User talk:Chumpy04

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June 2020
Hello, I'm Waggie. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to William Crooks (locomotive)—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help desk. Thanks. Waggie (talk) 06:06, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

William Crooks
If you want to create an article about the American Civil War colonel - instead of overwriting the disambiguation list - click the redlink of his name here: William Crooks - add the information to this new page to create a new article, and add a link to it on the disambiguation page - the new article should also have references added to verify the information. - EdwardUK (talk) 17:21, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Got it. Thank you! Chumpy04 (talk) 02:42, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

So do I go to “Article Wizard” and then make a draft? Chumpy04 (talk) 02:47, 26 June 2020 (UTC)


 * You can use the Article Wizard or the "submit your draft" link in your sandbox, but Article Wizard is useful for new editors as it gives information on how to improve the article. When you have finished working on a sandbox/draft version and submitted it, it will go through the "Articles for creation" process where a reviewer will either accept the article or suggest improvements (which can sometimes take a several weeks, but from my experience takes less time if the draft is well sourced and correctly formatted). What you have in your sandbox looks good, but there are a few things I can suggest before you submit it.
 * Footnotes are needed – references should be placed next to the information they relate to – see Help:Footnotes, and using a citation template such as  gives more details, for example:
 * Categories are needed – these can be listed at the end, for example . Have a look at articles on similar people to get ideas for which categories could be added.
 * More wikilinks would be helpful - such as to the railroad companies and to the Dakota War of 1862 article. EdwardUK (talk) 23:12, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Ramsay Crooks
Hi, thank you for expanding the biography of Ramsay Crooks! Ideally, an article like this should have footnotes throughout. I'll do my best to work some footnotes into this the next few days. Pete Forsyth (talk) 17:38, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you Chumpy04 (talk) 02:43, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: William Crooks (colonel) has been accepted
 William Crooks (colonel), 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 C-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. This is a great rating for a new article, and places it among the top of accepted submissions — kudos to you! 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! Robert McClenon (talk) 06:46, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Kyle Forgeard for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Kyle Forgeard is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Kyle Forgeard until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Mccapra (talk) 19:23, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

Happy Dad Hard Seltzer moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Happy Dad Hard Seltzer, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.  — twotwofourtysix (My talk page and contributions) 14:07, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

June 2021
Hello Chumpy04. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Chumpy04. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. BEACHIDICAE🌊 14:18, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

I am not being paid to edit this article — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chumpy04 (talk • contribs) 14:21, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * What is your connection to the subjects which you are writing about? BEACHIDICAE🌊  14:31, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

I don’t have a connection other than I am a fan of their work. I simply want to promote their new product without being paid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chumpy04 (talk • contribs) 18:17, 1 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Just so you know, Wikipedia isn't for promotion, regardless of whether you're getting paid or not.  — twotwofourtysix (My talk page and contributions) 23:46, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Just an FYI I have been involved in Nelk’s Wikipedia page for a while now and I also created Kyle Forgeard’s page about a month ago. They are the founders of this new seltzer and it will be very big very soon. I am also in the process of submitting my article so it can get approved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chumpy04 (talk • contribs) 23:52, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Happy Dad Hard Seltzer


A tag has been placed on Draft:Happy Dad Hard Seltzer, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Orphaned non-free image File:Happy Dad Hard Seltzer Logo.png
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Kyle Forgeard moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Kyle Forgeard, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.  scope_creep Talk  20:16, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Paddy Pimblett
Hi Pls read the comment section on the draft page prior submit the draft for review. subject needs to have at least 3 fights in UFC to pass NMMA notability guidelines which at the moment he has only 2. I will move the page to main space when he has fought his third fight in UFC. Cassiopeia  talk  00:44, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Kyle Forgeard (April 9)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by GSS was:

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GSS &#x202F;&#128172; 19:37, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Kyle Forgeard


Hello, Chumpy04. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Kyle Forgeard".

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! Eternal Shadow  Talk  19:55, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Birth dates
Hi. I wanted to explain why I reverted a change you made to Michele Tafoya. In this edit, you added a birth date, but you didn't cite a reliable source. Wikipedia has strict rules on content in biographies of living persons because this can impact real peoples' lives. Please be aware that many sites on the internet purport to give information about celebrities, but few of them of reliable. Sites like the IMDb use user-generated content, and they should not be cited in biographical articles. Similarly, celebrity gossip websites should not be used because most of them don't have a history of fact checking or publishing corrections. Fan sites and blogs are self-published and have no editorial control. We also can't use primary documents, such as government birth databases or genealogical websites (which are also typically user-generated, as above). This means that the number of available sources is quite slim, and we often have to either go without this information or wait until a source like Entertainment Weekly or the BBC publishes an interview that includes a birth date. If you're not sure whether a source is reliable, you can ask at Reliable sources/Noticeboard. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:35, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

November 2023
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Joshua Dobbs, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. '' In addition, please don't mark edits as being minor when they change the meaning of the article. Read Help:Minor_edit for more information.'' Daniel Quinlan (talk) 23:32, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

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