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Your submission at Articles for creation: The Scar Free Foundation (January 22)

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

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Potentially a notable organisation but this needs re-writing throughout to be a more dry, factual, less promotional tone.

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:The Scar Free Foundation 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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Qcne (talk) 12:13, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, FoxandMagpie! 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! Qcne (talk) 12:13, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

January 2024

Hello FoxandMagpie. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:The_Scar_Free_Foundation, 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 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 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:FoxandMagpie. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=FoxandMagpie|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. Qcne (talk) 12:13, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @FoxandMagpie, let me know if you have any questions about the above. It is a hard requirement to disclose if you are connected to the organisation. Qcne (talk) 12:14, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Qcne,

I am being paid by The Scar Free Foundation - but I thought I had disclosed on my User page twice, using the form and then again in a description underneath. It was the first thing I did when I started writing the article! Apologies if I haven't done it correctly. FoxandMagpie (talk) 13:17, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I'm sorry - I probably should have actually checked your User Page before posting my message above. You've done it correctly, so thank you for that.

I think your draft has potential but it is written from the point of view of a brochure or About Us section on your website. Wikipedia is a tertiary source and should summarise or paraphrase what independent, reliable, preferably secondary sources state about a topic.

As Communications Manager you probably have a background in marketing, so it may be difficult to write neutrally. You have to adopt a very different mind set when writing for Wikipedia, and it can be difficult to write neutrally when you are connected to the organisation.

I recommend having a read of some WP:GOOD articles about organisations in a similar sector and try to emulate their style.

Hope that helps, but do let me know if you have any more questions. Qcne (talk) 13:23, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, I was worried there!

Completely understand: thank you for the clear feedback. I'll try again soon after reading some of the WP:Good articles and be more strict with the rest of my team on what we can and can't include. It's a relief to hear that there is potential at the very least! FoxandMagpie (talk) 13:34, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: The Scar Free Foundation has been accepted

The Scar Free Foundation, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thanks again, and happy editing!

Jeromeenriquez (talk) 18:55, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]