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Hello, Mayasal, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

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Dear Tim,

Thank you for your helpful message! In terms of notability, I was advised by my book publisher that I meet the criteria for notability because I've had 13 news articles and interviews about me (listed below in case you were curious to see). This seems to meet the notability criteria that "The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by peers or successors" and "The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the primary subject of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews". My collection How to Make An Algorithm in the Microwave made innovative additions to the craft of experimental poetry, and this was reflected in the below coverage too. Please lmk if I've misunderstood, or if it would be helpful to flesh out my article with links to the below articles :) thank you,

Maya

Freedom Arts Collaborative Artist Interview with Maya Salameh. State Voices, Sept 2023

Four Questions with Maya Salameh. Lambda Literary, Jun 2023

I enjoy writing as testaments to places: A Conversation with Maya Salameh. Sumou, Apr 2023

Annual California Book Awards Finalists. California Commonwealth Club, Mar 2023

Maya Salameh on technology, cities and girlhood. The Stanford Daily, Feb 2023

How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave Review. Poetry Foundation, Jan 2023

Eighteenth Annual Look at Debut Poets. Poets & Writers, Dec 2022

The Moon and Maya are Neighbors. BARE Magazine, Oct 2022

Maya Salameh Awarded Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. KUAF, Jun 2021

Maya Salameh ’22 becomes youngest winner of prize for poets of Arab heritage. Stanford Daily, Jun 2021

The 2022 Etel Adnan Prize Has Been Awarded to Maya Salameh. University of Arkansas Press, May 2021

San Diego Student Poet Honored By White House Performs. KPBS, Sept 2016

This San Diego teen was named a national student poet and read a poem at the White House. The LA Times, Sept 2016 Mayasal (talk) 00:19, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

sorry, forgot to add helpme Mayasal (talk) 00:20, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This help request has been answered. If you need more help, you can ask another question on your talk page, contact the responding user(s) directly on their user talk page, or consider visiting the Teahouse.

Your book publisher may be overly optimistic and misinformed. Interviews are primary sources and cannot support notability. While a major prize (Pulitzer, for instance) would almost guarantee that you have the sort of press coverage needed for notability, these other prizes may or may not.

Still, you could add some of these references to your draft and the overall result might pass review.

While you are allowed to create a draft about yourself, it is strongly discouraged. The generic advice from the Wikipedia Community would be to "work on your art" and not worry about Wikipedia. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 01:47, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (November 12)

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:

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 people). 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:

Please use references to show that they pass WP:NPOET

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 User:Mayasal/sandbox and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 23:22, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Mayasal! 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! 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 23:22, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

November 2024

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Maya Salameh, from its old location at User:Mayasal/sandbox. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. Sam Sailor 19:00, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]