User talk:RobinCOBS

Your submission at Articles for creation: Cobs Bread (January 11)
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BuySomeApples (talk) 04:13, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Cobs Bread (January 11)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by S0091 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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S0091 (talk) 20:08, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

January 2024
Hello RobinCOBS. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Cobs Bread, 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:RobinCOBS. 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. S0091 (talk) 20:12, 11 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the detailed answer. Full disclosure, yes, I work for COBS Bread. Sorry, I thought I included that in the original edit?
 * One of the objectives of this article is to help create a unique property for the company COBS Bread, distinctly from Bakers Delight as we operate independent from them. This was recommended by our SEO Specialist as Google has appeared to index some of our properties as Bakers Delight -- so I want to make sure I do this "above board" and I'm definitely not trying to do this as "black hat" as you suggest. Looking forward to what you suggest are the next steps. RobinCOBS (talk) 23:04, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * My suggestion is to forget about Wikipedia because what you want to use is for is not suitable for an encyclopedia and promotion/SEO is violation of policy. Not to be mean, but to save everyone's time, including yourself and more importantly the time of volunteer editors which are Wikipedia's most important asset, best you walk away. S0091 (talk) 23:12, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks for your time. walking way... :) RobinCOBS (talk) 23:26, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Cobs Bread
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 08:05, 14 June 2024 (UTC)