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A tag has been placed on MaidThis, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Hello EarlGarvin! Your additions to MaidThis have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, it's important to understand and adhere to guidelines about using information from sources to prevent copyright and plagiarism issues. Here are the key points:

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The page User:EarlGarvin/sandbox has been deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. As the page met any of these strictly-defined criteria, it was deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been deleted are:

• It seemed to be unambiguous advertising which only promoted a company, product, group, service, person, or point of view and would need to have been fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
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A tag has been placed on MaidThis, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, 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. GrabUp - Talk 06:11, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @GrabUp, I wanted to appeal your decision. Why would you deny a legitimate organization adding information on this space. I cited sources similar to Molly Maids - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Maid. Thank you if you can consider it. EarlGarvin (talk) 07:28, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You seem to misunderstand Wikipedia's purpose: we are not here to either deny or promote your business, no matter how "legitimate". We are here to report on what reliable sources say about the organization, not what the organization says about itself. If you can't find sufficient sources which pass the WP:Articles for Creation process, the page (not your page) won't be published. This isn't denial; it's failure to qualify. BusterD (talk) 07:58, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not move your sandbox into the main article space. I've now moved it back to your userspace where it belongs. Thanks! CycloneYoris ^talk! 07:17, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @CycloneYoris Sorry for the mistake. I wonder why they remove and protected my article when this company is just similar to Molly Maids. I just want to put the information there. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Maid. I cited some 3rd party sources similar to this article. EarlGarvin (talk) 07:25, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. You can go ahead and edit the article that's available in draft space at: Draft:MaidThis and then submit it for review when ready. Just make sure to provide reliable sources and to leave out any promotional content. See WP:Reliable sources and WP:Verifiability for further information. CycloneYoris ^talk! 07:35, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, EarlGarvin. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Draft:MaidThis, 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 article subjects 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 {{edit COI}} template), including links or details of reliable sources that support your suggestions;
• 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, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. BusterD (talk) 07:52, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You aren't understanding this. I moved the page to draft space where you could improve it without anybody bothering you. You have immediately submitted the same version, which will be declined by some other editor BECAUSE IT'S NOT APPROPRIATE in it's current condition. That editor may choose to put this up for speedy deletion as promotional (just like the last guy did), and you won't find any admin to help you nearly as patient about this as I've been. BusterD (talk) 08:07, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by DoubleGrazing were:

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:

• in-depth (not just brief mentions about the subject or routine announcements)
• reliable
• secondary
• strictly independent of the subject
  

Make sure you add references that meet all four of these criteria before resubmitting. 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.

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DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:15, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, EarlGarvin! 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! DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:15, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I may have been incorrect about User:EarlGarvin finding another sysop as patient as I had been... BusterD (talk) 08:27, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Draft:MaidThis, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:EarlGarvin, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=EarlGarvin|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:23, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]