User talk:ZoeShanks
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on this page and someone will drop by to help. Red Director (talk) 01:30, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
January 2022
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Hello ZoeShanks. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Night Bass, 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.
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:ZoeShanks. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=ZoeShanks|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. MarioGom (talk) 17:53, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
Night Bass moved to draftspace
[edit]An article you recently created, Night Bass, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). 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 guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. MarioGom (talk) 17:54, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
- Would it be helpful to just narrow down the articles used to only the most reputable sources that mention the topic? 2600:1700:5ABE:4C0:EC4C:BA48:9643:2CD7 (talk) 16:28, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
Concern regarding Draft:Night Bass
[edit] Hello, ZoeShanks. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Night Bass, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.
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) 13:07, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Night Bass
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Hello, ZoeShanks. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Night Bass".
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 and remove the {{db-afc}}
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! —Nnadigoodluck███ 11:08, 21 December 2022 (UTC)