User talk:Grayderek55

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Derek Smith Television Producer (October 12)

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Fiddle Faddle 14:07, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Grayderek55, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about 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! Fiddle Faddle 14:07, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Fiddle Faddle 14:58, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Derek Smith (Television Producer) (December 6)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by EBY3221 was:

This submission's references do not adequately evidence the subject's notability—see the guidelines on the notability of people and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing, so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia.
What you can do: Add citations (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners) to secondary reliable sources that are entirely independent of the subject.

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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EBY (talk) 06:20, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Derek Smith (Television Producer) concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Derek Smith (Television Producer), a page you created, has not been edited in 6 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Your draft article, Draft:Derek Smith (Television Producer)

Hello, Grayderek55. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "Derek Smith".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. HasteurBot (talk) 14:00, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Help me!

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Hello,

I stopped editing the page on my father, Derek Smith (Television Producer) because he passed away in March. I was hoping to get the Wikipedia entry before he died but the entries were twice denied.

Since there have now been obituaries in The Times, The Guardian and many newspapers worldwide, including The Hollywood reporter, I would hope he is now of significance to Wikipedia.

Unfortunately, I am not a geek and am finding it difficult to get the hang of all the jargon and computer technicalities.

I hope someone can help me get a simple entry perhaps.

Graham Smith

Grayderek55 (talk) 20:19, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There seems little need at present to offer you help., You have requested the refund and must now wait a while until it is granted to you. Fiddle Faddle 21:57, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have restored the deleted draft at Draft:Derek Smith (Television Producer) so you can improve it and summarize what those reliable third-party sources report about Smith. However, if Smith's death was the only opportunity for others to write about him in any detail, that's not a partiulary strong claim to notability. See WP:Referencing for beginners on how to easily cite your sources. Huon (talk) 22:07, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Derek Smith (Television Producer) (July 21)

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

There are some issues with this article that prevent acceptance. Some are technical, others are style and tone

All inline links must be removed, please, and turned into references if appropriate, Wikilinks, or external links in a section so named. See Wikipedia:External links

Much of this is reviews of his work. That we do not want. What we require here is material about the gentleman. I can think of no rationale for detailed, or even summary descriptions of his work. If that work is, of itself, notable it should have its own article. If it has that article already then a Wikilink will suffice.

An example of what not to do is this: "A Daily Express article focused on the producer rather than the famous presenter. "The farmer's boy who became a television boss is back on the land with Journey Through Summer (BBC 1 10.15), a six-part mirror-candid look at the face of the British countryside." The article also explained how the series was researched. "Mr. Smith, a documentary producer with BBC Birmingham covered the ground in triplicate to get the scene right. He said: "I read up each region, picked out the likeliest spots and then went on the hoof to size the scene up. Then I covered the same ground with Patrick. We walked I suppose, about 70 miles a week."[7]"

Instead of that, write, in your own words, what the article described about Smith, and use the daily express article as a reference to back it up.

Ideally please add links to online versions of the references where these exist. This is not compulsory, but we write for ordinary readers who like the instant gratification of being able to see what is written in the reference with ease.

Consider turning his abundant body of work into a list, perhaps in a table. Table syntax is awkward, so you will probably need help. Once you have pared the information down to the minimum useful you may wish to deploy {{helpme}} on your talk page and state with precision what you wish to achieve. A gnome will be along to help you quite quickly after that.

Our role as reviewers is to seek to ensure that an article will not immediately be subject to one of our deletion processes when it is accepted. That is why we push it back to the author. We want to accept articles.

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:Derek Smith (Television Producer) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Fiddle Faddle 17:11, 21 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Derek Smith (Television Producer) concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Derek Smith (Television Producer), a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13.

Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:35, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Derek Smith (television producer) has been accepted

Derek Smith (television producer), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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