User talk:Nickcognito64

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August 2022

Hello Nickcognito64. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Mark Curry (television presenter), 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.

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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:Nickcognito64. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Nickcognito64|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. 331dot (talk) 13:45, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Mark Curry (television presenter), it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. You are continuing to add unsourced material to this article and to use deprecated sources. You got a warning popup on the deprecated sources but continued. The comment about "information was gotten through his online agent" raises SERIOUS concerns about undeclared paid editing. You need to STOP pushing this, use the article talk page to propose edits and read the message below this about paid editing. Ravensfire (talk) 13:46, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Mark Curry (television presenter), 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:Nickcognito64, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Nickcognito64|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Ravensfire (talk) 13:46, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

I apologies for the confusion, but I do not work for anyone, I am unemployed and thought that as a editor, Mark Curry's page was sparse and lacked a lot of information that was found on reliable sources. I am not getting paid to do this, I am using reliable sources such as his online bio to help make the quality of his page far greater. I apologies if I have breach any rules, Please could you tell me how I could deliver accurate and reliable sources without crossed any more policies. Nickcognito64 (talk) 13:57, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

You wrote " This information was gotten through his online agent", how do you have access to his agent? That is still a conflict of interest. 331dot (talk) 14:03, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

I apologies for not being clear, this meant that the source was gotten through his online bio, which would've been verified by his agent. I am not associated with his agent, I am just a fan of Mark Curry and I am not getting any source of income by editing this page. I am unemployed and do not wish to cause anymore confusion, I just want to make Mark Curry's page more thorough and professional. I am not in contact with his agent at all, nor am I getting any financial gain at all. Please let me know if there are any further issues or misunderstandings. Nickcognito64 (talk) 14:12, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

No, this is satisfactory. Thank you. Note that there may be copyright and other issues in just using content from Mr. Curry's official bio. The article about Mr. Curry should primarily summarize what independent reliable sources say about him, not what his official bio says. I would suggest using the article talk page to better clarify what you wish to do. 331dot (talk) 14:34, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for understanding, does this mean that I can repost my edit with citations and additional source information? Nickcognito64 (talk) 15:09, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

My advice would be to first discuss it on the talk page. 331dot (talk) 15:21, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

OK, thank you. Nickcognito64 (talk) 15:22, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Would you read a draft of my edits and proof read them, then tell me if it will suffice and if not what I could change. Nickcognito64 (talk) 15:23, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

If you do that on the talk page and mark it as a formal edit request, editors who have more experience in that area than I will see it. 331dot (talk) 15:29, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Thank you. Will do. Nickcognito64 (talk) 15:36, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Formal Edit Request

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Curry_(television_presenter)&oldid=1105285507 This is my old version of Mark Curry's page. Please could somebody proof read this and then inform me if it is good to be published.

No one will see this unless you do it on the article talk page, and mark it as an edit request, follow the instructions at WP:ER. 331dot (talk) 16:44, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Right, will do. Nickcognito64 (talk) 17:47, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Some Great Reward, you may be blocked from editing. Please include sources when you're making edits. Adding information with "citation needed" tags isn't really helpful, readers can't verify what you've added. If you don't know how to use sources, see the welcome message or ask. Ravensfire (talk) 15:26, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (August 19)

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

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McClenon mobile (talk) 18:31, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Nickcognito64! 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! McClenon mobile (talk) 18:31, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Some Great Reward Tour

Hi Nick. I see that you have started drafting an article about the Some Great Reward Tour at User:Nickcognito64/sandbox. I'm not saying that this is definitely doomed but there are some things that I think you should know before you invest too much effort into it. First up, the tour seems to have been known as the "Some Great Reward Tour" not "Some Great Tour". If you look at Some Great Reward Tour you will see that it is a redirect to Some Great Reward#Tour. If you look at the history of that you will see that quite a substantial article existed between 2010 and 2020 when it was turned into a redirect. I don't know the backstory there. I don't hold an opinion on whether an article is valid or on whether there is anything usable in the old article before it got deleted (except to say that it is not obviously irredeemable). The two tours either side of it do have articles so it is possible that it is but the fact that only this one was turned into a redirect means that there might be a problem with this particular tour.

I suggest caution. Please read WP:NTOUR and take a look at WP:CONCERTS. Maybe start a discussion on one of Talk:Some Great Reward, Talk:Depeche Mode or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Concerts before investing too much time into rewriting something that Wikipedia has already removed once before. DanielRigal (talk) 19:35, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Right will do. Nickcognito64 (talk) 19:39, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Some Gread Reward Tour (August 20)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by S0091 was:  The comment the reviewer left was: 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:Some Gread Reward Tour and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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S0091 (talk) 20:40, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Some Great Reward Tour (August 22)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Dan arndt were:  The comment the reviewer left was: 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.

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Dan arndt (talk) 05:42, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Depeche Mode into Some Great Reward. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 13:47, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Black Celebration Tour. Vs⁶₅⁰⁷ 14:59, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Some Great Reward Tour

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If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 06:01, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Some Great Reward Tour

Hello, Nickcognito64. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Some Great Reward Tour".

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 deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. 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!} 05:47, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

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Thank you for informing me of this. I had no idea and I will ensure that I will make edits more carefully next time with this in mind. No harm intended and I hope that I can enrich these articles without causing any issues. Thanks.@Diannaa Nickcognito64 (talk) 21:45, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Some Great Reward Tour

Hello, Nickcognito64. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Some Great Reward Tour".

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 deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. 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!} 22:06, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

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Heads up on some errors

Thanks for all your Eels edits lately. Just a heads up that one recent series had a few reference errors, such as not being in list-defined format, broken archive URIs and dates, and using the same reference multiple times. If you're having any trouble with formatting references, please let me know. Keep up the good work and tell me how I can help. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 23:02, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for informing about my errors. I'll let you know when I need some help with formatting or anything else. Thanks! Nickcognito64 (talk) 17:07, 17 June 2024 (UTC)