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Your submission at Articles for creation: Sekkingstad AS (February 20)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Curb Safe Charmer 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 brief mentions about the subject or routine announcements)
reliable
secondary
strictly independent of the subject

Make sure you add references that meet all four of 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.

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.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Sekkingstad AS and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
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Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 09:25, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Cfr1980! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 09:25, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

February 2023

Hello Cfr1980. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:Cfr1980. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Cfr1980|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. S0091 (talk) 15:56, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi S0091, thank you for your help and for comming back to me so soon. I will not try to edit further until I understand you correctly.

I am not paid to edit this page, but as I answered in the questions to create the article, I am in relation to the topic (I work in the company and it pays my normal salary). Since our company has a 100-year history this year, I find it strange that people should not find us on Wikipedia in the same way as they can find Lerøy, Mowi, Austevoll Seafood or Grieg Seafood among Category:Seafood companies of Norway. I am not looking to promote our companys products, just to state the facts and the story of the company. Is the only way to get the same exposure or an article together with the rest of the Norwegian seafood companies on wikipedia to change my user to a paid user? I'm not familiar with coding and English is not my first language, so please excuse me if I don't understand you or the terms correctly. Cfr1980 (talk) 19:20, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Cfr1980, see WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. One should be careful with comparing to existing articles because standards have changed overtime, generally becoming more strict, and even today things get by when they should not. As far as Paid, being an employee even if not compensated specifically to edit Wikipedia meets the criteria so you need make the appropriate declaration on your User page (User:Cfr1980). See the above instructions. Being "paid" does not preclude you from continuing to work on or submitting the draft but declaring is required.

As I am sure you understand, "getting exposure" is not the purpose of Wikipedia as Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a marketing website or social media, etc. Per my previous guidance, read though WP:NCORP. The best advice I can give is to stick with mainstream publications, like newspapers, that have written about the company, not interviews or content that is largely what the company says about itself. Independent coverage is needed and some of that coverage needs to outside the local area (regional or national coverage). Though English is preferred, sources can be in a different language. And I agree, a hundred year old company should have coverage that meets the criteria but it may take some digging to find them even through historical archives. S0091 (talk) 19:46, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Sekkingstad AS (February 20)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong 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 brief mentions about the subject or routine announcements)
reliable
secondary
strictly independent of the subject

Make sure you add references that meet all four of 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.

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.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Sekkingstad AS and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Theroadislong (talk) 16:12, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Sekkingstad AS

Hello, Cfr1980. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Sekkingstad AS, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 20:06, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Sekkingstad AS

Hello, Cfr1980. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Sekkingstad AS".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:44, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]