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Your submission at Articles for creation: Reputation Institute (March 26)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by SamHolt6 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.

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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SamHolt6 (talk) 18:27, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Topedits! 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! SamHolt6 (talk) 18:27, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Editing with a possible conflict of interest

Hello, Topedits. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.--SamHolt6 (talk) 18:28, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Help me!

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I am new and unsure how to reply to an wikipedia editor who declined my submission. Do I go to his talk page or type on my own talk page?

Topedits (talk) 06:47, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Most experienced editors will respond to a message on your talk page, as long as you use something like {{ping}} so they get a notification - but it's more common to create a new section on their talk page.

As far as declined AfC submissions go, you can simply resubmit after you've addressed the issues listed by the reviewer. If you still have questions about how to respond, sometimes the AFC Help Desk is a good place to ask.

The draft at Draft:Reputation Institute still reads to me as quite promotional; I see that you have supplied some references that might qualify as notability references, but you should be prepared to explain exactly how the company meets one or more of the NCORP criteria and pick the most salient one for inclusion in the lede. — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 07:10, 28 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

COI

Are you affiliated with or have you been paid by Draft:Reputation Institute? Also, is Top Edits the name of a company (which is not allowed per our username policy)? shoy (reactions) 19:47, 29 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No, like I told the other person who asked, I have not been paid by anyone to do anything on Wikipedia. Topedits is just a random name I chose. I have no idea if it is the name of any company. I am a retired academic and previously worked as a researcher in the field of Corporate Reputation. I am just trying to share my knowledge. Sorry for replying so late. I lost interest for a while but I am going to give it another try now. Topedits (talk) 23:18, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Reputation Institute

Hello, Topedits. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Reputation Institute".

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 edit the submission 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! CptViraj (📧) 14:23, 1 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]