User talk:Xiangcha

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List of North American Pleistocene Proboscideans moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, List of North American Pleistocene Proboscideans, 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. Curbon7 (talk) 01:16, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:List of North American Pleistocene Proboscideans has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:List of North American Pleistocene Proboscideans. Thanks! S0091 (talk) 18:08, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: List of North American Pleistocene Proboscideans (May 22)

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

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:List of North American Pleistocene Proboscideans 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:List of North American Pleistocene Proboscideans, 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 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.

– robertsky (talk) 20:49, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Xiangcha! 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! – robertsky (talk) 20:49, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Unconstructive edits

Hello, I see you've been making various unconstructive edits to paleontology pages. These include changing time intervals and size estimates without justification and contrary to the cited sources (even when told to stop at Vivaron), and editing published cladograms away from their original structure (like at Rauisuchia). Please do not add taxa to cladograms that were not already present in the source, and please do not add unsourced size or age estimates. If they are personal estimates without a source, that qualifies as Original Research and is against site policy. Fanboyphilosopher (talk) 15:43, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

June 2022

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Norian, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. --Kent G. Budge (talk) 18:06, 20 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:List of North American Pleistocene Proboscideans

Hello, Xiangcha. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:List of North American Pleistocene Proboscideans, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 08:03, 30 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:List of North American Pleistocene Proboscideans

Hello, Xiangcha. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "List of North American Pleistocene Proboscideans".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. 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. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:08, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]