User talk:Pomegranate Rose

This is the opening post on my Talk page. Pomegranate Rose (talk) 13:43, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Colin Macpherson article
My first submission of a draft article about singer-songwriter/author Colin Macpherson was on 31 August 2020. After waiting several months, I was notified that the article was declined – a number of issues being briefly stated. I have now addressed those issues (with advice from other editors, for which I am grateful) and, yesterday, resubmitted a fully re-worked version (through the usual AfC process).Pomegranate Rose (talk) 01:45, 9 February 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Colin Macpherson (July 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 TheBirdsShedTears 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:Colin Macpherson 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:Colin Macpherson, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "Db-g7" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
 * If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
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TheBirdsShedTears (talk) 09:37, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

Paid editing?
Hello Pomegranate Rose. 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 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 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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely 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:Pomegranate Rose. 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. Theroadislong (talk) 10:57, 15 July 2021 (UTC)


 * @User:Theroadislong I am shocked that I have received the above notice and can only assume it originated as a result of my response to a particularly nasty missive written by an editor in Wikipedia's TeaHouse following my simple request for advice. Let me be plain: you are mistaken -- I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. Furthermore, if I am correct about the origin of this notice, then I am appalled that the process can be used by some editors to intimidate new contributors who -- for whatever reason -- they take a disliking. Pomegranate Rose (talk) 01:34, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
 * It is standard practice to ask editors who are deeply focused on creating one article of they are being paid. All of the above query is standard wording. It is not personal, nor vindictive. Paid editors are allowed to create (and edit existing articles) as long as that status is declared. A separate question, one you have not yet addressed, is if you have a personal connection to Macpherson. That is considered a conflict of interest (see WP:COI, and also requires disclosure. The proper place is on your User page. If you have no personal connection to Macpherson, then state that here, as you did in response to the query about being paid. David notMD (talk) 11:16, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Colin Macpherson


Hello, Pomegranate Rose. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Colin Macpherson".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 15:36, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Colin Macpherson (April 25)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by CNMall41 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:Colin Macpherson 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:Colin Macpherson, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "Db-g7" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
 * If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
 * If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, 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:Colin_Macpherson Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:CNMall41&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Colin_Macpherson reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

CNMall41 (talk) 17:38, 25 April 2022 (UTC)