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Your submission at Articles for creation: Australian Football International (March 9)[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 Robert McClenon was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

The comment they left was:

The draft needs multiple independent reliable sources (not associated with the organization). The one malformed reference is to the organization's own web site. Add wikilinks, for instance, to Australian rules football.

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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Robert McClenon (talk) 22:06, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Your draft article, Draft:Australian Football International[edit]

Hello, Internationalfooty. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Australian Football International".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 19:24, 6 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (December 19)[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 TheSandDoctor was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage (not just mere mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies, the golden rule and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners and Help:Introduction to referencing/1), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Unfortunately, this submission does not include any references. Please review this helpful guide about writing an article, this guideline on how to identify reliable sources, and this helpful guide about referencing. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me by clicking here or asking at the Teahouse.

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TheSandDoctor (talk) 02:45, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

December 2017[edit]

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to AFI Europe Football, 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) 21:31, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop continuing to remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Aussie Rules UK, without resolving the problem that the template refers to. This may be considered disruptive editing. Further edits of this type may result in your account being blocked from editing. Melcous (talk) 23:26, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reply[edit]

Hi and thanks for your message on my talk page. Glad to see you are keen to contribute to wikipedia! Engaging with other editors and working collaboratively is a big part of this project. All articles here should be referenced to reliable, independent sources and this is the key issue with most of those you have created. (By the way, in future I would suggest using the articles for creation process where you can get this kind of feedback before an article is published in the main encyclopedia where it will immediately get much more scrutiny).
So the key question is, are you able to find independent published sources (e.g. newspaper articles, books, online reporting etc) that talk about the various leagues and teams you have created articles for? These will then help establish that the topics are notable according to wikipedia's criteria. If you can find these, they can be used as references - you can read here for more info on how to add references, or just ask for help. (I will be "watching" your talk page so feel free to ask any questions here)
Also, don't see the maintenance templates at the top of the article as a big 'negative' - they are there to point out that there is still work to be done on the article, and they can actually attract other editors who look out for them to come and help edit. But as noted, the best way to avoid this is to work an article over time as a draft and then submit it for review before it is published. Cheers, Melcous (talk) 06:33, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

On another note, your user name could suggest that you have a connection with this topic in particular. That's ok, obviously people often edit articles in areas they are familiar with, but if you have any kind of external relationship with any of the leagues/teams you have written about, you should read the conflict of interest guidelines and make sure you are abiding by them. Again if you have further questions on this, please ask. Thanks, Melcous (talk) 06:34, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Mass addition of inappropriate external links[edit]

I'm not sure your external link additions conform to the external links guideline. The site does not appear to give any useful additional information that couldn't be put in the article directly. Please don't add more until you have editor consensus. Thanks for understanding. Tera TIX 04:02, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is just pure spamming. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.150.79.160 (talk) 07:35, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

With respect, the insertion of these links are not spamming. All of the links are relevant to the topic as they contain information about Australian football leagues and clubs. Internationalfooty (talk) 07:46, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

1) you are linking to an organisation for which you have above repeatedly not convinced editors that it is notable itself.

2) This is mass addition of external links. Relevancy is NOT an inclusion criterion, our inclusion criteria for external links is more strict.

Hence, you are plainly spamming Wikipedia. I have mass rolled back all these additions, and ask you strictly to build consensus before inclusion, and read our policies and guidelines (as well as m:Terms of use, which you appear to be editing in violation of). --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 08:08, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Australian Football International[edit]

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SO this person came and went, leaving a trail of non-notability, all to promote his or her organisation. Well played. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.150.79.160 (talk) 07:03, 3 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Ways to improve USA Footy[edit]

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Nomination of Australian Football International for deletion[edit]

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November 2019[edit]

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