Zaccwm

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Hello, Zaccwm! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Winner 42 Talk to me! 23:00, 2 November 2014 (UTC) Thank you, I have access to multiple sources of information both on and offline but many are subscription only or paper based records. Unfortunately for many people who preceded widespread digital references. He was awarded an OBE for public service and was the longest serving Principal Probation Officer in London's history. I am not sure how to proceed or whether he will remain in obscurity. Zaccwm (talk) 13:19, 20 January 2024 (UTC) Getting Started Contributing to Wikipedia The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions New contributors' help page Where to: ask questions • make requests Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Simplified Manual of Style • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump IRC channels • Mailing lists Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community (The Signpost) Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Anne Casey

Your addition to Anne_Casey has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. I think it would be fine to have a mention of the award in the article, but your addition appeared to be a press release copied verbatim. We should probably just include a sentence or so, and provide an appropriate source for the information. Cheers, Basie (talk) 00:39, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Seldon Charles Forrester Farmer (January 19)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong was:  The comment the reviewer left 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 after they have been resolved.

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Theroadislong (talk) 16:27, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Seldon Charles Forrester Farmer (January 20)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by KylieTastic were: 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 after they have been resolved.

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KylieTastic (talk) 11:40, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Mirrors

Thanks for contributing to the article Draft:Seldon Charles Forrester Farmer. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that material must be verifiable and attributed to reliable sources. You have recently used citations which copied, or mirrored, material from Wikipedia. This leads to a circular reference and is not acceptable. Most mirrors are clearly labeled as such, but some are in violation of our license and do not provide the correct attribution. Please help by adding alternate sources to the article you edited! If you need any help or clarification, you can look at Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia or ask at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page, or just ask me. Thank you. Sam Kuru (talk) 14:14, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Again, please stop using the 'en-academic.com' to support your article. This is a clearly-identified mirror and cannot be used as a source. Sam Kuru (talk) 11:59, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Many thanks for identifying the offending article. Many of the features of Wikipedia make cross referencing 'easy', it is hard to distinguish which are acceptable and which are not. The source of this information was the 2007 Centenary of Probation which is no longer available online. I have physical print outs of those pages but given that the internet archive failed to capture them completely it is hard to reference that information adequately. Zaccwm (talk) 12:33, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation

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Zaccwm (talk) 22:58, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi I have updated the page as suggested including adding more references and removing the elements from his Eulogy. Hopefully it now reflects the requirements of Wikipedia, many thanks

Your submission at Articles for creation: Seldon Charles Forrester Farmer (February 7)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong 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 after they have been resolved.

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Theroadislong (talk) 09:22, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for reviewing this article and providing your feedback. S C F Farmer was awarded an OBE for his service, wrote peer reviewed articles that are still being cited 70 years later and was internationally respected in his field. I am puzzled as to why he does not qualify? There are many examples of music personalities who get a category to themselves in the metadata, where as entire categories of social sciences are missing. I appreciate that many references are offline chapters in books or paywalled, but this is the case with many professions.

I would be grateful for advice as to why this is still declined... and how I can improve the chances of acceptance. 27 years leading probation in this country and advising around the world is fairly significant, enough to be recognised by his own profession in their centenary celebrations in 2007. However online references are challenging to identify, wikis can redress some of that balance, for people whose lives were largely pre-digital era and/or limited about what could be spoken about during their lifetimes. This can help people towards their research and highlight the contribution of public servants from a time when personal notoriety was not sought and references to them were often by role rather than name.

Thanks once again for helping to improve Wikipedia. Zaccwm (talk) 10:05, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Mary Farmer (February 16)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Netherzone was:  The comment the reviewer left 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 after they have been resolved.

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Netherzone (talk) 14:17, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Seldon Charles Forrester Farmer (February 16)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Netherzone 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 after they have been resolved.

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Netherzone (talk) 14:26, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Seldon Charles Forrester Farmer has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Seldon Charles Forrester Farmer. Thanks! Netherzone (talk) 14:27, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi

Thanks for your help, I have updated the style and reduced the citations etc as suggested. I trust it can now be published. I have also had input from authors in the spere of probation to confirm the significance of his contribution and service. Many thanks Zaccwm (talk) 23:24, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Seldon Charles Forrester Farmer has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Seldon Charles Forrester Farmer. Thanks! Netherzone (talk) 18:00, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Seldon Charles Forrester Farmer has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Seldon Charles Forrester Farmer. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 18:06, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Mary Farmer has been accepted

Mary Farmer, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Theroadislong (talk) 22:39, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Many thanks for your help and that of other reviewers. Does the message regarding COI remain in perpetuity? I have declared on my page (assuming I have done correctly) Zaccwm (talk) 22:59, 16 February 2024 (UTC)