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AfC notification: Draft:Patrick J. Ottensmeyer (2) has a new comment

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I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Patrick J. Ottensmeyer (2). Thanks! Robert McClenon (talk) 02:45, 18 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Patrick J. Ottensmeyer (2) (August 18)

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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 Robert McClenon 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 when they have been resolved.
Robert McClenon (talk) 02:47, 18 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

Use of multiple accounts

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. I'm Sir Sputnik. I've that noticed that you've been using more than one account. Please be aware using more than one account can be quite problematic. Wikipedia editors are generally expected to edit using at most one account. Using a single account maintains editing continuity, improves accountability, and increases community trust, which helps to build long-term stability for the encyclopedia. While there are some valid reasons for maintaining multiple accounts on the project, using multiple accounts for deceptive or disruptive reasons is not allowed. Please familiarize yourself with relevant policy on the matter (you'll find it here), and limit yourself to one account for most purposes. If you intend to continue using multiple accounts for one the valid reasons, please clearly disclose the connection between your accounts and your reason for using more than one. Thank you. Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:13, 18 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: Patrick J. Ottensmeyer (November 5)

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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 Atlantic306 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.
Atlantic306 (talk) 14:41, 5 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

Thank you. It's also come to my attention I need to have this disclosure. I hope I'm inserting it in the correct place.

Replaceable fair use File:KCSR train at intermodal facility in Wylie, TX.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:KCSR train at intermodal facility in Wylie, TX.jpg. I noticed that this file is being used under a claim of fair use. However, I think that the way it is being used fails the first non-free content criterion. This criterion states that files used under claims of fair use may have no free equivalent; in other words, if the file could be adequately covered by a freely-licensed file or by text alone, then it may not be used on Wikipedia. If you believe this file is not replaceable, please:

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Hi, I'm RonBot, a script that checks new non-free file uploads. I have found that the subject image that you recently uploaded was more than 5% in excess of the Non-free content guideline size of 100,000 pixels. I have tagged the image for a standard reduction, which (for jpg/gif/png/svg files) normally happens within a day. Please check the reduced image, and make sure that the image is not excessively corrupted. Other files will be added to Category:Wikipedia non-free file size reduction requests for manual processing. There is a full seven-day period before the original oversized image will be hidden; during that time you might want to consider editing the original image yourself (perhaps an initial crop to allow a smaller reduction or none at all). A formula for the calculation of the desired size can be found at WP:Image resolution, along with instructions on how to tag the image in the rare cases that it requires an oversized image (typically about 0.2% of non-free uploads are tagged as necessarily oversized). Please contact the bot owner if you have any questions, or you can ask them at Wikipedia talk:Non-free content. See User:RonBot for info on how to not get these messages. RonBot (talk) 17:59, 13 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

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Hello Lmwiedy. 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:Lmwiedy. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Lmwiedy|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. -- Whpq (talk) 18:17, 13 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

Your article edit requests

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Hi,

I see you posted some edit requests to my talk page. Those requests should be posted at the article talk page, and not my use talk page. For more information, see Wikipedia:Edit requests, and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. -- Whpq (talk) 14:55, 14 February 2019 (UTC)Reply