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I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at User:Ben Vroom/sandbox/Merijn Tinga. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 11:43, 19 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks Theroadislong for your comment. I Think I know how to improve the references and will work on this. There are no undisclosed payements of financial interests whathsoever, although I don't know how to prove this. I can give more information about this if ou want to. Ben Vroom (talk) 13:23, 19 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2021-07-20 I changed references 6 & 8 and left 7 (to a youtube movie) unchanged. Is this according to what it should be? Ben Vroom (talk) 10:07, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Position

2021-07-20 Some more information about my position: I am a former independant (freelance) Dutch website usability specialist and writer. I had to stop this work because of a visual handicap which allows me to 'work' only two hours a day. Since a few years I do not work to get paid anymore and like to help people who fight for a good cause. That's why I help Merijn Tinga as a volunteer with his his website.

Next days I planned to enrich the other references too. Glad with the help I recieved! Ben Vroom (talk) 18:46, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Last name / first name

What should I do when a news article on a news-website has no author? I don't know what to fill in at the website template fields 'last name' and first name. In Merijn Tinga reference nr 9 I get a error "|first1= missing |last1= (help)" Sorry, I found the solution. But another question is how I can indicate the publishing date of the article. I indicated this after the First name ("Ilona, (May 24, 2016)") Ben Vroom (talk) 15:50, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

COI

While writing the Merijn Tinga article, I am aware that there is a Conflict of Interest. Since February 2021 I help Merijn Tinga by writing content for his website www.plasticsoupsurfer.org. I am the webmaster write since then all texts for his website. This way I try to help him achieve his goals in battling plastic pollution and plastic soup. Beside the website I wrote most of the text of the Dutch Merijn Tinga wikipedia page. As being the webmaster, I am a member of the Plastic Soup Surfer team, but there is no formal team-structure.

I have no financial interest whatsoever. Since a few years I do not work for money anymore. Before, I worked as a independant, freelance website usability specialist, website usability tester and writer (online / offline). So I do not profit financially from my activities for Merijn Tinga and his organisation. Due to a visual handicap I can only work a little every day, not enough to run a business.

The work of Merijn Tinga as the Plastic Soup Surfer is also not for profit, although he gets paid by the Plastc Free Sea Foundation, a Dutch non profit foundation, and earns some money by giving presentations, but this is only for making a living so he can spend all his time for campaigning and trying to reach the Plastic Soup Surfer goals: a very strong reduction of plastic pollution and plastic waste and stopping the causes of the plastic soup problem.

I think the work of Merijn Tinga is interesting because he has proved to be succesfull by using methods that are quite new in the field of environmental activism. Especially using legal means: getting in touch with CEO's of big companies like Coca Cola, Heineken, Spa and Mars by using a bayliff handing out Judicial Notices and discussing their responsability for the plastic pollution. And collecting tenthousands of pictures from plastic litter caused by a product, such as Mars wrappers, with an app, before going to a CEO of the company which he holds responsible for this with a bayliff and a judicial note. And his ways to get attention for the plastic soup problem: very long kitesurf and sup expeditions, record attempts and movies about this.

CNN wil broadcast a portrait of Merijn Tinga as Plastic Soup Surfer and his ways 'to make a difference' on July 31 and August 1th (serie 'Going Green').

The question is: do you think this information about Merijn Tinga is valuable information to publish on Wikipedia or is the conflict of interest reason for not doing so? This is the question I can not answer.

I have tried to be as objective as possible, stay to the facts and add references to most of the facts I present. Most of these references in Dutch, I can't help that.

Personally speaking, I have great respect for the way you treat this. It has enlarged my trust in the Wikipedia content. And thanks for all the help I got so far.

If you have questions, please ask.

Ben Vroom (talk) 09:34, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Merijn Tinga (July 25)

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

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.

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 when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Merijn Tinga and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Merijn Tinga, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
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Tame (talk) 15:22, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ben Vroom! 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! Tame (talk) 15:22, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

New attempt to modify the article according to the Wikipedia Standards

Yes, I was disappointed but I sea what you mean and I think ou are right. For me it is confusing in a way that information and references that were accepted on the Dutch Merijn Tinga Wikipedia article, are not acceptable on the English Wikipedia. But I have great respect for the Wikipedia standards and the way you treat this.

I think I understand what to do. I will skip some less important content, references that can be seen as not independent or not reliable and content that can't be proved with reliable references. And I will add some external sources that I did not add so far.

I will indicate on this page when I finished the new draft and if I have specific questions I'll be happy to ask them. Thanks, Ben Vroom (talk) 11:54, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Merijn Tinga (July 30)

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

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:

Please write this with neutral point of view without introducing advert wording. You may compare your draft with Dutch environmentalists.

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 when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Merijn Tinga and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Merijn Tinga, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 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.

TheBirdsShedTears (talk) 14:51, 30 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Merijn Tinga has been accepted

Merijn Tinga, 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.

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Thanks again, and happy editing!

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