Grantheadifen
Your submission at Articles for creation: NauticEd International Sailing School (August 26)
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Your draft article, Draft:NauticEd International Sailing School
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Hello, Grantheadifen. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "NauticEd International Sailing School".
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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. HasteurBot (talk) 16:01, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
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editHello, Grantheadifen, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was NauticEd, which 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.
To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.
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July 2024
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Hello, Grantheadifen, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia, such as Seliegh (talk · contribs). Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you. Wikishovel (talk) 05:41, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for your contributions to NauticEd. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because you may have a possible Conflict of Interest. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.
Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Wikishovel (talk) 05:42, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi and thanks for your communications. Years ago I attempted to put up a page about NauticEd. I didn't know bery much about the rules back then - and while the article was factual - as pointed out by the original reviewer it was probably a bit promotional and didn't reference articles from recognized sources - fair enough. Fast forward to now - I hired a professional who knows all the rules to follow properly to post the article. I do believe he did a factual and non promotional job as well as referencing many many articles and the United States Coast Guard etc speaking to the credibility of my company. I did not edit his work for good reason and let him post it. There was no malintent - simply to follow the factual rules and have someone who knows the rules to do it properly.
- As far as I know I have one account GrantHeadifen (that's my name). The company I own is NauticEd. I don't think that NauticEd has an account. i.e. I don't have multiple accounts.
- Please let me know if in doing this I have not followed proper protocol. If there is anything else I need to do let me know. I do see that you said I should ask for a review of the page for it's factual content - can I do that here in this message? Or is there a proper procedure for requesting a review?
- Thanks Very much
- Grant Grantheadifen (talk) 14:57, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hello, and thanks for clarifying the situation, and it's clear that you had no intention of getting around any Wikipedia policies. Please read Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure, which explains why and how you and your hired editor User:Seliegh need to formally disclose the WP: Conflict of interest.
- To get the article reviewed, you or Seliegh only need to click the button on the draft that says "Submit your article for review". Wikishovel (talk) 21:56, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks so much. Very appreciated. We did get a notice from Wikipedia now that the article is in review and that it will take 3-4 months. Whew! It is a short article with many references to the credibility of NauticEd including US Coast Guard. Is there any way to let the reviewers know this so that they can move it up the time pipeline? Just asking not pushing in anyway. Thanks again Grant Grantheadifen (talk) 20:18, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: NauticEd has been accepted
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Conyo14 (talk) 05:01, 1 September 2024 (UTC)September 2024
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{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:40, 4 September 2024 (UTC)Please Unblock
editHello, I was blocked apparently by JimfBleak for apparent spam.
Grantheadifen (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
I have made no posts anywhere in Wikipedia for over 10 years except to have my page posted which was recently accepted and wholly legitimate - but other than that I have made zero comments, posts, let alone spam. Please provide any comments you believe where I have spammed. I will change my password incase I have been hacked.
Decline reason:
In May and July of this year, you worked on a now deleted article, NauticEd. This was speedily deleted as "Unambiguous advertising or promotion". Yamla (talk) 19:56, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
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Note that you also participated in a discussion here on this very page in July. See User_talk:Grantheadifen#July_2024. --Yamla (talk) 19:57, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
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Grantheadifen (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
Additionally, the initial page about our company that I put up was approved by one of your editors. If it was Unambiguous advertising or promotion it would have been stopped from being published. I did nothing to the page after it was published - then you blocked me for SPAMMING. How can I bee a spammer if my page was approved. You can see the history. Nothing there was SPAM and it followed the guidelines of listing a company with many 3rd party proof articles about the company NauticEd. Please unlock me and I will submit a new informational page about the company. It will not be spam and it will not be unambiguous and it will not be promotion.Grantheadifen (talk) 12:18 pm, Today (UTC−6)
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Procedural decline. Please do not open more than one unblock request at a time. If you would like to add comments, please add them beneath the unblock request. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 03:05, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
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Hello there, Grantheadifen! To reply to your point, it does appear that the NauticEd draft article was deleted in September 2024 due to being overly promotional, which can be seen in the page's deletion log. In July 2024, another editor moved your article from the article space to the draft space because they were concerned about a conflict of interest. However, it appears there was an earlier version of the article (Draft:NauticEd International Sailing School), which you were working on in 2014. That one appears to have been deleted as an abandoned draft. Concerning promotional edits, another deletion log shows that your user page was also deleted for being overly promotional. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 03:19, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- After reading through other messages on your talk page, it appears you were aware of the promotional tone of the article--at least to some degree. Additionally, you mention that NauticEd is your company. Given this, I highly recommend you review WP:COI. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 03:22, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Grantheadifen, I think you've been scammed, actually, if you hired User:Seliegh to write for you. Sorry to say. If you're planning to try again, I recommend not hiring an "expert", since they tend to be a scam that only gets worse once the article has been accepted. In some ways, you were lucky that you already had an account and were blocked - the next step is usually to try to extort you for money to "prevent" the article from being deleted, a thing no scammer can deliver on.
- Since you've already disclosed your conflict of interest, you've done most of what you'd need to do to be unblocked. Do you want to try making the article again? Or do you want to be unblocked to edit for other reasons? -- asilvering (talk) 03:59, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- I'd like to be unblocked so that I can put up a simple NON promotional page on who is NauticEd the US Coast Guard authorized boating education body. I won't spam - I never have. Grantheadifen (talk) 19:00, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- Would you like to contribute other content in addition to creating a Wikipedia page for your company? Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 19:36, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- I'd like to be unblocked so that I can put up a simple NON promotional page on who is NauticEd the US Coast Guard authorized boating education body. I won't spam - I never have. Grantheadifen (talk) 19:00, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- Grantheadifen Note that providing basic "company information" is considered promotional here, you don't have to be actively soliciting customers or selling something. Wikipedia is not a database of companies that exist, there is criteria for inclusion, called notability(of companies). Yes, there are likely many other articles about companies that themselves are likely inappropriate, such is the nature of a volunteer project where people do what they can when they can, and also one where policies change over time, so that what once may have been okay is no longer. It is possible for inappropriate content to get past us, this cannot justify adding more inappropriate content. This is why each article or draft is judged on its own merits and not based on others. If you want to use another article as a model or example, use those that are classified as good articles. 331dot (talk) 09:34, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- I will follow other articles as suggested. Toyota and Apple and IBM are also perhaps good models to follow? Grantheadifen (talk) 19:47, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- Neither Toyota, Apple Inc., nor IBM are classified as good articles. The Toyota article specifically has a maintenance tag indicating that it relies too heavily on primary sources. You can see a list of good articles here. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 19:57, 1 December 2024 (UTC)
- I will follow other articles as suggested. Toyota and Apple and IBM are also perhaps good models to follow? Grantheadifen (talk) 19:47, 1 December 2024 (UTC)