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Happy editing! --Ipigott (talk) 07:26, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Brooke Cunningham moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Brooke Cunningham, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more in-depth coverage about the subject itself, with citations from reliable, independent sources in order to show it meets WP:GNG. It should have at least three. And please remember that interviews, as primary sources, do not count towards GNG.(?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 11:52, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Sharon Williams Lewis

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Local civil servant, not enough in-depth coverage to meet WP:GNG.

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Lina Alsmeier moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Lina Alsmeier, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more in-depth coverage about the subject itself, with citations from reliable, independent sources in order to show it meets WP:GNG. It should have at least three, to be safe. And please remember that interviews, as primary sources, do not count towards GNG.(?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 11:56, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Selma Hetmann moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Selma Hetmann, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more in-depth coverage about the subject itself, with citations from reliable, independent sources in order to show it meets WP:GNG. It should have at least three, to be safe. And please remember that interviews, as primary sources, do not count towards GNG.(?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 11:56, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Nick Brooks moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Nick Brooks. Unfortunately, it is not ready for publishing because it needs more sources to establish notability. Your article is now a draft where you can improve it undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Jamiebuba (talk) 23:33, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

May 2023

Hello, I'm Mcmatter. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit seemed less than neutral and has been removed. If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 14:47, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

you have engaged in an edit war. you seem to have a problem with the associated press reporting of the publishing deal for an author. they are a neutral reliable source. take it to the reliable sources noticeboard. --Ivorybantha (talk) 14:50, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

I have removed promotional language leaving a neutral statement. I have no issues with the source. I also removed unsupported claims about the awards they have won. McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 16:27, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello Ivorybantha. The nature of your edits 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 very 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 extremely 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:Ivorybantha. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ivorybantha|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. Jamiebuba (talk) 07:42, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

i have nothing to declare. you might want to follow policy rather than edit war, and make unfounded accusations. --Ivorybantha (talk) 14:36, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

Nick Brooks moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Nick Brooks. Unfortunately, it is not ready for publishing because you may have a possible Conflict of Interest. Your article is now a draft where you can improve it undisturbed for a while.

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Patricia Wright (biologist) moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Patricia Wright (biologist). Unfortunately, it is not ready for publishing because it needs more sources to establish notability and All sources are primary or related to the subject. Award is from a presumed organisation that lacks notability; only an editor, not chief editor.. Your article is now a draft where you can improve it undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Lopifalko (talk) 16:34, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Ivorybantha. Thank you for your work on Christie Tate. User:Actualcpscm, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, I had the following comments:

Great work! I hope that you will be able to find additional biographical information on Tate to expand this article a bit.

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Actualcpscm}}. Please remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Actualcpscm (talk) 19:37, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Low-quality, drawn images are not usable on Wikipedia biographies

There was a discussion held at Wikipedia:No_original_research/Noticeboard/Archive_49#Cartoon_portraits months ago, where consensus was pretty solidly against using low-quality, amateurish portraits being used on Wikipedia biographies, CGI-generated misrepresentations of the subject are also not allowed. Not literally every drawn images is bad, e.g. File:Ekaterina Mikhailovna Andreeva.jpg is borderline. Also, for images such as Rita Bake and File:Max toulon 2.jpg, it may be a good idea to add a caption beneath to say which person in the image is the subject. Thanks. Zaathras (talk) 13:48, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

Blocked as a sockpuppet

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RoySmith (talk) 16:04, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

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