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Happy editing! DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:28, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

June 2024

Hello OJohn1986. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Darwin Gray (law firm), 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.

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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:OJohn1986. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=OJohn1986|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. DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:28, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

I confirm that I am not being paid or compensated for these edits. OJohn1986 (talk) 13:32, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Do you work at the firm? -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:34, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes I do OJohn1986 (talk) 13:35, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. Employees writing about their employer are automatically included under our paid-editing rules, regardless of whether you're being paid expressly to edit Wikipedia. Please make the disclosure as instructed above. Thank you, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:41, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Apologies. Of course, I will do. Thanks for the help OJohn1986 (talk) 14:13, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

I think I have done it correctly, but not too sure. OJohn1986 (talk) 14:16, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I saw pages for some other similar law firms locally (Hugh James and Blake Morgan) and thought why not. OJohn1986 (talk) 13:42, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

That's understandable. However, Wikipedia has long-established criteria for deciding which companies should have an article about them in an encyclopaedia and which should not. See WP:NCORP. So far, Darwin Gray falls in the 'not' pile, unless you can show that multiple reliable, independent publications have written in depth, WP:SECONDARY coverage about the firm. Interviews and press releases don't count, and nor does being listed in Chambers.

I've looked at one of the other articles you referred to - Hugh James (law firm) and have nominated it for deletion as it doesn't meet those same criteria. I will have a look at Blake Morgan LLP too. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 14:34, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Darwin Gray (law firm) (June 7)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Curb Safe Charmer were: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Darwin Gray (law firm) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 13:32, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello, OJohn1986! 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! Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 13:32, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Darwin Gray (law firm)

Hello, OJohn1986. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Darwin Gray".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. ✗plicit 15:01, 7 December 2024 (UTC)