Chrisqibextra

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Chrisqibextra. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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 organizations 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 {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
• avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
• do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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. bonadea contributions talk 12:51, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: QIB Extra (March 10)

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

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:QIB Extra and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:33, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Hello, Chrisqibextra! 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! DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:33, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:QIB Extra

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A tag has been placed on Draft:QIB Extra, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

• It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
• It appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement of https://www.qibextra.co.uk/what-we-do/consultancy, https://www.wates.co.uk/articles/news/wates-reaches-financial-close-63-5m-quadram-institute/, and https://www.qibextra.co.uk/about-us}. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:35, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Hello DoubleGlazing,

The feedback has been very helpful. I am new to Wikipedia editing and must plead ignorance here as in hindsight I can see that the wikipedia post I made was directed towards commercial when originally this was not my intent. I have begun drafting a version 2 that is not commercially-worded. Will I be able to edit my original article to accomodate for the rewording, will I need to see the article deleted and create a new QIB Extra page for approval or will I not be able to? I am an employee of QIB Extra, with permission from my employer to add the article.

Thank you.

Chris 149.155.196.201 (talk) 11:52, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

March 2023

Hello, Chrisqibextra. Thank you for helping to build Wikipedia-- the world's largest free content encyclopedia. The page Draft:QIB Extra has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seemed to be unambiguous advertising which only promoted a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to have been fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

This article needs to be rewritten from scratch from reliable, third party sources unconnected to the subject. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It is not an outlet for promotion, advocacy, or advertising.

Information on content and common pitfalls to avoid can be located here and here, however be aware that this is not an exhaustive list. Pages can sometimes avoid these pitfalls and still be seen as an ad copy or unambiguously promotional, particularly if the editor appears to be a paid editor or has some other conflict of interest. Please review these policies, including the FAQ page on organizations to determine if this applies to you.

Common mistakes or beliefs about promotional editing center on the assumption that promotional editing only applies to promotion for commercial gain. Some tags or G11 nominations are met with confusion by creators, particularly if they spend much time reading or creating corporate documents, mission/vision statements, or similar copy for their organization. The frequent exposure to promotional tone may make it difficult to notice non-neutral phrases or styles, as the editor has grown accustomed to seeing it as everyday writing or speech. This can be difficult, but not impossible, to unlearn.

Another common assumption is that the prohibition against promotional editing applies only to businesses or organizations. Anything can be promoted, including a person, a non-commercial organization, a point of view, etc. and CV/resumé's are by their nature promotional.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia-- subjects must meet notability guidelines with reliable sources that are unconnected with the subject and providing verifiable information. That generally means someone unconnected with the subject needs to have written a great deal about the subject. Please see this page on citing sources and Wikipedia:Common sourcing mistakes (notability). This page has templates you can use in citing your sources. Place the template {{Reflist}} at the bottom of the page, and references cited in the text will appear there. New article creation can be difficult, but the Article Wizard can help you. The new user tutorial can help you avoid future problems. You can also ask for help at the TEAHOUSE and on IRC chat. Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Adventure is a useful tutorial.

New article creation can be difficult and frustrating. Sometimes it is better to first gain experience by fixing and helping maintain existing articles. Wikipedia:Community portal/Opentask contains links to things that badly need doing, if you are so inclined. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 14:20, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Content copy-pasted from company websites is almost always promotional by nature. That's what company websites are for. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 14:20, 10 March 2023 (UTC)

Hello Chrisqibextra. 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 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely 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:Chrisqibextra. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Chrisqibextra|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. 331dot (talk) 11:44, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Hi 331dot,

My apologies. I am being compensated for my time as an employee of QIB Extra to create this article, by my suggestion to my employer.

I hope this helps.

Thank you.

Chris 149.155.196.201 (talk) 11:55, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Please read and heed WP:PAID You must make disclosures. Please do not copy and paste content from any source. Per the message below the edit summary box, Wikipedia cannot accept content copyrighted elsewhere. Content from corporate websites is almost always promotional in nature. This includes "about" pages, "Mission Statements" and "Vision Statements". You are welcome to try again, bearing in mind the above and what I wrote about inclusion requirements and sourcing. Please submit via the WP:AfC process so they can check your work. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 12:06, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Please always make sure you are logged in. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 12:07, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

• I would suggest reading WP:BOSS, and have your superiors read it too. 331dot (talk) 12:23, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

  @331dot: Cool. I have added it to my Twinkle message set. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 16:00, 13 March 2023 (UTC)