Ascheinman

AfC notification: Draft:Visit Bellevue Washington has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Visit Bellevue Washington. Thanks! Hammersoft (talk) 00:32, 2 February 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Visit Bellevue Washington (February 21)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Hammersoft was:  The comment the reviewer left was: 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 when they have been resolved.

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Hammersoft (talk) 00:01, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Ascheinman! 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! Hammersoft (talk) 00:01, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Visit Bellevue Washington has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Visit Bellevue Washington. Thanks! Hammersoft (talk) 22:54, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

I don't mean to throw obstacles in your way in any respect, but it's important you read the following:

Hello, Ascheinman. 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 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, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
• 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 must 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 WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. --Hammersoft (talk) 22:03, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Additional citations on Draft:Visit Bellevue Washington

Hey Ascheinman. I've reviewed the citations that you've added to this draft. Unfortunately, they don't add much to sustain notability. I'm going to run through these and hope to explain as best I can why.

1. [1]: This one is the best of the bunch. Unfortunately, this is a very localized magazine with not much in the way of impressions. It's impact is low. It's not bad, it's not just not very strong to make a case for notability.
2. [2]: This isn't a neutral source nor does it appear to be independent of the subject. It most likely is a WP:PRIMARY rather than a secondary source.
3. [3]: This appears to be run/written by your organization. It isn't independent of you.
4. [4]: Same as above; not independent.
5. [5]: This is just a directory listing. Think of it as a phone book entry; it doesn't make it notable just because it's listed in a directory.
6. [6]: I'm guessing your organization is part of the Washington Tourism Alliance, which means it's not independent of your organization.
7. [7]: This is used to support that your publish this guide. That your organization publishes the guide doesn't make your organization notable.

I know this can all be quite frustrating. Please understand; I'm not trying to throw obstacles in front of you. It's important to us an encyclopedia that we remain neutral and independent of organizations in writing about them. We are not a business directory, nor can we be a platform for advertising an organization.

I am quite concerned about conflict of interest issues that I noted in the section above, and also that there might be a violation of our terms of use (see WP:PAID). If you're hoping to get this draft published to the encyclopedia, we're going to need references in more than just directory listings, and advertising platforms. Is there an article that was published in The Seattle Times about your organization? How about national press? CNN? NBC? CBS? How about other national imprint press, like Los Angeles Times or Chicago Tribune?

Please carefully read through and comply with WP:PAID if appropriate.

Please carefully read through WP:ORGCRIT.

If you have questions, please get back to me. I'm happy to help. --Hammersoft (talk) 22:27, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Visit Bellevue Washington

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Visit Bellevue Washington, 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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Hello, I'm Deb. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.
Hello, Ascheinman. 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 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, company, organization or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
• 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.Deb (talk) 08:57, 26 September 2019 (UTC)