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Your submission at Articles for creation: Nate Miller (Soccer Coach) (November 18)[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 Curb Safe Charmer was:

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). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 11:30, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, RWeissburg (WMF)! Having an article 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! Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 11:30, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Nate Miller (Soccer Coach)[edit]

Hello, RWeissburg (WMF). It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, Draft:Nate Miller (Soccer Coach).

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it. — JJMC89 (T·C) 22:35, 18 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Logged-out editing[edit]

Hello. I noticed that here, you made an edit to a page where – judging by your username – you seem to have a conflict of interest, self-reverted a day later and then seemingly logged-out to repeat the same edit. Could you explain what prompted you to do so? Thanks. --Blablubbs (talk) 11:03, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Blablubbs. Thanks for the question! I'm 2+ years into my tenure as a WMF employee, who did not come from the community and learned how to edit my first day on the job! I did not, however, learn all the nuances (and in fact had to ask someone how to reply to your message here - I hope I got it right!)

Here's what happened: I noticed an error in Maryana's bio, and I thought I'd put my editing skills to practice and make the change! Someone then alerted me about not making those edits from my staff account, so I reverted the edit and attempted to make it from my personal account, not realizing I was logged out and also not realizing that may also be a conflict of interest. Sounds like I was wrong, so I'm happy to revert the edit! Next time I'll bring these things to the talk page. Thank you! RWeissburg (WMF) (talk) 19:03, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for responding. This is obviously no big issue, especially looking at how minor the edit is – I'm just trying to get ahead of things and make sure you're aware of our conflict of interest and logged-out editing policies, which can be hard to navigate at times. The TLDR version is: Editing logged-out in ways that could be construed as evading scrutiny or ways that suggest you are multiple people (such as editing the same page both logged out and logged in) is prohibited, and it's generally considered best practice to not edit any articles on subjects you have a close connection to – instead, it is recommended connected editors make edit requests; there's a handy wizard for creating those here. Please feel free to give me a ping if there's something I can help with. Best, --Blablubbs (talk) 09:12, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I super appreciate that, because I was *not* fully aware and always appreciate a good nudge! Here's to continued learning! RWeissburg (WMF) (talk) 22:59, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]