User talk:AmyofAmbassy

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Hello, AmyofAmbassy, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

In addition, if you receive, or expect to receive, compensation for any contribution you make, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation to comply with our terms of use and our policy on paid editing.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! 331dot (talk) 19:28, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Darrin "Boomer" Williams


A tag has been placed on Darrin "Boomer" Williams, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:
 * It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.
 * It appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement of https://sites.google.com/site/play2winhoops/player-profiles/darrin-williams-c-pf-basketball-profile. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website or image belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text or image — which means allowing other people to use it for any reason — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Donating copyrighted materials. The same holds if you are not the owner but have their permission. If you are not the owner and do not have permission, see Requesting copyright permission for how you may obtain it. You might want to look at Wikipedia's copyright policy for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. VAXIDICAE💉 12:45, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Deletion Page of Darrin "Boomer" Williams
Hello, we've discovered the deletion of page Darrin "Boomer" Williams. Stating that it fits criteria for G11. Unambiguous advertising or promotion & G12. Unambiguous copyright infringement. This page has not been created for personal advertisement of this professional athlete, but to provide public awareness for an American Professional Basketball player, and international author. Regarding the G12 Unambiguous copyright infringement, this page featured a direct collegiate statline received from Darrin Williams Basketball public profile of Loyola University of Chicago. All material displayed on site (Source URL: https://sites.google.com/site/play2winhoops/player-profiles/darrin-williams-c-pf-basketball-profile ) belongs to Mr. Darrin Williams, and had been given its proper source credits on the wikipedia page. As a creator, I have received no personal finances for creating this, and take honor in providing online sources for all bio and stats to represent his professional endevours.

I please request that all source editing material deleted be returned to make the alterations to avoid a deletion. We'll be happy to submit this to you before making public in the future properly. What is the next process to receiving the page and sourcing code? AmyofAmbassy(AmyofAmbassy (talk) 15:37, 2 April 2021 (UTC))
 * "Provide public awareness" is the definition of advertising. You must make the required formal paid editing declaration as soon as possible. 331dot (talk) 15:44, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

- For 331dot - Thank you for your reply, wikipedia as an online encyclopedia provides public information and awareness of the persons, subjects, searched/made available within its platform. If the page is deleted, and all sourcing code is removed, how do we make a required formal paid editing declaration?
 * Presumably you work at Ambassy, which is a company owned by the person you wrote about, so you'll want to rethink your answer to my question. VAXIDICAE💉  15:57, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
 * (edit conflict) I think that you have a common, fundamental misunderstanding as to what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia is not for merely providing information or providing awareness.  Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that summarizes what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about a topic, showing how it meets Wikipedia's special definition of notability(which can vary depending on the topic).  Wikipedia has no interest in what an article subject wants to say about itself(be it directly or through a representative), only in what independent sources completely unconnected with Mr. Williams choose to say about him; any article about Mr. Williams would not necessarily say what he or you want it to say(other than summarizing independent sources); you could not lock it to the text that you might prefer, or prevent others from editing it.
 * Instructions on how to make a paid editing declaration have been provided at the bottom of this page. You should also review the conflict of interest policy, found at WP:COI, for more information since you say you are Mr. Williams' representative. 331dot (talk) 16:04, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

331dot & VAXIDICAE💉  Thank you for this insight, of course Mr. Williams have received significant coverage during his time as an athlete, with online articles to provide his detailed history on the professional & collegiate level. I believe its completely fair to add a paid editing declaration, as I am reviewing these detailed instructions now. My question, if all the sourcing code has been removed, how will changes be re-edited, or will his page and code have to be recreated?
 * Please sign your talk page posts by putting four tildes ~ at the end, so we know you wrote them. The text you posted was a copyright violation and will not be restored. If you are able to summarize what independent sources say about Mr. Williams, you should do so using Articles for Creation where you can create and submit a draft for an independent review. I will inform you that most people in your position have great difficulty in adjusting their mindset and writing style to fit Wikipedia, given your profession, and often end up disappointed and with hurt feelings when their work is (usually) rejected. I'm not sure you realize what you are getting into, but you may use Articles for Creation if you wish. 331dot (talk) 16:34, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

April 2021
Hello AmyofAmbassy. 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:AmyofAmbassy. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. 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. VAXIDICAE💉 12:46, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

VAXIDICAE💉 - Although I do not expect to receive compensation for my edits, I am disclosing my employer, client, and affiliation for this subject, as follows:


 * To clarify, if you are editing as part of your job, that's enough to trigger the paid editing requirement. You do not need to be specifically paid for your edits. 331dot (talk) 16:29, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

331dot I honestly wanted to create the page as a personal choice. I've never met a humble man who have excelled from poverty to constructing a successful international business quietly. Although he has verifiable public information, I believe he is a subject many of the youth is learning about daily and aspiring to be. Thank you all for contacting me, I want to be extremely active on Wikipedia providing additional. AmyofAmbassy (talk) 16:38, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Reply
You have an obvious conflict of interest, as 331dot has explained in detail above, and it's necessary for you to declare a COI to avoid a block. It rather undermines your claim not to be advertising when you have spam links to Amazon in your text. You claim that all the images are your own work, which implies either that you work with him, which is a closer connection than you have revealed, or that you are posting other people's images here in violation of their rights and copyright law. Neither of these options suggest that you are being entirely truthful.

You said Hello, we've discovered the deletion of page... We'll be happy to submit this to you before making public in the future properly. Who is "we"?


 * When you write about a person, you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that they meet the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the person or an associated organisation, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the person claims or interviewing them. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls.
 * You must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic, with verifiable facts, not opinions or reviews.
 * There shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections. That's particularly the case when they are spamlinks to sales sites.
 * You must not copy text from elsewhere. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.
 * Your text was copied from the Play2Win website. There is nothing on the page that suggests that he, rather than Play2Win, owns the copyright on that page, and whoever owns it hasn't explicitly released the text as public domain or tagged it with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Licence declaration.

For legal reasons, we don't restore copyright violations Jimfbleak - talk to me?  10:11, 3 April 2021 (UTC)

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read Your first article. Jimfbleak - talk to me?  10:11, 3 April 2021 (UTC)