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Administrators' newsletter – June 2025

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Question from KawigglesOfTheKaWiki (03:29, 25 June 2025)

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Hi, I'm new to all this. I started maintaining a journal in wiki format, and figured I could also direct some of those efforts toward collective human knowledge. I've begun noticing that many articles use inadequate citations, or, when considering more complex topics, fail to properly explain the ideas as originally presented by primary source authors. Two questions to start off, how necessary is it to learn the Wikipedia markup language, and in what manner should reference and citations be used? Should I have a citation for every sentence, or if ideas are contained across multiple sentences, can I use one citation for all of them? Also, how should one cite a sentence or section which borrows ideas from multiple sources? --KawigglesOfTheKaWiki (talk) 03:29, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @KawigglesOfTheKaWiki! Glad to have you contributing, and good questions! Regarding the markup language, most experienced editors prefer to use it, since it allows you to do some more advanced tasks, but it definitely isn't necessary to use it to get started! You can just edit using the VisualEditor, which works like a word processor and doesn't require any markup knowledge.
Regarding citations, the best practice (which you'll find at most featured-quality articles) is to place them so that it's as clear as possible where each piece of information is coming from (see also here). If you're editing a more niche article that doesn't have a lot of citations currently, that might mean adding a paragraph and just putting the citation for it at the end of that paragraph. However, if there's a paragraph with several citations already, I'd put it after every sentence. You can always reuse citations (don't put in the same info twice).
If a sentence has information from multiple sources, you have two options. You can either place the citations directly after the info being cited from each source, or (if that's not possible because it's the same info, or mixed up rather than one after another) you can just put both at the end of the sentence.
Hope all that helps, and let me know if you have any other questions! Cheers, Sdkb talk 17:34, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nancy Raabe page

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There are some new proposed edits on the Talk page for Nancy Rabe, thank you DaneCoGuy (talk) 13:00, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @DaneCoGuy! As I mentioned, I've added a tag to the request, so it will be reviewed by an editor in due time. Appreciate your patience! Cheers, Sdkb talk 17:23, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

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Thanks! Sdkb talk 05:16, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Add links?

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Hi, Would you be able to add links to the page Fred Bendheim, and remove the orphan status? Thanks 🙏 Bodhitree3 (talk) 17:17, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your suggestion. When you believe an article needs improvement, please feel free to change it. We encourage you to be bold in updating pages, because wikis like ours develop faster when everybody edits. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. You can always preview your edits before you publish them or test them out in your sandbox. If you need additional help, check out our getting started page or ask the friendly folks at the Teahouse. Sdkb talk 05:17, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from MiDBC (20:51, 1 July 2025)

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Hello, thank you very much for your support. I just edited an entry on Strigoi to correct the type of source. While information was described as published as a book, it was in fact an article in a magazine. The magazine has a Wikipedia entry, but I do not know how to link the name to the Wikipedia entry. I have provided a primary source (photos of the covers of the magazine, published in 1909) published on a credible website (Australian gutenberg project). --MiDBC (talk) 20:51, 1 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @MiDBC! My apologies for the delay in replying to you. Thanks for correcting the format of the source! I see you figured out how to link the name of the magazine (you can use [[link]] code). I've also improved the reference formatting a bit myself. Cheers, Sdkb talk 06:51, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reporter seeking your insights

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Sdkb,

I'm a reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education. I'm working on a story about Wikipedia's role in the perception of higher ed, and I'm told that you'd be a good person to speak to on the subject considering your work on the Pomona page (and others). Shoot me an email through my page and we can talk more.

Thanks! Theo TheoScheer (talk) 15:33, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – July 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2025).

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Question from Romulus x Remus (00:21, 8 July 2025)

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Hi! Thought I’d contribute what I can, I’m a teacher by trade with a bachelors and masters in history. I love the subject, with a focus on ancient Rome, high/late Middle Ages, and the American Civil War.

Going away on vacation in a couple of days, but when I come back I look forward to contributing. --Romulus x Remus (talk) 00:21, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Romulus x Remus, and welcome! Apologies for the delayed reply, and I hope you had a good vacation. I left a note on your talk page with some info and tips on contributing. Cheers, Sdkb talk 06:54, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alumni COI closure

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I'm sure you've already seen it, but nicely done on the closure request. Namelessposter (talk) 13:50, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Kjeverett79 (00:31, 10 July 2025)

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Hello! I am still trying to publish the Christine Huber page. I have updated the footnotes and added citations. It was still denied. Any other things I need to add to it? TIA --Kjeverett79 (talk) 00:31, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Kjeverett79, and apologies for the delayed reply! The reviewer, CanonNi, suggested you read Help:Referencing for beginners, which will help explain both how to find reliable sources and how to format them better (it looks like you've copied and pasted some identical ones rather than reusing a single reference you define). Having reliable sources is more key for demonstrating notability than having them nicely formatted, but in practical terms good formatting can make the reviewer's job easier. If you have further questions, feel free to ask me, but it might also give you more info to just ask CanonNi directly by mentioning their name (which will send them a ping). Cheers, Sdkb talk 07:00, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Nishacoach (05:04, 16 July 2025)

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Hello Sdkb, I am glad to have a mentor who can guide and assist me in my journey to editing Wikipedia, following the rules, and in a correct manner. I do have some questions. I am a paid contributor. Some changes and editing are required for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdard_India page. For example, I need to remove "Ansarullah Tabani" from the founder under the history section, as he was not the founder. He played an important role, but only "Hafiz Abdul Majeed" is the founder of Hamdard Laboratories. Similarly, I am also looking forward to updating/rewriting the History section. But before making any edits, I need your assistance on how I can smoothly update the page. I will be looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you, Nisha. --Nishacoach (talk) 05:04, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, @Nishacoach! Thanks for engaging here to try to improve the article and for disclosing your paid status. Please review our paid editing policies, one of which is that you should avoid editing the article directly, instead making requests at its talk page via the {{Edit request}} template. Cheers, Sdkb talk 07:05, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Sdkb. I want to and will follow the Wikipedia editing policies before making any future edits. I hope my journey here stays smooth and nothing from my end goes wrong. I will keep looking forward to your assistance. Thank you, Nisha. Nishacoach (talk) 18:42, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Luisa Moreno.jpg

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Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. --B-bot (talk) 02:19, 17 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Resolved; see this comment in the GAN.) Sdkb talk 14:43, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Accessibility editnotice

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I don't dare AfD it, not sure if that would make the world explode, but can we please get rid of Template:Accessibility editnotice? Unless people actually think that those who benefit from accessibility guidelines hate irony more than most? People read about what interests them; people who benefit from the accessibility guideline do not necessarily read accessibility-related articles all day. And the special editnotice suggests the default isn't already supposed to be inclusive. Also, the editnotice is useless to 99.99% of editors. One needs pretty nerdy skills to be able to make a real difference. Polygnotus (talk) 00:37, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You here? Polygnotus (talk) 13:02, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Polygnotus! Sorry I've been behind on my talk page replies; yes, I'm here! You've made a few different arguments here, but I don't find any of them really persuasive. Going through them:
  1. That people with accessibility limitations are not more likely than others to read accessibility articles. I don't have evidence for this, but I think common sense would suggest that yes, they are more likely to read these articles.
  2. the special editnotice suggests the default isn't already supposed to be inclusive. If it does suggest this, the solution would be to tweak the language, not to get rid of it. I don't think it really does suggest this. It's a nod to the reality that focusing 100% on accessibility 100% of the time isn't practical (I'd be hard-pressed to find someone who's included alt text on every single image they've ever added) but that it does matter more some times than others.
  3. the editnotice is useless to 99.99% of editors. One needs pretty nerdy skills to be able to make a real difference. I don't think particularly nerdy skills are needed to e.g. write alt text.
Hope this helps explain my perspective. Cheers, Sdkb talk 14:42, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
But how would this editnotice benefit anyone? I can't imagine a scenario in which it is useful. Polygnotus (talk) 15:10, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The most basic scenario is that it prompts someone adding an image to an accessibility-related article to add alt text when they otherwise would not have gone to the trouble. Sdkb talk 15:11, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It might also prompt someone who has developed an interest in accessibility-related articles to discover MOS:Accessibility and start applying its lessons to their work. Sdkb talk 15:13, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Which means they have to read a long text that is 99% irrelevant to them. That page is almost 8000 words! Polygnotus (talk) 15:22, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think common sense would suggest that yes, they are more likely to read these articles. Common sense is often wrong (e.g. the geocentric model), and what can be asserted without evidence...
the solution would be to tweak the language, not to get rid of it. No, the solution would be to show it on all articles, not just on articles that are vaguely related to accessibilty. Which is proof that it is pointless. If you post a warning everywhere you need to make it part of the interface.
write alt text That is an excellent example of pointless busywork; if a non-nerd does it. A nerd can write a program that shows an image and provides a textbox and a "Next" button. And use AI/filenames/metadata for suggestions. Polygnotus (talk) 15:16, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I know that many other websites do use AI to help write alt text, and that some Wikipedians have strongly opposed it in the past. It might be a topic to look up in the WT:Accessibility archives or raise there again. Cheers, Sdkb talk 15:29, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
So I should just XfD it? My common sense tells me that the Earth is stationary and that the Sun revolves around it. I can see it with my eyes. Where is the consensus for adding this template to all those pages? Polygnotus (talk) 15:31, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
To break it down: Readers tend to be more likely to read about topics that are relevant to them. For instance, someone who is visually impaired might want to read the visual impairment article for any number of reasons: potential treatments/cures, understanding the history, understanding the cultural associations, etc. Yes, they'd have personal knowledge of the topic, but not so much personal knowledge that they'd know everything in the article and have no use for it. Readers without visual impairment would not have these reasons for being interested in the article. Given all that, I would be very surprised if visual impairment did not have a higher percentage of visually impaired readers than your average Wikipedia article. Ditto for others. Sdkb talk 15:52, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
How is that relevant? If visually impaired people are statistically very likely to be interested in dinosaurs (or 70s muscle cars, or Brian Eno), should we add this editnotice to all articles about those topics? How would that help them? A WP:VAGUEWAVE in the direction of a page with 8k words that are a waste of time except for some nerds does not help anyone. You could, for example, have a popup show up when someone uses a header out of order (or adds an image without alt text or whatever), like those recent WMF experiments. That would give people who are actually in that situation the actual information they can actually use. This editnotice is just a bad idea. Polygnotus (talk) 16:00, 21 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from KINYANJUI.MK (04:17, 29 July 2025)

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Hello, how does this editing thing work on wikipedia? --KINYANJUI.MK (talk) 04:17, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @KINYANJUI.MK. See Help:Introduction for a friendly tutorial. Cheers, Sdkb talk 04:17, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Patrolling – Kocaeli Health and Technology University

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I hope you’re well. I’m reaching out regarding the article Kocaeli Health and Technology University, which I created under the username Newinwiki8.

The page has been published and indexed by Google for over 1 month and 20 days, but still remains unpatrolled. My account was registered 5 months and 20 days ago, with around 3 months initially spent waiting for indexation.

I’d be grateful if you could kindly review and patrol the article at your convenience. thanks for your time and support. Newinwiki8 (talk) 09:02, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Newinwiki8, it looks like @Cordless Larry has taken a look at the article, so I'll defer to their judgement. I also echo the advice you've been given that removing an ANI post about your actions is not likely to elicit sympathy. Sdkb talk 19:55, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Williamchan2 (04:51, 5 August 2025)

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Williamchan2's mentor Martin Urbanec is away.

Hi Martin, I would like to know what is a semi-protected page and how to know if my account has the privilege to edit that semi-protected page. --Williamchan2 (talk) 04:51, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Williamchan2! Yes, you can edit semi-protected pages because you are autoconfirmed (your account is more than 4 days old and you have made 10 or more edits). Cheers, Sdkb talk 09:23, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – August 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2025).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, G15, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by a large language model (LLM) without human review.
  • Following a request for comment, there is a new policy outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses of temporary accounts. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors can request access to the permission ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.

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Arbitration

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  • Wikimania 2025 is happening in Nairobi, Kenya, and online from August 6 to August 9. This year marks 20 years of Wikimania. Interested users can join the online event. Registration for the virtual event is free and will remain open throughout Wikimania. You can register here now.
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Question from Jhon025 (09:45, 11 August 2025)

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Hi SKD,

My article "Dinesh Victor" has been nominated for deletion. Could you please help me improve it so it meets Wikipedia’s notability guidelines?

I’m looking for advice on:

What reliable sources should I add? How to make sure the article is neutral and well-cited. How to respond in the deletion discussion. --Jhon025 (talk) 09:45, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Jhon025! The page Help:My article got nominated for deletion! I hope will have some useful advice. Cheers, Sdkb talk 13:59, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request for help creating an iceDQ Wikipedia page

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Hello Sdkb,

I hope you are doing well. I noticed your edits on Wikipedia and wanted to ask if you might be open to helping create a page for a company called iceDQ, which works in the data validation.

I understand that Wikipedia has strict guidelines for neutrality, verifiability, and notability, and I’m happy to provide reliable, independent sources for the content.

If you’re interested, I can share more details and references so the article can be built in line with Wikipedia’s standards.

Thank you,

iceDQ Team Icedq (talk) 13:33, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked by Writ Keeper. Sdkb talk 14:08, 13 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from LFKMP (21:33, 15 August 2025)

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Hello mentor. My paper "A College Algebra Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (FTA)" has been declined for publication by Amer. Math. Monthly, Math Magazine, College Math Journal, PRIMUS, and AMS Open Math Note. I can probably get my paper accepted by J. Math & Stat. Science without editing. My paper is a manuscript for William Kingdon Clifford's abstract (1870) of a proof of the FTA. Clifford's proof is not cited or discussed in Wikipedia FTA. My paper explains and lifts Clifford's elementary (i.e. undergraduate) proof from obscurity. You can access my paper at URL: sections.maa.org/okar/papers/2025/indexa.html. Franklin Kemp --LFKMP (talk) 21:33, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@LFKMP, do you have a question about editing Wikipedia? Sdkb talk 14:47, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Gannetcelluloid999 (14:08, 18 August 2025)

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Hello! We want to create a wiki page for our movie. Need your kind help with this. --Gannetcelluloid999 (talk) 14:08, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gannetcelluloid999, see Help:Your first article, and kindly note that you have a conflict of interest for your own movie. Sdkb talk 14:46, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Ousman bangura on John W. Colloton (23:07, 19 August 2025)

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Hello, how can I know how to edit --Ousman bangura (talk) 23:07, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Ousman bangura! See Help:Introduction. Cheers, Sdkb talk 23:20, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Robert Resnik

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Hi! I just learned of the death of Robert Resnik, a long time Vermont folk musician, radio host, and contemporary of Pete Sutherland. I had started a draft back in 2021. Wish I had gotten it into mainspace then. Thought you might be interested! Best, Thriley (talk) 02:48, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sad to hear the news. I took a glance at Resnik's article and fixed up a few things. Sdkb talk 05:15, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol September 2025 Backlog drive

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Question from Nateiac7 (00:44, 27 August 2025)

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I'm supposed to do the wiki training, and I can't find where that is. Can you help me? --Nateiac7 (talk) 00:44, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Nateiac7! There's a response to your question at the help desk here, and the main tutorial is here. If you're part of a student program or something, you should ask your instructor, since sometimes there are specialized tutorials for those situations. Cheers, Sdkb talk 01:05, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Nateiac7 (talk) 01:08, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

changes to my wiki page

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Hello, there is a Wiki page about me but it is out of date. How can I add have some facts updated? 76.50.103.25 (talk) 20:06, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

my contact info

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Hello, I just send a message about updating my Wiki page. Here is my email jamie@jamierosecoaching.com 76.50.103.25 (talk) 20:07, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jamie; thanks for reaching out! We discuss issues about Wikipedia article on talk pages rather than via email in order to be transparent. I'd suggest creating an account for yourself to make it easier to communicate.
Is the article you're looking to update Jamie Rose? In order to help you with it, I need to know what info you're looking to change. Cheers, Sdkb talk 20:51, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2025).

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Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open on whether use of emojis with no encyclopedic value in mainspace and draftspace (e.g., at the start of paragraphs or in place of bullet points) should be added as a criterion under G15.

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Arbitration

  • The arbitration case Article titles and capitalisation 2 has been closed.
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Nomination for discussion of Template:Less than or equal to

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Template:Less than or equal to has been nominated for discussion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. BodhiHarp 15:35, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fred Bendheim

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Hi. In June you moved the article Fred Bendheim to mainspace as an approved AFC submission. The IP address who created it seems anxious for it to be indexed by Google.

Looking at it with a mind to patrol it, I couldn't. I can't decide whether it should be moved back to draft or nominated for AFD. The first source is an interview, others are announcements or mentions, one source isn't verifiable, and coverage seems restricted to the artist's two hometowns, Phoenix and Brooklyn, when coverage should be national or even regional for notability purposes.

What do you think? ~Anachronist (talk) 00:45, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reaching out, @Anachronist. When I'm reviewing AfC submissions, I'm looking just at whether they'd be likely to survive a deletion nomination per WP:AFCPURPOSE. I think Bendheim would be likely to survive an AfD because:
  • The Brooklyn Downtown Star interview contains a substantial biographical introduction before the interview itself, and also contains secondary material in the journalist's queries, so would appear to count toward notability under WP:Interviews#Notability.
  • The Jewish News profile looks like a standard notability-qualifying source. The outlet focuses on Arizona, so it's regional, but the NBIO standard does not have restrictions on how local sources can be (unlike NORG, which requires at least one regional or national source).
  • Lastly, the Artdaily coverage of the installation of two of his works also seems like clearly SIGCOV.
Any two of those would be sufficient to pass GNG/NBIO. Doing a WP:BEFORE search now, I found additional notability-qualifying coverage from Bklyner and brief coverage in The New York Times that would be SIGCOV per WP:100WORDS but that personally I'd consider borderline. I've added these to the article.
And lastly, beyond all that, the article appears to indicate that he would pass WP:ARTIST criterion 4 because of the institutions that hold his work, although that info would need to be sourced to confirm.
The article has a bunch of redundant sourcing and other issues that merit cleanup, but neither AfD nor draftication would be appropriate remedies. Given that, I would focus on cleaning it up enough for it to be marked as patrolled by NPP standards.
Cheers, Sdkb talk 22:14, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the thoughtful analysis. I will leave the article alone, maybe clean it up a bit if I have time.
As I grow more curmudgeonly in my years on Wikipedia, I am starting to appreciate the policy of print encyclopedias, to have articles only about people who are no longer alive. I feel our bar for living persons is way too low, resulting in articles about truly notable individuals like Nobel Prize winners and inventors of world-changing technology, alongside articles about obscure artists and youtube influencers who happened to get some local coverage in a regional publication that the rest of the world wouldn't care about. But it is what it is, I'm just growing to disagree with our inclusion criteria more as time goes on.
That's certainly a fair perspective on notability! The main question in my mind is whether raising the notability threshold so that people like Bendheim would no longer qualify would actually do anything to make articles on Nobel laureates any better. It's not necessarily clear to me that it'd be possible to redirect that editorial energy as opposed to it just being lost. And from a reader perspective, it's not like the Bendheim article is distracting from articles on Nobel laureates when both are most likely being found via search engines by people looking specifically for them. Sdkb talk 22:52, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cite Unseen September 2025 updates

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Question from Motiurbd01 (23:47, 14 September 2025)

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How can i start --Motiurbd01 (talk) 23:47, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Motiurbd01, see Help:Introduction. Cheers, Sdkb talk 00:03, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from MnemonicaS on Victor A. Lundy (15:36, 20 September 2025)

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Hi, this is my first time editing. I read an article in Chron.com today highlighting architect Victor A. Lundy's home in Bellaire, Tx that is set to be demolished. I want to add that residence, a house and studio he designed, to his list of work. I'm operating from my phone, and I am new at this. How do I go about adding this work of architecture to his page?

I tried adding the article I read for reference, but I'm not sure it was published. It's a piece by Gwen Howerton from Chron.com titled "He remade modern architecture. His Houston home is about to be demolished." I'm afraid I may have not added that reference to the correct place if I added it at all. Any help or advice is much appreciated. Thanks in advance. --MnemonicaS (talk) 15:36, 20 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Mahsheedalofteh (01:39, 22 September 2025)

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hi I have two drafts and can not tell if they will be reviewed. Can you please advise? --Mahsheedalofteh (talk) 01:39, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Doober doob (07:45, 22 September 2025)

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Note: Doober doob's mentor Ixtal is away.

Hii can you help me with some basic knowledge about editing because i was planning to create articles about people who are on red link in deaths in 2025, thank you in advance <3 (also would love to know about my mentor as well! Introduction, flexes about how good at editing you are) --Doober doob (talk) 07:45, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]