J. Norquist

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Despatch Industries (November 23)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Hell in a Bucket 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.

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Hell in a Bucket (talk) 06:54, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Hello! J. Norquist, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about 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! Hell in a Bucket (talk) 06:54, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Despatch Industries (February 23)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Samuell1616 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.

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One life to live (talk) 14:22, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Despatch Industries has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Despatch Industries. Thanks! Mr. Guye (talk) 22:19, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Despatch Industries (April 6)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Timtrent 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.

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Fiddle Faddle 21:21, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Advice Regarding Writing About Despatch Industries

I noticed that Draft:Despatch Industries was declined again. Most companies are not notable and should not have stand alone articles on Wikipedia. If you've read Illinois Tool Works you'll have seen that very few of its subsidiaries rate articles of their own. That said, there may exist enough material from the right sources to justify an article, if you're willing to dig it out.

If you have access to the main public library in Minneapolis, or any good university research library in that area, you should be able to find additional information from before the digital age. The Star Tribune, Twin Cities Business, and Finance and Commerce are solid sources. Stick to ones like them and avoid less desirable sources, like trade journals, as much as possible. I've added seven sources to a "Further reading" section of the draft. If you mine them all for material, you may be able to clear the bar of notability.

Because it was private for almost its entire independent history, and employed no more than 450 or so at a time, nearly all of the reliable sources that have written about it were published locally. Consequently there's a danger that the draft will be declined for being of only local interest. Despatch was very briefly a public company. There may be coverage from outside Minnesota during that period, but you may have to search paper records or microfilm/microfiche to find it. At one point Despatch also had a factory in California, so there might be reporting from there at that time.

You may find it useful to reflect on some of Wikipedia's best articles about manufacturing firms: Holt Manufacturing Company, Klein Bikes, Monster (company), and Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. Notice how dominant the history section of the articles is? Slashing the history section as you did after the draft was declined probably isn't the path to approval. Primary sources must be used carefully, but they can be used. You can ask User:Timtrent for clarification, but in my opinion you weren't analyzing, synthesizing, or interpreting the sources (which is not allowed), but only relying too heavily on them for too much of the article (which also is not allowed). The best solution to that is to add more history, from sources outside the company so that the majority of the article comes from secondary sources and there aren't long blocks of paragraphs supported only by primary sources.

"Despatch Purchased" shouldn't be a section on the same level as the history section; it should be a subsection of history. Try one subsection for each of the five distinct ownership periods: Grapp, public, Chistianson, Peyton-Hays, and ITW. From what I've read, the story of the company is how it swung to serve different industries at different times: streetcar companies, bakers, the munitions industry, the early electronics industry, pharmaceutical manufacturers, high tech fabricators, solar panel manufacturers, and carbon fiber makers. Each industry could be a paragraph in whichever ownership period the company began focusing on that industry. Some coverage of different classes of oven could be worked into the text, such as when the company began producing that class.

If you slash anything, slash the current products. That bullet list is to an editor like a matador's cape to a bull. It screams advertising and promotion, which are not permitted on Wikipedia. Any products section should complement the history section.

I hope that all makes sense and you find it useful. Worldbruce (talk) 05:45, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your thoughtful response and helpful suggestions. I really appreciate it! Worldbruce (talk) 03:42, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

I concur with Worldbruce. I showed you WP:PRIMARY that you may see where and when and how to use a primary source. The "how not to" is a by-product. Be aware that multiple links to the org's own web site also smack of promotion. Writing a good article is simple, but not easy. Our role as reviewers is to seek to ensure that an article will not immediately be subject to one of our deletion processes when it is accepted. That is why we push it back to the author. We want to accept articles. Fiddle Faddle 07:18, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your help! I truly appreciate it! Fiddle Faddle(talk) 03:42, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Despatch Industries (April 27)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Aerospeed 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.

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Aerospeed (Talk) 22:56, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Despatch Industries concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Despatch Industries, a page you created, has not been edited in 6 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:30, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Despatch Industries concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Despatch Industries, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:30, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Despatch Industries

Hello, J. Norquist. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "Despatch Industries".

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 and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 10:18, 28 April 2016 (UTC)