User talk:SamHeath4

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Christian Study Centers (January 4)

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

This submission does not appear to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Entries should be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources. Please rewrite your submission in a more encyclopedic format. Please make sure to avoid peacock terms, that are designed to promote or show-off the subject.

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 when they have been resolved.

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Mr. Guye (talk) 01:44, 4 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Christian Study Centers (January 10)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Dodger67 was:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

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 when they have been resolved.

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Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 14:20, 10 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Christian Study Centers (February 11)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Arthur goes shopping was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability—see the general guideline on notability 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.

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 when they have been resolved.

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Arthur goes shopping (talk) 13:38, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Christian Study Centers (April 5)

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

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 when they have been resolved.

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— kikichugirl ^oh hello! 05:01, 5 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Draft:Christian Study Centers

Hi Sam. You have enough independent references. I've listed them temporarily at the bottom of the reference section. It is a very interesting article. Good work, especially on the history. I am going to reorganize the article a bit, then ask you what you think of it. An encyclopedia article is mostly statements of facts. This makes it different from a magazine article or essay. The first paragraph will be a definition of the topic and a summary of the article. StarryGrandma (talk) 16:23, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. I ended up reorganizing the article and making the wording more encyclopedic. More "who, what, where, when, why, and how" and less like a mission statement. :Let me tell you a bit about the changes I made. It turned out that the references weren't as independent as I thought, but there is enough independent coverage. I replaced references from primary sources with those from secondary sources where I could. See Wikipedia:No original research#Primary, secondary and tertiary sources for an explanation. Christian study centers have been around for long time. It was confusing to talk about the first Christian Study Center (with capitals) so I rewrote that. I found an online readable version of the new appendix to Noll's Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind published in First Things. I put that in further reading but removed the comment from it in the article. I couldn't find any sources that talked about the centers staff and volunteers, so I took that out. Maybe something will turn up later.

On the housekeeping side, I took out most of the external links. Wikipedia doesn't provide a directory. I also cut down the list of categories; you just need the lowest level category in any topic, not the parent categories too.

Let me know if you think my changes are OK. If they are I will approve it;

Conflict of interest

Since you are on the staff of the Consortium of Christian Study Centers you do have a conflict of interest when you edit about it on Wikipedia. The Wikipedia community will worry that you might not be neutral when you edit. You need to put a notice on your talk page. I'll look up the proper form and let you know what to do.

StarryGrandma (talk) 05:41, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Actually you just need to put a short sentence on your user page, not your talk page: "Conflict of Interest (COI) disclosure: I work for the Consortium of Christian Study Centers." And read Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. StarryGrandma (talk) 18:06, 12 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Wonderful! Thanks so much for your tremendous help. I added the COI disclosure on the user page.

StarryGrandma (talk)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Christian Study Centers has been accepted

Christian Study Centers, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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StarryGrandma (talk) 21:53, 16 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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