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Your submission at Articles for creation: David R. Walt (November 30)

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

The comment the reviewer left was:

Please also remove external links in prose.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:David R. Walt and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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'''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 02:20, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, DP917! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering 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! '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 02:20, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: David R. Walt (December 13)

{{subst:Afc decline|full=Draft:David R. Walt|cv=no|reason=adv|details=|reason2=|details2=|comment=Please read [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view|about maintaining a neutral point of view prior to resubmitting the draft.

Also, please remove the external links from the body of the article.

|sig=yes}}

File permission problem with File:Dr. David Walt.jpg

Thanks for uploading File:Dr. David Walt.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

If you are the copyright holder for this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either

make a note permitting reuse under the CC BY-SA or another acceptable free license (see this list) at the site of the original publication; or
Send an email from an address associated with the original publication to permissions-en@wikimedia.org, stating your ownership of the material and your intention to publish it under a free license. You can find a sample permission letter here. If you take this step, add {{permission pending}} to the file description page to prevent premature deletion.

If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org.

If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:File copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:File copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. Here is a list of your uploads. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described in section F11 of the criteria for speedy deletion. You may wish to read Wikipedia's image use policy. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:33, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi DP917. A version of this same photo can be found online used in this January 2023 article, which isn't licensed under an acceptable free license for Wikipedia purposes. In cases such as this where a photo has been first published somewhere other Wikipedia, the copyright holder's WP:CONSENT needs to be verified. Assuming that you took the photo yourself, you can simply email Wikimedia VRT so that your consent can be verified. If you didn't take the photo yourself, Wikipedia is going to need some way of formally verifying the consent of the person who did. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:38, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently you or someone else emailed Wikimedia VRT, but that email was found to be insufficient by a VRT member named Ww2censor according to the {{Permission received}} template left on the file's page. Since VRT matters are, for the most part, considered to be private, Ww2censor most likely responded why the consent email was insufficient via email; so, please check your email box (including your email accounts spam folder) or ask whoever emailed VRT to check their email box for such a response. Neither Ww2censor nor any VRT member can discuss the specific details contained in the email anywhere on Wikipedia, but they might be able to answer general questions. You can ask such general questions about things at User talk:Ww2censor or WP:VRTN. Whoever emailed VRT should've also received an automated replay containing a VRT ticket number, and this number can be used when referencing the email; the same ticket number can also be found in the template on the file's page. Finally, if the concerns VRT has about the email it received aren't resolved in 30 days, the file once again becomes eligible for speedy deletion per speedy deletion criterion #11; so, you've got a 30-day window to try and sort things out with VRT. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:11, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I only added the permission ticket number to the file and an incomplete information template as some details are missing. ww2censor (talk) 00:20, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good morning, I believe the photographer filled out the release for the photo. Could you please confirm the photo is accepted and the page approved? thanks DP917 (talk) 15:55, 22 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]