User talk:LaurenKutchaw
Nomination of Steven (Trafford) Taylor for deletion
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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steven (Trafford) Taylor until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 01:59, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
Nomination of Steven Trafford Taylor for deletion
[edit]The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steven Trafford Taylor until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 02:01, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
July 2025
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Hello LaurenKutchaw. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Steven Trafford Taylor, 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:LaurenKutchaw. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=LaurenKutchaw|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. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 02:02, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
- Darth Stabro, thank you for your feedback and guidance. I have updated this page as part of a larger project on Steven's behalf. I have added the {{PAID}} disclosure to my user page. Please advise if I am missing any further required disclosures or steps, I am a relatively new editor and looking to ensure I take all necessary steps to remain within Wikipedia's guidelines. LaurenKutchaw (talk) 13:30, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
Your contributed article, Steven (Trafford) Taylor
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Hello, I noticed that you recently created a new page, Steven (Trafford) Taylor. First, thank you for your contribution; Wikipedia relies solely on the efforts of volunteers such as you. Unfortunately, the page you created covers a topic on which we already have a page – Steven Trafford Taylor. Because of the duplication, your article has been tagged for speedy deletion. Please note that this is not a comment on you personally and we hope you will continue helping to improve Wikipedia. If the topic of the article you created is one that interests you, then perhaps you would like to help out at Steven Trafford Taylor. If you have new information to add, you might want to discuss it at the article's talk page.
If you think the article you created should remain separate, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Additionally if you would like to have someone review articles you create before they go live so they are not nominated for deletion shortly after you post them, allow me to suggest the article creation process and using our search feature to find related information we already have in the encyclopedia. Try not to be discouraged. Wikipedia looks forward to your future contributions. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 02:05, 28 July 2025 (UTC)