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Hello, 7Lawrence, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Sorry it took so long for someone to welcome you aboard. Regarding this entry in your page log:  7Lawrence moved page Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Christopher J. Holcroft to User:Articles for creation/Christopher J. Holcroft: Wikipedia warning it is in the wrong area. Apologies.

Your article was in the correct location, the warning was simply that the sandbox template was still in place when you article was no longer in the sandbox. I have moved it to the correct location. This section header should be the link. We will be looking at your article soon, but you can continue to work on it in it current location if you like.

I can tell from your article that you are familiar with HTML. The Wiki uses a special extension of HTML that make many tasks very simple. You can review some of the information at WP:MARKUP.  Happy Editing. --  :- ) Don 02:11, 9 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation

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Welcome to Wikipedia! Need a hand?

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Hello! 7Lawrence, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about 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! SarahStierch (talk) 07:11, 9 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

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Hello, 7Lawrence. You have new messages at Dcshank's talk page.
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  Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button   or   located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when they said it. Thank you.  :- ) Don 05:25, 12 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation

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Christopher J. Holcroft, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!

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Articles for creation

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Looking at The Scott Morrow Adventure Trilogy‎, I'd highly recommend that you submit your articles to the editing team before making them live. Pieces for the encyclopaedia need a basic amount of formatting and mark up so as to meet the projects guidelines. Please familiarise your self with Wikipedia:Starting an article and Help:Wiki markup. Please also note that nobody personally associated with the subject of the articles should be editing or creating content. Wikipedia regards this as a conflict of interest and the editor maybe blocked. Thank you. Span (talk) 00:19, 26 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

Conflict of interest

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  Hello, 7Lawrence. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article The Scott Morrow Adventure Trilogy, you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

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  • Exercise great caution so that you do not accidentally breach Wikipedia's content policies.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant content policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you.


This warning is based on the photograph you took of the subject and included in the article. Given that it appears to be taken in a studio setting and not at a public event (e.g., book signing), it suggests that you have access to or some (business?) relationship with the author. —C.Fred (talk) 03:11, 26 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

Your article has been moved to AfC space

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Hi! I would like to inform you that the Articles for Creation submission which was previously located here: User:7Lawrence/The Afterlife Series has been moved to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Afterlife Series, this move was made automatically and doesn't affect your article. Your draft is waiting for a review by an experienced editor, if you have any questions please ask on our Help Desk! Have a nice day. ArticlesForCreationBot (talk) 10:29, 27 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation

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Your submission at Articles for creation

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Only The Brave Dare

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Your contributed article, Only The Brave Dare

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Only The Brave Dare

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This is an automated message from MadmanBot. I have performed a search with the contents of Only The Brave Dare, and it appears to be very similar to another Wikipedia page: The Scott Morrow Adventure Trilogy. It is possible that you have accidentally duplicated contents, or made an error while creating the page— you might want to look at the pages and see if that is the case. If you are intentionally trying to rename an article, please see Help:Moving a page for instructions on how to do this without copying and pasting. If you are trying to move or copy content from one article to a different one, please see Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia and be sure you have acknowledged the duplication of material in an edit summary to preserve attribution history.

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Please don't add unsourced material to Wikipedia

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Your submission at Articles for creation

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May 2013

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Afterlife Series concern

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Your submission at Articles for creation: The Scott Morrow Adventure trilogy (September 26)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: The Afterlife Series (October 3)

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We do not embed links in the body of an article. Please stop reverting. Span (talk) 23:12, 6 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

You are still embedding links in the article. WP:EL says external links "should not be used in the body of an article". They are only for the section entitled "External links" at the bottom of the page. This has been going on for over a year. You have been advised (above) that editing your own or your family's page counts as conflict of editing. You are still adding your signature to the article content. There are many help pages that have already been linked for you to learn the basic of how to use Wikipedia. Please use them. If you have a question or don't know how to do something, place the tag {{helpme}} on your talk page and an editor will come and assist. If you continue to add embedded links you may be blocked for disruptive editing. Span (talk) 13:46, 12 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

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Please read WP:SIGLINK. It may be that you unintentionally clicked the box "Treat the above as wiki markup" in your preferences. --David Biddulph (talk) 05:38, 19 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

Teahouse talkback: New messages!

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Hello, 7Lawrence. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Afterlife Series concern

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Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Afterlife Series, a page you created, has not been edited in 6 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Afterlife Series

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Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/The Scott Morrow Adventure trilogy

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Alert request for enforcement

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Editorial additions have been been made without consultation by this user that are contentious , containing extraneous details largely unrelated to the life and career of the subject. They exhibit personal bias and are of limited interest. Edits have been made to address these issues by reediting https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M._H._Holcroft&oldid=691803684 and the reasons for this have been consistently and clearly identified. No reasons have been identified in the corresponding edits of editor against who this complaint is lodged. The additions are of peripheral and limited interest to the topic of the subject and appear out of all proportion to the life and subject of the wikipedia entry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reluctanteditor2 (talkcontribs) 09:00, 22 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Hi,
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July 2016

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  Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! Gestrid (talk) 04:58, 13 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of Christopher Holcroft for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Christopher Holcroft is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christopher Holcroft until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Cordless Larry (talk) 06:37, 14 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Notability

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Regarding User:7Lawrence/Christopher Holcroft, I said at User talk:Ymblanter#Deletion of Christopher Holcroft page that I would bring the discussion here. In order to demonstrate notability, you need to show that Holcroft has been the subject of significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the topic. Your comments about his involvement in the scouts and the military do not establish notability as we understand that term on Wikipedia, unless someone has written about this involvement. Cordless Larry (talk) 06:32, 3 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

Also, can I ask you to consult Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and declare any relationship that you have with Holcroft? I see this issue raised above, but you don't seem to have responded to the request. Cordless Larry (talk) 06:45, 3 August 2016 (UTC)Reply
In fact, your signature here suggests that you are Christopher Holcroft. If that is the case, you need to read Wikipedia:Autobiography. Cordless Larry (talk) 07:15, 3 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

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  This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident in which you may be involved. Thank you. Cordless Larry (talk) 22:15, 10 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

Enough of this...

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For five years you have tried to put yourself on Wikipedia. You don't seem to understand that 1) you are not notable, 2) that you may not use Wikipedia for free advertising, 3) that you may not write about yourself on Wikipedia, and 4) in case you missed it the first time, that you are not notable. The explanation of these issues, I see, has been attempted several times, but apparently you don't want to listen. So you have a few choices: 1) Stop doing what you are doing, and contribute in a more productive way to Wikipedia, or 2) Stop doing what you are doing, and spend your time doing something else other than Wikipedia. In either case, the key is that you need to stop what you are doing. MSJapan (talk) 00:33, 12 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

MfD nomination of User:7Lawrence/Christopher Holcroft

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  User:7Lawrence/Christopher Holcroft, a page which you created or substantially contributed to (or which is in your userspace), has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:7Lawrence/Christopher Holcroft and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:7Lawrence/Christopher Holcroft during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Huon (talk) 00:13, 9 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Book:The Holcroft Authors

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The book Book:The Holcroft Authors has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

1 page book. Download as PDF feature is simpler for 1 page.

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated book prod}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the book's talk page.

Please consider improving the book to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated book prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes still exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and the miscellany for deletion process allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. ‑‑Trialpears (talk) 21:25, 22 December 2019 (UTC)Reply