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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 19:35, 18 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Lawrence Tenney Stevens

Hi Exicrial,

You recently reviewed my submission on the sculptor Lawrence Tenney Stevens, and I got back a notice saying that you reviewed it and declined it, but I'm having a real issue figuring out how to view your comments and fix what I did wrong, as the notification was pretty unclear as to how to do that. Could you either recommend the correct way to do this, or even just repeat what your comments were? Thanks so much!

Gretchenea — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gretchenea (talk • contribs) 15:11, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hiyas there Gretchenea,

The decline reasons for an article are always left on the article itself, while the editor just receives a note that the article was declined. The article itself is present Here, and there is a red box on top that contains the decline reason itself (Note that it will always be there if someone declines an article, so if it happens again, just look there first :) ).

Since i'm writing anyway, i might just as well explain the comment a little further, and give a few examples as to why it was declined. The decline reason was that the article's tone isn't encyclopedic in some places, and has a tenancy to use some WP:Peacock words. For example:

Stevens amassed a large body of work over his lifetime that is indicative of his commitment to embodying the spirit of the west in sculpture (Subjective, promotional)
A dedicated patriot all his life, Stevens volunteered for the armed forces in 1917 to fight in World War I (non neutral, peacock wording)
Stevens took this to heart, and made it his personal artistic mission to use his sculpture to glorify that which was uniquely American (Mostly the same issues as above)

Having said the above, i feel i should also mention that the article does a lot of things entirely right, and i defiantly think it is going to be accepted after a little bit of polish (Or should i say: After a bit of natural Patina?).

Kind regards, Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 18:29, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

July 2012

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Your submission at Articles for creation

Lawrence Tenney Stevens, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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:- ) Don 04:42, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion

Hi Gretchenea,

Where did you get the information that the director asked that the article be taken down? He has no right, the material belongs to Wikipedia. -- :- ) Don 19:12, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

He left a demand on my talk page yesterday. You have a good article. There are too many people who like to see articles deleted, don't do it to yourself. We are behind you. I want to get to the bottom of this. Thanks. -- :- ) Don 21:46, 8 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dcshank, thank you so much for your support, this has been a difficult situation for me. I have been in direct contact with the director for most of this summer as I was doing background research on a set of bronze doors by Lawrence Tenney Stevens that I was conserving. The director provided me with a lot of information on the artist, as he is privy to Stevens' entire archive in Tempe, AZ, and from the information I got from him as well as several outside sources from our own archives and my online research I decided to make a page for Stevens on Wikipedia, since his art is scattered all over the Southwest. I created the page, and it went through rejection and repeated revisions before being published. Upon learning that the page was live, the director became very angry and has been demanding that I remove the page, even though I have made repeated efforts to explain the fluid nature of this site that facilitates refinement of information through discussion and that it was entirely within both his power and mine to edit anything he found objectionable or inaccurate. I apologize that you got dragged in as well, but I'm in total agreement that the page no longer belongs to me or him and should still be available for everyone. How do you recommend I proceed from here? The director has been making repeated demands on my supervisors and me all week...Also, thank you for saying my article was good! I worship Wikipedia, it really means a lot to me to be a part of it. Given the situation, I haven't yet found time to edit the close paraphrasing, but I hope to when this all blows over. I would really appreciate any advice as to how to handle this.

Also, thank you for protecting my page and for blocking his IP address when he blanked the entire page -___-