Wareem

Are you a paid editor with a conflict of interest?

Hello Wareem. 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:Wareem. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Wareem|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. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:25, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Hey, I am letting you know that I have no affiliation with this book in any monetary or non monetary way, and that I have no conlfict of interest at all. Wareem (talk) 07:33, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of If I Could Tell You Just One Thing...

Hello Wareem,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged If I Could Tell You Just One Thing... for deletion, because it seems to be promotional, rather than an encyclopedia article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:34, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Comments

You have already been asked once if you have a conflict of interest regarding this book, you have not responded to that request. If you work directly or indirectly for an organisation, or otherwise are acting on its behalf, you are very strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. If you are paid directly or indirectly by the organisation you are writing about, 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:Wareem. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Wareem|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. Note that editing with a COI is discouraged, but permitted as long as it is declared. Concealing a COI can lead to a block. Please do not edit further until you respond to this message, and note that if you ignore this message too, I have no intention of asking again.

Also read the following regarding writing an article. Some are listed just for completeness.

• you must provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts and show that it meets the notability guidelines. Sources that are not acceptable include those linked to the book or its author, press releases, YouTube, IMDB, social media and other sites that can be self-edited, blogs, websites of unknown or non-reliable provenance, and sites that are just reporting what the authors claims or interviewing. Note that references should be in-line so we can tell what fact each is supporting, and should not be bare urls. Although you have given references, most of them are either nothing to do with the book or are not independent third party sources (several are just quoting Reed or interviewing him
• I can't see how this recent book meets the notability guidelines for books, nothing about awards, not even sales figures. If you can't show why it meets out notability criteria, it cannot have an article.
• you must write in a non-promotional tone. Articles must be neutral and encyclopaedic. Your "Background" section is just a puff piece for Reed and his foundation and companies, with no mention of the book other than a quote from him praising his own book.
• there shouldn't be any url links in the article, only in the "References" or "External links" sections.
• you must not copy text from elsewhere. Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or your organisation, unless they state clearly and explicitly that the text is public domain. We require that text posted here can be used, modified and distributed for any purpose, including commercial; text is considered to be copyright unless explicitly stated otherwise. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright, or you have permission to use the text, isn't sufficient.

Before attempting to write an article again, please make sure that the topic meets the notability criteria linked above, and check that you can find independent third party sources. Also read Your first article and consider writing as a draft because if you post an article it will be assessed as it stands. If you don't want that to happen, you should write it as a draft. You must also reply to the COI request above.

Jimfbleak - talk to me? 05:57, 19 October 2018 (UTC)