User talk:Zootsuit1941
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Rodd Wolff (September 26)
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Hello! Zootsuit1941,
I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that 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! Robert McClenon (talk) 04:12, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Rodd Wolff has been accepted
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.
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Citations
Hi there, I got your message. It appears that you may be unaware of how to cite information and/or quotes in an academic paper or encyclopedia article. Wikipedia actually is a not-for-profit encyclopedia, and is not just a web host of random articles. Most people, places, things and ideas are actually not allowed on Wikipedia - they must be notable. Now, Wikipedia has its own style of inline citation, but we follow the general rule that literally every single statement of fact needs a piece of evidence to either back it up as verified proof, or to refer to the original source. See by clicking on the blue link here: Wikipedia:Citing_sources (this is a long guideline that has many details but that you must follow). Every single quote needs to be set aside in "quote marks" or indented. Especially for biographies of living people, only reliable sources that have significant and in depth coverage of the person named are allowed. As a general rule, you need to show two or more such in-depth, reliable sources to prove that a person is really "notable", or what used to be called "famous" before that word got debased by reality television and 15 minutes of fame. In the "wild west" days in the early 2000's, a lot of very bad articles got onto Wikipedia, leading to a crisis in 2005, thus we've spent the last decade deleting a lot of articles. The burden of proof is on you, if ordinary editors can't find such evidence online through publicly searchable databases. So you cite a real book it has to be fully available on Google books, or it needs to be available widely at many libraries. You don't need to over-cite, for example by citing that the sky is blue. However, you may need to explain to outsiders that the Pope is in fact Catholic, or when sometimes the sky changes colors. Got it? I'm going on vacation for two weeks starting this weekend, and will not be available to mentor you further. Just so you know, some articles get deleted because they are not yet ready, but when the person becomes more famous, their article gets back on. Happy holidays! Bearian (talk) 20:37, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
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