User talk:Ewright1

Riviera Gold moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Riviera Gold, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've 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 thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Usedtobecool ☎️ 18:45, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

December 2019

Hello Ewright1. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Ewright1. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ewright1|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. Usedtobecool ☎️ 18:49, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not clear how I respond to your message, but I can assure you that I am in no way a paid advocate and I have no undisclosed financial stake in promoting any topics or articles I have edited. My reason for updating the articles is an interest in the books and keeping the articles updated in response to notices posted by others when I am fortunate to have time to edit. Having read the series of books over a number of years, I felt that I had some knowledge to share and some time to update the articles. The advice I had from some other contributors was to start by contributing to articles & topics about which you had an interest and where there were clear gaps or oversights, also to revisit any articles and follow directions/guidelines to improve.

I'm shocked by these accusations, but have no way to prove I'm not being paid because one can not prove a negative. So now what? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ewright1 (talk • contribs)

@Ewright1:, thank you for responding. And, sorry for the delay on my part. You do not need to prove the negative. You have denied here, that's enough. Would you mind clarifying a couple more points for me?

Do you have relationships/stakes other than financial with the subjects of your contributions?
Do you have other user accounts you edit with? Your first edits do show a level of competence uncharacteristic of a new editor.

You are of course allowed to have a narrow interest on how you contribute here. And, you are free to continue editing. The restriction was only until you'd responded to the original message. Thanks again, and Happy new year! Usedtobecool ☎️ 05:19, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the response and to answer your questions I have no relationships/stakes of any kind with the subjects of my contributions. I do not have any other user accounts for Wikipedia that I use to make edits. As mentioned this account was created over 6 years ago and have used other Wikis outside of Wikipedia for a number of years, the platform is very usual for maintaining and sharing content. Ewright1 User talk:Ewright1 16:50, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ewright1, thank you! Usedtobecool ☎️ 17:03, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Riviera Gold concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Riviera Gold, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:33, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Riviera Gold

Hello, Ewright1. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Riviera Gold".

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Lapablo (talk) 14:59, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]