User talk:JoeAyoade

September 2019

Hello, I'm Mcmatter. Wikipedia is written by people who have a wide diversity of opinions, but we try hard to make sure articles have a neutral point of view. Your recent edit to Nduka Obaigbena seemed less than neutral and has been removed. If you think this was a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 15:30, 12 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did at Nduka Obaigbena, you may be blocked from editing. McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 18:41, 12 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, JoeAyoade, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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Hello JoeAyoade. You used the {{Help me}} template, but you wanted an answer from a specific editor. If you still need help, please add your question to that editor's talk page instead. Alternatively, you can ask your question at the Teahouse, the help desk, or join Wikipedia's Live Help IRC channel to get real-time assistance.

Thank you McMatter. I must confess, I am discouraged by this move. While I implore you to consider before taking action, I also have an obligation to let you know that I had painstakingly spent days researching and getting information on Nduka Obaigbena. I am a Nigerian and I know Obaigbena because I work with the media. When I stumbled on his information on Wikipedia, I was not comfortable with the sparse details that strongly emphasized the negative aspects of a person and gave little information in it's entirety. I also realised this is one contribution I can make because, I know this person and have a balanced opinion about him, good and bad. So I decided to contribute what I know and every thing I wrote is backed up with sources. Are these sources not acceptable? I tried to avoid blogs, social media and the like because I know wikipedia does not support such. Also, note that I did NOT receive payment for this contribution. I am spurred by motivation to be contributor and add my quota of knowledge about what is easy for me to write about.

I therefore request that you kindly consider. JoeAyoade (talk) 19:05, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pinging OP. Primefac (talk) 20:48, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I only posted this message because your bio you posted states you work for companies which the subject owns or has an invested interest in, as a social media expert. This can be perceived as a conflict of interest and wanted to give you all the details with some helpful links of how to deal with it in the future. We have done quite well working out the kinks. This was not meant to deter you from editing other articles or even providing suggestions on the article in question, but just some useful info. McMatter ^(talk)/_(contrib) 22:04, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the material you added was copied from another website, and thus was a violation of Wikipedia's copyright policy. Please don't add copyright material to Wikipedia. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:33, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]