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Ways to improve Ofo (bike sharing)

Hi, I'm Nick Moyes. TechnoTalk, thanks for creating Ofo (bike sharing)!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. You will need to re-write the overview section which I have deleted as it appears to have been directly lifted from http://www.jimilab.com/about-jimi/jimilab-cooperates-with-ofo.html (I recognise that you didn't insert it!)

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Speedy deletion nomination of East Ventures

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"Dan Price" listed at Redirects for discussion

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Hello, I had asked a question about the draft of the post I am trying to make on the Help Page and you had said when I was done that I could contact you for you to review it?

I have now completed another draft and was wondering if you would be able to do this.

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Moores10 (talk) 16:44, 4 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Cue Health for deletion

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Hatchens (talk) 00:39, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks so much for your edits TechnoTalk! How can I turn it into an article from a stub? Best, Liza Zimmerman Liza Zimmerman (talk) 23:05, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Courtesy link: Draft:TOR Wines @Liza Zimmerman: Your first goal is to get the draft approved as an article. It may stay a stub for now but that's fine. You'll want to include media coverage of the winery and its wines, to demonstrate notability. See WP:GNG and WP:RS. Avoid commercial sites that are trying to sell something. This one looks good but it's paywalled so I can't read the whole thing. [[1]] This also looks good. [[2]] You should fill out the references so reviewers can see the publication names. See Template:Cite_news. You want the cites to look like this: <ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date= |title= |url= |work= |access-date=}}</ref> Example: <ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=John |date=January 10, 2021 |title=Winning Wines With John Smith |url=www.winespectator.com/winningwines |work=Wine Spectator |access-date=January 28, 2022}}</ref> Also, see WP:COIPAYDISCLOSE to make the necessary disclosures. TechnoTalk (talk) 18:24, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

And this helps too [[3]]. TechnoTalk (talk) 18:25, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

TechnoTalk! Thanks for the insight. Why doesn't the stub come up when I search for it? Best, liza Liza Zimmerman (talk) 20:46, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

because it has been deleted. Please see your Talk page as well as that of @OMvino2021 if you're connected with that user Star Mississippi 20:55, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Orgain

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Illegal formating on Otrium AFD

Hi TechnoTalk. Do not put insert comments in the middle of a discussion, as you did at the Otrium Afd. Please read WP:THREAD and WP:TALK. That is completly illegal and abusive and its not done. I can't understand why you did that. I've removed it to the end of the comment, as per the original intent. If you remove it, I'm going to start issuing warning against you. scope_creep^Talk 08:37, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi TechnoTalk. Sorry, that sounded a bit harsh. I never meant it to be. scope_creep^Talk 15:21, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Scope creep: I wanted the original poster to see the comment, but understand now that what I did was against the guidelines. Thanks for pointing it out and it won't happen again. TechnoTalk (talk) 23:50, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

TechnoTalk, use the following {{ping|<editor name>|label=<editor label>}} if you want to contact a person in the Afd discussion directly. For example @Scope creep: to ping me. That way the person will known you are contacting them directly. You can also use something like, for example: @Scope creep to directly address them in the comment. scope_creep^Talk 15:36, 26 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Hi TechnoTalk, I would like to thank you for your response of this question on the AFC help desk. It was much more detailed than my go look somewhere else answer and probably a lot more helpful. Thank you for your contributions and happy editing :D Justi yaya 18:46, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Justiyaya: My pleasure. I figured I'd save them some grief. TechnoTalk (talk) 19:18, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Contentsquare for deletion

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Nomination of Cambrian Biopharma for deletion

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July 2022

Hello TechnoTalk. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Otrium, 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 search-engine optimization.

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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:TechnoTalk. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=TechnoTalk|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. Largly due to the creation of a excessive number of spammy, low quality promo articles that are with junk references. They are all small private businesses. Many of them have deleted, some have csd'd, some have been drafted. Seems to be indication of a undeclared paid editor. scope_creep^Talk 15:11, 5 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Scope creep: I'm not a paid editor. I already told you numerous times why I'm creating articles. In my efforts as an AfC help desk volunteer, I'm trying to get access to the helper script so I can give feedback to editors on the declined article pages, instead of having to do it at the help desk page. You can also go to any RfA and see people get dinged for low article creation activity. The community can't require that articles be created in order to access editing tools and get greater status, and then blast people for creating articles. You can't have it both ways. TechnoTalk (talk) 19:10, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yip, you stated it. A couple of folk thought you were undeclared paid editor (UPE). Both of them came across your articles independently and came to the same conclusion, that you were getting paid and not declaring it. So I posted this notice and opened the coin notice. A lot of folk are looking at you, which is not the most salubrious experience, nor getting your articles deleted. I know how it feels. Its crap. Anyway, if you plan to stay the quality of the articles you write need to be better, with means better sourcing. No more churnalism, PR, routine notices, startup news that is promo, press-releases, and so on. Two people had said your not a paid editor, so its in the balance. If you create another article similar to the quality you have done before, you likely/possibly get indef'd blocked as a UPE. I'm not involved in that. I will be sending a few more of your articles to Afd in the meantime. I don't want to make any more comments on this. scope_creep^Talk 19:40, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yes we can have it both ways. Yes, RfA does typically require content creation -- of good articles with competent sourcing. TT, I will tell you right now that the articles you are creating would absolutely sink an RfA. Absolutely. Also admin tools aren't in any way meant to imply 'greater status' or some goal to achieve. I think 99% of well-intentioned experienced editors would agree that it's unfortunate that some folks think of them that way, actually. valereee (talk) 20:10, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also honestly, you shouldn't be giving people advice at AfC if you don't understand sourcing. It's the absolute #1 thing you need to learn before you create articles yourself, much less advise others, and you do not understand sourcing yet. valereee (talk) 20:56, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Valereee:, I know you didn't intend your statement to come across as insulting my volunteer contributions, but please take a look at my contributions to the AfC help desk and point out any that suggest I'm not competent to be giving advice. I'm frequently thanked by confused newcomers for my guidance. I feel I do understand sourcing, but I will take your criticism to heart to try to rethink the sources I use for articles. I want them to be bulletproof by consensus. My primary benchmark is the reliable sources noticeboard. If it's allowed there, I should be able to use it. I saw your source review at FabFitFun, an article that was recently nominated for deletion but voted a keep. Your review discounts any media coverage that appears to have been triggered by press releases. Very little business content on Wikipedia would survive that cruel pen. In practice it's more nuanced than that, especially when you have independent reporting and interviews to bolster the reporting based on a release. TechnoTalk (talk) 23:28, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

TT, no, press releases really cannot be used to support notability. Media that republishes them or rewrites them cannot be used to support notability. Press release can only be used with extreme caution even provide a citation for content after notability has been proven.

I think by discounts any media coverage that appears to have been triggered by press releases you mean that a press release might make an editor decide a story is worth covering, and assign a reporter, who investigates the story and writes an article from scratch rather than writing it from the press release and that the resulting story can be used to support notability, and this is true. But that's emphatically not what any of the PR stories you've been citing to have been. There is a huge difference between those two situations, and you do not understand that difference yet, and if you are giving advice at AfC help based on that misunderstanding, you are quite likely giving bad advice, whether another newbie thanks you for it or not.

If you haven't already, I'd suggest you enable Preferences>Gadgets>Nav Popups. It will allow you to hover over a username and see how much experience an editor has. When you find that you are arguing with multiple editors who are much, much, much more experienced than you, it's time to stop arguing and start listening. valereee (talk) 14:02, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Just repinging to make sure you saw this about the nav popups, it's really worth enabling for multiple reasons. You can always toggle it off if you don't like it, but I seriously use it constantly. valereee (talk) 17:36, 8 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Coin noticeboard Notice

@TechnoTalk: I'm opening a coin entry at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard. scope_creep^Talk 15:13, 5 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Orgain for deletion

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Indian Press

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Let's just say Indian Press is very difficult to determine what's reliable. Slywriter (talk) 01:26, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Slywriter: What I can see in English always seems to be over the top, especially the Bollywood star coverage we see. TechnoTalk (talk) 01:29, 7 July 2022 (UTC).[reply]

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Draft article review before AfC submission

Hello TechnoTalk, hope this finds you well. Previously you've mentioned that I can give you a ping for my draft article when ready. I have finished editing the draft now and would like to seek your advice and feedback, please. Thank you in advance for your help! Sincerely, ArgonautOfHistory (talk) 08:53, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Am I blocked because Timtempleton recreated the Contentsquare article I originally wrote? I had nothing to do with that, and only saw it when he pinged me. Can't you check IP addresses or something else?

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Highly likely sockpuppetry based on technical evidence, separate from whatever Blablubbs used for the block. Yamla (talk) 22:11, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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