User talk:CaitPatterson

I was wondering if someone could help me with my draft? I am a beginner here and looking for some help to know I am going in the right direction to publish a page.
 * The sources you have offered are all brief mentions (mostly the giving of a, frankly unremarkable "award") or routine announcements. Wikipedia articles should summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage say about an article subject, showing how it meets Wikipedia's special definition of notability(in this case, the definition of a notable company).  The mere announcement of an award, especially if the award itself does not merit an article like Academy Award or Tony Award, is not significant coverage.
 * Be advised that successfully writing a new article is the absolute hardest thing that you can do on Wikipedia. It's good to learn as much as you can about it first- either by spending time editing existing articles in areas that interest you, to get a feel for what is being looked for in article content, or by reading Your First Article and using the new user tutorial.
 * I would also ask if you are associated with this company in some way- if so, you must review conflict of interest and paid editing for information on formal disclosures you could be required to make. 331dot (talk) 12:44, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

April 2020
Hello CaitPatterson. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:THEO Technologies, 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. 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:CaitPatterson. 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. Jack Frost (talk) 01:54, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

May 2020
Hi CaitPatterson! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor&#32;at List of streaming media systems that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia — it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. —J. M. (talk) 16:05, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello, CaitPatterson. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.—J. M. (talk) 16:05, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

June 2020
Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions did not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you.—J. M. (talk) 15:13, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:THEO Technologies


Hello, CaitPatterson. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "THEO Technologies".

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 by following the instructions at this link. 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! 03:40, 19 November 2020 (UTC)