User talk:BarryLindt

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A tag has been placed on User:BarryLindt/sandbox/Genius Group Limited, 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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Hello, BarryLindt. 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, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
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• 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. Fancy Refrigerator ^(talk) 01:20, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks FR. I posted a draft in progress and will upload the final article when it is complete. Not promoting/advertising, just getting the hang of this. Newbie mistakes, apologies. BL BarryLindt (talk) 20:03, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Genius Group Limited. Thanks! Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 07:02, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I reduced the external links accordingly. BarryLindt (talk) 17:15, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello BarryLindt. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Genius Group Limited, 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 search-engine optimization.

Paid advocates are 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 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:BarryLindt. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=BarryLindt|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. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 07:07, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Jeraxmoira, thank you for the input. I am not being directly or indirectly compensated for my edits. BarryLindt (talk) 15:07, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

BarryLindt: You seem familiar with the article structure and other parts of Wikipedia. Have you had any previous experience editing Wikipedia apart from this account? Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 21:14, 8 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Jeraxmoira. No, I have no previous experience editing Wikipedia apart from this account. My familiarity comes from many years of using Wikipedia as a resource and the effort I put into researching and organizing the article. I'll take your inquiry as a compliment. Your input is much appreciated. Best, Barry. BarryLindt (talk) 14:47, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

This submission does not appear to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. Entries should be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources. Please rewrite your submission in a more encyclopedic format. Please make sure to avoid peacock terms that promote the subject.

 The comment the reviewer left was:

Some wording on here seems a little advertisey, and the external links really need to be trimmed down a bit.

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:Genius Group Limited and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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DrowssapSMM 16:59, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, BarryLindt! 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! DrowssapSMM 16:59, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, BarryLindt. You have new messages at DrowssapSMM's talk page.
Message added 03:32, 4 March 2024 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.[reply]

I have provided some guidance. DrowssapSMM 03:32, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'll read over the 'words to watch' section to remove any advertisey language. Will also refine sources. BarryLindt (talk) 17:30, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@DrowssapSMM Can you please direct me to a resource which will help me to improve the infobox? I'd like to add links to some of the words and I'd like to format the sources/footnotes properly (they shouldn't be links as I've done). BarryLindt (talk) 17:38, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Genius Group Limited. Thanks! Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 05:14, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]