Kayle Larkin

Hello, Kayle Larkin and a belated welcome to Wikipedia! I see that you've already been around awhile and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help one get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions, you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are interested in learning more about contributing, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Happy editing! Red Director (talk) 18:35, 1 April 2019 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload an image Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Simplified Manual of Style • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

WikiProject Companies

Hey Kayle, I noticed that you were the last person to join this project before me. Which companies are you working on or interested in working on? Maybe we can collaborate on some together. - Indefensible (talk) 07:27, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi!, Main interest was cleaning up pages flagged as promotional and template uniformity. Happy to collaborate on some together. Where should we start? - Kayle Larkin (talk) 02:25, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

User:Kayle Larkin, that sounds productive, can you please post the Wiki links to those filters? I think there should be some priority list and it would be good to start as close to the top (i.e. the highest value edits needed) of the list that we can address and go down the list. Articles are graded based on both estimated importance and quality, but high importance articles (e.g. Microsoft) may already have a lot of attention and be of high quality, so they probably aren't near the top of the edits needed list. But there are still plenty of articles for large companies that I've noticed are lacking and could be improved, in particular I'm interested in S&P 500 companies and found one (Steris) was missing, so I started that article recently (although it still has a lot of room for improvement). Another example of a big company that has an article which could be improved a lot is Intertek in the UK's FTSE 100 Index. Please tag my username so I will hopefully see your replies. Thanks! - Indefensible (talk) 07:41, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

User:Indefensible, I am unaware of a filter. There is a grading table within Wikiproject companies and there are Business Pages Needing Attention. Otherwise, manually combining through a chosen category. The task force for privaty equity firms has not been edited since April 2019. I am still learning and slowly working through one particular article. I'm shooting for a rewrite of it mid-February. Would you like review my edits prior to publishing? I am happy to help with the one you are working on too. Goal is one per month. Kayle Larkin (talk) 05:21, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, I was not aware of the WP:Pages needing attention/Business list, will take a look at that. Would be happy to review the article you're working on, but not sure it has to be before you publish. Which article is it? One thing I've noticed is that it can be surprisingly difficult to find neutral sources of information on a company, even a large / well-established one, so unfortunately I've taken more of a quantity over quality approach to just fill out details as I come across them. - Indefensible (talk) 06:54, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Kayle Larkin, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to FreshBooks have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 13:57, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

User:Diannaa Thank you for your help! I will review the copyright sources you provided to improve my future contributions. Kayle Larkin (talk)

Speedy deletion nomination of Carpages.ca

Hello Kayle Larkin,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Carpages.ca for deletion, because it seems to be promotional, rather than an encyclopedia article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Thanks!

Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.

Lapablo (talk) 20:34, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello Lapablo,

I have contested the speedy deletion of Carpages.ca The article was written about a notable Canadian company in accordance to the third party sources. Replacing the promotional content with content from a neutral point of view is preferable to deletion. Happy to make any edits to the page that you have found to be promotional.

May 2020

Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have an undisclosed financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text {{unblock|reason=your reason here ~~~~}} at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must:

• Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
• State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
• Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future. MER-C 13:47, 16 May 2020 (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).

Kayle Larkin (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

Thank you for helping improve my contributions and your dedication in keeping Wikipedia clean of rubbish and spam. It seems as though this block is in response to my (unintentionally) violating the US Federal Trade Commission native advertising laws on the article Draft:Carpages.ca and I am seeking to rectify the error. “This page has been deleted. The deletion, protection, and move log for the page are provided below for reference. 13:48, 16 May 2020 MER-C talk contribs moved page Carpages.ca to Draft:Carpages.ca without leaving a redirect (Quarantine covert advertising) (revert)” My understanding from reading the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements is that I must: * Disclose affiliation using a connected contributor template on my user page. * Disclose affiliation using a connected contributor template on the talk of page affected articles and in edit summaries. * Disclose affiliation using a connected contributor template in edit summaries. * Strongly encouraged to propose changes on talk pages rather than editing directly. * New articles should go through the Articles for Creation process. * Must not act as a reviewer of affected articles. * Respect volunteers. These are the templates I plan to add if allowed to continue contributing to Wikipedia: User Page: Talk Page: Wikipedia has been an invaluable tool for me throughout my life and academic career and I’d like to continue to help the community as it has helped me. I have a lot to learn and am far behind many here in the Wikipedia community. When I joined, I signed up for the WikiProject for Companies to help keep company information written from a neutral point of view and cited properly. I understand this is frequently abused and that is far from my intention. I thought I could help minimize the spam by ensuring articles and edits were factually sourced and formatted properly. Although I am quite inclined to not continue client edits, if one is necessary I will submit on the talk page first and be sure it is properly tagged as paid. Kayle Larkin (talk) 06:46, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Procedural decline only. This unblock request has been open for more than two weeks but has not proven sufficient for any reviewing administrator to take action. You are welcome to request a new block review if you substantially reword your request. Yamla (talk) 17:37, 2 June 2020 (UTC)

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Note that I've suppressed the function of the disclosure tags for purposes of your unblock request. 331dot (talk) 07:47, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

You're probably going to need to agree to not edit about your clients at least for a time. Perhaps once you demonstrate with your edit history that you are aware of what goes into Wikipedia articles(they aren't just for telling about the subject), you might later be permitted to make edit requests. What topics unrelated to your clients do you want to edit about? 331dot (talk) 07:50, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi User:331dot, thank you so much for considering my request. What I meant to communicate in the closing sentence was that I had read and fully understood the terms of use. I have never solicited or advertised editing services and have no intention of doing so. This truly was a novice mistake that will not happen again. To answer your question, "What topics unrelated to your clients do you want to edit about?" I had joined the Wikipedia Companies project because I thought that is where my skillset would be the most helpful. Embarrassingly, my intention was to help clean up pages flagged for promotional content and to help pages adhere to template uniformity. Above, January 07, I spoke with another new Companies Project user where I stated this as my goal. I understand if I am no longer allowed to help with the Companies Project. I did not understand that articles are for telling about more than the subject - I would like to help edit articles to adhere to template uniformity, I know my skillset will be of good use there. Is there another project you would recommend or an established editor that would have time to mentor? Kayle Larkin (talk) 03:10, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Can you participate with the companies project without editing about your clients? Mentors can be found at Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user.331dot (talk) 07:53, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

I don't think that's possible given the apparent nature of the undisclosed relationship. Put simply, I don't trust this editor to write about any attention-seeking or spam-prone subject. Technical edits and minor stuff is fine, but there's no escaping the suspicions of COI and PAID regardless of whether a client relationship exists with this one. MER-C 11:58, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

User:331dot - Yes, I am able to participate without editing any clients, COI or paid.

That is not and was never my intention. Transparency has been my goal which is why I use my full name and do not edit anonymously. The first thing I did was seek mentorship by adding the adoption badge to my user profile. I'm not hiding anything or trying to game the system - I was truly fascinated by a source of factual information that is so highly guarded by volunteers with a common goal.

If it is decided that I am only allowed to make technical edits and "minor stuff" that is fine. I would ask that what I am allowed to do be clearly laid out so that I do not make a mistake and get blocked again.

Orphaned non-free image File:Carpages.ca logo.svg

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Your draft article, Draft:Carpages.ca

Hello, Kayle Larkin. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Carpages.ca".

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) 19:11, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

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