Shane emihovich

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Shane Emihovich. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Catherine Emihovich, 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)—don't forget to give details of reliable sources supporting your suggestions;
• 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. Thank you. Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 14:45, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Catherine Emihovich

Hallo Shane, I'm sorry for your loss of, at a guess, your grandmother (from "still in school" and "left 5 grandchildren"!). Or perhaps an aunt or other family member.

As people have said above, Wikipedia is cautious about edits by people with a "Conflict of interest". Please see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI and follow the instructions, to clarify that you are connected to her. Please also avoid editing without logging on: the recent edit history of the article shows a lot of edits by you and a lot by an anonymous editor. If that is you, it shouldn't be: please use your editor name all the time.

There are quite a few problems with the article as it stands, some of which probably predate your involvement with it.

• The photo: you uploaded it saying "found on the internet". That's not a proper source, and there is no evidence that it is free of copyright. Please ask around the family to see if someone has a photo they have themselves taken (so they own the copyright) which they could upload. I fear that the one you uploaded will be deleted pretty soon, as Wikimedia is very careful about copyright.
• Trivial but: section headings don't use capitals except for the first word and any proper nouns
• And we don't leave a space before a reference, it goes straight after any punctuation
• The references are not well formatted, though they are consistent. Unfortunately, consistently inadequate. A reference should show enough information that the reader can see the source of the information without having to click through the link or to scrutinise the URL to see its source. A reference to a website should also include "date retrieved", as websites change and disappear.
• If a reference is re-used, there's a neat way to "name" it and re-use it so that it only appears once in the list. Easier to show than explain, so I'll fix the triplicate one I noticed.

Ah, I seem to have got a bit carried away and fixed most of the malformatted refs, also found archived copies of a couple of profile pages and done various bits of tidying up. So much for my plans for the afternoon! PamD 15:32, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

I hope that you will look around and find some other articles to work on, and contribute to the encyclopedia in general, not just celebrating your family member. Though beware, it can become a time-sink! Happy Editing. PamD 15:37, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the kind words and edits. Through the editing I have done so far it is fun to but definitely time consuming. I have been passing on ideas slowly to my friends so my editing for this article should be done. Once again this was a huge help and big thanks! Shane emihovich (talk) 18:23, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Royal Pear (April 24)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SWinxy 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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SWinxy (talk) 01:03, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Shane emihovich! 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! SWinxy (talk) 01:03, 24 April 2024 (UTC)