Managing a conflict of interest

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  Hello, HLC BRAND. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Draft:GirlTrek, 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 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 WP:Spam);
  • 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. Nick Moyes (talk) 00:26, 13 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hi,

I do not work for or have a conflict with GirlTrek. Am am receiving a 404 error when trying to publish pages because I linked to the GirlTrek website? HLC BRAND (talk) 00:30, 13 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

OK, though I found it surprising that such an expansive, articulate and well-constructed article should be written in one-fell swoop by a brand new editor with a username which sounds like it might be an organisation, and thus have with more than one potential user (which isn't permitted). Have you had other accounts here previously? You may not publish an article until your account is autoconfirmed, so you should submit it for review at WP:AFC. It's highly likely that the wholly unnecessary list of media coverage urls is the cause- there's probably a blacklisted link in it. Please remove all these and just use the relevant independent ones as citations within the article. The rest is overkill. Please also remove the duplicate use of references by learning how to reuse a single reference. See WP:REFNAME for guidance. I apologise - I won't be able to reply to you today - it's 2am here and I'm in need of sleep. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 01:03, 13 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the insight. I know this is my first article so I will try take in your notes to edit my draft and hopefully that will fix my problem. I just really think this is a cool organization so I wanted to write about it. Much appreciated, Hailey! HLC BRAND (talk) 01:20, 13 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

  I have flagged c:File:Morgan T. Dixon and Vanessa Garrison.jpg for deletion as you have clearly uploaded this without permission. Copyright theft is taken very seriously here, so be warned that repeated offenders may have their editing rights withdrawn. Please be more careful in future. Nick Moyes (talk) 20:24, 13 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thanks - I guess. It was an honest mistake as I am still trying to figure out this Wikipedia/Wikipedia/commons stuff. It’s a lot. The image is actually not even in my draft anymore but I can’t publish the changes either. Nor did I know how to delete the image once it was uploaded - or even locate it for that matter. So thanks for “heads up”. I’m learning. 2600:8807:4C11:7300:AD94:1C9A:AE90:67D0 (talk) 20:34, 13 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

No worries. I think the subject is not only a notable, but a very audable one. Unfortunately, my role is to apply Wikipedia policies without fear or favour, whilst also supporting editors who need assistance. (Bit of a good cop-bad cop, I'm afraid). BTW: Did you ask for your user account name to be changed? I think it's a good idea if you genuinely aren't a branding agency. But I can't see where that request occurred, yet DeepFriedOkra changed it for you. Did you make an application as an IP editor, in the same way as you've posted here just now? Don't forget to stay logged in when you edit. Nick Moyes (talk) 22:03, 13 April 2021 (UTC)Reply
Thank you! And I understand. I did request a name change because I didn’t want to be confused again as an agency and I didn’t want that there to be any issues with me creating or editing. I googled name change request and I think submitted it through Wikimedia. Then it got approved and I forgot to log out and log back in so my username showed like above. I should be all good now. HaileyNOLA (talk) 22:18, 13 April 2021 (UTC)Reply
Ok, that was very sensible. I was just very confused because I was unable to see any edit from you that had requested the change (I'm not authorised to see certain edits on meta). I am also a relatively new admin here, with just over a year's experience in that role, so I like to understand how things happen if I cannot determine it for myself. Hence my question to my fellow admin who made the change. I think your request was a very sensible one. Whilst there's absolutely no obligation for you to do so, you might like to think about saying a few words about yourself and your editing interests on your userpage. I always look there to gauge why an editor is active in certain areas, and tend to trust those with helpful userpage content a little more than those without any. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 22:31, 13 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Nice! Thanks for the tip! I will be sure to do that. HaileyNOLA (talk) 22:33, 13 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Draft:GirlTrek

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I am trying to publish my first article and keep getting a 404 error when trying to publish my changes. Can anyone help? HLC BRAND (talk) 01:36, 13 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Did you ever find a solution to the RESTbase 404 error (other than redoing the work)? I keep having the same issue with another page. I've tried inputting information at least three different times, and each time I end up with this error. I don't know what to do!! Significa liberdade (talk) 01:12 2021, May 4 (UTC)

I had to redo the page. I really don’t know what was causing the issue. But I got tired of trying to figure it out. HaileyNOLA (talk) 01:25, 4 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: GirlTrek (May 9)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Devonian Wombat 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 when they have been resolved.
Devonian Wombat (talk) 11:29, 9 May 2021 (UTC)Reply
 
Hello, HaileyNOLA! Having an article 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! Devonian Wombat (talk) 11:29, 9 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Warning: Undisclosed paid editing

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Hello Hailey. Please read WP:PAID and be aware that we block all editors who undertake undisclosed paid editing. This means you! Please follow that obligatory guideline about how to declare who is paying you to edit which specific pages before you continue to edit Wikipedia to try to promote your clients here. This warning relates specifically, but not exclusively to Draft:GirlTrek. Thank you. Nick Moyes (talk) 17:34, 14 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

Concern regarding Draft:GirlTrek

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  Hello, HaileyNOLA. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:GirlTrek, 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) 12:02, 9 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: GirlTrek (October 21)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by CNMall41 was:  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 when they have been resolved.
CNMall41 (talk) 21:19, 21 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

Your draft article, Draft:GirlTrek

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

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. If 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! 21:23, 21 April 2022 (UTC)Reply