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Your submission at Articles for creation

Thank you for submitting an article to Wikipedia. Your submission has been reviewed and has been put on hold pending clarification or improvements from you or other editors. Please take a look and respond if possible. You can find it at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Dan McGalliard, inventor/innovator. If there is no response within twenty-four hours the request may be declined; if this happens feel free to continue to work on the article. You can resubmit it (by adding the text {{subst:AFC submission/submit}} to the top of the article) when you believe the concerns have been addressed. Thank you. My76Strat (talk) 04:46, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your recent comments to my talkpage. I have been a little busy so I didn't respond as quickly as I normally like. Apologies for that. I did glance at your article, and as the hold notice states, the lead section of the article needs expanding. In general the lead should introduce the subject, and establish the subjects notability, in summery form. Notability is the things this person did above and beyond the norm. And it has to be verifiable in some independent publication with a good editorial record of fact checking their own prose. If you have questions about Wikipedia and any project you are working, the live help at irc://freenode/wikipedia-en-help is a valuable resource. Many people there are willing to help and I am there often as well. My76Strat (talk) 23:29, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation

Dan McGalliard, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Thank you for helping Wikipedia! My76Strat (talk) 08:48, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Welcome and introduction

Hi, Michaeljamesadams. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person. You can talk to me right now. Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed you've just joined, and wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. The tips below should help you to get started. Best of luck! My76Strat (talk) 08:51, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

ようこそ You don't need to read anything - anybody can edit; just go to an article and edit it. Be Bold, but please don't put silly stuff in - it will be removed very quickly, and will annoy people. Ask for help. Talk to us live, or edit this page, put {{helpme}} and describe what help you need. Someone will reply very quickly - usually within a few minutes. Play in your user area. For example, create User:Michaeljamesadams/test. Edit existing articles, before you make your own. Look at some subjects that you know about, and see if you can make them a bit better. For example, Wikipedia:Cleanup#2009. When you're ready, read about Your first article. It should be about something well-known, and it will need references. Good luck with editing; please drop me a line some time on my own talk page. There's lots of information below. Once again, welcome to the fantastic world of Wikipedia! --My76Strat (talk) 08:51, 2 July 2010 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Grade sources • Cite sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists • Best articles Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Pages needing attention • Peer review The missing manual

Mutual appreciation

Hello Michaeljamesadams. Thank you for the exceedingly kind words added to my talk-page. It is your positive attitude which prompted my interest in the article you submitted through WP:AFC. Dan McGalliard is an article on my own watchlist as I also intend to monitor its progress as well as make future improvements. I do hope you understand that I changed the title from "Dan McGalliard, inventor/innovator" to Dan McGalliard because disambiguation was not necessary. In the absence of such a requirement, a WP:BLP is prefered without disambiguation. I did however add Dan McGalliard to List of people from North Carolina, thereby linking the pages and showing him there as an inventor/innovator. Anyway, there are still many improvements to make along the path to featured article status, and much of that improvement, I anticipate, will be made by you. I look forward to seeing these as you progress in your own skills.

As a side note, the things which seem confusing to you now will very soon become second nature as you apply yourself to learning. Four months ago I joined Wikipedia and was as lost, scared, and confused as one could be. It is the help of others which brought me along, and instilled a desire to reciprocate in kind with other new users. I now have reviewer[1] rights which allow me to review articles in an official capacity. So set your own sights high, as goals are attainable, and enthusiasm is welcome and encouraged here. Kind regards. My76Strat (talk) 17:31, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Dan McGalliard 2010.JPG

Thank you for uploading File:Dan McGalliard 2010.JPG. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Eeekster (talk) 00:14, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Your user page

Now that the Dan McGalliard article is in the wikipedia "mainspace", you really shouldn't have a copy on your userpage - especially not with the categories showing. You should either blank it (or replace it with other things that we put on userpages, such as basic info about ourselves or shortcuts or similar) or if you really want to keep a version, you could move it to a WP:Subpage, but the article will always be there in the history anyway... and WP:OWN means that once you release it... it ain't yours anymore! Someone tagged the article with WP:COI. If you are related in any way to Dan, then you should read up about what wikipedia expects from editors who may have a conflict of interest, and maybe declare that on your user page. Welcome, and happy editing. The-Pope (talk) 07:41, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

When you see these things -- W P : B L P -- without spaces, you are getting guidance from your fellow editors to look at WP policies. So, your article on Dan should follow WP:BLP. I blanked out the family stuff because you want to protect his privacy. Now if it is relevant and verifiable. then include it. E.g., put it back in. This wikipeding is fun and you should enjoy. You will learn daily.--S. Rich (talk) 02:54, 17 August 2010 (UTC)