User talk:Legitimacy Matters

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Happy editing! Cheers, 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 14:07, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Links to draft articles

Please do not introduce links in actual articles to draft articles, as you did to Juan E. Méndez. Since a draft is not yet ready for the main article space, it is not in shape for ordinary readers, and links from articles should not go to a draft. Such links are contrary to the Manual of Style. These links have been removed. Thank you. - Arjayay (talk) 20:56, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is very useful. Thank you! Legitimacy Matters (talk) 09:03, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering (Mendez Principles) (August 16)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Mgp28 was:

This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:

in-depth (not just passing mentions about the subject)
reliable
secondary
independent of the subject

Make sure you add references that meet these criteria before resubmitting. 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:

This is a very important topic and clearly a lot of work has gone into the article. But the article seems to be pulling together information to show that interrogations should not involve torture, rather than information about this set of principles. Most of the references are older than the principles. The article needs some references discussing the principles: how have they been received? how are they making a difference?

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 after they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering (Mendez Principles) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Mgp28 (talk) 16:12, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Legitimacy Matters! Having an article draft 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! Mgp28 (talk) 16:12, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering (Mendez Principles) (October 16)

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

I am having difficulty with this submission. That difficulty is best expressed as a feeling that I am seeing a degree of WP:SYNTH and more straight forward WP:OR.

I see what appear to me to be conclusions drawn by the author. An example is "Analytically, the Méndez Principles hold that security investigation and interviewing can be lawful and practical. Lawful behavior generates effective interviewing. Effective interviewing stems from adherence to the law. In this respect, the Méndez Principles do not simply maintain that interviewers must comply with the law or that their responsibilities are compatible with legal norms as others have argued. They hold that the motivations to be lawful and practical are interdependent." which I read as the author's words, whereas they should be words in the author's words from the reference, without interpretation by the author.

I think this will benefit from some précis work. I feel that, were it to be accepted in this state, there is a risk that it would not stand a better than 50% chance of surviving an immediate deletion process. While I could have accepted it and risked that, that woudl risk the substantial work that the author has put in. Pushing it back for editing is the lesser of the two evils

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 after they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Principles on Effective Interviewing for Investigations and Information Gathering (Mendez Principles) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 14:06, 16 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]