User talk:Agent lonely

Welcome!

Hello, Agent lonely, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

Resolved, see below ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:29, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms our use and policy on paid editing.

Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

The plain and simple conflict of interest guide
The five pillars of Wikipedia
Contributing to Wikipedia
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How to edit a page and How to develop articles
How to create your first article (using the Article Wizard if you wish)
Simplified Manual of Style

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:19, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

October 2018

Hello, I'm ToBeFree. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to Bengt-Åke Lundvall because they seemed inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:19, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved, see below ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:46, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Agent lonely. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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, and if it does not, 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:Agent lonely. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Agent lonely|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:21, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Response regarding question on paid advocacy

Hi ToBeFree,

I saw your message regarding removing a contribution on Bengt Lundvall's page. I didn't realize it was inappropriate to do that. I'm new to wikipedia. I'm not a paid advocate. I am voluntarily and freely creating a wikipedia page because I think it should be on wikipedia considering how active the person is in innovation policy. I also wanted to learn and experience how to make a page on wikipedia to contribute. Also, have I put this message in the right place? Terrified now of doing everything wrong! Gahh.--Agent lonely (talk) 20:56, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, you have already written it here too. That's perfect

-- My response follows, copied from my talk page: ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:43, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Agent lonely, thank you very much for your message, and thank you for your contributions. Please don't worry; Wikipedia encourages you to be bold.

Thank you also for clarifying that you are not being paid for your edits; I was a little worried because of the "Agent" name, the external links added to articles (1, 2), and the new biography in the sandbox. Because both the links and the biography seem to benefit the same person, I believed that you might be an "Agent" paid by the article subject. It is good to know that this is not the case; I'm sorry for my misunderstanding.

There may still be something Wikipedia calls a "conflict of interest", but that is something that you personally need to decide: Conflict of interest (COI) editing involves contributing to Wikipedia about yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, or your financial and other relationships. Any external relationship can trigger a conflict of interest. That someone has a conflict of interest is a description of a situation, not a judgement about that person's opinions, integrity, or good faith. (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, an enormously useful page)

If you have no such conflict of interest, then I would personally recommend writing a message like:

I have read and understand the "Wikipedia:Conflict of interest" guideline. I am not contributing to Wikipedia about myself, my family, friends, clients, employers or financial and other relationships.

...on your talk page, User talk:Agent lonely, to clarify the situation. You are not required to do this, but I believe that it would be a good idea to avoid misunderstandings regarding your username and contributions.

About the sandbox page, I'll happily assist with submitting it for review. I am not a reviewer myself, but after submission, it is guaranteed to be reviewed as a part of a large queue. If it meets the standards for a new article, the article is then moved to the "mainspace", where all the "normal" articles like "Albert Einstein" and "Zebra" can be read by the world.

The message is in a good place; to make it even easier to find, I will copy this conversation to your talk page. I will also collapse the "paid" question, because that is clearly not relevant. You may also freely remove any messages you like from your talk page, at any time, without having to specify any reason. Or, if you too prefer archiving instead of deleting, I will happily set up an automatic archive for you, like you can see at the top of my talk page.

No need to be terrified.

Even if you have a conflict of interest and disclose it, there will not be negative consequences. All we'd then ask you to do is avoiding to edit the affected articles directly, and instead suggesting changes on the article talk pages. The draft will be reviewed completely independently of any conflict of interest, and even independently of paid editing. If the person is notable and the article is good, then it is accepted and moved to the mainspace. About notability, you may want to read Wikipedia:Notability_(people). I have not taken a closer look at your sandbox draft yet; you can probably better decide than me if the person is really notable.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and thank you very much in advance for taking the time to review these long guidelines. In a nutshell, the two important links are:

Have a nice day! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:42, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi ToBeFreeThank you very much for the advice and the helpful links! It has been a lot of reading but worthwhile! Your comments have been very constructive and have helped me understand a bit more on how being on Wikipedia works. On my chosen username, I was recently interested in writing about human agency and loneliness so I thought it would be a cute private reference for me but I see now it was a poor choice of username and understand what it suggests to everyone else outside my mind! So I will take your suggestion and post that declaration on my talkpage! So, please no apologies necessary. And yes, please I would appreciate help in submitting the page for review so if it passes, it can be moved to the mainspace. Agent lonely (talk) 21:03, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Agent lonely, you're welcome. This is very nice to hear.

I have now collapsed the "conflict of interest" welcome message as well, and replaced it by one with cookies below. Feel free to remove the collapsed messages (or/and any other messages you like) at any time.

Above your sandbox draft, I have now added a box with a blue button. Clicking this button will automatically submit the article for review. Within about one month of this submission, the article will be reviewed by an experienced editor. Usually, the first submission attempt gets rejected; this is normal. The reviewer will notice and explain possible problems, like a lack of sources that allow others to verify the notability of the article subject. I am personally not a reviewer, and it would probably be hubristic of me to "review" your article from my position. There is one thing I can definitely point out as an issue that needs to be fixed before submission: The orange template at the top, which you have apparently correctly noticed and added yourself (?) -- it points out a possible problem that needs to be fixed before submission. To make it easier to create inline citations, you might like to use the "Cite" button of the Visual Editor. The "Cite" button allows you to automatically generate an inline "reference" from a link or an ISBN. It is important to put these "inline citations" inside the article text, not just below it, so that each statement can be verified individually.

As soon as you think "I have no idea how to improve this further", feel free to press the blue "submit" button.

Have a nice day! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 22:00, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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16:04, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Declaration of No Conflict of Interest

I have read and understand the "Wikipedia:Conflict of interest" guideline. I am not contributing to Wikipedia about myself, my family, friends, clients, employers or financial and other relationships.Agent lonely (talk) 21:03, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A belated welcome!

Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Agent lonely. I see that you've already been around a while 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 editors get the most out of Wikipedia:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page, consult Wikipedia:Questions, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there.

Again, welcome! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:37, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Susana Borrás (November 13)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Whispering was:

The content of this submission includes material that does not meet Wikipedia's minimum standard for inline citations. Please cite your sources using footnotes. For instructions on how to do this, please see Referencing for beginners. Thank you.

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:Susana Borrás 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:Susana Borrás, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{db-self}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page.
You can also use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Whispe ring 17:25, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Susana Borrás

Hello, Agent lonely. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Susana Borrás".

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 edit the submission 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.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Lapablo (talk) 05:49, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]