User talk:Hondo2160

A belated welcome!


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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Nathan2055talk - contribs 20:13, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

September 2020
Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Smooth-On, from its old location at User:Hondo2160/sandbox. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. Nathan2055talk - contribs 20:13, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

Paid editing?
Hello Hondo2160. 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:Hondo2160. 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) 14:36, 26 September 2020 (UTC)


 * I have updated my user page with the mandatory disclosure Hondo2160 (talk) 15:19, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Smooth-On has been accepted
 Smooth-On, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

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Thanks again, and happy editing! 2pou (talk) 02:16, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Smooth-On for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Smooth-On is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Smooth-On until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Tinton5 (talk) 21:42, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Smooth-On moved to draftspace
Per your request, Smooth-On has been moved 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. ST47 (talk) 02:55, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Smooth-On


A tag has been placed on Draft:Smooth-On, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the.  DGG ( talk ) 05:50, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Smooth-on
So, a couple examples are things like "distributed to a global market"; "distributed" is marketing jargon for "sold", because the former makes the company sound more altruistic, "global market" also reads like something nobody other than a marketer would say "sold to domestic and international customers" or something is probably closer to what a disinterested party might say. Ditto something like "to address the decline in iron and rise in plastics for industrial manufacturing"; again, it reads like they're trying to do other people a favour. There's probably a lot of ways it might be re-phrased; I'm struggling a little because I'm not completely clear on what they were doing. Presumably, it was either unprofitable to keep making metal products, or they were trying to exploit (capitalise on?) the increasing demand for plastic products? These aren't debilitating, but they do read a bit like marketing jargon is creeping in (certainly, when I write articles, the kind of jargon used in what I'm reading creeps into how I write). Wily D 15:48, 4 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you Wily, I have made some changes to make the content more concise per your suggestions. Hondo2160 (talk) 16:56, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Smooth-On (March 28)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by VersaceSpace 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 when they have been resolved.


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versacespace talk to me  14:48, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Smooth-On
Hello, Hondo2160. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Smooth-On, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion under CSD G13. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 15:03, 28 August 2021 (UTC)