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Your submission at Articles for creation: George Rinaldi (January 21)
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- Replied on your personal page, but happy to move it here for ease? Grin123 (talk) 14:03, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
- Either works, I'd prefer my page so we don't split up the conversation and it is easier for others to follow. – LuniZunie(talk) 14:07, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: George Rinaldi (January 21)
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- Hi Chrys,
- This page was completely re-written to avoid an AI-spiel and has not been through a LLM since then. The author, to my knowledge, has no other known publications so I'll be unable to source two books with two sources. The independent book reviews feature on Goodreads, aware Amazon would not count as a review source however so was not added. Grin123 (talk) 17:55, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
- Well if there aren't two books, while not a formal block, would make it difficult to show notability under WP:NAUTHOR, since usually if there is one book you would do an article on that single book instead of on the subject. There's always the WP:TOOSOON aspect, since clearly if a second book appears tomorrow then this becomes much easier. However: there is basic notability which is here: WP:BASIC, where if you can find 3 profiles of the subject, in depth, independent, reliable sources, and not interview-led (so good editorial input from the journalist etc) then that would be another option. Again it's all about what other people say of the author, authors can't write their way to notability any more than a kid on Instagram. The requirement there is for "multiple" such sources, if the sources are top quality ones, such as the BBC or the Daily Telegraph then you might get away with just 2 such sources. You are right that Amazon reviews don't count. Goodreads, well that's both a content aggregator and self published reviews from their community. Best to find a proper review in a proper source.
- Which brings us to the AI issue. You can rewrite out the AI wording, and I can see that has happened, but the problem is that the AI will not delve into a hard to find review in say The Sunday Times, and even if it does it won't make a specific analysis such as "The Sunday Times reviewer liked the book's coverage but didn't think the author answered the glaring questions about the player's dubious coaching methods". Instead it will say "The book was widely cited by newspapers x, y, z" you then get lumped with that outline article, and this is what has happened here. This then stops you going down the "in depth" route to what the sources really say about the book. Negative reviews are good too, shows balance, LLM will never take you there. If you absolutely have to use LLM, which I'm never going to recommend, try finding a story and ask LLM "Please summarise the following in 6 bullet points:.....", then write up the bullet points into full text in your own words. Soon you will find it hard to stop adding more and more of your own words. After you have tried that you'll probably find it easier to make your own bullet points, then word up, and not use LLM at all. Good luck. ChrysGalley (talk) 18:54, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
- Hi Chrys,
- Appreciate the detailed response. I won't have enough information to source to reach those required sources if those currently utilised are not strong enough. I browsed other pages of those of a similar notable stature to what this page would bring which less citations and references, pages that although published flagged sections that had no references and less citations which didn't offer what is requested above - therefore I'm unsure how to proceed on this page. If you believe this page will not be published based on the above then we can close the page and edit. Thanks. Grin123 (talk) 20:40, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
- As an extension to this - would you suggest an article on the book itself be a stronger advocation for publication? Grin123 (talk) 20:42, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
- If you look at WP:NBOOK you will see the notability definition, it seems easier than WP:NAUTHOR and WP:BASIC. But it does need 2 decent reviews of the book, again not necessarily positive ones, and not just one-line "oh it's a great read".
- The notability guidance and policy has tightened over the years so if you are finding a writer without decent notability coverage you should nominate the article for deletion, but yes there probably are other articles with less good sources than your article. (And writing an article from zero is hard, I've done enough of them to know that). I mentioned the WP:TOOSOON point because you can watch-and-wait: as soon as that subject writes another book, and if that book gets any traction at all then your current article just needs a few quick tweaks and you are in business.
- By all means do some more work on your current article and submit it again - another review editor may see something I haven't spotted (or will give you more advice).ChrysGalley (talk) 21:02, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks - I’ll message back if required! ~2026-45780-7 (talk) 21:04, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
- As an extension to this - would you suggest an article on the book itself be a stronger advocation for publication? Grin123 (talk) 20:42, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: Calcio's Greatest Forwards (February 21)
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