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AfC notification: Draft:Geoff Blackwell has a new comment[edit]

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Geoff Blackwell. Thanks! Theroadislong (talk) 10:04, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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June 2020[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you recently removed maintenance templates from Geoff Blackwell. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Please see Help:Maintenance template removal for further information on when maintenance templates should or should not be removed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. GPL93 (talk) 16:59, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, SahminKilly. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Geoff Blackwell, 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:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. GPL93 (talk) 16:59, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edit to Geoff Blackwell[edit]

iN this rfit I noticed that you removed several maintenance tags tht had recently been added to the article, and that you added several URLs which apparently you intended as reference citations. There were some problems with this edit.

About the URLs:

Two of them were not properly enclosed in <ref>...</ref> tags. Both the opening and the closing tag must be present, or the reference will not display properly in the references section. That is a correctable formatting issue.
None of the URLs you added was accompanied by metadata, such as the title of the piece, the name of the publication where it appeared, the date, or the author. It is very helpful to other readers when these are in the citation. (well it looks as if you attempted to include partial meta data about the NewsHub piece, but it was incorrectly formatted)
The NewsHub piece, at https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2020/05/what-do-the-world-s-most-inspiring-leaders-have-in-common.html, seems to be Blackwell speaking, as opposed to someone else speaking or writing about Blackwell. As such it is not an independent source and so is of less value on Wikipedia.

About the Tags:

Notability. Blackwell may be notable the the article at present does not do a good job demonstrating that, which is why the tag is present, to invite people to improve the article. Note that the fact that Blackwell published books by famous people like Nelson Mandela does not in itself make Blackwell notable.
{{Like resume}} is used when an article seems to be structured as if it were a resume of the subject -- as a chronological list of jobs and accomplishments, with little said about any one of them. While the article about Geoff Blackwell does not suffer from that as much as some articles here do, it could still use filling out. The tag invites people to improve the article in this regard.
COI: You are the creator and primary contributor to this article so far. Do you have a conflict of interest here? o you have any kind of relationship with Blackwell -- financial or personal -- which might make it hard for you to write neutrally about Blackwell ? If so you should declare mit for better transparency. If not, the tag can be removed, but it might be best to allow someone else to do it.

WP:OWN:

On the article talk page you write about "my article". I assume that is just short for "the article I initially created" but such phrasing is something of a red flag here. No one owns any Wikipedia article or controls it to the exclusion of other editors. That is a basic policy here.

I hope these observations will be helpful to you. DES ^(talk)_{DESiegel Contribs} 19:13, 19 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for reaching out. Your guidance means a huge amount to me. I am grateful for the assistance. I apologise for the terminology I used, I completely understand that it is not 'my article' -- as a former journalist I became used to referring to my work in that way. In future I will not use this on WP. I totally understand that the work is not mine and is part of the creative commons. Just as the picture I gave will be used by whoever wants to use it in the future. In terms of the point about a conflict of interest, I do know Geoff Blackwell personally. I have worked on some of the books he has published and receive no financial compensation for this work at all. I thought that given what I know about him and his work, it would warrant a WP article. I hope you will agree that all the information I included was objective. The article includes what he has done, awards etc. I get the Hello, SahminKilly. 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:

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propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
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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. criticism and am working at changing that in the coming days. I am more than happy for others to contribute to the article, in fact I would welcome it. I am planning to collect more information to share to update it and hopefully the community will find it useful.

In terms of the technical issues that have been pointed out. Thank you so much. I will work on fixing them. I apologise for removing the maintenance tags. Honestly I thought that since I had made the corrections previously suggested that it would be OK to do so. I now know that I should have left them.

I feel that this community involvement with the article is fantastic and I really to hope to continue engaging in a way that can get this article up to WP standards.

SahminKilly (talk) 09:49, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Your thread has been archived[edit]

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Geoff Blackwell moved to draftspace[edit]

An article you recently created, Geoff Blackwell, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) 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} 13:54, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Geoff Blackwell[edit]

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 23:45, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Geoff Blackwell 2[edit]

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 16:29, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Geoff Blackwell[edit]

Hello, SahminKilly. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Geoff Blackwell".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:20, 30 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]