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Your submission at Articles for creation: SM1 Capital and Security Limited (September 24)

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

Your draft shows signs of having been generated by a large language model, such as ChatGPT. Their outputs usually have multiple issues that prevent them from meeting our guidelines on writing articles. These include:

• Promotional tone, editorializing and other words to watch
• Vague, generic, and speculative statements extrapolated from similar subjects
• Essay-like writing
• Hallucinations (plausible-sounding, but false information) and non-existent references
• Close paraphrasing
  

Please address these issues. The best way is usually to read reliable sources and summarize them, instead of using a large language model. See our help page on large language models.

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—pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 07:33, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, AltFinDG! 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! —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 07:33, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:SM1 Capital and Security Limited

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A tag has been placed on Draft:SM1 Capital and Security 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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Your submission at Articles for creation: SM1 Capital and Security Limited (September 24)

Hello, I have reviewed my article for all of the possible reasons for rejection and have the following observations - not written by LLM (but used chat got to guide me on the submission process/wiki text coding) - no promotional elements - no essay like writing - not vague/generic/speculative - no hallucinations - references all exist BUT - some of the news articles are not established news outlets, more industry press, perhaps that is the issue? Please could you guide me. I have spent a long time crafting this piece and really thought it had been written correctly. Your guidance would be HUGELY appreciated. AltFinDG (talk) 08:45, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@AltFinDG: I did not delete for use of LLM. Deletion was based on G11 criteria - "Promotional"

• The statements about its "success" (how many loans, value) - being unsourced - are "promotional"
• List of offerings/types of load reads like brochure to promote products - and are sourced with interviews from company management and/or the company's website.

Wrapped up in this are citation issues:

• 4th Way is a company that receives payment from the P2P companies that it reviews, so not a reliable source
• ffnews is reporting on what the CEO said about the company (primary)
• B&C is an interview (primary)
• Companies House citation verifies existence, but does not verify: "As of 2025, it has completed over 2,000 loans, with a reported total value exceeding £400 million." - Without sourcing, this statement is "promotional".

You have created multiple draft articles on this topic in your sandbox, and in draft space (as "SM1 Capital and Security Limited" and as "Somo (finance company)"). The remaining drafts (Somos & sandbox) are (nearly) identical to the deleted draft. Creating multiple drafts and submitting for review is inappropriate at best as it uses up valuable time from our volunteer reviewers.

QUESTION: Are you affiliated in anyway with SM1 Capital and Security Limited/Somos? — ERcheck (talk) 12:28, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for such a detailed reply. That's really helpful and I understand the rules much better now. I thought the sandbox was a place to draft. As far as I was aware I've only submitted 2 x articles and they were quite different but if I've submitted multiple I can only apologise - I've misunderstood the system.

Yes I am associated with the business but I couldn't find a place to declare that.

I had no idea that submitting an article was so complex! Thanks again. AltFinDG (talk) 12:49, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@AltFinDG - You can use either your sandbox or draft space, but please don't use both with the same material. As far as disclosing your relationship, I'll add the standard information below. — ERcheck (talk) 12:55, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of Interest information

Hello, AltFinDG. 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:Somo (finance company), 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 article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.— ERcheck (talk) 12:59, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]