Jgranden

November 2019

Hello Jgranden. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Jgranden. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Jgranden|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. creffett (talk) 01:48, 8 November 2019 (UTC)

Hi Creffett,

I added a disclosure to my userpage as recommended. I'm an independent contractor, not an employee, so feel free to lmk if I got the formatting wrong. Also, when I submitted the article I thought I disclosed my relationship in the talk page. This is a fairly new venture for me so apologies if I missed a step or got anything wrong. I do think that the point of view of the article itself is neutral, and will be happy to hit any problem areas in this respect. I also think the organization is of sufficient notability to warrant a page (mainly because it is a division of Gannett). If we need to more forward with another approach, etc., please lmk.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Your submission at Articles for creation: LOCALiQ (February 26)

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 K.e.coffman was: This topic is not sufficiently notable for inclusion in Wikipedia. The comment the reviewer left was: Fails WP:NORG & WP:PROMO.

K.e.coffman (talk) 01:50, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:LOCALiQ

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

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 13:55, 30 October 2020 (UTC)