User talk:Deer876

Speedy deletion nomination of Del Water Gap (musician)


A tag has been placed on Del Water Gap (musician) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.deezer.com/en/artist/6034444/biography. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Orphaned non-free image File:DEL WATER GAP - LP1 - ALBUM ART.jpeg
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Sammy Witte (June 10)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by CurryTime7-24 were:

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CurryTime7-24 (talk) 22:46, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Sammy Witte (June 10)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by CurryTime7-24 were:

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:Sammy Witte 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:Sammy_Witte Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:CurryTime7-24&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Sammy_Witte reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

CurryTime7-24 (talk) 22:46, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of Del Water Gap (album) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Del Water Gap (album) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Del Water Gap (album) until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. Mbdfar (talk) 23:37, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

July 2023
Hello Deer876. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Del Water Gap, 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:Deer876. 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. Graywalls (talk) 04:10, 2 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Hey ! Not being compensated for my edits - I've independently been working on an oral history of the music scene that came up around NYU in the late 2010's and when I started doing poking around and saw Del Water Gap didn't have a Wikipedia page I took it on as a project. I'm fairly new to Wikipedia so still learning how to work within the guidelines, so I'm sorry if I've broken any rules here. If it would be helpful to start populating the information I've gathered about other artists on other pages I'm happy to start doing that. I can provide more background information on the other artists and the scene I've been researching if that's helpful. Thank you! Deer876 (talk) 18:33, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Just seeing your note about the correspondence with the photographer above - Like I said, I've been in the process of gathering information for an independent oral history over the course of a few years now so have been in touch with a number of photographers, videographers, and journalists who have worked within the aforementioned scene in and around NYU. Let me know if I can help clear anything else up - thanks so much for your time, sorry again for any trouble! All best. Deer876 (talk) 22:26, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

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. Graywalls (talk) 06:17, 3 July 2023 (UTC)