User talk:Tom Anks

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Hi, thanks for message. Your article is problematic because Jimfbleak - talk to me?  14:25, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
 * it does not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that he meets the notability guidelines. It is now Wikipedia policy that biographical articles about living people must have independent verifiable references, as defined in the link, or they will be deleted. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the him or his organisation, press releases, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what he claims or interviewing him. Your references are to his own site, not independent third-party sources, and some claims are not sourced at all. In the absence of independent sourcing, it's unclear on what basis he meets the notability criteria I've linked above
 * This article was created as an autobiography, and has subsequently been edited by you. Since you have no other article edits it seems very likely that you are Anthony or that you are editing on his behalf. If you have a conflict of interest when editing this article, you must declare it. In particular, if you work for him directly or his organisation, or otherwise are acting on his behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. Regardless, if you are paid directly or indirectly by the organisation you are writing about, 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:. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:    . If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message.

Hi Jim - Yep I was hired by Anthony to write the article, although I (wrongly) assumed that I would be able to edit it enough so that it would be strictly factual and not read as Anthony himself had originally written it.

I shall delete the draft but am very much interested in continuing as a Wikipedia editor, thank you for taking the time with your detailed replies. Tom Anks (talk) 18:49, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Anthony Crudele (August 8)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Otterathome 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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Otterathome (talk) 20:58, 8 August 2017 (UTC)