User talk:Matkadomu

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Sara Dahmen (American author) (July 25)

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

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:

If you could eliminate some of the peacock terms and remove the unsourced stuff per our policy on biographies of living persons, then it should be good.

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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RileyBugz ^会話 _投稿記録 18:08, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Matkadomu, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that 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! RileyBugz ^会話 _投稿記録 18:08, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reply to your Articles for Creation Help Desk question

Hello, Matkadomu! I'm NewYorkActuary. I have replied to your question about a submission at the WikiProject Articles for Creation Help Desk. NewYorkActuary (talk) 20:52, 1 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Response to comments at the Articles for Creation Help Desk

Hello again, Matkadomu. The conversation we had been having at the Help Desk is now in the process of being archived, so I thought it better to respond here. On a minor note, I agree that the Chanticleer review is not quite the same thing as the Chanticleer award. But when we use the winning of an award as evidence that a person has achieved encyclopedic notability, we expect that the award is a prestigious one. There can be reasonable disagreement as to whether a particular award is "prestigious", but I doubt that anyone here on Wikipedia would use that word to describe an award granted by an organization that writes favorable reviews to authors who pay for them.

As for the more substantive question, I think your draft on Sarah Dahman is probably not going to be accepted for publication (but feel free to try again -- another reviewer might take a different view than mine). But if you're looking for other women authors to write about, you might want to browse through any of the lists given at Category:American literary awards. For the most prestigious awards, the nominated authors already have articles, but this becomes less true for some of the lesser-known ones. You might well find quite a few good subjects for Wikipedia articles. NewYorkActuary (talk) 13:13, 5 August 2017 (UTC) Hi NewYorkActuary! (Whee- I hope I do this talk page thing properly - I went through the links to see if there was anything special to do but couldn't figure it out exactly...sooo much to learn!) I completely agree about the award now that you explain that it needs to be far more prestigious. I will put aside the one on S. Dahmen for now and try to find other female authors who might be able to get some recognition. We'll see! Thank you so much for your help, patience and support - it has made this initial foray really lovely. Matkadomu (talk) 02:15, 9 August 2017 (UTC)Matkadomu[reply]

Draft:Sara Dahmen (American author) concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Sara Dahmen (American author), a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:31, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Sara Dahmen (American author)

Hello, Matkadomu. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Sara Dahmen".

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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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. HasteurBot (talk) 22:01, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]