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Your submission at Articles for creation: Marcellus Baz (April 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 Sagotreespirit was:

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Likely notable, but this is blatantly promotional PR content, not an encyclopedia article. Write informational content, not long strings of awards. Wikipedia is not PR: see WP:IBA, WP:PEACOCK.

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.

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— Sagotreespirit (^talk) 12:16, 20 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Marcellus Baz, which 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.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, RoseCartwrightCommunications. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Marcellus Baz, 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. Greyjoy^talk 05:17, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

July 2020

Hello RoseCartwrightCommunications. The nature of your edits 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 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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged 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:RoseCartwrightCommunications. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=RoseCartwrightCommunications|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. Fiddle Faddle 09:43, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi :Timtrent - I am not being paid or receiving compensation for the article or edits. I work for free / voluntarily for the charity related to the contribution. I am working with another editor on ensuring this is all submitted and clarified. I also dont plan on making any future edits. I hope that is ok? Thanks for getting in touch.

The term "Paid" is broadly construed. My feeling is that you must declare it with respect to that article and any about that charity. As a volunteer you are a 'voluntary and unpaid employee' Fiddle Faddle 10:00, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Connected contributor statement

This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article Marcellus Baz.

With your permission because it is your user page, I am copying this box to it. If you do not liek what I have done please tell me and delete it. It is, however, a convention that it appears there. I've deleted from here the connected contributor template, whcih is intended for article talk pages Fiddle Faddle 14:42, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your thread has been archived

Hi Rosethorn1984! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, Can a year of birth be permanently removed on an article due to real-life impact?, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days (usually at least two days, and sometimes four or more). You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to create a new thread.

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