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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by ChrysGalley were:
This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.
The comment the reviewer left was:
It looks like there could be notability, but unless there is more sourcing then it would be premature to move this to mainspace. There would be a greater than 50% chance of deletion. Both the existing sources are open to challenge. Can the submitting editor kindly do some further research to find another couple of sources please. As a courtesy I have turned the references into the more usual citation style.
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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by KeyolTranslater was:
A notable figure it seems but the sourcing isn’t the greatest, I would recommend getting rid of the Rootsweb source as it isn’t backed up by anything (no sources), the Annistonstar source doesn’t work (but that might be an issue on my end), I think better sources are required so I recommend finding some more in-depth and reliable ones on this figure
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I fixed the rootsweb source and the annistonstar source works I just double checked. I also added lots more primary sources. I hope that is enough primary sources. Included are orignial goverment journals, letters, muster rolls, and records from over 150 years ago. Henryalley1 (talk) 14:06, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you @Carolina6240 for the interesting new article. However, can I persuade you to remove the findagrave sources, both of them, please. That's not regarded as a reliable source, more details here: WP:RSP. I am supposed to do it myself but I suspect you can handle it better. There are bots out there which will pick this up within a day or two, and so it would be better if you can resolve this. It is OK to put them into External links instead, but you can't reference it directly. ChrysGalley (talk) 18:18, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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No indication of notability. No WP:SIGCOV in sources.
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No indication of notability. No WP:SIGCOV in sources.
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Invalid license. This is not 100+ years old as the plaque clearly states it is from 1999. The text would be copyrighted so this photo is a non-free derivative work.
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The tomb may be old but the photo is not. Invalid PD license.
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Hi! So I went out the the grave yard today, as it is near my house and I took a new photo. I re did the credits so I think it should be all good now. Let me know if I can do anything else. Carolina6240 (talk) 18:49, 24 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Unfortunately I believe that this nomination is correct: the license given on the source page does not allow commercial re-use, which makes it incompatible with Wikipedia's licensing requirements for free content (which are not easy to understand). I have deleted the file. —Kusma (talk) 22:39, 24 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello @Carolina6240, it's your former colonial overlords here! Thanks for the article, and I've resolved the disambiguation on the page name. Putting the article as a draft for review is the right thing to do since we can click through to clear it. The other comment I have is that the original version heavily relied on primary sources, and while that is OK to an extent, primary sources can't be used for notability under Wikipedia's policies, and at a certain point too much primary sourcing may come across as original research. Secondary and tertiary sources are greatly preferred and mandatory for notability. So I've added in a few extra secondary sources. I think the Deaton source has a lot of further information, from a quick look, if you want to improve it further. I also removed some citations which were not to specific sources, but to primary source general locations: it is important that sources and text are tightly connected, so it's not possible to put a general repository address and leave it at that. Offline sources are absolutely fine, but they have contain enough information that someone can locate the source and then dovetail it to the article's wording. It probably doesn't make a lot of difference here, but just to explain what I did and why. ChrysGalley (talk) 21:33, 25 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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What can I do for notability of that's the issue for deletion. I've made quite a number of other pages for local government offical's before. Carolina6240 (talk) 14:55, 16 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Member of a state-wide legislative body, so pass of WP:NPOL (I don't have the book physically so am [{WP:AGF]]-ing the reference). Infobox is really nicely set up, article flows well, and reset of the setup (Talk page, Wikiprojects, categories, etc.) is all great! Thank you for making this article. :)
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Thanks for creating this article. Currently the references point to websites but don’t indicate how to find the relevant information there. For example, the database needs an ID to search for a person, and the notes & queries page is very long. It is divided into page numbers, so that could help make the reference more useful.
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the article does not currently pass WP:GNG. There are no modern (post WWII) sources which state Waring was a South Carolina senator. If one could be found, the article may pass WP:POLITICIAN.
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