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Your submission at Articles for creation: Govindbhai Shekhda (March 14)

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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 Onel5969 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. Onel5969 (talk) 13:55, 14 March 2015 (UTC)Reply


 
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Govindbhai Shekhda has been accepted

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Govindbhai Shekhda, 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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>> Thank you User:Orduin -- Xscontrib (talk) 04:38, 16 March 2015 (UTC) xscontribReply

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Congratulations on the publication of your article! Good job! Quinto Simmaco (talk) 01:16, 16 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

>> Finally!! Quinto Simmaco - Xscontrib (talk) 04:38, 16 March 2015 (UTC) xscontribReply

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File permission problem with File:John D. Hunter.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:John D. Hunter.jpg, which you've attributed to http://numfocus.org/news/2012/08/28/johnhunter/. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

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Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

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Proposed deletion of John D. Hunter

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The article John D. Hunter has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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> The article has been supported with further references and a fresh CC 4.0 compliant image. Xscontrib (talk) 09:12, 8 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

Some comments. Firstly, please do not modify archived discussions. If you think there's more to be said on a topic that has already been archived, it's probably better to start a new discussion. Few people will look at the archive; comments thereto are likely to be missed. Secondly, please take another look at WP:Identifying reliable sources. Forums and (most) blogs are not subject to any editorial oversight and are not considered reliable sources for biographical content. I don't think many of the references that were added are simultaneously reliable and independent. Huon (talk) 22:22, 8 April 2015 (UTC)Reply
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