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Your submission at Articles for creation: Chris Ryan Lauer (January 11)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Numberguy6 was:

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.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Zero non-primary sources cited.

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 Draft:Chris Ryan Lauer and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
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Numberguy6 (talk) 02:24, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Montlakesleep! 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! Numberguy6 (talk) 02:24, 11 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Chris Ryan Lauer moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Chris Ryan Lauer, is not suitable 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. Randykitty (talk) 09:25, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please address the problems with this draft and then wait for an experienced editor to move it to article space. --Randykitty (talk) 09:27, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

After I explicitly told you to leave it to a more experienced editor to move this to article space, you still went ahead and did it yourself. Well, have it your way. As you see below, it has now been proposed for deletion and I guarantee you that if somebody removes the PROD tag, this will go to WP:AFD. --Randykitty (talk) 15:35, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Chris Ryan Lauer (January 14)

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

This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:

in-depth (not just passing mentions about the subject)
reliable
secondary
independent of the subject

Make sure you add references that meet these criteria before resubmitting. 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:

There are inappropriate external links in the body of the text. Also, it is not clear whether this person meets our inclusion criteria (see WP:GNG, WP:ANYBIO, and/or WP:ACADEMIC).

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 Draft:Chris Ryan Lauer and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Randykitty (talk) 09:30, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

January 2023

Please stop. If you continue to remove Articles for deletion notices or comments from articles and Articles for deletion pages, as you did at Chris Ryan Lauer, you may be blocked from editing. Randykitty (talk) 15:43, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies, I'm new to this. Montlakesleep (talk) 20:42, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

We all make mistakes in the beginning, the important thing is to learn from them. Creating a new article is one of the more difficult things to do on WP. I recommend that you first start editing existing articles in an area that interests you. Don't make huge changes, in the article history you can usually see that the existing text is the results of several or even many editors collaborating. Don't get upset when somebody reverts one of your edits, but try to understand (or ask the editor) why this was done. Read some (or, preferably, most) of the guidelines and policies linked to on top of this page (I'll put a "welcome template" there in a minute). Don't hesitate to ask if you don't understand something, things here can get pretty arcane, but generally editors are willing to go out of their way to help a new editor. Hope this helps. --Randykitty (talk) 00:10, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Chris Ryan Lauer for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Chris Ryan Lauer, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.

The discussion will take place at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Ryan Lauer until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

To customise your preferences for automated AfD notifications for articles to which you've significantly contributed (or to opt-out entirely), please visit the configuration page. Delivered by SDZeroBot (talk) 01:02, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Montlakesleep. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:26, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I posted this notice because all of your editing activity is focused on one article. Most editors edit over a wide range of articles, on different subjects, so I'm posting a notice in case you have a personal or financial connection to the article subject.

If you have questions about editing on Wikipedia, please bring them to the Teahouse. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:28, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! Montlakesleep, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:28, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]