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Your submission at Articles for creation: Elliot Alderson (December 17)

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

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage (not just mere mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject—see the general guideline on notability, the golden rule and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners and Help:Introduction to referencing/1), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

The comment the reviewer left was:

We need more critical covg. of the character in reliable 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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Winged Blades^Godric 08:17, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Mancer 98, 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! Winged Blades^Godric 08:17, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Writing about fiction

Hi there Mancer. Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you continue to contribute. However, so you know, Wikipedia has a lot of policies and guidelines about how one should write an encyclopedia, that may not be immediately obvious to a newcomer. I wanted to make sure you know, because as you're currently editing, you'll likely see much of your information deleted.

Please look over Wikipedia's guide to writing about fictional content and the guide for the appropriate length of writing plot summaries. The short version is, plot summaries on Wikipedia are supposed to be shorter, general overviews of stories, just hitting the main plot-points of a video game/book/film/etc. It's not supposed to capture all the little "play by play" details, where every little action is covered. And in general, the story should generally be just a small fraction of the article - encyclopedias put more emphasis on documenting things like the game's creation and reception over re-telling its story.

I won't remove your information for now, but I highly recommend thinking about trimming down the detail in the writing before someone comes in and just removes it all, which is a common thing that happens when people add massive plot sections. Sergecross73 msg me 17:24, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Elliot Alderson

Hello, Mancer 98. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Elliot Alderson".

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. Legacypac (talk) 14:01, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]