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Proposed deletion of Patrick McKenna (Entrepreneur)


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Nomination of Patrick McKenna (Entrepreneur) for deletion
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Proposed deletion of Patrick McKenna (CEO)


The article Patrick McKenna (CEO) has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Non-notable individual lacking in-depth, non-trivial support. 'References' are mostly quotes and include articles written by subject. Fails WP:GNG and WP:BIO."

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Checking references
Some of the references are written by subject where it says he is a contributor for publications. Added several third party references about the subject as well.

April 2019
Hello Stravensky. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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, and if it does not, 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:Stravensky. 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. SmartSE (talk) 09:59, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi Smartse - thank you for bringing to my attention. I am not being compensated for my edits, I just like finding new pages to create. I am happy to pause further edits of a certain type if you can provide guidance on anything that appears improper. My goal is simply to be a helpful contributor.Stravensky (talk) 18:20, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Nathan Pettijohn for deletion
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I have sent you a note about a page you started
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Speedy deletion nomination of The ActOne Group


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PatPat moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, PatPat, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of " " before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. CUPIDICAE💕 13:58, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Bradley J. Edwards (March 19)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: PatPat (July 28)
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Proposed deletion of Scott Ehrlich (producer)


The article Scott Ehrlich (producer) has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Promotional article, apparent vanity piece. Grandiose claims (that themselves do not reach the bar of WP:NCREATIVE), but no evidence of notability - particularly, no RS evidence of notability. WP:BEFORE seems to be entirely other people called 'Scott Ehrlich'."

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Proposed deletion of Todd Camhe


The article Todd Camhe has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern: "Promotional article. Claims of notability are not evidenced in RS coverage - both RSes listed are passing mentions by the producer of the film Sister. A WP:BEFORE shows zero coverage of Camhe. If this article was based on the extant RSes, it would be one to two sentences. There is no reasonable prospect of this article passing WP:NCREATIVE."

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Your submission at Articles for creation: PatPat (December 4)
<div style="border: solid 1px #FCC; background-color: #F8EEBC; padding: 0.5em 1em; color: #000; margin: 1.5em; width: 90%;"> Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Clearfrienda were:

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Concern regarding Draft:PatPat
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Nomination of Jenna Bryant for deletion
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Your draft article, Draft:PatPat


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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 18:52, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Christian Ferri for deletion
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Proper way to insert images in infoboxes
Hello @Stravensky. I am @Archer1234. I noticed to Dusty Slay where you added an image to the infobox. I want to let you know that the way you added the image was not done according to Wikipedia's Manual of Style (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE).


 * When adding an image to an infobox, thumbnails should NOT be used. Simply supplying the file name will work. For example, to use File:Image PlaceHolder.png, you can simply use Image PlaceHolder.png. Captions should be specified with the caption parameter. Every infobox is different and the documentation for the infobox in question should be consulted for the proper parameters to match the image and caption.

Do not use the full image syntax:
 * To fix:
 * SomeImage.jpg

Instead, just supply the name of the image. So, in this case you can simply do:
 * SomeImage.jpg

and optionally:
 * Some image caption.

Hopefully you will find this information useful for your future editing. If you have any questions about this, feel free to ask. &mdash; Archer1234 (talk) 22:20, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Likely undeclared paid editing
As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Stravensky, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia.

I see that you previously stated you are not being compensated for your editing. However, from your editing it appears you are creating and editing articles for promotional purposes in collaboration other people who have a clear conflict of interest. You've been editing for almost six years now, so have had plenty of time to familiarize yourself with the relevant behavioral and content policies. - Hipal (talk) 17:05, 22 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Hipal (talk) Sorry in advance for the long reply but I want to be thorough and help each other make sure we are on the same page. I appreciate your time and support. I enjoy editing and creating pages and do my best to write them objectively and based only on reputable sources for notable people and organizations. Yes I was asked this once before (4 years ago) relating to the “Earth’s Call Fund” page because I relied too heavily on their press release and company website—a lesson I learned from and I haven’t repeated that mistake. Since then, I believe the pages I’ve edited and added all provide value and are notable and written in similar fashion as similar pages. That note asked me to pause editing until I had replied — which I did reply promptly and honestly. I will happily comply again and pause any future edits until we are on the same page and I clear up any potential issues that you see.


 * Of the 20 pages I have created over the past 6 years that were approved and are active, I only had any sort of affiliation with 4 of them. My work is only in social media community management and paid media, so that is all any client of mine has ever paid me for (directly or indirectly). Of those 4 clients, none of them asked me to work on their Wikipedia page and none of them paid me for it. It has always been my understanding that it was against the rules to accept payment for editing so I have never done that and I only write them based on facts I find online, I have never asked a client if they wanted a page, my website does not have a listed service for editing Wikipedia, and I have never advertised or promoted work for Wikipedia in any way ever. I am happy to share more on my identity or my work scope, but to be clear I have never charged anyone for Wikipedia work and I have always tried to write them objectively. Even with the 4 pages that I had an affiliation with, they only ever paid me to manage their social media and it was my own desire to write the pages on my own time and with nothing in return. If I should provide a disclosure that I have had contact with those 4 people, I am happy to provide that in order to avoid any future suspicion of being paid for editing. It is simply something I enjoy doing and I would like to learn from any of my errors to ensure they do not happen again.


 * I noticed the advert flags you’ve added to a handful of the pages I created. If there are specific notes or issues with how I am contributing please let me know and I will change my process and will not repeat any specific mistakes listed (or I can edit those pages if you’d like). For instance, the “Dusty Slay” article was flagged saying there seems to be a close connection between the subject and myself, but I have never met or communicated with Dusty Slay. He never asked me for a page and I did not ask him for payment. I listen to two of the podcasts that he hosts and decided I would write a page for him as he is a public figure. To be clear, he is not a client of mine in any way (directly or indirectly) and I don’t even know anyone who knows him personally or professionally. I have never worked on his social media and I gained nothing from writing his page. The “Robert Kalich” page is similar, as I have never met him or communicated with anyone about his page. I read one of his novels and decided to write the page.


 * As you can see from my history of edits, I have mostly been approved as providing helpful edits and references on notable people and organizations, and my wish is to continue to keep my account in good standing. I promise that if I were making money from creating pages or marketing this work as a service I would have probably written more than 20 pages in the course of 6 years. This is a hobby of mine that I enjoy and want to continue getting better at. 4 of the pages in question are of people I have worked with and known in another capacity, but I have always made it a point to never ask or charge money for any edit on Wikipedia I have ever made, as I knew that would not be in the spirit of what Wikipedia is for. I am not a paid editor, and my intention is always to provide objectivity in any edit I make. Thank you again for your time and let me know anything I can do or provide to be helpful. Best, User:Stravensky Stravensky (talk) 22:21, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the response. I'm going to ask for help, because there's a lot more going on here than you seem aware.
 * Maybe this would help you. If I had encountered you in your first year of editing I would have notified you with the following:

Welcome to Wikipedia. I've added a welcome message to the top of this page that gives a great deal of information about Wikipedia. I hope you find it useful.

Additionally, I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily in collaboration.

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I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again.


 * Maybe you just needed more education early on, but I'm very concerned that your editing tends to be inappropriately promotional and that you're using very poor references. You've edited long enough and have received enough messages from other editors that I'd assume you have some understanding of these problems. You say you have conflicts of interest with 4 articles. Can you please identify them? --Hipal (talk) 17:44, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
 * @Hipal Thank you for all your help, I appreciate you taking the time. The four pages I have had affiliation with are Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement, Sanford Greenberg, Janice Bryant Howroyd, and Earth’s Call Fund. The page for Janice Bryant Howroyd already existed but I added more info about her and her companies. The rest of my edits are random things I found and wanted to contribute. I am happy to help fix anything that sounds overly promotional or has bad references, but I believe most of my edits overall have been objectively written and based on reputable sources. Stravensky (talk) 15:58, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Do you know how to look at an article's edit history and see edit summaries?
 * Look over everything I did with . 31 of 38 references were removed because they appear inappropriate. Of the remaining 7, three are poor. --Hipal (talk) 16:30, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
 * @Hipal Understood, yes that makes sense. For their page I was attempting to emulate "Carolla Digital" but I agree those original references were not adequate. I will make sure to not repeat that mistake if I am able to continue editing at some point. I will continue to pause future edits until you are confident I understand and correct these mistakes. Thank you again for all of your help. I really appreciate it. Stravensky (talk) 19:25, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't want to stop you from editing, but I'd like others to look over what's been happening. might have something to say, as the editor that first brought up the UPE/COI concerns with you.  --Hipal (talk) 23:49, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Courtesy notice - COIN discussion
I've gone ahead and started a discussion at Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard, to have more editors weigh in on the conflict of interest issues. --Hipal (talk) 16:44, 5 October 2023 (UTC)


 * @Hipal Sounds good, thank you. Stravensky (talk) 18:49, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of Earth's Call Fund for deletion
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Nomination of GaS Digital Network for deletion
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Nomination of Ralph Sutton (broadcaster) for deletion
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Nomination of Aaron Ray for deletion
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Nomination of Stage Front for deletion
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Nomination of Naomi Shah for deletion
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Nomination of Lane Bess for deletion
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Nomination of Roy Lipski for deletion
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Speedy deletion nomination of Strike Social


A tag has been placed on Strike Social, 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.

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Nomination of Michael Huppe for deletion
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Nomination of Rudy Poat for deletion
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Nomination of Beverly Camhe for deletion
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Nomination of JT McCormick for deletion
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Nomination of Strike Social for deletion
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Nomination of Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement for deletion
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Nomination of Scott Lochmus for deletion
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Nomination of Alan L. Cohen for deletion
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WP:NPA and outright lying
When I come back from work today, I intend to take you to WP:ANI for lying and WP:NPA.  scope_creep Talk  08:40, 16 November 2023 (UTC)


 * @Scope creep I am filing a notice as well for the same reasons against you. Stravensky (talk) 16:01, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Ralph Sutton (broadcaster) moved to draftspace
Thanks for your contributions to Ralph Sutton (broadcaster). Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and it is promotional and reads like an advertisement. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, 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 OR move the page back. Jamiebuba (talk) 09:04, 16 November 2023 (UTC)


 * @Jamiebuba Thanks I will continue to work on this one in draft space. Stravensky (talk) 16:01, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

November 2023
<div class="user-block uw-upeblock" style="padding: 5px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; border: 1px solid #a9a9a9; background-color: #ffefd5; min-height: 40px"> Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, please read our guide to appealing blocks to understand more about unblock requests, and then add the text  at the end of your user talk page. For that request to be considered, you must: Bbb23 (talk) 01:17, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Confirm that you have read and understand the Terms of Use and paid editing disclosure requirements.
 * State clearly how you are being compensated for your edits, and describe any affiliation or conflict of interest you might have with the subjects you have written about.
 * Describe how you intend to edit such topics in the future.




 * If you are to have any chance of being unblocked, you need to explain what the problem is with making edits such as this one. It's extremely problematic, regardless of whether you are being paid or not. SmartSE (talk) 09:01, 17 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Your comments and explanations are a little hard for me to follow. That said, I have some comments and some questions. Articles taken to AfD are not deleted by a user but by an administrator based on consensus of the users participating in the AfD. If you're trying to again accuse Scope creep of doing something wrong as the "user" who brought the AfD, that's already been shown to be complete nonsense, so I urge you to drop it as an argument for unblocking you (see WP:NOTTHEM). You refer to articles you created in 2018-19 that have been deleted recently but had been "approved by other admins". Can you please provide diffs of these article "approvals" (administrators don't normally "approve" articles)? You refer to relationships you have with some of the article subjects as "clients" but say that you don't get any cash out of writing articles about them. What do you mean by "clients"? What exactly is your relationship with some of these people/companies? For the moment, forget the articles that you claim you have no relationship to.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:56, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi Bbb23, I will try to clarify the best I can. From March 2022 to September 2022 (7 months) I was paid on behalf of Sanford Greenberg to post on social media for him to promote his book. He is 82 years old and blind, so he is not active online but he has had an inspiring life. I was paid only to post on his social media for him, and after reading his book I took it upon myself to submit an article for him.

Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement I also helped them with social media strategy, but I never offer or advertise Wikipedia work because I don’t want to appear to have any COI or break any guidelines. Since JT Lewis already had a page, I created pages for Scarlett Lewis and the non-profit because there is a lot of press about the great work she does to help end school shootings. Janice Bryant Howroyd has been a client of mine in posting on her social media, that is all that I have ever been paid for and is all that was in my scope of work with her. I did not create her page but I have contributed to it, as it was very short beforehand and there are many reputable articles about her being the first black woman to build and own a billion-dollar company. The only other COI was Earth’s Call Fund, which is already deleted.

The only point in me mentioning old articles was simply to say that user https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Atlantic306 had reviewed Strike Social, Scott Lochmus and Michael Fitzpatrick pages in 2018 so I assumed they were agreed notable back then by an admin. Similarly the Beverly Camhe article was reviewed in 2018 by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ser_Amantio_di_Nicolao and the Michael Huppe article was reviewed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Seacactus_13 in 2020. My point is not to continue complaining about who nominated to delete these recently, but to point out that they had been previously reviewed by separate admins and that I haven’t tried to lie or edit with any malice.Stravensky (talk) 16:57, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Only Ser Amantio di Nicolao is an administrator; the other two are not. Articles are not "approved" by anyone at Wikipedia. If you create a draft and go through WP:AFC, a reviewer evaluates the draft and if they think it should be published, they move it to article space, and they notify you of the publication on your Talk page. That publication does not immunize the article against deletion, but if the reviewer is experienced, it tends to mitigate the likelihood of the article being deleted for lack of notability. In addition, I see no indication on this page that any draft you created, assuming you created any (looks to me like you went straight to article space), was reviewed and published by a reviwer.As for the UPE itself, whether you get money or not, if you are doing favors for clients, whether they asked you to or you did it on your own, that is undisclosed paid editing. Payment does not have to be in cash - it can be goodwill or to make it more likely that they will use you for paid work, even if not on Wikipedia. Frankly, all of your responses here only confirm that my block is correct.--Bbb23 (talk) 17:13, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Bbb23When asked if I had any relationships to these pages I was forthright, and if I were asked to add a specific disclaimer of some sort I would have. The vast majority of my edits have been on articles I have no relationship with whatsoever, and in the COI listed above by me, the contributions I made on those articles were to add relevant information and reliable sources, not anything shady. I don't see how any of this is anything but in good faith or why me being transparent anytime I was asked questions is grounds for an indefinite ban. Stravensky (talk) 17:21, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi Stravensky. I thought I would post this in the spirit of the early conversations we had, when your were collegiate in your approach. Normally I don't interact with UPE editors. I have very strong views on them, but felt it when you left. I understand that it was difficult to get 13 articles deleted. I had seven deleted across a similar period, years ago. It is very difficult. The article you wrote were very well written and structured, which is another reason I'm here. If wasn't for the WP:PROMO content and the UPE aspect they would have been decent articles. To advise you, a one-time offer,  I would wait at least 3-6 months before attempting to come back.    scope_creep Talk  12:35, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
 * @Scope creep Thank you, I will wait a few months as you suggest. I would simply reiterate once more that I haven't ever been paid for editing, and I don't advertise or solicit services to be paid for editing. My understanding (apparently incorrect) was that UPE would be for getting paid for editing, and advertising such a service. When asked about potential COI I was forthright in trying to be transparent. Stravensky (talk) 19:45, 3 December 2023 (UTC)