User talk:Annaspencer13

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Happy editing! Nick Moyes (talk) 15:09, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikilinks and External links.
Hello. Just a small correction to your helpful edit summaries: When you add around a word, we call that a 'WIKILINK' as it is an internal link to another Wikipedia article. By contrast, an External link goes to another website entirely. External links only appear in a separate section at the bottom of an article, and never within the main body of text. For very obvious names, like Japan, there's often little need to wikilink it as it is universally known (though it does no harm to have it). By contrast, I've corrected your wikilink in Local nature reserve so that it directs to Scottish Natural Heritage via a REDIRECT to its new name, as a link to Scottish Gaelic was simply not correct. But not to worry - it's a learning curve and I appreciate your starting your editing journey today. You might wish to try out The Wikipedia Adventure for a fun, interactive tour of editing here. Regards, Nick Moyes (talk) 15:23, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

Overlinking.
Hi Annaspencer13, I noticed you added a wikilink to Japan in the Oda Nobunaga article. Thanks for the edit summary. Just FYI -- at some point in the near future someone is likely to remove that wikilink because it duplicates an identical wikilink two sentences earlier. The general idea is that although wikilinks can be useful to an article, they distract the reader from the article text and so duplicates should be avoided, since the duplicates add no value. The detailed explanation is here and here. Best wishes,

Dieter.Meinertzhagen (talk) 06:17, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

COI
Do you have an affiliation with Ben Kallos or Cypherpunk Holdings Inc.? If you do, you need to declare it per WP:COI. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 15:43, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

October 2021
Hello Annaspencer13. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Ben Kallos, 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:Annaspencer13. 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. BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 16:12, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Response by Annaspencer13 copied from BubbaJoe123456's talk page: Hello. I did check your message on my talk page. I'm actually new to Wikipedia hence, I was just trying to contribute to Wikipedia pages based on my research. I'm not a paid advocate. If there's anyway you could help me understand better I would be really thankful. Also I did understand that we should create articles via the Articles Creation process. I will keep that in mind. Do let me know when can I start creating articles as you said not to make any edit further before replying. Thankyou so much.

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 16:13, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Taylor Jeffs


A tag has been placed on Taylor Jeffs, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. firefly ( t · c ) 17:02, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Comment on my talk page
Hello Annaspencer13, I got your message on my talk page, and thought I'd respond here. As you were told when you asked at Village Pump, creating new articles is really not a good way to get started with Wikipedia - work on editing and improving existing articles until you get the hang of it. With that said, I'll be frank: your pattern of editing is highly unusual for a new editor. You started out with ten very minor edits (which just happens to be the number required for an account to be autoconfirmed), and then added a huge amount of information (much of it promotional) to V. Raghavan. The next day, you again made a large number of highly promotional edits to Manhattan House. You then created a new article for Taylor Jeffs, and added a huge amount of (again, promotional) material to Ben Kallos (far beyond "a few edits"). You've said that the V. Raghavan and Manhattan House edits were based on "research" you did. Honestly, I'm having a hard time figuring out the circumstances in which someone would decide to "research" and make large additions to such an unusual range of topics (a Sanskrit scholar, a NYC city council member, the CEO of a company that plans events for theme parks, and a NYC apartment building) right off the bat. Typically, when we see this kind of behavior in a new user, it's an indication of some form of paid editing, which is why I asked you about it above. Can you provide any insight into how you decided to edit those particular articles? Thanks, BubbaJoe123456 (talk) 16:41, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Let's add Draft:Tony Vázquez-Figueroa to the list of highly unusual edits that strongly resemble what we have seen in paid editors in the past.  --- Possibly &#9742; 17:08, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Taylor Jeffs moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, Taylor Jeffs, is not suitable 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 " " 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. In its present state I do not believe ity will survive a deletion process, so I have moved duty back to draft. Fiddle Timtrent Faddle Talk to me 19:11, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Taylor Jeffs (October 20)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Timtrent was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

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Fiddle Timtrent Faddle Talk to me 19:14, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Annaspencer13! Your additions to Draft:Tony Vázquez-Figueroa have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.


 * You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
 * Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Close paraphrasing. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
 * We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
 * If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a legally designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. Understand, though, that unlike many other sites, where a person can license their content for use there and retain non-free ownership, that is not possible at Wikipedia. Rather, the release of content must be irrevocable, to the world, into either the public domain (PD) or under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. Such a release must be done in a verifiable manner, so that the authority of the person purporting to release the copyright is evidenced. See Donating copyrighted materials.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 14:58, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Taylor Jeffs (October 26)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Praxidicae were:

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PRAXIDICAE🌈 16:14, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Taylor Jeffs (November 5)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Slywriter was:

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:Taylor Jeffs and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Slywriter (talk) 02:06, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Alice Jacobs has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Alice Jacobs. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 07:58, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Alice Jacobs (November 9)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Robert McClenon was:

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.


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Robert McClenon (talk) 15:57, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of The Gibbons Group - Real Estate Team


A tag has been placed on The Gibbons Group - Real Estate Team, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. Giraffer (talk·contribs) 21:52, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

November 2021
 Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must: GeneralNotability (talk) 21:58, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
 * State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
 * Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future.

Your submission at Articles for creation: Alice Jacobs (November 9)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong 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:Alice Jacobs and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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 * If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Alice_Jacobs Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Theroadislong&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Alice_Jacobs reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Theroadislong (talk) 22:02, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Tony Vázquez-Figueroa (January 22)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by FormalDude was:

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:Tony Vázquez-Figueroa 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:Tony Vázquez-Figueroa, 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.
 * If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
 * If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Tony_V%C3%A1zquez-Figueroa Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:FormalDude&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Tony_V%C3%A1zquez-Figueroa reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

–– FormalDude  talk  09:22, 22 January 2022 (UTC)