User talk:Jthorp72

Paid editing?

Hello Jthorp72. 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 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 very 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 extremely 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:Jthorp72. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Jthorp72|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. Theroadislong (talk) 21:19, 26 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Full disclosure - I do work for a marketing services company, but none of the edits I've done thus far have been paid for nor am I affiliated with them in any way. My interest in providing edits has been two fold: 1) Correcting obvious incorrect information to make Wikipedia more accurate and 2) Gaining experience for the platform so I can better serve my clients in the future. Several of our clients over the last couple of years have asked about getting a Wikipedia entry, so I partly dove into Wikipedia further to see how it works and if they qualified. What I found in nearly all cases is they didn't have the proper third-party attribution to qualify and I advised them not to pursue it until they met such qualification. Recently, we did have a client show interest, and they do have the proper third-party new source attention that would make them worthy of a page. So I've offered to work with them - free of charge - to help establish a page for them. Thus my further questions about what's right and what's wrong in doing so. I see this as a great opportunity to gain experience with Wikipedia, thus why I'm not charging them for this time. But since they are a current client of our company for other tasks, would that be seen as "indirect" payment? And if that's the case, my employer is the agency I work for - not my client - so would I need to identify only my affiliation with my employer or also my client?

I'm not an expert in this area, but I think it best if you do state that you are doing gratis work for a client, and specify which pages are involved. As far as I know, you can use free text instead of the template in this case (but don't take my word as gospel).

For reasons that I hope you understand (many others seem not to know nor care), paid editing is a highly contentious topic. Thankyou for your commitment to neutrality and for advising your clients honestly when they are not yet notable enough.

Good luck, Pelagic ( messages ) – (06:41 Wed 14, AEST) 20:41, 13 October 2020 (UTC) I tend to be sporadic with working through my notifications, if I don’t respond to a ping I'm not necessarily ignoring you on purpose! Side note: even on your own talk page, please sign your posts with four~ it helps readers when they can see who wrote what and when.[reply]

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October 2020

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:CTB, Inc., from its old location at User:Jthorp72/sandbox. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 21:13, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: CTB, Inc. (March 26)

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

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Looks good, just needs sources for the brands

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Noah ^💬 18:07, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Jthorp72! Having an article 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! Noah ^💬 18:07, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: CTB International has been accepted

CTB International, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. Most new articles start out as Stub-Class or Start-Class and then attain higher grades as they develop over time. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

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Thanks again, and happy editing!

Bkissin (talk) 19:29, 21 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]