User talk:Geoffstokes

Your submission at Articles for creation: Birmingham Wasps Hockey Club (August 27)
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SportingFlyer  talk  05:43, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Birmingham Wasps Hockey Club (October 27)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by K.e.coffman were:

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K.e.coffman (talk) 21:52, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Birmingham Wasps Hockey Club


Hello, Geoffstokes. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Birmingham Wasps Hockey Club".

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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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 21:09, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Birmingham Wasps Hockey Club (September 24)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Curb Safe Charmer was:

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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Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 21:47, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Geoffstokes. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Draft:Birmingham Wasps Hockey Club, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See WP:PAID.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 21:50, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Birmingham Wasps Hockey Club concern
Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Birmingham Wasps Hockey Club, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:25, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Birmingham Wasps Hockey Club


Hello, Geoffstokes. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Birmingham Wasps Hockey Club".

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.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 23:44, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Birmingham Wasps Hockey Club


Hello, Geoffstokes. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Birmingham Wasps Hockey Club".

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.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! — Nnadigoodluck 🇳🇬 09:59, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

A belated welcome!


Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Geoffstokes! I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may still benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:


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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Nathan2055talk - contribs 19:01, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Birmingham Wasps Hockey Club


Hello, Geoffstokes. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Birmingham Wasps Hockey Club".

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 deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. ✗ plicit  23:32, 22 May 2021 (UTC)