User talk:Quodprod

May 2022

Hello Quodprod. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to COVID-19 vaccine card, 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:Quodprod. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Quodprod|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. MrOllie (talk) 14:35, 19 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

As previously advised, your edits give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Quodprod, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Quodprod|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. MrOllie (talk) 16:07, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You still have not adequately responded or taken action to the inquiry regarding your appearance as an undisclosed paid editor. If you make any additional edits without complying, you may be blocked from editing. MrOllie (talk) 18:29, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Quodprod (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not an open proxy. My IP address is 154.160.2.144. I am using an MTN internet service (former name: "Scancom"). MTN is by far the largest internet service provider in our region. If you are blocking everyone using MTN as their service provider by default then you are excluding millions of contributors to Wikipedia from Africa, which would be extremely discriminatory and completely at variance with the open and progressive values of Wikipedia. Thank you. Quodprod (talk) 16:17, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion nomination of PanaBIOS

A tag has been placed on PanaBIOS requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Wikipedia, Help, or Portal namespaces.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Happy Editing--IAm Chaos 16:04, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

For the record your draft is now located at Draft:PanaBIOS instead of the userpage of the nonexistent user User:PanaBIOS. Happy Editing--IAm Chaos 16:05, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dear IAmChaos, I notice that the speedy deletion notice on PanaBIOS has not been released. This is rather unfair as this is a highly notable initiative supported and deployed by both the African Union and the UNDP. In fact, of services and platforms in that category, it is the most prominent African-focused initiative. That alone makes it extremely notable and deserving of encyclopaedic documentation and memorialisation. Nothing that I wrote about the initiative was promotional or even remotely advertorial. The information was rigorously sourced and presented in a factual and unbiased manner to educate readers about a truly important initiative with broad intergovernmental and governmental support across many major countries. I do not understand how you could just delete the article without carefully perusing the sources to establish from the source material the notability and relevance of the subject matter. Kindly review your stance on this matter and outline clearly what content in the proposed article is not sufficiently neutral or appears promotional. As a frequent traveller and an African, I consider this initiative to be the most notable one in a vast continent and one that deserves a place on Wikipedia. To the extent that it is not a commercial initiative, I cannot relate to the point about me being a "paid editor". What could have given you the impression that anyone would pay for this subject matter to be documented here? I find the suggestion conclusory and very problematic. I notice with disquiet that all the coverage about digital COVID passes on Wikipedia are centered on the Global North, especially the West. If you are hastily deleting any pages that talks about initiatives on other continents, then it doesn't surprise me that important developments on other continents around the world are simply being denied representation here. My humble view is that this is wholly in conflict with Wikipedia's universal values as championed by Jimmy and being taken forward by Maryana Quodprod (talk) 20:50, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of PanaBIOS

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A tag has been placed on PanaBIOS, 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.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. PRAXIDICAE💕 16:35, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Praxidicae, I notice that the speedy deletion notice on PanaBIOS has not been released. This is rather unfair as this is a highly notable initiative supported and deployed by both the African Union and the UNDP. In fact, of services and platforms in that category, it is the most prominent African-focused initiative. That alone makes it extremely notable and deserving of encyclopaedic documentation and memorialisation. Nothing that I wrote about the initiative was promotional or even remotely advertorial. The information was rigorously sourced and presented in a factual and unbiased manner to educate readers about a truly important initiative with broad intergovernmental and governmental support across many major countries. I do not understand how you could just delete the article without carefully perusing the sources to establish from the source material the notability and relevance of the subject matter. Kindly review your stance on this matter and outline clearly what content in the proposed article is not sufficiently neutral or appears promotional. As a frequent traveller and an African, I consider this initiative to be the most notable one in a vast continent and one that deserves a place on Wikipedia. To the extent that it is not a commercial initiative, I cannot relate to the point about me being a "paid editor". What could have given you the impression that anyone would pay for this subject matter to be documented here? I find the suggestion conclusory and very problematic. I notice with disquiet that all the coverage about digital COVID passes on Wikipedia are centered on the Global North, especially the West. If you are hastily deleting any pages that talks about initiatives on other continents, then it doesn't surprise me that important developments on other continents around the world are simply being denied representation here. My humble view is that this is wholly in conflict with Wikipedia's universal values as championed by Jimmy and being taken forward by Maryana Quodprod (talk) 20:50, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of PanaBIOS (African Union)

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on PanaBIOS (African Union), 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.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. PRAXIDICAE💕 18:17, 23 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Praxidicae, I notice that the speedy deletion notice on PanaBIOS has not been released. This is rather unfair as this is a highly notable initiative supported and deployed by both the African Union and the UNDP. In fact, of services and platforms in that category, it is the most prominent African-focused initiative. That alone makes it extremely notable and deserving of encyclopaedic documentation and memorialisation. Nothing that I wrote about the initiative was promotional or even remotely advertorial. The information was rigorously sourced and presented in a factual and unbiased manner to educate readers about a truly important initiative with broad intergovernmental and governmental support across many major countries. I do not understand how you could just delete the article without carefully perusing the sources to establish from the source material the notability and relevance of the subject matter. Kindly review your stance on this matter and outline clearly what content in the proposed article is not sufficiently neutral or appears promotional. As a frequent traveller and an African, I consider this initiative to be the most notable one in a vast continent and one that deserves a place on Wikipedia. To the extent that it is not a commercial initiative, I cannot relate to the point about me being a "paid editor". What could have given you the impression that anyone would pay for this subject matter to be documented here? I find the suggestion conclusory and very problematic. I notice with disquiet that all the coverage about digital COVID passes on Wikipedia are centered on the Global North, especially the West. If you are hastily deleting any pages that talks about initiatives on other continents, then it doesn't surprise me that important developments on other continents around the world are simply being denied representation here. My humble view is that this is wholly in conflict with Wikipedia's universal values as championed by Jimmy and being taken forward by Maryana. Quodprod (talk) 16:29, 27 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]