Planetearth285

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Terfreagah. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Yonov Frederick Agah, 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:

• avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Isabelle ^🔔 00:23, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

With respect to your mail, the old undeletion request can be found here, and I can restore it. In the below discussion it says that you had declared COI. Where had you declared? Jay 💬 06:31, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

August 2021

Hello, Terfreagah, welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. Your editing pattern indicates that you may be using multiple accounts or coordinating editing with people outside Wikipedia. Our policy on multiple accounts usually does not allow this, and users who misuse multiple accounts may be blocked from editing. If you operate multiple accounts directly or with the help of another person, please disclose these connections. Thank you. Usedtobecool ☎️ 03:21, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

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Hello Planetearth285, thanks for reaching out to me. You are right that you already declared the COI, and you have done the necessary steps from your side. However that doesn't resolve the issues with the article. I have tagged it as it still requires cleanup by other independent users to conform with relevant Wikipedia policies and content guidelines. That's a standard practice and you will notice that quite a few articles on Wikipedia have such notices. Before adding these tags I did try to verify the majority of the paragraphs with the given references, and had to realize that the article contains a lot of details that are not mentioned by any of the sources. Sooner or later the unverifiable content will have to be removed. If you do know about independent, reliable sources that allow verification, then you can let other's know on the article talk page. If you haven't done so already, then please have a look at the conflict of interest guideline. In case of any questions, let me know. – NJD-DE (talk) 18:45, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Njd-de, Sorry for the late response, I was on vacation. On your response, once again, thank you for the clean up and relevant steps taken to conform the page with Wikipedia policies and content guidelines. On the issue of sources, I, unfortunately do not know other independent or reliable sources. I simply make edits on names, dates etc., to ensure that they are correct. In this case, I am afraid that I cannot provide further information. However, since the issue now remains with sources on the personal section - and since I have now declared COI, shouldn't this line be removed on the page "A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. (September 2021)"?, thanks, Planetearth285 (talk) 10:58, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi Planetearth285, no worries. I hope you had a good one! Ok got it, would be really helpful though if you knew more references as we really need more good ones that can corroborate what the article says. When you say the issue exists only with the personal section do you mean the Yonov Frederick Agah#Early life and education? Unfortunately, the source issue exists in all sections. I did notice you are not the only editor, but Nigerianprotagonist does appear to have a close connection with Agah as well. And I am not the only one who suspects there might be a connection between you and Nigerianprotagonist. Again, just declaring the COI is not enough. Someone independent will need to clean up the article. So from my perspective I'd say the tag should remain there. But if you believe there's good reasons to remove it, then you can ask other editors on the article talk page as well. – NJD-DE (talk) 16:41, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi, Njd-de, I did indeed. I hope that you have had some time off as well? Also, this made me laugh. But, I am not very good on wikipedia, so if this format of responding is not correct, just do a little laugh as well. To respond to you, honestly I do not know any more references. On Nigerianprotagonist, although it might come off that way, I am not associated with this account. Honestly, with the very good information that you have given me, I think that the best action to take is to fall back. You know the formats and I respect your judgement. Planetearth285 (talk) 09:35, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Planetearth285, While the subject is likely notable, and I was looking into it, I am alarmed at the vagueness of your connection to the subject (close connection or paid editor), that you apparently cannot search for references, that it "might come off" that you could be associated with Nigerianprotagonist although you state you are not, and that you feel the "best action to take is to fall back". There are references out there such as Trade, Poverty, Development: Getting Beyond the WTO's Doha Deadlock. There should be actual biographical sources also. A pseudo biography or a resume (see the policy Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not) is not really acceptable.

I cannot get involved with this because, from my point of view, the only solution is to blow it up and start over. With such vagueness of what seems to be a single purpose account, I do not want to be associated with a draft-to-article space, to give credit to a potentially paid editor, that will make money off my free work. You can ping me if you decide to be more forth-coming. You did mention another solution (if someone doesn't pick this up), we can let it sit for six months and go from there. Thanks, -- Otr500 (talk) 13:57, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Otr500: Thanks for your response. However, note that I followed the rules (with no resistance), and declared my close connection. And no, I am not a paid editor. If I was, I would not be blatantly out here asking for advise. Plus, I believe that a paid editor would be much better at this than I am. My statement to "fall back" - as the line stated was because "I am not very good on wikipedia". Thus, once wrong things were flagged, I thought best fall back, listen, educate myself - in order to do the right thing. On Nigerianprotagonist, again, I cannot speak on what I do not know. However, my whole goal is to follow the rules and do the right thing. I am not a paid editor, and moving forward, I am not even comfortable editing anything and breaking the rules - that it why I asked for help in the first place. For people who could edit to do so. So, with this, I would still appreciate your help and advise in making the page up to par. Thanks Planetearth285 (talk) 16:30, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Reply: Sorry to take so long, I have been under the weather. Some rationale: The reason I advised to not personally edit is two-fold. 1)- Although you declared a COI you didn't (that I saw) exactly go into detail. Too close a connection can be seen sort of the same as paid editing like if a person works for an individual or company, personally knows this person, or is related. 2) It seems to me that you have added a substantial amount (most are almost all) of the content and there are concerns about unnecessary information, sourcing, as well as neutral point of view See: WP:5P2.

As for advice on editing, I am not sure who would advise you to go ahead and make edits (you didn't provide a link) but @Njd-de: mentioned (concerning sources), "let other's know on the article talk page". This indicates even adding sources is better left to non-connected editors. Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide#Advice (#4) does state Do not make direct edits to live articles but in actual practice, someone can slap an MFD tag on a draft or AFD tag on newly published artcles and things like close connection (COI) and possibly being (at this time) a single purpose account (SPA), along with notability issues, and the page could be deleted or redirected to say, the World Trade Organization. It seems there should be sources to validate notability but also note this would be the (at this time) first of the four people to have an article. I see that as of 4 May 2021 that Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala announced that Angela Ellard (US), Anabel González (Costa Rica), Jean-Marie Paugam (France), Xiangchen Zhang (China) were appointed as Deputy Directors-General. This indicates that the article their names are mentioned on is outdated so your draft is more current in that respect.

• If you work with others, make suggestions but let them make edits, then there is a far better chance that notability will be evidenced.

If you are not connected through work you might (a suggestion) start a user page or draft on one of the other four apparently past deputy directors-generals that are red-linked (are tere sources?) or if sources are available on the new ones. There may be a cross-connection in sources. Notability may be an issue. A biography that lacks fundamental biographical information is more of a resume (#1), (See WP:NORESUMES).

I did see where the subject holds a Bachelor of Science (1989) and Master of Science in Economics (2007) from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, a Master of Business Administration, Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (International Trade) from the University of Jos, Nigeria, and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Abuja, Nigeria, in 2009. Surely some sources other than the WTO can be found. Also there may be sources on amy books Notability is established by reliable and independent sources and Wikipedia is a lagging indicator.

Sometimes, information is better covered in an already existing article (See: WP:NOTEWORTHY and WP:CONTN) as opposed to creating a new article. Please see: Is there enough coverage for a stand-alone article?.

Have a great day, -- Otr500 (talk) 22:21, 13 March 2022 (UTC)