User talk:Guinnesslassie

Your submission at Articles for creation: Helen Leahey (October 16)
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 Comr Melody Idoghor  (talk)  17:34, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Helen Leahey (October 24)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong 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:Helen Leahey and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Theroadislong (talk) 08:29, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

October 2023
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article, or a draft for a Wikipedia article, about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Notable people who have edited Wikipedia). If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 09:19, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Hello Guinnesslassie. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Helen Leahey, 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:Guinnesslassie. 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. DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:00, 24 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello and thank you very much for taking the time to read my question and help. I am not being paid to create this article. I am a fan of Leahey and have offered her to watch her online presence in a 'managerial' capacity, but I am not being financially rewarded for this. Do I need to disclose this information and if yes, how? I have no employer and Leahey is not my client. Many thanks once again for your advice. Guinnesslassie (talk) 09:15, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
 * You will need to disclose an unpaid conflict of interest- please see WP:COI for instructions on how to do this. If you find the coding too challenging, you may just type out a statement on your user page to the effect of "I have a conflict of interest with regards to Helen Leahey who has asked me to represent her". Please see the advice you were given on the AFC Help Desk. 331dot (talk) 09:18, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi there, I have disclosed this now on my page. I hope how I did it was right. Is it ok for me to move on now and continue editing the article? All the advice and comments have been noted and the article will be edited further accordingly. Many thanks once again. Guinnesslassie (talk) 09:47, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
 * You may continue to edit and submit the draft. The biggest problem you have is that your sources are either interviews with Ms. Leahey, brief mentions of her, or are unreliable sources(like IMDB which is user-editable). Sources are needed that on their own offer significant coverage of her and describe what they see as significant about her. A Guinness record by itself won't do it- if the claim to notability is her hitting the lowest note possible, sources that write about that are what is being looked for. The Guinness record is just an indicator of notability, not notable itself.
 * I would also add that Wikipedia policy is to omit height from a biography unless it is somehow relevant to the career of the subject or similar, like for an athlete. 331dot (talk) 23:29, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
 * I will make the changes you suggested. Regarding IMBd - to be added as a cast member for any production you must contact the team first to verify (either with a screenshot of the credit or payslips). It is not possible to enter a credit without significant proof. Wishing you a great day and thank you very much 331dot! Guinnesslassie (talk) 13:35, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
 * With regards to IMDB I can only tell you what policy here is in that area, see WP:IMDB as well as WP:CITEIMDB. 331dot (talk) 13:42, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Helen Leahey has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Helen Leahey. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 11:25, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Helen Leahey has been accepted
 Helen Leahey, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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Thanks again, and happy editing! WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 20:08, 6 November 2023 (UTC)