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Your submission at Articles for creation: Canada Water Agency (December 28)

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

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

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Theroadislong (talk) 19:13, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Km4water! 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! Theroadislong (talk) 19:13, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Paid editing

Hello Km4water. 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 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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:Km4water. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Km4water|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. Theroadislong (talk) 20:08, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the useful clarification. I am not being paid to produce this content, although I chose the subject because I work in the area of water (I am employed in a university research institute) and thought this was an important topic that deserves an entry in the encyclopedia. I also wanted to refresh my Wikipedia editing skills as I would like to organize an edit-a-thon for young water researchers as capacity-building in knowledge production and to fill in gaps related to Canadian water topics. To do this it will be important to understand Wikipedia's criteria for objectivity, so thanks again for responding. Can I interpret your instructions to mean that if an editor is working in a subject area, they should not be contributing to articles about this? 71.17.29.195 (talk) 20:20, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Canada Water Agency

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Canada Water Agency requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/water-overview/protecting-freshwater/canada-water-agency-stakeholder-public-engagement-what-we-heard.html, https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2021/0812/Canada-gets-serious-about-water-woes.-Will-Indigenous-voices-be-heard, and https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/corporate/transparency/briefing-materials/appearance-before-standing-committee-may-3-2022/freshwater.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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January 2023

Hello, I'm Melcous. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the main body of Michael Gelfand. Generally, any relevant external links should be listed in an "External links" section at the end of the article and meet the external links guidelines. Links within the body of an article should be internal Wikilinks. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 23:42, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! 71.17.29.195 (talk) 12:45, 3 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: User:Km4water/sandbox has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at User:Km4water/sandbox. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 22:24, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks -- were you looking at Canada Water Agency or Global Water Futures? Km4water (talk) 22:51, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sandbox is CWA. David notMD (talk) 03:19, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Have left the CWA article to think about it as a stub. I have no direct investment or incentive in producing the CWA article: it simply needs to be done. Km4water (talk) 16:38, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Establishing notability - references

See WP:42. For example, an article published in a science journal does not contribute to notability. However, a report in a reputable newspaper such as NY Times on the journal article can establish notability. Likewise, for scientists, citing a selection of their journal articles is valid content, but what is required is refs to published content about them. Interviews don't count for establishing notability. Nor press release derived published stuff. David notMD (talk) 03:24, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Highly Qualified Personnel"

People with expertise on a topic are welcome to become editors. See WP:EX for guidance. Does this mean they should essay to create articles about themselves? No. See WP:AUTO. Or cite their own work? Probably not. See WP:COI. David notMD (talk) 14:44, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, David. Km4water (talk) 21:33, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

CS1 error on Indigenous cuisine of the Americas

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Indigenous cuisine of the Americas, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

A "missing periodical" error. References show this error when the name of the magazine or journal is not given. Please edit the article to add the name of the magazine/journal to the reference, or use a different citation template. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can (bot)&section=new report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 21:41, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: User:Km4water/sandbox has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at User:Km4water/sandbox. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 18:43, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

How would you suggest that we include the content of a list of such categories, without re-naming them? Someone putting quotation marks around a list of standard categories seems bizarre. We included them because they are important to understanding the natrure of the tool. Km4water (talk) 19:05, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

June 2023

One of your recent edits has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. Theroadislong (talk) 18:44, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]