User talk:Todd Howland
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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (July 29)
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Hello, Todd Howland!
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) 09:10, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
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- Hello Doubleglazing, thank you for the swift review and sharing your comments, I will take note of your remarks. Just to be clear, is everything else okay and the only thing i need to work on is my referencing? 193.239.221.230 (talk) 10:26, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hello Doubleglazing, thank you for the swift review and sharing your comments, I will take note of your remarks. Just to be clear, is everything else okay and the only thing i need to work on is my referencing? Todd Howland (talk) 10:28, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Well, no; everything else is not okay. You shouldn't be writing about yourself in the first place - see the message below. If you do decide to go ahead regardless, you must base your draft on what independent and reliable third parties (preferably secondary sources, ie. newspapers, magazines, TV and radio programmes, and books) have said about you. My guess is that you've so far pretty much just written what you want to tell the world about yourself, but we have no interest in that: Wikipedia only summarises what has been previously published by other sources. Given this, you would almost certainly have to rewrite the draft more or less completely. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:17, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hello, thank you for your response, so My name is Prince Owolabi and I work with the Office of the High commissioner for Human Rights. This Project has been given to me by the office to create this page for the director of the office, so it is not an autobiography. Also I want to note that a few articles and publications have made mentioned of the director which I included in the Bibliography, I will go over it well now and make sure the citations used are the proper ones. Todd Howland (talk) 12:33, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- In that case you must change your user name at once. If you are not Todd Howland, it is misleading (impersonation) to have that as your user name.
- Secondly, you have a conflict of interest, specifically a paid-editing one, and must disclose this formally. I will post another message below with instructions. Please action this before editing further.
- Thank you. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:03, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hello, thank you for your response, so My name is Prince Owolabi and I work with the Office of the High commissioner for Human Rights. This Project has been given to me by the office to create this page for the director of the office, so it is not an autobiography. Also I want to note that a few articles and publications have made mentioned of the director which I included in the Bibliography, I will go over it well now and make sure the citations used are the proper ones. Todd Howland (talk) 12:33, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Well, no; everything else is not okay. You shouldn't be writing about yourself in the first place - see the message below. If you do decide to go ahead regardless, you must base your draft on what independent and reliable third parties (preferably secondary sources, ie. newspapers, magazines, TV and radio programmes, and books) have said about you. My guess is that you've so far pretty much just written what you want to tell the world about yourself, but we have no interest in that: Wikipedia only summarises what has been previously published by other sources. Given this, you would almost certainly have to rewrite the draft more or less completely. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 11:17, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article, or a draft for a Wikipedia article, about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Notable people who have edited Wikipedia). If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. DoubleGrazing (talk) 09:11, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
Hello Todd Howland. 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:Todd Howland. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Todd Howland|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. DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:04, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
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