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Hi. If you'd like to write about the Gamma Phi fraternity, then please start a new article Gamma Phi (fraternity), rather than blank and overwrite an entire existing article, as you did at Gamma Phi. Thanks, NeemNarduni2 (talk) 11:37, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Good talking to you on your talk page. BlackAmerican (talk) 14:00, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Malik Sigma Psi, from its old location at User:BlackAmerican/Malik Sigma Psi. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. /wiae /tlk 14:14, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Pi Gamma Omicron, from its old location at User:BlackAmerican/Pi Gamma Omicron. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. /wiae /tlk 14:14, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Charles Cardoza Poindexter, from its old location at User:BlackAmerican/CharlesPoindexter. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. /wiae /tlk 14:15, 10 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Onel5969 was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of people and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

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Hello! BlackAmerican, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Onel5969 TT me 13:35, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Malik Sigma Psi. Thanks! Naraht (talk) 17:29, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Pi Gamma Omicron. Thanks! Naraht (talk) 17:36, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Is the information available as to when Malik Sigma Psi became MALIK? (and yes, I'm probably getting the capitalization wrong)

Just curious, do you belong to a GLO? I'm an alumnus of Alpha Phi Omega and if you look at my User Page User:Naraht, you can see that I have a userbox for that. I'll be happy to help you find or create one for your GLO, if you do belong to one.Naraht (talk) 23:01, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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

Although you have found links at Google books, it is a good idea to provide a full citation to the book itself (author, title, publisher, date, and ISBN if available).

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LaMona (talk) 22:59, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

And now Accepted!Naraht (talk) 20:09, 15 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Google Books is *very* useful and someone made a tool for taking Google Books URLs and turning them into Wikipedia citations that are *really* good. Try dropping one of the Google book URLs into http://reftag.appspot.com/ . What comes out is awesome. For example, I transformed the first reference in Alpha Kappa Nu. (I'm probably going to have to go back since the tool treats it as a book rather than a collection of magazines, but that's on me. :)Naraht (talk) 20:18, 15 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Charles Cardoza Poindexter, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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SwisterTwister talk 04:50, 16 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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SwisterTwister talk 04:57, 16 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I combined some references in that article, let me know if that works. There is a method to indicate that information for two references comes from the same source, but different pages, let me know if that will be useful.Naraht (talk) 12:25, 16 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As a note... based on advice that I've gotten in terms of WP:COMMONNAME, what I have done over the years is the following. In terms of (fictional) Rho Sigma Tau Fraternity Incorporated (or Rho Sigma Tau Fraternity Inc.), I change this to Rho Sigma Tau fraternity in all cases except for the article on the group itself, its founders, and its National Presidents. (These are cases where equivalently (sort of), you would refer to Exxon-Mobil Inc. rather than simply referring to it as Exxon-Mobil. I'm fine with the redirects existing though. Yes, I know very well that the Historically Black GLOs use Incorporated *much* more often than a Historically White GLOs do (For example, I *never* expect a historically white GLO like Sigma Alpha Epsilon or Delta Zeta to add "Incorporated" to their name in anything other than something like purchasing a property.) (The Hispanic GLOs that have absorbed many Historically Black GLO traditions tend to do this as well)Naraht (talk)

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

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Yash! 18:59, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Morris Brown has never called itself a University as far as I can tell.Naraht (talk) 07:28, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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

You need to find more to say about the Sorority, perhaps in references you have, but perhaps after finding more references. Naming founders and officers, does not support notability, and especially if those founders are not famous in their own right. Instead, you need to say why the organization is noteworthy.

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LaMona (talk) 01:12, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Malik Sigma Psi, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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333-blue 23:30, 2 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi BlackAmerican, I noticed that the draft you were improving, Draft:St. John's Lacrosse Case, was not dated, so I replaced the AFC submission template with subst:submit. Please add subst:submit to drafts next time so that they will be in queue for review. 73.182.28.179 (talk) 21:32, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines for sports persons and athletes and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

 The comment they left was:

Still seemingly questionable for WP:Notability (sports)#Basketball, add any further available amount of in-depth third-party news sources overall.

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SwisterTwister talk 05:10, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:St. John's Lacrosse Case. Thanks! 333-blue 07:00, 26 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/live-with-regis-kathie-lee/2869201

Hello BlackAmerican, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Charles Cardoza Poindexter has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/live-with-regis-kathie-lee/2869201without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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Diannaa, I didn't copy it from any website. I got it from a previous version of the article. [1] BlackAmerican (talk) 20:19, 8 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:St. John's Lacrosse Case. Thanks! Bradv 16:35, 9 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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

This submission does not appear to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Entries should be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources. Please rewrite your submission in a more encyclopedic format. Please make sure to avoid peacock terms that promote the subject.

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Bradv 03:15, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

BlackAmerican: I am curious why you are using the articles for creation process, because you are not a new editor and are perfectly capable of creating articles yourself? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:44, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently my articles aren't of good quality. They keep getting rejected.  :/ BlackAmerican (talk) 16:01, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines for sports persons and athletes and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

 The comment the reviewer left was:

There are still some unsourced statements. Please try find some more reliable sources.

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Bradv 03:31, 10 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

https://books.google.com/books?id=rNUDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA77&dq=Diane+Pierce+judo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiK3ZSCgaTMAhUCXD4KHRD3CQEQ6AEIPjAI#v=onepage&q=Diane%20Pierce%20judo&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=HdcDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA83&dq=Diane+Pierce+judo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiK3ZSCgaTMAhUCXD4KHRD3CQEQ6AEIQjAJ#v=onepage&q=Diane%20Pierce%20judo&f=false

... Is this at? 🎓 Corkythehornetfan 🎓 00:55, 9 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Baseball at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Gordon Jones and Lemuel Graves  James H Morton.  Morgan T. Phillips,  George Tompkins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nippon_Professional_Baseball_players_(A)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Negro_league_baseball_players_(A%E2%80%93D)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_KBO_League_team_rosters

Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame

List of Japanese baseball players

I took all of the google refs and made actual cite books. Please use http://reftag.appspot.com/ in this situation. Also, I marked the article as a stub...

1959 vs. 1962. The founding date in List of African-American Greek and fraternal organizations is 1959, but the category on the Wine Psi Phi page is Student Organization established in 1962. Should one of these be picked for both?Naraht (talk) 18:28, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

1959 as HUMS, 1962 as Wine Psi Phi, right?Naraht (talk) 20:25, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I thought it was a point in the article. But just that the two dates mentioned in the list and the cat should agree...Naraht (talk) 01:52, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Francisco de la Cruz for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Dschslava ^Δx parlez moi 04:05, 29 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nippon_Professional_Baseball_stadiums

Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame

Hallo, Thanks for your work on various Japanese baseball players, which I've seen while stub-sorting. Could I make a few suggestions?

1. Please remember to start the article with the full name, not just the surname
2. And put that name in bold
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4. If you're citing one ref more than once, give it a name and re-use it - you can see how I did this at Ryotaro Doi.
5. And we don't leave a space before a reference.
6. As you seem to be creating a lot of these, perhaps you could also add {{subst:L|yearofbirth|year of death|surname, forename}} (eg {{subst:L|1952||Bloggs, Joe}} if we know when he was born and likely to be still alive, or {{subst:L|||Bloggs, Joe}} if year of birth not known, or {{subst:L|1952|2016|Bloggs, Joe}}, if we know his death date. That creates the DEFAULTSORT (so they file by surname in categories), the "Living people" category if appropriate, and a birth and/or death year category if the year is known or a "year of birth missing" if not. It's quick to do and adds several useful things to the article. Thanks. PamD 14:34, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Emanuel Walsh for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Cotton2 (talk) 04:00, 21 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Saw your edit summary. He doesn't obviously meet WP:NCOLLATH, but he might meet the part that says "receives significant coverage as an individual rather than as just a member of the team." I feel pretty good that he meets WP:GNG based on his entire career - high school, college, pro and as a coach - but you would help your own cause if you would demonstrate that the subject is covered in reliable sources. In general, please try to format articles correctly when creating them and add proper categories (there are categories for teams played, coached, position, where a person is from, their position, etc. Look at other articles (a good comparison for Reese is Derrick Phelps) and if it helps copy and write over the formatting from them. When I create an article I usually copy and paste the categories then just change them to match the player. Same with the infobox. I will try to work on the Reese article to improve it, but these are general tips to help. Good luck. Rikster2 (talk) 13:22, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If I may, here's a sugesstion. Create an article first in draft space, fix it up, and then move to article space. Many of your articles are not properly formatted, have no references section, and have no categories. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs)}~ 00:44, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It seems like you fixed the problem. Just remember to capitalize the title, add a reference section and categories. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs)}~ 02:04, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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There was no credible assertion of notability in the article, only the date of birth and his rookie year. We need more than that to pass the threshold of minimum notability in order to have the article remain on Wikipedia. As for restoration, I can put it back and move it to your userspace, I just need to know where exactly you want it (ie: /sandbox, /Toshitaka Enomoto, etc). TomStar81 (Talk) 05:29, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Done and done. You can find the restored article at User:BlackAmerican/Toshitaka Enomoto. Good luck! TomStar81 (Talk) 22:33, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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You can't have a seperate quotations section. What you can do is incorporate the quote into the body of the article or migrate it to Wikiquote. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs)}~ 15:12, 20 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I saw your new article about Dr. Cordice because I monitor the Isola Curry page. I've edited it, mostly for WP:MOS reasons but also for organization. (For instance, to make clear which Dr. Cordice moved to NYC to attend NYU.) I hope I've done no violence to the content. I tried not to edit for substance.

I think you can anticipate an eventual challenge to the article on the grounds that he's only notable for one event, so I'm glad to see the Tuskegee Airmen detail and the first-open-heart-surgery-in-France angle.

Thanks for your efforts to build up our content in this area. David in DC (talk) 15:24, 21 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Just wondering, why did you move his article back to your userspace? ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs)}~ 12:31, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The article seemed to pass the notability guidelines, in my estimation. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs)}~ 17:13, 24 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello @BlackAmerican: please refer to Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)#Schools - schools are not automatically considered notable, and must assert this within the article. As this school has been closed for quite some time I found it very hard to find reliable sources for this page. Garchy (talk) 16:28, 3 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello,

Thank you for your article about King Tone! It's quite interesting and I now want to watch the documentary and read the book!

I did a little formatting and editing during a review process and have a question about whether "King Tone" or "Fernandez" in the article on the Talk:King Tone page. In addition, I added a {{better source}} tag, because the article will be much stronger with books and newspapers as sources, per reliable sources, secondary sources, and prove notabililty. I explained the reasoning for the better source tags in the reason field, which you can see in "edit" mode.

If you have any questions about this, though, please let me know.--CaroleHenson (talk) 04:23, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, BlackAmerican! I have a dynamic IP and edit the Negro league baseball article quite frequently. I came across a Negro league article you created when another editor tagged the Negro league baseball article with a merge request. I also notice the article was rather hastily written and your talk page is littered with other new article messages. Can I ask if you have considered using Articles for Creation? Also, I hate to bring this up, but are the 2 accts listed in my subject heading of any relation to this acct? Rgrds. --64.85.216.14 (talk) 02:13, 4 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]