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Thank you so much Mathglot, I really appreciate your warm welcome and your links!! NicoleB2 (talk) 18:36, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, NicoleB2. It's great that you are working on a translation of Philippe Clay, thank you for that. However, Wikipedia has a couple of very important principles that you need to understand, before you go any further in your translation. One involves our core principle of WP:Verifiability, and the other is about attributing the translation to its original authors.

Verifiability means that all content in Wikipedia must be verifiable in a published, reliable source, and the way to demonstrate that, is through the use of citations to those sources you used.

The original French article, fr:Philippe Clay, has some citations in it you can import, such as this one to Who's Who. Other citations are incomplete, like this one that merely mentions Who's Who, without any other information; however, as it refers to the same article as the first citation, it ○an be linked to the previous citation using named referencing, so please link that one to the first one, when you import it.

Please do attend to this, as all unverifiable content will need to be removed from the article, including any part of the content of your translations for which a reference that backs it up cannot be found. But if you add citations for it, then the content can remain. Verifiability is important, and it's worth taking the time to complete the referencing of Philippe Clay, before you continue further with this article, or any other one. See Help:Referencing for beginners.

I would recommend that you stop translating this French article for now, and go back over the parts you have already translated, importing the citations from the French article where possible, or adding new ones where available. I have translated many articles from French, and I can help with translation, if that is an issue, and with how to create citations. These links may help you find some:

• Find biographical sources: Britannica · British Library · EoWB · books · Guardian · Infoplease · JSTOR · Library of Congress · MUSE · NYT · TWL
• France sources: Bing · Cairn · DuckDuckGo · E. Universalis · Gallica · Google · (books · scholar) · Persée · Qwant

In addition, Wikipedia's licensing requires that all material translated from another Wikipedia contain an attribution statement in the edit summary of your edit, linking the original French Wikipedia article; for exact wording of this statement, please see WP:TFOLWP. It looks like alert reader Diannaa noticed the lack of translation attribution and added a notice retroactively, so your translation edits previous to November 3 are now covered, but please remember for all of your translations from French Wikipedia (or any Wikipedia) that these attribution statements are required, and may not be ignored. Please see WP:RIA for how to add an attribution statement retroactively, since you were not aware of this requirement when you started translating it.

If you have any other questions about editing Wikipedia, you can ask at the WP:Teahouse, or at my Talk page. Mathglot (talk) 18:51, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the Attribution, I have added "existing French Wikipedia article at fr:Philippe Clay; see its history for attribution." in one of my edits once I read the rule. NicoleB2 (talk) 19:18, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. A page you recently created, Gilles Cohen, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines for new pages, so it has been moved to Draft:Gilles Cohen where you can continue to work on it. Please consider using the Article Wizard or the Articles for Creation procedure. For more information about creating articles, you may want to read "Your first article". You may also want to read our introduction page to learn more about contributing. I really recommend that you work on the article in draftspace, making sure that it is properly sourced and referenced using reliable and independent sources, before you decide to move it back to mainspace. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 23:26, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I agree with you that what I wrote belongs to the draft space because I had to leave the editing before finishing. I am relatively new to editing and didn't know about this draft space. I'll continue in the next few days. Thank you NicoleB2 (talk) 10:25, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

An article you recently created, Gilles Cohen, is not suitable 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. GRINCHIDICAE🎄 18:59, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello GRINCHIDICAE, I appreciate your feedback, but I want to clarify that I have already included multiple citations from reliable, independent sources to establish Gilles Cohen’s notability. If there are specific concerns about certain references or additional sources needed, please let me know, and I’d be happy to address them. I believe the article meets Wikipedia’s general notability guidelines, and I’d appreciate any guidance on what exactly needs improvement to move it back to mainspace. Thank you. NicoleB2 (talk) 19:13, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi NicoleB2. I write as a previous mover of your article to draftspace There are only three citations as references. Of those, the first and third I would characterise as passing coverage only. To establish notability through GNG, a good rule of thumb is at least three reliable sources that contain at least three dense paragraphs of text wholly about the subject. Your draft doesn't have that at the moment, at least to my eyes. I hope that helps. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 19:53, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello SunloungerFrog, sorry for the delay and thank you for your valuable advices. As I specified earlier, this English page is a translation of the French page and I took the only three references that are found there. But I've just added two more references from reliable film sources which are IMDb and Fandango so I hope that will satisfy the English Wikipedia requirements. Once the english page is approved, I will link the languages versions together. Thank you. ~~NicoleB2 NicoleB2 (talk) 19:15, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Do I need to re-submit the Draft after my last changes or is it already submitted? NicoleB2 (talk) 19:19, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi NicoleB2. So there is a little to unpick here. First the translation - it's fine to translate an article from another language wikipedia to English, and you have given the attribution correctly, so that is all good. However, other wikipedias do not necessarily have the same notability and verification requirements as the English wikipedia, and so you might have to go the extra mile and find additional sources.

I will say up front that my gut feel is that the subject is notable and warrants an article. However the sources you currently have do not demonstrate that. Sources must be reliable and independent, and to demonstrate notability you need significant converage not just a passing mention. I'll go through each in order:

• [1] is short, and probably doesn't constitute significant coverage, so can't be used to establish notability. However, it's independent and I've no reason to suspect it's unreliable.
• [2] is the subject's own website, and therefore not independent, so can't be used to establish notability. Provided that notability is established by other sources, it can be used for simple factual information.
• [3] can't be used as a source. See WP:RS/IMDB which says IMDb content is mostly user-submitted and often subject to speculation, rumor, hoaxes, and inaccuracies. The use of the IMDb on Wikipedia as a sole reference is usually considered unacceptable and is discouraged. You can include the IMDb URL as an External link though (and it's already there)
• [4] looks OK - a bit short, but probably just about sufficient as a source to establish notability, and I've no reason to doubt reliability or independence.
• [5] Fine - not significant coverage, but the award helps notability. And no doubt about reliability or independence.

I would say that if you could find some reviews of films or series that he has acted in that deal with him specifically, that would really help - you can just provide them as references to his filmography. Maybe the three that are mentioned in the lead paragraph: He is known in particular for his roles in The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005), A Prophet (2009) and the TV series The Bureau (2015)? I also found this [6] which is the sort of thing you really need.

I hope that helps! If you can do a bit more digging and find some nice substantial reviews of his performance, you'll be good to go. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 09:45, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for your very helpful and precise remarks. I added a few more references and hope that it will satisfy Wiki requirements for publishing NicoleB2 (talk) 18:01, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello NicoleB2. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:NicoleB2. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=NicoleB2|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. GRINCHIDICAE🎄 19:00, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I want to clarify that I am absolutely not working for anyone, nor have I received or expect to receive any form of compensation for my edits. My contributions are entirely voluntary and based on personal interest in French movies. I respect Wikipedia’s guidelines and always aim to contribute in good faith. Please let me know if there are any specific concerns regarding my edits, and I’d be happy to address them. NicoleB2 (talk) 19:09, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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