User talk:Karl8704

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Again, welcome to Wikipedia! NW1223<Howl at me•My hunts> 02:49, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

License tagging for File:Peter Wayne Lewis1.jpg

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Your submission at Articles for creation: PWL (March 7)

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

This appears to be a duplicate of another submission, Peter Wayne Lewis, which is also waiting to be reviewed. To save time we will consider the other submission and not this one.

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 after they have been resolved.

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microbiologyMarcus ^{[petri dish·growths]} 17:35, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Karl8704! Having an article draft 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! microbiologyMarcus ^{[petri dish·growths]} 17:35, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Peter Wayne Lewis (March 7)

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

The content of this submission includes material that does not meet Wikipedia's minimum standard for inline citations. Please cite your sources using footnotes. For instructions on how to do this, please see Referencing for beginners. Thank you.

The comment the reviewer left was:

requires more inline citations for personal details as a WP:BLP. External links in the text are innapropriate and will either need to be turned into references if they are supporting material or removed if they are promotional.

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 after they have been resolved.

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microbiologyMarcus ^{[petri dish·growths]} 17:38, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: PWL (March 8)

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

This appears to be a duplicate of another submission, Peter Wayne Lewis, which is also waiting to be reviewed. To save time we will consider the other submission and not this one.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Please do not create multiple drafts on the same topic.

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 after they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:Karl8704/PWL and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
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DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:02, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

March 2024

Hello Karl8704. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Peter Wayne Lewis, 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 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 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:Karl8704. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Karl8704|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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:36, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Justlettersandnumbers,

Thank you for your attention to the draft page "Peter Wayne Lewis." I can assure you that NO, I am NOT being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits. I do want to make sure that this, my first Wikipedia page, is as grammatically correct as possible, as well as structured in the most efficient way. Perhaps next time (I'm considering creating a page for the Kingsley Art Club), I'll do all of my editing offline and post a better draft with fewer changes, and with a minimum of online correcting and editing. I apologize if I gave the reviewers the wrong impression.

Thanks for the note - Karl O. Karl8704 (talk) 23:20, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Peter Wayne Lewis (March 11)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Spinster300 was:

This submission reads more like an essay than an encyclopedia article. Submissions should summarise information in secondary, reliable sources and not contain opinions or original research. Please write about the topic from a neutral point of view in an encyclopedic manner.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Notable, but the prose needs to be summarised more concisely. Please see: WP:Writing better articles. Kind regards, Spinster300 (talk) 18:35, 11 March 2024 (UTC).[reply]

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 after they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Peter Wayne Lewis and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Spinster300 (talk) 18:35, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Links to draft articles

Please do not introduce links in actual articles to draft articles, as you did to Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Since a draft is not yet ready for the main article space, it is not in shape for ordinary readers, and links from articles should not go to a draft. Such links are contrary to the Manual of Style. These links have been removed. Thank you. - Arjayay (talk) 19:39, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Arjayay - did not know it was contrary to MoS, but yeah, a link to a draft does not make sense if the draft isn't in shape. Thanks. Karl8704 (talk) 20:59, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Peter Wayne Lewis has been accepted

Peter Wayne Lewis, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. This is a great rating for a new article, and places it among the top 21% of accepted submissions — kudos to you! You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

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Thanks again, and happy editing!

Spinster300 (talk) 17:21, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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