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Your submission at Articles for creation: Muthumudalige Nissanka (April 21)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Crunchydillpickle was:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 16:54, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello There, I have just translated Wikipedia article written in Sinhala, Sri Lanka language. Unfortunately Wikipedia rejected it , I am new to Wikipedia and trying to do something better to social, specially as a translator I am trying to translate a Wikipedia articles which is written in Sinhala to English for free, Please kindly help me to improve the knowledge and find what is the wrong with my translating's.

Here is the link to original article > https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%94%E0%B6%AD%E0%B7%94%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%94%E0%B6%AF%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%9C%E0%B7%9A_%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%92%E0%B7%81%E0%B7%8A%E0%B7%81%E0%B6%82%E0%B6%9A 37.252.90.42 (talk) 18:16, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Dragonpiejess! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Crunchydillpickle🥒 (talk) 16:54, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Muthumudalige Nissanka[edit]

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Muthumudalige Nissanka, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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I have declined the speedy deletion nomination, because although the page is somewhat promotional in tone, I don't think it is so promotional that editing it to remove that tone will be terribly difficult. I don't know why the article on Sinhala Wikipedia has not been deleted, but it is likely to be for one or both of the following reasons.

Each language Wikipedia is autonomous, and sets its own standards. It may be that Sinhala Wikipedia has different standards than English Wikipedia regarding promotional content.
Unfortunately in an encyclopaedia which almost anyone can edit, it is inevitable that some people will post unsuitable material, and sometimes it is a very long time before anyone takes action on it.

I have no idea whether either of those applies in this case, but they illustrate the fact that the existence of an article is no guarantee either that it should exist or that a very similar one should. JBW (talk) 21:16, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Muthumudalige Nissanka (April 29)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Dan arndt were:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

The content of this submission includes material that does not meet Wikipedia's minimum standard for inline citations. Please cite your sources using footnotes. For instructions on how to do this, please see Referencing for beginners. Thank you.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Fails WP:NAUTHOR. None of the reliable independent secondary sources cited actually mention Nissanka. The ones that do are not independent or reliable - Wordpress and blogsites.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Muthumudalige Nissanka and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Dan arndt (talk) 03:21, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Dan amdt Can you please help to solve this issue.

- Fails WP:NAUTHOR. None of the reliable independent secondary sources cited actually mention Nissanka -

There is a lot, but issue is Non of those articles written in English, Include national Sri Lankan news papers, All are written in Sri Lankan language.

Also >>>

I am new for Wiki translations, I am just trying to translate sinhala articles to English but as I said a Eng site/link resources are very less...

Help me pls, Or I should really leave this on my first attempt. Dragonpiejess (talk) 17:21, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Naturally for the English language Wikipedia it's most helpful if references can be in English, but they don't have to be, so you can post references to sources that aren't in English, if there aren't suitable ones in English.

I will also offer you some advice which I give to new editors who start out by writing new articles. Posting translations is of course not the same as posting new articles you have written yourself, but fairly similar considerations apply.

My advice to new editors is that it is best to start by making small improvements to existing articles, rather than creating new articles. That way any mistakes you make will be small ones, and you won't have the discouraging experience of repeatedly seeing hours of work deleted. Gradually, you will get to learn how Wikipedia works, and after a while you will know enough about what is acceptable to be able to write whole new articles without fear that they will be deleted. Over the years I have found that editors who start by making small changes to existing articles and work up from there have a far better chance of having a successful time here than those who jump right into creating new articles from the start. JBW (talk) 22:00, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]