RachelAnderson72489

Your submission at Articles for creation: Uplift (July 29)

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Dreamy Jazz ^{talk to me | my contributions} 15:26, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Hello, RachelAnderson72489! 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! Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 15:26, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Draft:Uplift

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The page Draft:Uplift has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appeared to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appeared to be a direct copy from https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Buy-now-pay-later-purchase-option-becomes-a-popular-pick-for-travelers. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition has been be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Confirming a request for company wikipedia page

Please help me with... Good Morning, I want to confirm that a request for an article has been made on behalf of Uplift (https://www.uplift.com) as I am seeing it on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Business_and_economics/Companies/T-Z

I am a new marketing team member at the company and as we are not showing up in the Google Knowledge Panel, I came to Wikipedia. I had recently tried to write and submit my own but once that was swiftly deleted I dug a bit deeper and don't want to continue writing/submitting if this request for a page to be created on our behalf is true.

Thank you for your time! -Rachel RachelAnderson72489 (talk) 15:37, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Yes there is an active request recorded at requested articles, but you should be aware that a notice about a funding round is not considered a reference that can support notability. Requested articles are taken up by volunteers, no prediction can be made about when someone will pick your company to try to write an article. When they look at the reference, they may also decide that the request does not meet our requirements and delete it.

Google knowledge panels are gathered from a great many sources; it not something Wikipedia controls.

Attempts to promote your company on Wikipedia will be met with strong resistance. You should focus your efforts elsewhere. 16:10, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

July 2021

Hello RachelAnderson72489. 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:RachelAnderson72489. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=RachelAnderson72489|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. 331dot (talk) 16:45, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, I have disclosed my employer. I certainly do not want to appear black-hat so thank you for that insight. For now, after disclosing employment, I will not attempt to create a page or push the subject until it is organically done by other members of the community to avoid any COI. Thank you!

You can still create a draft, as you did before, and submit it for review via Wikipedia:Articles for creation. However, as stated in a warning above, you cannot violate copyright. You may have permission to use Uplift's material, but you are not the publisher of content on Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation is the publisher, and the Wikimedia Foundation has not been granted permission to republish copyrighted content. As someone who works in marketing, you may also find it difficult to write about Uplift in a neutral, non-promotional manner. Also see Wikipedia:Golden rule for a brief overview of what we expect to see before an article can be published here. ~Anachronist (talk) 07:11, 30 July 2021 (UTC)