User talk:MQuentin

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Undisclosed paid editing

Hello MQuentin. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to User:MQuentin/Questel (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 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:MQuentin. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=MQuentin|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. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:48, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have left a similar message on your talk page on French Wikipedia, fr:Discussion utilisateur:MQuentin. You have an obligation to disclose your affiliation with this company there as well. Thank you. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:48, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I ad on my personal page the sentence : "This user, in accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, discloses that they have been paid by Questel for their contributions to Wikipedia." Everything is ok now ? --MQuentin (talk) 16:14, 29 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that looks good. Thank you!

I have added the {{Userspace draft}} template to your page User:MQuentin/Questel (company). You will see that it now has a "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top. You can use it when you believe that the article is ready to be reviewed by other editors before publication. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 05:35, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions

I have a couple of suggestions for your draft article, Draft:Questel Company:

Avoid using external links embedded in the body of the article. You have several external links in the "History" section, especially in the subsections "Acquisitions" and "Products and services".
On English Wikipedia, the placement of references (<ref>) is the opposite of French Wikipedia. Here, they are placed after punctuation marks (WP:REFPUNC), instead of before them like French Wikipedia (fr:WP:TYPO#NOTES).

--Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:04, 30 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your feedbacks, I will see to modify. --MQuentin (talk) 15:15, 30 December 2021 (UTC)MQuentin[reply]

I also saw that another editor removed Crunchbase as a source, but you put it back in. Crunchbase is considered an unreliable source on English Wikipedia - please see WP:CRUNCHBASE. That is because the site contains user-generated content that is published without editorial oversight.

You can view a list of commonly-discussed sources at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 14:10, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your feedback. I'm going to search other sources and references to replace the crunchbase ones. --MQuentin (talk) 15:35, 31 December 2021 (UTC)MQuentin[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Questel Company (January 1)

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

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 when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Questel Company and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Nomadicghumakkad (talk) 02:26, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, MQuentin! 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! Nomadicghumakkad (talk) 02:26, 1 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Questel Company

Hello, MQuentin. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Questel Company".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:31, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]