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(I've organized this talk page a bit and put things in chronological order. Things were getting scattered about.) The article referenced above appears to have been declined, and then deleted, due to copyright violations...not conflict-of-interest. The concern about possible conflict-of-interest is a separate matter. You might want to consider the live-help option mentioned above, where you can chat with experienced editors and have your questions answered in real-time. —Scottyoak2 (talk) 10:56, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
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. Also please stop piping (i.e. editing wikilinks) where not necessary. Particularly we do not usually insert punctuation into wikilinks, and we do not change the name of the destination page per Wikipedia:Piped link and other supporting best practice. Koncorde (talk) 15:47, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
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Hi DoubleGrazing (talk). This article has far more references than a lot of similar Wikipedia entries of independent schools in the area, so I’m not sure why it has been rejected. Any help appreciated. 24may1819 (talk) 20:15, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
I have moved this article back to draftspace for now while you resolve the issues identified. For some reason the article has bypassed the Articles for creation process. Some redaction of copypaste material may be necessary before it is moved the mainspace. Please do not move it to mainspace before the issues are resolved. Dormskirk (talk) 10:51, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for your help Dormskirk. I have edited the exhibitions section and had previously added more references so there are now what looks to me like a fair number. If there is anything else you can recommend, I would be happy to hear from you. 24may1819 (talk) 12:54, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
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An article you recently created, Phyllis Bowman, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) 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:
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So what you have done is basically the improper method of requesting a move. Critically it ignores the fact that there are dozens of St Helens in the world. The use of Merseyside has nothing to do with any other town but is related to differentiating St Helens, Merseyside from St Helens, Isle of Wight for example. Worse still, now the article isn't even called St Helens but St Helens. This is both ridiculous and obviously going to cause issues in search engines and indexing until it is repaired. Please, do not move pages like that. You are still a relatively new and inexperienced editor and this is a significant disruption. Koncorde (talk) 23:23, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to David Haigh. WP:DOB is one of the more important areas of WP:BLP. Toddst1 (talk) 03:24, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
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Please do not put flags into Infoboxes. See WP:INFOBOXFLAGS. Look and you will see they are not present in the vast majority of UK settlement articles. 10mmsocket (talk) 15:43, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
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And 4 others. Take it to talk. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 21:10, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
The responsibility for achieving consensus for inclusion is on those seeking to include disputed content.None of those should have been reverted in without discussion. And, to be clear, there is an established consensus on wikipedia that
We do not take the minority view that the historic counties still exist with the former boundaries.This is in the guidance in my edit summaries that you summarily reverted. This is edit warring. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 21:21, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
In a symbolic move, Eric Pickles will assert that England’s historic and traditional counties still exist. So no legal instrument. Eric Pickles was the Local Government Secretary at the time, in a former administration. The secretary of state is a position on the UK executive, and speaks for the executive, not the legislature. Parliament did not legislate the counties back into existence, and we merely have
Eric Pickles will assert...You may be unaware of the Government convention, also, that when a secretary of state or minister speaks in the capacity of their office, their names are not used. Instead it would be "the local government secretary announced..." But here, it is "Eric Pickles will assert." As the article says up front, this is a symbolic move. It has no effect on the legislative position, and nor was it binding on any future secretary of state.
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