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I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Lili Rosen. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 22:17, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Lili Rosen has been accepted

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Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 06:09, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for your diligent work and your quick approval! I will do my best to contribute to this amazing community in whatever way I can.

Most sincerely, YM YiddisheMama (talk) 18:31, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, YiddisheMama, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, visit the Teahouse, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Drmies (talk) 03:01, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Drmies, and thank you! I really appreciate your edits on the article. As you can see this isn't an issue of a lack of source material--there are plenty of articles about the subject--it's just a matter of combing through them to find what's sourced where. It'll all be fixed in due course. As for the promotional material, I'm still relatively new to this and I appreciate you taking the time to go through it and show me how it's done. I'm quite new to this and the learning curve can be steep. Still figuring out how all the more technical aspect of Wikipedia work. Again, thank you, and I hope to keep learning and contributing! [[[User:YiddisheMama|YiddisheMama]] (talk) 03:42, 14 January 2025 (UTC)] YiddisheMama (talk) 03:42, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey--yeah, I understand: it's a different kind of writing here, which can take some getting used to. I made some smaller edits also, to make the article agree with the manual of style, but I think it looks fairly decent now. I do think you need to switch things around and go with conventional chronology--these are biographies, not like what you find on LinkedIn, so normal chronology is best. Also, you do need to address the matter of a conflict of interest: please read the article on editing with a COI, linked above, and disclose whatever the COI may be. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 03:45, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate you taking the time to talk to me. As an avid user of Wikipedia, I tried to be objective and stick to the facts. In fact, I used similar subjects' pages as a template and copied a lot of the style, language and formatting from there. For example, Abby Stein's page: I'm happy to go into further detail about that but there's a lot of overlap there so I figured that what's good for Stein is good for Rosen. As a trans person from the Hasidic community myself I happen to be a fan/friend of both of them, hence my personal interest. I'm not getting paid for this in any way. YiddisheMama (talk) 03:59, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, copying is a good way to get structure and ideas about content, but that article is very much a resume--look at the part where it goes "she was featured in" followed by a list of names and links. Such links to what I assume are acceptable articles should be used to verify article list, rather than function as, well, namedropping. That the article is here in this way isn't necessarily a kind of endorsement--the better comparison is with articles found at WP:GA or, better yet, WP:FA. As for the COI: one can have a conflict of interest without being paid, as the guidelines indicate. Good luck, Drmies (talk) 16:36, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]