User talk:Gregbrown83

Your submission at Articles for creation: Rabidfest (August 3)
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Theroadislong (talk) 16:44, 3 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, thank you for your quick feedback. As you can likely see, this is my first time contributing to Wiki and I obviously need to familiarise myself better with how content is expected to be presented within the site. It is not my intention at all for the page to display as an advert, and to give you a bit of an idea what I was working towards, I was modelling the page on a similar event (Bloodstock UK). I would very much like to know in more detail what specific aspects of the page (if any), or if the entire page has breached policy so I can adjust the it accordingly. I must admit to being a bit suprised that the sources cited are not considered justifiable as these are written and published by independent reviewers or bloggers and are in no way created by myself or anyone associated with the running of the event.
 * Kindest regards.
 * Greg Gregbrown83 (talk) 18:07, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Rabidfest has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Rabidfest. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 18:23, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Paid editing
Hello Gregbrown83. 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:Gregbrown83. 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. Theroadislong (talk) 18:24, 3 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi Theroadislong, thank you for this. I can confirm that I am not being compensated directly or indirectly by the event or any of its partners. I hae also started editing the page to make it 100% factual and that it does not promote the event in any way. I will also work on the references and integrate them better into the page, rather than a list of random sites. Once I have completed this, I will resubmit for evaluation.
 * Many thanks for all your help so far.
 * Greg Gregbrown83 (talk) 11:59, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
 * A Google search of "Rabidfest+greg+brown" clearly shows a conflict of interest. Theroadislong (talk) 15:03, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
 * A Google search of "Rabidfest+greg+brown" clearly shows I am a director. I am confused how running an organisation and wanting it to have a Wiki page becomes a COI. As I have already stated, I do not earn anything from the event and I am not compensated for anything I put into the event, directly or indirectly. I am simply trying to create a Wiki page for the event, the same way that Bloodstock Open Air, Damnation Festival and many other events do. I've compared the aforementioned event pages and my own, and other than fixing the referencing, I see no differences. Please list in detail, what the differences are and what I need to do to fix them so I get get the page published. Alternatively, I can follow the guide to discolse employer, client and affiliation but I would be falsifying information. Or, you can keep rejecting this based on the assumption I'm trying to profit from the page. Gregbrown83 (talk) 16:27, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Being the director of Rabidfest is a VERY clear conflict of interest, you say you "want it to have a Wiki page" Wikipedia has zero "pages" it has articles about notable topics.The Damnation Festival also reads like an advertisement and it's not clear how it is notable either, please see other poor quality articles exist. Theroadislong (talk) 16:39, 4 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry for getting my terminology wrong. " Does I would like the event to have an article on Wikipedia" read better?
 * The article on notibality, although I don't agree with much of it, clearly states what is acceptable so at this stage, I think I will cut my losses.
 * Thank you have have a great day :) Gregbrown83 (talk) 17:28, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Rabidfest
Hello, Gregbrown83. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Rabidfest, 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) 17:02, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Rabidfest


Hello, Gregbrown83. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Rabidfest".

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. When 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! 18:36, 4 February 2023 (UTC)