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Hi Heemrad! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (March 30)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Anarchyte was: 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.
Anarchyte (work | talk) 06:29, 30 March 2016 (UTC)Reply


 
Hello! Heemrad, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that 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! Anarchyte (work | talk) 06:29, 30 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

User:Heemrad/sandbox

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Please contribute to one of the following already existing pages. Your draft is good and deserves to be on Wikipedia. You're more experienced on this subject than me. Two pages at Mauser Model 1895 and Mauser Model 1898 rifle already exist. Anarchyte (work | talk) 06:31, 30 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

The Mauser 1895 is made 3 years before the Karabiner 98k (Different service history + Design + variants + countries of use) also there is brief reference to the Mauser Model 1895 under Swedish M1894 rifle heading on the Mauser page, which fails to mention the Mauser Model 1895 involvement in the Argentina/Chile arms race, the need for the weapon after the jameson raid, reasons why the weapon contract between GWM and the South African Government wasnt fulfilled, No extensive description on the design, all the countries of use and mention of variants. The snippet mentioned in "Swedish M1894 rifle" does not fully cover the history,design or variants of the Mauser Model 1895 and while the Mauser page does mention the Mauser Model 1895, it also does mention the Mauser Model 1871, Mauser Model 1889 etc that are briefly mentioned in the Mauser page but still have their own Main Article page (with the same amount or much less information).Heemrad (talk) 08:23, 30 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

I'll get an admin to delete the redirect and then I'll accept the draft, if that's what you wish... Anarchyte (work | talk) 08:30, 30 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Yes please Heemrad (talk) 09:00, 30 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Need help finding Pictures

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If anyone can please provide or know where to find free to use pictures of a Chilean Mauser Model 1895 bolt action rifle that will be greatly appreciated.

Heemrad (talk) 15:27, 30 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

I'm not sure, perhaps use search engines or the WP:Reference desk. If you can freely load them yourself, see WP:Upload. SwisterTwister talk 19:58, 30 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the advice ill definitely give it a look and thanks for reviewing my article, i hopefully fixed the issue of my article being an orphan and linked articles Lee-Enfield,Second Boer War, Mauser,Pattern 1913 Enfield,Military history of Australia during the Second Boer War,Service rifle,Type 38 rifle,.303 British to it.Heemrad (talk) 07:38, 31 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Try using flickr to find pictures. Remember to read WP:FLICKR first, it'll detail what you can and can't upload from that site. Anarchyte (work | talk) 11:09, 31 March 2016 (UTC)Reply
Thanks Anarchyte for the link, but unfortunately nothing turned up :(, i tried creative commons as well but to no avail.I Was hoping a wikipedia user would have the rifle and could take photos of it because free to use pictures of the rifle just seems to not be available but thanks for the assistance.Heemrad (talk) 05:48, 1 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Mauser Model 1895 has been accepted

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Mauser Model 1895, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 16:41, 30 March 2016 (UTC)Reply