User talk:Willambrose

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Willambrose, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Draft:Maggie Dent have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 14:02, 4 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Maggie Dent

Hello, Willambrose. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Maggie Dent".

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.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Legacypac (talk) 12:23, 10 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Willambrose. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Maggie Dent, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI 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 (you can use 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 which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Dom from Paris (talk) 13:33, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Maggie Dent moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Maggie Dent, does not have enough evidence for notability as written to remain published. It needs citations from reliable, independent sources, not from the author itself, and not just mentions or press releases or interviews with the author. The notability would probably depend upon the books. You needto give a fuller listing, indicating the publisher and date and any coauthors; use worldcat, not Amazon, to reference them. . Then, make a references to substantial book reviews published references in third-party independent reliable sources, not press releases or . I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guidelines and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.

And, Do not move the draft to mainspace yourself--it defeats the purpose of review DGG ( talk ) 01:00, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you User:DGG. From your explanation I can see that this article is not quite ready to for the mainspace. IMHO this is a noteworthy subject. I appreciate you highlighting the difference between press releases and independent sources. I feel that some sources included in the article are the latter but contributions from other editors would improve this.

Further, I must state my COI. Due to the fact I genuinely feel this article has merit - the subject regularly appearing in the media and with a number of published works - I went ahead and drafted the article. I have endeavoured to create an unbiased draft however, I do work for Maggie Dent. Maybe the best plan is to invite reviews so that any interested editors can clean the article up? --Willambrose (talk) 01:26, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The tone in the article you originally published was, to say the least, excessively promotional. This is why COI editing can be a problem because you considered that you had created an unbiased article but it most certainly wasn't. I had to take a hatchet to it. I would suggest you try and clean it further and then submit it. Please remember that once it has been accepted as it probably will you must not directly edit the article and make WP:Edit requests on the talk page. Dom from Paris (talk) 02:20, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Domdeparis, thank you for your advice/guidance. --Willambrose (talk) 22:53, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Maggie Dent has been accepted

Maggie Dent, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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MurielMary (talk) 07:42, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]