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Thank you for helping fix my edit on WP:ANI. I thought I hit "Reply" so it should have worked out correctly, but it didn't. I'll play around in the sandbox to see how replys work with bullet points. Closhund /talk/ 06:03, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Closhund: You're welcome. Not your fault though, because someone else put their own comment in between disrupting the original order. Another editor also did this, so you may want to check if everything still looks good from your vantage point. Left guide (talk) 06:08, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this is the intended indentation. Thank you. Closhund /talk/ 06:16, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Closhund: No problem, glad to be of help. Cheers, Left guide (talk) 06:17, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Statue of Dirk Nowitzki

On 22 September 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Statue of Dirk Nowitzki, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that plans for a statue of Dirk Nowitzki to have three basketballs were scrapped? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Statue of Dirk Nowitzki. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Statue of Dirk Nowitzki), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Kusma (talk) 00:03, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats. —Bagumba (talk) 02:21, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nice work on this, LG! Congratulations! Netherzone (talk) 14:37, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Darnell Edge college career

Hello. I see that all of the college section except for the senior season has been wrongfully deleted. These were not added to solely “promote the subject” but to summarize his career in each season. I cited and referenced multiple sources and feel these have been wrongfully deleted. I would like to put these back up because not only did it take time to write, but these were also properly sourced and cited from publicly accessible sources. InfinitiBowie97 (talk) 04:56, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@InfinitiBowie97: Hello, Wikipedia articles are generally supposed to be based on sources that are independent of the subject, so if you would like to restore the material, please provide independent sources to cite on the article talk page at Talk:Darnell Edge and use {{edit COI}} for other neutral editors to review and possibly implement your requested edits. Thank you. Left guide (talk) 05:14, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi thanks for the explanation. I’m afraid I don’t understand. The sources I provided are from Darnell’s stats and various digital newspaper articles. Are these not independent sources? I’ve also cited various online news articles throughout the article, similar to other wiki pages. InfinitiBowie97 (talk) 05:19, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@InfinitiBowie97: The material I removed in this edit was cited entirely to his school's website, which is not an independent source. It's not really appropriate for an encyclopedia article to be written like that. If reliable sources independent of his school didn't take notice of his freshman, sophomore, and junior seasons, then the encyclopedia shouldn't take notice of them either. One possible suggestion would be to find local reliable newspapers covering him, and use those to build the article. Further discussion should continue at the article talk page. Left guide (talk) 05:30, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I can understand how the sources from his schools website do not count. However, many of the sources that I cited were in fact from newspaper articles, such as within his junior season included an article from the New York Times would you omitted. So I believe those should still suffice. But I will, go through the instructions he provided, but I fear that most of the citations I will provide on the talk page are still going to be the same citations from at least the newspaper articles that I already provided that you omitted. InfinitiBowie97 (talk) 05:36, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@InfinitiBowie97: I did make a mistake in removing one source (junior season free throw award) because it was incorrectly labeled as "FDU Knights" even though it now appears to be an independent source upon closer examination. Sorry about that, I'll restore that one momentarily. Left guide (talk) 05:42, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate it :) I will work to rectify the other sources because I do hate to see hard work go down the drain, but I do understand further the guidelines. InfinitiBowie97 (talk) 05:44, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Interested in New Page Patrol?

Hello Left guide!

New Pages Patrol is currently struggling to keep up with the influx of new articles needing review. We could use a few extra hands to help.
We think that someone with your activity and experience is very likely to meet the guidelines for granting, or could meet the guidelines for granting soon if you build a track record in one of these three areas: article creation, articles for deletion, or articles for creation reviewing. These demonstrate proficiency with notability, and are what admins typically evaluate when deciding to grant this permission.
Kindly read the tutorial before making your decision, and feel free to post on the project talk page with questions.
If patrolling new pages is something you'd be willing to help out with, please make sure you have some experience with new article creation, articles for deletion, or articles for creation reviewing, then consider applying here.

Thank you for your consideration. We hope to see you around!

I noticed at AfD that you have a pretty good grasp of the rules and how sources work. If NPP is something you would be interested we could use a hand with the backlog. I did NPP School and I learned a lot and it made a much better editor. If you have any questions feel free to ping me. Dr vulpes (Talk) 04:36, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dr vulpes: Well thank you for the offer. Guess I can say I'm flattered since the only other time I was offered a special permission, it was from an automated message sender account haha. Tbh, I don't really find much interest in checking the new pages feed or reviewing other people's drafts though, so I'm not really sure how that would be a useful tool. Thoughts? Left guide (talk) 00:39, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]