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Thank you, Isochrone. I’m new to Wikipedia and still learning. I contributed on behalf of the Comox Valley International Film Festival, a non-profit event run by the Comox Valley Film Society. Their goal is to promote good storytelling and the Comox Valley region. The festival is very young, so there are not many publications about it. We will review the content, add more independent sources, and rewrite some parts to follow Wikipedia’s policies. The festival is run by idealistic dreamers who want to create a safe space for creativity and make this event very notable 😉

Because everything is done based on volunteer work and on free time, I may take some time before I am able to post again…

Anyway, thanks for all your help Fbrunken (talk) 17:20, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Comox Valley International Film Festival

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A tag has been placed on Comox Valley International Film Festival, 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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August 2023

Hello Fbrunken. 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:Fbrunken. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Fbrunken|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. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 02:03, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Seraphimblade, I will look into this. This is my first contribution and I am learning about it. The Contribution I did was on behalf of the Comox Valley International Film Festival, which is run by the Comox Valley Film Society, a not-for-profit organization that has the goal to promote good storytelling and the Comox Valley region.

I am not sure if I personally qualify for financial benefiting from the post and as I said, I will look into this. But since this is a very young festival, and everything is done based on volunteer work and on free time, I may take some time before I am able to answer this question.

Anyway, thanks for all your help Fbrunken (talk) 17:19, 22 August 2023 (UTC)