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Happy editing! – LuniZunie ツ_(talk) 16:35, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions to Valley City State–Jamestown football rivalry. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources and it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. – {{u|hekatlys}} ^WOOF 00:06, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions to 2025 Valley City State Vikings football team. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources and it consists of machine-generated text. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Aesurias (talk) 22:55, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions to 2023 Valley City State Vikings football team. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. JTtheOG (talk) 17:53, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

I undid your edit, as the page you converted was already a redirect to an article about that person. There is no reason to have two articles. Also, please do not mark such edits as minor. TornadoLGS (talk) 18:21, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you tried to change the title of a page by cutting its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut-and-paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is legally required for attribution. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.

In most cases for registered users, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page (the tab may be hidden in a dropdown menu for you). This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Requests for history merge. Thank you. TornadoLGS (talk) 18:22, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

You've done a cut & paste move again at Lokken Stadium, from Draft:Lokken Stadium. Please stop. Wikishovel (talk) 16:05, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi PutABoatOnTheWater! I noticed that you recently made an edit at Presentation College Football and marked it as "minor", but it may not have been. On Wikipedia, "minor edit" refers only to superficial edits that could never be disputed, such as fixing typos or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not minor, even if it only concerns a single word. Thank you. Wikishovel (talk) 19:25, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions to 2016 Presentation Saints football team. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. – LuniZunie ツ_(talk) 19:29, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions to Andy Carr (American football). Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. – LuniZunie ツ_(talk) 19:29, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions to Lokken Stadium. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it has no sources. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Aesurias (talk) 21:19, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Please stop creating mainspace articles without sources. Continuing to do so will result in an ANI discussion being opened as you have ignored all previous warnings. Please acknowledge this message when you see it. Aesurias (talk) 21:21, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, will add sources. PutABoatOnTheWater (talk) 17:15, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions to 2021 Valley City State Vikings football team. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and may not pass WP:NSEASONS. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. – {{u|hekatlys}} ^WOOF 22:12, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

PutABoatOnTheWater, welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for your enthusiasm in building out the content related to Valley City State Vikings football. There are some issues with your editing I want to address.

First, you've uploaded a number of images, such as File:1949 VCSU Football Team.jpg, claiming they are your own work. "Own work" should not refer to your own work of screencapping an that you found on the internet. "Own work" refers to the person who took that photograph in 1949. I suspect that wasn't you!

Second, there are chronic formatting issues with the schedule tables you've been creating at articles like 1953 Valley City State Vikings football team. You don't want to link to articles like Minot State University there. You want to make use of Template:Cfb link there, which will link to the most relevant article available. Please see the edits I made to the schedule table at 2000 Valley City State Vikings football team.

Third, most of the articles you are creating lack independent sources that establish the notablity of the subject you are creating. You really should not create any new articles without these.

Before creating any new articles, I'd recommend that you work on cleaning up and improving the ones you've already created. Let me know if you have any questions about this stuff. Jweiss11 (talk) 05:32, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

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~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 16:02, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Michael Cornelious is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Cornelious until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 16:09, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello PutABoatOnTheWater, thank you for your work on here. However, you really shouldn't be using AI to write articles. Large language models should not be used to generate new Wikipedia articles from scratch. You're just scraping people's college bios together. I have noticed multiple 404 errors on links in your articles. There is no way you are manually writing out long articles like Scott Fuchs and Marty Costello in such a short amount of time without any typos. I always have typos when I write long articles. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 17:43, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the message and for reviewing the articles. I’m definitely still learning how things are done on Wikipedia and I appreciate the guidance. I’ll take your advice into account going forward and keep working to improve any content I add. If the community decides these pages shouldn’t remain, I understand and respect that process. PutABoatOnTheWater (talk) 18:43, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions to Scott Fuchs. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing as a live article at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted it to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. JTtheOG (talk) 21:12, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions to Marty Costello. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing as a live article at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted it to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. JTtheOG (talk) 21:13, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions to Jake Olsen. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing as a live article at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability. I have converted it to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. JTtheOG (talk) 21:14, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

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