KernelCPU

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Hello, KernelCPU, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Sal Sferlazza, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Replaceable non-free use File:Sal Sferlazza.jpg

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Sal Sferlazza moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Sal Sferlazza. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability, you may have a possible Conflict of Interest and sources are interviews/what he says or about the companies rather than him. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. S0091 (talk) 15:38, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, KernelCPU. 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:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. S0091 (talk) 19:04, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

Whats with the conflict of interest? Ive done a park, a museum and some random editing.. this guy has been a part of a founding team on 4 companies w wiki pages and just got a $2B valuation. He was named the top entrepreneur in all of Austin.. im not mad you drafted it.. ill sit on it or find some more referenecs.. KernelCPU (talk) 19:15, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi KernelCPU, the articles about his companies may have created by those with a conflict of interest thus the notice in case you had one. For the draft, to establish notability you want in-depth coverage about him from independent reliable secondary sources, not press releases or anything that emanates from him or his affiliations. A lot of the sources are not reliable (TheOrg, Channel E2E, Enterprise Storage Forum among others). Law Insider is a legal document which cannot be used per WP:BLPPRIMARY. As much as possible, stick to well-known mainstream media and you may find Your first article helpful. Also, you generally only need one reliable source to support a fact (see WP:CITEKILL). If you do not have a COI, no need to submit the draft. Once you believe have sources that meet notability, you can move it back to mainspace (article). S0091 (talk) 16:43, 9 August 2024 (UTC)