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Proposed deletion of Grand Circle Travel

The article Grand Circle Travel has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

None of the supplied references have in depth independent coverage of the company. The article itself is written in a highly promotional manner.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Grand Circle Travel

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A tag has been placed on Grand Circle Travel, 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, product, group, service or person 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.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Grand Circle Travel

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• It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.
• It appears to be about a person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), individual animal, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. (See section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Zone diet

Hello, Bkrudy18. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. People with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, see the conflict of interest guideline and frequently asked questions for organizations. In particular, please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, its competitors, or projects and products you or they are involved with;
• instead, propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing, and autobiographies. Thank you. Deli nk (talk) 14:39, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

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Hi Bkrudy18!! You're invited: learn how to edit Wikipedia in under an hour. Hope to see you there! Play The Wikipedia Adventure This message was delivered by -- samtar whisper 15:26, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

I am unsure what is wrong with the updates I have made. They have been very strongly cited. Can you please be more specific in regards to what is problematic with the updates? Bkrudy18 (talk) 15:30, 7 January 2016 (UTC)Bkrudy18

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi Bkrudy18

You made an edit to the Zone diet article with edit note, "Updating facts about the Zone Diet, per the request of Dr. Barry Sears".

I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and requests for you below.

Hello, Bkrudy18. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. People with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, see the conflict of interest guideline and frequently asked questions for organizations. In particular, please:

• avoid editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, its competitors, or projects and products you or they are involved with;
• instead, propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the {{request edit}} template);
• avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
• exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use require disclosure of your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation.

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing, and autobiographies. Thank you.

Comments and requests

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Via the edit note above, you have disclosed that you have a relationship with Barry Sears and are acting at his direction. This means that you have a conflict of interest, as Wikipedia defines that.

What is not clear at this point, is whether or not you are being paid to edit Wikipedia on behalf of Dr. Sears or as part of your job. Would you please clarify that? Once you do (and you can just reply below), we talk about how to edit Wikipedia with a COI, and in general. Again, you can reply here - I am watching this page. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 17:15, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

@Jytdog - I work for Zone Labs, and the owner, Dr. Barry Sears, is the creator of Zone Diet. This is not something sold as a product or service, so he is the only person that really has the final say on what the Zone Diet is. I was newly hired, and he mentioned that the info on the page is not very accurate. He has given me about 25 journals to reference, and I have been sourcing them as I make updates. However, they keep getting changed back. What can I do to assure these changes go through? Bkrudy18 (talk) 18:03, 7 January 2016 (UTC)Bkrudy18

Thanks for clarifying that. You are what we call a "paid editor." Please stop trying to improve the article until you figure out how this place works, or you are going to get really frustrated. For starters, please take some time and read all of WP:COI, and let me know when you are done, and we can discuss that document, and the disclosure requirements here, and then we can discuss how you can work on the article. We can keep talking here for now, as this discussion is about teaching you how Wikipedia works. As I said we will eventually discuss how to edit, but we need to cover some basic things first. Best regards Jytdog (talk) 18:30, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Bkrudy18, I never finished walking you through this, and you have apparently not read WP:PAID and WP:COI. So let's finish.

To finish the disclosure piece, would you please add the disclosure to your user page (which is User:Bkrudy18 - a redlink, because you haven't written anything there yet). Just something simple like: "I work for Zone Labs, and the owner, Dr. Barry Sears, is the creator of Zone Diet. I have a conflict of interest with regard to that topic" would be fine. If you want to add anything else there that is relevant to what you want to do in WP feel free to add it, but please don't add anything promotional about the company or the diet (see WP:USERPAGE for guidance if you like).

I added a tag to the Zone DIet talk page, so the disclosure is done there. Once you disclose on your user page, the disclosure piece of this will be done.

As I noted above, there are two pieces to COI management in WP. The first is disclosure. The second is a form of peer review. This piece may seem a bit strange to you at first, but if you think about it, it will make sense. In Wikipedia, editors can immediately publish their work, with no intervening publisher or standard peer review -- you can just create an article, click save, and voilà there is a new article, and you can go into any article, make changes, click save, and done. No intermediary - no publisher, no "editors" as that term is used in the real world. So the bias that conflicted editors tend to have, can go right into the article. Conflicted editors are also really driven to try to make the article fit with their external interest. If they edit directly, this often leads to big battles with other editors.

What we ask editors to do who have a COI and want to work on articles where their COI is relevant, is:

a) if you want to create an article relevant to a COI you have, create the article as a draft through the WP:AFC process, disclose your COI on the Talk page, and then submit the draft article for review (the AfC process sets up a nice big button for you to click when it is ready) so it can be reviewed before it publishes; and

b) And if you want to change content in any existing article on a topic where you have a COI, we ask you to propose content on the Talk page for others to review and implement before it goes live, instead of doing it directly yourself. You can make the edit request easily - and provide notice to the community of your request - by using the "edit request" function as described in the conflict of interest guideline. I made that easy for you by adding a section to the beige box at the top of the Talk page at Talk:X - there is a link at "click here" in that section -- if you click that, the Wikipedia software will automatically format a section in which you can make your request.

By following those "peer review" processes, editors with a COI can contribute where they have a COI, and the integrity of WP can be protected. We get some great contributions that way, when conflicted editors take the time to understand what kinds of proposals are OK under the content policies. (which I will say more about, if you want).

I hope that makes sense to you.

Will you please agree to follow the peer review processes going forward, when you want to work on the Zone Diet article or any article where your COI is relevant? Do let me know, and if anything above doesn't make sense I would be happy to discuss. And if you want me to quickly go over the content policies, I can do that. Just let me know. Thanks! Jytdog (talk)

References

Remember that when adding content about health, please only use high-quality reliable sources as references. We typically use review articles, major textbooks and position statements of national or international organizations. WP:MEDHOW walks you through editing step by step. A list of resources to help edit health content can be found here. The edit box has a built-in citation tool to easily format references based on the PMID or ISBN. We also provide style advice about the structure and content of medicine-related encyclopedia articles. The welcome page is another good place to learn about editing the encyclopedia. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:05, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

May 2023

Hi Bkrudy18! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at List of medical schools in the United States that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you.  Bait30  ^{Talk 2 me pls?} 04:17, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. What do we need to do to adjust to edit so it can return from being deleted? 100.0.13.48 (talk) 12:02, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

MedSchoolCoach moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, MedSchoolCoach, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more in-depth coverage about the subject itself, with citations from reliable, independent sources in order to show it meets WP:GNG. It should have at least three, to be safe. And please remember that interviews, as primary sources, do not count towards GNG.(?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page.Onel5969 ^{TT me} 11:23, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

The 100th Inning moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to The 100th Inning. Unfortunately, it is not ready for publishing because it needs more sources to establish notability, it is promotional and reads like an advertisement and it has an empty lead section. Your article is now a draft where you can improve it undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 21:11, 31 August 2023 (UTC)

September 2023

Please stop. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at 100 Inning Game, you may be blocked from editing. Drmies (talk) 21:42, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:MedSchoolCoach

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 12:02, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: The 100th Inning (October 22)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Ca was:  The comment the reviewer left 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.

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Ca ^{talk to me!} 02:51, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Hello, Bkrudy18! 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! Ca talk to me! 02:51, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Draft:MedSchoolCoach

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The page Draft:MedSchoolCoach has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This was done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seemed to be unambiguous advertising which only promoted a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to have been fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, or you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:11, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

November 2023

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:12, 17 November 2023 (UTC)