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Happy editing! CNMall41 (talk) 18:12, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello Mendelejev86. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Dateio, 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:Mendelejev86. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Mendelejev86|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. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 17:45, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello. Thank you for the comprehensive information! I'm a copywriter from the company Dateio who's been tasked to create the company page on Wikipedia. We already are on Wikipedia in Czech language, and I've been asked to do the more in depth English version of the page, which I did. So it's not a completely new page, it's just an English version of it. From this perspective I think it definitely is classified as paid advocacy. So what should be my next steps? Should I disclose the paid advocacy and resubmit the final edits? Or maybe it would help if someone else outside of the company did the editing? Thank you in advance. Mendelejev86 (talk) 09:22, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

Your next step should be to put the paid template on your user page, as instructed in my last paragraph to you above.

Keep in mind that what might be on other-language Wikipedias is completely irrelevant to the English Wikipedia. Each Wikipedia is independent, operating by its own rules. We have much stricter inclusion criteria here than any other Wikipedia.

The Czech version cites only three very bad sources. A translated version of article would never be accepted here, it would be speedy deleted with no chance to recover it.

You used an LLM to write that draft. That is prohibited here, see WP:NEWLLM. It should be rewritten in your own words.

After making your paid editing disclosure, your next step should be to start over.

1. Read WP:Golden Rule. Do it now. It is short and simple to read.
2. Collect multiple sources, such that each source meets all the golden-rule criteria (reliable, independent, significant coverage). Note that "independent" often doesn't include trade or industry publications. It seems you have found a few already.
3. Write a draft that summarizes only what those sources say, using nothing that originated from the company. We are not interested in what the company has to say about itself, or what the company wants the world to know. We are interested only what independent reliable sources say about it.

If you can do that, you have a viable short draft that can be accepted on the English Wikipedia.

Right now you have a draft that has been declined so many times, the next time you submit it without a major rewrite, it's likely to be rejected and will not be considered further for inclusion on the English Wikipedia.

Writing an article here is the most difficult task on Wikipedia. I have seen over and over again, using an AI to write it almost always leads to failure, because no AI has ever been able to write an acceptable draft. You can use an AI to help you find reliable sources that are independent of the company and give significant coverage, but do the rest yourself. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 18:05, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello. I just added a mandatory disclosure about paid advocacy to my profile page. Can I now rewrite the draft so it summarizes only what independent sources say, as instructed? Since it is a company page, I will keep the structure that is usually used on Wikipedia by any company, like Apple or Google, but use only information from all the relevant and independent sources. Mendelejev86 (talk) 13:54, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Yes, you may rewrite the draft and submit it for review. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 15:24, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

I have rewritten the draft with all the information based solely on the external verified sources, citations included. Please let me know if there is anything else missing. Thank you! Mendelejev86 (talk) 13:08, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

See also WP:CORPROUTINE. You may find a lot of independent reliable sources reporting on routine business activities. Such reporting doesn't contribute to notability either. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 15:27, 10 March 2026 (UTC)