United1986

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Hello, United1986, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Draft:Mat Ishbia, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! RA0808 ^talk_contribs 15:30, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

RA0808 Hello and thank you. {{Help me}} I believe the disclosure has been made and since I am new, I am not really sure what to expect in regards to next steps. It has been a while since submitting so do you have any additional advice in regards to this? Thank you very much! United1986 (talk) 14:43, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Editing with a possible paid conflict of interest

Hello United1986. 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:United1986. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=United1986|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. SamHolt6 (talk) 15:42, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

SamHolt6 Hi, I believe I made the correction are you able to help me futher? United1986 (talk) 20:12, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for making the disclosure (which you seem to have done before my inquest, so pardon the repetition). Best. SamHolt6 (talk) 01:28, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

SamHolt6 Thank you for your response, this might be redundant, but I am new here, but what happens next? or how will I know if it is being reviewed? Any information would be extremely helpful. United1986 (talk) 14:35, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

As a paid editor you need to wait for a review via AFC. Do not continue moving your draft into mainspace. Praxidicae (talk) 16:25, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Mat Ishbia moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Mat Ishbia, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 21:39, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Mat Ishbia moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Mat Ishbia, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Megan☺️ ^{Talk to the monster} 16:43, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

Links to draft articles

Please do not introduce links in actual articles to draft articles, as you did to 1999–2000 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team. Since a draft is not yet ready for the main article space, it is not in shape for ordinary readers, and links from articles should not go to a draft. Such links are contrary to the Manual of Style. These links have been removed. Thank you. - Arjayay (talk) 11:05, 9 October 2020 (UTC)