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Your submission at Articles for creation: Laurel Road (August 8)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Waggie 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:Laurel Road 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:Laurel Road, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{db-self}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
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Waggie (talk) 17:33, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Erikalaurelroad! 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! Waggie (talk) 17:33, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Erikalaurelroad. 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:Laurel Road, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI 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, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
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 must 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 WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Waggie (talk) 17:34, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You need to disclose your employer on your user page

Hello Erikalaurelroad. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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:Erikalaurelroad. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Erikalaurelroad|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:53, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

How to write articles when one has a conflict of interest

These are the steps you need to follow. Deviating from them will likely result in the article being rejected or even deleted, and possibly in the account being blocked:

1) Make sure the topic's notability is attested by discussions of it in several reliable independent sources.

2) Gather as many professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources you can find that are not dependent upon nor affiliated with the subject.

3) Focus on just the ones that are specifically about the subject and provide in-depth coverage (not passing mentions). If you do not have at least three such sources, the subject is not yet notable and trying to write an article at this point will only fail.

4) Summarize those sources from step 2, adding citations at the end of them. Be sure to use phrasing that someone who hates the subject can agree with, focusing only on basic facts. Avoid any praise or judgement. You'll want to do this in a program with little/no formatting, like Microsoft Notepad or Notepad++, and not in something like Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer.

5) Combine overlapping summaries (without arriving at new statements that no individual source supports) where possible, repeating citations as needed. Again, stick to phrasing that even someone who hates the subject can agree with.

6) Paraphrase the whole thing just to be extra sure you've avoided any copyright violations or plagiarism. Again, stick to phrasing that even someone who hates the subject can agree with.

7) Use the Article wizard to post this draft and wait for approval.

8) Once the article is approved, make edit requests on the talk page to suggest expansion, using sources that you set aside in step 2. Never directly edit the article, use edit requests.

You are quite welcome to edit articles about completely unrelated topics with no more restriction than any other editor. You should avoid editing articles about other banks, similar financial institutions, or individuals affiliated with them (stick to edit requests if you notice a change that absolutely must be made).

Ian.thomson (talk) 18:17, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your thread has been archived

Hi Erikalaurelroad! You created a thread called Conflict of interest at Wikipedia:Teahouse, but it has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please create a new thread.

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November 2018

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit you made to Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and economics, did not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use the sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. John Maguire (talk) 21:07, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Laurel Road

Hello, Erikalaurelroad. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Laurel Road".

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Bkissin (talk) 13:40, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]