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I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:St. Vincent grape. Thanks! — Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 18:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

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Managing a conflict of interest

File:Information.svg Hello, Walt500. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Lucian W. Dressel, 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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[[Draft:Crimson Cabernet|Crimson Cabernet]] moved to draftspace

You have created an article, Crimson Cabernet, on a topic you have a conflict of interest. Thus I have moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline, and there are no issues about the article being promotional, and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Please also have a look at the guideline on autobiographies. – NJD-DE (talk) 16:15, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

April 2022

File:Nuvola apps important.svg Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Please read above the message about conflict of interest, and take the appropriate steps. Your username makes it quite evident you have a connection with "Davis Viticultural Research" and the Dressel family.{{PAGENAME}} – NJD-DE (talk) 16:18, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

:HI, I understand and appreciate your concerns. I am a former Indy driver but now have a much safer job working as a consultant in a field that I have always loved, grapes and wine. I have clients from CA to NJ and have done work for many wineries over the years including Mt. Pleasant which Lucian Dressel owned 25 years ago. I think he is a very important figure in the Missouri wine picture. I would hope that my extensive background in the wine industry and my almost unavoidable familiarity with Dressel would not be a disqualifier for me to contribute to the article. Also it would appear that the weasel words have been eliminated. Do you agree, and if so, how could the statement be revised. Thanks again for your help, comments and clarifications. 50.40.99.135 (talk) 15:59, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation|Articles for creation]]: [[Draft:Crimson Cabernet|Crimson Cabernet]] (June 27)

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{{divbox|gray|3=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.|}} 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.

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Your submission at [[Wikipedia:Articles for creation|Articles for creation]]: [[Draft:Crimson Cabernet|Crimson Cabernet]] (June 29)

File:AFC-Logo_Decline.svgYour recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Valereee was:

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{{divbox|blue|3=Sources don't support notability. We need to see significant coverage in multiple reliable, unaffiliated sources.}} 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.

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valereee (talk) 15:33, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding [[Draft:Crimson Cabernet]]

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Your draft article, [[Draft:Crimson Cabernet]]

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Hey man im josh (talk) 15:42, 29 December 2022 (UTC)