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Your submission at Articles for creation: Hannah Dale (April 27)

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

This submission does not appear to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Entries should be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources. Please rewrite your submission in a more encyclopedic format. Please make sure to avoid peacock terms that promote the subject.

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.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Hannah Dale and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
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AlphaBetaGamma (Talk/report any mistakes here) 07:54, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Naturenerd135! 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! AlphaBetaGamma (Talk/report any mistakes here) 07:54, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Hannah Dale (May 3)

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

This submission does not appear to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Entries should be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources. Please rewrite your submission in a more encyclopedic format. Please make sure to avoid peacock terms that promote the subject.

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.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Hannah Dale and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Gheus (talk) 11:37, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

May 2025

Hello Naturenerd135. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Hannah Dale, 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:Naturenerd135. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Naturenerd135|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. Gheus (talk) 09:05, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this - I did disclose a COI, I'm not sure if I did it in the wrong way

Naturenerd135, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that they have been paid by wrendaledesigns for their contributions to Wikipedia.

Please can you advise what the next steps would be Naturenerd135 (talk) 15:36, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @GheusGheus - just following up please can you advise on how to move forward with this submission? Many thanks Naturenerd135 (talk) 07:58, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Naturenerd135 Thank you. Please resubmit the draft after improvements. Gheus (talk) 16:23, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A belated welcome!

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Naturenerd135! I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may still benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Gheus (talk) 16:24, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]