User talk:FinancesHero

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I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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January 2022

Hello FinancesHero. The nature of your edits 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:FinancesHero. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=FinancesHero|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. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 01:11, 2 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, @ToBeFree:. Thanks a lot for your comments. First, I want to say that I don't receive anything for my edits and even don't understand how does it work. As I read a lot of deletion discussions I founded these issues with paid editors, but I'm not into it. I just know English and Russian pretty well, so I translated the articles and made some edits and adapted them to English Wiki. Of course, I work on the topic which is close to my interests. For me Wikipedia editing is just the hobby because I support such activities and understand how important it is. My excuses for doing something wrong, I am interested in fixing my mistakes and doing well on Wikipedia. I will be glad to get some advice on how to improve my activity and the articles I contributed. Many thanks again!--FinancesHero (talk) 13:03, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, no worries then. Please do have a look at the Task Center though, for more productive ideas than re-creating a draft about a topic burned by undisclosed paid editing. Creating new articles isn't a recommended task for beginners, especially not biographical articles. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:41, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Mikhail Lomtadze

The request to remove protection was denied because of the past history of bad-faith editors at Mikhail Lomtadze. I recommend you abandon your draft and try writing about something other than Eastern European businesspeople. Chris Troutman (talk) 14:24, 2 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Chris troutman:, many thanks for your advice. I understand how my activity looks from your side. However, I have nothing in common with the editors who worked on the article before. Of course, I created this article and want to understand what is wrong with it and how to improve my contributions. A few words about the topic: I chose it as I am interested in Kazakh politics and business (my origin influence) and founded there are not many articles close to the topic in English Wikipedia. Lomtadze is a "big man" for my country, it is especially obvious while current situation in Kazakhstan. That's why I am so active about this article and do everything I can. There are many mistakes as I am a Wiki-freshman, and I am happy to receive such feedback. By the way, I made a draft about Zhomart Zhadygerovich Ertaev by the other way, maybe it works better. I would be glad to get your further help with my artices.--FinancesHero (talk) 13:12, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There's nothing wrong with your draft about Lomtadze, but as my request to un-protect that page indicates, prior bad actors have muddied the waters and Wikipedia does not need an article about Lomtadze enough to indirectly reward those trying to promote him as a subject. Our volunteer editor community has a right to protect itself. I'm sorry but that's final. Please continue contributing elsewhere. Chris Troutman (talk) 00:23, 13 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Zhomart Zhadygerovich Ertaev (April 26)

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

The text of this submission has been removed from Wikipedia. Wikipedia has a strict policy concerning biographies of living persons; we cannot accept such articles if they are unsourced, or contain unverifiable information which is potentially defamatory. All articles about living persons must conform to our biographies of living persons policy. In order to permit the author of this submission to provide sources that may satisfy the policy, the text of the page is available in the history.

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:Zhomart Zhadygerovich Ertaev and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Cerebellum (talk) 08:16, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, FinancesHero! 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! Cerebellum (talk) 08:16, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Zhomart Zhadygerovich Ertaev

Hello, FinancesHero. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Zhomart Zhadygerovich Ertaev, 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) 20:02, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]