User talk:Pathum Damunupola

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Vincent Subasinghe (March 8)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by KylieTastic were:

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KylieTastic (talk) 14:56, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Vincent Subasinghe (March 17)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Spiderone 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 after they have been resolved.


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Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 18:57, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

March 2024
Hello Pathum Damunupola. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Vincent Subasinghe, 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:Pathum Damunupola. 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. Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 18:58, 17 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your feedback. This is just to confirm that I do not get any financial gains directly or indirectly for my Wikipedia contents and edits. I have created the Entry on Vincent Subasinghe purely on volunteer basis. Vincent Subasinghe is a prominent philanthropist from Sandalankawa, my home region, who died in 1985. Unfortunately, his legacy is not recorded enough compared to his contribution to our country. Myself and few of my colleagues are trying to record it digitally by a Wikipedia entry, memorial website ( www.vincentsubasinghe.info) and some social media posts. This is done as a part of the broader memorial event we hope to hold on 29th March, 2024 on his 118th Birthday. Our team works as a volunteer committee for this event and Wikipedia entry is a part of this work. I therefore kindly request you to consider this situation positively and do your review accordingly. If you need any further information or documentary evidence, I am happy to provide. Pathum Damunupola (talk) 18:32, 19 March 2024 (UTC)