SouthernDude67

May 2023

Hello GreenwoodDriveEnt. 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:GreenwoodDriveEnt. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=GreenwoodDriveEnt|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) 22:39, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Understood. GreenwoodDriveEnt is my company (sole proprietor) and I was unaware when I created this account years ago that in order to edit articles, it should be in my name and not the company. Therefore, how would I properly fill out the form since technically I, the user (GreenwoodDriveEnt), is the employer (self-employed)? Do I instead create a new account in my name so that becomes the user so I can put the company name in the employer spot? I'm not planning to edit anything until I get everything sorted out so I don't get banned. GreenwoodDriveEnt (talk) 23:28, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Well, you need a new account name anyway, or you can ask this account be renamed at Special:GlobalRenameRequest. It would suffice for you to write a statement on your user page to the effect of "I am YourUsername and I intend to make contributions about the company that I own and operate". 331dot (talk) 23:46, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: DA Music (July 6)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Robert McClenon were:  The comment the reviewer left was: 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:DA Music and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Robert McClenon (talk) 01:34, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Hello, SouthernDude67! 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! Robert McClenon (talk) 01:34, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:DA Music

Hello, SouthernDude67. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:DA Music, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 02:06, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:DA Music

Hello, SouthernDude67. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "DA Music".

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 deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:45, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Robert B. Martin Jr. (April 19)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Jeromeenriquez 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:Robert B. Martin Jr. and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Jeromeenriquez (talk) 21:14, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Could you identify the citations that cannot be used? I kept copies of the articles in my research and most all were about the subject. If you viewed the citations, you should see the articles. I have seen less or no longer accessible references on many articles on Wikipedia. 2603:8000:D9F0:6DD0:D9CA:D056:BCF5:42D5 (talk) 22:43, 19 April 2024 (UTC)