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Happy editing! Peaceray ( talk) 04:59, 28 April 2023 (UTC) reply

I don’t wanna be apologetic but that shit was funny 2001:B07:A3B:6604:187B:66A4:B088:84EF ( talk) 13:17, 24 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 02:31, 9 January 2024 (UTC) reply

Thanks for your contributions to Reliance, Washington. 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.

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Thanks for your contributions to Harmony, Washington. 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.

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Thank you for trying, but the information you provided is entirely redundant to what I already had (namely, you just provided more instances of the same 1896 death notice). Further, it misses the point: lists of everyone who was a member of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory exist, but don't include Rankin. I've reverted your edit. DS ( talk) 19:56, 15 February 2024 (UTC) reply

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microbiologyMarcus ^{( petri dish· growths)} 20:37, 20 February 2024 (UTC) reply

Hey Bigfatman8766!

I've taken the liberty to help build up the Harmony, Washington draft you began. Found plenty of local sourcing and the draft should now be ready to publish. I personally don't mind the Gen Web link (all her work is sourced) and you might get some guff over the Google maps link, but I don't mind it. Since this draft originates with you, I wanted to run things by you first before anything was submitted. Granted, we don't WP:OWN any work, but I also want you to take a final look and do the honors. Seems only fair.

There are some additional local sourcing going back to early newspapers, but not much in terms of historical context; a bit of day-to-day happenings and plenty of obits. A surprising lack on the St. Ives church but online sleuthing can only take a person so far. Might be time to take a dive into some actual books!

But, it looks good to me and I thank you for beginning this article! Let me know if I can be of further help and welcome to the community!

Shortiefourten ( talk) 21:32, 18 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Oh wow! I didn't even know you were working on this! Thank you for editing the draft, it looks good and good job on finding sources on the history of the town! I'll go ahead and publish it, thanks for your contribution!

Bigfatman8766 ( talk) 01:33, 19 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Oh, man, denied again! To me it passes WP:GNG and WP:GEOLAND but I would suggest reaching out to @ Stuartyeates via his talk page or maybe ping him here or at the Draft talk:Harmony, Washington page to centralize a discussion on the Harmony article.

Massive amount of articles mentioning Harmony for weddings, funerals, simple goings-on, land transactions, crimes, fishing reports, and road accidents...in newspapers going back to the 1890s. Standard fare for any community regardless of size. I've started a large, broad search on Harmony outside of what I recently added and it'll take some time to sift thru it all. I'm hoping there'll be more about its history, but small communities just struggle with that. If it isn't a big city, or some catastrophic event (natural or human), they just get passed over, time and time again.

But let's keep working this! Harmony exists, has existed, and seems like it's going to exist for a good amount of time to come. Hell, I've driven thru the town a half-dozen times when I go to relax at Ike Kinswa park - it's awesome!

Hope you don't mind me doing some work on the draft - not trying to "take over" at all - Lewis County is just my major area of interest as an editor. If you're planning on working on more rural areas around Lewis or Pierce, hell maybe even Thurston, reach out to me if I can help! But again, thanks so much for starting this draft.

Shortiefourten ( talk) 19:42, 22 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Substantial work has been done on Draft:Harmony, Washington, and it would be entirely appropriate to resubmit it. I won't do anything else on it because the US isn't really my area of knowledge, and getting fresh eyes on it increases the chances of a expert being able to give you more specific advice. Stuartyeates ( talk) 08:04, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Thanks Stuartyeates!

Really appreciate the feedback, your help, and advice. I've added a touch more today but outside of going to a library and bringing out the big books, I think it's as much as I can access. I'll reach out to @ Bigfatman8766 to resubmit.

Shortiefourten ( talk) 21:00, 23 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Stuartyeates was:

This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:

• in-depth (not just passing mentions about the subject)
• reliable
• secondary
• independent of the subject
  

Make sure you add references that meet these criteria before resubmitting. Learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

 The comment the reviewer left was:

None of this is indepth independent coverage of this place.

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Stuartyeates ( talk) 20:18, 19 April 2024 (UTC) reply

@ Shortiefourten :/ Bigfatman8766 ( talk) 22:16, 19 April 2024 (UTC) reply

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