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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (August 31)

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

The proposed article does not have sufficient content to require an article of its own, but it could be merged into the existing article at Blue Heron Renaissance Choir. Since anyone can edit Wikipedia, you are welcome to add that information yourself. Thank you.

The comment the reviewer left was:

AFC is used for drafts of new articles. This is a proposal to rename an article and change its content. See Moving for renaming of articles, including the procedure to discuss renaming. Discuss any proposed changes to the text at the article talk page, Talk:Blue Heron Renaissance Choir.

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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Robert McClenon (talk) 04:21, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Grant Washington! 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! Robert McClenon (talk) 04:21, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Use of nowiki

Hi there, I just finished cleaning up the formatting at Blue Heron (vocal ensemble), and I noticed that in your recent rewrite of that article, you added a lot of nowiki tags. Those are fine when necessary, but you were using them in an unusual and non-standard way that tells me you're not quite understanding Wikipedia's style conventions on titles. No big deal, I fixed the issues (you can review my edit here), but please do brush up on the Manual of Style if you haven't already (particularly MOS:ITAL and WP:NOWIKI). Other editors can always step in to fix things, but it's best for everybody if you learn the style conventions. If I can help with anything, just let me know. Thanks, Jessicapierce (talk) 23:28, 5 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Grant Washington. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Blue Heron (vocal ensemble), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Jmertel23 (talk) 19:31, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, User:Grant Washington/sandbox

Hello, Grant Washington. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "sandbox".

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.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. CoolSkittle (talk) 16:31, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]