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Your submission at Articles for creation: Kreston Global (January 29)

Your recent article submission has been rejected. If you have further questions, you can ask at the Articles for creation help desk or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help. The reason left by K.e.coffman was: This topic is not sufficiently notable for inclusion in Wikipedia. The comment the reviewer left was: Does not meet WP:NORG; please also review WP:UPE & WP:PROMO.

K.e.coffman (talk) 01:20, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, please can you tell me how to delete my draft page and account entirely - or can you do that? LynseyT (talk) 10:53, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Paid editing

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:LynseyT, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=LynseyT|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Theroadislong (talk) 21:17, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

January 2022

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Accounting network. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 21:59, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

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Nick Moyes (talk) 22:39, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

LynseyT (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I work for Kreston Global, as soon as I realised last night that I had to declare that I did update my page submission with the advised code, which you will be able to see, which seems to now be wrong. I now cannot put the correct code in as I am blocked. If I am blocked, I will do so. I also haven't edited anywhere with incorrect information. Any information on the accounting networks page I updated was our change of name from "Kreston International" to "Kreston Global". This is a point of accuracy and not promotion. I am a paid employee of Kreston, but I'm not writing anything promotional, nor am I paid exclusively to get a wiki page, the page is facts, more of a biography, no claims of being superior to any other network, just that it exists and is the 13th biggest network in the world. It is no more promotional than any other company page on Wikipedia. I appreciate this is probably frustrating for the integrity of Wikipedia, but one of your editors has removed all unlinked networks from the "accounting network page" and this has made it inaccurate. Just because Wiki doesn't deem us notable, does not mean we are not a network of note that doesn't belong on the list. The same with all the others that were removed. It's like saying here are the top 10 richest people in the world and taking 7 of them out because they don't have wiki pages. I am more than willing to follow rules, now I know they exist. I am just learning about this platform and have not made errors out of malice, rather a lack of understanding. I was advised last night that the supporting information is not strong enough, so we will wait for enough media coverage to support the page before it is resubmitted. The links I provided were not paid for in any way. They are press articles."

LynseyT (talk) 09:29, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

If you work for Kreston Global, you are a paid editor, you don't have to be specifically paid to edit. Wikipedia has articles, not "wiki pages". I believe you that there are likely other inappropriate articles about companies. As this is a volunteer project, it is possible to get inappropriate articles by us. We can only address what we know about. That other inappropriate articles exist does not mean that more can be added. If you would like to help us out, you may once unblocked identify other inappropriate articles you have seen for possible action. If you want to use other articles as a model, you should use those classified as good articles. Regarding "Just because Wiki doesn't deem us notable, does not mean we are not a network of note that doesn't belong on the list", actually it does. Wikipedia is not a database of companies where mere existence merits inclusion, it depends on the coverage in independent reliable sources. A Wikipedia article about a company must summarize independent reliable sources with significant coverage that have chosen on their own(not press releases, interviews, announcements, brief mentions, primary sources) to write about it, showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable company. The sources you offered just document specific facts and are not significant coverage to establish notability. You won't be unblocked to, in the short term, contribute about your company. If that is your only goal here, this is the end of the line. If you want to be a general contributor and edit about topics unrelated to your conflict of interest in the short term, please tell what those might be. I am declining your request. 331dot (talk) 10:34, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Ok - how do I entirely delete my account and the Kreston Global draft? LynseyT (talk) 10:46, 1 February 2022 (UTC).[reply]

It is not possible to delete accounts. Every contribution to Wikipedia (including talk page posts) must be assigned to some identifier; either a username or an IP address. If you don't wish to contribute to Wikipedia anymore, simply abandon your account and never log in again. If you change your mind in the future and wish to contribute to topic areas outside of your conflict of interest, you can submit another unblock request.

If there has been no editing activity on the draft for six months, it will be tagged for deletion as an abandoned draft. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 22:31, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]