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Your submission at Articles for creation: Biography for Dr. Maurice Edington, Ph.D. (September 11)

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

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.

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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KylieTastic (talk) 19:38, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ashantai1983! 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! KylieTastic (talk) 19:38, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Biography for Dr. Maurice Edington, Ph.D.

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Biography for Dr. Maurice Edington, Ph.D. requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.udc.edu/about/president/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Academic titles and links.

Academic titles do not go inside links. For example, the link to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is at Martin Luther King Jr..Naraht (talk) 03:05, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Maurice Edington

Hi,

I'm User:Naraht and I'm an experienced Wikipedia editor.

Dr. Edington certainly is notable enough for a Wikipedia article. Some of the following sources can be *paraphrased* into your own words and referenced as part of making an draft article at Draft:Maurice Edington

You can use the article about his predecessor Ronald Mason Jr. as a model. Not everything may make sense to copy, but I think you can get there. Let me know if you have any questions, I'll watch your talk page.Naraht (talk) 03:18, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'm not sure how to use the system in place. If you could take a look at my new draft that would be great Ashantai1983 (talk) 14:58, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Maurice Edington

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Maurice Edington, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. GPL93 (talk) 15:25, 6 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

October 2023

At the Help Desk, you wrote I am in the communications department at the University of the District of Columbia and need to add our President to wikipedia. You must make the mandatory Paid contributions disclosure with your next edit. Cullen328 (talk) 20:27, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Maurice Edington

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Draft:Maurice Edington requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.udc.edu/about/president/ and Note - another draft exists at President Edington, which also had CV issues. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. S0091 (talk) 20:49, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

November 2023

Hello, Ashantai1983, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as UDCEditor (talk · contribs). Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you. S0091 (talk) 20:56, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Ashantai1983. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Wikipedia:Help desk, 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:Ashantai1983. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ashantai1983|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) 18:15, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Additional guidance

First, only stick to one account if the other account is you, and even if not best only one person handles the draft (and only one draft please...having multiple creates many issues). You MUST make the required disclosure as you are a paid editor but also note being a paid editor does not preclude you from submitting a draft and Edington is indeed notable as the president of a major university. However, you CANNOT copy material from a another source and MUST use your own words. If you submit a compliant draft, it will be accepted. S0091 (talk) 21:05, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Article started.

Maurice Edington has been created. I've copied the list of sources to Talk:Maurice Edington. Let me know on the talk page what additions you think make sense...Naraht (talk) 15:45, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Naraht nice of you to create the article. S0091 (talk) 18:40, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. 2601:147:C400:9DC0:D595:B715:D074:106B (talk) 18:42, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The change of middle initial was correct, I have *no* idea where I got the 'C.' from, but unless it is part of his normal title, probably best to leave it off. I don't expect there will be any articles about people with a name that needs to be distinguished using the middle initial.Naraht (talk) 20:03, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ok 2601:147:C400:9DC0:E925:A259:1B5:FDE8 (talk) 20:09, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please go ahead and log in as Ashantai1983.Naraht (talk) 20:11, 15 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]