User talk:Aeon Sentinel
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Once again, welcome. sksatsuma 18:48, 6 August 2025 (UTC)
Jeftimije, Metropolitan of Zeta moved to draftspace
[edit]Thanks for your contributions to Jeftimije, Metropolitan of Zeta. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and only links to foreign-language, badly formatted sources - could an average English reader verify the reliability of these without basic author information, ISBNs?. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.
Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Joy (talk) 05:15, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you very much for your feedback.
- However, I want to discuss this. Before accepting the draft, I checked all the sources in translation, concluding that they are indeed notable. And I believe there is no problem in them being not in English per WP:NOENG.
- As for your comment regarding formatting, please see WP:AFCSTANDARDS paragraph 4.
- Best, Aeon Sentinel (talk) 12:11, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
- The reason I'm perhaps not as lenient as those standards is because this is the WP:ARBMAC topic area, and we've already had a long history of problems with bad sourcing, and we still have at least a few user accounts topic-banned or blocked while they were ostensibly linking to reasonable sources found e.g. at Google Books, but they couldn't coherently cite them, and it turned out that they promoted various tendentious or fringe theories.
- If you don't actually fix these citations while reviewing, or tag them, it's hard to tell that we're in the clear. I know this may seem like an imposition, and a waste of volunteer time, but I don't like the risk of having to waste so much more volunteer time later, all the while having readers misguided by bad articles, either. --Joy (talk) 09:36, 14 August 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you very much for your clarification! I will look closer at the article's citations, maybe even fix it by myself when I have time. Only after these adjustments have been made I will accept the draft, if the plan is okay by you.
- Have a pleasant day!
- Best, Aeon Sentinel (talk) 16:52, 14 August 2025 (UTC)
Karl Scheydt moved to draftspace
[edit]Thanks for your contributions to Karl Scheydt. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.
Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Onel5969 TT me 16:15, 13 September 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for your comments! I will be sure to try and improve the article.
- Best regards,
- Aeon Sentinel (talk) 00:21, 15 September 2025 (UTC)
AfC reviewing suggestions
[edit]Hi Aeon Sentinel! Thanks for your AfC reviews. I noticed a couple of your reviews while looking at pages you had previously declined, and just wanted to make some suggestions for your future reviews. It seems like you are often directing people to rewrite their pages in accordance with WP:MOS, which in my view isn't the most useful advice to be giving to new users. For instance, when you declined Draft:Giselle Anne with the custom reason "Please rewrite the draft inline with WP:MOS guidelines", that doesn't tell the creator anything about which specific part of the tens of thousands of words in the MOS pages they need to address in order to have their draft accepted. Compliance with the MOS is also not a requirement to accept a draft at AfC — the only thing that you need to be checking is that the draft has a greater than 50% chance of surviving AfD, and that there are not any glaring content problems or policy violations (e.g. copyright or BLP violations). I was also quite confused by your decline of Draft:Rudolf Prietze, which seems to drop a lot of different links to policies and guidelines — many of which, such as WP:LEAD, are not really relevant here — without really explaining what the specific issues with the draft are.
My advice would be to stick to using the regular decline templates and try not to substitute in a custom decline reason unless there is something particularly unusual or unique about a draft. When you decline a draft there should also typically be a notability-related decline reason attached. Unless the issues with something like tone are absolutely egregious, I would very rarely decline a draft without notability being one of the reasons why. Hopefully that makes sense, and thanks again for your AfC reviewing! Just let me know if you have any questions. MCE89 (talk) 07:49, 4 November 2025 (UTC)