User talk:Mantide1

Paid editing?
Hello Mantide1. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic. 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. 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, 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:Mantide1. 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. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Jytdog (talk) 17:27, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

A few comments on your creation of the article David Hoffmeister (author)

 * 1) I see that the page you created was essentially a copy of Draft:David Hoffmeister, with a few alterations. Copying the contents of a page and posting it to another page like that, known as a "cut and paste move", is not acceptable, as it loses the editing history of the page, which must be kept in order to comply with Wikipedia's copyright licensing terms. Instead, you should make any changes you think are needed to the draft, and when you think it is ready you can submit it for review, and if appropriate it can be moved to article space, not copied there. I shall delete the copy you made, and any future editing should be done to the original.
 * 2) If and when the page does become an article its title should be simply David Hoffmeister. We add bracketed information such as "(author)" only when it is necessary to do so in order to distinguish among different articles which would otherwise have the same title, but since we have no other article about anyone called "David Hoffmeister" that is not necessary.
 * 3) To help you with submitting the draft if you decide to do so, I have added an "articles for creation draft" template to the page. You need only "Submit your draft for review!" link when you think it is ready to launch as an article. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 20:32, 21 August 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Skill Housie for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Skill Housie 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/Skill Housie until a consensus is reached, and anyone 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. TonyBallioni (talk) 19:17, 1 September 2017 (UTC)