SheepietheRam

AfC notification: Draft:Texas Tech University Libraries (TTU) has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Texas Tech University Libraries (TTU). Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 21:13, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Paid editing

Hello TTULibrary. 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged 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:TTULibrary. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=TTULibrary|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. Theroadislong (talk) 21:14, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Response: I have sent a talk message to User: Theroadislong. Thank you for the response to my draft. I have applied a disclosure to our user page. I apologize for any mistakes. I am still trying to learn the ins and outs of Wikipedia. I would like to know the next steps since I want the article to be as neutral as possible and I want to build on the information already on Texas Tech University.

Welcome TTULibrary!

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Sm8900 (talk) 22:20, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

March 2022

Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia because your username, TTULibrary, does not meet our username policy. Your username is the principal reason for the block. You are welcome to continue editing after you have selected a new username that meets the username policy guidelines, which are summarized below.

Per the username policy, a username should represent an individual and should not: represent a group or organization; be promotional; be misleading (such as indicating possession of special user rights or being a "Bot" account (unless approved for such purposes)); be offensive or otherwise disruptive. However, a username that contains the name of a organization and also identifies you individually, such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87" is allowed, though, among others, the guidance on conflict of interest and the policy of paid-contribution disclosure are relevant.

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Cullen328 (talk) 22:45, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

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

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Requested username:

'SheepietheRam' (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Accept reason:

I have unblocked. Welcome back. PhilKnight (talk) 16:59, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Terms of use

Above, you used a plural pronoun when describing your user account. A Wikipedia user account may only be used by a single individual. 174.212.212.60 (talk) 20:16, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Texas Tech University Libraries (TTU) (April 4)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by DGG was:  The comment the reviewer left was: 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 when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Texas Tech University Libraries (TTU) and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• 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.

DGG ( talk ) 05:16, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello, SheepietheRam! 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! DGG ( talk ) 05:16, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Texas Tech University Libraries (TTU)

Hello, SheepietheRam. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Texas Tech University Libraries (TTU), a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 06:02, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Texas Tech University Libraries (TTU)

Hello, SheepietheRam. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Texas Tech University Libraries".

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 deleted. If 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.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:16, 4 October 2022 (UTC)