User talk:Csburdick
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Freebird (grooming brand) (April 3)
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Hello, Csburdick!
Having an article draft 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! Old-AgedKid (talk) 11:40, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Freebird (grooming brand) (May 2)
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May 2025
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Hello Csburdick. 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:Csburdick. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Csburdick|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. This is a pre-written message I've placed here just to provide you with the instructions. 331dot (talk) 13:22, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- Ok I added that disclosure as requested. Not sure what the next steps here are. Thank you. Csburdick (talk) 14:00, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- First, I would request deletion of the logo(apologies if you saw my earlier message at the help desk). Images are not relevant to the draft process, so you can worry about uploading the logo properly later.
- As I said, the draft actually tells very little about the company. The main purpose of a Wikipedia article is to summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about the company, showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable company. You've mostly told of the company's products; I'd remove all that. You need to set aside what you know about the company/what they told you, all materials that it puts out(i.e. interviews, press releases), all announcements of the routine business activities of the company, and brief mentions of the company, and only summarize sources with significant coverage of the company. "Significant coverage" is that which goes into detail as to what the sources see as important/significant/influential about the company. This can include discussion of what independent sources see as the history of the company(not what the company sees as its own history), discusson about what is seen by independent sources as the particular influence of this company on the grooming/shaving industry, things like that. If you have sources like that, limit yourself to summarizing what they say for now.
- Note that our articles are typically written by independent editors wholly unconnected with the topic- Remington employees/contractors almost certainly didn't write Remington (personal care brand), if they did and failed to disclose it as you did, they would be violating the Terms of Use. Note that the Remington article has some maintenance tags on it, indicating that some aspects of the article are problematic- it's probably not the best article to use as a model. Use articles that are classified as good articles instead, these have received community vetting. 331dot (talk) 14:14, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Ludwig scale. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 13:29, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- Apologies, I thought the additions I made to that article were valuable since it was lacking information, and simply used that URL as a source. I'll keep that in mind moving forward. Csburdick (talk) 13:43, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
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