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I am employed by Ward Systems Group Inc. and NeuroShell Trader is software developed by Ward Systems Group.

Sherald44, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that they have been paid by Ward Systems Group Inc. for their contributions to Wikipedia.

Your submission at Articles for creation: NeuroShell Trader (April 24)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by KJP1 was:

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Tagging for deletion.

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.

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KJP1 (talk) 16:11, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Sherald44! 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! KJP1 (talk) 16:11, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mandatory paid editing disclosure

Hello Sherald44. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Sherald44. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Sherald44|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. ~Anachronist (talk) 17:53, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have added the required disclosure. I contacted the help desk for the appropriate wording for my circumstances. Could you restore the article for additional editing?

Sherald44 (talk) 12:17, 26 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the disclosure. As to the draft article you created, I suggest you start over. It was deleted because it was apparent that you wrote the article for publicity or promotional purposes, rather than to further the goals of the Wikipedia project. Wikipedia isn't a publicity platform. Also have a look at Wikipedia:Golden rule for a brief overview of what we expect to see in a draft article before accepting it into main space. ~Anachronist (talk) 17:36, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

May 2018

Hello, Sherald44. Thank you for helping to build Wikipedia-- the world's largest free content encyclopedia. I'm sorry, but User:Sherald44/sandbox has been deleted as meeting WP:CSD#G11. "This applies to pages that are exclusively promotional and would need to be fundamentally rewritten to conform with Wikipedia:NOTFORPROMOTION." These must be rewritten from scratch from "reliable, third party sources unconnected to the subject." See WP:RS.

Wikipedia:Identifying blatant advertising#Typical signs of blatant advertising contains information about content to avoid. For more information on content that may be perceived as promotional, click User:Dlohcierekim/promo. These are just rough guides. Pages can avoid all those pitfalls and still be glaringly obvious ad copy. Sometimes pages meeting WP:CSD#G11 give the appearance of an editor violating Wikipedia:Conflict of interest or WP:PAID. Please read and heed them if they apply to you.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia-- subjects must meet notability guidelines with reliable sources that are unconnected with the subject and providing verifiable information. That generally means someone unconnected with the subject needs to have written a great deal about the subject. Please see Wikipedia:Citing sources . Template:cite has templates you can use in citing your sources. Place the template {{references}} at the bottom of the page, and references cited in the text will appear there.

If you want to try again, please use the Article Wizard or articles for creation to guide you through the creation process. The new user tutorial can help you avoid future problems.

You may find this tool useful: Google custom search Don't feel discouraged. My first attempts at creating articles were deleted too.

There is more information at Wikipedia:Community portal. There is help available at THE TEAHOUSE. Cheers, and happy editing. --Dlohcierekim (talk) 14:58, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the links to resources. My intention is to rewrite the article entirely. I just copied the previous article I wrote so I could have access to the references, some of which I intend to delete.