User talk:Serrwinner

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Serrwinner! Your additions to Draft:Choking Rescue Training Devices 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, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

• You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source. You must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. Read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices. Our policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. waddie96 ★ (talk) 14:50, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

My sincerest apologies for this error from my part. Let me redo the entire section once more without repeating it and get back to you. Serrwinner (talk) 14:55, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Perfect. Welcome to editing Wikipedia, and we appreciate your contributions! Let me know if you’d like any help or have any questions. I can also direct you to any place that can help you if I can’t give you the best answer. Also, once your draft is ready, contact me on my talk page and I can copyedit it for you, and then you can submit it as a draft for review. Here to help! waddie96 ★ (talk) 15:00, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Ben Francis

Hello, I'm Edwardx. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Edwardx (talk) 10:44, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Drake series

Template:Drake series has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. —Rutebega (talk) 03:33, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

June 2024

Hello Serrwinner. 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 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:Serrwinner. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Serrwinner|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. Bilby (talk) 07:57, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Hi, I've never gotten paid for any edit I've done on here or any article I have created. Although I did create the Anti Choker article by knowing someone close with the organization that makes them, and that was the only one. For Choking rescue training devices I did it more of like a side-quest thing since I was mildly interested in this. I wasn't sure whether this counted as a conflict of interest so I wasn't sure whether I should disclose it or not. However, if it does count as a conflict of interest I have no problem adding on my userpage. If it is about the request on the Trump article I obviously have no connection to the Trump campaign team and to be honest I don't think they care much about their Wikipedia article. Regardless if you have any further questions, Shoot. Cheers. Serrwinner (talk) 08:15, 11 June 2024 (UTC)