Josh Mwendo

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Possible paid editing

Text from Draft:Joshua mwendo

• Draft:Joshua mwendo (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

The above draft says, in part: "Joshua Mwendo is a Digital Creator and Marketing Strategist who partners with CEOs, executives and solopreneurs to grow their personal and professional brands." It includes a link to joshuamwendo.com.

Please see below. —Unforgettableid (talk) 14:33, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Please read and respond

Hi Josh! I think you may have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic. I think you might not have known about 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:Josh Mwendo. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Josh Mwendo|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. 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. Thank you! Kind regards, —Unforgettableid (talk) 14:29, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Sukez (video director) moved to draftspace

I've draftified an article you created: Sukez (video director) Please always use drafts for pages like this; please don't create them directly in mainspace. If you believe 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. —Unforgettableid (talk) 14:36, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Joshua mwendo

Hello, Josh Mwendo. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Joshua mwendo".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply and remove the {{db-afc}}, {{db-draft}}, or {{db-g13}} code.

If your submission has already been deleted by the time you get there, and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! —Nnadigoodluck🇳🇬 01:57, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Sukez (video director)

Hello, Josh Mwendo. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Sukez (video director), a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Draft space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for article space.

If your submission is not edited soon, it could be nominated for deletion under CSD G13. If you would like to attempt to save it, you will need to improve it. You may request userfication of the content if it meets requirements.

If the deletion has already occured, instructions on how you may be able to retrieve it are available here.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 10:01, 19 May 2021 (UTC)