User talk:TomDawsonWD

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May 2020

Hello, TomDawsonWD. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Jabiru Aircraft, 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
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disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Ahunt (talk) 12:42, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Nicolette Johnson (March 7)

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

This submission does not appear to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Entries should be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources. Please rewrite your submission in a more encyclopedic format. Please make sure to avoid peacock terms that promote the subject.

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:Nicolette Johnson 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.

MarcGarver (talk) 09:47, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, TomDawsonWD! 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! MarcGarver (talk) 09:47, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Nicolette Johnson

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Nicolette Johnson, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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. Ahunt (talk) 12:56, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Understanding I have an innate conflict of interest about the subject of Nicolette Johnson, I can see why this page was deleted - but the content was not promotional at all, it was factual and free of peacock language, backed up by sources from reputable national art galleries. Have I poisoned the well by making this page and if someone else makes it eventually, it will also be deleted as self-promotion if they use the same sources and information?

Apologies, I did not intend to vandalize Wikipedia and tried to avoid bias. TomDawsonWD (talk) 23:42, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like the page was already completely deleted TomDawsonWD (talk) 23:43, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As the article was written it was promotional, not written in encyclopedic language and lacked sufficient independent third party references to establish Wikipedia:Notability (people). If a new article is written by someone else that addresses those issues it will be kept. - Ahunt (talk) 23:48, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking the time, and sorry for wasting yours initially. TomDawsonWD (talk) 23:53, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, no problem. The process of creating an encyclopedia is naturally a bit messy. That bothers some people, but I have been here for 18 years and you get used to the vagaries of the process after a bit. - Ahunt (talk) 00:28, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]