User talk:Mporenta
July 2020
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Hello Mporenta. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Timothy Ballard, gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but 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 serious 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. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are extremely strongly discouraged 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:Mporenta. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Mporenta|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, do not edit further until you answer this message. scope_creepTalk 15:19, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 20:05, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
The article Timothy Ballard has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
All sources in the lead are either primary, promotional (such as UVU's announcement) or only mention Ballard in a passing manner. The same is the case for most sources in the rest of the article. The only existing reliable, secondary sources here are actually about Ballard's company (Operation Underground Railroad), but ALL the other sources that are actually centered around him as as person are exclusively primary and/or promotional. This article completely fails to demonstrate enough notability for this person to have a standalone article apart from O.U.R.'s already existing one. WP:INHERITORG says that "An organization may be notable, but individual members (or groups of members) do not "inherit" notability due to their membership." I believe that this is the case here, the fact that Ballard often appears in reliable sources as O.U.R.'s spokesperson and founder does not merit him a separate article. Since reliable sources listed here indicate that Ballard's name is highly attached to O.U.R.'s brand, as he is its founder and main spokesman, this article should be deleted and directed to Operation Underground Railroad. (Also, if this is relevant, this article seems to have been created by a WP:SPA who has a WP:COI with this page, see User talk:Mporenta.)
While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.
Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion.🔥 22spears 🔥 06:43, 23 April 2023 (UTC)