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Draftifying my own article, not ready

Draftifying my own article, not ready

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Hello JSFarman,

Backlog

The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to WaddlesJP13 who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day.

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Hello JSFarman,

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Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

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Hi! Thanks for participating in the Articles for Creation June Backlog Drive! We've done amazing work so far, dropping the backlog by more than 2000 drafts already. We have around 2300 drafts outstanding, and we need your help to get that down to zero in 5 days. We can do this, but we need all hands on deck to make this happen. A list of the pending drafts can be found at WP:AFCSORT, where you can select submissions in your area of interest. Thank you so much for your work so far, and happy reviewing! – DreamRimmer ■ 01:32, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		This award is given in recognition to JSFarman for accumulating at least 25 points during the May 2025 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 17,000+ articles reviewed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:40, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JSFarman,

thank you for your feedback on the artcile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:A%C3%AFssa_Aggoune

After working with a senior editor in the help desk/ live help we did more research with the senior editor and we found the sources which fits the notability requirement. We also removed the broken links and added more links showing coverage of the cases aggoune has been involved in and journalists confirming who he is and what he does and more links as below:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/article-rental-crisis-puts-tenants-under-stress/

https://vancouversun.com/news/vancouver-tenants-win-legal-battle-over-problems-in-west-end-building

https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/david-goliath-rtb-tenants-win-vs-larco-regency-park/

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/vancouver-apartment-air-quality-lawsuit

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/article-tenants-feel-squeeze-of-special-upgrades-levy/

TV coverages

https://globalnews.ca/news/10725436/bc-tenants-sue-hvac/

Interviews given as the media liaison for the Union

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-rental-housing-city-owned-land-1.7452428

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tenant-advocates-call-for-increased-fire-code-enforcement-1.6994757

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2001008/location-vancouver-prix-arnaque-fraude

Please note that the blog article is from City Hall watch, a very well known government Watchdog in Vancouver and the senior editor confirmed this would be acceptable because that writer is established and reliably considered an expert. The other sources are from very established news outlets, including the Globe and mail, the Vancouver Sun, CBC, Radio Canada, CTNews, Global TV etc...

thank you again for helping with this article! Aïssa 93 390 (talk) 19:28, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JSFarman,

Can you please help me with this ?

thank you very much! Aïssa 93 390 (talk) 23:36, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Aïssa 93 390. Sorry for the delayed response; I meant to take a look when you left your last message. I have been very distracted. I think he will meet notability (although I disagree on City Hall Watch). I'll leave it for another reviewer to assess. JSFarman (talk) 08:45, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I’m unsure if you saw, but a response was made for your unprotection request on Gillie da Kid, saying "Let's wait till the title is accepted". And being a AFC reviewer with hip-hop origins of editing, I assume you’re going to be its reviewer. Roast (talk) 02:41, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't see it! I was about to accept it when I discovered the title was salted. I will clarify my request. (Should I have phrased it differently?) Thank you! JSFarman (talk) 03:29, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Guerreroast: User: NeoGaze declined it while I was sleeping. There is ample press -- but I added another ref from the Philadelphia Inquirer. There are many more refs that can be added (offline and urban pubs that are not digitized).I resubmitted on your behalf but the title is still salted. Leaving a note on the talk page of the draft as well. JSFarman (talk) 15:10, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I also added refs from Sports Illustrated and Vibe. I think you should add info about his daughter as she is prominent in some of the coverage. JSFarman (talk) 15:56, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@NeoGaze @JSFarman Firstly, you didn’t actually submit it (I did so). It also wrote my argument for its inclusion in an invisible comment on the article. Roast (talk) 17:48, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Guerreroast:, just for clarity's sake (and because it's in the article history), I resubmitted the draft and attempted once again to accept it but reverted myself when I discovered the title was still salted.JSFarman (talk) 18:33, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Is there an issue with my review of the draft? I don't get what is going on over here. NeoGaze (talk) 20:00, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi NeoGaze. I was going to accept it but couldn't because the title was salted. I don't have an issue with your decline; we just interpret notabilty differently. I felt the article should have been accepted with the references that were included when it was declined, particularly given that our role at AfC is to accept articles based on the low bar criteria of surviving AfD. JSFarman (talk) 20:46, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough, I was unsure aboud declining it actually, as I found it to be a borderline case. NeoGaze (talk) 21:12, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Either way, good to meet you, NeoGaze! I am short on expertise in classical music; I hope it will be OK if I hit you up for insight every now and then. JSFarman (talk) 21:56, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pleasure's mine, feel free to contact me whenever you want! :) NeoGaze (talk) 22:06, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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They unsalted Gillie da Kid, and you’re open to accept the draft whenever possible. Roast (talk) 01:51, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It wasn't a they, it was an admin I asked. But. Why are you putting articles through AfC? You are not only an experienced editor, you have autopatrol. JSFarman (talk) 02:21, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:31, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You removed a critical reference to financial reports I added in Watch Duty (without it, there is no citation for the figures which remained on the page). I'm sure this was not intentional, but if it was, I would appreciate understanding the guidelines which informed your decision. OceanLoop (talk) 15:33, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, I considered a new article for the non-profit to disambiguate the organization from the application, but there just was not enough content to justify starting it. OceanLoop (talk) 15:38, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good morning, OceanLoop. It was way too late when I edited the article; I did not intend to remove the citation to support the financial info in the infobox. My edit was based on the prominence of Sherwood Foresty Services relative to the coverage of Watch Duty. I accidentally deleted the reference when I incorporated the info (less the financials) about Sherwood Forest Services into the first paragraph.

I see that you have specific expertise in this area. My only expertise is that I live in Los Angeles and depended on Watch Duty during the wildfires. I'm copying this discussion to the article's talk page, where other editors can weigh in, but at the very least I think we should include that Sherwood Foresty Services is run by John Mills, who founded Watch Duty. (I was going to point towards other WP articles about non-profits, but I ended up just fixing citations and its 90 minutes later. The honey trap of Wikipedia strikes again.) Thanks for your message. JSFarman (talk) 17:23, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Julie, While I appreciate you taking the time to edit my Wikipedia page, the information you've added is not accurate. The outlets you've cited only printed partial truths in an obvious attempt to gain traffic, likes, and clicks. They purposely left out important details of this story, even after my representatives pointed out their specific errors and omissions. This has done great harm to me and my family.

The truth of what occurred can be found here: https://www.laweekly.com/j-d-barkers-latest-erotic-thriller-rattles-tiktok/

It was also covered in detail here: https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/news/insights-news-wire/award-winning-author-j-d-barker-discusses-1265759285.html

This wasn't some malicious act. A member of my staff made an honest mistake. As the public face of my business, I took the hit. That's it.

By adding this section based solely on initial reporting rather than creating a comprehensive account based on all available sources, you are inadvertently perpetuating a harmful false narrative. Please correct the text to include all available information or remove the section altogether. Jdbarkerwriter (talk) 18:33, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jdbarkerwriter. Thanks for the message. The content was restored by other editors after it was twice deleted by an editor who used inaccurate edit summaries. My edit was related to the format. I am copying your message to the talk page of the article so others can weigh in.

Are there other sources? Digital Journal is a press release, and the LA Weekly is an interview. Wikipedia relies on independent sources. Still, if you can condense the explanation in the LA Weekly to a couple of sentences (which I could not do), I am open to adding it to the article. ("In an interview with the LA Weekly, Barker said...") JSFarman (talk) 19:06, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This summary previously appeared and is more accurate. 16 referred to the LA Weekly story - I'm not sure if that number still lines up with the reference articles currently on the page:

In January 2024, a number of book reviewers on TikTok and Instagram received an email from Best of BookTok—a PR firm focusing on social media influencers, which Barker co-founded—offering to pay reviewers to create racy content to promote his new book.[16] After book reviewers objected and posted publicly about the content of the email, Barker sent the first of two public apologies.[17] In an exclusive interview with LA Weekly, Barker later revealed the email was inadvertently sent to the wrong mailing list due to an error by a member of his staff.[16] Jdbarkerwriter (talk) 11:42, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jdbarkerwriter. I have copied your message to the article talk page. Thanks! JSFarman (talk) 03:24, 13 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]