User talk:Capt. Quinlan

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Again, welcome! John from Idegon (talk) 03:04, 20 July 2020 (UTC) John from Idegon (talk) 03:04, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Adding references can be easy
Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.

Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:
 * 1) While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
 * 2) Then click on "Templates".
 * 3) Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
 * 4) Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
 * 5) Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
 * 6) Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.
 * Before clicking on Publish changes, check that a References header  ==References==  is near the end of the article.
 * And check that    is directly underneath that header.
 * 7.Click on Publish changes. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.

You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.

Hope this helps, --John from Idegon (talk) 03:06, 20 July 2020 (UTC)


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July 2020
Hello Capt. Quinlan. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to WP:TEAHOUSE, 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 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:Capt. Quinlan. 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.

Please note this is a boilerplate message. We appreciate you being upfront. The links above will tell you how to "complete the paperwork". John from Idegon (talk) 03:11, 20 July 2020 (UTC) John from Idegon (talk) 03:08, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hello John from Idegon, many thanks for help and guidance. Yes, you are correct in assuming that I am receiving remuneration for time and effort spent attempting to rectify issues with this page. I had always intended to disclose fully when making a case on the BLP noticeboard. But following your advice, I have now done so on my User Page. I shall include the template in any future posts and proposals. I was also hoping that I could ask a follow-up question. As there appears to be no appropriate place to include a reference by reference challenge to the sources cited in the page in question, can I include a synopsis or bullet point list of the most illustrative cases on the BLP board, and then link to a full breakdown - hosted, say, on Google Docs - that goes through every ref? I look forward to hearing from you. Capt. Quinlan (talk) 12:31, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Sergey Young (August 31)
 Your recent article submission has been rejected. If you have further questions, you can ask 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:Sergey_Young Articles for creation help desk] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help. The reason left by K.e.coffman was: This topic is not sufficiently notable for inclusion in Wikipedia. The comment the reviewer left was: Does not meet WP:BASIC. Sources are in passing and / or WP:SPIP.

K.e.coffman (talk) 01:59, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Sergey Young
Hello, Capt. Quinlan. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Sergey Young, 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.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 02:04, 31 January 2022 (UTC)