User talk:Oscar Waldoosty

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September 2020

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Oswaldo Castro Intriago, from its old location at User:Oscar Waldoosty/sandbox/Oswaldo Castro Intriago, 1902-1992. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 22:29, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Oswaldo Castro Intriago (September 10)

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

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Simply, this (fascinating) draft fails Wikipedia:Verifiability. An article cannot depend on the biographee's unpublished "biographical notes", on unpublished letters attached to these notes, or on articles in unspecifiable newspapers. Little of the material here is satifactorily referenced. Yes, there are also many "references" to what may be usable sources, but on inspection many of these "references" back up very little (if anything), and are more like digressive notes.

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 when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Oswaldo Castro Intriago and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you now believe the draft cannot meet Wikipedia's standards or do not wish to progress it further, you may request deletion. Please go to Draft:Oswaldo Castro Intriago, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window, add "{{Db-g7}}" at the top of the draft text and click the blue "publish changes" button to save this edit.
If you do not make any further changes to your draft, in 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
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Hoary (talk) 05:16, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Oscar Waldoosty! Having an article 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! Hoary (talk) 05:16, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest editing

Hello, Oscar Waldoosty. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the page Draft:Oswaldo Castro Intriago, 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
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 WP:Spam);
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, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:35, 14 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Oscar Waldoosty. After reading your post at c:User talk:Marchjuly#Why delete picture of Castro?, I decided to add the above template to your user talk page for reference. The post contains links to relevant pages regarding policies and guidelines related to conflict of interest editing, so please take the time to familiarize yourself with them. Some other pages you might want to also look at are WP:OWN and WP:PROUD. If the draft you're working on about your father is accepted as an aricle, you will have not final editorial control over the article content and whether something should be removed or added will be ultimately decided by WP:CONSENSUS and relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines. You will in fact be expected to avoid directly editing the article yourself (except in certain specific cases) and any attempts to do so might receive a strong response from other editors. Article content (even unfavorable content) will be assessed according to relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines, which means the some things that you or your family might not want in the article do end up in the article in some manner. You won't be totally without recourse if you feel there are problems with some of the things in the article, but you will be expected to follow WP:PSCOI#Steps for engagement when you have concerns.

I'm not trying to discourage you from continuing to work on the draft, but many who create Wikipedia articles find themselves having lots of trouble when they try to exert control over such articles. A Wikipedia article is written about a subject, not for a subject or on behalf of a subject, and ultimately it will be the Wikipedia community that decides whether what's written in appropriate. Since you're still working on only a draft, other editors are pretty much going to leave you be and might only edit the draft if there's a serious policy or guideline violation that they feel needs attention. Once a draft becomes an article, however, pretty much anyone anywhere in the world can try and improve it, even if that means moving the draft in a direction that you might not approve, and they won't need any special permission to do so. As long as their edits are in accordance with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines, they probably won't just be WP:REVERTed because either the article subject or the article creator doesn't like them. -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:54, 14 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Marchjuly (talk) for creating the template. I appreciate the time you are spending on this. I am slowly going through your advised readings. I have read this under External roles and relationships:

"While editing Wikipedia, an editor's primary role is to further the interests of the encyclopedia. When an external role or relationship could reasonably be said to undermine that primary role, the editor has a conflict of interest. (Similarly, a judge's primary role as an impartial adjudicator is undermined if she is married to the defendant.)"

My relationship does not undermine the primary role of furthering the interests of the encyclopedia. The topics are noteworthy: Journalism (historically, to my knowledge, the first to move from handwritten publishing to printed publishing); The first Census of Quito; The promotion of FAO in Latin America at the dawn of this organization's existence; an immigrant's successful transition from one culture to another; The writing and censoring of a novel by the Franco government. While it is true that the information was taken from a scrapbook and numerous newspaper articles and photographs Castro left behind, this does not negate the noteworthiness of the material. An argument can reasonably be made that Castro kept only favorable information about himself and unfavorable information may surface if the article is published. This may cause embarrassment to surviving family as you have well pointed out. The commercial promoting of self and Castro exemplified by the fact that I wrote the translation of Castro's novel and posted an Amazon link to the Spanish and English version in my draft, was quickly resolved by the original Wikipedia reviewer when the links were deleted.Oscar Waldoosty (talk) 13:00, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your thread has been archived

Hi Oscar Waldoosty! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, Reason for vague newspaper references, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days (usually at least two days, and sometimes four or more). You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to create a new thread.

The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} here on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:01, 14 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your thread has been archived

Hi Oscar Waldoosty! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, Thank you, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days (usually at least two days, and sometimes four or more). You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to create a new thread.

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Your thread has been archived

Hi Oscar Waldoosty! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, My edit button does not work, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days (usually at least two days, and sometimes four or more). You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to create a new thread.

The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} here on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:00, 21 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Oswaldo Castro has been accepted

Oswaldo Castro, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. This is a great rating for a new article, and places it among the top 21% of accepted submissions — kudos to you! You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

Since you have made at least 10 edits over more than four days, you can now create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for creation if you prefer.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk. Once you have made at least 10 edits and had an account for at least four days, you will have the option to create articles yourself without posting a request to Articles for creation.

If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thanks again, and happy editing!

Calliopejen1 (talk) 21:03, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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