Theresa Conner

Your submission at Articles for creation: Moriba Jah (November 19)

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Dan arndt (talk) 08:31, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Theresa Conner! 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! Dan arndt (talk) 08:31, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

How to write articles that will not be deleted

If you're going to write an article about anyone or anything that is not you or something you are connected to, here are the steps you should follow:

1) Choose a topic whose notability is attested by discussions of it in several reliable independent sources.

2) Gather as many professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources you can find. Google Books is a good resource for this. Also, while search engine results are not sources, they are where you can find sources. Just remember that they need to be professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources.

3) Focus on just the ones that are not dependent upon or affiliated with the subject, but still specifically about the subject and providing in-depth coverage (not passing mentions). If you do not have at least three such sources, the subject is not yet notable and trying to write an article at this point will only fail.

4) Summarize those sources left after step 3, adding citations at the end of them. You'll want to do this in a program with little/no formatting, like Microsoft Notepad or Notepad++, and not in something like Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer. Make sure this summary is just bare statement of facts, phrased in a way that even someone who hates the subject can agree with.

5) Combine overlapping summaries (without arriving at new statements that no individual source supports) where possible, repeating citations as needed.

6) Paraphrase the whole thing just to be extra sure you've avoided any copyright violations or plagiarism.

7) Use the Article wizard to post this draft and wait for approval.

8) Expand the article using sources you put aside in step 3 (but make sure they don't make up more than half the sources for the article, and make sure that affiliated sources don't make up more than half of that).

Doing something besides those steps typically results in the article not being approved, or even in its deletion.

If you are writing about yourself, or someone or something you are connected with (such as a friend, family member, or your business), the following steps are different:

1) If the subject really was notable, you wouldn't need to write the article. Remember that articles are owned by the Wikipedia community as a whole, not the article subject or the article author. If you do not want other people to write about you, then starting an article about yourself is a bad idea.

8a) If the article is accepted, never edit it again. Instead, make edit requests on the article's talk page.

8b) If the article is rejected, there will be a reason given. Read it carefully and closely. If there are links in the reason, open them and read those pages.

Note: Wikipedia does not auto-fill article space. If something is automatically filling out, that's something installed on your end. Ian.thomson (talk) 06:27, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Moriba K. Jah

Hi Theresa Conner. This is just to let you know that I have moved Moriba K. Jah to Draft:Moriba K. Jah. I did this because it appears that you added your draft to article namespace by mistake. If the page had been left in the article namespace, it would've was almost certain to have ended up being deleted since it's nowhere near close to being ready for article status. At least this way, the content has been preserved and you will be able to keep working on the draft and trying to bring it more in accordance with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines. My suggestion to you would be to take a bit of time to read through the following pages since they contain information you should find helpful in improving the draft.

1. Wikipedia:Your first article
2. Wikipedia:Writing better articles
3. Help:Referencing for beginners
4. Wikipedia:Reliable sources
5. Wikipedia:Notability (academics)
6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style
7. Wikipedia: Five pillars
8. Wikipedia:Articles for creation

Best of luck with the draft. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:13, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Final warning

DO NOT copy text from sources onto the site.

DO NOT cite or copy from Moriba K. Jah's CV again. Wikipedia is not a resume hosting site.

Follow the instructions in the above section if you are going to try to create the article again. Ian.thomson (talk) 07:13, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

@Ian.thompson I removed Dr. Jah's publications. The article as I wrote it is from a Word doc.

I had just opened the block menu when I saw this.

Stop writing it in Word. Follow the instructions I left above instead of copying and pasting something that will never get approved. Ian.thomson (talk) 07:23, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

OK, I will use the Word doc as a reference and re-write the article. ~~~~ Theresa Conner (talk) 07:25, 5 January 2019 (UTC)Thanks, Theresa

No, no, read the instructions first. If you had, you would have seen why that will not work. Ian.thomson (talk) 07:26, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

I will read the instructions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:640:8780:1063:648D:C4D0:3A05:6CE6 (talk) 07:27, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Why Moriba K. Jah?

What, if any, is your connection to Dr. Moriba K. Jah? Know personally? Asked/told to create an article about him? These types of connections need to be declared on your User page. David notMD (talk) 15:36, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

Your thread has been archived

Hi Theresa Conner! You created a thread called A portion of my wiki article was rejected due to "copyright infringement" when this portion actually auto-populated at Wikipedia:Teahouse, but it has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please create a new thread. Archival by Lowercase sigmabot III, notification delivery by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} (ban this bot) or {{nobots}} (ban all bots) on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:01, 11 January 2019 (UTC)