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Happy editing! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shashanka Chattarjee (talk • contribs) 14:50, 2 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: International Association of Department Stores (December 2)[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 SK2242 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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SK2242 (talk) 16:33, 2 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Perchsquirell! 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! SK2242 (talk) 16:33, 2 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

December 2020[edit]

Hello Perchsquirell. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:International Association of Department Stores, 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:Perchsquirell. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Perchsquirell|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. SK2242 (talk) 16:34, 2 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Perchsquirell (talk) 16:48, 2 December 2020 (UTC) Hello SK2242 thank you for your speedy review. I can confirm I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for the edits brought to Draft:International Association of Department Stores, I have been actually trying to improve the draft submission as I understood it would take more than 3 months and I was allowed to improve the submission in the meantime. Since this is my first submission I have also been struggling a bit in defining exactly how to do things (upload picture, define categories, improve references) but this is all. There is by no means any financial stake involved. Is there any procedure to prove this? Thank you Also, do you have issues with the sources? They are not from IADS, but from press and independent books + review of these books Perchsquirell (talk) 16:48, 2 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for confirming you are not financially connected to the subject. You do not need to prove it, your word is enough. The issue is not mainly with sourcing but promotional language such as "IADS is practically the only body that has a record of continuing membership and activity since then". Regards, SK2242 (talk) 18:22, 2 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello SK2242 actually I have removed a number of sentences that can be misleading, as well as parts of text that was either not directly supported with sources or seemingly advertising the topic. On the sentence you mentioned, what I am trying to express is that this Association has been keeping on running and active without interruption since 1928, which is part of the fact I think the topic is worth for Wikipedia. Do you recommend I reword it? Thank you Perchsquirell (talk) 07:18, 3 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Long list of Presidents[edit]

The long list of former Presidents that I deleted and you restored not only strongly suggest that you are connected to the organization, but they may very well cause the article to be rejected for being promotional. See WP:NOTDIR. It's a cut and paste from the organization website, and almost completely unsourced. Just a tip from an 11 year editor. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 16:25, 24 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Timtempleton: thank you for your insight. I did not see you deleted the list yesterday, it does not show in the edit history of the page. Anyways, I removed it following your advice (I got confused with the list of managers, that was shortened as well). Let me know what you think. Thank you! --Perchsquirell (talk) 12:37, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: International Association of Department Stores has been accepted[edit]

International Association of Department Stores, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

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The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. This is a great rating for a new article, and places it among the top 20% of accepted submissions — kudos to you! You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

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bonadea contributions talk 12:19, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]