User talk:Alexsumas

Your submission at Articles for creation: Jeff Brown (grocer) (August 25)
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AngusW🐶🐶F ( bark  •  sniff ) 21:58, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Mandatory paid editing disclosure
Hello Alexsumas. 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:Alexsumas. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. 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. ~Anachronist (talk) 16:23, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Photos for draft:Jeff Brown (grocer)
Alexsumas, I was checking the documentation for the photos used in your draft, and see that all photos are listed as being the work of DahnDynasty. If he or she did take all of the photos (and didn't just photograph someone else's photos) that is fine, that person has the right to allow the photos to be used on Wikimedia Commons. However, the date of the photos are all August 2021, even the photo of an 1989 wedding. The date is to be when the photo was originally taken, not the date it was uploaded. And if DahnDynasty wasn't the original photographer, the photos can't be listed as being "own work."

The reason I'm mentioning this is because I recently added some photos of old photos and illustrations to Wikimedia Commons, and because I didn't understand how things were done I listed the date as being when I uploaded them, and said it was my own work because I took the modern photos of old illustrations. Some more knowledgeable people contacted me, and I was told I may be violating copyright laws, and some of the photos would be deleted if I couldn't show that the photos weren't copyrighted. I had a difficult time getting everything properly dated, and all the acknowledgments sorted out. If you know who DahnDynasty is please contact the person and tell him or her to correct the dates, and (if someone else took the original photos) obtain proper permission for the photos to be shared. Unfortunately I learned that there are some people monitoring Wikimedia Commons who aren't too kind when corresponding with newcomers, so it would be best for DahnDynasty to get things sorted out before being sent notices from someone else.

Best wishes on making changes to your draft article. Karenthewriter (talk) 05:23, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Jeff Brown (grocer)
Hello, Alexsumas. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Jeff Brown (grocer), a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again&#32;or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 00:13, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Jeff Brown (grocer)


Hello, Alexsumas. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Jeff Brown".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 17:00, 30 March 2022 (UTC)