User talk:BMilinski22

Your submission at Articles for creation: BayCare Clinic (November 1)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Ratnahastin was:

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Ratnahastin (talk) 12:26, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

November 2023
Hello BMilinski22. 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:BMilinski22. 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. 331dot (talk) 14:18, 1 November 2023 (UTC)


 * I am not being compensated for this article. BMilinski22 (talk) 14:45, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * What is your connection with the clinic? You don't have to be specifically compensated for editing to be a paid editor.  As I noted at the Teahouse, you claimed you personally created the Clinic logo and have the authority to make it available for anyone to use for any purpose with attribution. 331dot (talk) 14:47, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I did not create the logo - I uploaded it, however. I do work for the clinic - how do I disclose that? Essentially I am just trying to get a wiki page stood up as it is a real organization... what alternate route do I have - or can I simply disclose my connection to the clinic. I am just not sure how to do so. Thank you for your guidance. BMilinski22 (talk) 14:57, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * First you must immediately request deletion of the logo from Commons. Commons only hosts images that are free of copyright issues(public domain, or those that have specifically been released with a license compatible with Commons). Logos may be uploaded to this Wikipedia specifically and used under "fair use" rules(which does carry some restrictions like being unable to be used in drafts).  See WP:UPIMAGE for more information.
 * Images/logos are not relevant to the draft approval process anyway, which only considers the text and sources. You don't need to worry about images until and if the draft is accepted and placed in the encyclopedia.
 * Please follow the instructions in my initial post above, which desribe how to properly disclose on your user page, User:BMilinski22. 331dot (talk) 15:02, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I forgot to explain that uploading it to Commons means that you release the image for use by anyone for any purpose with attribution- your Clinic may not want to do that; for example, it would mean that anyone could take the image, print it on merchandise, and sell it and your clinic would not be entitled to any money from the sale of its own logo. Your clinic can release its logo if it really wants to, but that must explicitly be done. 331dot (talk) 15:04, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you - I have deleted the Logo as a first step. I will disclose myself as a close connection to the company. BMilinski22 (talk) 15:25, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * How do I edit the draft title, or can I just place the following in the body of the article Draft? ?
 * BMilinski22 (talk) 15:46, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * The specific title of the draft is immaterial; it will be placed at the proper title when it is accepted. In terms of declaring, the one you provide here is for an unpaid conflict of interest- you need to make the paid editing disclosure by placing the following on your user page as you see it here and then clicking publish changes: That will be sufficient for now; draft talk page disclosures can come later. 331dot (talk) 15:52, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I believe I did this correctly. Appreciate the guidance so far. BMilinski22 (talk) 15:59, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * BMilinski22 (talk) 16:05, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I've fixed it for proper display, there was coding in place to suppress its display. 331dot (talk) 16:08, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, so what is the next step in getting my draft published? - re-submitting it? BMilinski22 (talk) 16:09, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * You can continue to work on the draft. Writing a new article is the most difficult task to perform on Wikipedia, even without a conflict of interest/paid relationship.  Most articles are typically written by independent editors wholly unconnected with the subject- though it is not forbidden for COI editors to submit drafts.
 * The draft article should not merely detail the offerings of the clinic and describe its routine activities(like building new facilities which most businesses/organizations do, or having a charitable Foundation). It must summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about the clinic and what makes it important/significant/influential- what we call notability.  See WP:ORG. Most organizations see what they do as significant- we want to know that others unaffiliated with the clinic do. See Your First Article. 331dot (talk) 16:20, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Also is there a way to change my username out here? CarrotCake (talk) 16:17, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * You may change your username via Special:GlobalRenameRequest or WP:CHUS. 331dot (talk) 16:20, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * You may change your username via Special:GlobalRenameRequest or WP:CHUS. 331dot (talk) 16:20, 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: BayCare Clinic (December 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 Ca 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 after they have been resolved.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:BayCare Clinic and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
 * If you do not edit your draft in the next 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/New_question&withJS=MediaWiki:AFCHD-wizard.js&page=Draft:BayCare_Clinic Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ca&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:BayCare_Clinic reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Ca talk to me!  12:16, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:BayCare Clinic


Hello, BMilinski22. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "BayCare Clinic".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When 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.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. ✗ plicit  01:30, 1 July 2024 (UTC)