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Give-a-Show Projector
| Please verify | Your article Give-a-Show Projector currently isn't attributed to a reliable source. Please familiarize yourself with Wookieepedia's Sourcing policy and guidelines and add a proper source to the article. If a source is not added within one week, your article will be deleted. LucaRoR  (Talk) 15:03, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
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Slow down
Hi Tom. We surely appreciate your enthousiam, but the edits you've recently made were all problematic on different levels: lack of sources and summary on images, adding naked links without a hint of formatting (and whithout backups), going against the notability policy... and I'm only talking about the more obvious. You need to take a step back. Start with smaller edits instead. See how it goes. Learn the ropes. Have a look at our tutorial, it will surely help you. Paying attention to how veteran editors work, asking them question when you're unsure (maybe joining the Discord community), taking a good look at status articles: all of that could help too. --NanoLuukeCloning facility 18:27, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
Re: Question about deletion
Hi Tom. The Notability policy state that "Toys such as action figures and LEGOs should not receive articles for individual figures or sets but should instead be documented in articles for individual toy lines." The reasoning here is that we do this (for figures, LEGO and cards lines), because those often have narrative/canonical information (e.g. Topps cards sometimes give uncredited actors a character name), and we often have to provide references and sources with link to those articles. Give-a-Show Projector doesn't fall into that category, and isn't part of a "toy line". As itself, it doesn't deserve a dedicated section in Kenner Products. However, if you recreate the article on the merchandise wiki, I don't think it would be a problem to have a single sentence mentionning this product on Wookieepedia's Kenner article with a link to the merchandise wiki's Give-a-Show Projector article (don't forget to add a source though).
You also missinterpreted the policy on the second point: "These toy lines should be listed in the Sources section of in-universe articles." It clearly identifies the need for "in-universe" (part of the Star Wars universes, such as Ahsoka Tano, which features numerous toys in it's Sources section) to sources (see Sources section) specific toys. By the way, "References" aren't the same as "Sources": The former are specific note linking a sentence/paragraph to the source of the information, the later is a full list of all available documentation on the subject (divided with the Appearances section, a list in in-universe chronological order focusing on narrative documentation). We only list individual toys when needed as either a Reference or in Sources listing for In-universe articles.
I see that you acknowledged OOM solution on the Give-a-Show Projector's talk page. I'm also glad we came to an understanding, and I can understand that given how massive and policed Wookieepedia is, it can be hard to get the terminalogy, the rules, and all that on the first try. That why we put a lot of emphasis on "editing culture" around here ^^. I wish you a good continuiation! --NanoLuukeCloning facility 13:35, 28 November 2021 (UTC)