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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Jonathon Hensley

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Jonathon Hensley, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

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How does editing work?

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First, thank you for the feedback! I would like to utilize the material that I have but work on making it less promotional. Once that is removed, I am confident we can come to a solution. What is the proper protocol to fix an article for resubmission? I want to make sure I take the right steps in doing so. Any help is greatly appreciated! KatelynEbs (talk) 00:11, 18 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

I hope you now understand that you can't copy-paste material into your draft even to work on it, if it might be considered as copyrighted material from elsewhere. You could prepare "in your own words" material on your computer in a text editor and paste that into a draft.
You can submit your draft at any point where you think it is ready to be reviewed. You can continue to improve it while waiting for the review. Reviewers will generally start with the latest available version, but may well look into the draft's earlier revisions. — jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 03:46, 18 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Managing a conflict of interest

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  Hello, KatelynEbs. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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:

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. Seraphimblade Talk to me 00:52, 17 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

How does this work?

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Is there a workaround to this? I am not a direct employee of Jonathon Hensley and I am not a family member. Any help is appreciated. KatelynEbs (talk) 00:13, 18 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

A "workaround" to what? If you expect to receive any type of reward or compensation for editing, or are expected to edit as one of your duties of employment (regardless of who the actual employer is), you are required to disclose as a paid editor. The only "workaround" to that is to refrain from editing about any subject for which you're being paid; otherwise disclosure is mandatory. To avoid articles you write being deleted as promotional, don't write promotional material. Ensure that everything written is strictly neutral, supported by a reliable and independent source (and additionally, for claims of health benefits and the like, by medically reliable sources), and avoid any kind of "talking up", puff adjectives, and promotional language. Write in a formal tone (so, for example, full name of an individual is used on first mention, and last name thereafter, encyclopedia articles are not a "bio" or "profile"), and place no external links within article text (if the article has an official website, one link to that site, at the bottom of the article in an "External links" section, is appropriate.) Finally, do not copy material from elsewhere; article text should be written in your own words based upon an accurate summary of the reliable and independent sources used about the subject. Finally, please ensure you actually find high-quality sources, not podcasts, interviews, blogs, and YouTube videos. If a good amount of high quality source material does not exist about this individual, they are not an appropriate article topic at all. Seraphimblade Talk to me 00:38, 18 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
I'll add one more caution and close this help request. If you have a connection with the subject of an article, you are requested not to make edits to the article directly. Instead you should make {{edit request}}s on the article talk page. Once your conflict of interest is disclosed on your user page, there is no restriction on you being able to create a draft that will be submitted for review. — jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 03:52, 18 December 2021 (UTC)Reply