User talk:Reidw27

--Reidw27 (talk) 19:40, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of SHOC (Sports Helmet Optical Conversions)

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A tag has been placed on SHOC (Sports Helmet Optical Conversions) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a company, corporation or organization that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Regards, SshibumXZ (talk · contribs). 19:37, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Reidw27, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that they have been paid by ON1 Digital on behalf of Shoc for their contributions to Wikipedia.

Reidw27 (talk) 17:53, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Paid editing disclosure

The Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use require that editors disclose their "employer, client, and affiliation" with respect to any paid contribution; see WP:PAID. For advice about reviewing paid contributions, see WP:COIRESPONSE.

[[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]] · [[Special:Contribs/{{{1}}}|contribs]]) has been paid by unknown.

Reidw27 (talk) 17:42, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Reidw27. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to SHOC (Sports Helmet Optical Conversions), 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:Reidw27. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Reidw27|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. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 19:52, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Reidw27, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that they have been paid by ON1 Digital on behalf of SHOC for their contributions to Wikipedia.

Reidw27 (talk) 17:52, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Luma Sleep

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A tag has been placed on Luma Sleep, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.
It appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), individual animal, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. (See section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 20:13, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Drm310. By chance is there a way I can retrieve the previous page contents so I can make the necessary edits to the page? Reidw27 (talk) 15:56, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Reidw27: You can try Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion and ask that the contents be restored to the draft article space. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:28, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Also, just to repeat what others have said, your account is not blocked (never was, in fact). --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 16:31, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

December 2018

Hello, Reidw27. Thank you for helping to build Wikipedia-- the world's largest free content encyclopedia. I'm sorry, but Luma Sleep has been deleted as meeting WP:CSD#G11. "This applies to pages that are exclusively promotional and would need to be fundamentally rewritten to conform with Wikipedia:NOTFORPROMOTION." These must be rewritten from scratch from "reliable, third party sources unconnected to the subject." See WP:RS.

Wikipedia:Identifying blatant advertising#Typical signs of blatant advertising contains information about content to avoid. For more information on content that may be perceived as promotional, click User:Dlohcierekim/promo. These are just rough guides. Pages can avoid all those pitfalls and still be glaringly obvious ad copy. Sometimes pages meeting WP:CSD#G11 give the appearance of an editor violating Wikipedia:Conflict of interest or WP:PAID. Please read and heed them if they apply to you. Please read Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations.

There is a very common mistake of assuming that the prohibition of promotional editing applies only to promotion for commercial gain, but that is not so.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia-- subjects must meet notability guidelines with reliable sources that are unconnected with the subject and providing verifiable information. That generally means someone unconnected with the subject needs to have written a great deal about the subject. Please see Wikipedia:Citing sources . Template:cite has templates you can use in citing your sources. Place the template {{references}} at the bottom of the page, and references cited in the text will appear there.

If you want to try again, please use the Article Wizard or articles for creation to guide you through the creation process. The new user tutorial can help you avoid future problems.

You may find this tool useful: Google custom search Don't feel discouraged. My first attempts at creating articles were deleted too.

There is more information at Wikipedia:Community portal. There is help available at THE TEAHOUSE. Cheers, and happy editing. -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 21:27, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm Dlohcierekim. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 21:28, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

{{paid|user=Reidw27|employer=ON1 Digital|client=SHOC}} {{paid|user=Reidw27|employer=ON1 Digital|client=Luma Sleep}}

The Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use require that editors disclose their "employer, client, and affiliation" with respect to any paid contribution; see WP:PAID. For advice about reviewing paid contributions, see WP:COIRESPONSE.

[[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]] · [[Special:Contribs/{{{1}}}|contribs]]) has been paid by unknown.

Reidw27 (talk) 17:42, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Reidw27 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

added paid informatiom

Decline reason:

Procedural decline only, there is no block currently on this account. If you are still unable to edit, please copy and paste the exact message that appears when you attempt to edit. 331dot (talk) 17:54, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Read these instructions carefully and try again

You are supposed to disclose your COI on your user page. That's User:Reidw27, not User talk:Reidw27 (the page you are reading right now). You started to do so earlier and then removed it because you added in nowiki tags. Copy the next two lines (not their code but the lines as you are reading them right now) to your user page (User:Reidw27):

{{paid|user=Reidw27|employer=ON1 Digital|client=SHOC}}
{{paid|user=Reidw27|employer=ON1 Digital|client=Luma Sleep}}

After you have done this, the amount of trouble you've had suggests that you need to try our tutorial to become more familiar with basic editing. I have also written a guide that explains a variety of issues new users have. Ian.thomson (talk) 22:48, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Ian.thomson. I followed your instructions and placed on my User Page. I will pay closer attention going forward. Is my block lifted so I can create the page(s) over again? Reidw27 (talk) 15:36, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Where were you told that you were blocked? Your block log is empty. Were you using a different account that was blocked? If so, we need to know the name. Ian.thomson (talk) 16:39, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Ian.thomson: This might be a misunderstanding. I don't mean to put words in Reidw27's mouth, but I think perhaps his pages being deleted to him means "blocked" (preventing them from being created and retained). --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 17:09, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Reidw27: The term "block" has a specific meaning on Wikipedia. It means that an administrator has taken a specific technical action on your account to make it physically impossible for you to create or edit most pages. This did not occur in your case. You were warned that a block was possible if you didn't disclose your paid association with these topics, but since you have now made the proper disclosures, that will not happen. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 17:09, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Ian.thomson: ::@Drm310: By chance could you please look at my new page I just created? SHOC (Visors) I just need to upload the logo, which I will be doing here shortly. Did I format and write correctly?Reidw27 (talk) 16:45, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

1) You never sign articles, drafts, or your edits to them.

2) Almost all videos on Youtube are self-published sources, which are not reliable for demonstrating notability. You need to stick to professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources. I can't find any indication that Lacrosse Playground has any sort of editorial oversight, and considering the first thing I saw was "shop now," their reviews are really more like advertisements -- not reliable. Same goes for Green Grid Iron. Crunchbase is a directory, directories do not support notability (because the point of a directory is to list anything under that director's purview). For these reasons, I've moved it back to User:Reidw27/sandbox.

3) Because you have a conflict of interest with the company, you were not supposed to move the draft to article space yourself. You should have taken the draft through the WP:Articles for Creation process.

4) Please read these instructions on how to write articles, paying special attention to the second set of instructions at the bottom as well. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:07, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

User:Ian.thomson thanks for your feedback. I have some other sources that I can use. Ill edit accordingly. Reidw27 (talk) 17:17, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding File:Logo_For_Shoc.png. Is it trademarked or is it released under CC-BY-SA? Those are mutually exclusive. At any rate, you might want to focus on getting the article to a point where it will survive review before focusing on aesthetics. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:54, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, User:Reidw27/sandbox

Hello, Reidw27. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "sandbox".

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.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:42, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]