User talk:TheExG

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Western Bagel (July 29)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Festucalex were:

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.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Western Bagel and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
 * If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
 * If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk/New_question&withJS=MediaWiki:AFCHD-wizard.js&page=Draft:Western_Bagel Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Festucalex&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Western_Bagel reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

〜 Festucalex  •  talk  22:08, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Western Bagel (July 30)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Hammersoft 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.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Western Bagel and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
 * If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
 * If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk/New_question&withJS=MediaWiki:AFCHD-wizard.js&page=Draft:Western_Bagel Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Hammersoft&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Western_Bagel reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Hammersoft (talk) 00:17, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Western Bagel (July 30)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Noahfgodard were:

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.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Western Bagel and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
 * If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
 * If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk/New_question&withJS=MediaWiki:AFCHD-wizard.js&page=Draft:Western_Bagel Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Noahfgodard&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Western_Bagel reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Noahfgodard (talk) 18:41, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

Paid editing
Hello TheExG. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Western Bagel, 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 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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely 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:TheExG. 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. --Hammersoft (talk) 22:52, 30 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Hammersoft,
 * Thank you so much for your message.
 * This is my first time creating a wikipedia article, and as such I am learning to write content that truly follows the guidelines of wikipedia. I am not a paid writer for the company, and I do not hold any professional ties to the company. I am actually writing this article as I am a regular consumer of their product for the last 20 years being a Los Angeles native, and had noticed that they did not have a wikipedia article even though they are a huge staple within the Los Angeles community. I am trying my hardest to write this article from a neutral position and I am using this article for the chance to be able to learn to be a contributing member of the wiki community. I do appreciate your guidance regarding Wikipedia's truly neutral policies, and I will try my hardest to continue to adjust the article to make sure it suffices. I appreciate your message to me and I hope you have an amazing rest of your day and I thank you for being an amazing contributing member to this community.
 * Thank you so much,
 * -TheExG TheExG (talk) 23:49, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
 * The problem is what you have written reads like advertising copy. "enduring involvement in the bagel legacy", "developed a strong affinity for bagels", "a pioneering effort in introducing authentic bagels" and on and on and on. If you worked in marketing for this company, it would come out sounding similar. This is not a neutral draft, nor even close. We write in a neutral, dispassionate tone here, for we are an encyclopedia, not a marketing opportunity. --Hammersoft (talk) 02:11, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Western Bagel
Hello, TheExG. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Western Bagel, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again&#32;or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 23:07, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Western Bagel


Hello, TheExG. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Western Bagel".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. ✗ plicit  00:48, 31 January 2024 (UTC)