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Request on 14:11:18, 7 December 2014 for assistance on AfC submission by MauriSchembri

• MauriSchembri (talk · contribs)

Can you please correct as necessary? Thank you!

MauriSchembri 14:11, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Hello User:MauriSchembri, here at Helpdesk we provide advice on fixing articles, we don't fix them for you since likely there's nobody here who's as interested in your topic as you are. A few points of advice?

• Are you writing about yourself? If so, that's a very bad idea for a number of reasons, so I strongly advise you read our guideline WP:Autobiography for why you probably don't want to do that.
• The other problem with you article is that it's written for Schembri, not about Schembri. That is, it's written in a promotional manner, praising the subject, advertising. Wikipedia articles require you follow the guideline WP:Neutrality.
• Lastly, you don't provide any of the needed sourcing, so to make this publishable you must read WP:Notability (music) and check your draft against those sourcing guidelines.

MatthewVanitas (talk) 14:19, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you Matthew! I understand and don't worry. No big deal! Thanks again — Preceding unsigned comment added by MauriSchembri (talk • contribs) 14:29, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Request on 20:48:48, 7 December 2014 for assistance on AfC submission by Abirfarid

• Abirfarid (talk · contribs)
  • Draft:Frederic Wehrey (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I am trying to post a talk page and it's talking so much time to get approved then i do not know the reason why not approved

That's it

Frederic Wehrey is a Senior Associate at the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is a noted scholar of Middle East affairs and an expert on Libyan and Gulf politics. His articles and commentary frequently appear in national and international outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune, and Foreign Affairs. He is a frequent contributor to PBS News Hour, BBC, CNN, and NPR . He has lectured at Princeton, Dartmouth, and Georgetown University. He has testified before the Senate and the House of Representatives on the need for a more effective U.S. policy in Libya. A former U.S. Air Force officer, served in Iraq in 2003. Before joining Carnegie, he worked at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, publishing on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Saudi-Iranian relations. He is the author of the book, Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings, which was chosen by Foreign Policy as one of the Top Five books of 2013. He earned a PhD from Oxford University. Publications Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings (Columbia University Press, 2013) Sources http://carnegieendowment.org/experts/?fa=709 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/opinion/taking-sides-in-libya.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/07/28/whats-behind-libyas-spiraling-violence http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/02/the-battle-for-benghazi/284102/; http://carnegieendowment.org/experts/?fa=709 http://carnegieendowment.org/experts/?fa=709 http://carnegieendowment.org/experts/?fa=709 http://carnegieendowment.org/experts/?fa=709 http://carnegieendowment.org/experts/?fa=709 http://carnegieendowment.org/experts/?fa=709 http://carnegieendowment.org/experts/?fa=709 http://www.princeton.edu/oeme/events/ http://dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=26808 http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/events/2010/7/07%20centcom/centcom_speaker_bios http://www.c-span.org/video/?316396-1/senators-hear-developments-north-africa http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/opinion/taking-sides-in-libya.html http://carnegieendowment.org/experts/?fa=709 http://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/w/wehrey_frederic.html http://www.amazon.com/Sectarian-Politics-Gulf-Uprisings-Columbia-ebook/dp/B00GQFBO0I/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410878983&sr=1-1 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/30/the_middle_east_channel_s_best_of_2013 http://carnegieendowment.org/experts/?fa=709

Abirfarid (talk) 20:48, 7 December 2014 (UTC) Abirfarid (talk) 20:48, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

@Abirfarid: You created several copies of your draft and they were deleted because they were duplicative. Sadly, you never submitted your original draft for review, which is why no one reviewed it. I can tell you now the subject isn't notable. Writing articles for magazines doesn't make one notable. Working for a think tank doesn't make one notable. You need to make a case for notability. Chris Troutman (talk) 03:44, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

20:50:56, 7 December 2014 review of submission by Efleurantin2013

• Efleurantin2013 (talk · contribs)

The reviewer was not specific as to what I needed to change. He mentioned the article was more like an essay but failed to give me specific pointers as to how to make my article acceptable. It seems that the reviewer merely read the article and copied and pasted a line that he often uses for similar comments. For this review to be beneficial, it would be better to let me know what needs to be changed in order for me to do so. I'm basically asking for what I could do to make this article better and hence pass the review process. Efleurantin2013 (talk) 20:50, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

@Efleurantin2013: The reviewer left a comment on the draft, pointing to WP:FORUM or WP:NOTHOWTO, and WP:NOTJOURNAL. Your draft is not about an encyclopedic subject; it's a how-to and it lacks in-line citations, to boot. Chris Troutman (talk) 03:35, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

I understand. Thank you for the reply. I will work to write better encyclopedic articles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Efleurantin2013 (talk • contribs) 01:24, 10 December 2014 (UTC)