User talk:BennettAlex

Your submission at Articles for creation: LOCALiQ UK (April 6)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Jamiebuba was: 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 after they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:LOCALiQ UK and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you do not edit your draft in the next 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.

Jamiebuba (talk) 11:14, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello, BennettAlex! Having an article draft 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! Jamiebuba (talk) 11:14, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:LOCALiQ UK

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A tag has been placed on Draft:LOCALiQ UK, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Jamiebuba (talk) 11:21, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: LOCALiQ UK (April 11)

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

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:LOCALiQ UK and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you do not edit your draft in the next 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.

DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:55, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

April 2023

Hello BennettAlex. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:LOCALiQ UK, 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:BennettAlex. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=BennettAlex|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. DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:57, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: LOCALiQ UK (April 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 DoubleGrazing was: 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 after they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:LOCALiQ UK and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you do not edit your draft in the next 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.

DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:58, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:LOCALiQ UK

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Draft:LOCALiQ UK, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:59, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

April 2023

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for advertising or promotion.

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 ~~~~}}.  Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 09:08, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

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).

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

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Request reason:

Morning guys, thank you for taking the time to review my submission for LOCALiQ UK. Firstly, I accept your original decision was fair as, admittedly, the first submission was advertising heavy (naively I was unaware of your publishing rules), but I believe the second one has stronger grounds for being published after editing the copy - see text below:

LOCALiQ is the digital marketing agency of Newsquest Media Group, a local media group in the UK. Founded in 2018, LOCALiQ provide businesses with digital marketing services and employ more than 60 people across England, Scotland, and Wales.

I feel the decision should be reversed as the text only states our umbrella company (Newsquest), who we are and how many people we employ across the UK. I will not make this promotional again (like my first attempt), however as we're a relatively new company I'm finding the article difficult to compose without breaking your publishing rules.

I would really appreciate your help with this to publish the page, how would you recommend I word this brief summary if the text isn't acceptable?

I'm also an employee of LOCALiQ tasked with creating this page, how do I create a mandatory disclosure on my user page? Will this help with my submission? I wholeheartedly apologise for overlooking this, again I was unaware of this process unfortunately.

Thank you so much for your help and I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Alex BennettAlex (talk) 09:56, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Wikipedia calls the content of the encyclopedia articles, not pages. This is an important distinction. Our articles are typically written by independent editors wholly unconnected with the topic. Please see WP:PAID for information on making a disclosure(which you may do on this page and once unblocked move it to your user page), and also read WP:COI. Please read WP:BOSS and have your superiors read it too, they have given you a difficult, if not impossible, task. Wikipedia is not interested in what businesses want to say about themselves and what they do, or as you term it, "the text only states our umbrella company (Newsquest), who we are and how many people we employ across the UK"- that is considered promotional here, you don't have to be soliciting or selling something. Wikipedia articles primarily summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about (in this case) a business, showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable business. Not every business merits an article. You won't be unblocked to, in the short term, edit about your business. If that is your only goal here, this is the end of the road. If you are interested in being a general contributor and editing about topics for which you have no conflict of interest, please tell what those might be. I am declining your request. 331dot (talk) 10:07, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

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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.

Also feel free to show your superiors this message. 331dot (talk) 10:09, 17 April 2023 (UTC)