Desmond Maverick

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Virtue Clan (January 5)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Steve M 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.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Virtue Clan and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Virtue Clan, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Steve M (talk) 20:05, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Desmond Maverick! 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! Steve M (talk) 20:05, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Virtue Clan (January 6)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Berrely were:  The comment the reviewer left 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.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Virtue Clan and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Virtue Clan, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

— Yours, Berrely • ^Talk∕_Contribs 18:39, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Sandeep Kumar Mishra (January 7)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong was:  The comment the reviewer left 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.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Sandeep Kumar Mishra and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Sandeep Kumar Mishra, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Theroadislong (talk) 13:52, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Teahouse

See response and actions triggered by your question at Teahouse. David notMD (talk) 02:29, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Your cut and paste move of draft:Sandeep Kumar Mishra to the mainspace

Hi Desmond. I've just finished cleaning up the very large mess you left with your edits (and have deleted Sandeep Kumar Mishra). Please don't ever do anything like this again.

1. You did a cut and paste move instead of using the move function. A "cut and paste move" is just as described: when the content of a page is transferred to a different title by copying and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This cannot be allowed and causes a big mess because it splits the page history, which is legally required for copyright attribution. When you use the move function to "move" a page, you are transporting its page history, where all the contributors of the content are listed.
2. By doing this, and stating nothing in an edit summary about what you were doing, you committed plagiarism, even if it was unintentional, because looking at the resulting mainspace article you copied and pasted, there was no way to tell the content was not yours. You were thus taking credit for someone else's work.
3. Because the draft received quite a few substantive edits while it was in the mainspace, this meant that the cleanup required to fix this (just so you know), took me the better part of an hour—to manually transfer back all the edits to the draft, noting each user's linked name, while copying back each edit from each version, and preserving the accompanying edit summaries.
4. In addition to the copyright problem created by the history no longer being attached to the content it arose from, because you did not follow Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia, and attribute the content to its source with a link when you saved the lifted content to the new title, you created not just a copyright mess but a copyright violation.
5. Additionally, this was a declined draft. This was submitted by its creator through the article for creation process, our gatekeeper process to vet content against our inclusion policies and guidelines before allowing it to be posted as an encylopedia article in the mainspace. It had been declined by three volunteers there with notes as to what was needed or missing for it to be "accepted" (in fact, last declined just yesterday by Theroadislong) – so what were you thinking when you ran roughshod over that process?
6. On that same issue, when you posted to the Teahouse about the page you wrote "I have got my first Wiki Page approved". ???"Approved"??? What could you possibly mean by that given your actions? That raises a lo-o-o-o-t of concerns. Are you the same person as Snowfall21?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 03:16, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

No Sir, I don't know that account. Desmond Maverick (talk) 06:16, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

I am Sorry for all of this mess. I won't let this happen again Desmond Maverick (talk) 06:17, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for this help Desmond Maverick (talk) 06:17, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Freelancing

Hi, Maverick. On your user page you mention that you have started freelancing on Upwork. If your freelance jobs include writing content for Wikipedia, then you will need to give some more detail on your user page. See WP:PAID for info. Pelagic ( messages ) – (00:19 Sun 10, AEDT) 13:19, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello messages, I have started my career in Upwork, But do not write Wikipedia Pages For them.My main job is Ghostwriting services and graphic designing. But if I create one for any client, I will mention that in my user page.Desmond Maverick (talk) 02:20, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigation

You are suspected of being a sockpuppet of George Maverick Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/George Maverick. You are allowed to respond there if you are not. If sockpuppetry confirmed, you will be indefinitely blocked. David notMD (talk) 17:12, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello David notMD, I don't know the above mentioned account. I am neither that account nor related to that account. I can provide Issued Id if needed for confirmation. Thanking You, Maverick.Desmond Maverick (talk) 02:10, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

If you are not, then you should state that at the investigation, in the section "Comments by other users." David notMD (talk) 02:18, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

I am not the editor who started the sockpuppet investigation. All I did was tell you about it. David notMD (talk) 02:21, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Virtue Clan

Hello, Desmond Maverick. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Virtue Clan, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 19:02, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Virtue Clan

Hello, Desmond Maverick. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Virtue Clan".

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 deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:55, 9 December 2021 (UTC)