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AfC notification: Draft:Charlotte Juneteenth Shooting has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Charlotte Juneteenth Shooting. Thanks! Greenman (talk) 19:04, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Charlotte Juneteenth Shooting (October 17)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by S0091 was:

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S0091 (talk) 17:21, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Charlotte Juneteenth Shooting (April 30)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by S0091 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 after they have been resolved.


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S0091 (talk) 17:26, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Charlotte, North Carolina
Hi PatLee489, I went ahead and added the basic information about the shooting to the Charlotte, North Carolina and attributed it to the draft and you in the edit summary. I also created a redirect from the draft so anyone searching for the topic will be directed to Charlotte, North Carolina. To be honest, it will get more views/attention there than it will in stand-alone article. Not that this is the reason I declined the draft. I declined it because it does not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines but still, at the end of day true. After being around Wikipedia for while now, I find those who are not familiar with Wikipedia want a separate article about a topic when most of the time, it serves the topic better to expand an existing article. In the past 30 days Charlotte, North Carolina has received over 91,000 views. Based on my experience, even if the topic met the guidelines, it would get maybe a couple dozen of so views in the same time frame. Not to say it might not meet the guidelines at some point in the future and if it does, the redirect can be updated to article and the history from the draft is there to build upon. History, like justice, is a long game. S0091 (talk) 19:35, 30 April 2023 (UTC)