User talk:Aleks Andre

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Minus signs

I reverted an edit you made recently because it substituted hyphens - for minus signs −. I know not a great difference but WP:MOSMATH#Minus sign details this so it is better not to change − back to hyphens. Plus some of the prefixes ⁺ for things like ⁺5 had the sup tag removed to just become +5, they really did mean to have it small. Ann I'd like to personally say a welcome and thanks for your contributions rather than it just be that pro-format business above, I think the first entry about the five pillars is best and didn't bother with much else myself when I started, well in fact I didn't bother with any of them until I needed to. Dmcq (talk) 12:20, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

The accessibility people seems to like us to stay away from unicode and use   unless it is obvious we should be doing otherwise, seeWT:Accessibility#Superscript.2C_subscript_characters. I think I will ask too at the help desk just to geta wider view. Dmcq (talk) 21:42, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

The help desk gave some useful links about it and basically agreed with the accessibility people at Wikipedia:Help_desk#Unicode_superscript_and_subscript_characters_.2B_non_breaking_space. Dmcq (talk) 02:32, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Beletra Almanako

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A tag has been placed on Beletra Almanako, 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, product, group, service or person 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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Hi, thanks for message. Your article was nominated for speedy deletion by Randykitty, and I agreed with the nomination. I deleted your article because

• it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the publication, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the publisher claims or interviewing its management. You gave no third-party references at all, just a link to a sales site
• You gave no indication of how the publication is notable, such as verifiable sales, number of subscribers or staff employed. You only tell us where the company is based in the infobox. your article consists only of what you claim the publication contains and its philosophy
• The main reason it was nominated and deleted was that it was written in a promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic.

• Instead of references you gave a link to a sales site, clearly spamming
• Examples of unsourced claims presented as fact include: belles-lettres... are specially written for it... high-quality texts...
• sales pitches include You don’t subscribe for a period to the almanac in the same way as another periodical, but instead can order of [sic] buy issues... you can easily order, pay, buy and review it as any other book... and, best of all Buy Beletra Almanako on Google Play

• With regard to other Wikipedia pages, see other stuff. Your article is judged on its own merits, not on what else is out there
• If you have a conflict of interest when editing this article, you must declare it. If, after reading the information about notability linked above, you still believe that your magazine is notable enough for a Wikipedia article (and that there is significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources), you could, if you wish, post a request at Wikipedia:Requested articles for the article to be created. See also Wikipedia:Best practices for editors with conflicts of interest.
• If you work for the magazine or otherwise have a financial stake in promoting this topic, that is paid advocacy, a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization, directly or indirectly, to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not.

  Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

  Regardless, if you are paid directly or indirectly by the company you are writing about, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Aleks Andre. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Aleks Andre|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message.

I could restore a redacted version of the deleted text to a sandbox for further work, but you must state any COI first. Note that there is no point recreating unless you can provide independent sources as linked above that show notability, otherwise it will be nominated for deletion as non-notable, even if it isn't such blatant spamming as the previous version Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:01, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Your response was a model of politeness, thank you. Each Wikipedia sets its own rules, and in my experience en-wiki is much more stringent than most, both in the nature of our rules (especially regarding copyright). My offer to sandbox the deleted text still stands, but I think unless we can see a way forward with references the article may struggle to survive. I'll see what I can think of in the morning Jimfbleak - talk to me? 19:03, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

I did a Google search, including specifically books, and I couldn't see anything that was obviously suitable as a ref, although I may have missed something because most of the linked pages wee in Esperanto, but we really do need at least one ref that isn't social media, a blog or the publications own page. Some idea of subscription numbers would help notability. I'm not trying to give you a hard time, and you could try republishing a cleaned-up version without refs and see what happens. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:39, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I think that those are as good as we are going to get. Do you want me to sandbox the deleted text for you? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:22, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

I've just noted your comment of 20th. Effectively you have had an experienced editor look at it, which is what happens at a draft review, so I'd be inclined to move (don't cut and paste!) back to article space Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:23, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Beletra Almanako (March 28)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SwisterTwister was:  The comment they left was: 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 when they have been resolved.

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SwisterTwister talk 03:41, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Beletra Almanako (April 3)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by LaMona was:  The comment they left was: 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 when they have been resolved.

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LaMona (talk) 22:11, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Hello! Aleks Andre, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that 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! LaMona (talk) 22:11, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Beletra Almanako (April 15)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Tvx1 was:  The comment the reviewer left was: 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 when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Beletra Almanako and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Tvx1 21:13, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

File:Esperanto magazine november 2015.jpg listed for discussion

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Your draft article, Draft:Beletra Almanako

Hello, Aleks Andre. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Beletra Almanako".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. TopCipher (talk) 15:10, 30 March 2017 (UTC)

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