User talk:TheAyo1

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Benedict Alabi (October 5)
 Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Idoghor Melody 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.


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 Comr Melody Idoghor  (talk)  21:54, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

October 2023
Hello TheAyo1. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Nonchalant Sosaa, 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:TheAyo1. 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) 15:25, 8 October 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello Kuru, I appreciate your inquiry, and I want to clarify my position on this matter.
 * I want to categorically state that I do not have any financial stake in promoting a topic. The nature of my edits, such as the one I made to Nonchalant Sosaa is solely based on my interest of writing an article.
 * I attended a Wikipedia Editing Workshop, where we are trained on how we can contribute to improve Wikipedia. After the training, we were advised to make edits and also write articles on wikimedia. I picked interest in writing on Nonchalant Sosaa, having confirmed he met the notability criteria, "...made unique, prolific or innovative contributions to a field of entertainment". I have not met him physically, I sourced information about him on news organization, magazines, and online.
 * I think the error on my path is the editing on it, I should have write the article at once and then publish for other editors to make the edits. I will appreciate if you can guide me more, so as to avoid errors that will lead to the deletion of my articles. Thank you. TheAyo1 (talk) 16:47, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, that individual has a large about of PR out in the field, which is going to make it difficult for you to discern what is a reiliable source, and what is just junk SEO spam. I would suggest limiting your edit to articles in the draft space for now, and I'd probably avoid that particular topic. Sam Kuru (talk) 21:35, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Response to your email
Hi,

I typically don't reply via email, so I hope this is okay. I added the notability tag to Nonchalant Sosaa because after looking for sources via multiple news aggregators and search engines, I was met with almost no results. This doesn't necessarily mean the topic isn't notable, as there could be other search terms, news from less-recognized sources or even non-English sources that may be acceptable. That said, per our sourcing requirements, it seemed unlikely that it would pass, and the tag was placed to inform other editors so they would not have to repeat the search. It looks like there was a conversation above regarding the neutrality of the article, so I won't mention that, but I hope this helps. (I also want to note that I'm not disputing the sources you added after, which I was unable to check as the article was deleted, but I assume the deleting admin did their due diligence first) ASUKITE  16:03, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Benedict Alabi
Hello, TheAyo1. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Benedict Alabi, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again&#32;or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 22:07, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Benedict Alabi


Hello, TheAyo1. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Benedict Alabi".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 22:16, 5 April 2024 (UTC)