User talk:Sydneycindy

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Happy editing! DoubleGrazing (talk) 15:58, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Sydneycindy. 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:Together Price, 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 {{edit COI}} 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. DoubleGrazing (talk) 15:59, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Together Price (September 4)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Deb was:

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.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Please ensure that you declare any conflict of interest.

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.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Together Price and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

Deb (talk) 12:33, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Sydneycindy! 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! Deb (talk) 12:33, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

September 2023[edit]

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Draft:Together Price, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Sydneycindy, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Sydneycindy|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. DoubleGrazing (talk) 06:32, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @DoubleGrazing! I apologize for the delayed response. I've been away for some time, and I wasn't able to check my Wikipedia account. Is there a way I can retrieve my draft? I'm willing to provide all the necessary information to recover it. I hope it's not too late. If possible, could you assist me in retrieving the draft so I can continue working on it? I'm sincerely sorry for the delay, and I hope you can still help me with this. Thank you. Sydneycindy (talk) 13:45, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No, I cannot help you recover this even if I wanted to, as it has been deleted, and can only be recovered by an administrator (which I'm not). You can try appealing to the deleting admin, but I'm not at all sure they will restore the draft back to you.

Before that, though, you need to disclose your conflict of interest and any paid editing, as requested in this thread and in the earlier one (above, titled 'Managing a conflict of interest'. Please do this as your very next edit. Thank you, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:17, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for responding to my message, @DoubleGrazing. I truly appreciate your time. Regarding the disclosure, I have already added the PAID template to my user page. Please take a look and let me know if everything looks good now. As for the draft, I will try to contact the person who deleted it and ask if it is still possible to have it recovered. I do have one question, though. If he/she decides not to retrieve it, can I still recreate the page? Thank you.~~~~ Sydneycindy (talk) 07:46, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You have not been blocked or banned, so in that sense you're free to edit, yes. Promotion is not allowed, even with a paid-editing disclosure, and repeated promotional editing may result in sanctions, so you need to be careful. There is typically a major discrepancy between what your client wants you to say, and how they want it said, and what Wikipedia will accept. -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:10, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies. I did not delete the draft because it was paid, but because you have been blocked previously on a different account, and thus are using this account to evade that block. I had meant to block this account at the same time, but I made an error, leading to this confusion. - Bilby (talk) 08:34, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

October 2023[edit]

This account has been blocked indefinitely as a sockpuppet that was created to violate Wikipedia policy. Note that using multiple accounts is allowed, but using them for illegitimate reasons is not, and that all edits made while evading a block or ban may be reverted or deleted. If this account is not a sockpuppet, and you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here ~~~~}} below. Bilby (talk) 08:31, 8 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]