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AfC notification: Draft:Chet Bowers has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Chet Bowers. Thanks! FoCuS contribs ;  talk to me!  16:33, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Chet Bowers (September 21)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SwisterTwister was:

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SwisterTwister  talk  05:30, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Welcome
Hello, C S Chaffee, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the Wikipedia Teahouse, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type   and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers: We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126;. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  17:53, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
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My submission, Draft:Chet Bowers was rejected with the comment left by the reviewer that it "seems" notable, but that I need better resources. This despite my sources being a best selling author and physicist, educators, authors, etc within the genre. Another editor has looked at it since and said that the references are fine but that there is too much unsourced text. Yet, I have looked at numerous Wikipedia articles that include unsourced text used to define or describe the subject, as long as it is somewhat reinforced by references along the way. I have really tried to construct the article going by Wikipedia's own definitions of third party sources, reliability, etc as well as examples of pages that have already been accepted and not flagged. Is there a less subjective entity I can appeal to?C S Chaffee (talk) 18:42, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
 * For a response to the second part of your question/comment: there are nearly 5,000,000 articles in Wikipedia, and, yes, a great many (if not the majority) fail to meet the standards for article content. However, it is not convincing in the least to say "That article over there is a pile of garbage and so this article should remain a pile of garbage too!". -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  19:09, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
 * You have some more responses at Teahouse/Questions. So I am going to close this to keep the conversation in one place. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  19:14, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
 * The "precedent" that lots of other articles don't live up to the policies and guidelines doesn't matter. It just means there is a lot to clean up. And the clean up starts with each individual article where the standards have not yet been reached. And Yes, I will stand by the statement that someone proclaiming "I don't think we should clean up this pile of garbage because there is another pile of garbage over there!" will not convince anyone. Replace "pile of garbage" with "glass of spilled milk" if that better suits your sensibilities, but its the same in the end. --  TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  21:03, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Chet Bowers has been accepted
 Chet Bowers, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! samtar (msg) 08:15, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
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Happy New Year! C S Chaffee, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 12:35, 1 January 2016 (UTC)


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