User talk:Benpawson

April 2020
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Social Workers Union has been accepted
 Social Workers Union, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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Thanks again, and happy editing! MatthewVanitas (talk) 20:12, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: John McGowan (UK Trade Unionist) (November 4)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by KartikeyaS343 was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

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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KartikeyaS (talk) 18:19, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Social Workers Union
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Social Workers Union. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Your draft article was "unapproved" for good reason, don't try to shoe-horn it into another article - see WP:COATRACK - Arjayay (talk) 10:53, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:John McGowan (UK Trade Unionist)
Hello, Benpawson. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:John McGowan (UK Trade Unionist), a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 19:01, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:John McGowan (UK Trade Unionist)


Hello, Benpawson. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "John McGowan".

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 and remove the, , or  code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! CommanderWaterford (talk) 18:56, 4 May 2021 (UTC)