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Your submission at Articles for creation: Pieter Jacobs (May 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 Jeraphine Gryphon was: 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 User:Dotza/sandbox/Pieter Jacobs and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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— Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 15:46, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Hello! Dotza, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about 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! — Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 15:46, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Your draft article, User:Dotza/sandbox/Pieter Jacobs

Hello, Dotza. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "sandbox/Pieter Jacobs".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation 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 and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{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.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Sam Sailor ^Talk! 18:23, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Dotza. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Ashraf Johaardien, 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 article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
• propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template), including links or details of reliable sources that support your suggestions;
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• 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, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Cabayi (talk) 13:56, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

The conflict extends to Pieter Jacobs too. Cabayi (talk) 13:58, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

January 2025

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing certain pages (Ashraf Johaardien and Pieter Jacobs (playwright)) for editing despite your conflict of interest.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Cabayi (talk) 14:16, 3 January 2025 (UTC)