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Your submission at Articles for creation: Gamini Wijesuriya (August 30)

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

A wikipedia article is not a CV. 'He' needs to be substituted with 'Wijesuriya' the first time it appears in each paragraph. The bibliography and list of speeches needs to be trimmed to the best-known 4-7, preferably on the basis of citation count. Integrate the list of degrees into the narrative text. Move the embedded hyperlinks into proper references (maybe use the helper at https://tools.wmflabs.org/refill/ ). Consider using Wikipedia:Authority control and Template:Infobox scientist.

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Stuartyeates (talk) 21:27, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Elizabeth Biggs! 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! Stuartyeates (talk) 21:27, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Gamini Wijesuriya (October 7)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly and verifiably has been released to the world under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license or into the public domain and is written in an acceptable tone—this includes material that you own the copyright to. You should attribute the content of a draft to outside sources, using citations, but copying and pasting or closely paraphrasing sources is not acceptable. The entire draft should be written using your own words and structure. Note to reviewers: do not leave copyright violations sitting in the page history. Please follow the instructions here.

You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

Draft:Gamini Wijesuriya may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
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Thine Antique Pen (talk) 23:01, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Elizabeth Biggs, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Draft:Gamini Wijesuriya have been removed, as they appear to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues here.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are PD or compatibly licensed) it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, the help desk or the Teahouse before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you must follow the copyright attribution steps in Wikipedia:Translation#How to translate. See also Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 23:13, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Gamini Wijesuriya (November 30)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SamHolt6 was:

Likely a notable subject, but the article needs to conform to WP:MOS.

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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SamHolt6 (talk) 15:36, 30 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Gamini Wijesuriya (February 27)

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

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 people). 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:

This appears to be sourced entirely to material written by the subject (apart, the is, from references 4, 5 and 7 which do not mention him at all. What we'd need to see is substantial in-depth coverage in independent reliable sources – material written by people with no connection to Wijesuriya, published in sources independent of him and his various employers. As an academic, he might also be considered notable if his published papers had received substantial attention from other academics, but that appears not to be the case – his citations are quite modest.

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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Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:40, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Gamini Wijesuriya (June 26)

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

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 for academics). 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:

The reason we require a certain amount of public visibility is so there is independent reporting on the subject that can be used to verify the content of the article. WP:V is particularly important for biographies. This requirement may be shortcut for subject with demonstrated credentials. This subject is far from qualifying for this.

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:Gamini Wijesuriya and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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~Kvng (talk) 23:17, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Gamini Wijesuriya concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Gamini Wijesuriya, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. 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) 01:22, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Gamini Wijesuriya concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Gamini Wijesuriya, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. 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) 01:23, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Gamini Wijesuriya

Hello, Elizabeth Biggs. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Gamini Wijesuriya".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! ~riley (talk) 08:24, 27 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]