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I didn't realize that there were two Dana Levin's. I have corrected the mistake and now the internal link is correct. It now goes to Dana Levin (poet). Thanks for pointing out the issue.

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The article PEN/Steven Kroll Award has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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The article PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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The article PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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I saw all those deletion attempts above, so went through and added third-party sources. Any article can be deleted if it does not have third party sources so it's a small but important part of the process. Thanks for creating the PEN award articles, they are much needed. If you need help with anything let me know as I do a lot of work on literary award articles. Green Cardamom (talk) 04:52, 12 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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

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

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the general guideline on notability and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

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Still needs any additional amount of in-depth third-party news sources overall.

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Tvx1 was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the general guideline on notability and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

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The raised concerns have not been sufficiently addressed. Moreover, video's aren't acceptable sources.

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Tvx1 19:25, 14 April 2016 (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 Tokyogirl79 was:

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage about the subject in reliable sources that are independent of the subject—see the general guideline on notability and the golden rule. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

 The comment the reviewer left was:

The first two linked sources aren't really usable, but the final two are and that's not really enough to assert notability for an event. The external links section needs to be retooled. You don't need to link to every news article or website that mentions or is tangentially related to the event, especially in cases like this one where it's only very briefly mentioned. At worst this can be seen as promotional since it's for an upcoming event and at best it'd be seen as superfluous and unnecessary in relation to the official website which should already have this info in the article.

Stuff like this cannot be seen as an independent and reliable source since it's more of an offhand mention of an event, which tends to be seen as routine notifications. Also avoid linking to things like this, since it looks to be a reprint of a press release and again - unnecessary since the official website seems to already list this information. This refers to a past slam, which isn't really necessary since it's only in passing and would be seen as out of date since it's from 2013.

I'm going to clean the EL section out, removing everything but the official website since there's no need for any of the other stuff and they cannot be used as a RS.

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