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Your submission at Articles for creation: Single Organizing Idea (SOI®) (August 21)

Your recent article submission has been rejected. If you have further questions, you can ask at the Articles for creation help desk or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help. The reason left by Theroadislong was: This submission is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

Theroadislong (talk) 12:13, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Davidbonbright. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Draft:Single Organizing Idea (SOI®), 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. Theroadislong (talk) 14:08, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

MfD nomination of Draft:Single Organizing Idea (SOI®)

Draft:Single Organizing Idea (SOI®), a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Single Organizing Idea (SOI®) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Draft:Single Organizing Idea (SOI®) during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Orange Mike | Talk 16:10, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

user:Davidbonbright Please help me understand why you have that reaction to this description of a tool that is based on a well-received book published by a major publisher. The article is meant to be informative and a signpost for businesses that want to become sustainable. It is modeled on many other similar articles about tools of a similar type. I am not experienced in Wikipedia formats, but I am familiar with academic and journalistic writing. Thanks.

Wikipedia is not a place for either academic or journalistic writing. It's an encyclopedia. We don't publish original research. We don't publish articles on topics unless they meet the Wikipedia:Notability guidelines. We discourage editing on any topic with which you have a conflict of interest. Deb (talk) 08:19, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Single Organizing Idea (SOI®)

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Single Organizing Idea (SOI®), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: CORE: How a Single Organizing Idea can Change Business for Good (August 23)

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

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. 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:

See: WP:BOOK

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:CORE: How a Single Organizing Idea can Change Business for Good 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:CORE: How a Single Organizing Idea can Change Business for Good, 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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KylieTastic (talk) 12:04, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Required declaration of your conflict of interest

You have already received a COI notice above. Note that 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.

Again, per the above this declaration is REQUIRED. Can you confirm if you have a conflict of interest with any of the subject matters you are writing about? Glen (talk) 12:14, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I think I explained above what your options are. Please address the COI issue sooner rather than later. Deb (talk) 14:36, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry but I'm afraid this is all rather confusing and I am doing my best to get this article to be properly recognized. My primary question is how to proceed on the content of the article. I've prepared a draft that meets notability standards now that I understand them. We were in the process of curing the draft article to meet the Wikipedia notability standard when Deb deleted it. Should I start over with a new submission or would it be better forDeb to reinstate the earlier article and I can add the missing references?

The suspicion that there is a COI here is flatly wrong and worries me as it shows a total misunderstanding of the content of the article. Firstly, I do not have a conflict of interest with respect to an article about SOI. My relationship with SOI is simply that of someone who thinks it is an important tool for humanity to address the cascading global crises that we face, environmental, social, economic, and political. The author of SOI adopted the measurement model that I co-created. My measurement model is given away freely for noncommercial uses. Anyone can use it for non-commercial purposes. I do not recieve any compensation, nor does the charity where I work, which holds the license for our measurement method. Our mission is a public charitable one. We are not a commercial organization. We are, like Wikimedia, a nonprofit. Anyway, there is no conflict as expressed in Wikipedia policies. Which brings me to ask how to best clarify the conflict of interest question. I find the discuss of COI to be confusing. I don't mean the concept, which I understand. I mean the way one declares one's relationship so that suspicions of COI are not raised about the article.

David thanks for the clarification. If I am understanding you correctly you may not be a paid contributor but you definitely are connected in some way to the subjects you are writing about. For clarity, that's not prohibited just discouraged. However you do need to declare the connection. I'd recommend you read WP:DCOI carefully and add the {{connected contributor}} template accordingly. Appreciate your clarification in this regard and reach out if we can help. Glen (talk) 17:06, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally as already mentioned I still do not necessarily feel that the subjects meet the encyclopedia's notability requirements but that is a seperate matter. Thanks again. Glen (talk) 17:10, 23 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Glen thanks for this. I'm relieved to be on the right path on this! I will use the {{connected contributor}} template, though since writing about a connection is discouraged maybe it would be better for someone else to submit the article. I've done my homework now and found the sources needed to meet the notability standard, so the article can be updated to meet the standard. I have not made those corrections yet, but will do so shortly. Since the article was deleted, is it best to start over from scratch? Davidbonbright (talk)davidbonbright

Definitely. You can either use Wikipedia:Articles for creation or try Wikipedia:Requested articles. Deb (talk) 14:42, 24 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Deb -- thank you! Davidbonbright (talk)davidbonbright

Concern regarding Draft:Neil Gaught

Hello, Davidbonbright. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:Neil Gaught, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion under CSD G13. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available here.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. Bot0612 (talk) 01:00, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:CORE: How a Single Organizing Idea can Change Business for Good

Hello, Davidbonbright. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:CORE: How a Single Organizing Idea can Change Business for Good, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion under CSD G13. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available here.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. Bot0612 (talk) 01:01, 13 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]