Kwlee121

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AfC notification: Draft:Karrot has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Karrot. Thanks! Robert McClenon (talk) 02:42, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Karrot (April 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 Robert McClenon was: This submission is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. The comment the reviewer left was:

This draft is written from the viewpoint of the company, focusing on what the company says about itself. Corporate notability is based on what independent reliable sources have written about the subject.

Not every business corporation is notable, and this draft does not establish corporate notability. You may ask for advice about corporate notability at the Teahouse.

This draft reads like an advertisement, but Wikipedia is not for advertising.

Robert McClenon (talk) 02:43, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Karrot (April 9)

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

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Karrot 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:Karrot, 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.

Robert McClenon (talk) 01:26, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Karrot (April 20)

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 WikiAviator was: This submission is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. The comment the reviewer left was: Looks like an advertisement. Draft rejected per Robert's comments

WikiAviator ^talk 08:14, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Final Warning

Do NOT remove the declines on Draft:Karrot. It is extremely disruptive. It is evident you want to try and hide them. That will not avail you. If you do that again, I will nominate the page for deletion. Consider this your final warning in this regard. JavaHurricane 08:45, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Draft:Karrot

Draft:Karrot, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Karrot and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Draft:Karrot during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. JavaHurricane 08:54, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Karrot (April 21)

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 Robert McClenon was: This submission is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. The comment the reviewer left was:

This draft reads like an advertisement, but Wikipedia is not for advertising.

This draft has been Rejected by a reviewer in the Articles for Creation review process. DO NOT resubmit this draft or attempt to resubmit this draft or prepare or submit a draft that is substantially the same as this draft without discussing the reasons for the rejection. You may request a discussion with the rejecting reviewer, or you may request a discussion with the community at the Teahouse. A discussion will not necessarily agree to a resubmission. If this draft is resubmitted, or an attempt is made to resubmit this draft or an equivalent draft, without addressing the reasons for the Rejection, a topic-ban or a partial block may be requested against the submitting editor, and the draft may be nominated for deletion.

You may ask for advice about Rejection at the Teahouse.

Robert McClenon (talk) 19:18, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Disclose your employment, now

Hello Kwlee121. 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:Kwlee121. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Kwlee121|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. Ian.thomson (talk) 06:11, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Working for a marketing firm hired by Karrot is still paid editing and needs disclosure. Lying about it already has me inclined to block you.

If your next action is to do anything but disclose your employment, I will block you for undisclosed paid editing (submitting the evidence to paid-en-wp@wikipedia.org. Ian.thomson (talk) 06:11, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi thanks for the guidance. I just wanted to clarify that I'm not affiliated with Karrot. Neither am I paid by Karrot or have any financial stakes. I'm writing this article for extra credit for my English journalism class. I admit that my article was poorly written (I benchmarked wrong Wiki articles on peer companies, which had been already reported). If I were professional, my execution probably would have been better with a tighter timeline (I've been working on this article for 2 months by now, which I guess is not professionally acceptable). Sorry for my mistakes. I will start from scratch and actively ask feedback from the teahouse community. I'm getting used to the Wiki tools and will not make the same mistake of working on rejected versions.

May 2021

Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text {{unblock|reason=your reason here ~~~~}} at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must:

• Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
• State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
• Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future.

– Joe (talk) 18:12, 12 May 2021 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Kwlee121 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I politely request unblocking because I'm not a paid-contributor (it's my extra credit assignment for English journalism class; if I were professional, I probably would have done a better job with a tighter timeline). I admit that my article on Karrot was poorly written and probably not aligned to Wiki's neutrality principles. My first mistake was that I benchmarked wrong Wiki articles which had marketing overtones. My second mistake was poor version management (I kept editing on the rejected version due to unfamiliarity) I admit my mistakes, and I will fix this first by actively asking the teahouse community, second by starting from scratch from a neutral perspective (I'm quite excited about the company so my view was biased), and third by having peer reviews from my class. Now I clearly understand Wiki's terms of use. Give me a second chance to be a valuable member of Wikipedia, and I consider having one article published as my first step. Thank you for your time.

Decline reason:

I don't have the evidence that the other two users on this page have, and just by looking at your edits I don't believe you. Until you are forthcoming with us, there is no pathway to being unblocked for you. I am declining your request. 331dot (talk) 07:48, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

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If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Concern regarding Draft:Karrot

Hello, Kwlee121. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Karrot, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 20:02, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Karrot

Hello, Kwlee121. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Karrot".

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. If 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. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:39, 21 October 2021 (UTC)