User talk:Rambley

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Hope you're doing well. You haven't been editing much since June so I thought I'd check in. Hope everything IRL is going okay. 🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire, why'd you decline my draft? (talk, contribs)🔥 13:51, 25 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for checking in :-), I've just started college so I've been trying to work everything out since it's all new to me. I took July and August off just to spend time with friends and family, I'll probably be more active once I have some spare time! Rambley^[who?] 14:04, 25 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Good to hear. I'm not there yet so I can't speak, but I hope to see you back in the project more soon. 🌀Hurricane Wind and Fire, why'd you decline my draft? (talk, contribs)🔥 23:02, 25 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi Rambley, I'm hoping you can help me think through my situation before I make any more moves.

I work for a Canadian payroll software company called Payworks Inc. I've been trying to create a Wikipedia article about our founder, Barbara Gamey, and that draft has been declined several times, twice for AI-generated content concerns and several times for sourcing. I also received a warning yesterday about category tagging on the draft, which I was not aware was not proper process - my apologies.

I now want to step back from the Barbara Gamey article entirely and instead submit a separate article about Payworks the company through AfC. The company has strong independent coverage including a feature article in The Globe and Mail and coverage in the Winnipeg Free Press. Payworks is also already referenced as a source in several existing Wikipedia articles, including the Victoria Day article, which cites Payworks' provincial payroll legislation pages.

I also want to mention that my interest in Wikipedia goes beyond this one project — as you can see from my edit history, I've been contributing to unrelated articles from my own personal research. I genuinely enjoy the Wikipedia community and like to update pages when I come across something I can improve. I want to make sure I'm approaching the Payworks situation properly so it doesn't affect my ability to keep contributing in good faith.

My questions: 1. Given my account history on the Barbara Gamey draft, how much will that affect how reviewers approach a new, separate Payworks submission? 2. I'm considering hiring a disclosed paid editing firm to write the article while I submit it with paid-contribution disclosure. From the research I've done, this seems like a reasonable approach given my situation — but I wanted to confirm with you before moving forward. 3. Is there anything I should do on my account before submitting — like adding a COI disclosure to my user talk page?

I want to do this properly and I'm happy to follow whatever process you recommend. Thanks so much.

Paige Schmidt (talk) Paige Schmidt (talk) 16:14, 15 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi Paige! I appreciate the questions. I want to note I ran this post through GPTZero and it came back as 100% AI-generated; I would appreciate you to not use AI tools during discussions with me.

In relation to the questions themselves, all AfC submissions are treated independently from one another. If you have a draft that gets rejected, you are free to submit other drafts about different topics. If you used AI on one article and it gets declined, then submit another that was truly written by you, that's perfectly okay.

Speaking from my experience as a reviewer, I often do check the user and talk pages of those who submit drafts to see what articles the person has written before or what notices they've gotten in the past to see their level of experience. If I see someone has written multiple drafts with LLMs, I will be more likely to run it through a checker to make sure the draft is truly human-written, and will pay closer attention to the content and style. However, I think most reviewers are very fair and every submission is treated independently from one another.

In regards to your questions about COI and paid editing, since you are writing about the CEO of the company you work for, you are, yourself, a paid editor. This must be declared on your user page; WP:UPE covers how to do this. If you are paying another firm to write the article, their editors must declare they have been paid. Undisclosed paid editing is a serious breach of policy and will likely get the article deleted. If you are editing that article, you must also declare you have a COI on the talk page.

In all honesty, it's probably easiest to write it yourself; you could probably knock it out in a few hours if you had some good sources and some spare time! Hopefully this answers your questions. Rambley^[who?] 16:55, 15 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi Rambley, thank you so much for your prompt response - I very much appreciate it. I will be candid, I did write my thoughts before and have AI clean it up. Moving forward I will not be using AI at all in my process with Wikipedia. My sincere apologies!

For the disclosure part, I did write the COI disclosure on my own talk page, is this enough, or do I need to update that to mention that I am the paid editor for Payworks? Similarly, would I write another COI disclosure + paid disclosure on Payworks talk page too? I want to do this in the most respectful way possible.

Lastly, we have an independent firm that is open to writing our page for us, which we will then post ourselves. In this case, do I need to disclosure the firm that wrote it, and my paid/COI disclosure? I assume regardless of who writes it I will need to include those but wondering about the firm that would write it? I'm happy to write it myself, like you said a few hours and good sources - but wondering which approach you recommend.

Thank you again, you've been a huge help! Paige Schmidt (talk) 17:05, 15 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

I want to place my information on Wikipedia. How do I go about it? --DiPeoplesPoet (talk) 18:38, 16 October 2026 (UTC)Reply

How do I place my information on Wikipedia? --DiPeoplesPoet (talk) 18:42, 16 October 2026 (UTC)Reply