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Your submission at Articles for creation: SS Joe Webre has been accepted

SS Joe Webre, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 02:14, 22 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Michael S. Howell (February 23)

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

Please have a read through WP:MILPERSON. If you have questions, let me know. Thanks, --Hammersoft (talk) 00:20, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hammersoft (talk) 00:20, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, GulfSails! 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! Hammersoft (talk) 00:20, 23 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Michael S. Howell (February 24)

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.

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SITH (talk) 15:37, 24 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: SS Alice McGuiggin (1893) has been accepted

SS Alice McGuiggin (1893), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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Otr500 (talk) 20:43, 7 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

SS Alice McGuiggin (1893)

There are comments at SS Alice McGuiggin (1893) you will likely be interested in. Otr500 (talk) 23:08, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - I saw them. The comments were correct and I corrected the record. My apologies on the late response - I still don't really 'get' how this running commentary works. GulfSails (talk) 07:27, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Michael S. Howell concern

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Your draft article, Draft:Michael S. Howell

Hello, GulfSails. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Michael S. Howell".

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 03:04, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username.

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Thank you. Missvain (talk) 23:16, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

GulfSails (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I have created MULTIPLE wikipedia pages that have been accepted. This feels incredibly arbitrary and as a maritime journalist and author, I have highly detailed knowledge on a variety of historic maritime subjects. This arbitrary block by User:Missvain without any explanation is enough for me to wash my hands of contributing to Wikipedia. I was about to correct this absolutely wrong bit of history on wikipedia that states that USS PC-565 sunk the lone Nazi submarine in the Gulf of Mexico during World War II as it is listed in SS Robert E. Lee (1924) when in fact it was USS PC-566 but I suppose that is irrelevant to whoever User:Missvain is. Ridiculous. If however, this reasoning has something to do with my username: GulfSails, let it be known that GulfSails is my username on twitter and was the name of my Hurricane Katrina blog which has been DEFUNCT for over a decade. This is not a BRAND, it is simply my username across multiple platforms. If this is the case, wikipedia is managed by some incredible nit-pickers who obviously do not value my contributions.

Accept reason:

I am going to remove the block because the username policy states "While plain domain names (without .com, .co.kr, etc.) are sometimes acceptable, such as when the purpose is simply to identify the user as a person"- which seems to be the case here. I also don't think that anyone will confuse this username with an old blog. 331dot (talk) 19:30, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GulfSails, please don't be too hard on Missvain; I understand why they imposed the block, as in general website names are not permitted as usernames; what I note above is a permitted exception. 331dot (talk) 19:32, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I have at times found contributing to wikipedia to be very tedious, especially when creating a new page. This block made me upset when I feel like I am and have been making some reasonably valuable contributions.

Your submission at Articles for creation: Gulf Yachting Association (February 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 Theroadislong 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. 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.

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Theroadislong (talk) 21:39, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Gulf Yachting Association has been accepted

Gulf Yachting Association, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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Theroadislong (talk) 10:32, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Rathbone DeBuys page

Hey GulfSails,

Not sure how to communicate effectively, but if you can read this I’d love to know more about the yacht clubs on the coast and any background on the DeBuys family.

I am also a journalist and history enthusiast living on the gulf coast closer to Gulfport MS.

My email is lyndle.berryhill@gmail.com

Feel free to contact me :) Lsberryh (talk) 23:34, 23 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]