User talk:Iranwatcher

December 2019

One of your recent additions has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Nick-D (talk) 03:00, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have reverted your edit to the National Iranian American Council article as it was basically copied and pasted from the news website. Nick-D (talk) 03:01, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'll rewrite it then in my own words. Would it be OK to keep the sentences inside quotation marks (") unchanged? Iranwatcher (talk) 03:30, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Only if quoting it verbatim is the best option for helping readers to understand this issue. Nick-D (talk) 08:35, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Mahnaz Shirali moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Mahnaz Shirali, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Celestina007 (talk) 18:25, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Celestina007 thank you very much for moving it to draft page, I am working on this article.Iranwatcher (talk) 18:39, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Iranwatcher, no problems. I’m very particular about biographical articles without any citations after adding at least three reliable sources to the article you are free to move it back to mainspace.Celestina007 (talk) 18:48, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Celestina007 I think the content are publishable now. Please let me know if there is further edits are needed to publish the content.(talk) 21:17, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Draft:Mahnaz Shirali (March 22)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Umakant Bhalerao were:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Fails WP:GNG, requires significant coverage in multiple independent reliable secondary sources. These third parties must be verifiable and reliable sources. It needs to be more than just passing mentions and it has to be independent parties. We need sources about her NOT by her

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October 2022

Hello, I'm WikiHannibal. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Hamed Esmaeilion, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. WikiHannibal (talk) 06:06, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Iranwatcher. Thank you for your work on Shiva Amini. User:SunDawn, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

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✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 22:38, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@SunDawn: Thank you very much sir! Iranwatcher (talk) 23:37, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hamed Esmaeilion

Hi, @Iranwatcher! I proposed your article Hamed Esmaeilion for the project Translation of the week, you may vote for the proposal here. This way, the article will be translated into several languages. Thank you beforehand! --Brunnaiz (talk) 15:16, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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