User talk:Marcodounis

Welcome!
Hello, Marcodounis, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Draft:Global Infrastructure Hub ‎, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Global Infrastructure Hub (June 14)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by 1997kB 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:Global Infrastructure Hub 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:Global Infrastructure Hub, 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.
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&#8208;&#8208;1997kB (talk) 13:59, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (June 14)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Bkissin 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 User:Marcodounis/sandbox 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 User:Marcodounis/sandbox, 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 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=User:Marcodounis/sandbox Articles for creation help desk] or on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Bkissin&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:Afc_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=User:Marcodounis/sandbox reviewer's talk page].
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Bkissin (talk) 14:55, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

Getting started on the wrong foot
Marcodunis, it seems you've gotten started on the wrong foot. Submitting this draft repeatedly is not going to change the reviewers' opinion. What you must do is understand the sorts of references needed to establish that an organization is notable, as Wikipedia uses that term.

I'm going to decline your draft again, since you have not added any notability references since it was last declined. I am also going to redirect the copy you made in your sandbox to point to the draft. Please follow the instructions given in the decline notice. You must provide notability references before submitting the draft again or your activity will be considered disruptive.

One way to get a reading on whether you have suitable notability references is to ask. The talk page of the draft, the articles for creation Help Desk and the IRC channel #en-wikipedia-help are all places where this can happen. I recommend AFCHD since that creates a record you can point to when you submit your draft that you have met the notability requirement.

After notability, another consideration is whether the draft is too promotional to be an encyclopedia article. But one step at a time....

Thank you for placing a COI notice on your user page. You could also place one on the talk page of the draft.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Global Infrastructure Hub (June 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 Jmcgnh 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:Global Infrastructure Hub 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:Global Infrastructure Hub, 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 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:Global_Infrastructure_Hub Articles for creation help desk] or on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jmcgnh&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:Afc_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Global_Infrastructure_Hub reviewer's talk page].
 * You can also use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

 — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 04:47, 15 June 2018 (UTC)


 * I did a Google search to see if I could find any examples of good notability references for you. Nearly everything I saw was just press blurbs containing something like "According to a report from the Global Information Hub", which are worthless for this purpose (not sufficiently independent). There were a few more that might have been good, but their unhappiness with my ad blocking meant that I would not read them. This one, although it appears to be a blog post rather than a normal publication, comes close to being the sort of article I would expect to see being used as a notability reference: it's independent and goes into at least a little depth about the organization and its importance. Try to find more that are at least this good and summarize what they say in your draft.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 05:04, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

copyrighted logo
You can use a copyrighted logo on Wikipedia, but not in a draft. Once the article is accepted, you can upload the logo to en-wiki (not Commons) with a non-free fair-use rationale.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 12:35, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Global Infrastructure Hub has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Global Infrastructure Hub. Thanks! Worldbruce (talk) 15:26, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Global Infrastructure Hub (August 7)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SamHolt6 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:Global Infrastructure Hub 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:Global Infrastructure Hub, 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 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:Global_Infrastructure_Hub Articles for creation help desk] or on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SamHolt6&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:Afc_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Global_Infrastructure_Hub reviewer's talk page].
 * You can also use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

SamHolt6 (talk) 04:27, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

October 2018
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Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:38, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Disclosure of employment
Your existing declaration of a conflict of interest, while appreciated, still falls short of the stricter and mandatory requirements for a paid editor. You appear to fall into this category. What follows is the standard boilerplate message for an undisclosed paid editor:

Hello Marcodounis. 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:Global Infrastructure Hub, and that 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:Marcodounis. 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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:54, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Global Infrastructure Hub


A tag has been placed on Draft:Global Infrastructure Hub, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. K.e.coffman (talk) 18:54, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Blocked
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. – Athaenara ✉  22:29, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

- Athaenara can i please have the content from the deleted page Draft:Global Infrastructure Hub