Hello, DestinationFearFan! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation 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! Eagleash (talk) 20:13, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It helps a lot if you put four tilde characters, ~~~~, at the end of your messages. This will be automatically converted to your "signature" which, unless you customized it, will contain a link to your user or user talk page or both, and the time and date. If you want to see how it looks, you can experiment in your personal sandbox, User:DestinationFearFan/sandbox. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 20:17, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tip! DestinationFearFan (talk) 22:33, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this template! DestinationFearFan (talk) 19:24, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

An article you recently created, Aurora Negro, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 19:46, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have added more sources and information, as well as moved the title from Aurora Negro (rabbit) to Aurora Negro. DestinationFearFan (talk) 18:43, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Before starting, please read Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fairfield County Infirmary. That was a "mass articles for deletion" discussion in which several topics that were featured on the Destination Fear (2019 TV series) television show, including most if not all of the topics you listed. All but two of the pages nominated were moved to "Draft" space. The names are the same, except they now starts with Draft:. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 🎄 18:13, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ohhhh, alright. I see that now as I look at them. When I look at the drafts, it seems that the drafts/deleted articles need more reliable sources, and should focus more on the history than the paranormal. DestinationFearFan (talk) 18:19, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I recently made some changes (which you reverted) to Leapmotor which separated the "Sales" subchapter from the "Concept vehicles" chapter, fixed some minor errors, and most notably changed the model list to be much more compact and simpler. The reasoning for that was because usually articles on vehicle companies on Wikipedia do not have model lists in the format you had made. The format is also largely unneeded since articles for the Leapmotor S01 and T03 already exist. I highly suggest that a wikitable similar to this one be created, which I can easily do for you, but I would like your opinion first.

I am also going to point out that I have moved Category:Leapmotor Vehicles to Category:Leapmotor vehicles as per WP:CAPITALIZATION.

WaddlesJP13 (talk) 00:49, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry about that revert. I meant to click "thank", but hit "undo" instead. I will fix that now. Also, thank you for fixing that category.-DestinationFearFan (talk) 16:26, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I saw you are using web-links for images on your user page. You can wikilink a file, or for that matter a category or a different-language page by putting a colon in front of the name and treating it like any other wikilink:

• [[:File:example.jpg]] is File:example.jpg
• [[:Category:Wikipedia image placeholders]] is Category:Wikipedia image placeholders
• [[:es:Cutberto de Lindisfarne]] is es:Cutberto de Lindisfarne (Spanish Wikipedia)

The colon at the beginning "turns off" the "special" behavior normally associated with File:, Category:, and non-English-language-Wikipedia links and makes them act like normal links. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 00:58, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ok thank you! That does seem a bit easier. DestinationFearFan (talk) 17:57, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It took me awhile to figure this out. One good way to learn is to edit pages that have things in them like tables, pictures, links to pictures, etc. with "visual editor" turned off in your preferences. Preview your changes all you like, but don't save. If you need to save something, copy the page's "wiki-code" to your sandbox and play with it there. By the way, using a : doesn't "hurt" regular links - [[Encyclopedia]] and [[:Encyclopedia]] do the same thing. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 18:33, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Visual editor was a good way at the start, but now, visual editor takes 10-20 minutes to load. I do use my sandbox a lot though. DestinationFearFan (talk) 18:37, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, so there's another reason - slowness - to keep VE turned off? I'm old-school and since they don't have a working teletype-editing-mode I'm stuck with the classic editor. Say, you know where I can get some carbon paper, I'm running low. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 19:33, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Got to love 21st century technology. Also, no, I do not no where to get carbon paper 😂. Possibly Amazon. Everything is on Amazon these days. DestinationFearFan (talk) 19:51, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You are invited to participate in WikiProject Islands, a group of editors dedicated to developing and improving articles about Islands. If interested, add your name to our list of members.

Please see comments on page. MrsSnoozyTurtle (talk) 21:29, 26 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Bordrin. Thanks! Robert McClenon (talk) 01:28, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DestinationFearFan! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, Draft:Bordrin, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days (usually at least two days, and sometimes four or more). You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to create a new thread. The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing ((bots|deny=Muninnbot)) here on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:03, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DestinationFearFan! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, Sandbox, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days (usually at least two days, and sometimes four or more). You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to create a new thread. The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing ((bots|deny=Muninnbot)) here on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:03, 31 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for responding to my message at the Teahouse. I was just wondering why IP’s can’t create userpages because there is some stuff on my talk page that would fit better on a user page. Again, thanks. 47.227.95.73 (talk) 17:38, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@47.227.95.73 Your welcome. I strongly suggest that you create a Wikipedia account, and then you can create a user page.DestinationFearFan (talk) 17:40, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, DestinationFearFan. I've seen that you have interest in Chinese cars like I do, and you have recently created a lot of good articles on EV marques, so I invite you to join the new WikiProject Chinese Cars, dedicated to expanding the Chinese automotive industry topic across Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. If you do not have the time to join it or you are not in the mood, that's alright, and anyone is free to join anytime! The WikiProject currently has only one member as of right now, me, but I have invited other users to join the WikiProject. WaddlesJP13 (talk) 17:00, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@WaddlesJP13 Thank you so much for invitation! I would be delighted to join your WikiProject. DestinationFearFan (talk) 17:17, 5 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi -- the page EV Valley that you created is entirely sourced from the website of the company that built it. I'm not convinced that it passes the general notability guideline for inclusion on Wikipedia but I could be wrong because of course much of the coverage could be in Chinese. Do you have any idea where we might be able to find other sources for it? CapitalSasha ~ talk 21:03, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@CapitalSasha I had trouble finding sources for that development. Maybe the sources 1, 2, and 3 will help give it credibility. Your thoughts? DestinationFearFan (talk) 21:11, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

These look like good starts -- are they about the same development? They don't seem to use the term "EV Valley".... CapitalSasha ~ talk 01:06, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@CapitalSasha Yeah, they don't say EV Valley, but the image is of the correct and same place. I will continue looking for sources. DestinationFearFan (talk) 01:18, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Toyota QuickDelivery, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Hino.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:31, 19 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Categories are not simple metatags, you should always add categories such as Category:Cars of China or Category:Vehicles by brand to any new categories you create so that humans and maintenance bots can find them. If you look at Category:Bordrin vehicles you'll see I've done that in a fancy way, with code that automatically picks up the company name from the category name so you can just copy and paste the code to other articles without having to change anything. Also, you don't generally need to use ((topic cat)) unless you need to distinguish a topic category from a set category that might have the same name; ((catmain)) is the usual way to link to the relevant article. Le Deluge (talk) 11:53, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thank you! I, of course, am still learning all the tricks about Wikipedia. Thank you for fixing the Bordrin category! I will also make sure to do that to the rest of my created categories on Monday.DestinationFearFan (talk) 16:08, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DestinationFearFan,

before helping others with writing articles, please read WP:RSP, specifically the entries about Facebook (also: WP:PSTS) and Fandom/Wikia (also: WP:USERG).

Best regards,
~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:46, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ToBeFree I and Cyphoidbomb have already tried to steer this user in the right direction, but they are entirely resistant. They haven't learned anything about sourcing, but they have learned how to remove such advice from their talk page. I'm not sure if this is a competence issue or something else, but they really need to stop creating new pages until the understand what a reliable source is. Mo Billings (talk) 19:56, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oh my. :) Thanks, Mo Billings.

DestinationFearFan, you are welcome to boldly experiment especially in sandboxes. However, this learning approach only works if you equally welcome others' advice about such contributions. And it starts to become really disruptive, to the point of requiring prevention by a block from editing, if you give bad advice to new editors, who then acquire the same habits and spread the disruption in good faith. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:08, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I will do my best to stop making disruptive edits with bad sourcing. DestinationFearFan (talk) 16:33, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Did you find an answer to your question to ToBeFree "Why isn't Fandom a reliable source"? Mo Billings (talk) 17:03, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I did. That is why I deleted that question. DestinationFearFan (talk) 17:12, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

And made Special:Diff/1008901913 in the very next edit, citing a blog, likely without editorial oversight and apparently run by a single person ("© 2021 Matt Gasnier", WP:BLOG), an unprofessional-looking car sales website (okay, debatable), and a Facebook page that at least seems to be run by the company itself. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:41, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oh sorry, I just disabled my ad blocker and the privacy mode that prevented the popups and banners from appearing. I take "debatable" back... ~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:48, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

So, are you trying to tell me not to use [1]? I also don't see any ads on the website. DestinationFearFan (talk) 18:22, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I personally would use neither bestsellingcarsblog nor auto-che (your browser's tracking prevention may prevent the obtrusive amount of Google Ads from appearing) nor Facebook. Of the three sources, the company's official Facebook page is at least somehow usable for uncontroversial statements about the company. However, if these are the best sources locatable about a topic, that would be the point where I'd abandon the topic for a lack of reliable independent sources that detailedly describe the subject. WP:42 tries to summarize this problem. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:25, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]