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Happy editing! Peaceray (talk) 15:09, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

Posting to talk pages

You have made several attempts to post to the page User_talk:Jimfbleak. Each time you attempted to remove other content of the page and substitute your message in its place. Presumably this was a mistake; please be careful to post new comments below the existing content of a page, as you have successfully done in your other edits, at Template talk:WikiProject Biography & Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives/Reports. JBW (talk) 22:22, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

My apologies. That was completely by mistake. Thank you for letting me know. AtlantaHistory101 (talk) 05:14, 23 August 2024 (UTC)

Reply

Thanks for message.

If you have a conflict of interest you must declare it, please don't write about yourself, your friends or relatives and read the guidance below:

• When you write about a person, you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that they meet the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the person or an associated organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the person claims or interviewing them. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls.

• Quite a bit of your text was unsourced, and of the five refs you do give, I can't access the first, but it appears to be authored by him, and the second is an interview with him, not independent sources. Emory Healthcare is a company he helped run. I'm blocked in Europe from viewing the last ref, but the others appear not to be independent third-party sources.
• If he meets our notability criteria, you should be able to establish that using genuinely independent sources.

• You must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews.

• The main problem was the promotional tone, particularly the last paragraph Tom Bell is widely regarded as a transformative leader with a unique ability to navigate and succeed in diverse industries. His career, spanning over five decades, exemplifies a blend of strategic vision, adaptability, and a deep commitment to public service and civic leadership. Bell's contributions to the business community and his dedication to improving the quality of life in Atlanta have left an indelible mark on both the city and the industries he has impacted. Just hype with no actual facts. There are other opinions presented as facts distinguished... he demonstrated an early commitment to leadership and civic engagement... he contributed to the company's growth and development in the aerospace industry... and so on, we need facts, not your opinions

• There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
• You must not copy text from elsewhere. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.

• I didn't check your text, but the image was taken from a site that claimed to own the copyright and reserved all rights, so clearly can't be used here.

I've seen worse, but to get the article accepted, you need your text to be fully referenced to proper sources and with less of the fan-page language. Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources.

If you are writing about yourself, or someone you know as a friend, colleague, client, employer or relative, you have a conflict of interest, and you must disclose the nature of that COI. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:32, 23 August 2024 (UTC)