User talk:Maxwell.obscure

Hello, Maxwell.obscure and a belated welcome to Wikipedia! I see that you've already been around awhile and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help one get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions, you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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A page you started (Ellis Ruley) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Ellis Ruley.

User:Doomsdayer520 while reveiwing this page as a part of our page curation process had the following comments:

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---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 19:57, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

August 2020

Hello Maxwell.obscure. 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:Maxwell.obscure. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Maxwell.obscure|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. GSS ^💬 12:31, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@GSS: Thank you for your message GSS. You're right, I have been paid for some of the contributions I've made. I just disclosed my conflicts of interest on past contributions on User:Maxwell.obscure. I am writing another article now that I am being paid for, which I have also disclosed. I will not publish it directly, but submit it to Articles for Creation. Thanks again for taking the time to point this out and keep Wikipedia working as best as possible. Maxwell.obscure (talk) 15:01, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, but that's not enough. Wikipedia's paid editing disclosure policy also requires that you provide links to your profiles on all sites where you "advertise, solicit or obtain paid Wikipedia-editing services". GSS ^💬 16:06, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I just added a link to the profile through which I get contracts to contribute to Wikipedia to my User page. Maxwell.obscure (talk) 15:53, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Jon Melby (February 9)

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

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject. Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

This submission does not appear to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Entries should be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources. Please rewrite your submission in a more encyclopedic format. Please make sure to avoid peacock terms that promote the subject.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Sources appear to be local publicity pieces or primary sources. These do not establish notability sufficient for a WP article. This is obviously a publicity piece and the author admits he was paid to write the article. Needs review and revision by a non-paid editor.

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:Jon Melby 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:Jon Melby, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 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.

Nightenbelle (talk) 21:11, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Maxwell.obscure! 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! Nightenbelle (talk) 21:11, 9 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Jon Melby

Hello, Maxwell.obscure. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Jon Melby, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion under CSD G13. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available here.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 22:02, 12 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Jon Melby

Hello, Maxwell.obscure. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Jon Melby".

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. If 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!} 21:22, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]