User talk:KelseyLProudman
Welcome![edit]
Hi, KelseyLProudman. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or . Csgir (talk) 12:34, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you so much for your warm welcome Csgir! I am new here and there is so much to learn, I really love the community support! I will check out those pages as I work to get my contributions in better shape. I really appreciate your kindness to a newbie! Cheers KelseyLProudman (talk) 20:14, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
- You're most welcome @KelseyLProudman:. I noticed that the Health Coach Institute has been nominated for deletion discussion and I, unfortunately, have to second the nominator's opinion. While the page needs a lot of textual modification, a Google search of the institute does not yield significant coverage, except for maybe the Forbes one. I understand how you would feel; we all make mistakes as a new editor here - give it time and keep on pouring through Wikipedia manuals on WP:NOTABILITY. Csgir (talk) 04:58, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
- There is one more Forbes article I can include, but it pretty much seems like your minds are made up so ... I appreciate all your insights and guidance. I know now what not to do in the future! Thank you - happy holidays. KelseyLProudman (talk) 13:41, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
- You're most welcome @KelseyLProudman:. I noticed that the Health Coach Institute has been nominated for deletion discussion and I, unfortunately, have to second the nominator's opinion. While the page needs a lot of textual modification, a Google search of the institute does not yield significant coverage, except for maybe the Forbes one. I understand how you would feel; we all make mistakes as a new editor here - give it time and keep on pouring through Wikipedia manuals on WP:NOTABILITY. Csgir (talk) 04:58, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
Nomination of Health Coach Institute for deletion[edit]
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Health Coach Institute 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/Health Coach Institute 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. Praxidicae (talk) 15:47, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
December 2019[edit]
Hello KelseyLProudman. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.
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, and if it does not, 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:KelseyLProudman. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=KelseyLProudman|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. Praxidicae (talk) 16:32, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
- Sorry, I just saw this one -- I had responded on the Deletion page (part of this is my response from that page with some new thoughts added). I'm still getting the lay of the land here and I want to take the time to Thank you Praxidicae for your thoroughness in adhering to Wikipedia standards. You have an impressive reputation here and I"d like to learn more from you. I can assure you this is a passion project for me, and my only request is you allow me to cite some more secondary sources and independent coverage. My biggest mistake was pride/ego related in wanting to create my first page (of which I hope there are many!) without adding in the expanse of independent sources out there -- just to see it live and feel that sense of meaning that comes with creating something new and offering it to the world. I had planned on adding the independent/secondary sources over time, and chipping away at it. Please give me some time today to round off this page with these citations. Thank you in advance for your consideration. I never intended for this to look like a commercial exploit. I hope to offer many more pages around health/nutrition/literature/comedy that meet Wikipedia standards.KelseyLProudman (talk) 20:37, 20 December 2019 (UTC)