User talk:Thehamburglar22

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Posted automatically via sandbox guided tour. Thehamburglar22 (talk) 15:52, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Savvy028 (talk) 16:14, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (July 12)

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

You are totally misunderstanding what we do here. Wikipedia is not free webhosting where you can just put up a "webpage" for your community. We are not FaceBook or LinkedIn.

What we publish here are articles about people, places, and things.

If you would like to have an article about this community, everything in the article would have to be sourced to published books, news articles, government statistics, etc. We cannot accept any personally-known information, no matter how confident you are that it is accurate, or how much you pinky-swear it's true. We only care about things that are WP:Verifiable, meaning they can be clearly attributed to reputable, published works.

That said, if you would like to have an article about this town, we can work with you on that, but you cannot try to turn this page into a "messageboard" for the community, or an advertisement to live there, and links to realtors would be completely, absolutely unacceptable since that is just advertising and we don't allow that here.

If you would like to write an article on the town, that's great, but it has to comply with Wikipedia practices, not just whatever comes off the top of one's head.

If you need help, please ask the volunteer mentors at WP:Teahouse for guidance.

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.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:Thehamburglar22/sandbox and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:21, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Thehamburglar22, 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! MatthewVanitas (talk) 21:21, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your revert at Lake Carroll (Illinois)

Hello, I see you reverted my edits at Lake Carroll (Illinois). I left a very clear explanation why I removed your edits, but you have not given any for why you re-did them. The material is completely inappropriate, it's just a bunch of minutiae about amenities from a website promoting a housing subdivision in the area. I don't see any encylopedic reason it should be there, Wikipedia is not an "about us!!!" page for the local housing board. Our articles are for a global audience, so it doesn't really help readers in Japan, or readers 40 years from now, to know which dock they can park their sailboats on.

What is useful is information about the history of the lake and communities around it, geological or hydrological information about the body of water, info about the wildlife there and any pollution issues, etc. I'm going to remove your text again, given these explanations, and I'm going to post this explanation on the page's Talk page. If you want to re-instate it again, I suggest you have a very clearly defensible reason for it in your Edit Summary, and if possible on the Talk page, in which case we'll ask for a neutral party to step in and judge the best way to go forward MatthewVanitas (talk) 22:04, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

On closer look, I see that you removed the promotional stuff, my apologies, I had only seen the revert, not that you made further edits. The statistics you have added are indeed useful, though ideally we should user a stronger reference rather than a community site. Is there any state Parks/Outdoor authority publication or website that verifies those figures?

Also, if you live in the area, it would be great if you could add some photos of the lake itself to help illustrate the article. See WP:Uploading images for information. Sorry for my initial confusion. MatthewVanitas (talk) 22:07, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, User:Thehamburglar22/sandbox

Hello, Thehamburglar22. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "sandbox".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation 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}} 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. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 12:42, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]