User talk:MarkPopeEDD

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Robert Rocco Cottone, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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CyanGardevoir ^{(used EDIT!)} 11:16, 26 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 20:03, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Church_of_Belief_Science

Hi Excirial

I am the author of an article for creation on the Church of Belief Science. Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Church_of_Belief_Science

You edited it and gave some good advice. So I've made some changes. I am new to this. I have only done one other page. So your help is appreciated. Here's what I've done to address your concerns. I edited down the section on the Church Canons, abbreviating them to save space and to make it more readable. I also added a section entitled "Criticisms" with references. I think this answers your concerns. I was confused to your mention of some catch phrases, and I guess you mean the ones that are bolded. Feel free to unbold or remove quotes around any terms that you feel are meant to be catchy rather than informative. I would appreciate anything you can do to finish this article. Send me a note if there are other concerns or if I didn't adequately address your issues.

MarkPopeEDD (talk) 02:51, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I did another pass over the article, and having a closer look at it i noticed a rather important issue with the article which I only noticed it after reader and checking the usage of the various references in the article itself. It looks as if the content doesn't seem to be supported by reliable sources and thus doesn't seem to pass the notability criteria in its current state (Which is necessarily for inclusion).

As of the moment there are 3 references cited - 3 books by "Cottone, R. R", and 3 other books. The books by "Cottone, R. R" do, par definition, not pass the reliable sources criteria as they are written by someone closely involved with the subject (Seeing that Robert Rocco Cottone is the founder of the church). I assume that the first response to this would likely be "But Robert Rocco Cottone was accepted, and it only quotes those" - yet policy-wise this acceptance was an error by the reviewer accepting it, since all these sources fall under the self published criteria. As for that matter i already left a notice on the users talk page.

The other three sources have an issue as well - they are not used to cite any of the main article content which is what a reliable source does, but are instead a footnote for a comparison (Persons X's theory looks similar to what person Y wrote hereandhere [Reference]) In other words this means that the relation of these sources with the article's subject is De minimis, which means that they sail the Signification coverage criteria.

Summarized i would say that both article's seriously lack in this department, and that this is especially a bad thing for the Robert Rocco Cottone as this is a biography of a living person, which requires exceptional quality sourcing to begin with. Excirial^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 14:09, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Topher385 (talk) 22:47, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: User:MarkPopeEDD/sandbox (June 28)

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Fiddle Faddle 17:57, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! MarkPopeEDD, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about 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!

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello MarkPopeEDD, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to User:MarkPopeEDD/sandbox has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Fiddle Faddle 17:57, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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