User talk:Heather Clarke

Your submission at Articles for creation: AloSIM (October 30)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Fancy Refrigerator was: 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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Fancy Refrigerator ^(talk) 13:22, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Heather Clarke! 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! Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 13:22, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: AloSIM (October 31)

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

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:AloSIM and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
• If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 00:20, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

October 2024

Hello Heather Clarke. 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:Heather Clarke. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Heather Clarke|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. Your simple WP:COI declaration is insufficient. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 12:23, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

• @Timtrent: Heather Clarke has disclosed her conflict of interest on her user page. JBW (talk) 15:39, 31 October 2024 (UTC)
• OK, I have now seen a post of yours on another page, where you indicated that you have seen that disclosure, and consider it insufficient, which is perfectly reasonable. JBW (talk) 15:44, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

  As always it's a matter of choosing the right disclosure. No harm done JBW. Perhaps I ought to have put a better tail end comment on the question above. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 15:48, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

  I apologize if I did not do the disclosure correctly. I thought I had done what was required. Is there something specific I should be adding to the aloSIM Wiki page to explain that I am a writer working full-time within the company? (I was a print journalist for almost two decades prior to joining AffinityClick, so I wrote the page carefully to make sure it was unbiased.) Heather Clarke (talk) 18:29, 20 November 2024 (UTC)