User talk:MD Free

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, MD Free. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest#How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 17:42, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Paid editing

Hello MD Free. 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:MD Free. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=MD Free|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) 17:44, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am not getting paid! I thought I made the motive clear when I disclosed the potential conflict of interest on my user page. Please, let me elaborate. We have a collaborative work in progress, one that may take another year or so to be ready, so this article does nothing for the project, (as it will not be mentioned), or for me personally. I am volunteering to provide a credible source of information about this artist. As it stands, you can google Otherwize and verify only tidbits of information. If you type Otherwize in a Google search, Google will auto populate the search bar with Otherwize vs Eminem as an option. He also has a net worth that can be Googled. However, many notable things are missing. For example, his participation in "Tomorrow", and there are plenty of additional Wikipedia articles where he is deliberately mentioned.

I realize to cite and reference all the works he has been a part of, and to write the article in accordance with wikipedia.org standards is a fair amount of work to do. I hope I can find all of the sources needed to fill this article with the largest scope possible. Many stories, like what happened when he recorded with Dr Dre, and what happened when he went on the radio show with Sway and King Tech after he refused to freestyle on a beat he disliked, many notable and fascinating stories may never be told in this article. It is my wish, my goal in volunteering to do this, to create a more complete picture of the artist so that when people do decide to search for information, they will find a good amount of background information about him from a credible source. If anyone else would like to volunteer to write this, I will be happy to relinquish all the references to bodies of work and accomplishments that I have knowledge of.

My duty to present facts without bias is taken very seriously. As a newbie to writing an article on wikipedia.org, I realize that it is a privilege to have a published article here. My time is valuable and I would not volunteer it if I did not believe that there are enough notable facts to write about, else it would be deleted and time would be wasted. Thank you. MD Free (talk) 19:44, 21 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Otherwize (July 15)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by KylieTastic 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 music-related topics). 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.

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:Otherwize 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.

KylieTastic (talk) 20:23, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, MD Free! 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! KylieTastic (talk) 20:23, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Otherwize

Hello, MD Free. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Otherwize".

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. When 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. ✗plicit 06:10, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I appreciate that and will be back soon. 71.38.107.124 (talk) 07:27, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]