Bradders Scott

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

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Draft:Two Daughters Entertainment, which 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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Hi, new to Wikipedia - so am learning as I go. I work for the Company I am creating an article about but am not being paid for edits. There was no page about our company until now. Bradders Scott (talk) 09:29, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Your pay depends on the success of the company, so you do have a financial stake. Whether or not you receive a direct compensation for violating the Terms of Use is inconsequential. Kleuske (talk) 09:33, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

OK. This is all very new - I have added the disclosure to my user page Bradders Scott (talk) 09:39, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

July 2023

Hello Bradders Scott. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Two Daughters Entertainment, 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.

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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:Bradders Scott. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Bradders Scott|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. Kleuske (talk) 09:22, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Draft:Two Daughters Entertainment (review)

You cite no sources (WP:V/WP:IS/WP:RS) to show that the company meets our notability criteria (WP:NCORP/WP:SIGCOV). I have reverted your review request, since it is obvious it is going to fail. Please do not waste the time of our volunteers. You get paid, we don't. Kleuske (talk) 10:09, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Understood. I thought I had added sources. Will review - sorry for wasting your time Bradders Scott (talk) 10:19, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

You added sources, but none of them meet our requirements for being both reliable and independent of the company. A reliable source is a source with an established reputation for fact-checking and editorial oversight. This heavily favours mainstream news organizations, academic press, and reputable publishers of newspapers, books and magazines. An independent source is a source with no personal, political or financial interest in the subject.

Your sources fail for the following reasons:

1. Advanced Television - primary source - a press release, which is a company-authored . N
2. Bulldog Licensing - primary source - an interview, which is a first-person account from someone involved with the company. N
3. Two Daughters Entertainment - primary source - company's own website. N
4. Linkedin - self-pubished source - all social media sources are self-published. Unless it is the official social media account of an existing reliable source, like a mainstream news organization, it is presumed there is no editorial review. N

Therefore, none of your sources are of sufficient quality to show that this company meets our criteria for inclusion. You need to demonstrate that the company has received extensive coverage from sources that are unaffiliated.

Please also review the proper way of inserting sources as footnotes so that they are inline with the article text. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 13:07, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Two Daughters Entertainment

Hello, Bradders Scott. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Two Daughters Entertainment".

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. When 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. ✗plicit 11:32, 1 February 2024 (UTC)