User talk:Modernmaven

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Modernmaven! Thank you for your contributions. I am CNMall41 and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Corey Ellis (Sculptor) (June 15)[edit]

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

This submission's references do not adequately show the subject's notability. Wikipedia requires significant coverage (not just mere mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject—see the guidelines on the notability of people, the golden rule and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. Please improve the submission's referencing (see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners and Help:Introduction to referencing/1), so that the information is verifiable, and there is clear evidence of why the subject is notable and worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia. If additional reliable sources cannot be found for the subject, then it may not be suitable for Wikipedia at this time.

The comment the reviewer left was:

The first four sections are completely unsourced. Where did all this information come from?

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 when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Corey Ellis (Sculptor) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Brad v 23:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Modernmaven! Having an article 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! Brad v 23:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Modernmaven. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Draft:Corey Ellis (Sculptor), you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Brad v 23:53, 15 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Paid editing[edit]

Hello Modernmaven. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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:Modernmaven. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Modernmaven|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Brad v 01:57, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Bradv,

Okay so now I am really confused and did not want anything to go wrong and it sounds like it did, but I don't understand why. I have a person who helped me write the article in a word Document that was more familiar with Wikipedia.. He was not paid nor did he ever go and log into my account at any time. When the page was rejected I did ask for help. He was not sure what to do so I then wrote to you the person that rejected the article.

No one has been paid to write this article and that would be including myself. I wanted to write an Article on Wikipedia and well it did not go so well. I have not edited it in any way nor will I again. I did resubmit it yesterday and well I guess we will see what happens.

I am not trying to break any rules and if I was not aware of something and I did I do apologies greatly. I respect Wikipedia and what you all do. Modernmaven (talk) 21:53, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Corey Ellis (Sculptor)[edit]

Hello, Modernmaven. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Corey Ellis".

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.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. 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!} 05:09, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]