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Your submission at Articles for creation: Alvin Jacobs (July 31)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Nathan2055 were:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 21:58, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Dante N Miller! Having an article 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! Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 21:58, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Alvin Jacobs[edit]

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Alvin Jacobs, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Welcome[edit]

Hello, Dante N Miller, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Dante N Miller[edit]

A tag has been placed on User:Dante N Miller requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Theroadislong (talk) 17:08, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Paid editing?[edit]

Hello Dante N Miller. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Dante N Miller. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Dante N Miller|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Theroadislong (talk) 17:09, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Theroadislong As stated before, I'm a corps member of Report for America. In this role, I work through WFAE 90.7, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, and Digital Public Library. This role allows me to edit content on Wikipedia for the Charlotte Mecklenburg area. This is stated in my biography. If I need to do anything in regard of my credentials please let me know. Thank so much for your time and have a great day.

https://www.reportforamerica.org/members/dante-miller/#:~:text=Reporter%20Profile&text=Dante%20Miller%20reports%20for%20WFAE,region's%20largest%20public%20library%20system.&text=She's%20a%20military%20brat%20who,raised%20in%20Wilson%2C%20North%20Carolina.

Contested deletion[edit]

This page should not be speedily deleted because... Dante is (probably) a paid editor. Her user page is basically a declaration of paid editorship. If she follows the rules, I feel that her contributions will be worthwhile. --Arch dude (talk) 17:56, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Some explanation of how we work here[edit]

1. Unpublished interviews are never valid sources for Wikipedia articles. Published interviews, in reliable sources, venues with a record of editorial control and fact-checking, may occasionally be used for trivial and uncontroversial matters; but interviews with the subject of an article are notoriously not regarded as reliable sources. We don't care what Buford T. Derryberry has to say about Buford T. Derryberry; we care about what The Economist or the News and Observer or Le Monde has reported about Buford T. Derryberry.

2. If Wikipedia edits are part of your job/assignment, you are by our definition a paid editor. YOU MUST FULLY DISCLOSE YOUR STATUS AS A PAID EDITOR BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE HERE!

3. Don't let your experiences so far discourage you. Young journalists are the kinds of folks we hope to involve in this project; but you have to follow the rules, and there is a learning curve. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:43, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, if you read my bio, I have disclosed my employer. Thank you.

October 2020[edit]

Hello, I'm Theroadislong. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Dorothy Counts, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 22:47, 26 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Braxton Winston for deletion[edit]

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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Braxton Winston until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Mccapra (talk) 10:45, 17 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Braxton Winston[edit]

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A tag has been placed on Braxton Winston requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion discussion, at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Braxton_Winston. When a page has substantially identical content to that of a page deleted after a discussion, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.

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Nomination of Bethane Middleton-Brown for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Bethane Middleton-Brown is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:56, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Dante N Miller. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ——Serial 15:33, 24 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You're comments have been taken seriously, as I have stated numerous times in the past, I have disclosed my purpose on Wikipedia and edits on my bio. Please read it. Thank you.

May 2021[edit]

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

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Thank you. DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:23, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ju-Don Marshall moved to draftspace[edit]

An article you recently created, Ju-Don Marshall, 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. ... discospinster _talk 20:42, 1 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Ju-Don Marshall (June 12)[edit]

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

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

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:Ju-Don Marshall 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:Ju-Don Marshall, 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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_signed,Iflaq ^(talk) 06:37, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Joe O'Connor (journalist) moved to draftspace[edit]

Please see log comments. MrsSnoozyTurtle 05:30, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Ju-Don Marshall[edit]

Hello, Dante N Miller. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Ju-Don Marshall, 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.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 07:01, 12 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Joe O'Connor (journalist)[edit]

Hello, Dante N Miller. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Joe O'Connor (journalist), 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.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 06:01, 27 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Ju-Don Marshall[edit]

Hello, Dante N Miller. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Ju-Don Marshall".

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!} 06:37, 12 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Joe O'Connor (journalist)[edit]

Hello, Dante N Miller. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Joe O'Connor".

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!} 05:31, 27 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Kristie Puckett-Williams for deletion[edit]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Kristie Puckett-Williams is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kristie Puckett-Williams until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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LynxesDesmond 🐈 (talk) 23:47, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]