User talk:ShannonA

Welcome
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Please no links to RPGNet
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 * As a follow-up comment, it might be that your external links would be value-added to the encyclopedia. If you think that is the case, the suggested Wikipedia approach would be to add a comment to the appropriate Talk page and allow other editors to make the determination whether the link to your site should be included in the actual article.  Fairsing 03:18, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Home of the Bold
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AfD nomination of Home of the Bold
An article that you have been involved in editing, Home of the Bold, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Home of the Bold. Thank you. Prodego talk  05:23, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

May 2013
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Bitmark
Hello ShannonA. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:ShannonA. 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.

MER-C 10:12, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

=Thanks very much for the guidance on policies regarding entries of this sort. The ability to now produce draft articles and submit them for review is entirely enlightening, and a great methodology for contributions of this sort. I'll of course use it. ShannonA (talk) 06:02, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Bitmark (January 6)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Lapablo 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.


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Lapablo (talk) 14:03, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Draft:Bitmark concern
Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Bitmark, a page you created, has not been edited in 5 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:27, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Self-sovereign identity
Hi ShannonA, just wanted to let you know I started this Self-sovereign identity article. Feel free to improve it. --FlippyFlink (talk) 14:21, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Bitmark


Hello, ShannonA. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Bitmark".

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the, , or  code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Eternal Shadow  Talk  16:58, 7 July 2020 (UTC)