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Your submission at Articles for creation: Digital platform (March 8)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Robert McClenon were:

Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Digital platform instead.

The proposed article does not have sufficient content to require an article of its own, but it could be merged into the existing article at Digital platform. Since anyone can edit Wikipedia, you are welcome to add that information yourself. Thank you.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Digital platform is a disambiguation link to two articles, computijng platform and web portal. Please compare this draft to those articles and determine whether the existing articles should be updated, or whether this draft should be resubmitted or renamed.

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.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Digital platform and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Digital platform, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
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Robert McClenon (talk) 00:53, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Robert McClenon! I understand your reply and request further guidance from you. Digital platforms are a notable phenomenon and deserve their own article (for instance, the New York Times has published 55 articles about "digital platform" this past year alone). Writing an article is currently prevented by the fact that "digital platform" is now a disambiguation article (with zero incoming link from other Wikipedia articles!), redirecting to "web portal" and "computing platform" (which is disputable but that is not the point). Please note, though, that only 8 New York Times articles mention "computing platform" and 15 "web portal" this past year, these two being far less notable at this point. So the question is: What is the best path forward to address this surprising shortcoming? (that does not exist in, say, Spanish Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plataforma_digital). Two options:

1) Rename the existing Digital Platform article "Digital Platform (Disambiguation)" so I can create the missing article (and link it as a third redirect in the disambiguation page)

2) Remove the disambiguation tag from the existing Digital Platform article, so we can edit content there. I'd leave a mention of the two existing redirects before the lead, and add content right after. This would be my preferred option, but I am not familiar with the process for removing a disambiguation tag. This needs to be authorized somehow but not sure by whom.

I really feel that we are stuck right now because of a disambiguation tag that is not particularly useful for anyone (no internal article links pointing at it) yet prevents improving Wikipedia around a notable topic. Thanks in advance for your help. Squirrellly (talk) 16:17, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

User:Squirrellly - My advice at this point is to resubmit the draft. I have copied your comments from this page, which is your user talk page, to the draft talk page, where they may be read by another editor if another editor reads the draft. If you resubmit, with a statement, I will review the draft in more detail, but am not promising you when I will review it. I will then either leave it for another reviewer or follow approach 1. There isn't always a fixed approach for some things like removing a disambiguation tag. There is a procedure for removing an article, which is a different matter. A lot of decisions in Wikipedia are made by some experienced editor deciding to be bold; then, if there is objection, one of the standard consensus-based procedures such as Articles for Deletion or Request for Comment is used. So go ahead and resubmit it. I won't decline it again. I might accept it, or I might leave it for other reviewers. Robert McClenon (talk) 20:56, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Digital platform (July 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 333-blue was:

Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Computig platform instead.

The comment the reviewer left was:

The 2 should be merged.

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.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Digital platform and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Digital platform, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 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.

– 333 -blue at 01:20, 11 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]