Welcome to Wikipedia! edit

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Your submission at Articles for creation: A Call to Action (March 4) edit

 
Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time.
Please read the comments left by the reviewer on your submission. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/A Call to Action concern edit

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Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/A Call to Action edit

 

Hello Alexwalker. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "A Call to Action".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. HasteurBot (talk) 22:01, 6 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Anthony E.C.W Spencer edit

 

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Conflict of interest edit

  Hello, Alexwalker. 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 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:

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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 WP:PAID. Thank you. – Athaenara 02:03, 17 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Blocked edit

 
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose.
If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

Athaenara 02:03, 17 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

 
This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Alexwalker (block logactive blocksglobal blockscontribsdeleted contribsfilter logcreation logchange block settingsunblockcheckuser (log))


Request reason:

I am very new to Wikipedia. I can remove the prices of the publications included if this would help in preventing the submission from being deleted. All the content is owned by the author Anthony Spencer including the web site www.prct.org.uk. Please advise what I must do in order to avoid falling foul of wiki rules.

Decline reason:

You have violated several Wikipedia policies, including WP:PROMO, WP:COI, WP:PAID, and WP:COPYVIO. It isn't just about the prices of the publications. Your copyrighted materials would need to be properly donated to be used here(and you would need to understand the consequences of doing so); in addition, Wikipedia is not interested in what an article subject(or its representative) wants to say about itself, only in what independent reliable sources state. It's unlikely you are going to be unblocked to continue to edit within the area of your conflict of interest(COI). If you want to be a general Wikipedia contributor and edit about other, unrelated subjects, please tell what those might be in another request, I am declining this one. 331dot (talk) 10:43, 17 September 2019 (UTC)Reply


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