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  Hello Rvbcave, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Draft:Capt. John Zumrick, M.D. have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Capt. John Zumrick, M.D. (April 28)

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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 KylieTastic 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.
KylieTastic (talk) 10:41, 28 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
 
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AfC notification: Draft:Capt. John Zumrick, M.D. has a new comment

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I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Capt. John Zumrick, M.D.. Thanks! --Cameron11598 (Talk) 18:17, 16 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

William Hogarth Main

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This article is not about Capt. John or you, unsourced and overly biased anecdotes about you and your friendship are not appropriate or encyclopedic. Please do not restore this again, and also please read WP:COI, as you clearly have one here--Jac16888 Talk 13:06, 22 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

Would you like Bill’s phone number or email address to confirm any of this information? Zumrick was integral to Bill beginning work on the Hogarthian Configuration. I’m the only instructor teaching his methods purely. Rvbcave (talk) 14:22, 22 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

For instance, this statement is wholly incorrect: “Described as "a perfectionist," Main and his dive partner Sheck Exley adopted the long hose devised by Exley and began to look at other ways to improve the minimalism, efficiency, and safety of every component of his dive gear“

Zumrick is the person who invented the long hose, not Exley. Rvbcave (talk) 14:29, 22 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

In that case I have removed that sentence altogether. A phone number is not a reliable source, we have no way to verify it's truly the person in question and even if we could "He told me himself" is not verifiable. Please find some real sources, and stop trying to add content about yourself, it's not appropriate--Jac16888 Talk 09:53, 23 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Capt. John Zumrick, M.D. (May 17)

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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 Legacypac 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.
Legacypac (talk) 11:04, 17 May 2018 (UTC)Reply