User talk:MikeOtten

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Welcome.I assume that you are the name-blocked User:Reform Elections Now. Please note that Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not free advertising or a platform for your campaign.

You have an obvious conflict of interest and you must declare it. If you work directly or indirectly for an organisation, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. If you are paid directly or indirectly by the organisation you are writing about, 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 Jimfbleak. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:   . If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message. Also read the following regarding writing an article:


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 * significant coverage in
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 * Note that an individual source must meet all four criteria to be counted towards notability. Looking at the text you posted, there is nothing to tell us if you have any offices, employees, membership, income or expenditure. No actual facts at all, it appears to be a phantom organisation for all we know.


 * You must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews. I can't see why you think that stuff like the following is neutral writing practical solutions that will enhance informed discourse, increase voter participation, and motivate better representation... If you want to participate in their efforts, join the non-partisan initiative to Reform Elections Now – check out the website and please go to the subscribe tab.
 * Our country I assume that this is about the US, note that other countries exist.
 * There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
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Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read Your first article. You must also reply to the COI request above. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  12:16, 23 November 2020 (UTC)