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February 2

Chartered Financial Consultant, new article Rejected

I have made several changes to the new article and it has still been rejected. That Wikipedia has an article on "Certified Financial Planner" but not one on "Chartered Financial Consultant," seems odd since these two designations are perhaps the two most well recognized designations for financial planners. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mkreft (talk • contribs) 00:18, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

The draft at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Chartered Financial Consultant wasn't edited since June 2012; it currently is not submitted for review. Many of the sources are primary sources, especially the websites of American College, the university bestowing the ChFC designation. Coverage in independent sources is pretty thin. Huon (talk) 01:16, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Six Flags Over Illinois

You m — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.101.165.86 (talk) 19:36, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Could you please be a little more explicit in describing what kind of help you require? The draft currently does not cite any reliable sources; its content is not verifiable. Huon (talk) 22:53, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Building Automation Controls Utah Branch

File:BAC Utah Logo.png Building Automation Controls was established in Utah as a DBA for Air Pro,LLC. BAC (Building Automation Controls) was organized in late 2010. BAC started as a HVAC Controls Company primarily dealing with DDC Controls. Since the establishment they have been progressing to include the control of Lighting panels and integration of a variety of protocols. In early 2012 they expanded their service to include Tele-Data, Security, Alarm, Camera, Fire etc…basically anything with a wire. As of late they also have met with various companies to add to their services the latest in wireless technologies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Utahbac (talk • contribs) 20:59, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

This is a copy of your draft. What exactly do you need help with?

On an unrelated note, I believe your username may be in violation of Wikipedia's username policy because it's the name of a group or organization. You should either request a username change or abandon this account and create a new one with an acceptable username. Otherwise you might find yourself blocked.

The draft itself does not cite any reliable sources. We need significant coverage in such sources (like newspaper coverage or maybe reviews in reputable trade magazines) both to establish the company's notability and to allow our readers to verify the draft's content. Huon (talk) 22:53, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Greetings and about contributions

To whom it may concern, first of all, I hope you are having a nice day. Secondly, I contributed many pictures which I myself took to wikipedia and uploaded them to a page I am creating for my brother, Horacio Carabelli. Editing this page I realized that many of the pictures that I uploaded and included were missing and when I tried to replace them by going to my contributions I found an empty page as if no contributions had been made. I would be grateful if you could explain what has happened and how I may solve the problem; of course I may go through the uploading process all over again and start from zero but without knowing what has happened previously nothing grants that the same thing will not happen again so I prefer asking you and see how we can solve it.

Thank you in advance and looking forward to hearing from you,

Patricia Carabelli — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pattycarabelli (talk • contribs) 22:56, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure what images are missing. You seem to have uploaded a couple of images to the Wikimedia Commons, the preferred location for freely licensed images; they appear in your Commons contributions. Sionk removed a couple of images from the article with this edit; I agree with him that multiple images of distand boats won't really help a reader's understanding of Horacio Carabelli. In fact I'd say the two America's Cup images are so similar that we could remove one of those, too. If you disagree with his edit, please raise the issue on the article's talk page.

If those aren't the missing images, I'd need some additional information to go by - was there a old version of the article that did display the images and which now only shows red links in their place? Huon (talk) 23:12, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the prompt and clear response Huon! I now understand what happened with the missing pictures. Ok, seems sort of reasonable not to place those pictures of boats when we are talking about a sailor and not the boats but as the two things are so intermixed many times we get the pictures of the ships and know they are sailing like that because of the sailors inside. But well, you are right and I understand and will try to place pictures which include him clearly.

What I can´t still see are the pictures I uploaded, when I go to my contributions I see a list of my editing but when I go to uploaded files, it seems to be empty and it says that there are no results available: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:ListaIm%C3%A1genes/Pattycarabelli

By the way, one of the pictures I uploaded (if we can see it) was straight on my computer but it got uploaded with a 90° turn, I don´t know why. I tried to switch the picture over but couldn´t, is there a way of doing that and visualizing the uploaded files? Thank you very much once more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pattycarabelli (talk • contribs) 23:28, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

Well, if the article said that he won some race due to a special manoeuvre and we had an image of his ship executing that manoeuvre, or if the article discussed his ships themselves and the images clarify the article's text, I'd see why we should have them. If they're just pretty images without context, not so much.

That list of "uploaded files" you link to is at the Spanish Wikipedia; I don't speak that much Spanish, but I take it that you didn't upload any images over there. The Wikimedia Commons, where you did upload images and where your contributions show the uploads, is separate from the various Wikipedias; those also allow you to upload images under slightly different conditions, but the Commons are a central repository for freely licensed images that can be used from every language-specific Wikipedia. (Thus we prefer freely licensed images to be uploaded directly to the Commons.) The various Wikipedias won't show your contributions to the Commons, and vice versa.

By the way, two of your images at the Commons seem to have been deleted: commons:File:Horacio Carabelli.jpg and commons:File:Brasil 1 Inport Race.JPG. Both apparently were unlicensed or non-free.

The image to be rotated was apparently commons:File:Horacio Carabelli y Luis Chiaparro. Snipe Junior World Championship..JPG; another user already took care of that issue. Apparently the Commons have a bot that can be told to rotate images; it was summoned with this edit. I don't think there's a preview for images to be uploaded, but I'm not that much of a Commons expert; you might have better luck asking over there. Huon (talk) 00:54, 3 February 2013 (UTC)