DrewBasile

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Hello, DrewBasile, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:51, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks for your note. Wikipedia requires that you disclose any paid editing activity - see Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure and Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest#Paid_editors for more details. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:49, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

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Offhand I'm concerned that the article you created on Your Language My Ear doesn't establish notability for the program. Keep in mind that it's not going to inherit notability from being held in a notable location or run by a notable institution. The same thing goes for notable persons being involved. The content being published somewhere is unlikely to give notability unless this is covered somewhere in an independent source. It's kind of assumed that papers or work put out during a symposium will be published somewhere, so this in and of itself could be seen as routine.

What's needed here are sourcing that covers the event that is independent and reliable. For example, a newspaper article or writeup in an academic or scholarly press would be seen as a reliable source, as long as it wasn't written by someone affiliated with the event, whereas an official website of the event would be seen as primary. You can use primary sources, but they should be used sparingly. However keep in mind that if the source just reprints a press release or is a routine notification of an event (ie, times and place listing), then that won't be seen as a notability giving source regardless of where it's posted. Also, the work that was created during the event would be seen as primary even if it's published elsewhere. If the work was not created specifically for the event but was discussed, then keep in mind that notability for that work wouldn't show notability for the event - you need things that specifically cover the event.

I've moved your article back to your userspace to User:DrewBasile/Your Language My Ear, as I'm a bit worried that it may be nominated for deletion if it were to remain live. This way you can continue to work on the draft without fear of it being deleted. If you cannot find coverage to show notability then there are other options - for example, you could summarize the content into 1-2 paragraphs and add it into a subsection in the main page for the Kelly Writers House, as it has a section devoted to events and programs. This may actually be the best option here, as most symposiums don't get the type of coverage needed to establish notability. They tend to not attract a lot of mainstream attention and when it comes to topic specific coverage, they have to duke it out with other, similar-ish events. There's typically not enough topic specific outlets/writers to cover everything, so the more major things tend to be what gains coverage.

Anywho, I hope this helps! Definitely feel free to ask myself or Ian for any help. I'm going to be on sporadically, but you can always tag me by including {{ping|ReaderofthePack}}. Just make sure that it doesn't include the nowiki tags when using it. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 21:01, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Ithamore

Hello, DrewBasile. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Ithamore".

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.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 16:19, 12 January 2021 (UTC)