User talk:WesODonnell

A belated welcome![edit]

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 20:01, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation[edit]

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 15:22, 4 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation[edit]

Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. You are welcome to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit if you feel they have been resolved.

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! (chat) techatology 00:27, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! WesODonnell, 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!

Your submission at Articles for creation[edit]

Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. You are welcome to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit if you feel they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, you can find it at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/R.J. O'Donnell.
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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! ✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎ 02:01, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation[edit]

Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. You are welcome to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit if you feel they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, you can find it at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/R.J. O'Donnell.
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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 16:02, 24 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation[edit]

R.J. O'Donnell, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

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Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!

EricEnfermero ^Howdy! 08:48, 28 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Robert R. O'Donnell has been accepted[edit]

Robert R. O'Donnell, 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 Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. 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.

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Thanks again, and happy editing!

Devonian Wombat (talk) 12:49, 17 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

November 2023[edit]

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to American Military University, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Philipnelson99 (talk) 21:05, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

American Military University should not redirect to American Public University System. An employee of American Military University is creating a new entry exclusively for that university. Please remove redirect so that a new page can be created. John Clark 21:08, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello WesODonnell. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:American Military University, 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:WesODonnell. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=WesODonnell|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. I note that An employee of American Military University is creating a new entry exclusively for that university. Is this you? 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 20:03, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This edit] by you suggests it is. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 20:04, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you are correct. I am a salaried employee of American Military University. How do I note that on my profile in a way that will permit submission of the draft in accordance with Wikipedia's guidelines? Many thanks. John Clark 14:57, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

John, this is what you need to do. On your user page User:WesODonnell, type the following:

{{paid|user=WesODonnell|employer=American Military University|client=American Military University}}

It will show up looking like this:

WesODonnell, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that they have been paid by American Military University for their contributions to Wikipedia.

Also, I looked at your Article for Creation submission for AMU. It duplicates a lot of the content that we already have for the parent company. I recommend (DRASTICALLY) shortening the AMU draft, or better yet, merging it into the article we already have.--FeralOink (talk) 14:03, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: American Military University (November 15)[edit]

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

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:

in-depth (not just brief mentions about the subject or routine announcements)
reliable
secondary
strictly independent of the subject

Make sure you add references that meet all four of these criteria before resubmitting. 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:

PRNewsWire is a deprecated source, please remove it

You need substantially more references or substantially less text

We require references from significant coverage about the topic of the article, and independent of it, in multiple secondary sources which are WP:RS please. See WP:42. Please also see WP:PRIMARY which details the limited permitted usage of primary sources and WP:SELFPUB which has clear limitations on self published sources. Providing sufficient references, ideally one per fact referred to, that meet these tough criteria is likely to allow this article to remain. Lack of them or an inability to find them is likely to mean that the topic is not suitable for inclusion, certainly today.

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:American Military University and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 20:00, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Custom signature fix needed[edit]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: American Military University (April 28)[edit]

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

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Probably notable, but large sections of the article are either unsourced or use non-independent sources. You need some stronger sources, like news articles primarily about the subject. Right now the majority of your references are either non-independent or are only trivial mentions. As the previous reviewer said, I'd recommend removing some text because not all of it can be accurately verified. Also, if you're being employed by the university to write this article, you MUST disclose it.

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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Clear friend a ^💬 22:41, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]