User talk:Petersboston

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Hello, Petersboston, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Petersboston/Yankee Cruising Club (YCC)

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A tag has been placed on User:Petersboston/Yankee Cruising Club (YCC), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. ----Rdp060707 (Your questions?/My fight against the devil) 04:24, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm Deb. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.
Hello, Petersboston. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest 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, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
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 are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.Deb (talk) 09:58, 7 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Please help me with... I'm a bit confused about drafts vs sandbox. I was trying to create a new article so I put "User:Petersboston/Yankee Cruising Club (YCC)" on my main sandbox page. Before it was finished, the article was reviewed and deleted. I was not yet ready to have it reviewed and now all of my work was lost. How can I do this?

I thought that there was a way to create a new page in my "Sandbox" that would not be seen or reviewed until I was ready. I found instructions in the documentation that said that I could create a new sandbox page by using the same text that I used previously. Is there a way to do this? I thought that I saw instructions for this but can't find them again. I could use some help.

Thanks Peter Petersboston (talk) 00:37, 8 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It sounds like you went through the right general procedure to start creating a new page. What you may not have realized that new pages, even in userspace, are still subject to Wikipedia rules and get patrolled regularly to make sure there are no violations. I can't see the deleted page, but I'll hazard a guess that you wrote your text first and were thinking that references could be added later. That's actually sort of backwards. It is very important to start with references and add the citations as you write.

As for how to get started again, you can start with Help:userspace draft and enter the name of the subject you want to write about. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 02:57, 8 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]