User talk:Sofiaarangoe

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Welcome!
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You ought also to read about conflict of interest, paid editing, and copyright violation. --David Biddulph (talk) 11:28, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Compensated editing
Hello Sofiaarangoe. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic. 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. 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, 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:   . If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:43, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello Fuhghettaboutit. I am not being paid for my editings. I am new and I am learning how to use wikipedia so I mistake a lot and edit constantly to see results and mistakes. My first language is Spanish, no english, so I repeatedly go over and over to find new mistakes or things to change (I wrote the entire article in english). I am using the sandbox since as I understand it is specially for practicing. Thank you for your observation Sofiaarangoe (talk) 15:27, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi Sofiaarangoe. I'm sorry, I do not understand. You disclosed at the Teahouse question forum in this post, and without solicitation, that: "I work for Paolo De Grandis, President of PDG Arte Communications and I have the task to write his history as art curator and organizer in wikipedia as Paolo De Grandis". Although I used the template above regarding compensated editing that asked the question of whether the person was being compensated, here, I already knew you were, because you stated you were as I quote you above. I used the template anyway, because it details the mandatory disclosure requirements of compensated editing. I expected you to just comply, and cannot imagine why you are denying it now when, not only have you admitted it, but all you need to do to take care of the issue is post some simple information to your userpage – which the template above describes how to do.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:00, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Perhaps I can help to clarify the issue. If you work for Paolo De Grandis, then you are being paid to write and edit any article about him or related to him or his business, so you are a "paid advocate". You must say so on your user page at User:. You also need to follow the instructions at WP:COI. Meanwhile, I took a look at your sandbox. You need to make the article much shorter, to highlight the most important aspects of his life and career; and you need to use sources other than Paolo De Grandis. For Wikipedia, we need information from independent, reputable published sources, like major newspapers and magazine features or books about art published by independent art experts. Here is a Wikipedia article that you can look at as an example: Francesco Bonami -- Ssilvers (talk) 02:35, 29 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Oh! I get the problem! okey sure I will change completely the thing. (and before what I first understood about "compensated editing" was that someone was paying me to edit an already existing article and thats why I was editing constantly the article, like if the warning was because I am constantly editing someones work, not because I work for him and I wrote the entire article from the person (which actually, yes, I stated from the beginning), anyway, confusion. I apologize and proceed with your advice, and the ones I got in the Teahouse. Thank you!Sofiaarangoe (talk) 07:35, 29 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Another thing, is it okey if i go and erase it completely from the sandbox? and restart another one from scratch? or is there a procedure?Sofiaarangoe (talk) 08:19, 29 January 2016 (UTC)


 * The article is still in your user space so it's OK to erase it and start again. Do you have anyone who can check the English grammar for you? Wikipedia is especially strict about WP:Biographies of living persons, and your article will be scrutinised even more carefully because of your status as a paid editor, but, with good referencing, it should be possible to write an acceptable article. You have set yourself a hard task in distancing yourself from the subject.  Best of luck.    D b f i r s   09:15, 29 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Well I was thinking about writing it in Spanish, which is my first language, and also easier to be objective and neutral according the BLP. then maybe someone want will want to contribute with the translate. Yes it is hard to distance but hopefully following carefully the rules I can get it right. Thank you!


 * Hello to everyone. I need your help. I am trying to change the input for writting in spanish instead of english as is my native language, though wikipedia options give me a lot of options to change language except spanish. Sofiaarangoe (talk) 09:12, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Help me!
Please help me with a feedback of my sandbox article "Paolo De Grandis" since I am aware of strict rules about Paid-editing, COI and BLP, before I go ahead editing and send for review. I am new and need help. Thank you!

Sofiaarangoe (talk) 10:34, 8 April 2016 (UTC)


 * There is a submit for review button on top of the sandbox, you can try hitting that. If you need further help, you can post the help me template again.


 * Additionally, if you believe that the article is well written and conforms to Wikipedia's policies, you may create it yourself, and a new page patroller will review it. Good luck. WannaBeEditor (talk) 21:07, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Paid editing disclosure
I see that you have made the required paid editing disclosure. However, according to the policy, that statement should be made on the talk page of the article that you have edited, or on your user page. Please move your paid editing disclosure from the user page to the talk page. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:34, 24 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Paid Editig Disclosure

Sofiaarangoe (talk) 10:22, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Paolo De Grandis (June 5)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by LaMona was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

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LaMona (talk) 06:22, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Paolo De Grandis has been accepted
 Paolo De Grandis, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Daniel kenneth (talk) 13:14, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
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