User talk:Cameronwise
Welcome!
[edit]Hello, Cameronwise, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (January 7)
[edit]- If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:Cameronwise/sandbox and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Hello, Cameronwise!
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! Dan arndt (talk) 04:30, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
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January 2025
[edit]Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article, or a draft for a Wikipedia article, about yourself, at User:Cameronwise/sandbox. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Notable people who have edited Wikipedia). If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. Dan arndt (talk) 04:51, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hello Dan arndt, thank you for your prompt responses, it is greatly appreciated. With respect to the above, I can confirm that I am not the person the profile is written about. Is there a way I can confirm this with wiki? For clarity, my name is Cameron Wise and the profile is for a gentleman names James Brown.
- Thank you and looking forward to hearing from you soon
- Kind regards,
- Cameron Cameronwise (talk) 05:51, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
Hello Cameronwise. 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:Cameronwise. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Cameronwise|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. bonadea contributions talk 07:01, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hello @Bonadea
- I can confirm I am not being paid to write this wikipedia submission. However, I am submitting this about a person whom I know. As such I will use the template you have provided. Thanks again as this is all new to me and also a little difficult to navigate Cameronwise (talk) 22:12, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hi again @Bonadea
- After rereading your message I see that I do not need to use the {{Paid}} template after all. Is there anywhere other than here that I need to state that I know the person but am not being paid by them? Cameronwise (talk) 22:15, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
Managing a conflict of interest
[edit]Hello, Cameronwise. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page User:Cameronwise/sandbox, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:
- avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
- propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template), including links or details of reliable sources that support your suggestions;
- disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
- avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
- do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.
In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.
Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Dan arndt (talk) 04:52, 8 January 2025 (UTC)
Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (January 8)
[edit]- If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to User:Cameronwise/sandbox and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
- If you do not edit your draft in the next 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.