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pls see Infrastructure of Lesotho--Moxy (talk) 07:24, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Ryan choura

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A tag has been placed on Ryan choura, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.

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July 2023

Hello Jewwroo. 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.

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:Jewwroo. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Jewwroo|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. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 04:45, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Hello Seraphimblade, I am a recent graduate of Long Beach State. Go Beach. Previously this year I had a chance to attend the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. While I was attending I had briefly met Ryan Choura, who is the founder of Choura Events, the company responsible for setting up the entire event. I found the interaction very inspiring and I wanted to make a page about him and his company, Choura Events. I am in NO way associated or am being paid by Ryan Choura and his affiliates to make these pages. It is strictly out of passion and interest. I apologize if the Wikipedia article sounded like a paid advertisement. I was just paraphrasing the sources I used, which could explain why it sounded like a paid advertisement. I am in no way again, being compensated. I just want to make these pages to the best of my ability. I would like the chance to rewrite the article with a more encyclopedic tone. I again apologize, when I originally wrote the article and edited it, it sounded fine to me. However, after re-reading Wikipedia's Policies and Guidelines, I can see where I was mistaken. Please consider this a lesson learned on my behalf as I haven't drafted a new article since before 2020. Please let me know if I can continue forward building my repertoire of articles and edits on my Wikipedia journey. Jewwroo (talk) 22:02, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

That works then. You'd still be allowed to edit even if you were being paid, you'd just have to disclose it properly and follow the rules for that. Since you're not, that's of course not at issue. That said, I (and most other editors) do not generally recommend that newer editors start out by creating a whole new article, as that's one of the more difficult things to do well. You will certainly need to understand what we mean by neutrality (stick to facts from your sources, don't editorialize about them, don't use fluffy adjectives to "talk up", etc.), and notability (that one especially has a different meaning here than you may think at first blush—it doesn't mean you think it's "worthy of note", per se, but rather that there is a substantial quantity of reliable and independent published material which is directly about the article's subject). In the case of the Choura article, you used five sources. One was a video interview from "Southbay", and as an interview is the subject talking about themself, it is not an independent source. The second is from "Holly Shannon", which appears to be a personal website or blog, so is not reliable. The third is from Rolling Stone, which is generally considered reliable for cultural material like that, but the article is primarily about his company, not about him. The fourth is from the Los Angeles Business Journal, which is reasonably reliable when it comes to stuff about business, but, again—primarily about the company, not him directly. The same for the fifth one from Long Beach Post. So it might even be possible that the company is notable (though, due to the potential for abuse, articles on companies and organizations are subject to some additional requirements, and in practice face pretty heavy scrutiny), but I don't see anything really showing that he, as an individual, is. But, again, I wouldn't jump right in the deep end trying to make a whole new article about a company either; that's something you'd really want some experience under your belt before you give it a shot. So maybe find some existing articles you could edit on some things you're interested in, and you also always have the option of using the draft and articles for creation process the first time you do decide to try creating a new article out, so you'd have some breathing room to correct any mistakes. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 22:28, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Choura Events (July 19)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Robert McClenon were:  The comment the reviewer left was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

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Robert McClenon (talk) 16:37, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Hello, Jewwroo! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! Robert McClenon (talk) 16:37, 19 July 2023 (UTC)