, so I'd also check with your professor, Dr Aaij on this. I've tagged him in this to get his input. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:56, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

• Thank you Shalor (Wiki Ed). These are things we indeed discussed in class. It may well be that this particular one is notable, but there will have to be some real interesting stuff in the sources. Dr Aaij (talk) 17:37, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
• Mr. Marbury, this was last week's news. Dr Aaij (talk) 01:31, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
• Hi! I have some more notes: the article has some fairly casual language in it and needs to be re-written as far as the history section goes. It's not always clear what's a quote and what isn't, which needs to be clarified. I'd also heavily caution you against using so many quotes - they shouldn't make up so much of the article, especially as many of them are written in a way that promotes the post office, which can make the article seem non-neutral. This also still needs more sourcing to show that this specific postal system is notable outside of the main postal service as a whole. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:05, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Birmingham Post Office

The article Birmingham Post Office has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Two local newspaper citations do not establish notability for this post office. Most of the article lacks sources and there are several statements that need verification. I suspect some or even most of the prose may even be under copyright from the newspaper mentioned but don't have access to verify that suspicion.

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Just a quick friendly comment re the above notice. I noticed your talk page addition this afternoon. I prodded this for the reasons mentioned. If it were a registered historic building or had some other redeeming qualities supported by reliable sources there might be a point in keeping it. Despite being an education supported project, reliable sources are required, otherwise it's just an essay and unfortunately they has no place as articles. Do you have access to the one local source mentioned? If so, please compare it to the article's prose and ping me. Thanks ww2censor (talk) 15:14, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Ambassador of Luck

Hi - I discovered that you had posted some content to the article for Ambassador of Luck that was taken verbatim from this NYT article. This is considered to be a copyright violation and plagiarism issue even though you included the original source as a citation. Always be careful when writing article content - a good way to avoid doing this is to take notes while reading and write your article from those notes.

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• Looks like there was copyvio posted to Young Dolph as well. ReaderofthePack (｡◕‿◕｡) 15:12, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

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• Dmarbury94, this is not going well. I just saw that an administrator had to scrub what you added to Ambassador of Luck, because apparently it was just copied from a New York Times article. The same problems plague the Post Office article, perhaps, and by tomorrow that article will likely be gone. What you need to do is two things: one, you need to write an article, a new one on a notable topic, obviously--but I've been saying this for weeks, as you know. Second, you need to rethink how you write these articles--because apparently you haven't been writing, just copying and pasting. You know we talked about this in class, you know how I explained one needs to do this (basically, read the sources, put them away, and then write). Because the thing is that if the article gets deleted you have nothing to show for, unless you make something new happen. Dr Aaij (talk) 02:53, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
• The post office article is deleted; I am not quite sure why you wrote up the DYK template knowing that it was slated for deletion--nor did you do anything to prevent deletion. You could have looked at the problems, to rewrite the article. Anyway, you need to write articles. Follow the advice I've given a half a dozen times on how to find possible articles to write. This is a crucial time in the semester. Dr Aaij (talk) 23:11, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

The Winter Soldier - 2018 moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, The Winter Soldier - 2018, 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 click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Regards, SshibumXZ (talk · contribs). 02:19, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Notes

Hi! I made some changes to your article.

• I removed the "about the author" section on the article. Daniel Mason already has an article, so this is a bit redundant here. Also, book articles rarely have a section about the author and their background, as the main emphasis should be on the book. When the author does have a section like this, it should really only cover the author as they pertain to the book itself. Most of the time it's better to have a section that discusses the development of the work.

• I moved one part of the lead down to a newly created reception section, as you were citing a review. Be careful with quotes - you must always, always clearly mark a quote and attribute it if you are going to use something verbatim from a source, as otherwise it can be seen as a copyright or plagiarism issue. Also make sure that you avoid editorializing or including anything that could be seen as a personal interpretation or opinion of something.

As far as suggestions go, you definitely need to add more sourcing to the article. I've added some to the article to help keep it from getting moved back to the draftspace, but you should definitely add more - a development section would be good, however the easiest form of sourcing will be reviews for the book. This brochure on editing book articles should also be of help with expanding and sourcing the article. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:21, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

• Another note - I also removed the mention of Anthony Doerr from the article, which you used for your hook. Unfortunately this isn't a review of the book, but rather a book blurb - a short advertising statement that the publisher and/or author solicited from Doerr. It doesn't establish notability and book blurbs are always a bit dodgy in general since there is always the question as to whether or not the individual actually read the novel and how genuine a blurb can be if the writer is specifically asked for a positive quote to be used on a book jacket. For more general quotes there are questions of whether or not the quote is meant to cover a specific book or the author's work in general. This is meant for a specific book, but it's still a bit problematic. The general rule of thumb is to not use book blurbs on articles because there are so many issues with them. I would re-write the hook, especially as it takes the focus of the DYK is focused not on The Winter Soldier but Doerr and his own book. Maybe quote one of the other reviewers? You could do soemthing like this:

...that literary critic Ron Charles said that the "beauty of Daniel Mason’s new novel, “The Winter Soldier,”persists even through scenes of unspeakable agony."?

If you find any additional interesting tidbits while searching for more sourcing, they could serve as a good second hook. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:29, 31 October 2018 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nomination

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• Hi! Just wanted to let you know that I added the cover to the article for you under my main account - it's shaping up nicely! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:01, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

thanks Shalor (Wiki Ed) is there any more information I can add to this article? Dmarbury94 (talk) 17:59, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Copyright violation removed in The Winter Soldier plot section

Your addition to The Winter Soldier (2018 novel) has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. The plot synopsis was copied from The Washington Post review. Automatically substituting synonyms is not enough, and also leads to nonsensical text. Besides brief quotation, you must paraphrase sources in your own words. Kim Post (talk) 02:35, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Talkback

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Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 23:03, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Shalor (Wiki Ed) could you help me out with this? Dmarbury94 (talk) 23:23, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

• I can - I'll rewrite the section. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:03, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
• Done and I've left a message on the nomination page. I've also added a development section. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:03, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you so very much Shalor (Wiki Ed) Dmarbury94 (talk) 23:13, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK nomination of The Winter Soldier (2018 novel)

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DYK for The Winter Soldier (2018 novel)

On 21 December 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Winter Soldier (2018 novel), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that literary critic Ron Charles said that the "beauty of Daniel Mason's new novel, The Winter Soldier, persists even through scenes of unspeakable agony"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Winter Soldier (2018 novel). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, The Winter Soldier (2018 novel)), 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.

Mifter (talk) 12:03, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Dr Aaij i made it Dmarbury94 (talk) 18:28, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

• You sure did, Dmarbury94. Almost 3,500 people looked at the article. Good luck in 1020. Dr Aaij (talk) 21:33, 24 December 2018 (UTC)