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Your submission at Articles for creation: Tiantai dialect (November 25)

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 adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage (not just mere mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject—see the general guideline on notability, the golden rule and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners and Help:Introduction to referencing/1), 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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Theroadislong (talk) 22:14, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Jefs, 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! Theroadislong (talk) 22:14, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Tiantai dialect

Hi and thank you for contributing Draft:Tiantai dialect. I was thinking of accepting this Articles-for-creation submission, but before I do so, I was wondering if you could list the source(s) you've used in writing it. This will be really helpful. Cheers. – Uanfala (talk) 00:29, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I used this page at Baidu Baike ( https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%A4%A9%E5%8F%B0%E8%AF%9D ) and my wife's native speaker knowledge. Jefs (talk) 17:18, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Baidu Baike is user-contributed, like wikipedia, and so isn't a reliable source by any measure. The direct use of your wife's knowledge makes it original research (and one of the fundamental principles of wikipedia is that original research isn't accepted, see WP:OR). Nevertheless, I don't think these sourcing issue are likely to have a pronounced negative impact on the content, so I'll proceed to promote the draft as an article. But given the sourcing problems, it's possible the article might get nominated for deletion or converted into a redirect to the bigger dialect group. – Uanfala (talk) 18:37, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Tiantai dialect moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Tiantai dialect, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please submit it using the Articles for Creation template at the top of the page. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:45, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Tiantai dialect

Hello, Jefs. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Tiantai dialect".

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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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Dolotta (talk) 17:06, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]