User talk:Michael McCrickard

August 2018[edit]

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church, from its old location at User:Michael McCrickard/sandbox/Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. Waggie (talk) 16:51, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church (August 9)[edit]

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

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.

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. Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Still lacks significant coverage in independent reliable sources - the 1970 source may or may not be okay, but the book on the church is not independent and cannot establish notability. Please look for other 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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SportingFlyer talk 01:16, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Michael McCrickard! Having an article 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! SportingFlyer talk 01:16, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church has been accepted[edit]

Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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— Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 11:52, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church[edit]

Thanks for creating Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church.

A New Page Patroller Rosguill just tagged the page as having some issues to fix, and wrote this note for you:

The article currently relies almost exclusively on sources from Unitarian Universalist publications, which may not be sufficiently independent from the subject. Please provide citations to other sources to both improve verifiability and demonstrate notability There's also several claims that appear to be decidedly non-neutral, and some minor copyediting issues throughout (most of the currently-bold text should not be bold)

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can reply over here and ping me. Or, for broader editing help, you can talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

_signed,Rosguill ^talk 16:01, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Michael McCrickard. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Congregation ‎, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Star Mississippi 00:36, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info. So even for something as uncontroversial as removing the picture of a minister who is no longer at the church, I should propose the change on a talk page? While I understand and value very much the COI rules on Wikipedia, editing something that is purely a matter of fact (someone either works at the church or they don't) doesn't seem to rise to the level of a real COI. I want to do this the right way but it does seem that only someone affiliated with the church will ever be inclined to edit our article, and preventing that ensures that some of the info will become outdated over time. 2600:4040:25F7:6E00:9052:A793:6F33:25C9 (talk) 15:14, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Michael McCrickard. I think the best solution would be to leave a note with the source, maybe the church's homepage indicating a new name, or lack of the prior. I didn't undo your edit as - as you said - it's clearly correct. Is there a diocese or other parent organization that might report on the new appointment? That could work. Happy to help if I can, and you're not technically prohibited from editing under your own name. The church account is blocked and will remain so though. Star Mississippi 02:09, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]