An article you recently created, Terry Williams (Sociologist), does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. ( ?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed ( verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. John B123 ( talk) 22:01, 20 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to give Draft:Terry Williams (Sociologist) a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into Terry Williams (Sociologist). This is known as a " cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you.

I have requested that an administrator do a "history merge" of the Draft article into the "main" article. You may continue to edit the main article while waiting for this to happen. Please do NOT edit the "draft" article any more, as that will just cause problems.

Please note that another editor moved the earlier version of this page to "Draft" space because it lacked references. Please add suitable references or there is a risk that this article will be deleted through the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion process. For more information about why Wikipedia requires suitable references, please read Wikipedia:Notability along with the pages it links to about biographies and about the biographies of academics. For more information on what a suitable reference is, see Wikipedia:Reliable sources and Wikipedia:Independent sources. For more information on the commonly used citation styles and how to use them, see Wikipedia:Citing sources. It may also help to look at pages about well-known academics to see how others have done things. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 00:02, 21 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Is there a reason you removed my request to have the history of Draft:Terry Williams (Sociologist) merged into Terry Williams (Sociologist)? You removed it twice. History merging is a technical step, it has no bearing on how the article will look when people view it. Once completed, the page will look just as it should, without the {{ histmerge}} template. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 00:12, 21 September 2020 (UTC) This is no longer important. Another editor moved the page to Draft:Terry Williams (sociologist). I have requested that the history of the older page, Draft:Terry Williams (Sociologist), be merged into the history of the current page, Draft:Terry Williams (sociologist). davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 01:15, 21 September 2020 (UTC) reply

I fixed this and linked all of the websites. It is a professor and author. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pcdevitt ( talk • contribs) 00:11, 21 September 2020 Pcdevitt (UTC)

It is customary to add ~~~~ (four tilde characters in a row) to the end of your message. Wikipedia will automatically replace it with your "signature" which contains a link to your user page and your talk page, as well as the date and time of your message. "Signing" your posts like this makes it much easier to communicate and collaborate. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 00:15, 21 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Hello! Teahouse invitation, you are invited to join other new editors and friendly hosts in the Teahouse. The Teahouse is an awesome place to meet people, ask questions and learn more about Wikipedia. Please join us!

davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 00:31, 21 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Hello, I fixed the page ---- — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pcdevitt ( talk • contribs) 00:31, 21 September 2020 (UTC) reply

I think you meant to use four tilde characters, not dashes. I put

{{subst:unsigned|Pcdevitt|00:31, 21 September 2020‎}} at the end of your message to "sign" it for you. It should appear something like this:

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Pcdevitt (talk • contribs) 00:31, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

but with some color and with clickable links. Again, thank you for your contributions. Please answer my question above about why you removed the history-merge request. I intend on putting it back, but if you have a good reason for removing it, I am listening. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 00:39, 21 September 2020 (UTC) Struck, no longer relevant. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 01:16, 21 September 2020 (UTC) reply

An article you recently created, Terry Williams (sociologist), does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. ( ?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed ( verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. John from Idegon ( talk) 01:00, 21 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Note that the current version is titled Draft:Terry Williams (sociologist) with a lowercase letter "s" in sociologist. The previous version is Draft:Terry Williams (Sociologist) with a capital "S" in sociologist. I have put {{ histmerge}} at the top of the current version, so within a day or so the chronological edit history of Draft:Terry Williams (Sociologist) should be merged into the edit history of the current version, at Draft:Terry Williams (sociologist). davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 01:13, 21 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Hello, Pcdevitt. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
Please note that all old questions are archived after 2-3 days of inactivity. Message added by DES ^(talk) _{DESiegel Contribs} 01:07, 21 September 2020 (UTC). (You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{teahouse talkback}} template). reply

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.

This submission appears to be taken from http://cosmopolitan-life.com/. Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly and verifiably has been released to the world under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license or into the public domain and is written in an acceptable tone—this includes material that you own the copyright to. You should attribute the content of a draft to outside sources, using citations, but copying and pasting or closely paraphrasing sources is not acceptable. The entire draft should be written using your own words and structure. Note to reviewers: do not leave copyright violations sitting in the page history. Please follow the instructions here.

You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

• Draft:Terry Williams (Sociologist) may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
• If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page. or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 01:43, 21 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Hello, Pcdevitt! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 01:43, 21 September 2020 (UTC) reply

A tag has been placed on Draft:Terry Williams (Sociologist) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from http://cosmopolitan-life.com/. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.

Note: This refers to the OLDER version of your submission. Since there were no other editors making content-edits to that page, it's easier to just delete it than to go through the history-merge process then revision delete each revision. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 01:44, 21 September 2020 (UTC) reply

The opening paragraph was copied straight from the "About" link at http://cosmopolitan-life.com/. I replaced it with a short sentence. You are encouraged to add content that is in your own words.

I also asked that the older draft, Draft:Terry Williams (Sociologist), be deleted entirely as a copyright violation.

Please read Wikipedia:Copyright before you continue to work on this draft. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 02:35, 21 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Followup: An administrator used revision deletion to hide the content of the older, copyright-violating versions from view by non-administrators. The bulk of the content that is no longer there is at http://cosmopolitan-life.com/ . While I'm not an administrator and can no longer see the "deleted" content, I worked on the page in the last 24 hours and I am confident in saying that the remaining content that is "lost" includes minor changes that are no longer relevant and items related to technical issues that are no longer relevant. In other words, nothing of value that can't be found elsewhere was hidden from public view. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs) 15:09, 21 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Dan arndt was:

Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Terry Williams (sociologist) instead.

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.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Terry Williams (Sociologist) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Terry Williams (Sociologist), click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{ Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
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• If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Dan arndt ( talk) 08:08, 21 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Dan arndt was:

Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Terry Williams (sociologist) instead.

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.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Terry Williams (Sociologist) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Terry Williams (Sociologist), click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{ Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Dan arndt ( talk) 08:09, 21 September 2020 (UTC) reply

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Dan arndt was:

This appears to be a duplicate of another submission, Terry Williams (sociologist), which is also waiting to be reviewed. To save time we will consider the other submission and not this one.

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.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Terry Williams (Sociologist) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Terry Williams (Sociologist), click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{ Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Dan arndt ( talk) 08:09, 21 September 2020 (UTC) reply

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot ( talk) 20:03, 30 May 2021 (UTC) reply