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 Welcome Dr Jamie Lachman!
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Sincerely, Cabayi (talk(Leave me a message) 11:05, 29 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

May 2024

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As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Draft:Jamie Lachman, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Julietm276, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Julietm276|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Cabayi (talk) 11:18, 3 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi there,
Do I just copy {{paid|user=Julietm276|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}} with the client name in there and paste on the page somewhere.I am doing this page as part of a package to include a webpage (which has already been published) - any help on this would be appreicated Julietm276 (talk) 11:23, 3 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Yes, just paste that tag (without the nowiki wrappers), with appropriate name substitutions, on your user page. ~Anachronist (talk) 17:35, 5 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Just also to let you know I have no financial stake in this page for Dr Lachman - I am doing this as I have done a web page for him and thought I would do a Wiki page for free Julietm276 (talk) 11:24, 3 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Claiming that your payment covers the webpage but not the Wikipedia article is splitting hairs to a degree that stretches credibility. The template, without the nowiki tags, goes on your user page. I've broken the redirect which would have taken you straight from your userpage to the draft to make it easier for you. Cabayi (talk) 11:32, 3 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
I believe this may now all be in order. I have declared I will be expecting a form of payment upon publication of the page Dr Jamie Lachman. What else do I now need to do in order to have this published. I believe I have made the edits you have required
(see User:Julietm276 for declaration of payment - do let me know if this is in the correct place) Julietm276 (talk) 15:04, 15 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Please see the instructions in Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure#How to disclose and put the proper tag on your user page.
As a paid editor, you should never unilaterally move a draft to article space. And once it is in article space, you should refrain from making further substantive changes to it, other than minor corrections to spelling and grammar and such.
To create articles, the only venue available for editors with a conflict of interest is to create drafts and submit them for review. I have moved your article back to Draft:Jamie Lachman and added a review button at the top so you can submit the draft for review after you have addressed the WP:BLP concerns. ~Anachronist (talk) 17:32, 5 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Anachronist I was told to put down that I was being paid as I had created a website for Dr Lachman. The wiki page is not being paid for, so now at a loss as to what to do. I was hoping to have this ready for review this week before I go into hospital and then come back to any minor edits I had thought about. Should I just remove the CoI note and then submit? Julietm276 (talk) 17:38, 5 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
If you are getting paid "as part of a package", as you say, and including the Wikipedia article as part of the service, then you are considered a paid editor, even if your employer or client isn't paying you specifically to create a Wikipedia article. So yes, please put that declaration tag on your user page. I see you made a declaration, but you don't need the redirect. Just use the declaration {{paid|employer=Global Parenting Initiative|client=Jamie Lachman}}. That is really all you need. I'll do it for you now, since you've made the declaration anyway in your own way.
I advise against submitting your draft for review until you have improved it. In its current state, it would be declined. The community has a very low tolerance for WP:BLP violations. Anything you write about a living person must be verifiable by a reliable source, preferably a source that's independent of that person. And the "Early life" and "Career" sections cite no sources at all; that's unacceptable, and that's the reason it's a draft instead of an article. ~Anachronist (talk) 17:45, 5 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Jamie Lachman (June 9)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Anachronist 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 after they have been resolved.
~Anachronist (talk) 06:37, 9 June 2024 (UTC)Reply