User talk:EditAboutIt

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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (January 4)

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

The proposed article does not have sufficient content to require an article of its own, but it could be merged into the existing article at Professional organizing. Since anyone can edit Wikipedia, you are welcome to add that information yourself. Thank you.

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 User:EditAboutIt/sandbox and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 11:08, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, EditAboutIt! 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! 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 11:08, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

January 2025

Hello EditAboutIt. 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.

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Thank you for your attention to my submission.

I take the responsibility to respect rules and regulations seriously in anything I partake in.

I spent alot of time reading about the COI rules and trying to understand how to put what where to show I am a "connected contributor" but NOT PAID and did enter the following (with the article title "Virtual Organizing" at the top of my submission).

This user has publicly declared that they have a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article Title of your draft.

If it didn't show maybe I did not save it properly as I am a beginning editor and finding it a daunting process to include all things necessary where they are supposed to go.

I also thought I was using the articles for creation way of submission by using {{AfC submission}} at the top as well but again I must have been deceived since you are writing it here.

I AM NOT BEING PAID TO MAKE THIS SUBMISSION but I am "connected to the industry.

Professional organizing is a $14 billion dollar industry yet the "professional organizing" article in Wikipedia boldly misleads the public to think that a professional organizer does "cleaning" which couldn't be further from the truth and is an insult to those who work so hard to maintain certification (a nearly $1,000 endeavor in an of itself taking months to study for an accredited exam), "Professional" insurance and all the things that go into being self employed in this industry. For this reason I took it upon myself to try to engage in a way that brings the best current knowledge to the Wikipedia community.

Without virtual organizing during COVID many practitioners would not have been able to keep their doors open and many burdened with Chronic Disorganization would have suffered. With virtual organizing people long suffering from hoarding disorder are now given a chance at managing their terribly crippling disease.

It's acceptable to me to couch it under "Professional Organizing" as suggested and I would be thrilled if given the chance to do so with the help of Wiki volunteers like yourself. You might have seen that upon first joining and before submission of this article I did ask the volunteer editor assigned me how to do the things you say I did not and should, but I got no reply.

So, if you could instruct me how to make my submission kosher I would be so grateful.

I need to put "Virtual Organizing" under Professional Organizing" which I can do.
What next?

Thank you again for your constructive comments.

Kind Regards, EditAboutIt EditAboutIt (talk) 00:07, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

When I make an edit what code, if any, do I need to put in the talk edit box to demark I am "connected" to the industry but NOT A PAID contributor? Or else how do i put it on my user profile to demark connectedness? EditAboutIt (talk) 13:57, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]