User talk:Mbkotchev

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Your submission at Articles for creation: James Lamar Wittliff (January 11)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by BuySomeApples was:  The comment the reviewer left was: 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:James Lamar Wittliff 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.

BuySomeApples (talk) 23:51, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Mbkotchev! 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! BuySomeApples (talk) 23:51, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I really apreciate the feedback it will help me improve the page let me know if there is anyhting else you would like to see. Mbkotchev (talk) 19:11, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: James Lamar Wittliff (February 12)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Bonadea was:  The comment the reviewer left was: 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:James Lamar Wittliff 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.

bonadea contributions talk 20:09, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

February 2025

Hello Mbkotchev. 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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:Mbkotchev. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Mbkotchev|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. bonadea contributions talk 11:11, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am not being compensated to edit. I am a recently graduate of the University of Louisville and hoping to attend graduate school in the near future in the time in between I was given the idea of contributing to Wikipedia by my former department chair. This professor emeritus was recommended to me and I have his contact if he has records in his file that can help me to cite. I look forward to my first Wikipedia contribution and what advice you could give me as I attempt to publish on this noted Professor Emeritus. Mbkotchev (talk) 18:02, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've been told he likley meets the criteria laid out for an article creation and since I've already put so much work into this over the last two months i'd like to see it through even though most graduate school application deadlines have past. Mbkotchev (talk) 18:04, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]