User talk:RobertME
June 2020
[edit]Hello RobertME. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:BrandShelter, 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 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. 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:RobertME. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=RobertME|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. Passengerpigeon (talk) 07:36, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: BrandShelter (June 4)
[edit]- If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:BrandShelter and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
- If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:BrandShelter, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
- 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, 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.
Hello, RobertME!
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! Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 17:23, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:BrandShelter
[edit]If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
A tag has been placed on Draft:BrandShelter, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 17:23, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
BrandShelter moved to draftspace
[edit]An article you recently created, BrandShelter, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:
" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. GirthSummit (blether) 13:01, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
PAID editing and COI
[edit]Hi - you have a paid contributor declaration on your userpage, so I assume you have read through the pages I've linked to above already, but you seem to have misunderstood what is expected of you. You should use the AfC process, rather than publishing an article about this subject directly. I'll not that the article, as it is currently written, will not be accepted in its current form, since it is devoid of any sources other than the subject's own web content. Next on your reading list after the two articles above is WP:NCORP, which describes the means by which we establish notability of companies. If you can find the multiple, independent, secondary and reliable sources that are called for by NCORP, restructure the article so that it is based around those sources and the promotional language is excised, reference the sources in the article, and then submit it for review at AfC. If you attempt to publish it again in mainspace it will likely be permanently deleted, and your account may be blocked from editing. Thank you GirthSummit (blether) 13:08, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your feedback
[edit]Hi everyone, we appreciate your feedback. We will rework the page and hope it will match your expectations and be inline with Wikipedia's Terms of Use. As we are still new and unfamiliar with creating Wikipedia articles, we apologize for mistakes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RobertME (talk • contribs)
- @RobertME: Who exactly is "we"? How many people have access to this account? --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 13:14, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: BrandShelter (June 24)
[edit]- If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:BrandShelter and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
- If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:BrandShelter, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
- 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, 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.
June 2020
[edit]Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Draft:BrandShelter. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 13:47, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: BrandShelter (June 30)
[edit]- If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:BrandShelter and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
- If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:BrandShelter, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
- 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, 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.
Shared use?
[edit]Hi - on your userpage, and on various other locations, you are referring to yourself as 'we' and 'us' - plurals. Please review WP:NOSHARING and WP:ROLE - accounts must not be shared by individuals, only one person should ever edit from a single account. It's fine for multiple people from one organisation to edit the same page, provided their usernames comply with WP:UPOL, and they all make the necessary declarations per COI and PAID - what must not happen is for more than one single individual to edit from a single account. Please do one of the following things:
- Confirm that only one person has ever edited from this account, and reword your user page to make that clear by referring to yourself in the singular.
- Confirm that multiple people have edited from this account, in which case I will block it, and each of you can create new accounts.
Thanks for your attention to this matter. Please reply to this concern before performing any further edits on your draft article. Best GirthSummit (blether) 15:19, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
No shared use
[edit]@Drm310: @Girth Summit: Hi - only a single person is editing this page. The use of 'we' is just because I am talking in the name of the company. Sorry for any confusion! User:RobertME 08:48, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:BrandShelter
[edit]Hello, RobertME. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "BrandShelter".
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.
If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 23:02, 7 January 2021 (UTC)