User talk:Tara Kate Turkington

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Paid editing?
Hello Tara Kate Turkington. 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.

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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:Tara Kate Turkington. 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. Theroadislong (talk) 20:11, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi there Theroadislong, and thank you very much for your message and the time it took to give the helpful advice you have. I have uploaded some pictures to Wikimedia Commons and have done a few small edits of articles in the past, but this is my first attempt at my own article. I am also sorry I have taken so long to respond to you - I have been away on summer holidays.

I would like to categorically state that I am not being compensated directly or indirectly for my entry or edits. I was merely excited to add an entry I think is deserving, particularly during this time of Covid-19, when blood supplies are critically short in South Africa, where I live.

I am a past journalist and now a professional communicator and tour guide, and wanted to make a contribution back to Wikipedia, which has given me so much over the years. I was hoping this contribution would be the first of many - I would also like to contribute, for example, to the entries around the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, about which I know quite a bit, and to other topics as I get more au fait with the processes of Wikipedia.

I hope the article might be useful enough to be published after I have done any edits you suggest. Please could you let me know what the next steps are? Tara Kate Turkington (talk) 17:43, 2 February, 2021 (SAST)

Help me!
help me Please help me with... Tara Kate Turkington (talk) 11:55, 14 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Hello - what exactly do you need help with? Thanks, ƒirefly  ( t · c ) 13:01, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Western Cape Blood Service (May 10)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Greenman was:

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Greenman (talk) 21:49, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Western Cape Blood Service
Hello! I came across your article today, and have cleaned it up and moved it to mainspace. This organization had three different names, so searching for the older names showed pretty quickly that it is notable. The name that the draft was under has only been used for two years, so it had not generated much press coverage. Ergo, it did not look notable. Thank you very much for your contribution to Wikipedia! --- Possibly (talk) 06:46, 19 May 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very, very much! I am so grateful! I was on the point of giving up and thinking I would never get something published on Wikipedia :) --- Tara Kate Turkington (talk) 14:23, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of Louis Jansen van Vuuren for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Louis Jansen van Vuuren is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Louis Jansen van Vuuren until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. TheLongTone (talk) 15:51, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi TheLongTone - please could you let me know the reasons you deleted my article on the artist, Louis Jansen van Vuuren? What could I improve so that it can be approved? Many thanks.