Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Vanderwaalforces 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.
The comment the reviewer left was:
Remove external links from the prose, and cite your sources. Some sections are entirely unsourced. LinkedIn should not be cited at all, it is self-published, hence unreliable.
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Hello, Glockusglaucus!
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This is the first time that I write a Wikipedia article, and I am prepared to work on improving citations and ask for guidance. But I am confused, as a very strange thing happened: immediately after my article was rejected, some people/company on LinkedIn reached out to my client offering paid help to ensure that the article about him does get published on Wikipedia. These people/firm are likely insiders as they knew immediately about my article's rejection, and I would not be surprised if they are connected somehow with those reviewing and approving or disapproving the article.
I always thought that Wikipedia was free to access and publish. If this is true and my article does get published after necessary edits and changes, I would be happy to expend more effort and ask specific questions on remarks/critique which are unclear to me. But if, instead, this is a business, and my client has to pay for my article to get published on Wikipedia, please tell me so upfront. This way I would be able to convey to him how much it would cost him, find out if he would be willing to pay this cost, and also understand if I should waste any of my time on additional efforts to publish this article on Wikipedia.
