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Your submission at Articles for creation: CAM International Market (October 1)[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 Curb Safe Charmer were:

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 08:29, 1 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Culinaryjoey! 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! Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 08:29, 1 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Culinaryjoey. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. 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 (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
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 are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:10, 1 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Draft:CAM International Market, you may be blocked from editing.

One of your recent additions has been removed in whole or in part, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted material, including text or images from print publications or from other websites, without an appropriate and verifiable license. All such contributions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously and persistent violators of our copyright policy will be blocked from editing. See Wikipedia:Copying text from other sources for more information. MER-C 16:21, 1 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

October 2019[edit]

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Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 19:00, 1 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The purpose of Wikipedia[edit]

As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia's mission is to provide the public with articles that summarize accepted knowledge, written neutrally and sourced reliably. Readers expect to find neutral articles written independently of their subject, not corporate or personal webpages, or platforms for advertising and self-promotion. Articles should contain only material that complies with Wikipedia's content policies and best practices, and Wikipedians must place the interests of the encyclopedia and its readers above personal concerns.

Social media, blogs, or other types of self-published sources will not be accepted as reliable sources. Neither will your own unpublished personal knowledge or experiences. Basically, Wikipedia has no interest in what a company/organization or its employees/representatives want to say about it. We only care about what third-party writers have chosen to publish about a subject, working for sources that have an established reputation for fact-checking and editorial oversight. This heavily favours mainstream journalism, like respected news organizations, magazines and book publishers.

As previously mentioned, you should not attempt at all to write about the company you work for. Not only is it an inherent conflict of interest, but you would have to disclose whether you are being directed to do so as part of your job. My advice is to drop the subject altogether, and edit about a topic with which you have no personal or professional connection. If you have no interest in writing about anything else, then you should look for an alternative outlet other than Wikipedia. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 19:15, 1 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]