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Feldhues Group moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Feldhues Group, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more in-depth coverage about the subject itself, with citations from reliable, independent sources in order to show it meets WP:GNG. It should have at least three, to be safe. And please remember that interviews, as primary sources, do not count towards GNG.(?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 15:56, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

May 2023

Hello. Some of your recent genre changes, such as the one you made to Lido Shuffle, have conflicted with our neutral point of view and/or verifiability policies. While we invite all users to contribute constructively to Wikipedia, we urge all editors to provide reliable sources for edits made. When others disagree, we recommend you seek consensus for certain edits by discussing the matter on the article's talk page. Thank you. Doctorhawkes (talk) 05:34, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

June 2023

Hello AbsentPat. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Devin Millar, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:AbsentPat. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=AbsentPat|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Sam Kuru (talk) 23:24, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm struggling to find sources of this guy, but I found him and was surprised he didn't have a page yet. It already does looks like someone else tried to make this but though from the looks if it it seems like he changed in popularity compared to the last time a page of him was attempted. But for your information, no I am not paid. AbsentPat (talk) 23:29, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You're almost exclusively adding paid/fake/seo sources. Please stop. If you're not able to evaluate reliable sources, then it would be a very good idea to avoid WP:BLPs. Sam Kuru (talk) 23:33, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Well sometimes it can be hard to tell considering how close most of them look to actual magazines and news sources. AbsentPat (talk) 23:37, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am going to try to pay more attention to these. Looking back it really looks someone ordered a lot of PR for themselves. Thank you for the tip. AbsentPat (talk) 23:39, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:Feldhues Group has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Feldhues Group. Thanks! Robert McClenon (talk) 19:07, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Feldhues Group (June 17)

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

Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Feldhues Group instead.

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Two copies of this page have been created, in draft space and in article space. It is not necessary to create two copies of the same page, and it annoys the reviewers. This is sometimes done in order to bypass Articles for Creation review. However, if a submitter is ready to have the article in article space, it can be moved into article space, rather than creating a copy. It is common for a page that has been duplicated in draft space and in article space to be nominated for deletion or proposed for deletion. If the article is kept, this draft should be redirected to the article. If the article is deleted, this draft may be kept for future improvement.

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Robert McClenon (talk) 19:09, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Devin Millar (June 18)

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

Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Devin Millar instead.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Two copies of this page have been created, in draft space and in article space. It is not necessary to create two copies of the same page, and it annoys the reviewers. This is sometimes done in order to bypass Articles for Creation review. However, if a submitter is ready to have the article in article space, it can be moved into article space, rather than creating a copy. It is common for a page that has been duplicated in draft space and in article space to be nominated for deletion or proposed for deletion. If the article is kept, this draft should be redirected to the article. If the article is deleted, this draft may be kept for future improvement.

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Robert McClenon (talk) 20:45, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Erika (singer) moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Erika (singer), is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. EdmHopLover1995 (talk) 01:36, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

July 2023

Thank you for your edit to the disambiguation page Hello (disambiguation). However, please note that disambiguation pages are not articles; rather, they are meant to help readers find a specific article quickly and easily. From the disambiguation dos and don'ts, you should:

Only list articles that readers might reasonably be looking for
Use short sentence fragment descriptions, with no punctuation at the end
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- Only add a "red link" if used in existing articles, and include a "blue link" to an appropriate article
Do not pipe links (unless style requires it) – keep the full title of the article visible
Do not insert external links or references

Thank you. Dr Greg talk 01:54, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Machine-translated articles

Please stop creating machine-translated articles (and untranslated articles in case of dewiki) in other language versions. You have already been blocked in the Danish Wikipedia and the German Wikipedia for that reason.

It is expected that translators are competent in the languages they are creating articles in. It does not matter if it a translation or not. Bare machine translations without working out the kinks is generally not allowed. You are generating work for the regular editors in other wikis who now have to check your articles, see if some are salvageable or delete them. Count Count (talk) 04:56, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Jaba Daba (Caveman)

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Nomination of Kelvin Krash for deletion

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Ways to improve Natural Born Hippies

Hello, AbsentPat,

Thank you for creating Natural Born Hippies.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

Looks like a good start, could use some copy-editing for grammar, but overall no major issues.

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IceBergYYC (talk) 15:14, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Machine translations

Please, stop creating machine translated articles in so many languages. This just provide more workload for editors. Your account was requested to be globally locked, but I decided to give you another chance. Please, cooperate. —Teles «Talk to me˱_{M @ C S}˲» 02:31, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination of Devin Millar for deletion

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Your draft article, Draft:Erika (singer)

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. ✗plicit 08:06, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Meet Arnold moved to draftspace

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Proposed deletion of F'real (disambiguation)

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F'real (brand) moved to draftspace

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I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi AbsentPat. Thank you for your work on Harvey's Butter Rum Batter. Another editor, Babegriev, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Nice start for an article. I'd suggest better structuring this article. As-is, it speaks about the company, the product and the founder all somewhat anonymously. Better structuring and some WP:CE would go a long way.

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Nomination of Dot's Homestyle Pretzels for deletion

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