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Your submission at Articles for creation: Murder Accountability Project (March 11)

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

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Theroadislong (talk) 20:14, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Monica Wamsley! 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! Theroadislong (talk) 20:14, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Declare any connection

Hello Monica Wamsley. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Draft:Murder Accountability Project, 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:Monica Wamsley. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Monica Wamsley|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. --Worldbruce (talk) 05:58, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @Worldbruce. I have no stake in the project whatsoever, financial or otherwise. I simply feel the subject is well worth a page and am distressed that my writing style is viewed as biased in any way.Monica Wamsley (talk) 13:27, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I added a speedy deletion tag to the entry, as I don't feel this fight is worth my time. Can we get the draft removed? I hope someone else will add an entry one day. Thanks. Monica Wamsley (talk) 13:36, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have edited the draft for neutral tone and accepted it for you here Murder Accountability Project feel free to add more content, thanks for your work. Theroadislong (talk) 14:24, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like minimal edits. I am so glad this is available to readers. Thanks so much for your time, @Theroadislong! Wyowam (talk) 12:01, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]