User talk:Monk 1987

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Hello, Monk 1987, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Martin Thomas (Darts Player) (May 19)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by GoingBatty was: 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:Martin Thomas (Darts Player) 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:Martin Thomas (Darts Player), click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
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GoingBatty (talk) 01:04, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello, Monk 1987! 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! GoingBatty (talk) 01:04, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Monk 1987. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Draft:Martin Thomas (Darts Player), 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 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 WP:Spam);
• 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. JTP ^{(talk • contribs)} 04:31, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Note, that using WP:AFC for a draft article avoids serious COI issues. Articles are only made live when a reviewer agrees. At that point you should cease editing the article. Fiddle Faddle 08:50, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:Martin Thomas (Darts Player) has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Martin Thomas (Darts Player). Thanks! Fiddle Faddle 08:47, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

I don't know if you will see this message as I don't understand this system. BTW - I have never come across something so complicated in my life and I simply don't get how to use it.

My friend asked me to help for his Dad's birthday - I don't know his Dad, so don't feel I have a conflict of interest. I also don't have references to his career as it was in the 80's and darts is behind the times anyway. So all I have is videos (which I have put some links in) and newspaper articles etc, but nothing digital. There are darts players today who have not had careers like Martin's and they all have WIKIPEDIA pages - doesn't make sense to me. I have also tried uploading an image of him which was sent to me, but WIKIPEDIA won't accept it, saying I don't own it or something!? So, I won't pursue this further as to be honest, it's too complicated for me!

Thanks