User talk:JohnSWren

Recent edits to Colorado Caucus

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Colorado Caucus, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Materialscientist (talk) 09:30, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

All content added to Wikipedia must be verifiable, and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation. Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Zzyzx11 (talk) 09:33, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I might also suggest that you read Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion. Based on the content on your user page, and your web site that you link to, you seem to be advocating a particular political position regarding the Colorado Caucus. However, Wikipedia should be first and foremost an encyclopedia which aims to create a breadth of high-quality, neutral, verifiable articles and to become a serious, respected reference work. Articles must be balanced to put entries, especially for current events, in a reasonable perspective, and represent a neutral point of view. You may add factual information about the Colorado Caucus, but not opinionated statements, like how Colorado's use of the singular form of "Caucus" (as opposed to the plural Iowa Caucuses) "is a way to disparage the process", without a citation to a reliable, published source (and no, your own web sites would not normally count, see Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources#Self-published sources (online and paper)). Thanks. Zzyzx11 (talk) 10:33, 22 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Self-Directed Learning

Not at all synonymous with autodydactism There is professional association, journals, devoted to it. Should not be redirected! JohnSWren (talk) 00:17, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Self-analysis (March 27)

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Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 19:19, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (November 20)

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

We're sorry, but we cannot accept blank submissions. Please consider submitting to Wikipedia:Requested articles instead. If in fact you did include text within the article, but it isn't showing, please make sure that any extra text above your entry is removed, as it may be causing it to hide and not be shown to the reviewer.

The comment the reviewer left was:

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Your draft article, Draft:J. Fagg Foster

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Your draft article, Draft:Self-analysis

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. TKK! bark with me! 15:50, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:J. Fagg Foster

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Managing a conflict of interest

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A tag has been placed on John Scott Wren, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to John Scott Wren. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. DocFreeman24 (talk) 23:23, 8 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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