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13:40:08, 28 March 2018 review of submission by Carlosmoreira69

• Carlosmoreira69 (talk · contribs)

Carlos Moreira 13:40, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

I have changed the article when can it be published? No more daily Beast references.

David — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carlosmoreira69 (talk • contribs) 13:40, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

@Carlosmoreira69: it's okay to take facts from Daily Beast, put them in your own words, and footnote them to that source. The problem appears to be that you copied text directly from DB. If you feel you've fixed that issue, click the Resubmit button to get back into the line for review. MatthewVanitas (talk) 03:09, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

16:27:34, 28 March 2018 review of submission by Sunnyday18

• Sunnyday18 (talk · contribs)
  • David H. Gutmann (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Questions about a submission I made, comments were placed on the article and I am not sure which lines or words the comments are referring to to fix them and I am unable to access the article or find that I even created it to fix it. Am I able to fix/adjust it while it is under review, has the article been deleted completely? Sunnyday18 (talk) 16:27, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello David H. Gutmann was created but then deleted as an "unambiguous copyright infringement". If there are minor issues with an article you can usually ask the deleter to restore the draft for you, but if it is a flat-out copyright violation, they generally won't give it back and you need to start from scratch and not copy sources word-for-word.

I can't see the article, but there were also possible issues with WP:Conflict of interest. Note that if you have ties to the subject, you have to announce them on the page per COI. Also, if you do want to start from scratch, my advice is to start a draft page by just compiling all the sources you can find online about the subjec, then comb through them to find specific facts and cite the facts to the sources. That way you can make sure that everything you add to the draft has a clear source. What you don't want to do is the reverse, where you just write whatever you know, then in hindsight try and find sources to prove your claims. MatthewVanitas (talk) 03:07, 29 March 2018 (UTC)