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Your submission at Articles for creation: David J. Zimmerman (August 21)

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

Choose the best of his works, and use a catalogue for the rest as a reference to them. His works themselves are almost never useful as references.

Let me try to explain. If they manufactured vacuum cleaners, the cleaners would be their work. A vacuum cleaner could not be a reference for them, simply because it is the product they make. So it is with research, writings, etc. However, a review of their work by others tends to be a review of them and their methods, so is a reference.

This means a list of his works is interesting, but almost always irrelevant. Does (eg) Worldcat hold a directory of his works? With exhibitions, choose the big guns.

References to self saved pdfs are useless. Instead cite the place they appeared using one of the {{Cite}} family of templates

At the moment I can't see the notability form the things that do not enhance a Wikipedia article.

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Fiddle Faddle 07:44, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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August 2020

Your addition to Draft:David J. Zimmerman 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. https://copyvios.toolforge.org/?lang=en&project=wikipedia&oldid=974408188&action=compare&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.davidzimmerman.com%2Fabout ThatMontrealIP (talk) 21:20, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Please help me with... Hi. I'm a new editor and am writing Draft:David J. Zimmerman. I have two questions. What are the suggested ways to citation a persons date and place of birth? And, how can I citation a college degree if nothing is found online, and the institution is closed? Thanks VictorMooney (talk) 22:26, 25 August 2020 (UTC) VictorMooney (talk) 22:26, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This is an example of why Wikipedia is so entirely dependent on published reportage about a person. When we humble Wikipedia editors go hunting around for references to support assertions that are not easily found in the published sources, we go beyond what we should be doing. If you don't have a reliable published source for a fact (particular when dealing with biographies of living people), simply leave that information out. The party line is that if nobody reported that fact, it is not noteworthy. Most of the time, the article can't be considered damaged by such missing information, instead more damage would be done by including such unsourced information. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 05:06, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: David J. Zimmerman has been accepted

David J. Zimmerman, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Hoary (talk) 23:11, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It seems that he's much more commonly referred to as plain David Zimmerman. The article title David Zimmerman was previously used for a somewhat obscure writer; I've turned it into a disambiguation page, and your man is written up at David Zimmerman (photographer). -- Hoary (talk) 23:36, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Hoary: That's wonderful news! Thank you.VictorMooney (talk) 23:51, 25 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! Tribe of Tiger ^{Let's Purrfect!} 03:02, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Tribe of Tiger: Thank you! And thanks for your input. VictorMooney (talk) 15:31, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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