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Your submission at Articles for creation: Autistics for Autistics (A4A) (December 9)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by CaptainEek were:  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.
Captain Eek Edits Ho Cap'n! 17:21, 9 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Ian.thomson (talk) 07:48, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

How to write articles that won't be rejected

If you're going to write an article about anyone or anything that is not

you or something you are connected to
, here are the steps you should follow:

1) Choose a topic whose
notability
is attested by discussions of it in several reliable independent sources.
2) Gather as many
professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources you can find. Google Books
is a good resource for this. Also, while search engine results are not sources, they are where you can find sources. Just remember that they need to be professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources.
3) Focus on just the ones that are not dependent upon or affiliated with the subject, but still specifically about the subject and providing in-depth coverage (not passing mentions). If you do not have at least three such sources, the subject is not yet notable and trying to write an article at this point will only fail.
4)
Microsoft Notepad or Notepad++, and not in something like Microsoft Word or LibreOffice
Writer. Make sure this summary is just bare statement of facts, phrased in a way that even someone who hates the subject can agree with.
5) Combine overlapping summaries where possible (without
arriving at new statements that no individual source supports
), repeating citations as needed.
6)
copyright violations or plagiarism
.
7) Use the Article wizard to post this draft and wait for approval.
8) Expand the article using sources you put aside in step 3 (but make sure they don't make up more than half the sources for the article, and make sure that affiliated sources don't make up more than half of that).

Doing something besides those steps typically results in the article not being approved, or even in its deletion.

If you are writing about yourself, or someone or something you are connected with (such as a friend, family member, or your business), the following steps are different:

1) If the subject really was notable, you wouldn't need to write the article. Remember that
articles are owned by the Wikipedia community as a whole, not the article subject or the article author
. If you do not want other people to write about you, then starting an article about yourself is a bad idea.
8a) If the article is accepted, never edit it again. Instead, make
talk page
.
8b) If the article is rejected, there will be a reason given. Read it carefully and closely. If there are links in the reason, open them and read those pages.

conflict of interest and you must declare it. If you work directly or indirectly for an organisation, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. 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:Barryc25. The template {{Paid
}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Barryc25|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. 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. Also read the following regarding writing an article:

  1. significant coverage in
  2. independent,
  3. multiple,
  4. reliable,
  5. secondary sources
    .
Note that an individual source must meet all four criteria to be counted towards notability.
  • You must write in a
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    ; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find

Your first article
. You must also reply to the COI request above.
Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:03, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]