User talk:Joelcfrr

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Happy editing! :Jay8g [V•T•E] 03:48, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Undisclosed paid editing

Hello Joelcfrr. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to User:Joelcfrr/sandbox, 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:Joelcfrr. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Joelcfrr|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.
You have declared a conflict of interest on your userpage. However, if you are employed by Alfa Technology, then that is not enough. You have a higher standard of disclosure, as described above. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 04:13, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Drm310,

Yes, this is correct. I am an employee of Alta Technology. I was not aware that the original declaration was not sufficient enough and I have rectified this. If I have made an error in the process, please let me know so I can fix it.

I am fully aware of the ethical issues that can potentially arise from paid advocacy. however, I believe I have presented factual information, as impartially as possible, with a wide source of references. Furthermore, I do believe that the information in the article is actually noteworthy.

Hopefully this clears things up. Please let me know if there are any other potential issues.

Many thanks

JC Joelcfrr (talk) 04:25, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. You have remedied the concern about paid editing appropriately. I took the liberty of removing the {{UserboxCOI}} template from your userpage, as it is redundant with your paid editing disclosure.

Please have a look at the conflict of interest guidelines as well as the tutorial Help:Your first article. Please pay particular attention to the notability criteria for companies, as not all companies merit inclusion.

Best of luck to you. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 04:30, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your help, and thanks for these links.

I'll make sure everything I do adheres to these guidelines.

Thank you

JC Joelcfrr (talk) 04:43, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Alta Technology (October 30)

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

This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:

in-depth (not just brief mentions about the subject or routine announcements)
reliable
secondary
strictly independent of the subject

Make sure you add references that meet all four of these criteria before resubmitting. Learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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 after they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Alta Technology 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.

DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:10, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Joelcfrr! 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! DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:10, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]