User talk:Usako-M

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Hello, Usako-M, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was George Sully, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Barkeep49 (talk) 03:05, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Nomination of Sully & Son Company for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Sully & Son Company 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/Sully & Son Company 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. Umakant Bhalerao (talk) 05:39, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

October 2020
Hello Usako-M. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to George Sully, 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:Usako-M. 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. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 05:52, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

--- Hello, I hope I am responding in the right area where you can read my message, AleatoryPonderings. I am not sure how to tag you so you can see my response. Sorry, it is my first time. In response to your comments: I was inspired to write this article after seeing George Sully on the news multiple times (I attached some of the news videos as citations in the Initiatives-Black Designers of Canada section.) There was a call to action on how we can help spread the word on Black Designers of Canada to help the Black Lives Movement. There was no wiki on Black Designers of Canada or George Sully and the other black designers, so I did the research to write the article. I googled and read all the articles and watched all the videos to learn more about the black designers (I cited all the articles and videos). If I did this wrong, then sorry as it is my first time. Usako-M (talk) 12:32, 10 October 2020 (UTC)Usako-M
 * Thanks for your response! I really appreciate your efforts to spread the word on Black designers, and I hope my comments don't put you off. I left that message for you because many of these entries looked a bit promotional to me, so I was concerned that you might be affiliated with George Sully in some way. If you're not, that's great; if you are, you have to disclose it. But, in any case, your efforts to lift up Black designers are very much appreciated. PS: if you want to @ someone, you can use ping to do so. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 14:57, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

George Sully moved to draftspace
An article you recently created, George Sully, does not have enough sources and citations 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.  scope_creep Talk  10:20, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

George Sully
As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to George Sully, 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:Usako-M, and the template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia.