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Happy editing! DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:22, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Raquel García Hermida-van der Walle (March 22)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by DoubleGrazing were: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

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DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:20, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Florisdkw! 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! DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:20, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Florisdkw. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Draft:Raquel García Hermida-van der Walle, 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:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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. DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:22, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi there, thanks a lot for this! Very valid points. I have added extra sources to show significance (although there seems to be a cool down period). The subject is currently well within polling range to be elected in the Netherlands as an MEP in the upcoming EU elections, so I think it's fair to add her page. With regards to the COI, I think you are right. She's a politician of a political party that I support, even though I think the article is exclusively factual and quite concise. (I am not paid or so.) How should I go about disclosing this? Thanks again, and please excuse my newcomer mistakes. Florisdkw (talk) 10:47, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

If your only connection is that you and her support the same party, I don't think that alone gives rise to a COI. My query was more based on the fact that you've created, pretty much as your first edits, this article both here and on the Dutch Wikipedia, which implies you have more than just a passing interest in the subject. Also, you uploaded an image of her, with a comment saying you obtained it via private correspondence, which again suggests an external relationship of some sort? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:02, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi again! Yes, I completely understand your point. And we are in more frequent contact than just shared party membership (though I am not paid or employed or so), I also explicitly asked her support and permission for creating an article about her. Reading the COI guidelines I am not sure whether I can/should proceed or just delete them (even though I consider them objectively informative) to avoid violating them. Is there a way to disclose my COI? If you think I should delete them, I will! Sorry for all this, no bad intentions.. 213.202.47.52 (talk) 15:15, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

My advice in unclear or borderline cases is always to disclose, rather than not, because nobody can be sanctioned for disclosing when they strictly speaking didn't need to, but not disclosing when you did need to can get you into trouble. But at the end of the day, it's your call, as only you know the precise nature of your relationship.

The instructions for disclosing are at the top of this section, the 3rd bullet point starting 'disclose'. It's a question of placing a template either on your own user page, or on the talk page of every draft/article to which the COI pertains, or both. HTH, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 15:22, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Good morning @DoubleGrazing, thanks again for flagging this and being vigilant in picking this up. I just added the disclosure using the template you referred to. I'll add some additional independent sources to the page, but I understand if the article is not accepted in the end. Florisdkw (talk) 11:09, 24 March 2024 (UTC)