User talk:Dj1mitchell

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Your submission at Articles for creation: User:Dj1mitchell/sandbox (September 15)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. 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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j⚛e deckertalk 17:21, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Reply to your Articles for Creation Help Desk question
Hello, Dj1mitchell! I'm Timtrent. I have replied to your question about a submission at the WikiProject Articles for Creation Help Desk. Fiddle  Faddle  19:40, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Responding to your email
There's a short explanation of the decline in your sandbox, but I can explain further. There are a couple of overlapping issues.

The most critical is our basic notability/inclusion guideline. For a topic to be included in our article, it must be described in multiple, reliable, third-party sources in detail. In other words, there need to be references to things such as newspapers, magazines, books, which talk about the subject in detail. Without references, the article can't fly at all.

The second issue is that even with those references, we'd need more than what is essentially a dictionary definition. There's a line between an encyclopedia and a dictionary, and we try and put appropriate things in Wikipedia (an encyclopedia) or Wiktionary (a dictionary) respectively. Terms *can* rise to encyclopedia articles when there's more to say about them than simply a definition and an etymology, but it does take a term that has developed some level of history and "story" to it that exceeds a simple meaning.

I think it will be tough to clear both these hurdles in this case. Leave a note on my talk page if I can explain further. Cheers, --j⚛e deckertalk 21:21, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Your draft article, User:Dj1mitchell/sandbox


Hello, Dj1mitchell. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "sandbox".

The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply and remove the  or  code. Please note that Articles for Creation is not for indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you want to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by one of two methods (don't do both): 1) follow the instructions at WP:REFUND/G13, or 2) copy this code:, paste it in the edit box at this link , and click "Save page". An administrator will in most cases undelete the submission.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 22:22, 11 April 2015 (UTC)