User talk:Shalsch

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Hello, Shalsch, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

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July 2020[edit]

Hello Shalsch. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, 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:Shalsch. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Shalsch|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. Fiddle Faddle 18:27, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Fiddle Faddle,

Thanks for assisting as I am new to this. I'm not being paid directly to edit this page, I work for Updata Partners, but this was more of a side project I took on along with updating our website etc. Can you maybe flag what pieces seem like promotion so I can skinny that down? And also, what's the proper way to cite the business wire article? I'm not trying to plagiarize, I want to give them the proper credit. When editing this article, I format utilized the following pages of similar companies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_Partners. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainsail_Partners.(Shalsch (talk) 13:18, 23 July 2020 (UTC))[reply]

You receive remuneration from your employer and have stated on Commons that you are tasked with creating the article. You are thus a paid editor in Wikipedia terms and must make the relevant declaration on your user page.

WHat benefit does your employer believe will accrue to it by having an article here? Fiddle Faddle 14:38, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Apart from the fact that no article may set a precedent for any other article, the two articles you showed me are woefully deficient. Thank you for showing them to me., This allows us to clean promotional trash from Wikipedia.

It is my profound hope that you will be guided bytes and either create a decent, unbiased, neutral article that is well referenced, or step backend wait for another person to create this assuming your employer has notability and can pass WP:CORP.

Generally a staff member is under management pressure to create something that will not be accepted here, and finds the process alarmingly frustrating.Fiddle Faddle 14:58, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I think we will pass on the page in general. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shalsch (talk • contribs) 16:13, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Shalsch, That appears not to be the case, I'm afraid. Please see Draft:Updata Partners created at 18:05, 23 July 2020 by User:KHong23.

Assuming this user to be also a staff member they are falling into the same pitfalls that all staff members do Fiddle Faddle 18:29, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not a staff member (so not a paid contributor), a person I live with who said they'd create an article stripped down without any promotion in it. I just heard from her that you rejected it for promotion reasons as well (including an unwarranted shot at Updata). I have to be honest, it's more than a little unfair that the policing is strict when I try to upload something, but not so with other companies. I spent an hour earlier parsing through dozens of pages that feature obvious promotion, companies big and small, far more than I offered. I wish you luck, I just hope you remain consistent in you application of "promotion rules." — Preceding unsigned comment added by KHong23 (talk • contribs) 18:37, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

KHong23, I stand by all I have said in criticising the draft. You need to become aware of recruiting friends and acquaintances. Please study it with care Fiddle Faddle 18:43, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Shalsch/sandbox[edit]

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A tag has been placed on User:Shalsch/sandbox, 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, person, or point of view 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/Organizations for more information.
It appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement of businesswire.com/news/home/20200420005121/en/Updata-Partners-Closes-308-Million-Software-Growth and venturecapitaljournal.com/updata-partners-raises-over-308m-for-sixth-fund. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (July 22)[edit]

Your recent article submission has been rejected. If you have further questions, you can ask at the Articles for creation help desk or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help. The reason left by Timtrent was: This submission is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. The comment the reviewer left was: Wikipedia is not here for you to advertise your corporation

Fiddle Faddle 18:31, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Shalsch! 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! Fiddle Faddle 18:31, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

July 2020[edit]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 05:39, 26 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]