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A tag has been placed on Draft:John Clark (Designer), 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 Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Kimdaly. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. AntiDionysius (talk) 19:56, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi, rather than advertising or promoting someone, I am really passionate about the graphic design and branding space in the US. As I see there aren't many great graphic designers with any information online, I just wanted to provide a more information to those who are also passionate about graphic design and would like to know influential figures within the field. I do not work specifically in graphic design and branding, more so I am just always reading about news and projects as that is where my personal interests and hobbies lie. Kimdaly (talk) 20:13, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

October 2024

Hello Kimdaly. 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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.

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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:Kimdaly. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Kimdaly|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. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 20:26, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi, I am not being paid to write this article. As mentioned in previous replies, I am just hugely interested and passionate about the graphic design and branding space and would love to read and spread more information about influential figures. When searching any popular and current designers, I realized there is a huge lack of information about influential designers and figures at the moment. Kimdaly (talk) 20:34, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

If you are not affiliated with this individual, could you please explain how you took this close-up, clearly posed photograph, and this also clearly posed photo of him and his colleague in what appears to be his office? Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 21:48, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Those photos are photos that were pulled online and through their own website. All of the photos are on their own website as well as if you read any articles on the design studio through any design publications, they have many photos of both the co-founders in their own office spaces. All of these photos are already public information that has been sourced online. Kimdaly (talk) 22:03, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Why did you state that they are your own work, if they are not? "Own work" means that you were the photographer, not that you grabbed them off the Web. So, was that assertion untrue? Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 22:44, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, that was my mistake. I should have read that over carefully, I can switch the photo credits to the other option. Kimdaly (talk) 00:22, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

Are there any other concerns you have with the page? I mean I see you already deleted the page so I'm guessing there's pretty much nothing else to do. Kimdaly (talk) 00:26, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

I can take care of that over on Commons, then; the images will probably need to be deleted. So far as the article, Wikipedia articles must be written neutrally and must not promote their subjects, including by any kind of "talking up" or fluffy language. As some examples, but by no means an exhaustive list: Team has become well-known ("well-known" by whom, according to what reliable and independent source? Claims like that require strong referencing), John and his team... (we use a formal tone, so we refer to someone by full name on first mention and last name only thereafter, no "get to know ya" tone), a renowned luxury fashion label. (don't include fluff adjectives like "renowned"), John has been recognized for his pragmatic, impact-driven approach to design, emphasizing clarity and purposeful direction in all of his work. (information-free marketing fluff), and the rest goes on and on like that. I would generally recommend that new editors not start out with an attempt to create a new article; it is quite a difficult thing to do. It's probably best to start out gaining some experience by editing existing articles, and once you've gained some good experience doing that, you might have a better idea of what a Wikipedia article should look like and contain, and how to determine if a subject is an appropriate one to write an article about at all. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 02:15, 29 October 2024 (UTC)