Bwagner1230

Your submission at Articles for creation: Music City Review (November 13)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Mcmatter 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 after they have been resolved.

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McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 15:44, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Bwagner1230! 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! McMatter (talk)/(contrib) 15:44, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Interns are considered to be paid editors

Hello Bwagner1230. 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 o disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at tUser:Bwagner1230. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Bwagner1230|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) 16:05, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for the swift response. I am not being compensated for this article or any work I do for this internship as it is unpaid. However I am doing it to fulfill requirements towards my degree program (I understand if this may be considered compensation). However, due to the nature of this assignment given to me I would still like to pursue publishing this article. Is all I need to do disclose that I am being compensated to complete publication? If there are further steps I need to take please let me know! Thank you again for your help. Bwagner1230 (talk) 16:10, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Yes you are deemed to be a paid editor and need to make the disclosure. Wikipedia has zero interest in what founder and editor, Joseph Morgan has to say, Wikipedia is only interested in what people who have no connection with the subject, and who have not been prompted or fed information on behalf of the subject, have chosen to publish about the subject in reliable sources Also see Wikipedia:When your boss tells you to edit Wikipedia. Creating an article is the most difficult task on Wikipedia,(10 times more difficult if you have a conflict of interest). Theroadislong (talk) 16:17, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

I understand, I will remove the quote. I had only included it to add context to what the site is about but I get the issue. Are there any other notable issues you would advise I resolve in order to move this towards being publishable. I can put in 10 times the work if needed (haha). Bwagner1230 (talk) 16:21, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Since you have zero indepedent sources so far, none of the content is suitable to be published. The company will need to pass the criteria at WP:NCORP and there is absolutley no evidence so far that they do. I would tell your boss it is not possible. Theroadislong (talk) 16:24, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Very well, I will talk to him about it. Would it be a bother or issue to return to this discussion with you in the future if needed? You’ve been the best help out of any other comments left so far and I thank you for that! Bwagner1230 (talk) 16:30, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Music City Review has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Music City Review. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 16:25, 13 November 2024 (UTC)