Talia.gershon

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Speedy deletion nomination of File:IBM Quantum Experience.jpg

A tag has been placed on File:IBM Quantum Experience.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an image licensed as "for non-commercial use only," "non-derivative use" or "used with permission," it has not been shown to comply with the limited standards for the use of non-free content. [1], and it was either uploaded on or after 19 May 2005, or is not used in any articles. If you agree with the deletion, there is no need to do anything. If, however, you believe that this image may be retained on Wikipedia under one of the permitted conditions then:

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Your submission at Articles for creation: IBM Quantum Experience has been accepted

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File:GHZstate IBMQExperience results.png

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Speedy deletion nomination of QISKit

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A tag has been placed on QISKit, 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.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. JDDJS (talk) 20:37, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Disclosure of employment

Hello Talia.gershon. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, and that 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:Talia.gershon. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Talia.gershon|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, please do not edit further until you answer this message. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 21:31, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

May 2018

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. JDDJS (talk) 12:34, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

You appear to have a close connection to the subject on Wikipedia that raises concerns about a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. Anyone with a conflict of interest must avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing articles related to you, your family or colleagues, your organization or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with,
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors,
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);

   and you must always:

4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you.

Deb (talk) 12:42, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of QISKit

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on QISKit, 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.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Nanophosis (talk) 13:57, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

You have been blocked temporarily from editing for abuse of editing privileges. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.

Deb (talk) 14:06, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Talia.gershon (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

Hello, my apologies - I am new to Wikipedia. I certainly did not mean to come across as "abusing" the platform by submitting my post multiple times - I was really just trying trying to change it into a format that could be acceptable by Wikipedia. I am trying to add a page about an open-source project that I participate in. I now understand that the style of the article was not compliant with the style requested by Wikipedia. It also says that I should disclose my employer, which is IBM. Not sure where I should disclose that other than here. I certainly am not receiving payment for creating this post, but rather am trying to create an informational page about a topic that I think others are also passionate about, namely this open-source project. I feel this project is very similar to TensorFlow, which also has a Wikipedia page, probably written by a Google employee. Please unblock me - I promise to add many references and only state factual information about the topic. If you cannot unblock me, please explain why not. Thanks! Talia.gershon (talk) 19:40, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Accusing Google of violating our Terms of Use and conflict of interest policies is incredibly serious. In your next unblock request, you must provide specific evidence backing up your accusation. Additionally, your claims are contradictory. You claim to be an employee of IBM, but also claim that you are not being paid. Is it true that IBM does not pay you? That doesn't seem much like IBM. As far as I am aware, they pay all of their employees. Yamla (talk) 20:32, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

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If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Note that it is certainly possible to declare a conflict of interest and to edit appropriately here, even editing about the open source project (which, admittedly, is fascinating and a wonderful example of IBM, and you, supporting the open-source community and driving cutting edge research). WP:COI explains how to do so. It may be more appropriate for you to suggest edits on the article's talk page, but regardless, WP:COI goes into the details. But your accusations against Google are incredibly serious and must be resolved. Accusing another company of acting unethically is a serious charge and we must deal with this. --Yamla (talk) 20:35, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:GHZstate IBMQExperience.png

Thanks for uploading File:GHZstate IBMQExperience.png, which you've attributed to IBM Q Experience. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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