User talk:Cressida at Diversifying Group

Your submission at Articles for creation: Cynthia V. Davis (September 6)
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AngusW🐶🐶F ( bark  •  sniff ) 16:09, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

COI username notice
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, " Diversifying Group ", may not comply with our username policy. Please note that you may not use a username that represents the name of a company, group, organization, product, service, or website. Examples of usernames that are not allowed include "XYZ Company", "MyWidgetsUSA.com", and "Foobar Museum of Art". However, you are permitted to use a username that contains such a name if it identifies you individually (not your role), such as "Sara Smith at XYZ Company", "Mark at WidgetsUSA", or "FoobarFan87", but not "SEO Manager at XYZ Company".

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September 2023
Hello Cressida at Diversifying Group. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Draft:Cynthia_V._Davis, 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:Cressida at Diversifying Group. 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.  Qcne  (talk)  15:24, 14 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello,
 * Thank you for your message. I am a little confused about this. I am not getting directly paid for creating this Wikipedia page but I am an employee of a company that the individual is CEO of. Does the same COI template apply in this case? I am happy to add this in if so.
 * Thank you! Cressida Cressida at Diversifying Group (talk) 15:29, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi @Cressida at Diversifying Group (I also left a reply to your draft talk page message from a couple of days ago, which you can ignore now).
 * Have you been asked to create articles by your manager at Diversifying Group? Or are you perhaps a social media marketer or similar role? If so, then you are being paid (albeit indirectly) for your edits. Therefore you need to make the PAID and COI declarations. I would also strongly recommend reading the following cautionary essay on writing articles about your company: WP:BOSS.
 * If you're just writing the draft out of interest, then you still need to make a COI declaration since you have an employee relationship with the subject of the article you are writing about.
 * The instructions to making those declarations/disclaimers are on the links provided, but if you need help with Wikipedia markup language Wikitext, let me know.
 * There are some major issues with the draft you've written, but I'll let you make these declarations first.  Qcne  (talk)  15:34, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi,
 * Thank you for your help. I think I have added these two declarations to my user page. Though the COI template doesn't seem to have worked so way, perhaps because it isn't a live page yet?
 * Please advise on next steps.
 * Many thanks,
 * Cressida Cressida at Diversifying Group (talk) 15:20, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for doing that @Cressida at Diversifying Group, I've fixed it for you; you had some malformed code. Wikitext isn't the easiest thing to get the hang of :)
 * I'll go onto your draft Draft:Cynthia_V._Davis now and point out the problems, in order of most minor to most major:
 * - please remove all WP:EXTERNAL links from the draft. Any external links (and there should only be one or two) should go into an External Links section at the bottom of the article.
 * - as this is a biography of a living person (guidance at WP:BLP), every material statement must be sourced with a corresponding inline citation. For example, Cynthia's entire Early Life and Education and Personal Life sections are unsourced. Check out WP:INCITE for an explanation of what we mean by inline citations.
 * - you have what looks like WP:ORIGINALRESEARCH in the article, which is strictly forbidden. For example, the first two paragraphs of Career make some statements about Cynthia's early career- but they're totally unsourced. Who says she was often the only woman of colour? Who says she witnessed employment barriers and discrimination? We need WP:SECONDARY reporting on these statements so they can be verified.
 * - finally, and most importantly, the sources you have used don't actually prove that Cynthia has met our strict WP:NPEOPLE notability guidelines. The easiest way to prove notability in our context is to find significant coverage of Cynthia in secondary, independent, reliable sources. I have gone through your sources and they're either WP:TRIVIALMENTIONS, i.e. award announcements, so do not provide significant coverage; or interviews which are not WP:INDEPENDENT so cannot be used to prove notability.
 * What this means is I have no choice but to decline the draft in it's present state. You can resubmit, but only if you can prove notability under WP:NPEOPLE.
 * I understand this is probably frustrating! Wikipedia is not like other websites and it is a huge challenge for new editors to create new articles, especially if they are being instructed to by their employer. We have really strict requirements to ensure impartiality and that we're not just used as an advertising platform. I'd encourage you to show this message to Cynthia or her reps, so hopefully she can understand this isn't a personal thing but just how our policy works.
 * If you do have any questions, just reply to this message.  Qcne  (talk)  17:36, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Cynthia V. Davis (September 15)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Qcne were:

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.


 * If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Cynthia V. Davis 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 [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Help_desk/New_question&withJS=MediaWiki:AFCHD-wizard.js&page=Draft:Cynthia_V._Davis Articles for creation help desk], on the [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Qcne&action=edit&section=new&nosummary=1&preload=Template:AfC_decline/HD_preload&preloadparams%5B%5D=Draft:Cynthia_V._Davis reviewer's talk page] or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

 Qcne  (talk)  17:36, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Cynthia V. Davis


A tag has been placed on Draft:Cynthia V. Davis, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 17:53, 15 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, I would like to try and edit this page and bring it into line with the guidelines. However, I believe it has been deleted now... can it be revived so I can try and rectify the issues please? Cressida at Diversifying Group (talk) 13:54, 26 October 2023 (UTC)