User talk:UncleDavidHistorian

Thanks for your contributions to First Congregational Church (Tulare, California). 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 your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back.  // Timothy :: talk  08:09, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

• Comment: {{reply to|UncleDavidHistorian}}, great article, but the content requires sourcing that meets WP:IS, WP:RS, especially since this is an existing organization. All the information needs to be sourced, othewise anyone could write anything and that would be bad all around.

Also, if (and I don't know if you are) you are affiliated with this subject, please state so on your userpage User:UncleDavidHistorian, do not add any personal details just simply say I am affiliated with the subjects name. Its not a problem, just needs to be disclosed. Again, please not personal details.

When your done sourcing, click Sumit as it states above and the article will be processed. Thanks,  // Timothy :: talk  08:16, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

:Thank you for moving it to draft. I published a part of it, then I added a lot more. There were 27 citations. When I went to publish, I got a message about edit conflict, not only did I lose w hours if work, the citations I had on the part you saw did not include the citations I had put in. 2601:206:4200:5130:4563:D3E6:F7C5:D5E6 (talk) 09:40, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 22:06, 7 April 2024 (UTC)