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  Hello Margaret bali0, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your additions to Draft:Jean-Luc Servino have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Missvain (talk) 21:03, 17 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

Proposed deletion of Zackary (2017 Film)

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The article Zackary (2017 Film) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The only criterion of WP:NFILM that this stands a chance of passing is number 3. I don't, however, believe that Culver City Film Festival qualifies as a "major award for excellence in some aspect of filmmaking". Since this clearly fails the other 4 criteria and fails WP:GNG, I believe that it should be deleted. Please note that the five 'references' used are all press releases and rehashings of each other. No reviews found.

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Proposed deletion of Dear Gaia (2019 film)

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The article Dear Gaia (2019 film) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Does not meet WP:NFILM or WP:GNG. While this might look like a good source, it is clearly marked as a press release. This film received no significant coverage or published reviews. The awards received are not major enough to satisfy criterion 3 of NFILM.

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Nomination of Zackary (2017 film) for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Zackary (2017 film) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zackary (2017 film) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 23:32, 11 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of Dear Gaia (2019 film) for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Dear Gaia (2019 film) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dear Gaia (2019 film) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article.

Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 14:13, 12 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

February 2021

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Hello Margaret bali0. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Jean-Luc Servino, 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:Margaret bali0. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Margaret bali0|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. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 18:33, 12 February 2021 (UTC)Reply