User talk:IQEES

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:12, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Hello, IQEES. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page User:IQEES/sandbox, 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:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:13, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Hi IQEES, thanks for reaching out on my talk page! It looks like you're on the right track - you've disclosed your COI on your user page, and you've started your article as a draft in your sandbox. The most important things as a COI editor are to be clear about your affiliation and to avoid editing directly - to enable other editors to review your work before incorporating it into a live article.

I added a template to your sandbox (User:IQEES/sandbox) that gives you a "submit your draft for review" link. When you feel that your draft is ready, you can use that link to ask other editors (unaffiliated with the subject) to check it out and see if it's ready to approve for "mainspace". Let me know when you do that so I can help review it, and let me know if you have other questions. Dreamyshade (talk) 16:17, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

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

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qcne (talk) 14:24, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello, IQEES! 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! qcne (talk) 14:24, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

@IQEES Do you have a conflict of interest with Michigan State University? qcne (talk) 14:25, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Qcne I am employed by Michigan State University specifically for the Great Lakes Advanced Molecular Sciences Summer program. This is role an ad hoc role and I am only employed when the course run; it did not run in 2026. Outside of this my employment is via Graham-Pelton, in a fundraising capacity. ~2026-29643 (talk) 13:10, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi @IQEES (please remember to log in). Thanks - I neglected to see you'd already declared your conflict of interest on your user page. Sorry about that. Regarding your draft, the references do not show that the Institute meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion for organizations and companies. The draft requires multiple published sources that:

• provide significant coverage: discuss the subject in detail, excluding routine coverage like product launches, staff appointments, or financial reports and listings in databases or listicles;
• are reliable: published by reputable media with editorial oversight;
• are independent: not connected to the subject, such as press releases, the subject’s own website, or sponsored content.

Please add references that meet all three of these criteria. If no such sources exist, the Institute is not yet suitable for Wikipedia. qcne (talk) 13:26, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi @IQEES! Thanks for reaching out on my talk page. I checked out your draft at User:IQEES/sandbox and made the following types of edits:

• Adjusted some of the formatting to fit better with Wikipedia's Manual of Style (WP:MOS)
• Adjust language for neutral point of view (WP:NPOV) instead of WP:PEACOCK
• Converted some raw URL citations into references with more detail
• Added notes to several citations that are now dead links
• Removed external links within the body of the article - see WP:EL

I agree with Qcne that the article needs more citations that meet Wikipedia standards. The Detroit Free Press article is the most helpful citation in the current draft. Dreamyshade (talk) 05:12, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

@IQEES Hi! In response to your message on my talk page, were you trying to resubmit the draft that is now at Draft:MSU Institute for Quantitative Health Sciences and Engineering? Looks like it's resubmitted now.

I see that you made an effort in this edit to add more citations, which is helpful, but several of the citations had a typo - for example, in the following link, omit the pipe after the URL - you only need a space: [https://med.stanford.edu/mips/news/2017/farewell-christopher-contag.html| MSU IQ inaugural director named]

I recommend using this citation tool: Help:Introduction to referencing with VisualEditor/2. Once you get the hang of it, it's much easier than writing citations by hand.

The new citations to WKAR and DBusiness are helpful, since they are independent of the university, but I still recommend finding more sources like those and adding them to the article. The ideal for Wikipedia articles is for nearly every sentence to have a citation, including almost all statements that talk about living people, and for most of those citations to be to independent secondary sources. Dreamyshade (talk) 20:45, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

Here are a few examples of additional secondary sources you could integrate:

• "MSU doc races to create a faster COVID-19 test" (Michigan Advance)
• "MSU researcher studies if octopus movements are key to ‘smart prosthetics’ for humans" (WLNS)
• MSU Researchers' Study of Octopus Brains Could Lead To Better Prosthetics (WKAR)
• MSU develops brain imaging system to reveal how memories are made, recorded (WLNS)
• U-M study explores ways to increase COVID-19 testing in Michigan (All About Ann Arbor)
• Michigan State University to open Bio Engineering building (Reuters)
• MSU researcher regenerates tissues in humans to treat cardiovascular disease and cancer (WKAR)

Dreamyshade (talk) 03:06, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

@IQEES - in addition kindly confirm any connection with draft:Christopher H. Contag as per WP:COI. If you know the subject, work with the subject, are the subject, friendly with the subject then this needs to be declared. Kindly do this before any further editing. ChrysGalley (talk) 12:07, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Christopher H. Contag, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. This is a great rating for a new article, and places it among the top 23% of accepted submissions — kudos to you! You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

Thanks again, and happy editing!

ChrysGalley (talk) 21:06, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! I will review the grading scheme to understand how to improve this article and future articles! IQEES (talk) 11:47, 10 March 2026 (UTC)