Caitlinlee531

Your submission at Articles for creation: I am a voter. (June 2)

Your recent article submission has been rejected. If you have further questions, you can ask at the Articles for creation help desk or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help. The reason left by Spiderone was: This submission is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 13:19, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Caitlinlee531! Having an article draft 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! Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 13:19, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

June 2022

Hello Caitlinlee531. 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:Caitlinlee531. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Caitlinlee531|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. 331dot (talk) 17:38, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! I do not get paid for this nor do I have any financial stake here. Just wanted to share about this organization doing some good! Thank you again! Caitlinlee531 (talk) 22:46, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Do you have any connection with the organization, even if unpaid? 331dot (talk) 00:10, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

I've volunteered with the organization - does that need to be disclosed? It's never been paid. Thanks! Caitlinlee531 (talk) 11:34, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Conflicts of interest should be disclosed- although it is not required by the Terms of Use(as disclosing paid editing is). Please see WP:COI for more information and for instructions on disclosing. 331dot (talk) 11:50, 3 June 2022 (UTC)