Renial1

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:Kristian Alexander 2014.jpg

A tag has been placed on File:Kristian Alexander 2014.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated.

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File source and copyright licensing problem with File:Kristian Alexander 2015.jpg

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Possibly unfree File:Kristian Alexander 2015.jpg

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Kindred Spirits Orchestra (January 24)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Tagishsimon 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.

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Tagishsimon (talk) 04:05, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Renial1! 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! Tagishsimon (talk) 04:05, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Kindred Spirits Orchestra (January 24)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Justlettersandnumbers 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:Kindred Spirits Orchestra 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:Kindred Spirits Orchestra, 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.
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Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:40, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

January 2021

Hello, Renial1. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. 2601:188:180:B8E0:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 17:29, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Your email

Hi! You emailed me, but I don't see anything in your message that can't be discussed here. Much of the initial version of Kristian Alexander was copy-pasted from here or here or some similar promotional page. I've recently removed a good deal of that content as unsourced, but some remains. The page can be rewritten on this special page; if it is not, it may be deleted or reduced to a stub in a week or so from now.

Before you make any further edit relating to Alexander or the Kindred Spirits Orchestra you should disclose the nature of your conflict of interest in relation to these topics. If you receive or expect to receive any payment of any kind from either of them, disclosure is obligatory. Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:32, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

You've emailed me again, I still don't know why. For an idea of the extent of the copyvio problem, see this; as I said, a good deal of that has now been removed.

Paid or not, you still need to disclose the nature of your conflict of interest in relation to these topics – you seem to have made exactly one edit that is not directly related to them. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:16, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

Kristian Alexander

I've emailed you a copy of the deleted article Kristian Alexander in response to OTRS ticket 2021013010005245. As I noted in that email there are a number of other issues.

• You have a paid conflict of interest in respect of Kristian Alexander and Kindred Spirits Orchestra - https://ksorchestra.ca - which has had various pages, The Kindred Spirits Orchestra (KSO), Draft:The Kindred Spirits Orchestra (KSO), Draft:Kindred Spirits Orchestra created by Tarrazu (talk · contribs) on 2 Jan and by you on 23 Jan. You have been asked to declare your conflict of interest 1, 2, 3 times, and have not yet done so, contrary to Wikipedia's terms of use.
• Prior to creating the KSO draft Tarrazu had been inactive as an editor for some years. What is your connection to Tarrazu?
• OTRS emails are not an alternative forum for discussions about content. Decisions about content are at the discretion of the whole community, and cannot be overturned by off-wiki discussion.
• You may release the copyright for your text. That does not guarantee its acceptance. Material authored for KA's own website or the orchestra's website is almost certainly non-encyclopedic in tone (repeatedly referring to Alexander as Maestro Kristian Alexander is a glaring example of the problem). - Cabayi (talk) 12:26, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Cabayi, I don't have a paid conflict of interest in respect of Kristian Alexander and Kindred Spirits Orchestra. I can't declare a paid conflict of interest whereas there is none. The Kindred Spirits Orchestra is a public charity registered with the Government of Canada. My position is volunteer-based (I am not paid for any and all of my services). I don't know who Tarrazu is - I have never been in communication with him/her. The article Kristian Alexander was accepted by Wiki editor several years ago and it was published. The tone of the Wiki article is encyclopedic (there are no references to Alexander as Meastro) - there are such references on the KSOrchestra.ca but not in the Kristian Alexander. The notability of the article and the content were already approved by Wiki several years ago when the article was published. Renial1 (talk) 02:43, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

Renial1, you should learn to sign your talk-page posts with four tildes. Whether or not you think your relationship to Alexander and the orchestra is paid COI is beside the point – what you need to do is to fully and transparently disclose your connection to these topics. Once you've done that we'll let you know whether or not that relationship falls under our paid-editing policy. Until such disclosure is made, any further edit relating to, referring to, or in any way discussing, Kristian Alexander or the Kindred Spirits Orchestra is very likely to lead to the indefinite suspension of your editing privileges – you've been asked over and over again to make disclosure, and have done nothing but prevaricate. Now it's time to choose: either abide by our policies, or find somewhere else to write about this person and his activities. Thank you, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:23, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Justlettersandnumbers, Renial1 has already placed a COI declaration on their userpage. Cabayi (talk) 21:11, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Indeed so, Cabayi. But that is not a full and transparent disclosure of the nature of that COI, so we can't really determine from it whether or not this is paid editing as defined by our policies. If there's been such a full disclosure I have missed it, and apologise in advance if I've done so. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:57, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Cabayi, I am not sure if Justlettersandnumbers read my complete and transparent disclosure above (see my post at 02:43, 25 February 2021 UTC). Please advise how to bring this to his attention and is there anything else I am expected to do?