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Happy editing! Happy days, ~ Lindsay^Hello 16:20, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

To be fair, i did undo a couple of things you did ~ one had slightly degraded the English, the other had duplicated a link unnecessarily. On the other hand, i also formatted the reference you had added ~ though i should point out that i'm not sure the IMDB is considered a reliable source, as it is user generated, i believe. You mentioned in one of your edit summaries that you couldn't find a way to cite, i urge you to ask at the Teahouse (link above) or here using the {{Help me}} template here on your talk page. Other than that, i'll just reiterate the Welcome i've put above; hope you stick around! Happy days, ~ Lindsay^Hello 16:26, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! GoodWritingSolutions (talk) 00:07, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

April 2023

Hello, I'm 3mi1y. I wanted to let you know that one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to Tile-based game—has been undone because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help desk. Thank you. ℰmi1y_⧼T·C⧽ 01:06, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello GoodWritingSolutions! Your additions to Draft:Excel High School (Minnesota) have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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Violating copyrights is not a good writing solution. Thank you. —Alalch E. 14:40, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I had that in a draft format, I thought, so I thought it was fine. I was not done with that work. I appreciate the feedback, however. Is it still possible for me to continue working on that as a draft? GoodWritingSolutions (talk) 00:53, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello GoodWritingSolutions. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Richard C. Schwartz, 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.

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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:GoodWritingSolutions. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=GoodWritingSolutions|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. // Timothy :: talk 02:54, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am not getting paid for anything like this. I'm just trying to learn how to do this because I'm...Lame? I used to be an English teacher and enjoy research. I am not being compensated for my edits. I'm just bored and this is enjoyable to me. GoodWritingSolutions (talk) 02:57, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GoodWritingSolutions is an interesting choice of username, especially considering your editing history. // Timothy :: talk 03:20, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I used to be a teacher, so I used to give students my "Good Writing Solutions" since my last name is Good. I was going to just use my name, but Wikipedia suggested that it wasn't a good idea, so I threw back to a career I had a decade ago. I'm sorry that I have caused problems. I truly was just trying to learn here, and a lot of people have been very kind and helpful. I wrote about Richard Schwartz because I am reading one of his books per recommendation from my therapist. That's all. GoodWritingSolutions (talk) 03:22, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I really don't know what else to do to explain things. I'm sort of flustered by this. I never even imagined that my idea to say I have "good writing solutions" would be such a to do. Maybe this isn't such a good thing for me to do I guess. It feels pretty bad. I was enjoying at the least finding punctuation errors. GoodWritingSolutions (talk) 03:25, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Inc. 5000 (April 14)

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

Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Inc. 5000 instead.

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No independent notability for this list / already covered in a section on the main article.

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AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 14:15, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, GoodWritingSolutions! Having an article draft 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! AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 14:15, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Richard C. Schwartz

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Proposed deletion of Excel High School (Minnesota)

The article Excel High School (Minnesota) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

fails WP:NCORP. There are no reliable independent sources for this school, which was self promoted by its author from AfC. 69.92.163.38 (talk) 23:14, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

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This bot DID NOT nominate any of your contributions for deletion; please refer to the history of each individual page for details. Thanks, FastilyBot (talk) 09:00, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Excel High School (Minnesota) for deletion

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Onel5969 ^{TT me} 12:03, 26 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Inc. 5000

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 20:06, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Inc. 5000

Hello, GoodWritingSolutions. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Inc. 5000".

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 deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:02, 18 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]