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AfC notification: Draft:The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors. Thanks! Robert McClenon (talk) 03:29, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your user name

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "Creativegp", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because usernames which unambiguously represent the name of a company, group, institution or product are not allowed per WP:CORPNAME. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing this form, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:26, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Creativegp. Just to clarify the above, you have admitted that you are a paid editor working on draft on behalf of a client in this post and this post. If your company is this Creative Consulting Group, then you probably should not being using part of your company's homepage address as your username. User accounts are intended to be for individuals, not for groups or organizations per WP:ROLE. So, I suggest you change your user name or a least tweak it a bit so that it is in accordance with Wikipedia's username policy. I am assuming the IP address which posted at the Teahouse is you and that you just forgot to login. If it is, then please try and make sure to log in when posting; If it's not you but someone else from your company, then please read WP:SHARE and WP:ISU so that these accounts are not mistakenly seen as being controlled by the same person. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:42, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Image licensing

Please check your Commons user talk page at c:User talk:Creativegp because the files you uploaded to Commons require verification that permission was granted to upload them under a free license. Please refer to c:COM:OTRS#If you are NOT the copyright holder for more specific details. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:02, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (July 9)

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

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.

The comment the reviewer left was:

This submission lacks "independent third-party" sources and references. Most of the references here are from the institute's website, which does not constitute reliable sourcing as per WP guidelines. You may also consider organizing the list under Organization into a Wikitable or a simple list.

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:The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page.
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Tseung Kwan O Let's talk 01:03, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors. Thanks! Robert McClenon (talk) 00:48, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Now Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors is its own article. There are some things I would like to have sourced from it.

"The institute’s first headquarters was at Swire House and lated relocated to Jardine House in 1998. The current office has been in operation since 2013.^{[citation needed]}"

Do you have sources for that? WhisperToMe (talk) 13:33, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

April 2017

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 07:06, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As you've suddenly become active again, there are again concerns that your username indicates that you are violating our policy on shared accounts. Can you clarify whether this is an individual account or shared between multiple people please? And if it is an individual account, would you be willing to have it renamed to something more suitable? I'm afraid if this is a shared account or you are unwilling to have it renamed, it's fairly inevitable that it will be blocked. GoldenRing (talk) 15:39, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames which give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only yourself as an individual and which complies with our username policy or request a change of username.

You should also read our conflict of interest guideline and be aware that promotional editing is not acceptable regardless of the username you choose.

If your username does not represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the bottom of your talk page.

You may simply create a new account, but you may prefer to change your username to one that complies with our username policy, so that your past contributions are associated with your new username. If you would prefer to change your username, you may appeal this username block by adding the text {{unblock-un|new username|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the bottom of your talk page. Thank you. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 17:00, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Creativegp, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
Aside from limited quotation, you must put all information in your own words and structure, in proper paraphrase. Following the source's words too closely can create copyright problems, so it is not permitted here; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing. (There is a college-level introduction to paraphrase, with examples, hosted by the Online Writing Lab of Purdue.) Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
Our primary policy on using copyrighted content is Wikipedia:Copyrights. You may also want to review Wikipedia:Copy-paste.
If you own the copyright to the source you want to copy or are a designated agent, you may be able to license that text so that we can publish it here. However, there are steps that must be taken to verify that license before you do. See Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials.
In very rare cases (that is, for sources that are public domain or compatibly licensed), it may be possible to include greater portions of a source text. However, please seek help at the help desk before adding such content to the article. 99.9% of sources may not be added in this way, so it is necessary to seek confirmation first. If you do confirm that a source is public domain or compatibly licensed, you will still need to provide full attribution; see Wikipedia:Plagiarism for the steps you need to follow.
Also note that Wikipedia articles may not be copied or translated without attribution. If you want to copy or translate from another Wikipedia project or article, you can, but please follow the steps in Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia.

It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 22:31, 6 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]