User talk:Sarahcm12

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Your submission at Articles for creation: How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (November 30)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.

This submission appears to be taken from https://www.amazon.com/Slowly-Kill-Yourself-Others-America/dp/1982170824, https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to-Slowly-Kill-Yourself-and-Others-in-America/Kiese-Laymon/9781982170837, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/books/review/how-to-slowly-kill-yourself-and-others-in-america-kiese-laymon.html. Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly and verifiably has been released to the world under a suitably free and compatible copyright license or into the public domain and is written in an acceptable tone—this includes material that you own the copyright to. You should attribute the content of a draft to outside sources, using citations, but copying and pasting or closely paraphrasing sources is not acceptable. The entire draft should be written using your own words and structure.

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S5A-0043^Talk 04:35, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Sarahcm12! 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! S5A-0043^Talk 04:35, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright violation in Draft:How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

Hello Sarahcm12! Your additions to Draft:How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (November 30)

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

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BuySomeApples (talk) 05:00, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (November 30)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.

This submission appears to be taken from https://www.amazon.com/Slowly-Kill-Yourself-Others-America/dp/1982170824. Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly and verifiably has been released to the world under a suitably free and compatible copyright license or into the public domain and is written in an acceptable tone—this includes material that you own the copyright to. You should attribute the content of a draft to outside sources, using citations, but copying and pasting or closely paraphrasing sources is not acceptable. The entire draft should be written using your own words and structure.

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Draft:How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
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microbiologyMarcus ^{(petri dish•growths)} 15:05, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A cookie for you!

Great start Maddie beckley (talk) 21:15, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you!

You did really well :) Good luck with the Wiki trolls!

Marianna.willobe (talk) 21:18, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

November 2023

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Thank you. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 03:25, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]