User talk:Kim Wilson copyeditor

Hello, Kim Wilson copyeditor, 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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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, visit the Teahouse, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 14:40, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello Kim Wilson copyeditor. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Gerard Naddaf, 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.

Paid advocates are 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 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:Kim Wilson copyeditor. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Kim Wilson copyeditor|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. Thank you for the declaration at the head of the draft. This message tells you with precision what you need to do to create full transparency for yourself here, and how you may and may not proceed 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 14:40, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Fiddle Faddle. Thank you for your message. Yes, I can confirm that I will be paid for creating this article on Wikipedia. I am a copyeditor and have various clients and have been approached to work on an article for someone for Wikipedia. The client has been approached by other Wikipedia editors to do this work for him, but the client preferred to request the assistance of someone they had been referred to. The user account is mine alone, and no one else has access to it, and I would like to continue learning to edit other articles of interest--not paid. I disclosed that I am being paid for this specific work. Is that sufficient, or should I carry out another process? I do hope it could at least like be reviewed and commented on. Kim Wilson copyeditor (talk) 16:38, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

It has been reviewed and declined you have no independent sources, before attempting to create an article ~I suggest you spend a few months learning how Wikipedia actually works. Theroadislong (talk) 16:42, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

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

we need independent sources not his own writings and please see WP:MOS.

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.

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Theroadislong (talk) 14:55, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you @Theroadislong. I appreciate the feedback and you taking the time to review the article. I would like to conitnue editing the piece in hopes that it will be approved on the next review. Kim Wilson copyeditor (talk) 17:42, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello, Kim Wilson copyeditor! 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! Theroadislong (talk) 14:55, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

You still have not adequately responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying, you may be blocked from editing. Theroadislong (talk) 20:12, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you @Theroadislong. I am currently trying to place the paid template on my Talk page and disclose the client, but I am getting a notice that I am putting the incorrect template on my page, and I should use {{connected contributor}} instead. Please have patience with me while I try to understand why the template won't work. Any advice is welcome! Kim Wilson copyeditor (talk) 15:06, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

I believe I have resolved the problem and am now noted on my User page as a paid editor. I placed a note that I am only paid for the one article and that the account is my own and no one else has access to it. I hope I have so far improved the inline links to other Wikipedia articles, and I am in the process of gathering more secondary, independent sources for the article. There are a few included in the article at this moment, but I will include more as well as delete superfluous information. I will make edits to the article and resubmit for approval again early in the new year.

Could you let me know if what I placed on my User page is sufficient for disclosure? Or do I need to place something on the Talk page of the article draft as well? Thanks for your comments. Kim Wilson copyeditor (talk) 15:25, 3 December 2025 (UTC)