User talk:Drowningprevention

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Happy editing! DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:00, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Drowningprevention. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Draft:World Drowning Prevention Day, 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:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:02, 5 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi there, thanks for your reply and for flagging the potential issues with conflict of interest. The page I have created is for a United Nations international day which currently does not have a Wikipedia entry, all other United Nations international days currently do have such pages. The page is entirely factual and I am not employed by the United Nations. I am happy to declare my employer if necessary, I work for a charity. Could you please advise what the next best step would be? I am not being compensated for this work and am completing this in a non-profit capacity, I also want to be entirely transparent and follow all of Wikipedia's policies and procedures rigorously. Thank you Drowningprevention (talk) 11:21, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for your quick response. I'm not a COI expert in any sense, but my understanding is that if you're not working for the UN or any organisation mentioned in the article, or any organisation that is in real life connected with the day, then you probably don't have a COI that needs to be declared. Whereas if you were working for, say, the RNLI (purely hypothetically), then you probably do have a COI, given that it is cited as a source in the article and probably somehow participates in organising events and publicity around the day. If you want to play it safe, you can err on the side of caution and declare a COI, even if you're not sure whether you strictly speaking must. How you do that is explained in the above message, 3rd bullet point ('disclose'). Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:04, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

April 2022
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Your submission at Articles for creation: World Drowning Prevention Day (April 14)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Rusalkii was:

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Rusalkii (talk) 20:17, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:World Drowning Prevention Day
Hello, Drowningprevention. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:World Drowning Prevention Day, 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) 21:03, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:World Drowning Prevention Day


Hello, Drowningprevention. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "World Drowning Prevention Day".

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. 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! 20:17, 14 October 2022 (UTC)