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Happy editing! DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:26, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (October 15)[edit]

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:

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DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:25, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Cal.footballsport! 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! DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:25, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

October 2023[edit]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions; however, it appears you may have written a Wikipedia article, or a draft for a Wikipedia article, about yourself. Creating an autobiography is strongly discouraged – please see our guideline on writing autobiographies. If you create such an article, it may be deleted. If what you have done in life is genuinely notable and can be verified according to our policy for articles about living people, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later (see Notable people who have edited Wikipedia). If you wish to add to or change an existing article about yourself, you are welcome to propose the changes by visiting the article's talk page. Please understand that this is an encyclopedia and not a personal web space or social networking site. If your article has already been deleted, please see: Why was the page I created deleted?, and if you feel the deletion was an error, please discuss this with the deleting administrator. Thank you. DoubleGrazing (talk) 12:26, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi and thanks for your message.

I assist Mr Calum Selby and wanted to create a page for his coaching career and since he didn't have a page yet, I decided to create one. In the guidelines for creating an account, it was written that I couldn't use my original personal name so I thought I could create a name to represent him. What should I do in order to create a page? This was not created by him but by his assistant. Cal.footballsport (talk) 13:01, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks.

Just to clarify, it's not that you cannot use your own name as the username, it's just that it's not necessary. And you certainly shouldn't use someone else's name, as that could be considered impersonation. That said, you haven't actually used anyone's real name as such, so you should be okay in that respect.

Going forward, the first thing you must do is declare a conflict of interest (COI). I will post advice on how to do this in a separate thread below. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:06, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No, honestly the name Cal is an abbreviation to another name. So that was not referring to him. I thought that it was highly discouraged to use my personal name from what I red and I wasn't sure on which name register the account. Cal.footballsport (talk) 13:22, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:06, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding User:Cal.footballsport/sandbox[edit]

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 13:05, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]