User talk:Gimisis

AfC notification: Draft:Dimitra Markovitsi has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Dimitra Markovitsi. Thanks! Greenman (talk) 07:34, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Dimitra Markovitsi (July 2)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Gusfriend was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.


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Gusfriend (talk) 09:34, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Dimitra Markovitsi (January 1)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Pichemist was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Dimitra Markovitsi and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
 * If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
 * If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Dimitra_Markovitsi Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Pichemist&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Dimitra_Markovitsi reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Signed, Pichemist ( Contribs &#124; Talk ) 15:06, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

January 2023
Hello Gimisis. 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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:Gimisis. 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. MarioGom (talk) 08:54, 29 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Dear MarioGom,
 * I am a University Full Professor working at the Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (http://scholar.uoa.gr/gimisis/home ).
 * I have rarely been involved in editing wikipedia entries. A few months ago I decided to write a new entry about a recently retired colleague, Dr Dimitra Markovitsi, with whom we have had collaborated in various project and have published in peer review journals.
 * The reason I decided to submit this entry was that (1) Dr Dimitra Markovitsi has an impressive career and publication record worth noting (2) Dr Markovitsi is now an emeritus professor but her new webpage in the new institution will take some time to go online (3) wikipedia contains many entries on living researchers (3) I thought it would be an interesting experience, since I really believe in the "concept" of wikipedia (the idea of a free encyclopedia) that I would like to get involved after retirement.
 * The first entry that I submitted was turned down with some minor comment that I thought I covered with my second submission that was also turned down with the same comment! No help of what exactly was needed and at the same time wikipedia is full of entries very similar to the one I have submitted.
 * And now, with one entry still pending in "my portfolio", I'm being accused of having been paid? This is ridiculous! I have much better things to do and I'm sure that one entry submission for a colleague will definitely not solve my financial problems.
 * I believe that you should look elsewhere for financial interests. (Hint: maybe look at the editors of wikipedia that have the right to turn down submissions or editors that have submitted more than one entry, especially more than one entries about living persons?)
 * Sincerely,
 * Dr Thanasis Gimisis, Professor
 * Department of Chemistry
 * National & Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens
 * http://scholar.uoa.gr/gimisis Gimisis (talk) 09:45, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello . It turns out undisclosed paid editing in the academic world is fairly common, and there are even spam companies specialized in this area (see an example). An article for Dimitra Markovitsi appears to have been commissioned to one of such companies, but given you're clearly not them, you can ignore my above warning about paid editing. However, you should still read our policy on conflict-of-interest. Thank you. MarioGom (talk) 13:35, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Dimitra Markovitsi
Hello, Gimisis. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Dimitra Markovitsi, 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) 16:01, 3 June 2023 (UTC)