User talk:MarkWHowe

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Happy editing! Cheers, lavender|^{(formerly HMSSolent)}|lambast 04:15, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Reverted, reverted, reverted

You added paragraphs of content to three articles without at the same time adding references to confirm the new content. For this reason, those changes were reverted (reversed). The content can be seen and rescued from View history. If you have references to support the deleted content, you can copy that content into your Sandbox, add properly formatted references there, then return the content and references to the articles. Wikipedia requires reliable source references. Learn more about that at WP:42. The same applies to your intent to create and submit a draft about IB Howe. David notMD (talk) 15:19, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

None of that

None of that can be accepted for an article. If you submit it, it will either be Speedy deleted or Rejected. In an article about a person, every fact statement must be verified by a published reference. Your content has no references! Please look at the example articles about other railroad civil engineers as examples of referencing. David notMD (talk) 00:04, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

But you said you cannot accept letters or magazine articles/ text. Others here said they wanted more details so I posted them.

Several here have indicated it takes months to get acceptyed. I assumed there would be time to enter what documentation you will accept is availble. Remember, this is from the very beginning of the CNW and there is very little lit. that IB Howe existed. I am depending on you guys to help with what can be published. MarkWHowe (talk) 03:01, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

References are to be added at the same time content is added. When a draft is submitted to Articles for Creation for review, the review can take place any time between hours to months. There is a backlog of thousands of drafts but the system is not a queue. Rather, reviewers select what to review next. Teahouse Hosts are there to advise, not to be co-authors or reference finders. A collection of letters cannot be references. Ditto historical society newsletters and websites. David notMD (talk) 03:15, 26 April 2024 (UTC)