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Your submission at Articles for creation: Draft:Ervene C. Bragg (June 23)

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Fiddle Faddle 14:06, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Hello! DrRafiki, 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!

Copyright

It might seem silly, but you can't bring already published text into Wikipedia even if you wrote it. Wikipedia is licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0 for free reuse by anyone anywhere, including commercial use and modification. Your text doesn't seem to be licensed in this way, and so can't be used here. You could license it - but I wouldn't advise it. The text as it stands is not suitable for an encyclopaedia where neutral wording is of the essence. Wording like "The Lord greatly used Dr. Bragg for His service for he never wavered from His call to fulltime Christian ministry. The Lord can do great things through a surrendered life like that of Dr. Ervene C. Bragg." is quite suitable for a memorial site, and possibly even a Facebook page, but is not what is expected in an encyclopaedia that strives to be as neutral as possible. In view of his professorship and lengthy tenure, I feel that an article on him would probably be in order - but it would have to show compliance with WP:BIO for notability, and be sourced to reliable independent sources WP:RS - and be newly written to keep away from the existing wording. Please feel free to ask questions about the way we work - it must look a bit odd to people from outside at times. (It occasionally looks odd from the inside too...) Peridon (talk) 15:15, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Ervene C. Bragg (August 22)

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Fiddle Faddle 17:05, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Draft:Ervene C. Bragg concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Ervene C. Bragg, 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.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13.

Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:32, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Ervene C. Bragg

Hello, DrRafiki. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "Ervene C. Bragg".

The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code. Please note that Articles for Creation is not for indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you want to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by one of two methods (don't do both): 1) follow the instructions at WP:REFUND/G13, or 2) copy this code: {{subst:Refund/G13|Draft:Ervene C. Bragg}}, paste it in the edit box at this link, and click "Save page". An administrator will in most cases undelete the submission.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. HasteurBot (talk) 16:00, 30 March 2015 (UTC)