User talk:TMerklinghaus

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Username
I note that created Draft:Tobias Merklinghaus, a draft about a person named Peter Lauterbach. I note also that there is a Draft:Peter Lauterbach that was created by User:Merk739. Given the similarity of this username to your own, and the similarity of your editing, it is reasonable to assume that you are the same user. Wikipedia requires that, except under certain restricted conditions, you edit under one account. And, if you do meet the restricted conditions for two accounts, that you disclose your use of such multiple accounts. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:56, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Dear User:WikiDan61, I just have to apologize. I created my first account User:Merk739, before I realized, it would make more sense using my real name for writing and editing on Wiki. As I didn't get know, how to edit my username, I created this account. I have already seen how to delete the other account, which I applied for. I hope the Merk739-Account will be deleted asap. Sorry for that misunderstanding.
 * User pages can be deleted (although you've added a German template to your en.wiki page, so that's not going to help much), but accounts cannot be deleted. They can be renamed and they can be blocked, but for the history of attribution purposes, they can never be deleted. I would recommend that you add the Abandoned account template to the User:Merk739 user page. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 12:57, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Sporttotal
I moved your new article back to draft space. I don't believe the sources you included are in-depth coverage, they appear to be routine coverage of business activities, see WP:CORPDEPTH and WP:NCORP. Also, your userpage states you are a "freelance PR consultant". If you are being paid to write this article, you MUST disclose this fact per the Terms of Service, see WP:PAID and the Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. Thanks, shoy (reactions) 14:17, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

March 2019
Hello TMerklinghaus. 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:TMerklinghaus. 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. shoy (reactions) 20:02, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Peter Lauterbach


The article Peter Lauterbach has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Insufficient coverage in independent reliable sources. The German article has slightly better sourcing, but even those sources are insufficient for meeting WP:GNG IMO."

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. signed,Rosguill talk 00:27, 22 May 2019 (UTC)