User talk:Laura eley

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Happy editing! Wikishovel (talk) 18:47, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Paid editing
Hello Laura eley. 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 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 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:Laura eley. 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) 08:37, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

A WP-article about Sam Williams
What are the 3-5 best sources (WP:RS) you can think of that are at the same time reliably published, independent of Sam Williams and about Sam Williams in some detail? This excludes blogs, wikis, social media, online bookstores, his websites, etc etc. If such sources exist, an article about him may be possible. If not, not. For example this is reliably published and independent of him, but it doesn't say very much about Sam Williams. So it doesn't help the case for "can we have a WP-article about him?" (WP:N), but it can be used as a source for his age in 2011. Take the time to read and digest WP:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:15, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Declare your paid status, and I hope you are being paid enough to tackle the learning curve for successful editing and referencing, especially as you must submit via the Talk page, and then hope that a non-connected editor approves and implements your proposed changes. Use the edit COI template. Doing that 'flags' your edit request to attract attention to a bevy of volunteer editors who help with this task. Each proposed change may take weeks before acted on. David notMD (talk) 11:03, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Heading to deletion
The deletion process takes 7-10 days. If the article can be improved, that is the window. The problem is lack of references about SW. Refs 3 and 5 are to his website, which does not count toward establishing notability, and ref 4 is useless - text and a ref about an unreleased album which states he was in the band, not the producer. David notMD (talk) 01:56, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Adding to the above, the deletion discussion, where you are welcome to participate (you too, new user ), is at Articles for deletion/Sam Williams (record producer). Again, bring the best sources you can think of that are at the same time reliably published (WP:RS), independent of Sam Williams and about Sam Williams in some detail. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 08:25, 27 January 2024 (UTC)