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Your submission at Articles for creation: Growth Capital Ventures (January 12)[edit]

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) 13:49, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! LucaPeterson, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that 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) 13:49, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, LucaPeterson. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article Draft:Growth Capital Ventures, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. 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 COI 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 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. Please declare any paid editing on your user page Theroadislong (talk) 13:56, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

January 2018[edit]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Yunshui ^雲 _水 14:26, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Seedrs page was not a good example to follow, it was also written like an advert, I have edited it to remove the promotional tone, thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 15:10, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to work with you on getting the page up to scratch? Please could you point out the issues and which sections are advert like so I can amend and re-submit?LucaPeterson (talk) 15:14, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You cannot amend and resubmit. You cannot write about your company on Wikipedia any more. If you would like to edit on other topics, please indicate what those are likely to be in your unblock request. However, if you are only here to write about GCV, you will not be unblocked. Yunshui ^雲 _水 15:16, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What are the criteria needed to be able to write about a company on Wikipedia? LucaPeterson (talk) 15:21, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You can, of course, find the detailed answer to this question in the various Wikipedia pages where policy is delineated. But putting it simply, a company you want to write about should possess wikipedic notability, should not have an article already extant in the English Wikipedia, and should not be your own company. The article must not read in any way like an advertisement and must include good quality independently sourced third-party references. --Anthony Bradbury^"talk" 19:44, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note to reviewing admin see also User:JamesMcK. Yunshui ^雲 _水 15:16, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Yunshui: Intersting. How's this sound? Feel free to modify. -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 08:06, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

LucaPeterson (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Hello, I have declared my conflict of interest with the company Growth Capital Ventures and happy for the content to be reviewed and amended accordingly. The page was to be set up for educational reasons only. I used the page for Seedrs as a template whilst actively trying to avoid advertising LucaPeterson (talk) 14:34, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

I think progress has been made. Conditional unblock requirements- I would be willing to unblock given the following:

you confirm that this account is used by one individual only
you agree to avoid creating or directly editing Growth Capital Ventures
you agree to abide by the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use and disclose any paid relationship in accordance with the paid contributor policy
you indicate what areas of Wikipedia you intend to edit in the future
Any company you want to write about should possess wikipedic notability, should not have an article already extant in the English Wikipedia, and should not be your own company.
In any event, the article must not read in any way like an advertisement and must include good quality independently sourced third-party references.

I'm sorry that this message could not be more favourable, but the goal of Wikipedia is to build a neutrally worded encyclopedia whose articles are about notable topics based on previously published writings. -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 08:06, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.