User talk:DeEsCeHa

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Hi, thanks for your message.

It seems likely that you have as conflict of interest, please don't write about yourself, your friends or relatives and read the guidance below:

When you write about a person, you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that they meet the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the person or an associated organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the person claims or interviewing them. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls.

Most of your sources are him talking about himself or quotes from him, obviously not independent third-party sources as required here. Despite what you claim, if someone is genuinely notable, you should rarely need to get much information from self-published sources.
One of your refs is a sales page for his book, never acceptable. Publications written by the person should be listed as such, in a separate section if preferred, with no references for the items. They should not be used as references either, since by definition they are not independent third-party sources as required here. Your claim that he was nominated for a National Biography Award should be sourced to the awarding body, not to a sales page that doesn't even confirm that claim. The claim that he is an Honorary Research Fellow is sourced to his own thesis which isn't independent and doesn't confirm that claim.
If he is notable, it's because of the NBA nomination, the life member of the organisation, and the OAM, so these must have independent sources.

You must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews.

The tone isn't dreadful, but you have unsupported claims, and, of course, the sales page reference.

There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
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Your text give the impression that you wrote it backwards, writing the text and then adding sort-of references, mainly him talking about himself. Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read Your first article. If you are writing about yourself, or someone you know as a friend, colleague, client, employer or relative, you have a conflict of interest, and you must disclose the nature of that COI. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:38, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much for the comprehensive reply. I really appreciate it. I promise you the draft was written in good faith and I shall endeavour to address all the points you raise here, as well as do wider reading via the policy links you've provided. DeEsCeHa (talk) 00:59, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I do have one final question - is it possible to access the initial draft that has been deleted, or is that lost forever? DeEsCeHa (talk) 01:03, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you want me to see your messages, you can post them on my talk page. A better alternative is to leave a message on this page, but start it with my user name, User:Jimfbleak and sign it with four tildes ~~~~ when you post it (in the same edit). That will send me an alert.

I can sandbox the text for you, but I'm not sure that saying you wrote the draft in good faith is answering the COI query. You can edit with a COI, but the nature of any COI must be transparent. If you are writing about yourself, or someone you know as a friend, colleague, client, employer or relative, you have a conflict of interest, and you must disclose the nature of that COI. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:58, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jimfbleak Thank you again for your time and patience in responding to me. I genuinely appreciate the volunteer effort you put in. I have reviewed the linked pages and while this is absolutely not an article about myself, I do have a COI link to the subject and on reflection and consideration I will resist returning to my draft. Perhaps the way to proceed will be to review the sources and submit via Articles for Creation, acknowledging the COI, but I'll think about that and give it some time. Finally, again, thank you, I would have asked my assigned mentor initially but they have been on leave. DeEsCeHa (talk) 11:29, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK, fair enough. Note that the disclosure procedure is more formal if you have a paid relationship than if you are writing about a friend, colleague or relative Jimfbleak - talk to me? 11:51, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]