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Your submission at Articles for creation: St95 (September 7)[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 MaxnaCarta 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.

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

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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MaxnaCarta (talk) 13:46, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, RetailClothing! 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! MaxnaCarta (talk) 13:46, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:St95[edit]

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A tag has been placed on Draft:St95, 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.

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Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, RetailClothing. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Draft:St95, 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, colleagues, company, organization, clients, 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 Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
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. Bbb23 (talk) 15:39, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Bbb23,

Thank you for help, unfortunately we were in the process of updating our page when our page was deleted and then our account was blocked on Wikipedia. I now understand that I should have used a Connected contributor (paid) template as I'm indirectly being paid to create the page for the retailer.

I've contacted the contributer that blocked me and hoping to get the issue resolved as soon as possible.

I'm still learning about the process.Thanks @RetailClothing RetailClothing (talk) 09:18, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I will add a notice below that will provide instructions on how to appeal your block. Note that accounts are strictly single person use only- no one but you, the person sitting at the computer reading this, should have access. 331dot (talk) 09:21, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

September 2022[edit]

Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must:

Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future.

331dot (talk) 09:22, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your kind advice regarding our account being blocked.I now understand that while I had acknowledged a conflict of interest, I had not specifically disclosed a paid conflict of interest. I have now read through the guide to appealing blocks and added an unblock text request stating the required information at the end of my user talk page. I am hoping that this information will be accepted in order to help reverse the descision. Again thank you. RetailClothing (talk) 10:51, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Reply[edit]

Thanks for email. I have little to add to 331dot's advice above. If you work directly or indirectly for the organisation, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, 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:RetailClothing. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=RetailClothing|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. You did not do that. As stated above, you can only edit as an individual, not as a representative of a business. 331dot has provided you with the pink box showing how to appeal against your block. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 10:11, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thank you @Jimfbleak, I will appeal against the block following the advice from @331dot, thanking you RetailClothing RetailClothing (talk) 10:30, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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).

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

Request reason:

I apologise for creating the brand page ST95 which violates the Paid Conflict of interest terms and conditions of Wikipedia. I added the Template:COI but realise that I should ahave added the Template:Connected contributor (paid). I have now read and fully understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements. It was not my intention to deceive the submission process, I was only intending to to create a page for the ST95 clothing brand, originally created in 1995 by the fashion designer Massimo Osti (mentioned on his wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Osti). I am being paid indirectly by the umbrella company Left Hand Studio Limited (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12883989 that owns the Brand ST95) to create the Wikipedia page for ST95. I would also be required to maintain the ST95 page on a paid basis and to keep the page updated if there are any major changes to the business. As I mentoned this was not intentional, it is definately something that I am now aware of and I will in future take account of all the Wikipedia guidlines. I would like to request reconsideration of this action. RetailClothing (talk) 10:04, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Decline reason:

You forgot to pick a new username. Additionally, just declaring your conflict of interest isn't enough for you to use Wikipedia for blatantly promotional spam. You've demonstrated you are incapable of editing appropriately about ST95 and will not be unblocked to continue doing so. Yamla (talk) 11:43, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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.

I was not asked to change my username, could I ask what is the reason why I needed to change it? Also I do not uderstand why the article was considered blatent spam. It was fully researched information about the clothing brand ST95 and included citations from multiple reputable sources with publication dates. RetailClothing (talk)

You are correct, sorry. You can keep this username. If you cannot see how your article was blatantly promotional, though, I'm afraid we won't be able to unblock you even to write about other subject areas. I mean, come on. That article would be okay on a marketing website where you expect people to roll their eyes at the marketing content, but totally inappropriate for an encyclopedia. Do you really not see it? Honestly, now? --Yamla (talk) 12:13, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ok I'll take your advice onboard, the original article we had writen was rewritten and rechecked within our business, we are possibly too close to the brand to be totally neutral. We may need to have a totally independent source create the article. RetailClothing (talk)

Totally independent, yes. That means you and the business must not solicit anyone to create that article. --Yamla (talk) 12:24, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You said and to keep the page updated if there are any major changes to the business. Please bear in mind that you do not own the page. It is our article, not your company's, and anyone can make appropriate referenced edits Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:42, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]