User talk:RetailClothing

Your submission at Articles for creation: St95 (September 7)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by MaxnaCarta were:

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:St95 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&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:St95 Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:MaxnaCarta&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:St95 reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

MaxnaCarta (talk) 13:46, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:St95


A tag has been placed on Draft:St95, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. Bbb23 (talk) 15:23, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, RetailClothing. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Draft:St95, 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the request edit template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Conflict of interest);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Spam);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

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. Bbb23 (talk) 15:39, 14 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi @Bbb23,
 * Thank you for help, unfortunately we were in the process of updating our page when our page was deleted and then our account was blocked on Wikipedia. I now understand that I should have used a Connected contributor (paid) template as I'm indirectly being paid to create the page for the retailer.
 * I've contacted the contributer that blocked me and hoping to get the issue resolved as soon as possible.
 * I'm still learning about the process.Thanks @RetailClothing RetailClothing (talk) 09:18, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I will add a notice below that will provide instructions on how to appeal your block. Note that accounts are strictly single person use only- no one but you, the person sitting at the computer reading this, should have access. 331dot (talk) 09:21, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

September 2022
 Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text  at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must: 331dot (talk) 09:22, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
 * State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
 * Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future.


 * Thank you for your kind advice regarding our account being blocked.I now understand that while I had acknowledged a conflict of interest, I had not specifically disclosed a paid conflict of interest. I have now read through the guide to appealing blocks and added an unblock text request stating the required information at the end of my user talk page. I am hoping that this information will be accepted in order to help reverse the descision. Again thank you. RetailClothing (talk) 10:51, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Reply
Thanks for email. I have little to add to 331dot's advice above. If you work directly or indirectly for the organisation, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, 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:. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:   . You did not do that. As stated above, you can only edit as an individual, not as a representative of a business. 331dot has provided you with the pink box showing how to appeal against your block. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  10:11, 15 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Ok, thank you @Jimfbleak, I will appeal against the block following the advice from @331dot, thanking you RetailClothing RetailClothing (talk) 10:30, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

I was not asked to change my username, could I ask what is the reason why I needed to change it? Also I do not uderstand why the article was considered blatent spam. It was fully researched information about the clothing brand ST95 and included citations from multiple reputable sources with publication dates. RetailClothing (talk)
 * You are correct, sorry. You can keep this username. If you cannot see how your article was blatantly promotional, though, I'm afraid we won't be able to unblock you even to write about other subject areas. I mean, come on. That article would be okay on a marketing website where you expect people to roll their eyes at the marketing content, but totally inappropriate for an encyclopedia. Do you really not see it? Honestly, now? --Yamla (talk) 12:13, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Ok I'll take your advice onboard, the original article we had writen was rewritten and rechecked within our business, we are possibly too close to the brand to be totally neutral. We may need to have a totally independent source create the article. RetailClothing (talk)
 * Totally independent, yes. That means you and the business must not solicit anyone to create that article. --Yamla (talk) 12:24, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
 * You said and to keep the page updated if there are any major changes to the business. Please bear in mind that you do not own the page. It is our article, not your company's, and anyone can make appropriate referenced edits Jimfbleak - talk to me?  14:42, 15 September 2022 (UTC)