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Hell in a Bucket (talk) 23:38, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Stauffer Center for Strings (September 17)

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) 16:28, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Verity Grant! Having an article 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) 16:28, 17 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Mr. Ollie, thank you for your message. You are right, that I do receive compensation for this article but let me assure you that I meant no harm or foul play at any stage. I am happy to disclose all the info on my user page with you and give you our reasoning why I agreed with the client to undertake the venture of writing this article. As the Stauffer Academy has been a landmark institution for all classical string instrument players in Cremona since 1985 its promotion to be the newly conceived Stauffer Center for Strings, was a no brainer for us in terms of its relevance and thus subsequently an informative page on wikipedia. Since the institution is so well known in the world of classical music I assumed it would be well known anyhow. I do see now that this perception was warped by me working in the classical music industry and I do apologise for just heading straight into it and writing the article. I did not mean to cut out either the due process of wikipedia, nor it's quality control. And most certainly I did not mean to engage in a Black Hat process. So again apologies for the extra work caused by me. I do see now the my assumptions were wrong and of course I am willing to put the topic and article through the correct process. best Verity Grant (talk) 10:09, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

October 2021

Hello Verity Grant. 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:Verity Grant. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Verity Grant|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. MrOllie (talk) 16:45, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Stauffer Center for Strings

Hello, Verity Grant. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Stauffer Center for Strings, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 19:02, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Stauffer Center for Strings

Hello, Verity Grant. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Stauffer Center for Strings".

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 deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:26, 12 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]