User talk:Nikejack

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Speedy deletion nomination of Nicholas Michael Smith


A tag has been placed on Nicholas Michael Smith, 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. PICKLEDICAE🥒 18:46, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

September 2023
Hello Nikejack. 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:Nikejack. 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. PICKLEDICAE🥒 16:15, 11 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Praxidicae, thanks the message. I appreciate you looking out for the site. I can confirm I'm not being directly or indirectly compensated for this or any other article, or any edits. I wasn't aware of the 'articles for creation' process, so thanks for directing me to it. Nikejack (talk) 16:29, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * , thank you for confirming there is no compensation. However, please could you confirm if you have any connection at all with Nicholas Michael Smith? Thank you. -Kj cheetham (talk) 16:17, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi @Kj cheetham, I attended the subject's concerts when I lived in China a decade ago (which is where I sourced the photo). The topic is a personal hobby - I study Chinese, have lived in China (now in the US), and am a retired musician, arts journalist and researcher. China's classical music is poorly documented on Wikipedia (for many reasons but largely the lack of reliable local media sources and few journalists from reliable sources who cover China's music scene except when they tour internationally). This is my first attempt to address some of that gap, but I plan to try fill in detail on existing pages that are poorly written or sourced as I come across them. I hope that answers your question. Nikejack (talk) 17:25, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, thank you for your reply. I was going to ask about the photo, given you marked it as being your own work. I primarily wanted to check if the subject was a personal friend or another connection as per WP:EXTERNALREL, but I'm convinced from your reply they're not. Keep up the good work! -Kj cheetham (talk) 19:03, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

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