November 2019

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  Your addition to Lululemon Athletica has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Dennis Bratland (talk) 17:16, 20 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

  Hello, I'm Dennis Bratland. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Peloton (company) have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Dennis Bratland (talk) 17:20, 20 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

  Your addition to Microsoft Teams has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information.

Copy-paste from https://in.reuters.com/article/microsoft-teams-idINKBN1XT22O "© 2019 Reuters. All Rights Reserved."

Dennis Bratland (talk) 17:22, 20 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

Managing a conflict of interest

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  Hello, Kadekl. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Lululemon Athletica, 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:

  • avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
  • propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
  • disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
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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.

It's very difficult to imagine your edits are not paid promotion, advertising and SEO. Please carefully read the conflict of interest guidelines and ensure you declare any conflicts of interest and work to maintain a neutral point of view in your contributions. Dennis Bratland (talk) 19:57, 20 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

Dennis Bratland, no relationship with Lululemon, just a follower of theirs. In defense, I believe that I state only facts and write neutrally in my edit. Below are a few statements that I used that you may be referring to and my interpretation of them-
"success" = growth (their sales have grown $640 million this year). "double its mens sales" = a goal they are working toward. These statements are not intended to be promotional in any way.
Although new to contributing to Wikipedia, I believe this is an important piece of their marketing campaign and critical to this section of their page. Thus, I would ask if you would edit any concerns rather than delete the entire piece. Thank you. Kadekl (talk) 22:49, 20 November 2019 (UTC)Reply
You have made a series of edits to various pages that are virtually identical to the types of edits made by contractors doing search engine optimization or brand management for a list of clients. Such as hopping around a group of unrelated in totally different industries companies adding very biased sounding and selectively positive news. Editors simply interested in editing Wikipedia usually have a different pattern, for example editing many times on a group of related topics, or on a single article. It's very rare for a brand new Wikipedia editor to use the {{Citation}} template perfectly on their very first edit, and doing so in a new row added to a wikitable, again, perfect on the first try. It suggests significant experience, using other user names or IP addresses.

Please don't reveal any information about yourself or your past editing. I'm not asking. I'm only informing you that it looks like paid editing. As long as you've read the COI guidelines and you're doing your best to follow them, I don't have anything to add. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 23:24, 20 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

Dennis Bratland, thanks for the response and sharing your logic. I am not a paid editor, I just made a list of things that I'm interested in contributing to and they happen to be in different industries. In regards to first tries, I'm shocked that my meticulousness is being used against me- it took me a LONG time to nail down that wikitable.
In sum, I'm frustrated that you've removed nearly every addition I've made. It feels like a personal attack and is discouraging to make future contributions knowing you will shut it down (for example, I wrote about a canyon near me and you remove it as being "blatant advertising and promotion". How is a canyon paying me?). I believe your SEO profiling of me is steering your decisions and is hard for me to work around. One constructive takeaway I have from your thoughts is that most of my comments appear positive and I will work on improving my neutrality. Kadekl (talk) 00:00, 21 November 2019 (UTC)Reply
Not true. You revised two of your edits and I didn't revert them. I didn't revert your edit to JoJo Rabbit. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 00:45, 21 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

Teahouse talkback: you've got messages!

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A tip

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Take a look at WP:Notability and WP:NCORP. Those pages explain the criteria that your new article Awardco will be measured against. Right now, your article lacks any references to significant coverage of the company in independent, reliable sources. Whether the subject of an article is notable (in the Wikipedia sense) is the key factor in articles that aren't deleted. If the subject is notable, even a poorly written article is kept; if the subject isn't notable, even the best written article is likely to be deleted. So demonstrating Awardco's notability is the challenge you face. Good luck! Schazjmd (talk) 01:11, 4 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the tip User:Schazjmd, I'll do some more research to try and find more significant sources. Kadekl (talk) 16:51, 4 December 2019 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Awardco

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Husbands (band) (February 25)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by HitroMilanese was:  The comment the reviewer left was: 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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Your submission at Articles for creation: Husbands (band) (June 13)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Skyshifter was:  The comment the reviewer left was: 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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