BenASLAus

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Thanks Mark for getting in touch and letting me know. I’d love for you to edit the content I wrote for my company Australian Settlements Limited(ASL).

Please let me know if you can - I’m then not sure how I update the ‘services’ section etc.

Thanks again for your guidance, Ben

NONE of the content of your sandbox User:BenASLAus/sandbox would be useable in an encyclopaedia article. See WP:NCORP and WP:YFA. Theroadislong (talk) 10:58, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Paid editing

Hello BenASLAus. 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 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:BenASLAus. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=BenASLAus|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. ~~~~   Theroadislong (talk) 10:56, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

• Note than employment counts as paid editing. That your competitors have articles about them does not necessarily mean your company gets one too. It could be that your competitors don't merit articles either, and we simply haven't addressed those articles yet. If they do merit articles, it doesn't mean your company does automatically. Please see other stuff exists. 331dot (talk) 11:40, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of User:BenASLAus/sandbox

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The page User:BenASLAus/sandbox has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seemed to be unambiguous advertising which only promoted a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to have been fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, or you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. 331dot (talk) 11:41, 9 October 2022 (UTC)