ExmouthJ
Managing a conflict of interest edit
Hello, ExmouthJ. 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 conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects 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 Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.
Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 16:58, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
AfC notification: Draft:MillTechFX has a new comment edit
Your submission at Articles for creation: MillTechFX (March 15) edit
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Hello, ExmouthJ!
Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 17:07, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
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March 2024 edit
Hello ExmouthJ. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:MillTechFX, 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 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 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:ExmouthJ. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=ExmouthJ|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. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 13:09, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Appreciate the clarification! I have now disclosed this on my profile page. Are there any other particular areas of the article which need addressing or can I re-submit following the disclosure?
- Best, ExmouthJ (talk) 13:24, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Curb Safe Charmer Appreciate the clarification! I have now disclosed this on my profile page. Are there any other particular areas of the article which need addressing or can I re-submit following the disclosure? ExmouthJ (talk) 13:35, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: MillTechFX (March 28) edit
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- Hi @DoubleGrazing hope all well!
- As I edit the article, I just wanted to ask what constitutes a lack of notability? Let me know your thoughts and I can better understand the process and submit a (hopefully) successful draft!
- Best ExmouthJ (talk) 15:57, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
- In the case of companies, the relevant notability guideline is WP:NCORP, which is basically a stricter variant of the general WP:GNG one. It requires significant coverage, directly of the subject, by multiple secondary sources that are both reliable and entirely independent of the subject. Your draft cites no such source. (Press releases, routine business reporting, and primary sources do not count.) -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:49, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: MillTechFX (April 17) edit
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AfC notification: Draft:MillTechFX has a new comment edit
Your submission at Articles for creation: MillTechFX (April 19) edit