User talk:RedactedHumanoid

Welcome!

Hello, RedactedHumanoid! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages.

Getting Started
Introduction • Contributing to Wikipedia • Your first article The five pillars of Wikipedia • Simplified ruleset How to: edit a page • upload an image
Getting Help
Get help at the Teahouse Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions Department directory Request administrator attention
Policies and Guidelines
Neutral point of view • Verifiability • No original research Reliable sources • Citing sources • Content guidelines What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style (Simplified) • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sockpuppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability

The Community
Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Discord server • IRC channels • Mailing lists The Signpost (Wikipedia's newspaper)
Things to do
Task Center • Be bold in editing Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Copy editing • Vandalism
Miscellaneous
Categories • Disambiguation • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 01:17, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation link notification for August 26

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Peter Bellinger, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page New York. Such links are usually incorrect, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of unrelated topics with similar titles. (Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.)

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, --DPL bot (talk) 07:55, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Overlinking

Hello there

Please stop linking common words, names of well known countries and cities etc. Links should only be used to help readers understand an article. Just because there is a separate article relating to a word is not sufficient reason to link it. Please see policy on linking: MOS:OVERLINK

Thank you Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 21:50, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion discussion about Pete Glidewell

Hello RedactedHumanoid, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

While your contributions are appreciated, I wanted to let you know that I've started a discussion about whether an article that you created, Pete Glidewell, should be deleted, as I am not sure that it is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia in its current form. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pete Glidewell.

Deletion discussions usually run for seven days and are not votes. Our guide about effectively contributing to such discussions is worth a read. The most common issue in these discussions is notability, but it's not the only aspect that may be discussed; read the nomination and any other comments carefully before you contribute to the discussion. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment here and prepend it with {{Re|Vanderwaalforces}}. And don't forget to sign your reply with ~~~~ . Thanks!

(Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Vanderwaalforces (talk) 23:32, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Vanderwaalforces: I see. Can you please elaborate on why it you do not think that it may be suitable for inclusion in wikipedia in its current form, and furthermore, what can I do to try to make said article suitable for inclusion?

RedactedHumanoid (talk) 23:35, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. I would just be repeating what I already said at the AfD page. A politician is not automatically notable because they contested in an election (which the lost). They have to win the seat, and the seat has to be a notable one (either on a federal or state level) before they can be considered notable by all means. Glidewell did win the election he contested in, and he also does not meet the general notability guidelines, which makes him non-notable. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 23:41, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I didn't see the link to the AfD page in your original comment. Well, if the page doesn't meet the general nobility guidelines, I have no objection to the deletion of the article. RedactedHumanoid (talk) 23:46, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I guessed correctly that you didn't see the link above :) Vanderwaalforces (talk) 23:50, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just by the way, in case you are interested in politicians generally, you might want to take a look at the complete guideline on creating an article for a politician. You might also find this list/guide useful for state-level politicians. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 23:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for that. Do i need to follow those guidelines for creating a page about any politician, whether they are, say, a president, or a just a lowly mayor? I ask since I am currently working on a page about the mayor of Poulsbo. RedactedHumanoid (talk) 23:55, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, you know, WP:NPOL for example is a specific notability guideline (obviously because it applies to only politicians), so any article on a politician would first be judged in line with these guidelines, and if they do not pass, would now be judged in line with another specific notability guideline depending on the subject in question. Let's say a subject is a politician, academic and published author, the subject would first be judged based on WP:NPOL (for politicians), WP:NACADEMIC for anyone in an academic field, and WP:NAUTHOR for authors. If they fails to pass any of these SNGs, the would now be judged generally, say based on WP:GNG or WP:ANYBIO.

Articles on mayors are mostly nominated for deletion when the city/town in question does not have much population to make their mayors to be presumptively notable, see WP:POLOUTCOMES for more details, especially the Mayor part. Poulsbo has small population compared to, say Manchester, which is way bigger (also population-wise) and yet the mayors of Manchester are not automatically notable for just being mayors. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 00:10, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Becky Erickson

The article Becky Erickson has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Does not meet WP:NPOL as a local politician who has not been elected to a higher office and lacks significant coverage.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Sounder Bruce 08:12, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kamala Harris

The article says she's the first African American and the first South Asian American in some office. Which is it? Her parents seem to make it the latter. 96.234.119.40 (talk) 03:33, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Both, as her mother was from India, and her father is from Jamaica but is of African descent. RedactedHumanoid (talk) 03:45, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]