User talk:Essex74

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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 Jimfbleak. 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 or company, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, logs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the company or 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
 * Your references included Wikipedia, which is not an independent third-party source


 * 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.
 * I don't think a purely local party is notable, see this policy, your references don't indicate significant national or global coverage, and you don't tell us much about the party, such as membership, income and expenditure. I believe that political parties are legally required to keep financial records


 * You must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews.
 * So what we have is no real facts apart from the election results, links to your councillors' websites and your objectives, which all looks pretty promotional to me


 * There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
 * See above


 * 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've seen worse, but even with better content and sourcing, you might fail on notability.

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 and remember to declare any COI Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:23, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

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OK I understand. Thank you very much for taking the time to explain. I will consider what you have said carefully and won't resubmit the entry until the notability criteria has been met and obviously all the other requirements too. I have a great deal of respect for the work you and others do to maintain Wikipedia's integrity. Have a good day! Essex74 (talk) 09:58, 4 April 2023 (UTC)