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Your advice on an AfC submission (copied from north8000 talk page)[edit]
Hi. Please take a look at Draft:Terje G. Simonsen. It is a properly stated WP:COI contribution about a Norwegian non-fiction author. The article is a translation of a Norwegian Wikipedia article with a bit more sources. The author is a historian and writes about the history of paranormal. Considering your great experience of editing Wikipedia and also the fact that you contributed to Jeffrey Mishlove, I guess that you have a balanced view on the subject and can give me a good and professional advice. Please tell how this article could/should be edited or changed in order to improve the chances of passing an AfC review. Thanks! Peter. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 17:18, 24 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Bbarmadillo: Happy to. It looks like it was already accepted both for afc and npp. I look like an excellent job on the article based on the available sources. If you wanted to take it to the "next level" regarding article quality and being double safe on wp:notability I search for 1-2 more sources that wrote about him and incorporate that material into the article. Nice work! North8000 (talk) 02:19, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Please add the following info the “Career” section in chronological order, after Pari Publishing book information. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 07:03, 25 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
In October 2021, the book was translated into Czech and published by Nakladatelství Präh.[3]
Partly done The first requested change has been made. For the second requested change, where would this line be added? It wasn't clear to me. I have marked this request as answered; remove the "|A" in {{request edit}} when you reply to reopen the request for someone to review. Best, SpencerT•C 22:47, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Spencer: Thanks. The phrase about the book should be the last phrase at the "Career" sub section. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 13:50, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Follow-up question-- Why Czech? Is that the only other language besides English that the work has been published into? (Versus if it's one of 10 languages), better to list the overall number in my opinion. SpencerT•C 23:01, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Please replace the last paragraph of the text at the “Career” section with the following text. --Bbarmadillo (talk) 20:24, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.
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In 2013, Simonsen authored a book on parapsychology, where he explored various paranormal phenomena in a historical context as well as the evolution of the intellectual foundations of parapsychology.[1][2][3][4] In 2018, an expanded and updated English edition was published by an Italian company Pari Publishing.[5][6] In November 2019, it received the Parapsychological Association Book Award.[7] A new edition was released in the United Kingdom and United States in 2020 by Watkins Publishing (2020).[8]
In 2013, Simonsen authored a book on parapsychology in Norwegian, where he explored various paranormal phenomena in a historical context as well as the evolution of the intellectual foundations of parapsychology.[9][10][11][12] It was published in English as Our Secret Powers—A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal (Pari Publishing, 2018) and Czech (Nakladatelství Prah, 2021).[13][6][14] In November 2019, the book received the Parapsychological Association Book Award.[7] The following year an upgraded English edition was released under the title A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal - Our Secret powers: Telepathy, Clairvoyance and Precognition (Watkins Publishing, 2020).[8]
These updates have been made, but other editors are encouraged to review the content to make sure it complied with WP:Puffery, WP:Style and other WP:BLP standards. Go4thProsper (talk) 12:58, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Not done nothing particularly notable about that? Theroadislong (talk) 07:39, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
Partly done The first requested change has been made. For the second requested change, where would this line be added? It wasn't clear to me. I have marked this request as answered; remove the "|A" in {{request edit}} when you reply to reopen the request for someone to review. Best, SpencerT•C 22:47, 4 February 2022 (UTC)