R.K. Elliott

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ukexpat (talk) 23:18, 30 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Book desert (March 31)

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

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the general guideline on notability and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

The comment they left was:

The references do not appear to indicate the notability of the concept of book deserts. Please provide references that explain the notability of the concept of book deserts, possibly in connection with how they should be addressed.

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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Robert McClenon (talk) 03:44, 31 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hello! R.K. Elliott, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that 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! Robert McClenon (talk) 03:44, 31 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Book desert (May 15)

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

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the general guideline on notability and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Interesting concept, but as the submission mentions, this is a recent idea. Wikipedia should only have articles about topics that have been discussed in reliable third party sources. Unfortunately, the provided sources do not mention book deserts by name, and since they are not included as inline references (with <ref></ref> tags), it is hard to tell how they support the information in the submission, and thus how they are relevant to the topic.

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Happy Squirrel (talk) 02:08, 15 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Book desert (August 6)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Tokyogirl79 was:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

The comment the reviewer left was:

At this point this term is a neologism to describe this concept. It's an interesting one and honestly, the topic as a whole is long overdue for discussion, however I don't know where the topic and term are notable enough for an article at this point in time. Some of the given sources don't actually use the term "book desert" and ones like this one by the ALA don't specifically discuss the idea in the article. This brings up concerns of this being original research. We can't have OR in articles, let alone have an article based primarily on OR. I personally agree with every single thing you've written here, it's just that there isn't enough in the article that is specifically about book deserts.

Now something else to be careful about is the sourcing. Things like about us pages should not be used as a source to establish notability because in this case it's considered to be a bit of a WP:PRIMARY source since it's an advocacy group writing about what they do. What you specifically need here are things like news articles and academic works about this concept. You have this here, but not enough of them to firmly assert notability - and it can sometimes take a lot to really back up a new idea because you need to establish how this concept/term is independently notable outside of literacy as a whole. To add a new, "fun" level of difficulty in this, you need to show where more than 1-3 people and/or groups have written about this topic.

I'm going to see what I can do here, if there's anything I can add or help out with to maybe help establish independent notability.

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Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:52, 6 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Book desert has been accepted

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Book desert, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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