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Your submission at Articles for creation: Mervin D. Garretson has been accepted

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Robert McClenon (talk) 15:29, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, ElricFullMetal. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.GDX420 (talk) 13:58, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. GDX420 (talk) 14:08, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi @GDX420:, thank you for correcting me here. However, I want to clarify that all I know about Golding is that he is related to the jeans industry. I have no affiliation with him whatsoever. Again, you helping me progress in my Wikipedia journey is highly appreciated. I would be careful regarding such edits in the future. ElricFullMetal (talk) 14:52, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Hiya mate. So basically, what it is, someone, naming no names, was going around all the freelance sites trying to find someone to add information about a certain rock art book into the page, a load of copyrighted content and some promotional PR statement along the lines of "the Eric Clapton of Denim". The book probably isn't notable enough for Wikipedia so adding it into the article will only serve to promote the book without really improving the article. Now clearly I was in the wrong, but I feel I owe you an explanation anyway. Having seen this edit where you added in something along the lines of "the Eric Clapton of denim" and then did this edit about his rock art book where you described his rock art collection as inspirational and even capitalised the word "Inspirational" in a manner akin to a professional copywriter. These edits coupled with the timeframe suggested to me that you carried the torch from just about every other epimerc on Upwork. However, the good people at the conflict of interest noticeboard have absolved you and therefore I would like to apologise. You were clearly in the wrong place at the wrong time. Please forgive me. GDX420 (talk) 15:03, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Hey,GDX420, thanks for the clarification. I didn't know the background story, so, really sorry for that. ElricFullMetal (talk) 09:36, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Women in Red

Hi there, ElricFullMetal, and welcome to Women in Red. I see you have already written a couple of interesting women's biographies and hope there will be many more. You might find it useful to look through our Ten Simple Rules. Please let me know if you run into any difficulties or need assistance. Happy editing!--Ipigott (talk) 11:56, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Hey Ipigott thanks for reviewing my work. I must tell you that the Women in Red project is an amazing job. Being someone who has actively engaged in promoting women, I love what you guys are doing. Now, my initial idea was to keep looking into areas of interest that include sports, business, and entrepreneurs this is something that has given me a new perspective. Given you have seen my work, is it ok if I get in touch with you for any future articles regarding how I can make them better when I initially submit them?ElricFullMetal (talk) 18:44, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Just let me know if there's anything you think I can help you with. You can of course always post any concerns or points of interest on the WiR talk page.--Ipigott (talk) 20:53, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Perfect. Thanks for the help. Much appreciatedElricFullMetal (talk) 23:03, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

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special issue

hi how are you ? can we talk outside Wikipedia if you have facebook or telegram to talk ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Accountnoname (talk • contribs) 13:52, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi, what is it regarding?

Dax draft

You had two refs, each used twice, that were actually one source in two newspapers, so I did a ref fix. No changes to any text. David notMD (talk) 12:54, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Hey David notMD, first of all, cool username :D. Secondly, thanks a lot. Really appreciate it :-) ElricFullMetal (talk) 12:39, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

You are welcome. I went on to delete two interview refs. Wikipedia does not consider interviews as supporting notability nor substantiating facts, as the subject of the interview can say anything about themselves (I, for example, consider myself handsome.). I suggest while waiting for a review that you look at the refs. Wikipedia favors quality (substantial content about a person written by an independent source) over quantity. The latter includes refs that are only brief mentions of the subject, and as noted, interviews. David notMD (talk) 12:49, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Unblock request

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I have no relationship whatsoever with DoshNomad. All the pages that I have worked on are voluntary contributions and have not taken any payments for it. I understand the strictness about transparency on the platform and have fully adhered to it. I have sought help whenever and wherever I could from experienced editors. I was currently taking time out to contribute towards Good Articles, which I believe is something someone working covertly for undisclosed payments wouldn't even bother with. I am not really sure how all of the ublocking process works, but I had to take a lot of time out almost every day from my schedule to contribute to Wikipedia as part of the many voluntary activities I perform. Getting my ID blocked for something I am not even guilty of is kind of unjust. I don't know how this link was established but it is unfair, and I strongly believe actions like these will only lead to scaring away new editors from Being Bold. Kind of disappointed by this whole fiasco but I am ready to provide proof (if need be and if I can somehow realistically manage to provide it) that I am not being paid for editing on Wikipedia.ElricFullMetal (talk) 14:00, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

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Setting aside the relationship/no relationship with DoshNomad (currently blocked), it can reasonably be inferred from your article creation behavior that you are an undisclosed paid editor. You registered with Wikipedia on 10 Feb, and then starting on Feb 12 created an article about Merrin D. Garretson. Then, between March 19 and April 10 you created eleven short articles on people or businesses that have no connection with each other - different countries and different careers - strongly suggesting that this is paid work for which you are given assignments and a handful of possible references to create articles. MER-C has converted most (missed Hatsuye Yamaguchi and Berrell Jensen) back to draft state and tagged as possible undeclared paid. David notMD (talk) 19:13, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Additional concerns: After you have created these articles, User:Lenticel follows by assigning Categories and User:Ipigott does some clean-up. Ipigott is also extremely active converting the classifications of scores of articles from Start to B-class. David notMD (talk) 19:20, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I am not sure about the kind of link you are trying to create here. I have been actively working on projects as part of the Women in Red project. Now, I don't recall any kind of communication between me and Lenticel but Ipigott has been a major help for me during my time. He has been helping me improve as an editor. Now, I am not sure how exactly the sockpuppet thing works here, but from the argument you have just given, no other experienced editor should act as a mentor for inexperienced people like me. One should not create pages that are start/stubs. One should only work on B-Class, GA, FA, because somehow only those pages are worth being on Wikipedia or something.

Now, two things, I had recently talked about moving towards writing better articles and that is where I came to know about Women in Green. Given my lack of experience, I could not have possibly ensured that I could work on GA right away. This is why I sought help and that's what I got from Ipigott and a few others. Being nice here doesn't help us. I guess having lived in multiple countries also works against an editor here. I don't even know what argument I can post here after seeing your premise. Not being disrespectful, honestly. But I am super discouraged and disappointed. Secondly, I understand that you might have noticed something that's suspicious but when I initially was doing my research I came across an article here about accounts that contribute towards specific topics can also get scrutinized. One of the reasons why I also held back. Can't seem to find the link, but I think you'll understand what I am talking about. I have used requested articles tab to contribute as well as use the women in red project. There are other works in process too. If you want to help me, let me know how you can do it. That I would truly appreciate. I wouldn't like to be discouraged any further. Really sorry if you find anything that I wrote above to be offensive. ElricFullMetal (talk) 20:02, 13 April 2020 (UTC)