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Your submission at Articles for creation: Colin Plant (October 22)

Latest comment: 11 days ago2 comments1 person in discussion

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

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Doesn't meet WP:NPOL; that's the possible outcome if nominated for deletion after acceptance.

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.

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Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 00:16, 22 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello, User94928467319373! 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! Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 00:16, 22 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Colin Plant (November 1)

Latest comment: 1 day ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Please note that per WP:NPOL #2, politicians at the local level of office are not "inherently" notable enough for Wikipedia articles. The lowest level of political office that guarantees a Wikipedia article is the provincial legislature, while politicians at the local levels of office are eligible for articles only if they can be credibly shown to have much more nationalized significance, expanding well beyond just their own local area, than the norm for that level.
People also do not get articles just for being candidates in future elections, so his candidacy in the upcoming federal election is not grounds for an article either -- if he wins the seat, then he'll get an article at that time because he'll have passed WP:NPOL #1, but he's not eligible to have an article just for standing as a candidate for a parliamentary seat he hasn't already held.
But as for the referencing, what you've done here is called reference bombing, and it isn't looked kindly upon. We're concerned with the quality of the footnotes, not just the number of them, so just throwing every possible footnote you can find at the wall to get the number of footnotes up into the 80s does not secure passage of WP:GNG in and of itself. The footnotes are a mixture of primary sources that are not support for notability at all, glancing namechecks of his existence as a provider of soundbite in articles that aren't about him, and run of the mill local coverage in community hyperlocals, none of which constitutes proof that he's become a figure of nationalized significance.
Again, he'll get an article if he wins the federal election when it happens, but it still won't be allowed to look like this -- but just being a candidate is not grounds for an article in and of itself, and you've failed to demonstrate that he meets the criteria for the notability of a local regional district councillor in the meantime.

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.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Colin Plant and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Bearcat (talk) 15:39, 1 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

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