Alisondoepker

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:46, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Your draft

I moved your article back to your sandbox, because it isn't ready for mainspace yet.

Wikipedia articles need to be based on reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article. Currently, your sources include his page at the University of Georgia (which is not independent), an interview (which is not independent, since it's a person talking about themselves), a promotional bio from an LSA institute (probably something they wrote themselves, or something a close associate wrote), and a blurb from "World of Books", which is a bookseller. The last source, from the Linguistic Atlas Project, isn't about him.

You need to find independent sources. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:48, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi. I moved your draft back to your sandbox. Please address the issues I raised previously. Thanks. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:07, 3 May 2022 (UTC)