ECP1999

October 2020

Hello ECP1999. 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:ECP1999. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=ECP1999|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. — Blablubbs ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:05, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Enhanced Capital Partners, LLC

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Draft:Enhanced Capital Partners, LLC, 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.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. GPL93 (talk) 19:07, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Enhanced Capital Partners, LLC (October 6)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Deepfriedokra were: 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.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Enhanced Capital Partners, LLC and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Enhanced Capital Partners, LLC, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
• If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

--Deepfriedokra (talk) 19:15, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Hello, ECP1999! 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! --Deepfriedokra (talk) 19:15, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

October 2020

---

 Draft:Enhanced Capital Partners, LLC has been deleted
Hello, ECP1999. Thank you for helping to build Wikipedia-- the world's largest free content encyclopedia.  Draft:Enhanced Capital Partners, LLC has been deleted as meeting WP:CSD#G11, as it was seen as 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. This article needs to be rewritten from scratch from reliable, third party sources unconnected to the subject.

Information on content and common pitfalls to avoid can be located here and here, however be aware that this is not an exhaustive list. Pages can sometimes avoid these pitfalls and still be seen as an ad copy or unambiguously promotional, particularly if the editor appears to be a paid editor or has some other conflict of interest. Please review these policies, including the FAQ page on organizations to determine if this applies to you.

Common mistakes or beliefs about promotional editing center on the assumption that promotional editing only applies to promotion for commercial gain. Some tags or G11 nominations are met with confusion by creators, particularly if they spend much time reading or creating corporate documents, mission/vision statements, or similar copy for their organization. The frequent exposure to promotional tone may make it difficult to notice non-neutral phrases or styles, as the editor has grown accustomed to seeing it as everyday writing or speech. This can be difficult, but not impossible, to unlearn.

Another common assumption is that the prohibition against promotional editing applies only to businesses or organizations. Anything can be promoted, including a person, a non-commercial organization, a point of view, etc. and CV/resumé's are by their nature promotional.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia-- subjects must meet notability guidelines with reliable sources that are unconnected with the subject and providing verifiable information. That generally means someone unconnected with the subject needs to have written a great deal about the subject. Please see this page on citing sources. This page has templates you can use in citing your sources. Place the template {{references}} at the bottom of the page, and references cited in the text will appear there. The WP:TEAHOUSE and the new user tutorial can assist with any questions and avoiding these pitfalls. --Deepfriedokra (talk) 19:16, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

Your account has been blocked indefinitely from editing because of the following problems: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group or a web site, which is against the username policy.

You may request a change of name and unblock if you intend to make useful contributions other than promoting your business or organization. To do this, first search Special:CentralAuth for available usernames that comply with the username policy. Once you have found an acceptable username, post the text {{unblock-spamun|Your proposed new username|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with your new username and replace the text "Your reason here" with your reasons to be unblocked. In your reasons, you must:

• Disclose any compensation you may receive for your contributions in accordance with the Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure requirement.
• Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
• Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

Appeals: If, after reviewing the guide to appealing blocks you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal it by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your reason here" with the reasons you believe the block was an error, and publish the page. Bishonen | tålk 19:46, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

This user's request to be unblocked to request a change in username has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without a good reason (see the blocking policy). Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

ECP1999 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • autoblocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

---

Requested username:

abcde600 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log)

Request reason:

Hi, I am new to Wikipedia and am a bit unfamiliar with the editing process of publishing an article. I want to be completely transparent and am looking to write an informative article about the company I work for with the help and revision of the Wikipedia community.

Given this is my first article, I intended for the article to receive approval and revisions of others who are more familiar with the Wikipedia publishing process and guidelines. After being notified that the article I created was blocked due to "advertising or promotion," I realized something went wrong and the article needed further revision. I understand why my article was blocked and have learned from this event. The article was not ready to go live on Wikipedia since the content was not written from a neutral point of view and needed a revision of references. Additionally, a username is not a proper method of disclosure, and the one I have is against the policy, explaining the block and why it needs to be changed and properly disclose info if my request is approved.

If my account/username is unblocked, I would like to rewrite my previous article (with additional help from Article Wizard, talk pages, etc.) in a way that positively contributes to Wikipedia through informative and neutral content. I would also like to help others that have experienced a similar problem contribute to Wikipedia properly. I hope resubmitting this article and activating/renaming my account is still a possibility and would greatly appreciate and welcome any helpful advice.ECP1999 (talk) 15:55, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Your choice of new username seems to be acceptable; however, you will not be unblocked to edit about your company, at least in the short term; if that is your only goal here, this is the end of the road for your Wikipedia career. Please review conflict of interest and paid editing. If there are other topics unrelated to your conflict of interest that you want to edit about, please tell what those might be. I am declining your request. 331dot (talk) 16:25, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

You seem to have some common misconceptions about what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a place to merely provide information, and is not a place for companies to tell the world about themselves. As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia summarizes what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about (in this case) a company, showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable company. Wikipedia is not interested in what a company wants to say about itself- it can tell about itself on its own website or social media accounts. "Significant coverage" does not include brief mentions, press releases, announcements of routine business transactions, staff interviews, or other primary sources. Articles are also typically written by independent editors, who take note of a subject in reliable sources and choose to write about it. For example, Ford Motor Company merits an article because numerous independent reliable sources have written extensively about the company's history and effects on manufacuring and the car industry. It doesn't merit an article because the news covers changes in its stock price or the release of a new product.

Also note that a Wikipedia article about your company is not necessarily a good thing for your company. There are good reasons to not want one; any information, good or bad, can be in an article about your company as long as it appears in an independent source. 331dot (talk) 16:25, 19 October 2020 (UTC)