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Your submission at Articles for creation: Shân Edwards (April 19)[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 Sulfurboy was:

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.

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.

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Sulfurboy (talk) 12:15, 19 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Vincewarne! 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! Sulfurboy (talk) 12:15, 19 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Shân Edwards[edit]

Hello, Vincewarne. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Shân Edwards".

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 by following the instructions at this link. 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!} 14:49, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edit reversion[edit]

In this edit here, I reverted some information that appears to be a violation of our copyright policy.

I provided a brief summary of the problem in the edit summary, which should be visible just below my name. You can also click on the "view history" tab in the article to see the recent history of the article. This should be an edit with my name, and a parenthetical comment explaining why your edit was reverted. If that information is not sufficient to explain the situation, please ask.

I do occasionally make mistakes. We get hundreds of reports of potential copyright violations every week, and sometimes there are false positives, for a variety of reasons. (Perhaps the material was moved from another Wikipedia article, or the material was properly licensed but the license information was not obvious, or the material is in the public domain but I didn't realize it was public domain, and there can be other situations generating a report to our Copy Patrol tool that turn out not to be actual copyright violations.) If you think my edit was mistaken, please politely let me know and I will investigate. S Philbrick (Talk) 11:23, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there - is the reversion due to a direct transcription of text from the Guardian? If this is clearly cited as a quote from source, would this be acceptable? Thanks - Vince Vincewarne (talk) 11:29, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Vincewarne, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see:

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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:09, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jim - Thank you for your comments. I would be grateful if you could indicate where my contribution is advertising or promotional. Thank you - Vincewarne Vincewarne (talk) 16:41, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Reply[edit]

If you want me to see a message on this page, you must start it with my user name, User:Jimfbleak and sign it with four tildes ~~~~ when you post it. That will send me an alert.

When you write about a person, you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that they meet the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the person or an associated organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the person claims or interviewing them. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls.

You have 10 bare url refs in the first sentence. The first is to his self-written university page, but is probably OK here because it's just confirming his job title. The rest are all links to sites mentioning, selling or reviewing his books. His own books are unsuitable as references. After the first sentence, the text is totally unsourced until the last sentence, although I query why you use an auction house rather than the Biennale itself as the source. You have an unsourced, self-praising quotation by him, why is he an independent third-party source for himself?
He is probably notable, but we need real verifiable facts to establish that.

You must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews.

As I indicated before, there shouldn't be any reviews of his books or other publications, they are just opinions and look spammy

You have extensive unsourced text, basically unsourced opinions, whether yours or his

Also weasel words like the leading drama journal

There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
You must not copy text from elsewhere. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.

I didn't check for copyright, but I note that a large chunk of your text was unsourced, including a quotation

Not reasons for deletion, but note that titles of publications should be italicised, and that publications should be listed in full form, including isbn if appropriate, in a separate section, and that any mention in the text does not need further referencing, see Emma Louisa Turner

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. If you are writing about yourself, or someone you know as a friend, colleague, client, employer or relative, you have a conflict of interest, and you must disclose the nature of that COI. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:19, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]