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Your submission at Articles for creation: John Conacher Harrison (March 10)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.

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DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:20, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Lollywag! 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! DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:20, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

March 2022

Your edit to Draft:John Conacher Harrison 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.
You have created this draft by dint of multiple copyright violations. This is totally unacceptable.
I note your declared WP:COI. I will be asking you a formal question about this next Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 19:19, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have re-drafted this to avoid copyright violations. Should I simply re-submit the article? Lollywag (talk) 15:31, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Lollywag. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:John Conacher Harrison, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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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:Lollywag. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Lollywag|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. Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 19:19, 10 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I am a personal friend of the subject, who has asked me to write it because I have journalistic experience. I am not a paid advocate. Lollywag (talk) 15:32, 30 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I stated a while back that I am not a paid advocate of the subject of the article and have not received a response. I am a journalist and John Harrison is a friend of mine. He asked if I would write an article about him based on publicly available sources and I agreed to do so, which is why I disclosed a potential COI. But I am not a paid advocate... Lollywag (talk) 10:49, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:John Harrison (businessman) has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:John Harrison (businessman). Thanks! Tagishsimon (talk) 16:15, 24 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: John Harrison (businessman) (July 26)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Greenman 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 does not appear to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Entries should be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources. Please rewrite your submission in a more encyclopedic format. Please make sure to avoid peacock terms that promote the subject.

The comment the reviewer left was:

All statements need to be sourced (e.g. early life). Otherwise, WP:COI needs to be declared and hagiography rewritten. See also the declined Draft:John Conacher Harrison by the same contributor.

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.

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Greenman (talk) 19:31, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:John Conacher Harrison

Hello, Lollywag. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:John Conacher Harrison, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 01:47, 30 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:John Conacher Harrison

Hello, Lollywag. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "John Conacher Harrison".

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 deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. 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. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:04, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:John Harrison (businessman)

Hello, Lollywag. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:John Harrison (businessman), a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 20:02, 26 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:John Harrison (businessman)

Hello, Lollywag. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "John Harrison".

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.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:33, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:John Conacher Harrison

Hello, Lollywag. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "John Conacher Harrison".

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 deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. 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. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:10, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:John Harrison (businessman)

Hello, Lollywag. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "John Harrison".

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 deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. 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. Hey man im josh (talk) 11:27, 21 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]