User talk:Hrdubois

October 2021
Hello Hrdubois. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Father Joe's Villages, 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:Hrdubois. 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. Longhair\talk 20:42, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Draft:Father Joe's Villages, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Hrdubois, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. Longhair\talk 23:53, 10 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi, I seem to be dealing with a bit of a catch 22 here. I tried adding the paid template to my user page and received an error stating that I don't have an actual user page. Please advise. Thank you! Hrdubois (talk) 22:15, 11 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Your userpage is located at User:Hrdubois. -- Longhair\talk 07:43, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. I added the paid template to my userpage. Can the Father Joe's Villages wikipedia page be published? Hrdubois (talk) 04:57, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Father Joe's Villages (October 11)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Tol were:

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.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Father Joe's Villages and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
 * If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Father Joe's Villages, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "Db-g7" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
 * If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 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:Father_Joe%27s_Villages Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Tol&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Father_Joe%27s_Villages reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Tol (talk &#124; contribs) @ 03:24, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hi Hrdubois! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

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Happy editing! Longhair\talk 07:43, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Father Joe's Villages
Hello, Hrdubois. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Father Joe's Villages, 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.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 02:00, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Father Joe's Villages


Hello, Hrdubois. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Father Joe's Villages".

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. If 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! 03:29, 11 April 2022 (UTC)