BethesdaLee

Your submission at Articles for creation: Openpath Security, Inc. (February 29)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Sulfurboy were: 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 when they have been resolved.

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Sulfurboy (talk) 10:45, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Hello, BethesdaLee! Having an article 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! Sulfurboy (talk) 10:45, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Openpath Security, Inc. has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Openpath Security, Inc.. Thanks! Sulfurboy (talk) 19:42, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

March 2020

Hello BethesdaLee. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Draft:Openpath Security, Inc., 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 compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, 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:BethesdaLee. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=BethesdaLee|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. Sulfurboy (talk) 17:46, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. I appreciate whoever raised the concerns but my submission is based on understanding the industry I work in and seeing not content on a company in the industry that I thought the community that uses Wikipedia would value knowing about. Not because I am being compensated. My goal is to continue to contribute to the community on a niche area of the world I happen to enjoy. ≈≈≈≈

Your submission at Articles for creation: Openpath Security, Inc. (March 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 Sulfurboy 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 when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Openpath Security, Inc. and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Openpath Security, Inc., click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, 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.

Sulfurboy (talk) 17:46, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello. I am not being compensated directly or indirectly for this submission. BethesdaLee (talk) 19:12, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

For more detail... Thank you. I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. I appreciate whoever raised the concerns but my submission is based on understanding the industry I work in and seeing not content on a company in the industry that I thought the community that uses Wikipedia would value knowing about. Not because I am being compensated. My goal is to continue to contribute to the community on a niche area of the world I happen to enjoy. BethesdaLee (talk) 19:13, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Openpath Security, Inc. concern

Hi there, I'm MDanielsBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Openpath Security, Inc., a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it.

You may request Userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available at WP:REFUND/G13.

Thank you for your attention. MDanielsBot (talk) 01:54, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Openpath Security, Inc.

Hello, BethesdaLee. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Openpath Security".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:51, 4 September 2020 (UTC)