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Your submission at Articles for creation: OpenHAB (March 22)

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

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the general guideline on notability and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Sourcing hasn't improved significantly from when this article was deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/OpenHAB. In this state it would likely be deleted again.

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MrOllie (talk) 14:11, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Derk van der Wal, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that 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! MrOllie (talk) 14:11, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Derk van der Wal. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 20:43, 3 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: OpenHAB (April 5)

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

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of websites and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Deleted 4 times before with concerns that thinly still apply here, and that's whether there's enough convincing for an article; what would highly benefit here is major reviews and also, note that notability cannot be inherited from others as pages are judged by their own merits.

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SwisterTwister talk 17:36, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: OpenHAB (April 8)

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

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the general guideline on notability and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

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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Yashovardhan (talk) 05:59, 8 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Categories on draft pages

We keep those extra ':' characters in categories on Draft pages so they don't become linked in categories that should only list Wikipedia pages that have been moved to the article mainspace - in short, please leave them in there until your draft gets accepted. - MrOllie (talk) 17:31, 11 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: OpenHAB (April 13)

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

This submission does not appear to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Entries should be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources. Please rewrite your submission in a more encyclopedic format. Please make sure to avoid peacock terms that promote the subject.

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TheSandDoctor (talk) 17:36, 13 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: OpenHAB (May 8)

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

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the general guideline on notability and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

The comment the reviewer left was:

This article is about an example of home automation software, a list of which exists at List of home automation software and it seems to me that this article is created with the desire to see it listed amongst the other products, rather than this product being notable in its own right to the level required of a Wikipedia article. There are some other products in the list that have Wikipedia articles and are also questionably notable, but that isn't a reason for creating one more article of questionable notability. For this article to be approved, I believe there would need to be coverage beyond reviews, or articles by bloggers.

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Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 17:47, 8 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: OpenHAB (May 11)

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

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the general guideline on notability and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Sources as requested by Curb Safe Charmer have not been added. We really do need sources beyond simple blogs and reviews.

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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MrOllie (talk) 18:58, 11 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:OpenHAB has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:OpenHAB. Thanks! Hasteur (talk) 19:36, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]