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Your article Joseph Hanisch von Greifenthal

Welcome, and thank you for contributing the page Joseph Hanisch von Greifenthal to Wikipedia. While you have added the page to the English version of Wikipedia, the article is not in English. We invite you to translate it into English. It has been listed at Pages Needing Translation, but if it is not translated within two weeks, the article will be listed for deletion. Thank you. Cahk (talk) 07:51, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Possible hoax article: Joseph Hanisch von Greifenthal

Hi, I'm Nick Moyes, and have some worries about the article you created on Joseph Hanisch von Greifenthal!

Earlier today I tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Whilst wanting to assume good faith I couldn't help but have suspicions that this page's content was not genuine - so I would be very pleased if you would prove me incorrect. (see also my postscript below)

My reasons for flagging this article as a potential hoax are. were:

• You have written this in German, yet your edit summary shows you do write in English.
• You have not created an equivalent article on German wikipedia.
• Consecutive edits to the article on Regensburg, adding Joseph Hanisch von Greifenthal, were made by one anonymous IP address and then by your user account at exactly the same time.
• Identical edits were also made by these two accounts to the Spanish Wikipedia article on Regensburg (Ratisbona) at the same time, though not to the article on German Wikipedia. Why is that?
• There are no Google search returns that I can find for this name.
• There is no evidence that the image you used is of someone called Joseph Hanisch von Greifenthal. (It is unnamed on Wikimedia, and reverse image searches suggest it an unknown Victorian Englishman. The music score is in English, too, which makes his German origins as a Regensburg cathedral master somewhat unlikely).
• All the references you have so far provided are sufficiently vague as to be untraceable/unprovable online. Those libraries that are online only yield results for Franz Xaver Hanisch.

Of course, I'll be delighted to admit my error to you, and to welcome you as a brand new editor to Wikipedia should you be able to prove my assumption incorrect. We really do need new editors capable of creating good, sound content, though not based on original research If it is, please follow that link and read Wikipedia's policy on it. I would like to think you are one of the good editors - so please now demonstrate this to me. You've put a lot of work into this article. Please put in a little more - especially with inline citations - to show that I have made a mistake in my conclusions, and I'll be happy to apologise for casting aspersions on your work.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Nick Moyes (talk) 10:59, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Postscript: I've since established that you have used the incorrect name for Hanisch, and so I've renamed the page accordingly, and that he was a cathedral organist at Regensburg. However, whilst accepting this is not now a hoax, I still have concerns that much of the content cannot be supported, and appears to be based on original research. Please address these concerns and translate only the key, referenced content which you can retain within the article. I still also have concerns as to why you have asserted the portrait is of Hanisch. Please indicate what evidence you have for this, or remove the image and suggestions from the articles on Regensburg you have edited. Regards from the UK Nick Moyes (talk) 13:32, 11 July 2017 (UTC)