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Your submission at Articles for creation: Tanner James (June 17)

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

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.

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.

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Rambley (talk) 19:46, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Hello, CanadianLit! 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! Rambley (talk) 19:46, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Tanner James (June 19)

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

Your draft shows signs of having been generated by a large language model, such as ChatGPT. Their outputs usually have multiple issues that prevent them from meeting our guidelines on writing articles. These include:

Promotional tone, editorializing and other words to watch
Vague, generic, and speculative statements extrapolated from similar subjects
Essay-like writing
Hallucinations (plausible-sounding, but false information) and non-existent references
Close paraphrasing

Please address these issues. The best way to do it is usually to read reliable sources and summarize them, instead of using a large language model. See our help page on large language models.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Dubois formatting of sources that are mostly dead links plus other tells, plus gptzero agrees - pure LLM/AI slop

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.

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KylieTastic (talk) 20:09, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Tanner James has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Tanner James. Thanks! LR.127 (talk) 13:13, 25 June 2025 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Tanner James (June 26)

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

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:

Well done on creating the draft, and it may potentially meet the relevant requirements (including WP:GNG, WP:ANYBIO, WP:NCORP) but presently it is not clear that it does.

‘’’Firstly, this draft has previously been declined three times, following each time you removed the 'draft declined' notification: do NOT remove these notifications, they are a record of the page history and are highly relevant to reviewers of the draft.’’’ As other reviewers have noted, As you may know, Wikipedia's basic requirement for entry is that the subject is notable. Essentially subjects are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject. To properly create such a draft page, please see the articles ‘Your First Article’, ‘Referencing for Beginners’ and ‘Easier Referencing for Beginners’. The image used likely breaches copyright, which Wikipedia takes seriously, so should be removed unless clear evidence of its legal use is provided. If it is indeed the draft's author's "Own work" then the author clearly knows the subject and has a conflict of interest that must be declared (see details below). In short, "notability" requires reliable sources about the subject, rather than by the subject. Please note that many of the references would appear to be from sources that are NOT considered reliable for establishing notability and should be removed (including blogs, company websites, press releases, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Spotify etc). Please note that many of the references are not formatted correctly (see Introduction to referencing with VisualEditor and Wikipedia’s Manual of Style for help).

Additionally, the draft tends to read too much like a promotional CV, which Wikipedia is not; and contains prose that is

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.

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Cabrils (talk) 22:17, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Tanner James (October 6)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Nil NZ 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 music-related topics). 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.

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:

Community and college newspapers can be referenced for information about the subject, but aren't counted towards establishing notability.

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.

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Nil🥝 03:20, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Removal of template

Hi CanadianLit, please do not remove any of the templates from the top of your draft article, Draft:Tanner James.

You've already been asked twice before to stop, by both Cabrils here and by KylieTastic in the edit summary here.

Please do not remove them again. Thanks, Nil🥝 04:26, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Notability clarification

This revision includes multiple independent, reliable secondary sources with significant coverage. These include Beatroute Magazine (Oct 2017, print feature on "I Am The Lizard King"), Taber Times (Feb 28 & Mar 6, 2024 – film features and performance), and WestWord (Writers’ Guild of Alberta, 2018). I believe this satisfies WP:GNG and WP:ANYBIO. CanadianLit (talk) 16:00, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

@CanadianLit,

Firstly, I would encourage you to create a User Page as it will make communicating much for efficient and ensure you don't miss notifications, like to my reply here.

Secondly, you still have not addressed the significant issue, previously requested, of whether you have a conflict of interest, which you almost certainly do, most likely as the subject. Cabrils (talk) 00:50, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest Declaration — Tanner James

I am a close confidant and creative collaborator of Tanner James, and I am helping to create and maintain an accurate, up-to-date Wikipedia draft article about his work as a musician, filmmaker, and writer. I am not being paid for this work, and I am acting in good faith to assist with recognition of his artistic contributions.

I understand Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest and WP:AUTOBIO guidelines, and I welcome neutral oversight and revision of the article by independent editors. I will avoid directly promoting the subject and will focus solely on improving the encyclopedic quality of the draft.

— User:CanadianLit CanadianLit (talk) 20:51, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Tanner James (January 21)

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

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.

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 it after they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Tanner James and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Cabrils (talk) 21:49, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

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