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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (February 9)

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

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of people and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), 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.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Not significant to satisfy our standards.

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SwisterTwister talk 23:57, 9 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Help with referencing

I have added two references to my entry so as to establish 'notability' as requested, but the first one, [3] Biltereyst and Meers, is producing an error message, saying reference is empty, even though it appears in the reference list below. I have tried several times to correct this myself, but can't work out what is the problem. Also, can you advise if there are now sufficient references for the box at the top to be removed? Thanks, John Sinclair Johngs 05:19, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Johngs. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page John Sinclair (sociologist), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

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