User talk:SimonHem

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Happy editing! — Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 12:26, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Omaze (September 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 Bonadea was:

Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Omaze instead.

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.

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bonadea contributions talk 15:12, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, SimonHem! 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! bonadea contributions talk 15:12, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, SimonHem. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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)—don't forget to give details of reliable sources supporting your suggestions;
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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. bonadea contributions talk 15:13, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Simon. You've said when editing the Omaze article that your edit is a result of having worked with Omaze and other reputable sources to check all facts. Do you literally mean that you have been in contact with people at Omaze and your edit on this article has had their input? --Belbury (talk) 16:21, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I see that you've already made a declaration on your talk page that Omaze are actually paying you to edit the Wikipedia article about them, I'd missed that. Okay. As a user with a conflict of interest you are strongly discouraged from editing the article directly, you should instead make suggestions on at Talk:Omaze. If you want to simply open a discussion there of "Omaze have paid me to rewrite the article like this, what do people think?", that would be fine as a start. --Belbury (talk) 16:33, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Belbury

I'm a freelance writer who is just updating the page for Omaze, but doing so in a journalistic way (that's my background) to make sure it's up to date factually, I've been very careful to make sure that I'm not giving Omaze's one-sided view on things - just providing the latest facts. The current article is very out of date, hence me wanting to replace it. Would that be OK?

Best wishes

Simon SimonHem (talk) 08:22, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just to double check, i"ve been throught the current article that's up there and, bar a couple of facts (which I'll leave in the new version) it is all out of date and therefore inaccurate. So if you could bare me to change it, I would be very grateful. SimonHem (talk) 08:28, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, don't rewrite the article in its entirety, please. The best thing for you to do would be to submit edit requests on the article talk page. Here's how to do that (and what to think about when you do it). Regards, --bonadea contributions talk 10:54, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bonadea. I'm happy to do that. But it would be new bits of text for each section, if that's OK? SimonHem (talk) 16:23, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]