User talk:Jrpmd1221

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April 2019
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:Steuart Pittman, from its old location at User:AACoExec/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. I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding to your message (talk to me) (My edits) @  17:37, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

COI notice
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Steuart Pittman (April 20)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Bearcat 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.


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Bearcat (talk) 21:33, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Steuart Pittman


A tag has been placed on Draft:Steuart Pittman requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://www.aacounty.org/departments/county-executive/bio/index.html. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Copyright problem: Steuart Pittman
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, such as Steuart Pittman, but we regretfully cannot accept copyrighted text or images from either web sites or printed works. This article appears to contain work copied from https://www.aacounty.org/departments/county-executive/bio/index.html https://www.equusfoundation.org/news/releases/news-release-407.html, and therefore to constitute a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policies. The copyrighted text has been or will soon be deleted. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with our copyright policy. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators are liable to be blocked from editing.

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Thank you, and please feel welcome to continue contributing to Wikipedia. Happy editing! Bri.public (talk) 19:36, 22 April 2019 (UTC)

Paid editing on Wikipedia
Hello Jrpmd1221. 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 Steuart Pittman, 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:Jrpmd1221. 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. ☆ Bri (talk) 01:43, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Steuart Pittman
Firstly, you were already advised the first time that it is not your prerogative to simply move your own work from draftspace into articlespace yourself. Especially as a person with a direct conflict of interest with regard to Steuart Pittman, you must submit your work for an AFC review, and may not simply make your own decisions about whether it's "ready for prime time or not".

Secondly, you were also already advised that politicians who hold office at the local (county, city, etc.) level are not automatically considered notable just because they exist. In order to get into Wikipedia, Steuart Pittman would have to be demonstrated as significantly more notable than the heads of most other county governments in the United States, by virtue of getting much wider coverage than the norm. The fact that you can show a handful of purely local coverage in the local media is not enough to get a county executive in the door, because every county executive in every county can always show a handful of purely local coverage in the local media. So to make Steuart Pittman notable enough for inclusion here, you would need to be able to show that his coverage was nationalizing significantly beyond just Anne Arundel County's local media.

Yes, it's true that some of his predecessors in the same role do have Wikipedia articles — but they don't have articles because they served as county executive in Anne Arundel, they have articles because they served in the state legislature at other times in their political careers. So Steuart Pittman is not automatically entitled to have an article just because some of the other people in the list do have articles — the ones who have articles have other notability claims besides Anne Arundel county council, and the ones for whom Anne Arundel county council is the peak of their notability do not have articles at all.

And no, filing an OTRS permission to cover off the copyright issue does not in and of itself exempt him from still having to clear our notability and sourcing standards in the first place, either. Bearcat (talk) 16:56, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Steuart Pittman (June 4)
 Your recent article submission has been rejected. If you have further questions, you can ask 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:Steuart_Pittman Articles for creation help desk] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help. The reason left by Bearcat was: This topic is not sufficiently notable for inclusion in Wikipedia. The comment the reviewer left was: As was explained to you the first time, county executives are not automatically notable. To make Steuart Pittman notable enough for a Wikipedia article, it is not enough to just show a handful of local media sources which verify that he exists -- you would need to show sources which demonstrate that he is significantly more notable than most other county executives in the United States, such as sources which nationalize significantly beyond just his own local media market. (For example, a county executive in Maryland would have a strong claim of notability if he were so prominent that he was getting media coverage in New York City and Chicago and Los Angeles -- but he does not have a strong claim of notability if his coverage is exclusively Annapolis/Baltimore/Washington. His predecessor Steve Schuh does not have an article because he was a county executive in Anne Arundel, he has an article because he served in the state legislature from 2007 to 2014 before becoming county executive -- so the fact that he has an article does not mean Steuart Pittman automatically gets one too, because they don't have equivalent notability claims.

Bearcat (talk) 15:21, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Steuart Pittman concern
Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Steuart Pittman, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Your draft article, Draft:Steuart Pittman


Hello, Jrpmd1221. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Steuart Pittman".

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