User talk:Empey at Avast

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Your submission at Articles for creation: HideMyAss! has been accepted
 HideMyAss!, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer. Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Nosebagbear (talk) 15:14, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
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Congrats and a Paid Contributor Notice Query
Hi there!

Firstly, congrats on getting a draft through into mainspace - it's very difficult to do so as someone with a Paid COI since we look so carefully at it, but I think you did a good job at it. It still needs to be "patrolled" (that's like a second check that every single article goes through) but I'd be surprised if it fails that, given its quality.

Two things to note:

i) Now that it's an article, not a draft, if you have more than a typo or are correcting any vandalism, you need to suggest changes in the talk page rather than editing it directly. This comes with the nuisance if no-one is around to do it - for the moment I'd be happy to look at any changes you choose to make to it in the near-future (if any!).

ii) You've satisfied the base levels of notification for Conflict of Interest, however they could be improved if the proper templates were used (since they have the benefit of logging you onto the list of editors), as well as tagging the talk page of the shiny new article. Before I can suggest which template would work best I need to clarify something (it doesn't have any negative consequences!):
 * Are you being specifically paid for writing the article, either as a "write us an article" or a more general "market HMA in whichever fashion you think works best" or did you just choose to write an article on HMA because you knew it well?

Cheers :) Nosebagbear (talk) 15:35, 31 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you Nosebagbear. The HideMyAss! page looks good.  I have 3 items to get your input on:
 * Thank you Nosebagbear. The HideMyAss! page looks good.  I have 3 items to get your input on:


 * i) Is it ok for me to upload a logo for the infobox?
 * ii) Is it possible for you to add a statement to the HMA Disambiguation page that reads something like: HideMyAss!, a VPN privacy software company
 * iii) Is there any way you can help us to get our website (www.hidemyass.com) un-blacklisted (I think it is blacklisted because of the word "ass") so we can add it as a link in the infobox?
 * Empey at Avast (talk) 21:25, 12 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi, so alas I suspect my answers aren't going to be very helpful, but my brief summary of thoughts


 * i) Image copyright is so complicated on wiki that I don't believe I'm qualified to answer. I'd suggest asking at the Helpdesk.
 * ii) Yes that's fine - I'll do so now
 * iii) This is an interesting one - you may well be right as to the reasons that it's blacklisted, since there doesn't seem a specific reason HMA would be blocked. I'd suggest also asking this on the the helpdesk as the first port of call, otherwise asking on the edit filter talk page might work. Nosebagbear (talk) 17:34, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

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