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Your submission at Articles for creation: List of Albanian toponyms in Epirus (March 8)
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time.The reason left by CaptainEek was:
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Your submission at Articles for creation: List of Albanian toponyms in Epirus (May 12)
Draft declinedThank you for contributing to Wikipedia. Your draft submission to Articles for creation has been reviewed but not accepted at this time.
FeedbackThe reviewer, Devonian Wombat, left the following feedback:
group notability: sources must discuss the items in the list as a whole, rather than just verifying that the individual items exist;
encyclopedic purpose: avoid cross-categorisations, such as "List of X of Y", unless sources explicitly discuss this intersection as a distinct subject;
Selection criteria: an unambiguous, objective definition of what is included to distinguish the list from a directory.
Please add references that meet all three of these criteria. If no such sources exist, the list is not yet suitable for Wikipedia.
It's not clear what purpose this list serves? If relevant Albanian toponyms can be included at the respective main articles.
