Liene Sandalane

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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (January 13)

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SITH (talk) 14:53, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Liene Sandalane! 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! SITH (talk) 14:53, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

January 2019

Hello Liene Sandalane. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Liene Sandalane. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Liene Sandalane|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. — JJMC89 (T·C) 21:32, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

JJMC89,

Thank you for the information. But situation with article I’ve created is different. I’m not promoting or trying to have any commercial benefit from this article. Re:Baltica is is a non-profit organization that produces investigative journalism in the public interest-such as corruption, crime, finances, entrepreneurship, health, human rights and disinformation! In article I wrote, I added references to Re:Baltica stories which were published by BBC, Buzfeeed etc. I’m volunteering at this organization, not working. I’m a full time student at University of Latvia . This was my idea that Re:Baltica needs their Wikipedia article, since it’s important for proving their credibility when articles been posted on Facebook. Re:Baltica is based in Latvia, but works beyond Baltics – most articles are published in 3 languages: Latvian, English and Russian. Our partners, we are working with, for example, Tvnet.lv and Delfi, they have Wikipedia articles, so I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong? If it’s needed, I can edit article, but I don’t understand why should I write that I’m doing this for commercial reasons? Best, Liene Sandalane (talk) 10:51, 14 January 2019 (UTC)