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Your submission at Articles for creation: Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) (August 16)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Loksmythe were:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

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 organizations and companies). 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:

Needs third-party, independent sources.

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.

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Loksmythe (talk) 21:33, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Austinkocher! 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! Loksmythe (talk) 21:33, 16 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) (August 19)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Zppix were:

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 organizations and companies). 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.

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

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.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, 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.

Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ _Talk 18:46, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Austinkocher, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! } -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:45, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for this input, Marchjuly. I'm trying to figure out how to next steps. I have removed the images from the page and asked a colleague who is unaffiliated with the TRAC institute to provide input on revising the posting the new entry for approval.

Your user page, and copyright issues

Austinkocher, I very much hope that you will read this additional advice from Marchjuly, and that you'll act on it. It would be easily done. Changing your user page from a third- to a first-person account might take anyone all of three minutes, but it's something that you should do: I for one am not going to tamper with your user page, though I'm quite prepared to nominate it for deletion if it remains in its current state.

I'm sure that such carping annoys, but TRAC seems to merit an article; so even if removing obstacles is annoying, I think that the removals are worth the (minor) effort. -- Hoary (talk) 00:31, 18 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I'm not sure how to change my userpage to first person, but I would be glad to do that. I'm not even 100% sure I care about having a page on Wikipedia, I was just trying to figure out how to add content to the site properly.

Thank you for attending to the copyright concerns. Changing the userpage to first person would be very simple. From:

Dr. Austin Kocher is a faculty fellow with the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a research institute that uses Freedom of Information Act requests to study the federal government. Key areas of Kocher’s current research at TRAC. . . .

to for example:

I'm Dr. Austin Kocher, a faculty fellow with the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a research institute that uses Freedom of Information Act requests to study the federal government. Key areas of my current research at TRAC. . . .

-- Hoary (talk) 23:46, 18 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Draft:Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse

Draft:Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Draft:Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. GreaterPonce665 ^(TALK) 19:51, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]