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Your submission at Articles for creation: The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Foundation (May 6)

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

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

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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CommanderWaterford (talk) 18:12, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Zaloth71! 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! CommanderWaterford (talk) 18:12, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Undisclosed financial stake

Hello Zaloth71. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Foundation, 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:Zaloth71. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Zaloth71|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. CommanderWaterford (talk) 21:39, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi CommanderWaterford

I am not employed by and have no financial stake in the foundation. But I am working with a group of unpaid ACTEC members / foundation volunteers some of whom I would assume have made financial donations to the foundation to support its programs over the years. My understanding is the content was laid out by the volunteers. I am a good friend of one of them who is an Trust and Estate Lawyer and ACTEC member (Fellow). Wikipedia is outside the scope of their backgrounds, and I have an IT / website background and was volunteered.

In all honesty, I screwed up and it was not even vetted by the one part time employee of the foundation before I submitted it for publication. Ms. Michaud has now seen it and provided a couple of minor edits (more up to date information). But I have not edited the original draft.

Since the draft was posted I asked a question on one of the help pages to see if I could provide more information about the rejection and Ms. Michaud said that she was contacted by an "experienced Wikipedian" after the entry was rejected and before we reviewed the content in the sandbox so she could review it.

(this was me not logged in)

Your submission at Articles for creation: The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Foundation (May 12)

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's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Wikipedia has no interest in what the foundation wants to say about itself. A Wikipedia article summarizes what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about a topic showing how they meet the special Wikipedia definition of a notable organisation. Mission statements are not required.

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.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Foundation and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Foundation, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Theroadislong (talk) 16:34, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Foundation

Hello, Zaloth71. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Foundation, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 13:01, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]