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Toby Lerner Ansin

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A tag has been placed on Toby Lerner Ansin requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Toby Lerner Ansin

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A tag has been placed on Toby Lerner Ansin requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Moving forward

The article has been moved to Draft:Toby Lerner Ansin to allow you to work on the article. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 21:30, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Toby Lerner Ansin has been accepted

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Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:04, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References

Hi, I saw when you changed a reference for a newspaper to put in a url you took out the text information about it. It is best to keep that text: (Sun Sentinel, WSVN-TV's Ed Ansin keeps blazing a trail, even after 50 years, Jan 8, 2013) as well as having the URL. This is because in future the URL can change, but with the other info we can find it again. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 03:12, 27 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your suggestion and guidance. I am going to restore the text. What do I do about articles that are in archives that are not accessible to anyone without a paying account? I have articles that ran in 1986 and 1987 in The Miami Herald and the St.Petersberg Times that are in archives that sell print copies of the article but do not have a URL, Very frustrating. Sanford1504 (talk) 04:11, 27 July 2015 (UTC)Sanford1504[reply]

Those sort of references are OK. Give us the information you have, newspaper, date, edition, page number, title/headline, author, name of archive that has a copy. I use the cite news drop down form to fill in. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 07:56, 27 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. That's immensely helpful. Sanford1504 (talk) 10:18, 27 July 2015 (UTC)Sanford1504[reply]

Start class

Personally I do not worry much about the rating. Ratings like "Start" are given by editors as part of a project. The most relevant is Wikipedia:WikiProject Dance. But there could also be a locality based project interested. You can see how they assess articles here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Dance/Assessment. To get to the next grade "C" class here is the quote from that page:

The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains much irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup.

The article cites at least one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements; need editing for clarity, balance, or flow; or contain policy violations, such as bias or original research. Articles on fictional topics are likely to be marked as C-Class if they are written from an in-universe perspective. It is most likely that C-Class articles have a reasonable encyclopedic style.

The other projects would have similar standards. For me to give a C class I would like to see a screen-full of text with references. The sections should make it clear that several important aspects of the topic are covered. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 23:09, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Erroneous Citation

Wishing to accurately confirm his previous title at the NY City Ballet (soloist? principal?) of the founding artistic director of the Miami City Ballet, Edward Villella, I came across a citation of an article on his Wikipedia page in which a New York Times reporter reports an erroneous date for the founding of the ballet company and an erroneous claim that Mr. Villella was the founder, instead of the founding artistic director. How does one go about correcting this kind of error?Sanford1504 (talk) 02:58, 5 August 2015 (UTC)sanford1504[reply]

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==  Thanks for bringing disambiguation to my attention ==

I corrected the ambiguous reference to Body and Soul. Thank you. I made the error because I assumed that the lead-in to the category clarified the medium I was referring to.