User talk:Shuttle256

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Thanks for creating a draft!

Hello Shuttle256, welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Liance, and I've been editing here for a while. I wanted to thank you for submitting Draft:Burton Machine Rifle to WikiProject Articles for Creation and helping to grow the encyclopedia! We appreciate your contributions and hope you stick around. I can see you've already started writing draft articles, so here are a few more resources that might be helpful:

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Burton Machine Rifle has been accepted

Burton Machine Rifle, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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Thanks again, and happy editing!

🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 15:17, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Referencing obscure firearms

This will always be the challenge. Let me explain what is needed:

We require references from significant coverage about the topic of the article, and independent of it, in multiple secondary sources which are WP:RS please. See WP:42. Please also see WP:PRIMARY which details the limited permitted usage of primary sources and WP:SELFPUB which has clear limitations on self published sources. Providing sufficient references, ideally one per fact referred to, that meet these tough criteria is likely to allow an article to remain or a draft to be accepted. Lack of them or an inability to find them is likely to mean that the topic is not suitable for inclusion, certainly today.

Burton Machine Rifle suffers from primary sources. However, I made the judgement that there were sufficient other sources to give it a better than 50% chance of surviving an immediate deletion process.

Our role as reviewers is to seek to ensure that an article will not immediately be subject to one of our deletion processes when it is accepted. That is why we push it back to the author on occasion by declining it. We want to accept articles.

No precedent is ever set by any article for any other. If it were we would have a brutally fast descent into idiocracy. That said, I feel you may use the referencing model accepted in BML as a guide, though do not ever argue "but the Burton Machine Rifle article" in defence of another article or draft, since that argument fails by definition.

I like trout.

Good luck with your quest to add obscure firearms to Wikipedia. It's a deserving topic. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 08:01, 18 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]