User talk:Freddie at the frank agency

Welcome![edit]

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Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion[edit]

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. ElKevbo (talk) 00:31, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Policies on paid editing[edit]

Hello Teamfrank. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to Black hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Teamfrank. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Teamfrank|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Shock Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 04:06, 22 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Step 1 - dealing with your username[edit]

OK, so the first thing we need to do, is deal with your username, which is still a problem. It implies a group account and this is not OK per WP:CORPNAME.

Would you please:

a) enable email for this account - you do that at Special:Preferences

b) then use this form, and request a change to something like "John at the frank agency"?

Please let me know when that is done, so we can move on to the next thing. Jytdog (talk) 19:29, 24 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your note here. On to the next thing...Jytdog (talk) 14:00, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Step 2 - dealing with the other account; making disclosure at this account.[edit]

OK, so over at User:Thefrankagency, (a red link, as you have not written anything there yet, would you please write:

This is the original account for User:Freddie at the frank agency. I am paid by the frank Agency, and was doing work for our client, Alliant International University, at the time. I will not use this account ever again.

At your userpage here, User:Freddie at the frank agency, would you please write:

I am paid by the frank Agency and have a conflict of interest with respect to our client, Alliant International University.

I used the account, User:Thefrankagency, at first, and am no longer using it.

Would you please take care of those two things? Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 14:00, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your note here. I tweaked each a bit, just for formatting. On to the next thing. Jytdog (talk) 20:04, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

3rd step - just information: indenting and signing[edit]

OK, would you please start replying here, instead of at my talk page? I have this page watchlisted, and will see it.

Quick note on the logistics of discussing things on Talk pages, which are essential for everything that happens here.

In Talk page discussions, we "thread" comments by indenting (see WP:THREAD) - when you reply to someone, you put a colon in front of your comment, which the Wikipedia software will render into an indent when you save your edit; if the other person has indented once, then you indent twice by putting two colons in front of your comment, which the WP software converts into two indents, and so on, and when that gets ridiculous you reset back to the margin (or "outdent") by putting this {{od}} in front of your comment. Threading/indenting also allows you to make it clear if you are also responding to something that someone else responded to if there are more than two people in the discussion; in that case you would indent the same amount as the person just above you in the thread. I hope that all makes sense.

Also, at the end of the comment, please "sign" by typing exactly four (not 3 or 5) tildas "~~~~" which the WP software converts into a date stamp and links to your talk and user pages when you save your edit. That is how we know who said what to whom and when.

Please be aware that threading and signing are fundamental etiquette here, as basic as "please" and "thank you", and continually failing to thread and sign communicates rudeness, and eventually people may start to ignore you (see here).

I know this is unwieldy, but this is the software environment we have to work on. Sorry about that. You can reply here, and practice! Jytdog (talk) 20:06, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

4th step - actual orientation[edit]

OK, so now you have one account that you are using, with an appropriate username, and if you read the stuff above, you will understand the logistics of talking with other people.

Now for the meat.

First of all, would you please have a read of User:Jytdog/How, which explains what the mission of Wikipedia actually is, and how the editing community realizes the mission, and why? (This is important - if you don't understand this foundational stuff, a lot of what you will experience will just seem bizarre or arbitrary - but everything actually makes sense, if you understand the foundations). Please reply here when you have read through it once, and then I can finally get to what you should do, and not do, as a paid editor, and we will be done with this orientation stuff. Thanks for your patience through all this. Jytdog (talk) 20:09, 25 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

September 2018[edit]

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. When you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), such as at User talk:Jytdog, please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

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Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 18:34, 26 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Inland Truck Parts Company (March 4)[edit]

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

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of organizations and companies). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

The comment the reviewer left was:

The sources are largely "business as usual", see WP:CORPDEPTH, and most likely lacking independence as largely re-reporting of press releases. The author should als disclose his connection on the talk page of the article, see WP:PAID.

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:Inland Truck Parts Company and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Inland Truck Parts Company, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{db-self}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
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_pseudonym Jake Brockman ^talk 20:37, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Freddie at the frank agency! 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! _pseudonym Jake Brockman ^talk 20:37, 4 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Inland Truck Parts Company[edit]

Hello, Freddie at the frank agency. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Inland Truck Parts 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 nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! CASSIOPEIA^(talk) 05:53, 6 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]