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January 2014

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Advanced Defence Sensitive, the other product was LISTERINE® Advanced Defence Cavity Guard. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.listerine.co.uk/products</ref>

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Hi @Minorax, amazing. Thanks for the super speedy reply - I have an article in my sandbox that I'm working on. I added the logo now so I could view in place before I put that record live for the world to see. I think I'm happy with the page and citations but I was just about to ask Mrs K to read it first, she loves words and likes to point out my grammar mistakes! Richardk85 (talk) 12:15, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AfC notification: Draft:Jacada Travel has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Jacada Travel. Thanks! Gommeh 🎮 18:03, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

August 2025

Hello Richardk85. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Wilderness (company), 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:Richardk85. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Richardk85|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. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 00:28, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Helpful Raccoon,

Thank you for your note. I wasn’t sure how best to reply, but I figured I’ve nothing to lose by being upfront and honest with you. I wasn’t aware of the disclosure requirements and apologise for the omission. I’ve now added a disclosure on my user page: I am not paid to edit Wikipedia and all contributions are made in a personal capacity.

I was made redundant recently and found myself with more time on my hands than I’ve had in 30 years. In March I stayed at three Wilderness properties, and the photos I uploaded came from that trip. I’ve released them for anyone to use. I think, I made the disclaimer correctly on those, although I’m still working out even the simplest things. It took me 20 minutes to figure out how to make a bullet point… only to then spot the button in the editor bar!

I’m a bit of a geek for research, so when I came across the Wilderness page I fell down a rabbit hole. A lot of the information was badly out of date, so I started updating it to make it more factual and accurate. I looked at similar travel company pages to see what was appropriate, and tried to strip out the marketing fluff that was already there. That led me into looking at the other Wilderness entities as well and, with all that time on my hands, I just kept going.

Hand on heart, I have no idea what “black-hat search engine optimisation” is. I’ve never even had a parking ticket. I did also make a small edit to the Sandals Resorts page to note a hotel closure, and failed miserably at updating the Oval Invincibles page after their record-breaking innings, I’ve watched a lot of cricket this summer! I also thought about creating a page for Herbert Tourtel (Rupert the Bear’s creator), which is a red link, but I admit I got a bit stuck in the Wilderness material instead.

I’ve not made any further changes since your message. I’m happy to leave things there or, if I do contribute again, to suggest edits on Talk pages so they can be reviewed properly. In the meantime, outside of watching The Hundred, I’ve started building a model railway in the loft (although I’ll steer clear of the Hornby Wikipedia page - the talk section is fierce!), which is probably keeping me out of my wife’s hair as much as Wikipedia is.

I’d like to apologise for any impression I gave of doing something promotional. My aim has only ever been to correct missing or outdated information. I’d be grateful for any advice on how to do this better in future, and thank you for taking the time to point me in the right direction.

All the best,

Richard Richardk85 (talk) 14:19, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you were only a customer and have no other connection to Wilderness then you don't have to do anything. I have seen some unusual behavior around Wilderness-related edits, such as an IP user having previously created Draft:Jacada Travel this January. Was that you who created Draft:Jacada Travel back in January? Helpful Raccoon (talk) 00:45, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Helpful Raccoon, thanks again for writing back.

No, that wasn’t me in January. I always make a point of logging in and I only worked on the draft in August through the AfC process. It was my second AfC attempt and I was trying to follow the rules as closely as I could, including how to handle redlinks.

I’ve seen that the draft has already been declined at AfC on notability grounds. I’m happy to leave it as is, withdraw it if that’s better, or revisit it later if I can find stronger independent sources. If that’s the case, do I bring it back as a Talk page proposal rather than trying AfC again?

If you or any other experienced editor is willing to guide me, I’d really appreciate it.

Thank you again,

Richard Richardk85 (talk) 14:03, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The draft has not been declined, it just contained some broken AI-generated code that confused the reviewer script. I have fixed this so you can resubmit. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 18:10, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @[[User:Helpful Raccoon|Helpful Raccoon],

Hope you’re well. Thank you so much for fixing that, I really appreciate it. I’ll take another careful look at the sources and then resubmit through AfC.

Thanks again and have a great weekend. Richardk85 (talk) 19:20, 6 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Jacada Travel (September 8)

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

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.

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.

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:Jacada Travel 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.

—pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 13:58, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey @Pythoncoder, thanks for the review I wasn't expecting something so quickly! I wanted to clarify something up front and continue to be open and transparent with folks who know what they're doing.

This draft was written manually using independent sources (Financial Times, The Guardian, Vogue, Tatler Asia, Lifestyle Asia, Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveller, Skift), I've Googled and read them all! To be transparent, I did use ChatGPT and Claude after the first round of AfC feedback to help me check formatting and citation style, after I think some html snuck in last time and I tripped some sort of script. I was trying to make sure I didn’t trip over technical details again (clearly I've failed miserably again!). But the text itself was summarised directly from the cited sources.

I can see how the structure may have looked too “polished” or PR-like, I've gotten obsessive over following the rules, especially with the separate awards and media coverage lists. If it's ok with you, I'm going to try again with a single neutral “Reception” type section, trimming anything that feels on fluffy.

Would it be ok if I then shared the draft over at the Teahouse for a wider peer review before resubmitting? I'm keen to persist and keep learning.

Thanks again for the guidance.

Richard Richardk85 (talk) 14:47, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The best place to ask for help is the AfC help desk. Please feel free to ask for help with your draft over there. —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 14:53, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I'll do that. I'm hoping I can find some time in the coming days to revisit the draft, trimming anything fluffy and merge some of the individual content blocks into a single, more neutral section that aligns closer to something I saw on Tripadvisor and Airbnb's wikipedia pages. Thanks again for the pointers. Richardk85 (talk) 15:06, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Richardk85! 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) 13:58, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]