User talk:Uliepavone

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Emily M. Dickens (November 11)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by MurielMary was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

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MurielMary (talk) 08:35, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

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Concern regarding Draft:Emily M. Dickens

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 13:02, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Jon Clifton

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 21:02, 30 August 2023 (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).

Uliepavone (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:

Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not an open proxy. My IP address is 186.77.198.64. Place any further information here. Uliepavone 21:59, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Confirmed p2p proxy. See Template:Blocked p2p proxy for more details. Yamla (talk) 22:17, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

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Request reason:

Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not an open proxy. My IP address is 186.77.198.64. It's alright if the ban cannot be lifted yet, but I'm a rather green editor - would you please help me understand this ban? So I don't make the same mistake again. Uliepavone 19:01, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Decline reason:

If you go to the page suggested by Yamla, that should explain this situation. Please place new posts at the bottom of this page for proper flow. 331dot (talk) 19:53, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

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Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Uliepavone. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Johnny C. Taylor Jr., 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:

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In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Nat Gertler (talk) 22:31, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

Hello Nat. I'm a student and I have a passion for thought leaders and what they do - I imagine you can see I've done multiple edits to different thought leaders. Is there something you can recommend to avoid appearing as COI? Uliepavone 16:17, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Yes, I see you've been working on Munoz as well. You've been adding hagiography-like sentences such as "Munoz is a highly accomplished business executive and leader who holds significant board positions across a diverse range of organizations. His extensive experience and contributions to these boards reflect his dedication to the fields of business, education, and public service." and " Johnny has been granted the privilege to deliver presentations at numerous significant gatherings," which means merely that he has spoken at conferences (by the way, the use of "Johnny" like that is contradicted by our guideline WP:SURNAME.) You are not relying on third-party sources to show to what material is significant, but instead relying on non-independent sources like the organization one is giving a speech to or the speakers bureau that hires them out. You're using career designations like "Keynote speaker" - in profession, we would say someone is an actor, not a movie star. It's as if you are trying to turn these pages into promotion, which is not what Wikipedia is here for. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 18:15, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

You've been incredibly helpful! Thanks for taking the time to help me make sure I do a good job in improving my edits. I've started to make edits and remove anything that seems promotional, and any mention of first names, removed the ''keynote speaker'' from Munoz' wiki, and I'll be checking the citations to make sure we have 3rd party citations, otherwise I'll remove. I appreciate it! Uliepavone 13:34, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

Since you seem to be making a good faith effort to improve the pages, let me gently note a place where you missed the mark a bit. This edit has you removing the term keynote speaker, which is good, but you changed the meaning of a sentence in a way that makes it inaccurate. The speakers bureaus are not places he speaks; they are agencies that hire out speakers. You want to find someone to talk at your event, go to the speakers bureau and they'll have a menu to choose from. But even if the sentence were accurate, that leads to the question of whether we should have it at all. It's just a list of places where you can buy his services. When we have an article on a book, we don't say it's available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble and link to their promo pages on that. It's not vital information for understanding who Munoz is, and not something that's likely to be covered by third parties.

(But I should note that you can say someone is a public speaker if they are making money off of that; it's just that "keynote speaker" is a role at a specific event, and not the general profession.) -- Nat Gertler (talk) 13:52, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, Nat! I went ahead and made the updates you noted, and all other errors or promotional-like entries. I'll check the citations next week since unfortunately school takes a lot of my time. Again, thank you! I'm learning a lot from you. Uliepavone 14:55, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Hello Nat, unfortunately college doesn't let me too much free time, but I went ahead and removed all citations that come from the subject and tried my best to remove anything that sounds promotional to my opinion on both Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. and Oscar Munoz (Executive). You've been an incredible mentor! I want to start working on updates for Simon Sinek which is my idol, but first,, do you have any feedback for me? I appreciate your help very much! You're helping me realize my goal of writing non-fiction some day. Uliepavone 18:06, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

I saw you were editing, and you did indeed make forward progress on this. Good to see!

I will note that one thing you're not yet picking up on is when what looks to be a third party source is just running material given to them by an involved source. As an example, there's this reference, which is pretty clearly just a press release... no author listed, ends with "As the voice of all things work, workers and the workplace, SHRM is dedicated to creating better workplaces. It has over three lakh HR and business executive members in 165 countries, and impacts the lives of over 115 million workers and families globally." That is pure promo speak. Or this biography, which also interestingly explains about SHRM "impacting the lives of 115 million workers every day." (An independent source might simply report them as having members, rather than claiming impact.) WP:PRSOURCE tells us that press releases, even when run by third parties, are not "independent" and cannot count toward notability; much the same could be said for counting toward WP:DUE. --Nat Gertler (talk) 18:55, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Taking a quick look at the Sinek article, the biggest alarm bell to me is repeated use of Foundr as a source. What's the problem with this? Well, they appear to be a pay-for-coverage outlet. If so, that would mean they aren't a third-party source. I do see one reference that's listed as being a Forbes "contributor", but when I click through the article says that it's a staff member -- a "contributor" is not a reliable source, a "staff member" is (see WP:FORBES. So I'd take a look at the archive of that and see if it was listed as a contributor when it originally posed. If so, it would be treated as a contributor piece even if the author later joined the staff. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 19:13, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

I will fix Sinek's wiki as soon as I have time. On the meantime, I went ahead and made some other changes, hopefully I get it right this time, thank you Uliepavone 12:58, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

I'm also reading the materal you sent me, thank you! If there's anything else you can give me as feedback, pls do! Uliepavone 13:01, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Jon Clifton

Hello, Uliepavone. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Jon Clifton".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:43, 30 September 2023 (UTC)

New image

I saw that you added a new image, but your addition is a bit confusing. Your edit summary says "Agreed image of Johnny Taylor on SHRM conference 2024" and the caption says "Johnny C Taylor Jr on SHRM2024". This raises a couple questions:

• "Agreed image" -- agreed by who, where? I don't see any discussion on the article page, but maybe I'm confused about what you're saying.
• "on SHRM 2024" -- obviously, this is not a picture at SHRM 2024, for time-travel reasons. ("I got a special camera that takes pictures 8 months in the future. Only problem is it's a Polaroid, and the pictures take nine months to develop...") Generally we would caption a picture based on where it was taken - what place, what event - rather than the topic. Were you at some event he was speaking where you took this picture? If so, what event? (And if not, how did you get the picture?)

I'm just trying to make sure that this is treated appropriately. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 23:52, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you Nat! I corrected the issues. Uliepavone 18:43, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Well, it is still "on" rather than "at"... and I again ask who "agreed" to the image. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 19:11, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Fixed - and ''agreed'' was a typo. I meant to say added. I was using voice access through Microsoft 11 due to the fact I have a cast on my left arm, and instead of writing ''added'', it wrote ''agreed''. Uliepavone 19:14, 29 November 2023 (UTC)