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01:21, 22 July 2025 review of submission by Theconnorrossfangirl11

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to accept connor ross into wikipedia. i have been working on this article 4 months n stil nuttin. what can i do? Theconnorrossfangirl11 (talk) 01:21, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, @Theconnorrossfangirl11.
The answer is, Nothing. Some people (groups, companies, schools, charities, events ... ) are simply not notable by Wikipedia's criteria, ie. they haven't been independent written about much. In that case, no article is possible, and you are wasting time and effort trying to create one.
Your draft has been rejected and deleted - that is the end of the line. ColinFine (talk) 07:23, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
damn that iz sad. he is notable in my eyes plus i thought dat the rotten tomatoes and tv guide refs would saveit too Theconnorrossfangirl11 (talk) 09:10, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
this entire interaction is very funny to me HardcorePunkRat (talk) 23:56, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

04:20, 22 July 2025 review of submission by Abcontributor

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Hi, my contribution keeps being declined for not being neutral enough, but I'm struggling to see where there is any subjective information. I've included sources for all points made and kept the language factual. Can anybody point me to the problematic text so I can comply? Abcontributor (talk) 04:20, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Abcontributor Your draft was only declined once; a more important reason that was not addressed by @Aydoh8 is that you have not shown that the company meets Wikipedia's inclusion criteria at Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies); none of your sources meet all the criteria outlined there.
Please see WP:Conflict of interest and WP:PAID; if you have a connection to this company, you should disclose it, and if you are employed at this company or otherwise have a financial connection, you are required to declare yourself as a paid editor. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 07:29, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your input @Helpful Raccoon I'll review the notability criteria! 81.107.33.102 (talk) 10:22, 24 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

05:27, 22 July 2025 review of submission by 5.195.161.185

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please help me to upload this article in wikipedia 5.195.161.185 (talk) 05:27, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This draft has been rejected for the reasons provided, and will not be published in the encyclopaedia. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 05:30, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

08:53, 22 July 2025 review of submission by ᖻᒪᓱ ᒋᔈᒪ

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Óki! (Hello!) I need help for the wikipedia article: Voiceless velar alveolar sibilant affricate, it’s a article about the ks sound in Blackfoot, but i need some help for many reliable sources and more. And Nitsíniiyi’taki(Thank you). ᖻᒪᓱ ᒋᔈᒪ (talk) 08:53, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @ᖻᒪᓱ ᒋᔈᒪ. You have cited "Frantz 1999" but not included any other bibliographical information about this reference. qcne (talk) 08:57, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, but i need help finding sources about the ks sound. ᖻᒪᓱ ᒋᔈᒪ (talk) 09:11, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We don't really get into co-editing or co-research here; we just help with the submission process. You could ask at Wikipedia:WikiProject Linguistics/Phonetics. 331dot (talk) 09:22, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Okay thanks. ᖻᒪᓱ ᒋᔈᒪ (talk) 09:28, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

09:41, 22 July 2025 review of submission by Dilanrajeewalk1997

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why Rejected 

Dilanrajeewalk1997 (talk) 09:41, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's just spam, @Dilanrajeewalk1997. qcne (talk) 09:50, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
no miracle baby is my company Dilanrajeewalk1997 (talk) 09:53, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Dilanrajeewalk1997 I am not disputing that. But all you've done is written a spam draft which will shortly be deleted. qcne (talk) 09:56, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
How do you do it right then? Dilanrajeewalk1997 (talk) 09:58, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Dilanrajeewalk1997 Have a very careful read of Help:Your first article and then Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). qcne (talk) 09:59, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, @Dilanrajeewalk1997. Wikipedia has little interest in what the subject of an article says or wants to say about themselves, or what their associates say about them. Wikipedia is almost exclusively interested in what people who have no connection with the subject, and who have not been prompted or fed information on behalf of the subject, have chosen to publish about the subject in reliable sources. If enough material is cited from independent sources to establish notability, a limited amount of uncontroversial factual information may be added from non-independent sources. ColinFine (talk) 10:47, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

09:50, 22 July 2025 review of submission by AlbertoCuevasHU

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I need some assistance to review my submission once again, I have updated the article with the feedback and I would like to have it be seen again, Thank you! AlbertoCuevasHU (talk) 09:50, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi :@AlbertoCuevasHU. You can press the Resubmit button at the top to have it re-submitted for review. Before you do, please remove all the external links from the body of the text as per Wikipedia:External links. qcne (talk) 09:52, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! I have done so now, would you be someone available to review it?
Thanks again AlbertoCuevasHU (talk) 15:33, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

09:52, 22 July 2025 review of submission by MagicalPavard

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Hello, so i've heard that there's a user that goes by the name of DoubleGrazing, who declined by submission, i was wondering why since that is the maximum of information that i could got fof the Band fur Afrika page.

Thanks for reading MagicalPavard (talk) 09:52, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@MagicalPavard: you've also heard that rumour, have you?
Your draft doesn't cite one single source, how are we meant to know if any of it is even true? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:56, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @MagicalPavard. There is not a single source on your draft? Please very carefully read Wikipedia:Verifiability. qcne (talk) 09:57, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This would mean citations are missing? I will add them MagicalPavard (talk) 12:03, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@MagicalPavard, I see you've been working on adding citations, which is great - but your sources must meet all three criteria in WP:42. Discogs, Google Groups and IMDb aren't reliable sources, unfortunately. You may have written this draft backwards, starting with what you know rather than starting with independent, reliable sources. Read through those links and see if they help! Meadowlark (talk) 02:00, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I can see that, but sadly, the German wikipedia about the Band fur Afrika had less info that i expected. MagicalPavard (talk) 09:49, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

09:59, 22 July 2025 review of submission by Abhaykamble2005

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My article is speedly deleted Abhaykamble2005 (talk) 09:59, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, @Abhaykamble2005. Wikipedia is not a social media website and we do not have personal profiles, which is what I think you have tried to write. It is not suitable for Wikipedia. qcne (talk) 10:01, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

10:11, 22 July 2025 review of submission by 212.108.134.119

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Please could I ask for help with respect to Maintenance Templates?

In the AfC which I am currently drafting, two Maintenance Templates have been inserted advising ‘This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (Learn how and when to remove this message)’

The first Maintenance Template refers to Appointments and I believe that I may now have ‘fixed’. There are 14 appointments listed, each of which now has either one or two citations.

The second Maintenance Template is more problematic because it refers to the subject’s Personal Life thereby posing the challenge of validating the content. I have now been able to include two citations, one used twice, and one used once, in an entry comprising 133 words in two paragraphs.

Having clicked on ‘Learn how … etc’, I have noted, even though I believe I may have fixed the issues, that if I have a conflict of interest (COI) then I should not remove the Maintenance Templates. The COI is on my talk page: the subject of the AfC is my now deceased father.

I would like to resubmit my AfC, if possible, having worked on the editing since it was declined last year.

Please can you let me know how I should proceed? Many thanks

212.108.134.119 (talk) 10:11, 22 July 2025 (UTC)Kestrel2Zero[reply]

Please log in when you edit as it makes communication easier. While it is still in draft, if you believe you have resolved the issues you can remove the maintenance templates. Do not remove the previous declines and comments by reviewers though. Thanks for doing your due diligence regarding your COI and condolences for your loss. S0091 (talk) 17:58, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dear S0091
Thank you for your helpful and kind comments. I will remove the maintenance templates as you suggest. I will, however, wait a while longer before resubmitting the AFC in case I receive any further guidance from my mentor or the other editors who have been helping me.
Thanks again
Kestrel2Zero Kestrel2Zero (talk) 12:44, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

12:41, 22 July 2025 review of submission by Lindos1a

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Hello AfC reviewers— I've submitted a draft for "Dr Millan Sachania" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Lindos1a/sandbox&oldid=1301929144). The draft is fully sourced with independent coverage in *The Times*, *Telegraph*, etc. I'm happy to provide any further references or edits. Thanks so much for any assistance. Lindos1a (talk) 12:41, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Lindos1a: The draft doesn't come close to fully-sourced:
  • Sachania read music at Christ’s College, Cambridge, graduating with a Double First-Class degree. - Source?
  • ollowing this, he worked in New York as an editor for Carl Fischer Music. - Source?
  • From 2012 to 2022, Sachania served as Head of Streatham & Clapham High School, part of the Girls’ Day School Trust. - Source?
  • During both headships, he promoted curriculum innovation and inspection readiness, and was widely recognised for his leadership in music and the creative arts. - First half of the sentence is blatant promotion; second half is not properly attributed. You need more than just the source there; you also need to state who's making that claim.
  • He has also contributed nationally to education strategy, serving as... - each of those four positions requires a source.
  • He has also featured in *The Lady*, *The Evening Standard* and *The Sunday Times* on topics including Latin, coding, music education and public examinations. - You only cite The Evening Standard. We need cites for the other two.
  • The "Selected Writings" section should be removed wholesale as trivial. The previous section can have a sourced sentence stating he frequently contributed op-eds to those outlets.
  • As an editor, Sachania has published critical editions of works by Godowsky (five volumes, Carl Fischer LLC), Poulenc, Stravinsky, Philip Glass, Otakar Ševčík, and others, for leading publishers including Chester Music, Novello and Bosworth. - Source? I will note that expanding this into a full bibliography of his most notable works will do the work of this entire section, but it does require a lot more information than you have here for each book (title, page total, publisher, year of publication, authors/editors, ISBN/OCLC#).
  • His edition of *Stravinsky’s Renard*, with full commentary and source filiation, is cited by academic sources and widely used in performance. His editions of Poulenc's chamber music and Ševčík's violin studies remain in standard pedagogical use. - Source?
When writing about living people on Wikipedia, EVERYTHING a reasonable person could challenge must be cited or removed. This is not negotiable. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 15:40, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

14:37, 22 July 2025 review of submission by 196.175.249.181

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I want to submit this page but seems like the submission was rejected by someone 3 months ago. How can I submit this page? 196.175.249.181 (talk) 14:37, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It cannot be resubmitted, that's what rejection means – the end of the road, for now at least. The draft is pure speculation, we don't even know which country will host the tournament, in fact we don't even know if the tournament will even take place. Wikipedia is not WP:CRYSTALBALL. --DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:44, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

15:39, 22 July 2025 review of submission by Sgoldthr

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This article has been rejected despite having sources that are appropriate for this type of entry. Every Wikipedia article about a University or a school within a university contains citations from the university itself (such as the course offerings, catalogues, etc.). I am not getting specific feedback on which items need to be remediated. I need help identifying specific areas that need new citation rather than receiving the same general rejection message despite several updates to each version.

My article has many and more specific citations than many others I've looked at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_School_of_Nursing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderbilt_University_School_of_Nursing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University_Rory_Meyers_College_of_Nursing Sgoldthr (talk) 15:39, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The draft was declined, not rejected. Rejected has a specific meaning in the draft process, that a draft may not be resubmitted. Declined means that it may be resubmitted.
Please see other stuff exists. It could be that these other articles you have seen are also inappropriate and have just not yet dealt with yet by a volunteer. There are many ways for inappropriate content to exist, this cannot justify adding more inappropriate content. If you want to use other articles as a model, use those that are classified as good articles, which have been vetted.
Schools have the additional wrinkle that a few years ago notability requirements were tightened in that mere existence was no longer sufficient to merit a school an article, they are treated like any other organization, they must meet WP:ORG. You shouldn't be describing the offerings of the school like a brochure for prospective students. You should summarize what independent sources choose on their own to say about it. Rankings from notable publications are a start, but more is needed.
If you are associated with the school, that must be disclosed, see WP:COI and WP:PAID. 331dot (talk) 16:34, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

16:19, 22 July 2025 review of submission by Hurley.cour

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Hi, I'm not quite understanding why it's being rejected. I was trying to create a company page, like Apple and other companies have. Can you give me some guidance as to what I did wrong? Hurley.cour (talk) 16:19, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Hurley.cour: Your sources are all unacceptable, either being connected to the subject or routine business news. (Wikipedia is a poor place to practise SEO on, as all pages are NOFOLLOWed and swathes of the encyclopaedia are NOINDEXed.) —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 16:22, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hurley.cour We don't have "company pages" here that companies own and control. We have articles about companies. Those articles are typically written by independent editors wholly unconnected with the subject, and they summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about the subject, showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of notability- like a notable company. 331dot (talk) 16:24, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Please respond to the inquiry on your user talk page. 331dot (talk) 16:25, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

17:41, 22 July 2025 review of submission by Mahtabamanmahid

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Hlw sir Mahtabamanmahid (talk) 17:41, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's not a coherent question, but your draft has been rejected because there is zero evidence that the topic is notable in Wikipedia terms. Theroadislong (talk) 17:43, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Subject: Request for Clarification on Draft Rejection
Hello,
I recently submitted a draft titled "Mazharul Mahin" which has been declined. I kindly request clarification on the specific reasons for the rejection. I want to understand what improvements are needed to meet the notability and verifiability requirements of Wikipedia.
I’m happy to revise the draft accordingly and would appreciate any suggestions or specific feedback you could provide.
Thank you for your time and assistance.
— Mazharul Mahin Mahtabamanmahid (talk) 17:44, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Mahtabamanmahid: Chatbot-written requests will not be considered. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 17:52, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Why Mahtabamanmahid (talk) 17:58, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Mahtabamanmahid: Because we want to hear from you, not from an incompetent machine pretending to be you. We don't care that your English isn't that good, as long as it is understandable. As to your draft, we don't cite social media (no editorial oversight), IMDb (no editorial oversight), or your own website (connexion to subject). —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 18:01, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Sir, could you please let me know what is needed to help this page get published? Mahtabamanmahid (talk) 18:10, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Mahtabaanmahid: In-depth, non-routine, independent-of-the-subject news/scholarly sources that discuss the subject at length, are written by identifiable authors, and are subject to fact-checking, corrections, retractions, and other forms of strong editorial oversight. You have nothing of the sort cited. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 18:13, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am a website developer, video content creator, many people search for me, everyone wants to know about me, so I wanted to upload some information about myself, where is my mistake in this, I have given proper proof. Mahtabamanmahid (talk) 18:26, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"Everyone wants to know about me"- that's precisely what social media is for. It sounds like you are an intelligent young man with a bright future, perhaps one day you will merit a Wikipedia article, but right now you don't. 331dot (talk) 18:28, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Mahtabamanmahid: We have much stricter requirements for information about living people, and this naturally extends to autobiographies. Sourcing everything to social media, IMDb, and your own websites is not acceptable. —Jéské Couriano v^_^v threads critiques 18:36, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You seem to be writing about yourself, Wikipedia is not a place for people to write about themselves. Please see the autobiography policy. You should use social media to write about yourself. 331dot (talk) 18:16, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

18:06, 22 July 2025 review of submission by EchoOfLiberty

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Hello, could you please let me know what is needed to help this page get published? EchoOfLiberty (talk) 18:06, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the message left by the reviewer- citations need to be in line next to the text that they support, please see Referencing for beginners if you need guidance formatting citations. Every substantive fact about a living person must be sourced, per the Biographies of living persons policy. 331dot (talk) 18:14, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

18:15, 22 July 2025 review of submission by Vankal

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Can you please guide me where I must give more references🙏 Vankal (talk) 18:15, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

18:20, 22 July 2025 review of submission by Mahtabamanmahid

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Duplicate request CoconutOctopus talk 18:29, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Hello, could you please let me know what is needed to help this page get published? Mahtabamanmahid (talk) 18:20, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

19:09, 22 July 2025 review of submission by Mahtabamanmahid

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Duplicate request, again CoconutOctopus talk 19:20, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

I am a website developer, video content creator, many people search for me, everyone wants to know about me, so I wanted to upload some information about myself, where is my mistake in this, I have given proper proof. Mahtabamanmahid (talk) 19:09, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Mahtabamanmahid. That is literally the definition of promotion which is prohibited on Wikipedia. qcne (talk) 19:10, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

20:22, 22 July 2025 review of submission by 2601:47:4B87:7F40:7AD2:B8E0:B3B7:A16B

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Why was my article denied? 2601:47:4B87:7F40:7AD2:B8E0:B3B7:A16B (talk) 20:22, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello IP editor. Which draft? You have no other contributions on your current IP and you just linked to Article instead of the draft. Please tell us the nae of the draft you are talking about. qcne (talk) 20:27, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

20:58, 22 July 2025 review of submission by ᖻᒪᓱ ᒋᔈᒪ

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I need help again, my draft, Voiceless velar alveolar sibilant affricate, got declined again. ᖻᒪᓱ ᒋᔈᒪ (talk) 20:58, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ᖻᒪᓱ ᒋᔈᒪ you still only have one source? qcne (talk) 21:02, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I just added two more citations to that draft. There's more sources out there that could be found. The main challenge is that while a decent number of publications mention this affricate, they mostly discuss it in the context of specific issues in Blackfoot phonology, so it might be difficult to find clear citations for basic info like "what are the featural specifications of this segment?" -- LWG talk 22:07, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

22:24, 22 July 2025 review of submission by EKMayle

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Why was my article on Edgehill United Methodist Church declined? EKMayle (talk) 22:24, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

EKMayle The draft is in your sandbox, I fixed your link to match. The reason for the decline was provided by the reviewer. Do you have a more specific question about it? 331dot (talk) 22:27, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

23:34, 22 July 2025 review of submission by Katherinezheng19011822

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How much coverage is needed to reach the benchmark of significant coverage, and do news releases count? We were told at first that we needed media reporting news, but later that news releases are not reliable, so we are unsure which additional sources to add. Katherinezheng19011822 (talk) 23:34, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

News/press releases are not acceptable. Significant coverage is that which goes beyond just documenting information and goes into detail about the subject.
Who is "we"? 331dot (talk) 23:51, 22 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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