User talk:ByJamieB

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Paid editing disclosure
Hello and welcome. Thank you for disclosing your status as a paid editor. I have moved your disclosure from this page to your userpage (User:ByJamieB), as that is the proper place for it. Also, in your draft article, the template is required only on the talk page, not in the article body itself. Best of luck to you. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 04:20, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Adam I Gordon (March 23)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by AngusWOOF were:

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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AngusW🐶🐶F ( bark  •  sniff ) 01:01, 23 March 2021 (UTC)


 * You were asking on IRC for more explanation about this decline. I agree that the reviewer's comment might be considered a bit terse.
 * One of the main determinants of whether or not a draft is accepted is whether it shows, through its references, that the subject is notable. Wikipedia attaches a particular meaning to this word that may not be apparent in everyday English usage. What it boils down to is a question of whether there exist published sources that show the subject has become noticed, been 'taken note of'. We expect to see serious, in-depth, and independent reporting about the subject. An article that is largely base on an interview, such as the New York Post article, does not meet this standard. And while it is good to provide a source to verify his board membership at Scripps, it is not clear that this is a noteworthy accomplishment to be mentioned in an encyclopedia article unless we have a secondary source that talks about it. You cannot substitute your own personal judgment that this is an important item.
 * To conclude, we're not saying that Gordon should not appear in Wikipedia. We're saying that an article about him has to be properly based on several articles with in-depth biographical coverage. You've done much better with providing inline citations in this more recent version. The NYP article may be a sign that there is more coverage out there to be found.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 02:14, 23 March 2021 (UTC)