User talk:HustlerLFG

Nomination of Damian Prosalendis for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Damian Prosalendis is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Damian Prosalendis until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. Fancy Refrigerator (talk) 18:49, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

COI/PAID
Hello HustlerLFG. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Damian Prosalendis, 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:HustlerLFG. 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. Sam Kuru (talk) 19:36, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Additionally, I can see that you hit the spam blacklist seven times and chose to try and sneak those links in anyway. Don't do that again - that comes across as incredibly deceptive on your part. Sam Kuru (talk) 19:39, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I tried to integrate those links to Wikimedia Spam Whitelist because they were informative about the "Business career" topic, but without any result.
 * Anyway, I understand that article editing has strict rules and I would not like to violate any policy.
 * As for the COI, I am not connected to that person, however the tone in some sentences might be promotional because of some sources I found and included in the topic.
 * I understand that the article has to be formatted and some references have to be replaced. I've also got some other sources to introduce despite SEO websites or social media.
 * I am waiting for the reply to start editing the article to meet Wikipedia criteria.
 * P.S: This is the first article I edit and so I am still learning to use Wikipedia. HustlerLFG (talk) 20:38, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
 * There's a lot to unpack here. The article was sourced to very clearly inappropriate and deceptive sources. If you're not able to discern real sources from blatantly fake ones, this may not be a good article for you to contribute to. There's also the gushing promotional tone, and the copyright violations with the images. Are there other articles you're wanting to contribute to, or is it just this single non-notable "entrepreneur"? Sam Kuru (talk) 02:57, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @Kuru He is actually quite notable in some countries since he is famous in Greece and collaborates with many influencers in Dubai. I tried to keep the tone neutral and include sources, something hard considering that most of the sources had a promotional tone.
 * However, after research I conducted after our conversation, I managed to find the exact interviews of him, including a podcast on Apple.
 * Maybe I will rewrite some of the information (if I have the administrator's permission) and include the new sources. HustlerLFG (talk) 07:57, 12 April 2023 (UTC)