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Your submission at Articles for creation: UK Picture Editors Guild (August 21)

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(t) Josve05a (c) 16:43, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Bret Painter, 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! (t) Josve05a (c) 16:43, 21 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of UK Picture Editors Guild

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A tag has been placed on UK Picture Editors Guild, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

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.

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, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 20:47, 12 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Bret Painter. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article UK Picture Editors Guild, 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). Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:10, 12 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

As I said last year, "The conflict of interest policy was designed to stop people who'd got up to round 3 in The X Factor, creating a Wikipedia article about themselves, and then proclaiming them to be bigger than The Beatles. It wasn't designed to stop subject experts being able to fix articles where consensus had been established that there were errors." I have it on good authority that Peter Hitchens edits his own Wikipedia article. Plus ca change Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 10:43, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for UK Picture Editors' Guild

On 26 February 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article UK Picture Editors' Guild, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that nominations for the UK Picture Editors' Guild awards have included photographs of battlefield conflict, German figure skaters, and Theresa May laughing? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, UK Picture Editors' Guild), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:03, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]