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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (December 11)

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

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

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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Legacypac (talk) 03:14, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Joshua.T.Burns! 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! Legacypac (talk) 03:14, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, User:Joshua.T.Burns/sandbox

Hello, Joshua.T.Burns. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "sandbox".

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.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 21:12, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: CMTPedS (January 15)

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. 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:

I've not been able to find reliable, WP:SECONDARY sources supporting the notability of this invention. Not every invention, device, technology, etc. is notable and worthy of inclusion in the project. Please read Wikipedia:Notability. 5 of 7 of the references noted are primary sources, and it's possible the first two are as well, but I've not been able to confirm. I have found sources, but they are press releases; [1][2]. See WP:SELFPUBLISH. I am also concerned about the apparent conflict of interest, as the author of this draft is User:Joshua.T.Burns, and http://calculator.cmtpeds.org/ shows Professor Josh Burns as being one of the key people on this project. --Hammersoft (talk) 00:40, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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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Hammersoft (talk) 00:40, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Understand; we are not trying to throw obstacles in front of you, nor make this process frustrating. We have Wikipedia:Notability standards, and need to have such standards to prevent Wikipedia from being overwhelmed with articles from literally hundreds of thousands of companies, research groups, etc. who are trying to promote their product. Wikipedia is also not a means of promotion, so trying to get an article on here so that it comes up in searches as you suggested here is not why Wikipedia exists. I'm sure you can appreciate our need to take a stance on this, as otherwise we simply wouldn't be an encyclopedia. Instead, we'd just be a host for press releases. It is critically important to find reliable, secondary sources to support the content of an article and help us determine if the subject of the article is truly notable. Note please that I am not doubting the existence of the technology; it obviously does. That's not the point.
There's also a very serious issue of your apparent conflict of interest, as you self identify here as Joshua.T.Burns, and there is a Professor Josh Burns at http://calculator.cmtpeds.org/. While it is possible to write about subjects with which you are closely affiliated, there are rather large potential pitfalls, and it can be quite difficult to successfully do so. Further, the terms of service of Wikipedia require disclosure of any paid editing. I'm putting a standard warning regarding paid editing below this section. Please heed it.
Again, none of this is intended to dissuade you. I am trying to help you. Work with us, not against us. If you have questions, let me know. I am watchlisting this page which means if you post anything to this talk page, I will be aware of it, so ask any questions here you may have and I'll be happy to answer. Thanks, --Hammersoft (talk) 00:48, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If there is anything not covered here, also see this.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:21, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Paid editing notice

Hello Joshua.T.Burns. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Draft:CMTPedS, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Joshua.T.Burns. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Joshua.T.Burns|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. --Hammersoft (talk) 00:49, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:CMTPedS

Hello, Joshua.T.Burns. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "CMTPedS".

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.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 21:20, 17 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]