User talk:Technology and Innovation

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October 2019

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Talk:Main Page. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. David J Johnson (talk) 20:36, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A summary of some important policies and guidelines

Wikipedia does not tolerate copyright violations or plagiarism. Paraphrase sources, do not steal text from them. -- This is why your first attempted edit has been scrubbed from the page's history.

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"Truth" is not the only criteria for inclusion, verifiability is also required.
We do not publish original thought nor original research. We're not a blog, we're not here to promote any ideology.
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I've also written a short guide on how to write articles that won't be deleted, which I'm guessing you were trying to do when you posted Banks's PR stuff on the main page. Ian.thomson (talk) 21:44, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Clayton Banks

Hello, Technology and Innovation. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Clayton Banks".

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 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}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 05:10, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]