Hilary Condit

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Happy editing! Cheers, Julietdeltalima (talk) 19:57, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

June 2023

Hello, I'm Felida97. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Miso soup, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Felida⁹⁷ (talk) 17:39, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Miso soup, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Please read WP:MEDRS. Health claims in Wikipedia must be supported by a source that meets those guidelines. A lay consumer health/lifestyle blog that is mostly focused on promoting beauty products isn't good enough. You should ask the editors at WP:TEAHOUSE for further assistance if necessary. Julietdeltalima (talk) 20:01, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:ActiveViam

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A tag has been placed on Draft:ActiveViam, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. —asparagusus (interaction) ^sprouts! 21:01, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: ActiveViam (November 1)

Your recent article submission has been rejected. If you have further questions, you can ask at the Articles for creation help desk or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help. The reason left by Asparagusus was: This submission is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

—asparagusus (interaction) ^sprouts! 21:02, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, asparagusus.

I have attempted to reach both the Articles for creation help desk and the Wikipedia Teahouse, as you advised but am unable to do so because I am blocked.

Is it possible to post a question with either or both while I am blocked? Or can I get unblocked simply to engage with them and improve both the page I drafted and the method but which I disclosed my conflict of interest?

I want to work with these resources in the attempt to get unblocked and to explore whether pursuing the article I was working on is a worthy endeavor. Hilary Condit (talk) 21:37, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello, Hilary Condit! 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! —asparagusus (interaction) sprouts! 21:02, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

November 2023

Hello Hilary Condit. 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:Hilary Condit. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Hilary Condit|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. —asparagusus (interaction) ^sprouts! 21:03, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello, asparagusus.

I'm confused -- I do have a conflict of interest here and I disclosed that in my Sandbox Talk page in two ways -- I included the required template and my first sentence stated the CoI in the first line of my message. If I failed to make these disclosures in the right way or place, I apologize. But I tried to be careful to follow the rules of disclosure and process -- I went through the Articles for Creation and declared the Conflict of Interest prominently.

I totally understand and respect Wikipedia's reasons for including only content that is of value to readers -- not to people who have something to gain by posting it. I love Wikipedia and want to do things the right way.

My view is that the subject of the article, ActiveViam, is a group of serious software engineers who have created serious data analytics solutions that have made a real difference in how financial services organizations manage their businesses. The work is important enough to be of interest to people who follow data analytics, which is a sizeable universe.

I was not intending to post the article to live Wiki (and I hope I didn't) -- but to get editors' feedback and recommendations. That's why I asked Wiki editors to weigh in on the draft -- both the notability of the topic and the suitability of the content.

I'd be grateful for any recommendations on next steps.... I'd like to be able to submit a revised article on this topic and contribute to others. Or would it be better to simply request an article to be written by another person?

Regards,

Hilary Hilary Condit (talk) 00:42, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

In your case, it would likely be better to request an article. To do this or to ask questions at the Teahouse, you will need to follow the instructions in the block notice at the bottom of this page to request an unblock. Uhai (talk) 00:08, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Hilary Condit/sandbox

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A tag has been placed on User:Hilary Condit/sandbox, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. —asparagusus (interaction) ^sprouts! 21:03, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

November 2023

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for advertising or promotion.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:36, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

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Request reason:

I understand the reasons I was blocked and fully intend to follow Wikipedia's guidelines to the letter and the spirit that drives them. I request to be unblocked so I can confer with both the Teahouse and the Articles of Creation Help Desk and will do that before posting any articles or editing articles written by others. Hilary Condit (talk) 14:22, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

Decline reason:

All edits to Wikipedia are public, even drafts, though drafts are not formally part of the encyclopedia and are not searchable by Google/Bing/etc. You have a common, fundamental misunderstanding of what exactly it is we do here. Wikipedia is not a place for organizations to tell the world about themselves and what they do. That is considered promotional here, you don't have to be actively soliciting customers or selling something. Wikipedia is not a database of businesses or databse of things that exist. This is an encyclopedia with criteria for inclusion, which is called notability- specifically, a notable business. Any article about a business must summarize what independent reliable sources with sigificant coverage have chosen on their own to say about the business, showing how it meets that definition of a notable business. "Significant coverage" is not brief mentions, press releases, announcements of routine business activities, interviews, or other primary sources. It's that which goes beyond those things and goes into detail about what the source(s) see as important/significant/influential about the business(or other topic)- not what the business sees as important about itself. I fear that you are too close to your employer to be able to write about it as Wikipedia requires- at least right now. We're going to want to see some edits by you in areas unrelated to your conflict of interest before permitting to again attempt to edit about your company. If your only interest is in editing about your company, this is the end of the road. I am declining your request. 331dot (talk) 19:57, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

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