Joe.sanchez1631

December 2019

Hello Joe.sanchez1631. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Steeda, 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:Joe.sanchez1631. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Joe.sanchez1631|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. scope_creep^Talk 19:30, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

Hi - I appreciate your concern, but I’m simply just a Mustang enthusiast who’s passionate about the industry and its future. With the new all-electric Mach-E coming out (I plan to make edits and contribute there as well), Ford is showing huge strides in this realm and I want to make sure people are getting the right information about these developments at it’s such a pivotal time to be a car enthusiast. Please let me know what I can do to get my edits back and continue making Wikipedia a better place to gather information for car enthusiasts. After I work on Mustang, I hope to make some edits to Porsche pages as well. Again, it’s great that you all police Wikipedia so closely, but I’m just here to continue providing value to other automotive enthusiasts. Thanks for the concern. -Joe Joe.sanchez1631 (talk) 14:23, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Hi scope_creep - I wanted to follow up with you on this. I’m excited to be able to start editing again. Please let me know what else I can do to get things rolling. Happy Holidays! -Joe Joe.sanchez1631 (talk) 11:31, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Hi @Joe.sanchez1631: Your free to edit at any time. There is a big drive on now to block people who are paid editors but don't declare it. I seems your not being paid to edit so that's cool. scope_creep^Talk 12:02, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Steeda (December 30)

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 David Gerard was: This topic is not sufficiently notable for inclusion in Wikipedia. The comment the reviewer left was: No evidence this meets WP:NCORP (which is why it's been deleted twice already, last 10 days ago)

David Gerard (talk) 22:05, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Joe.sanchez1631! 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! David Gerard (talk) 22:05, 30 December 2019 (UTC)