User talk:Petertmcclard

Your submission at Articles for creation: Theolution (June 10)

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

This submission reads more like an essay than an encyclopedia article. Submissions should summarise information in secondary, reliable sources and not contain opinions or original research. Please write about the topic from a neutral point of view in an encyclopedic manner.

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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MarkTraceur (talk) 22:29, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Petertmcclard, 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! MarkTraceur (talk) 22:29, 10 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Theolution concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Theolution, a page you created, has not been edited in 6 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.

You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13.

Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:40, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Theolution

Hello, Petertmcclard. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Theolution".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation 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}} or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. 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. The StormCatcher (talk) (contribs) 10:25, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Original research

I am sorry to have made a discouraging comment when restoring your draft Draft:Theolution, but it would be a pity for you to waste time on something which is most unlikely to make an acceptable article. The reason is that an encyclopedia is not a place for publishing new ideas, and one of Wikipedia's key content policies is Wikipedia:No original research, which is worth reading in full but includes in particular:

"If no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article about it. If you discover something new, Wikipedia is not the place to announce such a discovery", and
"Do not combine material from multiple sources to reach or imply a conclusion not explicitly stated by any of the sources."

However, we have a sister project, Wikiversity, which has a more general scope and does not prohibit original research; it might be worth your while investigating that as a possible host for your material. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:52, 19 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]