Welcome!

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Donna Strickland (May 23)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Bradv was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.
Bradv 15:19, 23 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
 
Hello, Campbpt0! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering 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! Bradv 15:19, 23 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Kudos for Donna Strickland

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  The Press Barnstar
Excellent work on your article on Donna Strickland. Clearly, you were several months ahead of the curve. Thank you for your contributions. HiDrNick! 11:55, 3 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

I am very sorry you had a bad experience on the Wikipedia

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I am very sorry you had a bad experience with the deletionists on the Wikipedia. The article you wrote was a good article and Brad did make a serious mistake deciding that Donna Strickland was not a notable enough topic to include on the Wikipedia.

There are many old school Wikipedia editors here who are frustrated with the direction the Wikipedia went around 2007, allowing perfectly good articles like this to be rejected.

Thank you for your contributions and briefly being a part of our community. Samboy (talk) 18:33, 7 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

Mention in upcoming issue of The Signpost

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Your experience with the Donna Strickland AfC will be covered in the upcoming issue of The Signpost. If you are interested, the draft is here, and you can provide feedback to me on my talkpage. ☆ Bri (talk) 23:49, 8 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

Fallout from Donna Strickland submission

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@Campbpt0: I'm disappointed that you did not respond to my off-wiki invitation to join the conversation here at Wikipedia arising from your two edits on 28 March 2018 drafting a proposed Donna Strickland bio. In the event you reconsider, please let me pose a few questions.

1. On or after 23 May 2018, did you see the notice posted here at your talk page on that date by the reviewer declining your submission? Since it may in due course be archived, the notice explained in relevant part:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage (not just mere mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject. … Please improve the submission's referencing so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. … You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering 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!
2. If you saw that notice, why did you make no attempt to bring your draft up to acceptable standards, or ask for help in so doing, and resubmit it for approval?
3. Do you feel media coverage of this incident has been fair to Wikipedia? If not, why didn't you speak up?

I ask this in the hope that your replies can help us learn from an event that has damaged Wikipedia's reputation. I have no desire to discuss the content of your submission or the reasons it was declined; that debate is ongoing elsewhere. My interest is solely in your lack of follow-up to the reviewer's decision and your silence amidst the resulting, belated public outcry. KalHolmann (talk) 16:25, 10 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

Sounds to me that you're trying to shift the blame onto the author of the original Strickland article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.23.190.23 (talk) 01:48, 22 March 2020 (UTC)Reply