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Hello, No Swan So Fine!
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! ~~ αvírαm|(tαlk) 17:54, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
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- Thank you @Aviram7:! I had originally created the article more than a month before the mainspace article and it was sent to AFC without my approval. No Swan So Fine (talk) 20:13, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, you could take that up with User:Moondragon21, who gave you all of 10 minutes before draftifying it. Me, I'd just have reverted him. Johnbod (talk) 04:19, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- No Swan So Fine,Hello, This news is like bad news for me to hear, I've check the article are created by another editors their article currently in article mainspace, Sorry but We don't accept draft if any other article are exist in article or draftnamespace.😊~~ αvírαm|(tαlk) 02:40, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
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Nomination of 27712 Pacific Coast Highway for deletion
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Nomination of Where is Kate? for deletion
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New Pages Patrol newsletter April 2024
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Backlog update: The October drive reduced the article backlog from 11,626 to 7,609 and the redirect backlog from 16,985 to 6,431! Congratulations to Schminnte, who led with over 2,300 points.
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Whetton's Buildings
Here's the other follow-up from the WikiMeet, where we chatted with Rich Farmbrough. Per the plaque in the centre of the picture, this was originally Number 3, Whetton's Buildings ("Gerrard Street Area: The Military Ground, Gerrard Street", Survey of London, vol. 33 and 34 St Anne Soho, London, pp. 384–411, 1966). For us, it has been one of our favourite Chinese restaurants for several decades as China, China and then Wan Chau Corner. It's now under new management and I'll return to see what they make of it. In the meantime, I recommend The Lido on Gerrard Street where we had dim sum before the WikiMeet.
Previously, I've written up De Hems in Macclesfield Street nearby and you said that you had worked on Lee Ho Fook, as have I. Perhaps we should organise an editathon/eatathon in Chinatown next time? Edwardx is probably up for that too as he's had dim sum with us more than once.
Andrew🐉(talk) 12:53, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
- Checking, I find that the new restaurant will be San Hao which sounds to be more upmarket... Andrew🐉(talk) 11:25, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
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Nomination of We All Love Ella: Celebrating the First Lady of Song for deletion
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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.QuietHere (talk | contributions) 23:19, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for working on the lemma to keep it. (I am somewhere else completely.) Especially nice the statement on linking Ella's music to the next generation. This maybe true, but it also says so much about the inner workings of the industry, besides the appreciation of (the tradition of) jazz as part of American pop culture as well as of each individual musician participating (good or bad). It says, cautiously stated, maybe nearly as much as the 20th album by Taylor Swift (although I expect even each single of her has a lemma), or the never ceasing output on The Beatles. Besides that, the idea of a tight encyclopaedia is totally outdated. It is not a matter of size or anything anymore, you can put it all in. If you spend some time on Commons, you can see what I mean (and read, it is always argued for keeping stuff, and even propagated). But who I am telling this./ Thanks again. MenkinAlRire 13:00, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thank YOU @MenkinAlRire: for such a thoughtful comment. I started that article 17 years ago (!) when The Wikipedia Library and substantial offline resources were merely a twinkle in a mechanical eye. I love Ella, my very first edit in 2005 (!) was on her Live in Berlin album, and it led me to all the nonsense I've written since. I totally agree that a massive and endlessly expanding Wiki is the way forward. I adore commons and spend too much time on there! Jazz history is massive and I've become a much better writer in recent years. I started this article after being baffled at the level of detail on minor singles by contemporary artists and unbelievably expanded this from an unreferenced line I forgot about. So much still to write! No Swan So Fine (talk) 20:30, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
- @No Swan So Fine: Same for me, too. I started in 2011 with an edit on bassist Marc Johnson (I had to look it up), and shortly after I created my first lemma, the Bill Frisell discography, one of the few I ever made. I 'specialized' in lists and tables, nearly exclusively for jazz articles, because actually, it felt to hard for me to write text (part. in Englisch). But over the past years it got better, and I shifted to Early Renaissance art.
- The articles on the song recordings you linked are an interesting read. I rather seldomly came across articles on music that actually speak about the music, more often the descriptions are plainly circumstantial, stating dates. Here, in both cases, I learned how significant these particular performances were for Holiday and Merman (although Holiday obviously would have rather liked to forget about it). Thank you for that. I will have a look, if I can find the recordings. I never really liked the early Holiday, but still, it is her. And Merman I didn't even know. Now I will. Thank you for that. And, yeah, there is so much still to write. MenkinAlRire 09:37, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thank YOU @MenkinAlRire: for such a thoughtful comment. I started that article 17 years ago (!) when The Wikipedia Library and substantial offline resources were merely a twinkle in a mechanical eye. I love Ella, my very first edit in 2005 (!) was on her Live in Berlin album, and it led me to all the nonsense I've written since. I totally agree that a massive and endlessly expanding Wiki is the way forward. I adore commons and spend too much time on there! Jazz history is massive and I've become a much better writer in recent years. I started this article after being baffled at the level of detail on minor singles by contemporary artists and unbelievably expanded this from an unreferenced line I forgot about. So much still to write! No Swan So Fine (talk) 20:30, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
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Hello there, I was just wondering what you might think of an article on Richard Stone's Thatcher portrait being created, it having become the subject of controversy after being reportedly moved from its place in Downing Street. Since you created Statue of Margaret Thatcher (Grantham), another depiction of the former prime minister subject to controversy, would you agree that this particular controversy is enough to warrant an article as well? ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 18:57, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks @Neveselbert:, I had a go here. No Swan So Fine (talk) 00:08, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks No Swan, that's a great start. I'll have a look to see what I can do to improve it. Thanks again, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 19:36, 31 August 2024 (UTC)
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