User talk:Derekguthrie

AfC notification: Draft:Alastair Little has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Alastair Little. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 19:29, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

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Hello, Derekguthrie, and welcome to Wikipedia! I have noticed that you are fairly new! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. I also see that some of your recent edits show an interest in the use of images and/or photos on Wikipedia.

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I've just spent several hours creating a new contribution. I previewed it. Looked fine. It seems to have entirely disappeared. What did I do wrong?

Your submission at Articles for creation: Brindisa (October 29)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Curb Safe Charmer were:

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Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 20:20, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

October 2021
Hello Derekguthrie. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Brindisa, 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.

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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:Derekguthrie. 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. Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 20:22, 29 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello Curb Safe Charmer
 * I thought I had answered your points previously but I may be mistaken. Forgive my amateurism, Wikipedia can be a confusing place for novices. I am a writer and frequently write material for no compensation if I think the content is worthwhile, as is the case here. I thought I had answered this point last October.
 * I have resubmitted the draft Brindisa article two months ago. It awaits approval. In my view the subjectmatter is notable and I have endeavoured to substantiate every point with clear, unambiguous, creditable independent sourcing, as directed, which I did as a reader at the British Library in London. Derekguthrie (talk)DerekGuthrie Derekguthrie (talk) 12:06, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Pinging Curb Safe Charmer, in case you have not watchlisted this page. TSventon (talk) 12:58, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Brindisa
Hi Derekguthrie, I saw your Draft:Brindisa while doing research for a new article.

You asked at WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk about how to resolve the problem‎ of using the wrong sources as reference, and potentially too much of their own material. My suggestion is
 * look for sources which are independent of the company
 * decide whether the sources are sufficient to meet the Wikipedia notability criteria for companies, especially that it has been the subject of significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject, see Notability (organizations and companies) for details
 * if the company is notable, rewrite the article using references to independent sources
 * this should avoid the problem of inheriting a promotional tone from sources produced by the company

I followed these steps when writing an article on the nearby Monmouth Coffee Company. My article is a lot shorter than your draft, but hopefully can be expanded using the sources I have found. TSventon (talk) 08:53, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi TSventon TSventon Apologies if I'm submitting this on the wrong page. I can't seem to access the forum page you submitted today (December 29). FYI after my submission was rejected I started a search for more authoritative sources and found several (including the ones you have cited). There are a lot more which are not online but held in newspaper libraries. I am working on that to now and plan to resubmit the article when it is complete. The Holidays have intervened! best regards DerekguthrieDerekguthrie (talk) 18:33, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi, the ping worked, so I got your message. I have answered on the other page. TSventon (talk) 18:53, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi again, I am glad to see you have resubmitted the draft with more independent sources. I saw some reference error messages and was able to fix most of them, except the Lander, Nicholas (27 April 1996) Financial Times reference, which needs to have the title of the article added. TSventon (talk) 13:14, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

TSventon Thank you for your help and comments. I don't think there is a title for the article written by Lander, Nicholas as it appears to be his own column called 'Nick Lander' Like a lot of the sources I researched in the British Library's newspaper archives I traced a link from the original microfiche/hard copy clipping.

Thank you, I have added 'Nick Lander' as the title. I have also added a sentence about the importance of Brindisa along with Neal's Yard Dairy and Monmouth Coffee at Borough. The source mentions Brindisa at Exmouth Market as well as Borough. TSventon (talk) 00:24, 6 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Can I ask your advice/help? I'm not clear where my draft contribution 'Brindisa' has gone. It seems to have been moved to a kind of discussion page about food and drink. Is it still awaiting approval for publication? Sorry to trouble you, but there are aspects of Wikipedia I'm puzzled by. Thankyou Derekguthrie (talk) 21:35, 21 March 2022 (UTC)DerekGuthrie


 * Draft:Brindisa still exists and is still awaiting approval for publication, see the category "Pending AfC submissions" at the bottom. There are 33 unapproved pages of the same age, so it is not unusual. You created a blank talk page for the draft on 19 March, Draft talk:Brindisa, and I added a project banner, which is a normal part of a Wikipedia talk page. You can click between the draft page and its talk page using the tabs in the top left corner. I hope that makes sense, if not let me know. TSventon (talk) 22:06, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Perfect sense, thank you. I've also just discovered the complete contribution, by accident really, via everybodywiki which allowed me to see the edits you carried out. Thank you for that, much appreciated. Derekguthrie (talk) 22:24, 21 March 2022 (UTC)Derekguthrie
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:TSventon
 * Hi, any tips on finding out when my draft (Brindisa) is likely to be looked at? Derekguthrie (talk) 21:47, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I don't have much experience of Articles for Creation, but I think that it is pretty random. There are 3,057 pending submissions, of which 1925 are in Category:Draft articles on business and economics, so the queue is quite long. You could ask the reviewer who rejected your first submission if they could take another look or you could publish the article yourself. In any case the main issue is whether you have established Brindisa is WP:NOTABLE by finding multiple independent reliable sources with significant coverage of the subject. There is an essay, WP:THREE, that suggests that highlighting the three best sources is a good way of making it easier for editors to assess notability, so you could highlight the three best sources on the article talk page. I can't see the Times references, so I don't know how many of your sources have significant coverage of the company. I have merged some duplicate references to make it easier to review the references. TSventon (talk) 06:30, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, thank you for that. I'll explore as best I can.
 * Incidentally, on an entirely different subject, I read your Monmouth Coffee entry. I knew Nick Saunders, I sold Alternative London with him in the 70s when he lived in Edith Grove. Long time ago! Derekguthrie (talk) 10:12, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Writing the Monmouth Coffee article reminded me how long ago the 70s were. I only know the company as a recent customer, (not when Nick Saunders was involved), but hope to get to Westminster reference library at some point to find more sources. TSventon (talk) 15:42, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello again. Did you see my latest message to you on the draft brindisa page?
 * thankyou
 * Derekguthrie (talk) 11:53, 28 July 2022 (UTC)derekguthrie

AfC notification: Draft:Brindisa has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Brindisa. Thanks! valereee (talk) 15:27, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Brindisa (May 30)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Valereee was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

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valereee (talk) 20:25, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Brindisa
Hello, Derekguthrie. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Brindisa, 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.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 20:04, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Brindisa


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

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. 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.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 21:25, 4 February 2023 (UTC)