Flack.inspired

COI check

Hello. Do you have any links to Jake Bright or his publisher? MrsSnoozyTurtle (talk) 00:17, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi @MrsSnoozyTurtle:, As per below response to @Celestina007: the answer is no. Thanks.

Nomination of Tariye Gbadegesin for deletion

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Celestina007 (talk) 17:53, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

COI/UPE

I see MrsSnoozyTurtle already tried to inquire from you your COI status but you remained evasive and refused to reply to them, but we both know you aren’t escaping me so let’s get to it, what’s the connection between you and the subject of your latest article? Airing me wouldn’t be a good idea, so you better come up with a good reply for this. Celestina007 (talk) 18:01, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Celestina007:,

I am consolidating a response here to your March 13 and March 12 comments, as well as MrsSnoozyTurtle’s March 12 input.

I am familiar with Wikipedia’s policies and have studied them. I’m a wiki editor in West Africa who documents people and events associated with Africa’s emerging business, technology and entrepreneur space -- this is an area that is underrepresented on Wikipedia. I pursue this, of course, within the notability and policy requirements of Wikipedia, as well as critically and factually.

Specific to your and MrsSnoozyTurtl’s questions, I am not a fan or directly connected to the subjects of the posts in question. The pages I’ve edited include individuals or subjects who have gained notability in and around African business and tech but have not yet been captured by Wikipedia. Those are the grounds for my editing and I am not in the employ or receiving compensation from any of these subjects, nor any publisher.

I respect your editing judgement and track record, but do wonder if you’ve been excessive in suspending my editing rights and multiple pages here. I also wonder if this is, perhaps, unfair scrutiny because I am an editor in Africa and Nigeria. For example, the posts in question--particularly The Next Africa and author profile-- are to the point and factual and rise to the level of notability. I’ve gone back and cross-checked this, per editor suggestions, and each of these posts has multiple references from accredited sources (secondary and tertiary) per each line of text. Many of the sources, such as The New Yorker of Foreign Affairs, place more scrutiny (and follow greater internal controls) on fact-checking than Wikipedia.

As a matter of course toward becoming a better editor, I review and cross-compare a number of Wikipedia pages for reference and learning. I’ve literally read dozens of pages with highly embellished language and few accredited references with “View History” threads of little to no scrutiny, compared to that which has been placed on my editing.

I hope Wikipedia can continue to be an inclusive, rather than exclusive space, that applies editing policies fairly across countries, people and regions.

Thanks again for your input and I hope this response satisfies your inquiries. Flack.inspired (talk) 14:09, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

March 2021

Hello Flack.inspired. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Tariye Gbadegesin, 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:Flack.inspired. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Flack.inspired|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. Celestina007 (talk) 18:02, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Celestina007:, Please see previous response on this Talk page that addresses your inquiry. Thanks. Flack.inspired (talk) 14:12, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

The Next Africa moved to draftspace

Please see log comments. MrsSnoozyTurtle (talk) 21:54, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

March 2021

Hello, I'm Celestina007. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Draft:The Next Africa have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Celestina007 (talk) 17:20, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Jake Bright

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Your draft article, Draft:Jake Bright

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Your draft article, Draft:The Next Africa

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:53, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: SeamlessHR (October 4)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Greenman was:  The comment the reviewer left 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 after they have been resolved.

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Greenman (talk) 18:58, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Hello, Flack.inspired! 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! Greenman (talk) 18:58, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

AfC notification: Draft:SeamlessHR has a new comment

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:SeamlessHR. Thanks! Reading Beans (talk) 13:18, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of IProcure

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IProcure moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to IProcure. Unfortunately, it is not ready for publishing because it needs more sources to establish notability, it is promotional and reads like an advertisement and you may have a possible Conflict of Interest. Your article is now a draft where you can improve it undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 18:21, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

IProcure moved to draftspace

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April 2023

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 14:11, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Flack.inspired (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

Your reason here: I have been a victim of collateral damage, where I am affected by a block of some other user. Flack.inspired (talk) 14:20, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Decline reason:

You are blocked directly for sock puppetry. You appear to be denying this, however your denial on its own does not outweigh the technical and behavioral evidence for this block. PhilKnight (talk) 15:27, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

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Hello @Ivanvector, I have read Wikipedia's guidelines for sock puppetry and see that I should not have moved the draft page for the article I was working on with my other account to the articles page. I would like to appeal for an unblock or a definite block because I really enjoy contributing to Wikipedia. I can promise that my account would not engage in sock puppetry again. Thank you Flack.inspired (talk) 16:04, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Using multiple accounts in violation of the sockpuppetry policy is not the only issue here. The main problem, as shown by all the deletion notices on this page, is that you have been repeatedly contributing articles on topics that fail to meet our guidelines on notability for people and businesses. Wikipedia is not a business directory nor an infinite collection of all information - we don't write about every business that exists, but about businesses that are shown to meet our standards for inclusion (the notability guidelines) as shown by significant coverage of the subject specifically (not passing mentions) in reliable sources that are editorially independent of the subject. That's a mouthful, but see WP:42 for a simpler explanation.

You suggested elsewhere on this page that you're trying to expand coverage of business topics in emerging sectors in West Africa. That's going to be a challenge - not because of a bias against the geography, but because startups in emerging sectors tend not to have significant coverage in reliable sources. What there is is routine coverage of mundane financing operations, like stock sales or rounds of investment or executives moving from one company to another, published in the sorts of publications that itemize every conceivable market transaction, so there's no notability demonstrated by being listed in one. We also often see articles which look like in-depth coverage but we find that they're published in magazines that accept submissions from the companies themselves and don't exert independent editorial control, and we also can't accept those since they're not considered reliable. Writing about emerging sectors on Wikipedia is an uphill battle, and that's the same for Nigeria as it is for Britain or the United States.

A second problem related to that is that when you get feedback on one of your articles, you don't respond to it, you just leave the draft to languish while you go work on something else. All drafts are eligible to be deleted if nobody edits them for six months, and there are a number of pages in your edit history that were deleted for just that reason. For example, you created The Next Africa in January 2021. A new page reviewer flagged the article as being too promotional in tone, you then made some changes but the reviewer wasn't convinced of the book's notability, so they moved the article to a draft so you could work on it more. To be honest I think you weren't far off with that draft, but there were still some problems with the sources. But you never came back to it, and by September 2021 it had not been edited in six months, and it was deleted.

And that brings us around to the sockpuppetry problem. Normally if you write a draft and submit it to articles for creation (AFC), a reviewer will leave you reasonably detailed feedback on what still needs to be improved. That feedback is normally more helpful than the message that the reviewer left for you here, which was honestly pretty useless. But instead of allowing that neutral review and feedback process to work, you've been creating second accounts to "approve" your drafts when in fact they haven't been reviewed at all. Once your draft becomes an article, it's subject to much more rigorous standards, and articles that don't meet standards tend to be deleted, rather than getting feedback and suggestions for improvement. We also have logs of deleted pages, and new articles on topics that have been deleted before are subjected to much more scrutiny and review. You're really working against yourself by doing that, never mind that it's specifically not allowed. AFC is a process meant to help you write better articles, although it can be frustrating at times, and there are some topics that just don't meet our standards.

Anyway, down to business. If you want to continue contributing to Wikipedia you will need to be unblocked first. Don't try to create more accounts - contributions by users evading a block can be removed by anyone for any reason or no reason at all. I am willing to unblock you, but first you will need to list every account here that you have used besides this one and the ones already flagged at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Flack.inspired. Then I am going to ask you to agree to be bound to a one-account restriction, which means you'll be required to edit from this account only, and it is a formal restriction that will be logged. Let's leave it at that for now, I may have more suggestions for you later, or if you have any questions yourself you can post on this page. Thank you. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 20:21, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello @Ivanvector, Thank you for responding to my message. I see how some of my actions while creating drafts weren't the best but I am willing and ready to learn.

The other accounts I use to edit are @DontSpeakToHer, @BeholdMyPen, @Anonymoustailfeather, @MeZeNTASar, @ATzEreSN, @Triandstikae

I am willing to agree to be bound to a one-account restriction. Thank you Flack.inspired (talk) 17:08, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:SeamlessHR

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