User talk:PoliticsNC

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Conflict of interest editing

Hello, PoliticsNC. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about in the article Andrew Barnhill, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

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Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 03:47, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Andrew Barnhill

The article Andrew Barnhill has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Does not appear to meet WP:NPOL - being a candidate for elected office is not enough; nor does there seem to be anything in the article currently to suggest he meets WP:GNG

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Melcous (talk) 03:57, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

November 2016

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Andrew Barnhill, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 04:26, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Reply

Thanks for your message on my talk page. If you wish to work on an article over time, then you should create a draft. Wikipedia articles that are added to the main encyclopedia space are expected to be ready to go and can be edited by anyone. As I noted above, at this stage you do not seem to be able to meet the notability requirements. Per WP:NPOL merely running for elected office does not make someone notable. You need to be able to demonstrate why this person is notable enough according to wikipedia's guidelines for an article. Furthermore, you appear to have a conflict of interest which means you should consider carefully whether you need to declare this or whether you should be editing such an article at all, again according to wikipedia guidelines. Finally, I would suggest that to create an article 10 days after an election and not even state that the person had lost is disingenuous at best. Please read the policies I have linked to, as well as this one WP:NPOV on neutrality. Thank you, Melcous (talk) 04:33, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

November 2016

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username.

You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose.

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Nomination of Andrew Barnhill for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Andrew Barnhill is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrew Barnhill until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Melcous (talk) 02:31, 22 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]