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Your submission at Articles for creation: Possehl Group (August 17)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by DoubleGrazing were:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Almost entirely referenced using close primary sources, which cannot establish notability. Some sources are insufficiently specified, making verification difficult or impossible. And large sections are entirely unreferenced. The draft is written in a promotional tone and style unsuited to encyclopaedia. See WP:Encyclopedic style. --

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.

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DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:19, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello thanks for your feedback :) I translated the page /Possehl Group from German to English. I did not change any content. I have also adopted all sources from the German page. The German page was accepted and it does not have a promotional tone. The translation should then also be accepted, shouldnt it? Alexander Wachter (talk) 07:44, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

Actually, all the different language versions of Wikipedia are entirely separate projects, with their own policies. The fact that an article has been accepted into one version means nothing in terms of its acceptability into others. The English-language Wikipedia has the strictest requirements in what comes to referencing and notability (and if it helps at all, I face this problem constantly when trying to translate articles from the Finnish and Swedish ones!). The same is probably also true of other standards such the use of promotional language, etc.

Best, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:13, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Alexander Wachter! Having an article draft 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! DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:19, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy editing! DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:19, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Alexander Wachter. 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:Possehl Group, 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 {{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 Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
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. DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:20, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

August 2022

Hello Alexander Wachter. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Possehl Group, 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:Alexander Wachter. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Alexander Wachter|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. DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:00, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Possehl Group (August 18)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by DoubleGrazing were:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Only cites close primary sources (including one press release hosted at an external service). Once more, we need to see significant coverage in independent and reliable secondary sources to establish notability per WP:GNG / WP:ORGCRIT. If this draft is resubmitted again without properly demonstrating notability, it may be rejected and deleted. --

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:Possehl Group 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 Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:04, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

As you can see, I have again declined your draft; declined, rather than rejected outright, meaning I am giving you one more attempt at this, but please understand that AfC is not an infinite process, you only have a limited number of tries before the draft gets rejected and possibly deleted. Please ensure that you demonstrate notability per WP:GNG beyond any doubt, before resubmitting.

Also, you must disclose any relationship you may have with this company. This is mandatory, not an optional extra. Please do so now, and in any case before any further editing.

Thank you. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:08, 18 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Possehl Group

Hello, Alexander Wachter. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Possehl Group, 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 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) 10:01, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Possehl Group

Hello, Alexander Wachter. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Possehl Group".

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. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 09:16, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]