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Hello, Ray Celine!

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Happy editing! Cheers, 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 12:25, 30 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (September 25)

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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 reasons left by HitroMilanese were: 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 after they have been resolved.
Hitro talk 07:25, 25 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
 
Hello, Ray Celine! Having an article draft 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! Hitro talk 07:25, 25 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (September 25)

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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 reasons left by Bonadea were:  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 after they have been resolved.
bonadea contributions talk 13:18, 25 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Vumile Msweli (September 26)

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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 reasons left by HitroMilanese were:  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 after they have been resolved.
Hitro talk 13:43, 26 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Ray Celine (September 30)

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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 Bonadea 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 after they have been resolved.
bonadea contributions talk 11:26, 30 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Vumile Msweli (September 30)

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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 reasons left by Bonadea were:  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 after they have been resolved.
bonadea contributions talk 11:31, 30 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Managing a conflict of interest

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  Hello, Ray Celine. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. bonadea contributions talk 11:32, 30 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Ray Celine

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A tag has been placed on User:Ray Celine requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

Inappropriate use of User: space. Draft:Vumile Msweli by the same editor exists

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, pages that meet certain criteria may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 12:24, 30 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Contested deletion

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This page should not be speedily deleted because (I just didn't know how to edit the previous one that's why I created a new one. I thought it was fine) --Ray Celine (talk) 12:30, 30 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

The previous draft is at Draft:Vumile Msweli, and you need to edit that rather than start new drafts in your user page. When you say you didn't know how to edit it, what specific problem(s) do you run into? --bonadea contributions talk 13:06, 30 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
Alright, this is acknowledge. Thankyou! Can you suggest how can my article be accepted? Ray Celine (talk) 13:09, 30 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

September 2024

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Hello, Ray Celine. Thank you for helping to build Wikipedia-- the world's largest free content encyclopedia. I'm sorry, but a page you created  User:Ray Celine has been deleted as meeting one or more of the criteria for speedy deletion.

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-- Deepfriedokra (talk) 18:44, 30 September 2024 (UTC)Reply