User talk:DAZMasters

A belated welcome!
Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, DAZMasters. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page, consult Questions, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there.

Again, welcome! Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 23:56, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Venue to appeal deletion
Following our IRC conversation: If you want to appeal the deletion of your sandbox at User:DAZMasters/sandbox/ACE, you can use WP:Deletion review. I'd suggest you first try to contact the admin who deleted it, though. Huon (talk) 20:56, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

COI Sandbox Article
You have an obvious conflict of interest and you must declare it. If you work directly or indirectly for an organisation, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. If you are paid directly or indirectly by the organisation you are writing about, 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:. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:   . If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message.

Also read the following regarding writing an article
 * you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the organisation, press releases, Wikipedia, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the organisation claims or interviewing its management. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls. Most of your text was completely unsourced, the rest was sourced to your own or affiliated sites, not independent third-party sources
 * The notability guidelines for organisations and companies have been updated. The primary criteria has five components that must be evaluated separately and independently to determine if it is met:
 * significant coverage in
 * independent,
 * multiple,
 * reliable,
 * secondary sources.
 * Note that an individual source must meet all four criteria to be counted towards notability. There are so few actual facts amidst the promo, that it's hard to see any evidence of notability. To show notability you need hard verifiable facts such as the number of employees, funding or expenditure.


 * you must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. You appear to think that non-commercial organisations can promote themselves here, that's not the case. What you claim to be history is almost completely unsourced and largely fact- free promo, eg made unforgettable anti-litter ads... one of the most successful Public Service Ad (PSA) campaigns of all time... a very dynamic individual... claimed to have reduced litter in the County by 60 percent... However incredible that may sound&mdash; also note that quoting your founder's glowing praise of his own organisation is clearly spam.
 * there shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections. That's especially the case when they are spamlinks to your own projects
 * you must not copy text from elsewhere. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient. I note that you have posted great chunks of unreferenced and unwikilinked text in the history, so we need to know where that comes from

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read Your first article.

Before we can go any further in considering restoration, you must reply to the COI request above, clarify where the history is sourced from, make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above and check that you can find independent third party sources Jimfbleak - talk to me?  14:54, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Jimfbleak. Please e-mail the content provided in the sandbox article. I will not submit or edit further on this organization, unless I provide it for COI review first. However the work involved in creating the sandbox draft required much time and effort and I would like to have that information as it is not consolidated or captured elsewhere. Thank you for your detailed clarifications on the COI and Sources subjects. Highly enlightening. I will keep that in mind when I perform further editing on existing articles/pages. Thank you! DAZMasters (talk) 22:21, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment (ACE)
Nonprofit organization. User is unpaid board member and volunteer. Organization name change to EcoAction Arlington as of March 27, 2018

EcoAction Arlington
Nonprofit organization. User is unpaid board member and volunteer.

DAZMasters (talk) 22:22, 15 November 2018 (UTC)