Northmop

Speedy deletion nomination of File:James Martin (Minnesota politician).jpg

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Welcome!

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Draft talk:James Martin (Minnesota politician), which 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.

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Hello, Marchjuly, and thank you for your kind words. Would you be so kind as to tell me the conflict of interest you believe exists? Northmop (talk) 22:53, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

As I mentioned in my post on Fasily's user talk page, I added this template because it not only contains information about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for COI editing, but also because it contain links to other general pages about Wikipedia editing. When someone who hasn't edited in years returns to suddenly try and create an article about a questionably Wikipedia notable subject, there is often a concern as to why they are doing that. Anyway, I wasn't accusing you of any wrong doing; I was just only trying to make you aware of relevant policies and guideline just in case they might apply to your situation. If, however, you're not connected to Martin in any way and just want to create an article about him, then just ignore the template I added (you can even remove it if you want) and just keep working on the draft.

I did notice that the draft has already been nominated for deletion by another editor named Orange Mike; so, perhaps I'm not the only editor who thought the claim for Wikipedia notability for him is a bit iffy. Even though I think what SmokeyJoe posted about this being still only a draft is correct and as a draft this is probably OK to keep, I don't think this would survive a deletion discussion if this were an article. So, you should try to look for other significant coverage about Martin that goes beyond the lawsuit, etc. if you want to strengthen a case that an article should be written about him. He may be destined for great things as a politician and may be a great person, but unless he can meet WP:BIO (i.e. WP:POLITICIAN) or WP:GNG, it might be WP:TOOSOON for an article to be written about him. That doesn't mean, however, that you can continue to work on the draft. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:43, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, Marchjuly, for the reply. I'll make sure to keep all of this in mind. Northmop (talk) 08:49, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Draft:James Martin (Minnesota politician)

Draft:James Martin (Minnesota politician), a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:James Martin (Minnesota politician) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Draft:James Martin (Minnesota politician) during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Orange Mike | Talk 23:40, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Draft:James Martin (Minnesota politician) concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:James Martin (Minnesota politician), a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:32, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:James Martin (Minnesota politician)

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

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.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Majash2020 (talk) 03:47, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, Majash2020. I thought there was going to be more to this fellow, but it turns out there was not.

Northmop (talk) 14:33, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Lock Dam 1 1959.jpg

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