User talk:TomasTheBeard

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Happy editing! DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:43, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Automuseum Vilnius (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 WikiOriginal-9 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:Automuseum Vilnius and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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~WikiOriginal-9~ ( talk ) 09:15, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
Hello, Auto Muziejus. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Draft:Automuseum Vilnius, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the edit COI template);
 * disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see );
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see );
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:43, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Automuseum Vilnius has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Automuseum Vilnius. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 10:03, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

November 2023
Hello Auto Muziejus. 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:Auto Muziejus. 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. 331dot (talk) 10:22, 23 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your answer. Yes, Im not editing this from now on. Just want to make sure how to do it (or not) correctly. Just want to double check if i understood correctly - I cannot create an article of a place that i work in (or i need to post mandadory disclosure on my user page)? If i do that, on that page there will be some info "that this article was paid by "x" and "y" or it will be onli visible to editors?  Auto Muziejus (talk) 10:31, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * You post the paid editing disclosure on your user page, at least to start. Typically a differently formatted disclosure is also posted on article or draft talk pages, but you don't need to worry about that yet. Articles themselves only indicate paid editing if there are issues with the content of the article, but the paid editing disclosure on your user page is visible to anyone who visits that page.
 * You are not forbidden from editing about your museum, but it is highly discouraged. Creating and submitting a draft for review by independent editors is the correct procedure, should you choose to do so. 331dot (talk) 10:37, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * If you don't disclose your COI/paid, this will be flagged up on the article page as undisclosed paid editing, which is one of the uglier tags IMO. If you do disclose, then disclosed paid editing can still be flagged, if another editor feels that the contents are promotional and need to be cleaned up. But if you can write in an entirely non-promotional manner, then there is probably no need for that, either.
 * Once you've disclosed your paid-editing status, you can still edit the draft, you just cannot publish it directly, meaning you must put it through the AfC review process, but you're already doing that anyway. Once the article is published (assuming), you also cannot edit it directly (other than for entirely non-controversial minor edits and factual corrections), and must instead make edit requests via the article talk page. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 10:37, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * So i need to creat a user page as i understand, use the template that 331dot gave a bit earlier, and everything should be ok? sorry for lots of questions, just want to do it right. Auto Muziejus (talk) 10:43, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * You have made the disclosure correctly. I now see that you will also need to change your username to represent you as a person, not your museum. On the English Wikipedia, organization names as usernames are not permitted.  If you tell me what you want to change your username to, I can change it.
 * Please know that changing your username here will also change it on the Lithuanian Wikipedia. If you don't want to do that because this username is permitted there, you may just create a new account for your own personal use. If you do that, let me know because I will need to block this account in that circumstance. 331dot (talk) 10:52, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, finally done something right. Yes i understand it. so if you could change it to TomasTheBeard (if that is possible), that would be great.  Auto Muziejus (talk) 10:55, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * You are now renamed. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 11:04, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for you patience and answers. TomasTheBeard (talk) 11:12, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Automuseum Vilnius has a new comment
 I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Automuseum Vilnius. Thanks! Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:36, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Automuseum Vilnius has been accepted
 Automuseum Vilnius, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. It is commonplace for new articles to start out as stubs and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the  [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk/New_question&withJS=MediaWiki:AFCHD-wizard.js&page=Automuseum_Vilnius help desk] . Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider.

Thanks again, and happy editing! Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:39, 23 November 2023 (UTC)