User talk:Ericnhacker

October 2025

Hello, Ericnhacker. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Draft:“Draft biography of Eric Hacker, American T38 para-athlete, using independent media sources and verified records.”, 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 article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 19:36, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: “Draft biography of Eric Hacker, American T38 para-athlete, using independent media sources and verified records.” (October 19)

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:

The content of this submission includes material that does not meet Wikipedia's minimum standard for inline citations. Please cite your sources using footnotes. For instructions on how to do this, please see Referencing for beginners. Thank you.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Thank you for submitting your draft.

In a biographic article all biographic statements (starting with the date of birth) must be accompanied by an in-line citation to a reliable, published source.

Please add in-line citations to every biographic statement by following the tutorial at Help:Introduction to referencing with VisualEditor. The biographic policy, which you should also carefully read, can be found at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons.

Once you have added in-line citations, you can re-submit this draft for review.

Let me know if you have any questions, be either replying to this post on your Talk Page, or leaving me a message on my Talk Page.

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.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:“Draft biography of Eric Hacker, American T38 para-athlete, using independent media sources and verified records.” 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.
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qcne (talk) 21:19, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ericnhacker! 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) 21:19, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]