User talk:Peterddobson718

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Happy editing! DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:28, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Peter Dobson (boxer) (July 3)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by DoubleGrazing was:

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DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:20, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

July 2024
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article, or a draft for a Wikipedia article, about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Notable people who have edited Wikipedia). If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:21, 3 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello DoubleGrazing,
 * I am writing on behalf of Peter Dobson. My name is Michael Thompson, and I am Peter’s Public Relations Manager. I can assure you that Peter has had significant achievements and extensive media coverage that establish his notability. We believe that the information provided in the article is accurate, verifiable, and meets Wikipedia’s standards for notability and reliability.
 * If there are any specific areas of concern or additional information needed, please let us know, and we will be happy to address them promptly. We appreciate your assistance in ensuring the accuracy and quality of the content on Wikipedia.
 * Thank you for your attention to this matter.
 * Best regards,
 * Michael Thompson
 * Public Relations Manager Peterddobson718 (talk) 08:01, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi Michael,
 * Thank you for letting me know this isn't an autobiography, as I had assumed. (Natural enough assumption, considering the username you have chosen.) Given what you say, you have a conflict of interest (COI) with regard to this subject, and more specifically, almost certainly a paid-editing COI. I will post another message here with advice on how to manage your COI. Please note that it will require you to make a formal disclosure before you edit further.
 * Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:27, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello Peterddobson718. 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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:Peterddobson718. 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. DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:28, 3 July 2024 (UTC)