User talk:Smithenbo103

March 2022

Hello Smithenbo103. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Ritchelli Rodriguez, 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.

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:Smithenbo103. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Smithenbo103|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. Kuru (talk) 14:36, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Please do not move the article out of drat again; it will likely be deleted outright. You must provide actual reliable sources for your client/friend. Kuru (talk) 14:36, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

You are mistaken Kuru. This isn't a paid article, just a personal project of mine. I was also trying to learn how to use the sandbox feature properly. I will make the edits by tomorrow If I can scout them tomorrow. Thank you! Smithenbo103 (talk) 14:45, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Mind checking out the Article now? Thanks! Smithenbo103 (talk) 05:46, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

It is absolutely mandatory that you use high quality reliable sources for every claim. This means avoiding self-published or paid published puffery like press releases or SEO garbage. Note the the subject has engaged with a particularly amateurish PR firm, which is propagating material to a number of fake SEO "news sites" and blogs; that's going to make this more difficult. You've also misread one poorly written article and credited the subject with winning a Grammy. Please be more cautious when writing biographies and carefully evaluate your sources. Kuru (talk) 13:04, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

I can also see the hits to the spam blacklist. Those are some pretty blatant and fake SEO dumps. I think it might be a good idea to maybe find another topic to edit in; I'm not sure you're going to be able to discern factual sourcing in a case like this. Kuru (talk) 14:14, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

If I remove all those amateurish articles, and leave the actual facts such as music, where hes from, and so on, will that be a valid submission? I always wanted to make a Wikipedia article on someone, has been on my bucketlist when I was 10 using wikipedia for my homework. I figured he was an easy submission, i'm willing to learn more. The figure is verified on social medias, has a subscriber base of 500,000+ and does Entrepreneurial work according to some other articles I found, (but when I tried to add them, it kept saying the link was blacklisted (such as thriveglobal.com)

What should I do kuru? Smithenbo103 (talk) 21:50, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Find a different topic. Those links are blacklisted for the same reason I've outlined above. Kuru (talk) 03:27, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

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Concern regarding Draft:Ritchelli Rodriguez

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 02:03, 21 August 2022 (UTC)