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Hello LewisT34, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Escambia County Board of County Commissioners (Florida) have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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Escambia County Fire Rescue (Florida) moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Escambia County Fire Rescue (Florida), 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 click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. DGG ( talk ) 04:14, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

April 2020

Your addition to Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. — Diannaa (talk) 16:12, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Escambia County Fire Rescue (Florida) (May 11)

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

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.

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:

Most of the references are just links to the department's own website.

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.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Escambia County Fire Rescue (Florida) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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-- RoySmith (talk) 22:02, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Metropolitan Police Department, City of St. Louis

I'm not quite sure what you're doing at Metropolitan Police Department, City of St. Louis, but I see huge chunks of text being moved and absolutely NO EDIT SUMMARIES to explain what you are doing. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:28, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Magnolia677 (talk) i thought i put the SUMMARIES on there did i not

Nope. Have a look at Help:Edit summary. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:38, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Magnolia677 (talk) i Basically moved stuff into the proper area and made it less cluster if that makes more sense

I figured out what you were doing. Part of the problem with not leaving an edit summary is that other editors have to guess what you are doing, and some may just revert your edit thinking it was vandalism. I often won't even look at an edit if the edit summary is detailed. Just leave an edit summary like "re-ordering sections for clarity", or something like that. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:49, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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June 2020

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October 2020

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give a page a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into St. Louis Sheriff's Department. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

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Your contributed article, St. Louis Sheriff's Office - City of St. Louis, MO

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Your draft article, Draft:Escambia County Fire Rescue (Florida)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Escambia County Fire Rescue (Florida) (December 2)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Dan arndt 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 (see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies). 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.

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Fails WP:NORG, requires significant coverage in multiple independent secondary sources. The Escambia County website is a primary source and therefore not independent.

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Sherman George moved to draftspace

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St. Louis City Justice Center moved to draftspace

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I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Sherman George. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 13:13, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Sherman George (June 21)

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Adminship

Hi, I noticed you have created a request for adminship : Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/LewisT34. Thank you for your interest and willingness to serve; however, you have less than 700 edits on the project, which is nowhere near enough for people to be able to evaluate your trustworthiness and level of responsibility. I'd advise you to delete this now (you can do this by adding {{db-g7}} at the top of the page) and once you have more experience, consider starting a poll at WP:ORCP. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 13:51, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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August 2024

Please do not add or change content without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Please stop adding random "stuff you know" to articles. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:33, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]