User talk:Ellagracerr

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Western Performance Incentives (May 5)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by SafariScribe were:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:

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Make sure you add references that meet all four of these criteria before resubmitting. Learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 18:49, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ellagracerr! 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! Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 18:49, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:Western Performance Incentives has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Western Performance Incentives. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 19:50, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

paid editing

Hello Ellagracerr. The nature of your edits 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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:Ellagracerr. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ellagracerr|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. Theroadislong (talk) 19:53, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I am not receiving ANY form of compensation for my edits, in any sense. This year I have been attending different Western Performance incentives, and I have just recently graduated college. I was trying to do research to potentially convince my parents that I could make a living out of potentially campaigning horses in Western performance events. There is not much out there on Western Performance Incentives, so I felt inspired to try to create a page on Wikipedia for it, a place where I can showcase the research I've done so far, and learn more by people editing the page. I've made suggested edits from Wikipedia to try to understand the interface better, and thought I'd try to create a page of my own. Appreciate your concern :) Ellagracerr (talk) 18:38, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I meant attending different Western Performance Events, not incentives in the first sentence, apologies. Ellagracerr (talk) 17:10, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]