User talk:Brad Stoddard

Your draft
Hi Brad, I noticed your recent draft submission about Dan Timmerman Stoddard. It seems that it is about a family member that you recently lost. My sincere condolences to you and everyone else that he has left behind.Dan Stoddard sounds like a fascinating individual who had a very interesting life. Unfortunately, I have to tell you that it's unlikely that this draft will be accepted. Wikipedia has very stringent requirements for inclusion and sourcing of articles – subjects must have received a significant amount of independent coverage before we can write about them, and everything we say must be supported by reliable sources. Even if we know that what we write is true, we need to provide sources to verify it. From a cursory search, I don't see much independent coverage that could be used for this (if I'm mistaken, please tell me and we can discuss how the draft could be reworked). I see that you put a lot of effort into your submission and I would feel bad just declining it with a boilerplate message, hence my contacting you here. I would like to ask you if you would be open to withdrawing the submission and instead trying to find another outlet for your writing, such as a memorial site. I'm sorry if this is disappointing. Please tell me if you have any questions or concerns. Best wishes, Blablubbs | talk 00:35, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

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Happy editing! GPL93 (talk) 03:16, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Dan Timmerman Stoddard (February 3)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Devonian Wombat was:

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Devonian Wombat (talk) 11:59, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Dan Timmerman Stoddard
Hello, Brad Stoddard. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Dan Timmerman Stoddard, 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) 12:03, 6 July 2021 (UTC)