User talk:Smn9874

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Hello, Smn9874, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as Draft:Dianne Morales, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Dianne Morales


A tag has been placed on Draft:Dianne Morales, 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. L293D (☎ • ✎) 14:55, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Smn9874. 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization 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 WP: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. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  15:12, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

You have an obvious conflict of interest, please don't write about yourself, your friends or someone you are working for and read the guidance below:


 * When you write about a person, you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that they meet the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the person or an associated organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the person claims or interviewing them. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls.
 * You must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews.
 * There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
 * You must not copy text from elsewhere. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.

Your draft was entirely unsourced, full of spamlinks and highly promotional, this is an encyclopaedia, not free advertising.

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read Your first article. You must also reply to the COI request above.

Jimfbleak - talk to me?  19:33, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Comment
Hello, I noticed that you may have recently made edits while logged out. Wikipedia's policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow the use of both an account and an IP address by the same person in the same setting and doing so may result in your account being blocked from editing. Additionally, making edits while logged out reveals your IP address, which may allow others to determine your location and identity. If this was not your intention, please remember to log in when editing. Thank you. <b style="font-family:Lucida;color:red">Jimfbleak</b> - talk to me?  05:36, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

I am an admin, but before we go any further you need to disclose your COI on your user page if you mean to write about her. Before you worry about sources, please read Notability (people) and Articles for deletion/Common outcomes. Just being a candidate, rather than an incumbent, doesn't meet our notability criteria, and she won't get an article on that basis alone. If you think she meets some other aspect of Notability (people), please spell out what it is, otherwise you are wasting your time, since anyone can be a candidate, it's not notable <b style="font-family:Lucida;color:red">Jimfbleak</b> - talk to me?  05:49, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Reply
Hi there Jim, thank you for all of this information. I am learning more about what is acceptable on Wikipedia. I am however, not paid. I am a volunteer trying to put a viable candidate on people's radar. How would I disclose this as I am not paid? She is a notable person for the activist work she has done, would that qualify her for a Wikipedia page? Also - is there a way for us to access the intial draft's information so I can atleast copy the content that was written and the coding needed for the future once we work through what is allowed? Thank you for your time and effort explaining all of this to me. - Sarah Smn9874 (talk) 15:59, 23 April 2020 (UTC)