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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (April 21)

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

Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia. You can find it and improve it at Theos (think tank) instead.

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 after they have been resolved.

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DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:00, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Greatpeterstreet! 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! DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:00, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Greatpeterstreet! 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.

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. Even when using your own words, you are still, however, asked to cite your sources to verify the information and to demonstrate that the content is not original research.
We have strict guidelines on the usage of copyrighted images. Fair use images must meet all ten of the non-free content criteria in order to be used in articles, or they will be deleted. To be used on Wikipedia, all other images must be made available under a free and open copyright license that allows commercial and derivative reuse.
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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 must follow the copyright attribution steps described at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. See also Help:Translation#License requirements.

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, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:06, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Greatpeterstreet. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Theos (think tank)‎, 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, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} 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 Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
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. Your user name suggests that you are based at Theos' offices. Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 15:05, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Escape Orbit, thank you for your message, and for editing the Theos wiki page today. I discovered the think tank earlier this year and created the wiki account for the purpose of updating their terribly outdated article - hence the name. I am not paid by them to update the article page, but I did attend some of their events in person and now have an external relationship with some of the employees.

I have added the COI declaration on both my page and the article page. I will abstain in the future from making unnecessary edits, and will use the {{edit COI}} template if I want to suggest something.

Hopefully this will be a gateway into being a little more active on Wiki more generally in the future. I sometimes encounter articles in need of improvement, and get an itch to do something out it...

Greatpeterstreet (talk) 16:40, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article Theos (think tank).