User talk:AlexGagnon13

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AlexGagnon13 (talk · contribs) has been paid by AMPCUS on behalf of Cox Enterprises.

Hi, AlexGagnon13. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask a question on your talk page. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:29, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, AlexGagnon13. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, 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 or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:Spam);
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 Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:30, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

December 2019

Hello AlexGagnon13. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:AlexGagnon13. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=AlexGagnon13|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. 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. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:30, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You need to refrain from editing articles directly and request your changes on the talk page. Praxidicae (talk) 19:35, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for disclosing but please don't edit articles for which your COI applies directly and request changes on the talk page instead. Praxidicae (talk) 19:02, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Praxidicae I will request the changes on the talk page instead, I apologize about the confusion, this platform has so many stipulations. AlexGagnon13 (talk) 19:10, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Insufficient disclosure; direct edits

Hi AlexGagnon13,

thank you very much for your response and disclosure. The strict requirements of WP:PAID do not seem to have been fulfilled yet; please carefully have a look at the instructions above again. Specifically, neither your user page, nor the talk pages of all affected articles, nor all edit summaries contain the required disclosure. The easiest way to fulfill this requirement is probably using the {{paid}} template on your user page. The page you are currently looking at is your user talk page; this is not your user page.

Please do not edit articles such as Cox Enterprises directly. To request changes, please use the article's talk page, by clicking "Talk" above any article you would like to discuss. On the talk page, please click "New section". At the top of your request, you can use the code {{request edit}} to notify independent volunteer reviewers about the request. In your request, please request changes roughly in a "Please replace X by Y" format, and provide reliable sources that directly support your proposed addition. Such requests are often answered within 24 hours, and almost always within a week.

Please note that Wikipedia is not a platform for promotion. Your edits appear to have been promotional in nature, and have been removed by multiple editors. Especially when you see others disagree, a discussion on the talk page is necessary. Directly editing an article under these circumstances would probably be "edit warring", which is forbidden and can cause you to be blocked from editing.

If you have any questions about editing Wikipedia, feel free to ask them here on your talk page, using {{help me}}. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 20:20, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Alex C. Taylor (January 2)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted because it included copyrighted content, which is not permitted on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia cannot accept material copied from elsewhere, unless it explicitly and verifiably has been released to the world under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license or into the public domain and is written in an acceptable tone—this includes material that you own the copyright to. You should attribute the content of a draft to outside sources, using citations, but copying and pasting or closely paraphrasing sources is not acceptable. The entire draft should be written using your own words and structure. Note to reviewers: do not leave copyright violations sitting in the page history. Please follow the instructions here.

You are welcome to write an article on the subject, but please do not use copyrighted work.

Draft:Alex C. Taylor may be deleted at any time unless the copied text is removed. Copyrighted work cannot be allowed to remain on Wikipedia.
If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page. or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 16:01, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, AlexGagnon13! Having an article declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 16:01, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Curb Safe Charmer: Hello, What is the copyrighted material that you are referencing that is making this page nonpunishable? AlexGagnon13 (talk) 18:04, 2 January 2020 (UTC)AlexGagnon13[reply]

Pings don't work unless you sign your post - Curb Safe Charmer won't have received your notification. If you click on the red link above, you will see the two websites that the material was copied from. We cannot host material copied from other websites, even if the owner of that website has told you that it's OK to use it. The links above to our copyright policies contain a lot of useful information about this. If you wish to create a new draft, please ensure that all the content is written entirely in your own words, not copied from anywhere. GirthSummit _(blether) 17:02, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Managing your conflict of interest

Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 19:31, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of File:Alex Taylor.jpg

The file File:Alex Taylor.jpg has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Uploaded for Draft:Alex C. Taylor. No other use.

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Please consider addressing the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated files}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and files for discussion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 01:12, 30 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]