User talk:GDN909

MMC Ventures moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, MMC Ventures, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Lapablo (talk) 20:48, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Hello! I’m quite new to Wikipedia, but I thought I had done a decent enough job in terms of citations to warrant the inclusion of this entry. I see that you’ve also tagged the (draft) article that it may be paid for. That is not the case. I’m just trying to contribute articles to wiki about a space that I’m interested. It’s a little disheartening to see that my contribution has been flagged as suspicious. GDN909 (talk) 21:13, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

, I understand how you may feel and how much work you may have put into it. Your article is still intact but just in draftspace. Can you explain how you got to write about this startups? Lapablo (talk) 21:27, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

I like to read about VC funds and fast growing startups on TechCrunch in my spare time, for fun. I’m hoping that one day I can become an investor. I saw that some of the companies and VC funds that TechCrunch writes about don’t often have Wiki entries, or their journalists are reporting on startups who have Wiki pages which are very out of date. GDN909 (talk) 21:53, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

June 2020
Hello GDN909. The nature of your edits 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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:GDN909. 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. Lapablo (talk) 21:05, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

I see. Hmm this all seems a bit heavy handed but I understand the wider issue that’s trying to be addressed. However, that’s the not case here, and it’s a shame that Wikipedia’s stance is to assume that someone who enjoys writing about a particular subject must some vested financial interest that they’re not disclosing. I won’t be making any further contributions. I just fancied a new hobby. GDN909 (talk) 21:24, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:MMC Ventures


Hello, GDN909. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "MMC Ventures".

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 06:43, 14 December 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Stride.VC


Hello, GDN909. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Stride.VC".

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 22:55, 23 December 2020 (UTC)