User talk:Daviddrum

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A tag has been placed on your user page, User:Daviddrum, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes or publicises a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages; user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you can indicate why the page is not blatant advertising, contest the deletion by clicking on the button that looks like this: Click here to contest this speedy deletion which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy deletion candidate). Doing so will take you to your user talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also edit this page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would help make it encyclopedic. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 17:55, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not write or add to an article about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Wikipedians with articles). If you wish to add to an existing article about yourself, please propose the changes on its talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was my page deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss it with the deleting administrator. Thank you. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 19:55, 16 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure how to respond to you, Freerange Frog, but perhaps this will get back to you. I did read the Wikipedia guidelines, and your material on autobiographies. I did as suggested there, I expanded my user profile and I suggested an article on myself in what seemed like the appropriate place. I did not post an article on myself, only suggested one. Of course I don't view Wikipedia as a networking site, or a vanity post. If somebody thinks I am worth an article, perhaps they will consider it. If there is another way to go about this, please let me know.22:20, 16 June 2015 (UTC)2605:E000:88CB:B00:90DC:F22C:49AE:17F0 (talk)

David, your entry at Requested articles is still there. Your userpage is not connected/relevant to that.

When you go to your userpage now then you can see the deletion long entry: "22:55, 16 June 2015 FreeRangeFrog (talk | contribs) deleted page User:Daviddrum (G11: Unambiguous advertising or promotion)" -- User:FreeRangeFrog is the admin who deleted the page (admins can also see deleted pages so they can be more specific about what's wrong with the page, I'm just pulling it from my memory now).

The "G11" refers to our Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion. Pages (articles, userpages, etc) that serve as advertisements can be speedily deleted. The "U5" criteria may have also applied: "U5. Blatant misuse of Wikipedia as a web host -- Pages in userspace consisting of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals, where the owner has made few or no edits outside of user pages ..." -- you had a long biography on your userpage and that info is not relevant to your activities on Wikipedia. Regular editors can get more lenience on what they're allowed to have on their userpage, but you have made very few constructive edits to articles on Wikipedia. For our guidelines on userpages, see Wikipedia:User pages.

Also, I don't see where Wikipedia:Autobiography suggests that you should "expand your profile". Where did you read that? — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 08:02, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jeraphine, here is the advice from Wikipedia that I followed from the Create an Article page address Wikipedia:Article_wizard/Conflict_of_interest 1. You could post at Wikipedia:Requested articles Arrow icon.svg 2. You could create a Wikipedia account and post brief information and sources on your user pageDaviddrum (talk) 21:38, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, well. The key word there is "brief". Also I can't comment on what sources you did or didn't have on the page as I don't remember it anymore. In any case the Wikipedia:User pages guideline has the main criteria to adhere to when making a userpage, what other pages say is less important.

Also if your main reason for being here is promoting yourself then you may as well leave. If you want to contribute to articles (that you don't have a conflict of interest on) then please feel free to do that, and worry about your userpage later. — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 10:20, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jeraphine, well what I posted was 500 words, brief by some standards. Just for the record, I'll tell you what I did. I prepared an article on myself using as a template another page on another writer that I know. When I slushed through your guidelines, I saw it probably wouldn't work for me to publish it, so I posted what I did on the user page, which I presumed was only for the in crowd, and not an article for the general public. I thought if anyone were interested in writing something, that would make it easy for them. The sources I listed in my post were (1) The Wichita Beacon, January 17, 1949, p. 1,3. (2) http://www.burningbookspress.com (3) http://burningbooks.weebly.com (4) http://daviddrumthewriter.com Also for your information,, I started this round on work on Wikipedia as a volunteer, posting revisions of Wikipedia pages for the Pasadena Museum of Art, and submitting a new page for them on the Finnish Folk Art Museum, which is an affiliated organization. As long as I took the time to figure out how to edit or post something here, which was not easy for me, I thought I'd try something on myself. So that's my story.Daviddrum (talk) 18:48, 18 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• You are welcome to submit a draft for review here. Note you must meet (and be able to prove that you meet) this and/or this guideline. §FreeRangeFrog^croak 16:48, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Finnish Folk Art Museum, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 00:46, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm thinking of creating an article on Jericho Road, a nonprofit that matches white collar volunteers with nonprofit organizations. Has branches in five cities in US. Any ideas?Daviddrum (talk) 16:47, 11 August 2015 (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 Happysailor was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability—see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing, so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia.
What you can do: Add citations (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners) to secondary reliable sources that are entirely independent of the subject.

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- Happysailor ^(Talk) 08:20, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Daviddrum, 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! - Happysailor (Talk) 08:20, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:THE JERICHO ROAD PROJECT, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:46, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Daviddrum. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "THE JERICHO ROAD PROJECT".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 13:23, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]