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Your submission at Articles for creation: Count.It draft (July 8)

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 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.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Also see WP:SOLUTIONS.

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Theroadislong (talk) 16:28, 8 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Count.It draft

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Count.It draft, 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.

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If you have a conflict of interest, you must declare it. If you work directly or indirectly for an organisation, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. If you are paid directly or indirectly by the organisation you are writing about, 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 Troutzimmerman. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Troutzimmerman|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message. Also read the following regarding writing an article:

you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the organisation or company, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, logs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company or organisation claims or interviewing its management. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls

You had only one reference, which didn't even mention the company.

The notability guidelines for organisations and companies have been updated. The primary criteria has five components that must be evaluated separately and independently to determine if it is met:

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independent,
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Note that an individual source must meet all four criteria to be counted towards notability.

as well as having no verified facts about the company, your text was all about what it sells, little about the company itself other than locations. To show notability you need hard verifiable facts such as the number of employees, management structure. turnover or profits

You must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews.

Unsourced claims include to create wellness challenges for businesses... had hosted over 40,000 public challenges and collaborated with partners such as... It serves thousands of companies across the United States

There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.

Especially spamlinks

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I didn't check.

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. If you think the company is notable, best to start from scratch. If you have a conflict of interest, you must disclose the nature of that COI before you do anything else Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:02, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the feedback. I had thought it notable (aside from just liking it) because I learned the founder was the co-founder of Apertment Therapy which does have a Wikipedia page.

I'll give it one more shot and move on to another topic if no good. Should I notify you directly when done? Troutzimmerman (talk) 16:34, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]