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Your submission at Articles for creation: INVESTIKA (October 14)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by 331dot was:

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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331dot (talk) 09:49, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, OrangeSoda84! 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! 331dot (talk) 09:49, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

October 2024

Hello OrangeSoda84. 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 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:OrangeSoda84. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=OrangeSoda84|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. 331dot (talk) 09:49, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello 331dot, you are correct, thank you for the info! I have now disclosed my paid advocacy on my profile, as per your template. We strongly believe in transparency and the freedom of information, hence the idea of creating a Wikipedia page. If I were to edit the article to its bare bones, would it pass? After going through the Articles for Creation process again, of course. OrangeSoda84 (talk) 11:52, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for disclosing.

You have a common misunderstanding as to what it is we do here. Wikipedia is not a place for companies to tell about themselves and what their activities are, or to provide "bare bones" information that just documents the existence of the company and tells of its offerings. A Wikipedia article about a company must summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about the company, showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable company. "Significant coverage" goes beyond just telling of the activities of the company, and goes into detail about what the source sees as important/significant/influential about the company, not what the company sees as important about itself. Sources like press releases, staff interviews, annoucements of routine business activities, and brief mentions do not establish notability. 331dot (talk) 12:24, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]