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Conflict of interest

Hello, Cabeaux. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Draft:Robert L. Casebeer, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. --Hammersoft (talk) 18:22, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Cabeaux, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Draft:Robert L. Casebeer have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 19:37, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

I received the following message ″All or some of your addition(s) to Draft:Robert L. Casebeer have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder″

Some of the deleted material, particularly in the 'Early Life' section, was my own material, taken from a web page that I administer. Since I authored the text in question, I don't understand why I would otherwise need to cite it, nor even what the form for that would be.

Secondly, I'm apparently under the mistaken assumption that the Draft version of an entry is a 'work-in-progress' page, not subject to editorial scrutiny until it's submitted for publication on the wikipedia website. Obviously, this isn't the case, as other material was deleted before I even had the chance to properly paraphrase and cite it. I placed the information in the Draft entry as a memory-jogging starting point for my later edits, and never intended to leave it in that form in the final submission version.

I'm unclear on what the purpose of the Draft page is, if, at every step of the way, it's supposed to conform to a final entry. This seems to wholly negate the 'Submit Your Draft for Review' button. Please advise. Thanks!

Cabeaux (talk) 02:31, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Robert L. Casebeer

Hello, Cabeaux. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Robert L. Casebeer".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. CptViraj (📧) 08:34, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

• Deleted per WP:CSD#G11 as spam. – Athaenara ✉ 09:12, 19 June 2019 (UTC)