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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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Your submission at Articles for creation: IndexNow (May 24)

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

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

The comment the reviewer left was:

On Wikipedia, all stated facts should be supported by a citation to a reliable source. Currently, portions of this draft are unsourced - please add necessary citations before resubmitting. Thank you. On Wikipedia, external links should not be placed in the body of an article. Please remove these before resubmitting. If you want to convert these links to references, see Referencing for beginners for assistance.

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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~Liance^talk 22:47, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, VWellsMicro! 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! ~Liance^talk 22:47, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. 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 the submission and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

VWellsMicro (talk) 22:48, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

IndexNow=Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).

Thank you for reviewing our page. We have reviewed other similar pages (Bing Webmaster Tools, Sitemaps) and both have fewer references from most of the same sources. We actually have more. One of our categorizations does appear to be under math and science, this is not correct. Could this incorrect categorization be a reason why we are having difficulties? IndexNow is a digital search engine optimization protocol (IndexNow.org) similar to sitemaps developed by Google, which does have a Wikipedia. Can you make some suggestions how we can correct the issues you are seeing? VWellsMicro (talk) 22:48, 28 May 2024 (UTC)vwellsmicro[reply]

Please explain "we" and "our" 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 07:45, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

June 2024

Hello VWellsMicro. 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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.

Paid advocates are 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 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:VWellsMicro. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=VWellsMicro|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. ~Liance^talk 19:47, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies, I was not aware. IndexNow is not a paid product. It is a free open-source protocol for indexing website content that was developed by Microsoft and Yandex collaboratively. I work for Microsoft on multiple similar projects. I was not directly hired for the purposes of creating this Wikipedia. I have heavily reviewed the reliable sources materials and am not clear on why the industry journals are not considered reliable. I am a bit stuck ...do you have any suggestions on what more I can provide other than professional industry journals? This is a internet protocol. Our sources are primarily within the web community. VWellsMicro (talk) 21:51, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please may I ask for a little more clarity in your reply. Do you receive or expect to receive any reward, broadly construed, for this potential article? 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 20:38, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind. I see you have made a declaration on your user page. I tidied it up on your behalf because it had some weirdnesses in it. Please check for inaccuracies and edit where necessary 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 21:51, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:IndexNow has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:IndexNow. Thanks! 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 20:35, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]