User talk:MikeDorland

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Orphaned non-free image File:VC4 logo.png

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Thanks for the note. The logo is used in the draft article “Draft:VC4 B.V.”, which is currently awaiting AfC review. Once accepted, it will be in use under fair-use policy. MikeDorland (talk) 08:33, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: VC4 B.V. (November 22)

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

This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:

in-depth (not just brief mentions about the subject or routine announcements)
reliable
secondary
strictly independent of the subject

Make sure you add references that meet all four of these criteria before resubmitting. Learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

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 after they have been resolved.

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CONFUSED SPIRIT^talk 13:16, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback. I understand the notability requirements. I have read and understood the requirements and will gather more quality citations before resubmitting. Before I revise the draft, I wanted to confirm whether independent industry analysis articles (from telecom/enterprise software publications) or detailed third-party case studies about VC4's implementations qualify as acceptable sources? MikeDorland (talk) 14:39, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Hello, MikeDorland! Having an article draft 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! CONFUSED SPIRIT^talk 13:16, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your welcome message. I am working on improving the VC4 draft and I want to make sure to use the right type of citation links. Could you clarify what kind of independent citations would meet the notability requirements for a company article? I want to follow the guidelines correctly before I revise the draft. MikeDorland (talk) 14:39, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

December 2025

Hello MikeDorland. 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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:MikeDorland. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=MikeDorland|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. 331dot (talk) 11:41, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing this out. I apologize for not disclosing this from the start (this was not something I was aware of initially but I am aware now through your comment), I will add the template disclosure to my user page and follow the guidance about suggesting changes on the Talk page. I just want to confirm, "Do I need to suggest an edit for VC4 page here on "Talk Page" MikeDorland (talk) 14:38, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Network Auto Discovery and Reconciliation (December 2)

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

Your draft shows signs of having been generated by a large language model, such as ChatGPT. Wikipedia guidelines prohibit the use of LLMs to write articles from scratch. In addition, LLM-generated articles usually have multiple quality issues, to include:

Promotional tone, editorializing and other words to watch
Vague, generic, and speculative statements extrapolated from similar subjects
Essay-like writing
Hallucinations (plausible-sounding, but false information) and non-existent references
Close paraphrasing

Please address these issues. The best way is usually to read reliable sources and summarize them, instead of using a large language model. See our help page on large language models.

The comment the reviewer left was:

Entirely AI generated.

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 after they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Network Auto Discovery and Reconciliation and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
If you need any assistance, or have experienced any untoward behavior associated with this submission, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk, on the reviewer's talk page or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

monkey_smashing^keyboards (talk) 21:00, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing the draft and for the clear feedback. I understand the concerns about AI-generated text. I will rewrite the article in my own words and base it only on reliable, independent sources before resubmitting. I appreciate your guidance. MikeDorland (talk) 14:15, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Network Auto Discovery and Reconciliation

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 21:09, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, and thank you for the notice. I am still interested in improving the draft and plan to continue working on it. I will review and update the article using reliable, independent sources so that it can remain active and eventually be considered for submission. I appreciate the reminder and guidance. MikeDorland (talk) 07:55, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Network Auto Discovery and Reconciliation

Hello, MikeDorland. This message concerns the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Network Auto Discovery and Reconciliation".

Drafts that go unedited for six months are eligible for deletion, in accordance with our draftspace policy, and this one 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}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! DreamRimmer bot II (talk) 21:26, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for the notice. I have already requested the draft's for undeletion so that I can continue working on it and make the necessary updates. I am currently working on improving the page and will try to make updates within the next week and during this month. MikeDorland (talk) 06:51, 3 June 2026 (UTC)