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Hello Dbloom803 and welcome. I see from the Feedback Dashboard that you have a question about adding an author to Writers from SC. I'd be glad to help you but I'd need more info an what you'd like to do. There is no article List of writers from South Carolina. Are you wanting to add an article to Category:Writers from South Carolina? Message me if you would like further assistance. Herostratus (talk) 17:03, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your article has been moved to AfC space

Hi! I would like to inform you that the Articles for Creation submission which was previously located here: User:Dbloom803/Janna McMahan has been moved to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Janna McMahan, this move was made automatically and doesn't affect your article, if you have any questions please ask on my talk page! Have a nice day. ArticlesForCreationBot (talk) 21:59, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

You recently made a submission to Articles for Creation. Your article has been reviewed and because some issues were found, it could not be accepted in its current form; it is now located at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Janna McMahan. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. Feel free to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit once you feel they have been resolved. (You can do this by adding the text {{subst:AFC submission/submit}} to the top of the article.) Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Enfcer (talk) 22:55, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

re Janna McMahan

Hi Dbloom803. It's not game over yet. I'm going to take a crack at gussying up the article some, hope this is OK with you. Herostratus (talk) 03:13, 18 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Take a look at it now. It needs more work. In the section "Works and career" (maybe need a better name for that, IDK) I'm thinking something like:

McMahan writes fiction of (brief description of what her stuff is like, maybe mentioning her working-class background or whatever). Her first novel (name) (very brief description) was described as "(description)" by (publication). Her second novel... (etc.)

But we need references for all that! This might be hard to get. Some general notes:

I don't know if this person is notable enough to have an article. See WP:NAUTHOR for our guidelines. She probably is, based on publishing three novels and, most particularly, having a best-seller (Snow Angels, even though really she was kind of piggybacking on Fern Michaels there). But it's marginal, and we need to make our case.
Need more refs! Can't use her own website as a reference. Southern Artistry has a bio -- but it looks to be just copied from her website, so no good. I think we can find some, but it'll take some digging. Wish we had that Herald-Journal article online ("Adversity Pushes Author to Write". Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, South Carolina): C2. March 9, 2008.) You don't have access to a hard copy do you? In a library maybe?
What would be golden would be a review of one her books in the Charleston paper. Or any paper.

Oh here's a good one: [1]. Has her hometown too. Can use a ref for some of the awards etc. here is a ref for the Flannery O'Connor award thingy, good. Signing off now, passing the ball back to you for now.

But those are blogs etc. and likely to be challenged. See WP:RS for our rules on what is a reliable source. What I'd really like to see, as I said, is stuff in real newspapers.

To be continued. Herostratus (talk) 05:25, 18 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

You recently made a submission to Articles for Creation. Your article has been reviewed and because some issues were found, it could not be accepted in its current form; it is now located at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Janna McMahan. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. Feel free to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit once you feel they have been resolved. (You can do this by adding the text {{subst:AFC submission/submit}} to the top of the article.) Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Chzz ► 11:46, 23 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Janna McMahan concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Janna McMahan, a page you created has not been edited in at least 180 days. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace. If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements. If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13. Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 04:19, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your article submission Janna McMahan

Hello Dbloom803. It has been over six months since you last edited your article submission, entitled Janna McMahan.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. HasteurBot (talk) 22:02, 22 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to continue working on the Janna McMaham page. A wikipedia page is so hard to do that I keep putting it off to another day. DBloom

I restored it to User:Dbloom803/Janna McMahan. However, please actually work on it (your last edit to it had been about 2 years ago) to make it become a viable article. Userspace is not an indefinite holding-pen (some editors get concerned if userspace starts to look like a way to trick the system into hosting content that was already rejected). DMacks (talk) 14:09, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at AfC Janna McMahan was accepted

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Sionk (talk) 22:37, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]