N12794

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Melissa N. Garrett (March 25)

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: 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.

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Theroadislong (talk) 21:08, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello, N12794! 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! Theroadislong (talk) 21:08, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Melissa N. Garrett (March 25)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Happysailor 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:Melissa N. Garrett 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:Melissa N. Garrett, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{db-self}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
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- Happysailor ^(Talk) 21:37, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Conflict of interest editing

Hello, N12794, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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Hi N12794. I've added the above welcome template after seeing your post on the user talk page of Theroadislong. The template claims some links to relevant Wikipedia pages which I think might apply to your situation. Wikipedia has lots of policies and guidelines that all wditors are expected to do their best to try and adhere to. Although Wikipedia doesn't expressly prohibit COI editing, it is something which is highly discouraged because it can and often does lead to other more serious problems. My suggestion to you would be to take a look at some of the pages linked to in the template just to familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines because this which help you avoid problems down the road. Some other pages you might want to take a look at are Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide, Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing and Wikipedia:Ownership of content for reference as well. I realize you are only working on a draft for a future article, and it's perfectly OK for you to continue to do so since it's assumed that the AfC reviewers evaluating the draft will point out any problems which need to be addressed before the draft is approved; however, you need to realize that things will change if the draft is approved as an article.

As for the draft itself, the primary reason articles are deleted from Wikipedia has to do with Wikipedia notability. Wikipedia has a special definition of "notability" that might not be the one you're accustomed to using, but this is what bascially detemines whether a draft is approved or rejected. For people, the general notability guideline is Wikipedia:Notability (people), but there are more specific guidelines as well such as guidelines for athletes, authors, professors, etc. What you are going to need to establish is that Garrett has received the significant coverage in (secondary) reliable sources to justify that a stand-alone article about her be added to the encyclopedia. The best way to do this is to provide citations to sources which show this. There's no set number of citations which need to be provided, but you should try to focus on the things that provide significant coverage (for example, a major writeup in a major newspaper, magazine, etc.) and avoid trying to add tons of citations to trivial things. Sometimes, it's simply WP:TOOSOON for a young author, etc. to have received the necessary significant coverage to support a Wikipedia article. This doesn't that what they are doing is not important or significant; it only means that it might take a little more time before a Wikipedia article is considered justified.

One last thing that often new editors seem to have difficulty understanding is "other stuff exists". Wikipedia currently over 5,000,000,000 articles. Some articles are well written and heavily edited, while others were directly added to the encyclopedia (maybe many years ago) and are hardly edited at all. Just because an article currently exists does not mean it should exist; it could be just a case that nobody has noticed it yet and taken steps to have it deleted. In some cases, it might take awhile until someone does and the article is properly assessed by other editors. That is why trying to justify one article should exist because other (similar) articles exist is not always a good idea, and it's better to show how Garret meets Wikipedia's notability guideline(s).

If you have any questions about the above, you can ask them here or you can ask for help at the Wikipedia Teahouse. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:12, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Melissa N. Garrett (March 26)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by The garmine 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:Melissa N. Garrett 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:Melissa N. Garrett, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{db-self}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
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The garmine ^(talk) 03:45, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, N12794, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or , and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! MAXNP (talk) 11:13, 1 April 2018 (UTC)