User talk:Usr TC17

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Hello, Usr TC17, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Draft:Tenderstories, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, visit the Teahouse, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:28, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

December 2023
Hello Usr TC17. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Tenderstories, 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:Usr TC17. 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. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:29, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Tenderstories (December 12)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Justlettersandnumbers 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:Tenderstories 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:Tenderstories Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Justlettersandnumbers&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Tenderstories reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:40, 12 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello @Justlettersandnumbers, thank you for your feedback, sorry for replying after a few weeks.
 * I confirm that I work for Tenderstories, I am awaiting your specific instructions to refine the draft and proceed with the publication of the page: Draft:Tenderstories.
 * Thanks in advance for your attention! Usr TC17 (talk) 13:36, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Usr TC17, your first step is to make an appropriate paid-editor disclosure following the instructions I gave you in the section 'December 2023' above. Once that's done you can go ahead and remove all promotional and all unsourced content from the draft, remove all press-releases, unreliable sources such as IMDb and references that have only a passing mention (or no mention!) of the company. Then identify four or five solid independent reliable sources with in-depth coverage of the company itself (see WP:NCORP – I haven't checked 55 refs in detail, but don't immediately see even one that meets that definition), write some neutral encyclopaedic content specifically about the company, submit for review ... and sit back and wait – review time is estimated at about six weeks at the moment. HTH, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:32, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Tenderstories (April 16)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by ToadetteEdit 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:Tenderstories 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:Tenderstories Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:ToadetteEdit&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Tenderstories reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Toadette ( Let's talk together! ) 19:41, 16 April 2024 (UTC)