User talk:Joshua.T.Burns

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (December 11)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Legacypac 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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Legacypac (talk) 03:14, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Your draft article, User:Joshua.T.Burns/sandbox


Hello, Joshua.T.Burns. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "sandbox".

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. 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. JMHamo (talk) 21:12, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: CMTPedS (January 15)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Hammersoft was:

The comment the reviewer left 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.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:CMTPedS 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:CMTPedS, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "db-self" 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, 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:CMTPedS Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Hammersoft&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:Afc_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:CMTPedS reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Hammersoft (talk) 00:40, 15 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Understand; we are not trying to throw obstacles in front of you, nor make this process frustrating. We have Notability standards, and need to have such standards to prevent Wikipedia from being overwhelmed with articles from literally hundreds of thousands of companies, research groups, etc. who are trying to promote their product. Wikipedia is also not a means of promotion, so trying to get an article on here so that it comes up in searches as you suggested here is not why Wikipedia exists. I'm sure you can appreciate our need to take a stance on this, as otherwise we simply wouldn't be an encyclopedia. Instead, we'd just be a host for press releases. It is critically important to find reliable, secondary sources to support the content of an article and help us determine if the subject of the article is truly notable. Note please that I am not doubting the existence of the technology; it obviously does. That's not the point.
 * There's also a very serious issue of your apparent conflict of interest, as you self identify here as Joshua.T.Burns, and there is a Professor Josh Burns at http://calculator.cmtpeds.org/. While it is possible to write about subjects with which you are closely affiliated, there are rather large potential pitfalls, and it can be quite difficult to successfully do so. Further, the terms of service of Wikipedia require disclosure of any paid editing. I'm putting a standard warning regarding paid editing below this section. Please heed it.
 * Again, none of this is intended to dissuade you. I am trying to help you. Work with us, not against us. If you have questions, let me know. I am watchlisting this page which means if you post anything to this talk page, I will be aware of it, so ask any questions here you may have and I'll be happy to answer. Thanks, --Hammersoft (talk) 00:48, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
 * If there is anything not covered here, also see this.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  20:21, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

Paid editing notice
Hello Joshua.T.Burns. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Draft:CMTPedS, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Joshua.T.Burns. 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. --Hammersoft (talk) 00:49, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:CMTPedS


Hello, Joshua.T.Burns. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "CMTPedS".

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 21:20, 17 July 2020 (UTC)