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Disclosure of employment

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Hello DanRBD. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Railbusinessdaily.com, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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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:DanRBD. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=DanRBD|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. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:49, 16 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi - I have provided a public declaration that I have a conflict of interest in that this is my employer.

On this basis, I am keeping the content as neutral as possible.

 

Please let me know should I need to do anything further before I continue to edit this page and I will do so. Content will be included adhering to the terms and conditions of Wikipedia.

DanRBD (talk) 11:43, 3 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Your draft article, Draft:Railbusinessdaily.com

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Hello, DanRBD. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Railbusinessdaily.com".

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 14:17, 17 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of RailBusinessDaily (RBD)

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The article RailBusinessDaily (RBD) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Doesn't appear to pass WP:GNG. I'm not seeing significant coverage in reliable, independent, secondary sources.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. –Novem Linguae (talk) 14:34, 27 April 2021 (UTC)Reply