User talk:Mike with Alphapointe

Clear disclosure of paid editing required

Hello Mike with Alphapointe. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Alphapointe, 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:Mike with Alphapointe. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Mike with Alphapointe|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. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 19:54, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello - thanks for providing the clarification on the disclosure, very much appreciated. I believe that we've added that correctly to the User profile. At this stage, we are using the draft feature to assist our students with creating Wikipedia entries and, in it's present form, assume it's unlikely to be fit for actual publication. We had planned on having students make revisions in the near future and then planned to move forward with a more formal submission. Thanks for your guidance and assistance - we are still very much in the learning stages. -- Mike with Alphapointe (talk) 20:16, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Alphapointe

Hello, Mike with Alphapointe. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Alphapointe, 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) 19:02, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Alphapointe

Hello, Mike with Alphapointe. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Alphapointe".

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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Eternal Shadow Talk 18:28, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Alphapointe

Hello, Mike with Alphapointe. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Alphapointe".

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!} 17:29, 12 March 2022 (UTC)