User talk:User2986

August 2020
Hello User2986. 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 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:User2986. 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. Praxidicae (talk) 17:46, 14 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Hi Praxidicae. I am not getting paid for editing, but I am a friend of Jonathan Ledgard (and I collaborated with him on one of his projects recently), so there might be some conflict of interest. Couple of months ago, Jonathan noticed that someone created a Wikipedia entry about him and he had asked me if I could look into it and possibly improve his Wiki page (add more relevant information and sources). I did that and while I was at it I also created a new Wiki entry for his 2012 novel Submergence. In any case, I´m trying to make the edits as objective as possible - adding relevant sources to most of the claims. If there is some information that does not seem objective, or is inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, please let me know and I can delete it. I´m new to Wikipedia editing, so I´m not sure whether I´m doing it right. User2986 (talk) 09:31, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Submergence (novel) has been accepted
 Submergence (novel), 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 Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class 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&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_talk/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Submergence_(novel) 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! Robert McClenon (talk) 19:57, 14 August 2020 (UTC)