Dylanwhittler19

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Hello, Dylanwhittler19, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Hi Dylanwhittler19. I've added this template to your user talk page based upon what you posted at Wikipedia:Teahouse#CredoHouse Ministries Wikipedia Page Help. The template contains (blue) links to various Wikipedia pages where you can find out more information about relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines related to conflict of interest editing. Although Wikipedia doesn't expressly prohibit conflict-of-interest editing, it is something which is highly discouraged. Please be particularly careful with respect to Wikipedia:Paid-contributions disclosure because running afoul of this policy can lead to your account being blocked from editing.

Wikipedia articles aren' really "commissioned" by subjects; rather, they are written about subjects deemed to be Wikipedia notable enough for an article to be written. Wikipedia articles are not owned by their creators or the subject being written about as explained in Wikipedia:Ownership of content; so, neither the creator nor the subject have any final editorial control over article content. For this reason, a Wikipedia article is not a good way at all to try and promote a subject, and any article content which doesn't comply with relevant policies and guidelines can be removed at anytime by any editor if necessary, while article about non-notable subject can end up being WP:DELETED.

You might also want to take a look at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#Law of unintended consequences as well as Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing, Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause, and Wikipedia:Existence ≠ Notability. The last three pages are Wikipedia:Essays which make attempts to summarize some of main points of Wikipedia notability and some of the reasons why some articles are written while others aren't.

I've just added all of the above for reference purposes, not because you've done anything wrong. After reading through the linked pages, you might want to explain to CredoHouse Ministries that Wikipedia might not be what they think it is and that they will basically have no control over anything written about them on Wikipedia; they will be expected to comply with the same policies and guidelines as everyone else in addition to the things related to conflict of interest. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:47, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

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Hi Dylanwhittler19! You created a thread called CredoHouse Ministries Wikipedia Page Help at Wikipedia:Teahouse, but it has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please create a new thread. Archival by Lowercase sigmabot III, notification delivery by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} (ban this bot) or {{nobots}} (ban all bots) on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:01, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Credo House Ministries concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Credo House Ministries, 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. HasteurBot (talk) 23:01, 19 October 2019 (UTC)