User talk:SparrowsQuest

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Stuart H. Schwartz (October 16)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Johannes Maximilian 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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Johannes (Talk) (Contribs) (Articles) 23:37, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Stuart H. Schwartz (October 17)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong was:

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Theroadislong (talk) 21:09, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Stuart H. Schwartz has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Stuart H. Schwartz. Thanks! S0091 (talk) 21:27, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Stuart H. Schwartz (November 22)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Qcne was:

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 Qcne  (talk)  13:24, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Stuart H. Schwartz (November 22)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Voorts was:

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voorts (talk/contributions) 18:10, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Stuart H. Schwartz (November 23)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by MaxnaCarta was:

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— MaxnaCarta  ( 💬 • 📝 ) 05:54, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Stuart H. Schwartz (March 21)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by MicrobiologyMarcus was:

The comment the reviewer left was:

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microbiology Marcus [petri dish·growths] 19:57, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

May 2024
Hello SparrowsQuest. 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 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:SparrowsQuest. 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. ''I note you have disclosed a COI. This is a question about the nature of that COI.'' 🇺🇦 Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 20:55, 29 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your reply.
 * In my attempt to comply with Wikipedia's standards I may have misunderstood what a COI is. I am not employed by or paid by or represent the subject of the article. I recently became acquainted with him and was fascinated by his collection of clippings from his career. I was spurred by curiosity to do further research into his influence in his field and discovered that he had numerous articles written about him, not only in trade journals but in the Wall Street Journal and other periodicals as well as books, and he was also the subject of a PBS news segment on Inside Story, which I've since acquired from a digital archive at Vanderbilt. I wrote the article because I thought others might find his story as interesting as I do. Does this qualify as a COI? If not, can I remove the COI declaration? Thank you again for your help.
 * ~ SparrowsQuest (talk) 21:26, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I believe your acquaintanceship is sufficient for COI and full transparency is recommended. I understand that you receive no compensation, broadly construed. This question is answered fully now and you have done everything correctly.
 * If you have found numerous articles written about him then it seems you have not availed yourself of them as references.
 * Your task is to prove that he passes WP:BIO. Let me remind you what is required:
 * For a living person we have a high standard of referencing. Every substantive fact you assert, especially one that is susceptible to potential challenge, requires a citation with a reference that is about them, and is independent of them, in multiple secondary sources which are WP:RS, and is significant coverage. Please also see WP:PRIMARY which details the limited permitted usage of primary sources and WP:SELFPUB which has clear limitations on self published sources. Providing sufficient references, ideally one per fact cited, that meet these tough criteria is likely to make this draft a clear acceptance (0.9 probability). Lack of them or an inability to find them is likely to mean that the person is not suitable for inclusion, certainly today. 🇺🇦  Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 21:41, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Stuart H. Schwartz has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Stuart H. Schwartz. Thanks! 🇺🇦 Fiddle Timtrent  Faddle Talk to me 🇺🇦 21:31, 29 May 2024 (UTC)