User talk:IrpinIndependent

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Happy editing! Kj cheetham (talk) 22:16, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

October 2022
Hi IrpinIndependent! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Kj cheetham (talk) 22:16, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, IrpinIndependent. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Milwaukee Independent, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Kj cheetham (talk) 22:19, 8 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Information.svg Hello IrpinIndependent. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Milwaukee Independent, 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:IrpinIndependent. 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. —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 05:39, 10 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, thank you for your feedback. To clarify your concern, I am not paid nor do I stand to gain anything financially from the "Milwaukee Independent" entry. They are a nonprofit news service staffed by volunteers, and do not accept advertising revenue. When their news team came to Ukraine to report about the war - because Milwaukee is sister city with Irpin, our group helped them navigate. We also partnered with them on articles in English. So as we shared their news features to show that the world was watching the war events, we were bewildered why "Milwaukee Independent" did not have a wikipedia page, or even a mention. No other journalists from Wisconsin have come to Ukraine to report on the war. This was my first time to make a page, and I followed what other news organizations presented as example. I am sorry if the work was not done properly. My effort was only to make an entry that would not be discarded. Once an entry is approved, it is for anyone to alter so the intent was to make the start. Is there any help you can offer so it is not deleted? IrpinIndependent (talk) 02:33, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
 * You note that our group helped them navigate Irpin. Do you have a personal connection with the Milwaukee Independent?
 * With respect to They are a nonprofit news service staffed by volunteers, I'm not sure that they have nonprofit status in the United States. A quick search reveals that Milwaukee Independent LLC, the company that runs Milwaukee Independent, is registered as a Domestic Limited Liability Company, which is a for-profit organization type in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Meanwhile, a look at the IRS Tax Exempt Organizations search does not return anything for them. I understand that they claim to be a nonprofit, but I can't find anything from the state or federal government that supports that claim.
 * With respect to Is there any help you can offer so it is not deleted?, if you can find multiple independent reliable secondary sources that cover this company in-depth and note their existence in the Articles for Deletion discussion, then the article will likely be kept. Otherwise, the article will likely be deleted as non-notable.
 * —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 22:42, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Milwaukee Independent for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Milwaukee Independent 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/Milwaukee Independent 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 until the discussion has finished. —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 05:38, 10 October 2022 (UTC)