User talk:Hescher88

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John Zody

I deleted your draft about John Zody. While I don't know exactly what was going through your head I'll make a supposition. As a new editor, perhaps you thought that rather than create a biography from scratch, you would take an existing one as a model and make changes to it. There is some value to that approach, but Wikipedia cares, not just about the end product, but each intermediate step, and it is inappropriate to have many of the intermediate steps including for no apparent reason contents of another article.

If that was your rationale, you should check out {{biography}}.S Philbrick (Talk) 14:55, 9 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: John Zody has been accepted

John Zody, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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Theroadislong (talk) 19:28, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

February 2020

Hello Hescher88. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to John Zody, 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:Hescher88. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Hescher88|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. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 16:53, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello User:Curb Safe Charmer. I am not receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits of the page John Zody. I live and work in Indiana and created the page when it became apparent that the subject entered into an election race here in Indiana, but do not receive or expect to receive compensation for the edits. Thank you.