User talk:Cleanmean

Hello, Cleanmean, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

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• Introduction and Getting started
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• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article
• Simplified Manual of Style

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Hello, Cleanmean. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Alex Lane".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply {{edit|Draft:Alex Lane|edit the submission}} and remove the {{tlc|db-afc}}, {{tlc|db-draft}}, or {{tlc|db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! —Nnadigoodluck🇳🇬 00:33, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

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File:Information.svg Hello Cleanmean. The nature of your edits 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 compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. 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 very 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 extremely 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:Cleanmean. The template {{tl|Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{tlc|paid|2=user=Cleanmean|3=employer=InsertName|4=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. Cullen328 (talk) 22:03, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

:Hi Cullen, I'm Alex's friend who's also interning at his production company and learning the business side of the entertainment side of things thanks to his current standing in the industry. I'm uploading his bio. What's there to monetize? It's just a page that shares his work and credits. He's not very computer savvy, plus is working on two upcoming projects, so am just helping out. I don't get what the issue is with helping a friend who's also helping me learn some skills. Cleanmean (talk) 22:40, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

::Interning counts as paid even if not getting money. You MUST declare your connection on your User page, or as an undeclared paid editor (WP:UPE) you account will be indefintely blocked. David notMD (talk) 02:38, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

::@Cleanmean "I don't get what the issue is with helping a friend..." It's a Wikipedia rule, part of the Terms of Service. You must comply with those terms in order to post here.

::The reason for the rule is that friends, relatives, employees, assistants, interns, etc. almost always find it very difficult to write neutrally; instead, the instinct to "sing their praises" or to write glowingly about the friend, is very hard (but not impossible) to resist. Such articles, if they are approved, are published with a disclaimer that it was largely written by someone with a COI. Hope this helps, and good luck. David10244 (talk) 06:45, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

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Hello, Cleanmean. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Alex Lane".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion/G13?withJS=MediaWiki:G13-restore-wizard.js&page=Draft%3AAlex+Lane request its undeletion]. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:20, 16 May 2023 (UTC)