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• Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Bear on the Square Mountain Festival · ( logs | links | watch ) · [revisions]

I, Davemoser123, request the undeletion of this Articles for creation submission deleted under CSD G13. Please restore the page as I intend to work on it. Davemoser123 (talk) 03:40, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Bear on the Square Mountain Festival, 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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Hello, Davemoser123. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "Bear on the Square Mountain Festival".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 11:55, 31 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have over the last several days requested a un-delete and seen no response.

• I'd actually replied to this back on June 1 when you initially requested this and again Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion#Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation.2FBear_on_the_Square_Mountain_Festival|tonight]] when you requested this again. The problem with the article was that you took the content directly from several sources (official promotional blurbs for the festival), which made the article a copyright violation. You could file a ticket through WP:ORTS that gave Wikipedia permission to use the material, but that would not take care of the very promotional tones that are in the article. Right now you'd have to completely re-write the article from scratch in order to remove all of the promotional tones, so I would recommend against the prior drafts getting restored. It contained words like picturesque", "finest", and "impressive", all of which are considered to be WP:PEACOCK terms that are unacceptable on Wikipedia. You need to be very careful about this since articles can be deleted based on promotion alone and I'm actually a little surprised that this wasn't. I'm also worried about the potential conflict of interest here since odds are high that you are someone involved with the festival and thus have a direct WP:COI. This doesn't mean that you can't work on an entry, just that it tends to be discouraged because it's so incredibly easy for someone that's involved to write about something in a promotional tone or to feel a bit of WP:OWNERSHIP if the page doesn't look a certain way (positive, worded to resemble the official website, etc). I also need to note that the page also needed coverage in reliable sources that is independent of the festival itself, since the deleted article contained no sources. I know that it hadn't been submitted, but that's something that would be required if you were to create a new entry and submit it for acceptance. Be careful to make sure that the coverage is in-depth and not just in passing or a routine notification of an event. You can use local coverage, but be cautious of this as well since local coverage tends to be depreciated in a lot of editors' eyes since it's within an area's best interests to write about a local event. (IE, local interest stories) I don't always agree with this, but I can see where the concern comes from, which is mostly that you have to show where the topic (in this case a festival) is of interest to people beyond the town itself. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 03:48, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your response, I see your concern. Yes I do the website and am one of the workers at the festival. So it was easy to copy text from the website. The intention is to describe the distinctive features that make it unique from the other music festivals while the web site's function is to detail the event schedules. I do think including some of the past performers adds to the flavor of music not as a promotional item. I'll try again. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Davemoser123&action=edit&section=5#

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

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JMHamo (talk) 22:37, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

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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--Non-Dropframe _talk 18:44, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Davemoser123, 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! --Non-Dropframe talk 18:44, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted information, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.

This submission appears to be taken from http://blog.georgiamountaininn.com/tag/bluegrass/. Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly exists under a compatible licence and is written in an acceptable tone—this includes material that you own the copyright to. You should attribute the content of a draft to outside sources, using citations, but copying and pasting or closely paraphrasing sources is not acceptable. The entire draft should be written using your own words and structure.

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(t) Josve05a (c) 05:43, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Davemoser123, 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! (t) Josve05a (c) 05:43, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Bear on the Square Mountain Festival, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Bear on the Square Mountain Festival and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Draft:Bear on the Square Mountain Festival during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Ricky81682 (talk) 23:41, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]