User talk:RankaJ Editor

how to update a page that is incomplete and factually incorrect
The page for ITWeb - a South African IT publisher is incomplete and has factual errors. I tried several times to publish an update. Admittedly my first attempt lacked citations and contained unnecessary details, but I have pared it down and left only the facts in my subsequent edits. However, my edits have not been approved.

There is a note that this page was proposed for deletion. Is it possible to do that and start from scratch with the correct info?

Thanks RankaJ Editor (talk) 08:43, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: RDB Consulting (February 27)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong 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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Theroadislong (talk) 17:47, 27 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I appreciate the feedback and I do understand why my draft was declined. I'll try to source relaiblle, secondaty, and in-depth references in future. RankaJ Editor (talk) 20:16, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
 * reliable* RankaJ Editor (talk) 20:17, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

February 2024
Hello, RankaJ Editor. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:


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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. 2601:19E:4180:6D50:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 (talk) 20:16, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello RankaJ Editor. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:RDB Consulting, 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:RankaJ Editor. 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) 09:59, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: RDB Consulting (February 29)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by HitroMilanese 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.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:RDB Consulting and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
 * If you do not edit your draft in the next 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/New_question&withJS=MediaWiki:AFCHD-wizard.js&page=Draft:RDB_Consulting Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:HitroMilanese&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:RDB_Consulting reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Hitro talk 09:56, 29 February 2024 (UTC)