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Happy editing! Jonathan A Jones (talk) 10:21, 16 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wanjuhi Njoroge moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Wanjuhi Njoroge, is not suitable 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. DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:18, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The reason I've moved this article to the draft space is that it is almost entirely unsupported by references, which is a problem for any article, and especially so for articles on living people (see WP:BLP). Also, the two sources cited are primary, and as such not enough to establish the subject's notability (see WP:N). There are also other issues, as highlighted by the maintenance tags placed on top of the article. Please address all these concerns before attempting to republish. Thank you --DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:22, 23 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Wanjuhi Njoroge

Hello! It's great to see you've made some headway with the page Draft:Wanjuhi Njoroge - I'm an editor with WikiProject Women in Red - please come and say hello and ask for help on our talk page! I've made some edits to the article, I hope you can see how they improve it. Some of them include:

Using Njoroge rather than her first name - it makes the article more formal.
Checking references - if you're saying in the article that Njoroge has done a thing, then the article needs to have her name mentioned in relation to that thing.
If in doubt, put your reference at the end of every sentence - it's really easy to get muddled with lots of sources!
Bullet point awards - make it easy for the reader!

Hope these points help - feel free to ask for help. Happy editing Lajmmoore (talk) 08:39, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, CuriosityScribe. Now that the article has been adequately enhanced, I've moved it to mainspace. I hope this is the first of many more biographies of women. If so, you might like to become a member of wp:Women in Red where we will be able to help you along. You can register in the box at the top of the page. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 12:32, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Sheila McGuffie (nee Anscombe)

Hi CuriosityScribe - how are you? I saw you'd made a great start on Draft:Sheila McGuffie (nee Anscombe) - by accident, I think you'd moved it to the wrong space - when you want articles to go "live" you move them to the "article" space :) - I hope you don't mind, but I've moved it to the Draft space, as I think it needs a little more shaping?

The article needs like a leading line XXX (born ...) was - in that bit you're explainign what is notable about the person, for people who won't read the rest of the article!
There's some easy things to include like saying X was born in ... & then add the reference, before you get on to education. Similarly for when she died.
Are there other references beyond the Women's Engineer? Has WES done a blog about her? I did a very quick search and spotted this and this - the more reliable sources an article has, the more it will help the reader (& demonstrate notability of the person).

I'm really happy to help you along the way - why don't you message my talk page when you've done a bit of tinkering and we can make it live? It's so great to see the work you're doing - keep it up! Lajmmoore (talk) 09:04, 2 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

De-orphaning

Now your articles are live, it's a good idea to edit other articles with a sentence that links back to the ones you've started e.g for Mcguffie, add links that return to her on the pages for Beatrice Shilling or her university, for example! Happy editing! Lajmmoore (talk) 09:11, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Lajmmoore - thanks again for a useful tip. I'm collecting all your tips to pass on to my volunteer colleagues at the Sciecnce Museum as we're all newbies! CuriosityScribe (talk) 09:55, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

CuriosityScribe - if they'd like to say Hi on my talk page, I'm really happy to support and help out, either with specific questions or just general morale :) Lajmmoore (talk) 10:30, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ella Mary Collins Leedsproject2019 (talk) 08:05, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

@CuriosityScribe: Hi Susan

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, CuriosityScribe

Thank you for creating Gwendolen Sergant.

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Dersingham

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thank you for your comment Arjayay - I see now that I did this thw rong way round! The subject qualifies for a separate entry so I will add a page for him and then add back into the page for Dersingham. CuriosityScribe (talk) 15:53, 29 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Howard Talbot

Hello. I see that you made some changes to this article, but you did not cite your sources. I have reverted, for now, to the information in the sources cited. If you have better sources, please cite them. Per WP:V, you need to cite your source for each fact that you change. Thank you! -- Ssilvers (talk) 06:27, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reminding me about citations. I have now uploaded 2 images - a Christening spoon and family Bible records to support the new information CuriosityScribe (talk) 11:15, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. They do verify the birth name. I moved the images to the new Gallery section, as they were pinching the text and references. It would be still better if you could find a published source that explicitly states/explains when Talbot adopted his stage name and more about his mother (maiden name, etc.), but I think this will work. -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:35, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you - that looks better. I will keep looking! CuriosityScribe (talk) 17:49, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Dorothy Howard Talbot

Hello. You refer to the subject as a producer, but do the sources use the term in the old fashioned sense of a theatre director who stages the shows, or do they mean it in the modern sense of a person who arranges financing and makes arrangements for the use of the theatre, hires the director and music director, etc.? I suspect that everywhere it says "producer" it should say director as this indicates. All the best! -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:18, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your useful comments and edits, and for the link to the book published on Google Books which I was unaware of. CuriosityScribe (talk) 22:08, 12 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for adding the article on Dorothy. As I had worked on her husband's article, I was fascinated by this one. I think there is more to say about her. It is interesting that, at the end of her career, she began to direct straight plays and serious opera for Cooperative Arts Centre Nottingham. At the other end of her career, it appears that her acting career was only two years, unless she began acting professionally before attending RADA. Did she meet her husband by performing in one of his shows? Best regards, -- Ssilvers (talk) 02:38, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Concerned that the photograph of Dorothy, which you are claiming as your own work, is not appropriately licensed, unless you (@CuriosityScribe) are the original photographer. (Scanning the photo doesn't count.) If it is the case that there are no other freely available photographs of Dorothy, you can claim "Fair Use" (the directions for that are built into the tool if you select "Non-free"). Or, there may be other appropriate justifications. (It's just that "own work" seems like a red flag.) Otherwise looking like a nice article. Cielquiparle (talk) 11:01, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good catch! Depending on when the photographer died, and if the image was taken before 1928, it can probably get a {{PD-two|PD-old-auto|deathyear=____|PD-US-expired}} tag. If it was taken in 1928 or later, it will need a "Fair Use" claim. -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:53, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both for your comments. I took the photograph of the original photograph, which I understood means that I own the copyright, but from your comments this seems not to be the case. The photograph was probably taken before 1928 but I can't be sure. I have tried to find out how to change the image to 'Fair Use' but have been unsuccessful so far. Any guidance welcome! CuriosityScribe (talk) 14:15, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Where did you find the image? -- Ssilvers (talk) 16:13, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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