Ace woe
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Sincerely, Thuresson (talk) 00:04, 12 July 2019 (UTC) (Leave me a message)
Hello, Ace woe. 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 COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the COI guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:
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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Thuresson (talk) 00:04, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
Re: Your email edit
A couple days ago I associated Draft:Darnell Price with some relevant WikiProjects. As a side-effect, that created a talk page for the draft, which may be what you're thinking of. Being connected to WikiProjects may help interested reviewers find the draft, but has no explicit effect on the review process. The draft has been in the pool to be reviewed for two months. The current backlog is five months, so you do the math. When it is reviewed you will receive a notice on this page. If it is declined (which happens to 80% of drafts) a copy of the notice will also be placed on the draft. If it is accepted, the draft will be moved to article space.
As far as next steps, Thuresson left you a notice a couple months ago about managing a conflict of interest. You clearly have one, but have taken no steps to disclose it or address it. It is essential that you do so, otherwise the draft could be deleted, the topic could be salted (to prevent anyone else from writing about it), and you could be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Worldbruce (talk) 21:16, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
Wow, that's strange, I was never notified about this. In fact, there's nothing in my gmail inbox from that user, but I appreciate you pointing it out. Honestly, I am not used to the way this site operates and I haven't been actively signed in since I moved recently and have been focused on other projects.
If by "conflict of interest" you mean that I know OG Cuicide, yeah, I do; but he isn't paying me to create the page, if that's what you're implying. I wish he was. He merely told me that it would be a wise move to familiarize myself with Wikipedia formatting standards because he knows people who ARE interested in having their pages built - people who are legends in the hip-hop industry, and especially in South Central Los Angeles (I'm perfectly willing to disclose any sort of agreements in this regard, should they arise).
Nonetheless, I appreciate this information, but I sure do wish that this process was less complicated. Darnell Price is certainly worthy of having a published Wikipedia page; the notion that the topic would be "salted" seems unacceptable, especially considering the nature of his work in the field of suicide prevention. He just got done doing a series of talks with KRS-One; his album features the likes of Paul Wall, Kurupt, A.D., and other big name rappers, all verified artists on Instagram and Twitter, etc. (just like Mr. Price himself) so it certainly seems weird to me that this approach would be taken simply because I've made his acquaintance. But, again, I am new to this community.
If you have any additional information I would greatly appreciate receiving it.
Thanks again,
-Aaron
Declare any connection edit
Hello Ace woe. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Draft:Darnell Price, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.
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, and if it does not, 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:Ace woe. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ace woe|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. --Worldbruce (talk) 21:17, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
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Please forgive the delayed response here, I am new to the Wikipedia community and for some reason never received a notification about this message.
I have NO financial stake in the creation of this page. The launching of this draft has merely been a way for me to familiarize myself with Wikipedia's formatting standards. I am a regular contributor over at "Genius.com" and being able to edit material on both platforms would be extremely helpful.
Please let me know if this message is adequate. I am unfamiliar with the various processes related to the creation of Wikipedia pages, but I hope to learn more.
Regards,
-AW
Ace woe (talk) 22:28, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
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Am I responding to this message correctly? I haven't received a response and I'm a bit confused by the messaging function on this site, to be honest.
I might send a separate message again just to be safe...
AfC notification: Draft:Darnell Price has a new comment edit
AfC notification: Draft:Darnell Price has a new comment edit
Your submission at Articles for creation: Darnell Price (November 19) edit
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Draft:Darnell Price concern edit
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Your draft article, Draft:Darnell Price edit
Hello, Ace woe. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Darnell Price".
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! JMHamo (talk) 08:13, 20 May 2020 (UTC)