User talk:Jazzypom
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January 2010[edit]
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Will robson has been reverted.
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Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://will-robson.smugmug.com/gallery/4751601_rH4jZ#193428977_y4Li5, http://will-robson.smugmug.com/gallery/4751601_rH4jZ#751492937_JUn5i (matching the regex rule \bsmugmug\.com).
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 00:20, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
The article Will Robson has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
- no evidence of notability
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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 01:06, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
- Keep
The article should be kept for the following reasons: the artist in question lived in Jamaica, and contributed to the tapestry of the Jamaican art scene whilst he was there. He was sought out and got commissions for five star, international rated hotels. Please note, that these weren't just local inns, and these projects were not tendered for, but he was invited to, as seen by him being chosen for Expo 92. If you look at this link (http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20071104/arts/arts1.html ) Jane Issa, who is a member of the Issa family who are owners of major hotel chains in Jamaica and the Caribbean, mentions Will and Margaret by (misspelt, sur)name. This article was done seven years after he left Jamaica and it shows that Will Robson has left his mark on the arts and crafts scene in that part of the world.
With regards to conflict of interest, I do take some sort of umbrage at this claim, because I am coming from the aspect of recording a person who contributed to the Jamaican art scene and the last time I recall, Wikipedia was dedicated to notable persons WORLDWIDE and not just artists in Europe or the USA. Sometimes these people do not get pinged on the google search, because said search is skewed towards American and European based artists. For example, if you look at the Wiki entry for Barrington Watson, who is a world noted Jamaican artist, he only has a stub, which is shameful. In addition, the notion of an online presence and the digital age didn't take root until 2001 (co incidentally, when wikipedia got its first start) and as such, the artist in question should not be penalised because articles about him are in newspaper archives, which can only be viewed on payment. In addition, with regards to other artists in terms of their presence online, its basically press releases put out by galleries, which is a form of self promotion.
In conclusion, as much as I can appreciate why one would think of my entry being a conflict of interest, the only conflict of interest is that I am a Jamaican, and that if I'm not moved to put notable Jamaicans forward, who will? Jazzypom (talk) 13:17, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
- And by the way, why is this guy notable?[1] It would appear that Wiki loves its footballers.Jazzypom (talk) 19:48, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Keeping articles[edit]
You need to find reliable sources that treat the subject, e.g. newspapers, books, reputable web sites (not one person blogs) etc, then use them as references for the information in the article. See below. Ty 01:55, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Guide to referencing[edit]
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I thought you might find it useful to have some information about references (refs) on wikipedia. These are important to validate your writing and inform the reader. Any editor can remove unreferenced material; and unsubstantiated articles may end up getting deleted, so when you add something to an article, it's highly advisable to also include a reference to say where it came from. Referencing may look daunting, but it's easy enough to do. Here's a guide to getting started. If you need any assistance, let me know. -- Ty 01:55, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
A reference must be accurate, i.e. it must prove the statement in the text. To validate "Mike Brown climbed Everest", it's no good linking to a page about Everest, if Mike Brown isn't mentioned, nor to one on Mike Brown, if it doesn't say that he climbed Everest. You have to link to a source that proves his achievement is true. You must use reliable sources, such as published books, mainstream press, and authorised web sites. Blogs, Myspace, Youtube, fan sites and extreme minority texts are not usually acceptable, nor is original research (e.g. your own unpublished, or self-published, essay or research), or another wikipedia article.
The first thing you have to do is to create a "Notes and references" section (unless it already exists). This goes towards the bottom of the page, below the "See also" section and above the "External links" section. Enter this code:
The next step is to put a reference in the text. Here is the code to do that. It goes at the end of the relevant term, phrase, sentence, or paragraph to which the note refers, and after punctuation such as a full stop, without a space (to prevent separation through line wrap):
Whatever text you put in between these two tags will become visible in the "Notes and references" section as your reference.
Open the edit box for this page, copy the following text (inserting your own text where indicated), paste it at the bottom of the page and save the page:
(End of text to copy and paste.) It should appear like this:
You need to include the information to enable the reader to find your source. For an online newspaper source, it might look like this:
When uploaded, it appears as:
Note the single square brackets around the URL and the article title. The format is:
Make sure there is a space between the URL and the Title. This code results in the URL being hidden and the title showing as a link. Use double apostrophes for the article title (it is quoted text), and two single quote marks either side of the name of the paper (to generate italics). Double square brackets round the name of the paper create an internal link (a wikilink) to the relevant wikipedia article. Apostrophes must go outside the brackets. The date after The Guardian is the date of the newspaper, and the date after "Retrieved on" is the date you accessed the site – useful for searching the web archive in case the link goes dead.
You can use sources which are not online, but which you have found in a library or elsewhere—in which case leave out the information which is not relevant. The newspaper example above would be formatted like this:
When uploaded, it appears as:
Here is an example for a book:
When uploaded, it appears as:
Make sure you put two single quote marks round the title (to generate italics), rather than one double quote mark.
These formats are all acceptable for dates:
You may prefer to use a citation template to compile details of the source. The template goes between the ref tags and you fill out the fields you wish to. Basic templates can be found here: Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Citation quick reference
The first time a reference appears in the article, you can give it a simple name in the <ref> code:
The second time you use the same reference in the article, you need only to create a short cut instead of typing it all out again:
You can then use the short cut as many times as you want. Don't forget the /, or it will blank the rest of the article! Some symbols don't work in the ref name, but you'll find out if you use them. The quotes around the name are optional unless there is a space in the name. You can see multiple use of the same refs in action in the article William Bowyer (artist). There are three sources and they are each referenced three times. Each statement in the article has a footnote to show what its source is.
The above method is simple and combines references and notes into one section. A refinement is to put the full details of the references in their own section headed "References", while the notes which apply to them appear in a separate section headed "Notes". The notes can be inserted in the main article text in an abbreviated form as seen in Harriet Arbuthnot or in a full form as in Brown Dog affair.
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