Floriando

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DGG ( talk ) 09:20, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

About International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD))

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January 2022

Hello Floriando. The nature of your edits 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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Answer Dear 331dot, thanks for your concern. I am not a paid user and receive no compensation for this contribution. I am a former student of a master program at the center (GPED), and am doing this as a voluntary unpaid contribution. This is a research center working at a public university in the public interest, it is not a company promoting a product. I can look for further references as requested.

Thanks for your reply. If you are not paid, okay. Please understand that you don't have to be selling a product to be promoting something, as Wikipedia is not a place to merely tell about something. A Wikipedia article must summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage, and not mere reporting of the organization's activities or what it considers to be its mission- showing how it meets Wikipedia's special definition of a notable organization. 331dot (talk) 16:21, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying. I do think the ICDD meets the criteria for a a notable organization.

See:

• German Federal Ministry Article
• DAAD Article
• Presseportal Article
• * Pakistani Newspaper Article
• Euractiv Article

The director is of course mentioned in many more newspapers, which are way too many to list. Could you please support the moving ahead of the ICDD article? Floriando (talk) 19:16, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

You have submitted it for a review, I think some other eyes on it besides me would be helpful before it is placed in the encyclopedia. 331dot (talk) 20:46, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:International Center for Development and Decent Work

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 20:05, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:International Center for Development and Decent Work

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! Eternal Shadow Talk 19:55, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Dear @Eternal Shadow, I have addressed the unfounded concerns of 331dot (see above) and am very sad the article was simply deleted. I will do no further efforts to contribute to wikipedia if a single user can falsely accuse me and take the article offline. Floriando (talk) 08:44, 22 May 2023 (UTC)