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An article you recently created, Vulcain (watch company), does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Loksmythe (talk) 17:54, 8 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi Loksmythe. I will do so in an hour or so. I'm just adding citations now. SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 17:56, 8 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi again Loksmythe. I've just submitted with a plethora of citations. It would be great if you could have a look. Thanks! SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 18:23, 8 April 2020 (UTC)Reply


Hi Loksmythe, I've just made a couple of edits that I hope will remove the note about possible ad-like nature (such as the 'Watch of Presidents'). I've given it a re-read, and would like to note that much of Vulcain's history is steeped in their favour with US presidents and their history of gifting the watches to presidents (alongside their invention of the alarm-watch). Are there any other alterations you would suggest? Your help is much appreciated. Thanks SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 19:09, 8 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

+ I've also added some more reputable sources (such as Bloomberg [1] and Business Insider [2]. Here's another Bloomberg ([3]) and A German National newspaper ([4]). Most of the sources talking about the history say quite similar things, I have just added more news sources so as to not rely too heavily on a single source. Thanks 😃 SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 19:35, 8 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

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  1. ^ "Bloomberg - Are you a robot?". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2020-04-08. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  2. ^ Green, Dennis. "Almost every US president since the 1950s has received this watch at inauguration — and Trump may be the last". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
  3. ^ "Bloomberg - Are you a robot?". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2020-04-08. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  4. ^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "La Chaux-de-Fonds - City of watchmakers | DW | 11.09.2018". DW.COM. Retrieved 2020-04-08.

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Thanks for that, Yoninah. The image is currently being reviewed. I'll let you and Hdolf know when things are sorted. Thanks for your help. SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 20:42, 8 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Hi again Diannaa. Apologies for that – the file is OTRS pending. I'll add the tag. Thanks, SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 22:18, 13 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks for that BlueMoonset. I've been speaking to the photo author who's been going through the OTRS, and it seems that he's been having some timing issues. He hasn't received a response to an email reply he sent 5 days ago, and the process seems to be going in circles. Do you have any suggestions on how to get more engagement? I'm hoping to get the DYK through before I start college next week, at which point I'll have quite a bit less time to focus on it. Thanks, SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 11:36, 29 August 2020 (UTC)Reply
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DYK nomination of Robin Greenwood

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DYK for PeopleSound

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On 21 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article PeopleSound, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that PeopleSound was Europe's most visited music streaming site in 2000, and had offered any artist £100 for each song they uploaded? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/PeopleSound. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, PeopleSound), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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DYK nomination of Robin Greenwood

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DYK for Robin Greenwood

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On 10 March 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Robin Greenwood, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that economist Robin Greenwood's work has been used to suggest the bubble nature of Bitcoin and Tesla, Inc. valuations? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Robin Greenwood. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Robin Greenwood), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Edits to Baroness Joanna Shields page

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My name is Laura and I work for Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields, a baron, businessperson, and former British politician. The page about her was recently tagged for COI and advert issues due to some poor edits made years ago. I posted here regarding my desire to address the substance of the tags with a re-write or heavy trims, to remove the promotional content. I was hoping you might be willing to chime in on the proposed trims and/or the suggestion for a rewrite. Let me know. Best regards.~~~~ LauTad89 (talk) 07:59, 25 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Delta Phi

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Delta Phi does *not* prefer to use St. Elmo to the greek letters. Please bring up such a significant change on the talk page. I'm reverting. (Also, the image added is larger than any other similar image for a GLO.Naraht (talk) 17:16, 27 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, Naraht; I was just about to do the same. Mr. DeMiloni, over some years we have clarified and standardized our syntax for fraternity and sorority articles. This has been accomplished by a very active group of project editors. Project groups, often populated by editors that are knowledgeable about a particular subject, add value both by their tacit knowledge and their passion for a subject. Good project groups are consistent and not scattershot. Over several days you have offered edits to the Delta Phi article, only that one out of over 3,000 articles we track, all of which edits have been reverted. May I ask your connection with that group? I note you offer regular changes to articles relating to Sri Lanka. Because I don't know much about Sri Lanka, except for the fact that Arthur C. Clark lived there, I would defer to those, like you, who are more knowledgeable about that nation to make all but the most routine edits, such as the correction of typos. Fair? Jax MN (talk) 18:04, 27 September 2023 (UTC)Reply
Of course! Thank you for the kind input. I'd been reading several articles on the US educational system after going on a tangent on the University of Virginia, and thought I'd try cleaning up some articles. I saw the St. Anthony Hall article as a GA, and thought I'd try use that template. Of course, happy to make corrections with guidance. I'd note that the image I found seems to represent far better than the old image. SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 18:56, 27 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

Ways to improve Edgard & Cooper

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I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

Lots of sources with COIs and unreliable sources in references such as 1, 3, 16, 21... could use some trimming but likely notable per the non-english sources

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Thanks @Justiyaya. Might've relied a bit too much on those citations when researching. Will make the appropriate fixes. Many thanks, SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 17:22, 2 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
Hey @Justiyaya. Would be great to get your thoughts now; I've had a little run through. Thanks. SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 13:45, 4 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
Nicely done! Looking back I misidentified a few sources as being non-independent that were independent, sorry about that. Great improvements on the article and removing the ones that I haven't misidentified, thanks a lot for the fixes :D. In popular culture might work better with a sentence instead of a bullet point, but regardless nice work, happy editing! Justiyaya 14:39, 4 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the guidance @Justiyaya! Best, SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 16:02, 4 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Verlinvest moved to draftspace

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Your account has been blocked indefinitely for advertising or promotion and violating the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use. This is because you have been making promotional edits to topics in which you have a financial stake, yet you have failed to adhere to the mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a form of conflict of interest (COI) editing which involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is strictly prohibited. Using this site for advertising or promotion is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

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Request reason:

Your reason here I’ve been editing on Wikipedia since the end of 2017, age 12, and in that time have written pages on many of my interests – from History and South Asian Independence, to start-ups and tech. From watches to microbiology. The pages I have written have always been dictated by my interests, rather than the interests of others.

In this time writing, I’ve contributed heavily to Good Article reviews, with 9 if I remember right, and have written 2 Good Articles myself on interesting historical figures. These have been from scratch and features on the DYK section.

I’m also a student. A couple of months ago, a friend asked me to write a page for IFIT (which he is affiliated to). This was not done for payment. Being a university student, and naturally not having money, the friend suggested that for helping write this page, I could be introduced to three fellow nonprofits and could try asking for payment.

In reflection, I understand that this was a grave mistake. That I should not have proposed partaking in editing for payment for the three nonprofits. These pages were never built, and these conversations did not progress. It came from a misguided suggestion, and was wrong.

Aside from the edits made for IFIT, which were unpaid but done as a favour, I have *not* edited in a paid manner before. I have not received renumeration for my work, and I have edited on pages that pique my interest. Sometimes for very niche aspects.

I have made a grave error in entertaining the idea of paid editing, and for not disclosing helping IFIT build their page. For this, I heavily apologise. I have read the paid editing disclosure requirements, and now understand them fully.

Aside from IFIT, which was unpaid but with the suggested on payment from one of the three instructions, none of the pages I have written in the past have been paid editing. I am happy to walk page-by-page through every one of my edits since 2017 if this helps.

I apologise greatly for this conduct, and hope that my long 7 years of editing on Wikipedia, and on contributing to it, is not overshadowed by a broke student’s lapse in judgement. I have learned, and shall not make this lapse again. I hope I am given the opportunity to continue editing and contributing to the many Wikiprojects as I have before, and appreciate your time in this. SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 19:57, 2 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Decline reason:

Based on the private evidence available to functionaries, I'm not convinced that you're being entirely honest here or that you will be an asset to the encyclopedia if unblocked. Spicy (talk) 05:28, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply


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Recyclable nappies, probiotic yoghurt, a Tuscan winery, a Nigerian priest, a Chilean vegan food manufacturer – that's quite an eclectic range of interests for a teenager. I can't discuss the off-wiki evidence that led to this block here, to protect your own privacy as much as anything else, but I will say that it's very convincing. Your fastest route to an unblock is to be as forthright as possible. Paid editing is not strictly forbidden on Wikipedia, but undisclosed paid editing is, so you will remain blocked until we're convinced that you've disclosed all your clients and will abide by WP:PAID and WP:COI going forward. – Joe (talk) 21:33, 2 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Joe, Spicy. Yes, of course, please let me explain all. I feel really terrible about having been blocked, because Wiki editing has been a huge passion of mine for so many years, since childhood. I’m mortified, and very much hope that my openness and genuine remorse will allow me to redeem myself.

The pages I’ve written reflect many of the eclectic interests I have. For instance, Speidel and Vulcain were written in 2020 when my school classes were cancelled. I’m an avid watch collector, and had bought a Vulcain Cricket from the 50s, which came on a 50s Speidel band, on eBay. I got quite interested in the history of both, so I delved into writing their pages. I had little else to do.

Other pages like ZF Sachs were written by transcribing from German language pages. Here, a relative worked for the company in the 1800s, and the company had been defunct for a decade or so I believe.

Lots of the startup company edits seem a bit more sporadic, but I did an unpaid internship at a venture capital fund called the Craftory a few years ago (where my dad works). I wrote pages around startups I met there in my spare time because I was quite interested in their work, and because writing these pages allowed me to connect to a couple of founders after I’d written their pages. I found that it allowed me a pretty unique opportunity to connect with interesting people I’d never get to connect with otherwise. The only payment I received from the Craftory after I wrote their page, and only after telling them I had written it, was a baseball cap, and nothing else. A couple of the startups, specifically Dyper and Edgard & Cooper did send me a few hundred pounds each as token appreciation, but only after meeting the founders, after writing the page. I’m just a student, and I made the mistake of accepting these thank-yous without disclosing the pages as “paid work”, because I just didn’t think of them as such because I hadn’t gone out soliciting the work commercially. That was nevertheless the wrong thing to have done, and I’m sorry for that.

The Nigerian priest is the pastor of a friend in his London ‘flock’. My friend knows about my wiki hobby, and he asked me as a favour to try build his pastor a page. I created a stub from what seemed notable in 10 mins and left it there. Most of what’s there now wasn’t my work. The winery is one that my grandparents used to own, but that I haven’t been back to since the early 2010s. New owners expanded quite a bit since, and I thought the winery was noteworthy of a page, so I wrote one. I didn’t get paid for this.

I haven’t written pages with input except for a couple of professors, who I’d reached out to in order to better understand their work, especially for rather complex things like microbiology. Lots of the microbiology profs just came out of interest after writing the page on Seed and meeting its founders (the probiotic company).

I think the work that verges closest to solicited paid work was the page for IFIT. A college friend reached out, asking if his father could ask me a couple of questions about Wikipedia. His father runs the institute, and asked me if I could help him write a page. He noted that, as a charity, they don’t have much money, but that he might be able to help me make some money from my writing if I could help out. They’d been looking into some sort of page writing services, but suggested that if I could write the page, I could be introduced to some of their partners who could pay.

The page was sufficiently notable, and the opportunity to earn some money was quite motivating. I wrote the page, and then IFIT helped me write a brochure for a wiki writing service using other pages I’d written in the past as examples. They introduced me to three of their partners in the foundation space, and I made the mistake of trying to solicit paid editing. I deeply apologise here. This was a mistake, and I now clearly see this.

I’m hugely proud of my body of work for Wiki, and I have met some fascinating people as a result of my editing. I would be absolutely crestfallen if my mistake in not managing paid work properly would preclude me from continuing to contribute to Wiki, and being part of the Wiki editing family, especially with my wide range of pages from Boris Skossyreff to Leslie Goonewardene. I have very much understood my mistake, and hope that my contrition might persuade you to give me a second chance. Yours hopefully. SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 07:19, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the honesty, but basically what you're saying is that almost every single article you have created over the past six years involved a COI, some of them financial COIs. And not only did you not disclose any of this or follow any of the guidelines given in WP:COI, you actively denied them when challenged. That is nothing to be proud of and not encouraging. If you want to make another unblock request then it's not up to me whether to accept it, but I would be worried that you continue to see Wikipedia as a professional networking opportunity. – Joe (talk) 07:35, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Also, I don't want to out you here (and please be careful about what you disclose yourself – connecting dots is not hard), but if I have correctly deduced from the above who your father is, then you have also made direct, undisclosed edits to articles about him, his companies, and other members of your family. Frankly, there's nothing eclectic about your editing at all: scratch the surface and it all comes back to promoting your family business. – Joe (talk) 07:43, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Please don’t be harsh. I’ve written over 100 pages on a huge range of topics, none of which involved any conflicts of interest, or payment. As per your request, I’ve diligently listed every single page where a conflict might have been deemed to be in place - it’s 6 in total. Writing about deceased relatives shouldn't be relevant I thought - most of these pages have been translated and expanded from other language Wikis, and are both notable and well cited. My defence is that I genuinely didn’t solicit writing for any fee up until the IFIT page, and the 2 modest thank-yous I received from the startups felt like pocket money rather than payment. I also always adhered to the strict editorial rules, with fairly balanced notable pages in everything I have written, and none of the pages were fluff pieces. I have learned from my mistake, and I assure you it won’t happen again. It's a learning process, I understand that, but it'd be devastating to have something that's such a large part of my life removed without having been warned before. Please give me a chance. SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 08:32, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
As a disinterested observer, I don't have any problems with SerAntoni's work. He's been diplomatic, open to criticism, and responsive. Cut him a break. Jax MN (talk) 21:40, 3 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Unfortunately the Wikimedia Terms of Use does have a problem with his work, and that is not something we can wave away. – Joe (talk) 08:35, 4 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
I'm sorry but you have not been adhering to the rules. You're mistaken if you think that writing about your relatives, people and organisations you work with, or want to work with, is not a conflict of interest. You're mistaken if you think transactions involving "a few hundred pounds" ("pocket money"?) don't count as paid editing. You should not have touched any of these pages. If you insisted on doing so, you should have followed the guidelines at WP:COIEDIT, including prior disclosure and refraining from direct edits. I'm sorry if you think I'm being harsh, but I'm telling you this because you seem to want to return to editing and you will need to understand these rules and commit to following them if that is to happen. – Joe (talk) 08:33, 4 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
I have fully understood. I was young when I started, I hadn’t read the rules, and made an error.
I’ve now understood very clearly what constitutes paid editing, and that I should stay far clear from accepting any thanks or rewards, and that I will never again even go close to anything that could be deemed a COI, for which the definition I have now read and clearly understood. It’s black and white for me now, and that’s how I’ll keep it. SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 08:59, 4 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hi @Joe Roe. I’ve 100% understood the errors I made, and I now fully understand how I need to navigate these. I will be glad to add any and all required disclosures to the handful of pages relevant, now that I am aware how to manage this. Given my passion for wikipedia editing, and my large body of faultless work compared to the few mistakes I made, I would be greatly appreciative if I could be given the opportunity to make amends here? Is there a path forward? Cheers. SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 16:09, 7 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
You need to make a new unblock request, as you did above. For fairness, it's another admin that decides, not me – I'll defer to whatever they say. – Joe (talk) 07:39, 8 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
 
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Request reason:

I’m submitting this unblock request after a long and very helpful discussion with Joe Roe on my talk page. Reading through it might provide some helpful background to my request.

I’ve understood very clearly the mistake I made in soliciting paid editing, and those I made regarding conflicts of interest. I was just 13 when I started my Wikipedia editing journey, I hadn’t properly read the rules, and I made an error. The handful of contentious pages were a mistake, and a misunderstanding on my part of what paid editing and COI management constituted. I’ve now understood what I did wrong, and it won’t happen again.

I’ve been editing on Wikipedia for a long time now. I’ve published over 100 well-researched and impeccably written pages, and had a set of good-articles too. I would be greatly appreciative if I were given the opportunity to make amends here. I understand where I have erred, and I hope my mistakes and misunderstandings on these handful of pages do not counter the many well-cited pages that I have poured thousands of hours into. I understand the rules like black-and-white now, and that’s how I’ll keep it. SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 22:03, 12 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Decline reason:

Your wikilawyering above about how you don't actually have any COIs and haven't really been paid lead me think that you can't be trusted. If your interpretations of policy are that loose, you're unlikely to follow our policies. And if you think there's nothing wrong with the articles you've been creating, you're likely to continue making them without any disclosure. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 20:33, 15 July 2024 (UTC)Reply


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@NinjaRobotPirate Not sure if my message came off entirely right. My intention was to emphasise that I have understood where I have gone wrong here. That I absolutely do understand that paid editing is detrimental to a what Wikipedia tries to be. That I understand the mistake I’ve made with going down that path, and that I will not stray down that path again. That I’d like to add conflict notices to the pages that are contentious, because this editing is now black and white to me.
I’ve volunteered thousands of hours in the past, and written a very broad range of pages. I’ve got quite a lot of them on my user page – a testament to the pride I have in this work. I’m trying to counter this block not with malicious intentions, but because I still feel I have much more to add. Please give me another chance. I've learned from my mistakes.SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 08:06, 16 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
@NinjaRobotPirate – just wanted to see if you've seen my message. Thanks. SerAntoniDeMiloni (talk) 14:13, 19 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

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