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I notice that one of the first articles you created was Gregory Short (executive), which appears to be an article about yourself. This is a common mistake made by new Wikipedians—as this is an encyclopedia, we wouldn't expect to have an article about every contributor. Your user page, however, is a great place to write about yourself, making sure to stay within user page guidelines. Just click your user name at the top of the screen when you are logged in, and edit it normally.

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

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

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Lor^Chat 03:04, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Greg Short, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about 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! LorChat 03:04, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Randykitty,

Thanks for the feedback. I definitely want to work through how to get the article accepted. While I understand the need to avoid self-aggrandizement and legitimate notability, I think this article does meet all the criteria for a legitimacy based on external sources. If the primary issue is 'tone' to the article I can certainly do a pass to further align it, but some specific feedback here would be of assistance as I already read the general 'howto' documents before the initial creation and clearly missed something based on the tags added. Look forward the feedback. If having other third parties contribute to the article is required then let me know on that front and I can ask some industry peers to review this and add their thoughts.

Greg Short (talk) 18:40, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If this is about the Interactive Entertainment Professionals draft, then no, that draft's sources are anything but "external"; the vast majority of them are the IEP's own website. The remainder are a YouTube video by IEP, also not an independent source, and a PDF that does not mention the IEP and thus is useless as a source for an article on the IEP. There's no indication this organization meets Wikipedia's standards of notability.

If it is about the article you wrote on Gregory Short (executive), at a glance many of the sources are either not independent of Short, or they don't cover him in any detail, with passing mentions a la "Said Greg Short" common. Given your rather obvious conflict of interest, my advice would be that you should not edit that article at all, but rather suggest improvements on its talk page. People you have specifically asked to take a look at that article would probably still be considered as having a close connection to you. You may want to simply wait until people not associated with you have edited that article. Huon (talk) 21:45, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Gregory Short (executive) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gregory Short (executive) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. TJRC (talk) 22:32, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Interactive Entertainment Professionals, a page you created, has not been edited in 6 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.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13.

Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:34, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Greg Short. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "Interactive Entertainment Professionals".

The page will shortly be deleted. If you plan on editing the page to address the issues raised when it was declined and resubmit it, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code. Please note that Articles for Creation is not for indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 16:19, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]