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19:00, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

February 2016

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page John Thrasher has been reverted.
Your edit here to John Thrasher was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://thrasherfamilyassociation.wordpress.com/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 19:34, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of David E. Sumner

The article David E. Sumner has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. || Orbit Wharf 18:29, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You can delete the page. It's okay with me.

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Indiana Author. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page David E. Sumner, 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 or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} 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. You are an SPA on the subject of David E. Sumner and his book. Meters (talk) 19:05, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Given your edit summary "I have added a substantial number of details about my publishing career with citations and documentation." [1] it's clear that you are David E. Sumner. Stop spamming references to your book into articles. Meters (talk) 19:09, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

November 2021

Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Harlan Page, as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. David Biddulph (talk) 00:33, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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David E. Sumner moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, David E. Sumner, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. MrsSnoozyTurtle 00:54, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please delete it. I no longer wish for it to remain published.

Your thread has been archived

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Your thread has been archived

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Concern regarding Draft:David E. Sumner

Hello, Indiana Author. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:David E. Sumner, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 03:01, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:David E. Sumner

Hello, Indiana Author. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "David E. Sumner".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:55, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]