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Thanks for your edits on AT&T!

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Hi! I just wanted to say thanks for your recent edits on the article about AT&T. The information you added was rather interesting and useful. However, you added it as a "section" to the top of the article, which kind of threw off the formatting for the rest of the article. So, I decided to revert (undo) your changes. Please feel free to add back the same information, but maybe split up in the different other sections in the article, or into the first few paragraphs of the article. Also, please don't forget to cite your sources! I hope this doesn't discourage you from editing even more articles on Wikipedia! :) Hickland (talk) 02:27, 3 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

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  Hello Mike ye18, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Draft:China Waste Import Ban have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: China Waste Import Ban (May 23)

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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 Boothsift 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.
BoothSift 06:49, 23 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
 
Hello, Mike ye18! 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! BoothSift 06:49, 23 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Some stroopwafels for you!

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  Hi. nice draft article. hope you do not mind if I incorporated a section in the other article. please have a look, and incorporate more. China waste import ban cheers Clickclackcows (talk) 20:29, 3 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: China's waste import ban has been accepted

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China's waste import ban, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as B-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!

Zanhe (talk) 04:03, 26 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

Draft:China Waste Import Ban concern

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Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:China Waste Import Ban, 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.

You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:28, 24 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

Draft:Sadsadsadsa concern

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Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Sadsadsadsa, 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) 01:34, 24 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

Your draft article, Draft:China Waste Import Ban

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Hello, Mike ye18. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "China Waste Import Ban".

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! HasteurBot (talk) 19:01, 23 November 2019 (UTC)Reply