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Newfoundland banking crash of 1894

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Not seeing a problem

Hi Tom. Thanks for creating this article. I'm not seeing the obvious "copyvio" problem on Newfoundland banking crash of 1894 and am trying to get a sense of what needs to be done to fix and retain it. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:01, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, okay. I see that it's now been changed to a "close paraphrase" tag, which means that it's in no danger of being immediately deleted. Tom, if you wish, please do continue to add other reliable sources (try a Google Book search?) and revise the article where it may paraphrase that Memorial University website a bit too closely. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:04, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually, Tom, an article on this topic has existed for years as Black Monday (1894). I've redirected and merged your article into this pre-existing one. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:27, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Sharon Bala (January 8)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Bearcat was:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

The comment the reviewer left was:

I do want to be able to approve this -- in addition to her literary award wins, The Boat People made the preliminary Canada Reads longlist this morning -- but this isn't the sourcing that gets it through.
A writer's article has to be referenced to media coverage about her and her writing, but virtually all of the references here are primary or unreliable sources that cannot assist notability: pieces of her own writing, her own "staff" profiles on the websites of her own publisher and magazines she's written for, GoodReads, Blogspot blogs, the self-published websites of the awards.
The Prism interview and the Overcast piece are acceptable, but not enough in and of themselves: Q&A interviews in which the subject is talking about herself can be used for some supplementary verification of facts, but cannot be used as evidence of notability, and The Overcast isn't really about her as such, but just mentions her name in lists of writers. So they can be left in the article, but they aren't enough in and of themselves to get this draft approved.
So this can keep "Story is a Partnership" and "Winners announced for the 2015 NL Arts & Letters Awards", but the rest of the sources need to be replaced with media coverage. (I already know of articles in both the Toronto Star and Quill & Quire that would cover off the Journey Prize win and the publication of The Boat People, and that's without even having looked all that hard yet.) Fix the sources, and then let me know and I'll revisit it and put it through if they've been improved enough.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Sharon Bala (January 13)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Lacypaperclip was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage (not just mere mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of people, the golden rule and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners and Help:Introduction to referencing/1), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

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Lacypaperclip (talk) 00:15, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sharon Bala

Just to let you know, given that The Boat People made the full Canada Reads shortlist this morning I replaced the sources that were still problematic and moved the article into mainspace. Bearcat (talk) 21:43, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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