User talk:I'm Tony Ahn/Archive

Confirmed

Hey, I noticed you created this alternate account, so I've gone ahead and given it confirmed status - that should help speed up the initial setup. Cheers, m.o.p 06:17, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 06:20, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Hello Tony

I read your page on PR professionals editing, and it seems like a sincere and transparent attempt to discuss some important issues. I am not a PR pro, but have gotten involved with Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Editing in an an attempt to convey the attitudes and concerns of committed editors. I believe that the quality of the edits is what should be judged, rather than the pay stubs of the editors. However, I believe that COI is a real concern, and that behavioral standards including frank disclosure, are important to maintaining the integrity of the project. When it comes to disclosure, you seem to meet the standard very well. I look forward to an in-depth discussion. 174.234.4.22 (talk) 03:08, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for writing! Thanks for your kind words. Where should we have this discussion? How should I contact you? I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 03:23, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia and PR

Hello there, Tony. I recently came across your essay about PR engagement of Wikipedia, and there's a lot I liked about it. I too represent clients on Wikipedia, and this is also my secondary account, siloing the fun from the profit. Sounds like your approach is very much along the same lines, and I'd like to point you in the direction of some related efforts which have started just since the first of the year:

• WikiProject Cooperation, and more specifically its Paid Editor Help page
• Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement (CREWE) on Facebook

Looking at your Talk page, I see that someone mentioned CREWE to you recently, but didn't provide a proper link. So I hope this helps, and I hope you consider joining up. Cheers, WWB Too (talk) 14:00, 22 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the invite. I joined CREWE last month, and I'm aware of Wikiproject Cooperation. I've been pursuing a solution to the issue independently for a few months now, and have buy-in from several important stakeholders. Will be able to share quite soon how that's going. Hope to chat more soon, when I have something to report. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 16:41, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Rajo

Hi Tony. My opinion is that the Rajo biography is notable in Wikipedia terms. I feel like the paragraph that begins "In 2008" needs to be sourced out, or severely trimmed if all that material can not be found in published sources. You should attempt to identify his place of birth, occupation of his parents, and locate the high school he attended. I've made a few tweaks. It still has a somewhat promotional flavor and I'd advise another set of eyes to tweak things before the article is moved to mainspace. Best regards, —Tim //// Carrite (talk) 23:47, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I've been working on place of birth and occupation of his parents, no luck. However, I found that his high school has a Wikipedia entry, so I Wikilinked and added the location. Also took out that paragraph you mentioned. It isn't super integral to the article anyway. Thanks for your suggestions! I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 00:20, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Moved

I moved your request here so others will be more likely to see it. And i've left a response. Silverseren^C 00:12, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Hey thanks! Will respond there. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 00:20, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Left a question for you there. Silverseren^C 01:08, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Article move completed

The article is now at Rajo Laurel. Now all you need to do is add some categories and it should be good to go.

By the way, are you okay with this being submitted to Did You Know? I can go and do the nomination for you and all of that. I would just need you to let me know if there's a hook sentence that you'd prefer. Or I can just make one up myself. Silverseren^C 20:46, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

I'd love a DYK submission actually, thanks! No preference for the hook. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 20:52, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Nomination done

You can keep an eye on it here. Silverseren^C 02:54, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks so much! I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 05:14, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Local Splash

Don't really see anything there adding up to notability. Ninety employees, tiny revenues, "coverage" consisting of rankings in the "Top 5,000"; just not much there. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:04, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your assessment. I've been telling them they need more press. I'll keep this in my sandbox until that happens. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 22:04, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, looking over the sources that exist, they are all invariably Business Wire or Market Wire, which means they are press releases. I'm not finding any true independent coverage. Silverseren^C 02:16, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Appreciate your review, thanks! I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 02:19, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Rajo Laurel

Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:06, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Local Splash

Hi Tony, What is it that you do to get paid to edit pages? From the best of my understanding my boss might have traded some SEO services for a Wikipage and had me write the page. What's the best way to disclose this? I don't appreciate what you said, as I know nothing of what Local Splash might have said to you. I'm merely following orders in maintaining this page's integrity and articles for creation states nothing of how many indices or how deep they have to be to establish notability. Additionally, any other edits I've made have also been as a request of my boss as well. JeffBordeaux (talk) 06:09, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Answered most of these questions on the AfD page. In response to you not appreciating this, I'll invoke Ignorantia juris non excusat. In addition, I assume your job pays you a salary. If that's the case, the time you spend writing a Wikipedia article, you're being paid. Here at Wikipedia, that puts you in the category of "paid editor" which has specific guidelines and rules. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 00:26, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Ingrid Chua-Go

Harrias ^talk 00:02, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Rembrandt Flores

My review of Rembrandt Flores was very cursory. I just confirmed that it would likely pass an WP:AFD challenge. I did not really do a quality review. My review was probably more cursory than even a DYK review. No need to return the favor. However, I see you are a GOCE member. I have a lot of articles that have can use a GOCE review. Are you a sports fan?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:32, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Not really, but that doesn't matter. I'm happy to help out. Point me to one. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 05:36, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

OKBot

Hello, Tony. You can add the website you want covered into this page.--OsamaK (talk) 14:06, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Rembrandt Flores

Allen3 ^talk 00:29, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: The Stratford Residences (November 2)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Xander Angeles (November 2)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: When in Manila (November 2)

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Your submission at AfC Xander Angeles was accepted

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When In Manila

I've replied on my talk page regarding Xander Angeles and When In Manila. I've also submitted the When In Manila article to AfD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/When In Manila, which you are welcome to contribute to. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 12:03, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Tim Yap

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DYK for Tim Yap

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April blitz wrap-up and May copyediting drive invitation

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Your draft article, Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/When in Manila

Hello I'm Tony Ahn. It has been over six months since you last edited your WP:AFC draft article submission, entitled "When in Manila".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 13:39, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi, thanks. The article passed AfC and is up, so no worries. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 09:15, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

GOCE June 2014 newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors May 2014 backlog elimination drive wrap-up Participation: Thanks to all who participated! Out of 51 people who signed up this drive, 33 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: We reduced our article backlog from 2,987 articles to 2,236 articles in May, the lowest backlog total since we began keeping records in 2009! Since at least 300 new articles were tagged during May, that means we copy edited over 1,000 articles in a single month. Amazing work, everyone! Blitz: The June blitz will run from June 15–21. This blitz's theme is Politics. Sign up here. Election: You can nominate yourself or others for the role of Coordinator for the second half of 2014 here. Nominations will be accepted until June 14. Voting will begin on June 15 and will conclude on June 28. Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list. Newsletter delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:27, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Talkback

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GOCE July 2014 newsletter

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Staff Virtual

Hi Tony. I'm requesting your page be moved to draft space, which is where we typically handle requests of the sort you made. I have a potential conflict of interest so I am not moving it myself but this should get the attention of uninvolved editors. You can also speed things up by putting {{AfC submission}} at the top of your page and deleting the edit request from its talkpage, and it should get handled faster from that template. Edit requests are really backlogged, but articles for creation are only a little backlogged! Frieda Beamy (talk) 19:49, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, but I prefer the system I've set up and been using, which isn't violating any rules. Unless you're acceding to a request (and in this case the request was to move an article to mainspace, not draft space), please don't remove things from my userspace without asking me first. Further, you've now caused the article to be re-date stamped so it is listed at the top of the queue again. I have put it back where I want it and will request speedy deletion in the draft space. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 22:58, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

I apologize, Tony. I was trying to get additional attention for the article, as I would not be qualified either to move to mainspace or to flag the article as nonnotable. To fix the datestamp technically, you can drop the speedy deletion and ask for the page to be moved back instead. Or you can use {{AfC submission}}, use the old timestamp for the ts variable, and then explain why it was backdated (I'll vouch for that). AFC gets faster replies than edit requests. Frieda Beamy (talk) 23:54, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

What is your COI with the subject of the article? I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 23:57, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

I have just answered that generally on my disclosure page. I also said at WP:PAIDHELP (section "Assisting with queues") that I am staying away from direct involvement with requests from other PR types but I hope my indirect involvement has been useful as the draft did get more attention. If User:Wilipino does not respond you can always go back to requested moves. You can also comment on datestamps here. Frieda Beamy (talk) 18:16, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

GOCE July drive and August blitz

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GOCE coordinator elections

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December 2014 GOCE newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors December 2014 Newsletter Drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in November's Backlog Elimination Drive. Of the 43 people who signed up for this drive, 26 copy edited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: The November Drive removed 26 requests from the Requests page and 509 articles from the {{copy edit}} backlog. We copy edited 83 articles tagged in the target months; July, August, and September 2013. Together with tag removals from articles unsuitable for copy editing, we eliminated July 2013 from the backlog and reduced August and September's tags to 61 and 70 respectively. As of 01:01, 1 December 2014 (UTC), the backlog stood at 1,974 articles, dipping below 2,000 for the first time in the Guild's history (see graph at right). Well done everyone! Blitz: The December Blitz will run from December 14–20 and will focus on articles related to Religion, in recognition of this month's religious holidays in much of the English-speaking world. Awards will be given out to everyone who copy edits at least one of the target articles. Sign up here! Election time again: The election of coordinators to serve from 1 January to 30 June 2015 is now underway. Candidates can nominate themselves or others from December 01, 00:01 (UTC), until December 15, 23:59. The voting period will run from December 16, 00:01 (UTC), until December 31, 23:59. You can read about coordinators' duties here. Please consider getting involved and remember to cast you vote—it's your Guild and it doesn't organize itself! Thank you all once again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve anything without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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February 2015 GOCE newsletter

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April 2015 GOCE newsletter

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GOCE June 2015 newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors 2015 End of Year Report

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Guild of Copy Editors April 2016 Newsletter

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June 2016 Guild of Copy Editors Newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors June 2016 News Hello everyone, welcome to the June 2016 GOCE newsletter. It's been a few months since we sent one out; we hope y'all haven't forgotten about the Guild! Your coordinators have been busy behind the scenes as usual, though real life has a habit of reducing our personal wiki-time. The May backlog reduction drive, the usual coordinating tasks and preparations for the June election are keeping us on our toes! May drive: Thanks to everyone who participated in last month's record-setting backlog reduction drive. Of the 29 people who signed up, 16 copyedited at least one article, 197 copyedits were recorded on the drive page, and the copyedit backlog fell below 1,500 for the first time! Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz will occur from 12 June through 18 June; the themes will be video games and Asian geography. Coordinator elections: It's election time again; how quickly they seem to roll around! Nominations for the next tranche of Guild coordinators, who will serve a six-month term that begins at 00:01 UTC on 1 July and ends at 23:59 UTC on 31 December, opens at 00:01 UTC on 1 June and closes at 23:59 UTC on 15 June. Voting takes place between 00:01 UTC on 16 June and 23:59 UTC on 30 June. If you'd like to assist behind the scenes, please consider stepping forward; self-nominations are welcomed and encouraged. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; remember it's your Guild, and it doesn't run itself! Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Miniapolis and Baffle gab1978. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors July 2016 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the July 2016 GOCE newsletter. June Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 12 through 18 June; the themes were video games and Asian geography. Of the 18 editors who signed up, 11 removed 47 articles from the backlog. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. Coordinator elections: The second tranche of Guild coordinators for 2016, who will serve a six-month term until 23:59 UTC on 31 December, have been elected. Jonesey95 remains as your drama-free Lead Coordinator, and Corinne and Tdslk are your new assistant coordinators. For her long service to the Guild, Miniapolis has been enrolled in the GOCE Hall of Fame. Thanks to everyone who voted in the election; our next scheduled one occurs in December 2016. All Wikipedia editors in good standing are eligible; self-nominations are welcome and encouraged. July Drive: Our month-long July Copy Editing Backlog Elimination Drive is now underway. Our aim is to remove articles tagged for copy-edit in April, May and June 2015, and to complete all requests on the GOCE Requests page from June 2016. The drive ends at 23:59 on 31 July 2016 (UTC). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdlsk. >>> Sign up for the July Drive! <<<

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Proposed deletion of Martin Shirran

The article Martin Shirran has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (biographies) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back. Thank you. This proposed deletion was started by User:Piotrus

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 20:47, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Martin Shirran for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Martin Shirran is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Martin Shirran until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 15:31, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject assessment tags for talk pages

Thank you for your recent articles, including John Lemp, which I read with interest. When you create a new article, can you add the WikiProject assessment templates to the talk of that article? See the talk page of the article I mentioned for an example of what I mean. Usually it is very simple, you just add something like {{WikiProject Keyword}} to the article's talk, with keyword replaced by the associated WikiProject (ex. if it's a biography article, you would use WikiProject Biography; if it's a United States article, you would use WikiProject United States, and so on). You do not have to rate the article if you do not want to, others will do it eventually. Those templates are very useful, as they bring the articles to a WikiProject attention, and allow them to start tracking the articles through Wikipedia:Article alerts and other tools. For example, WikiProject Poland relies on such templates to generate listings such as Article Alerts, Popular Pages, Quality and Importance Matrix and the Cleanup Listing. Thanks to them, WikiProject members are more easily able to defend your work from deletion, or simply help try to improve it further. Feel free to ask me any questions if you'd like more information about using those talk page templates. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:33, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

That would require me to figure out which Wikiprojects are associated with each article, something I know little about. Wikipedia, being the encyclopedia anyone can edit, has other editors more capable than I of selecting and adding the appropriate Wikiproject. Thanks for adding them to John Lemp's article. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 18:49, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Nomination of Lisa Tenner for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Lisa Tenner is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lisa Tenner until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:40, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Help!

I've lost access to my alternate account. The email address associated with it is no longer valid and I can't remember the password. However the account (User:Noraft) clearly identifies this account (User:I'm Tony Ahn) as being owned by the same person. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 08:10, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

If I'm correct, there is no possible way to recover a lost password without an email. — Music1201 ^talk 00:15, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Tony Ahn, I've been reading Logging in:What if I forget the password?, and it looks like perhaps you should be posting this at WP:AN. If there is a way to recover your alternate account, they should be able to help there. — Maile (talk) 14:25, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Horse Races Now

The article Horse Races Now has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (software) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back. Thank you. This proposed deletion was started by User:Piotrus

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:04, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

John Lemp

I think he is notable, but you forgot categories. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 18:21, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

I didn't forget anything, as it isn't my responsibility to add anything to Wikipedia, the encyclopedia anyone can edit. If you think he belongs in categories, add him to some. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 19:01, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Staff Virtual

The article Staff Virtual has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

The coverage (references, external links, etc.) does not seem sufficient to justify this article passing Wikipedia:General notability guideline and the more detailed Wikipedia:Notability (companies) requirement. If you disagree and deprod this, please explain how it meets them on the talk page in the form of "This article meets criteria A and B because..." and ping me back. Thank you. This proposed deletion was started by User:Piotrus

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:47, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 00:32, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Paid editing inquiry

Hello I'm Tony Ahn. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic. 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a black hat practice.

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, and if it does not, 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, 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:I'm Tony Ahn. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=I'm Tony Ahn|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. If you are being compensated, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message.

Please disclose all articles which you previously or currently acted as a paid editor. Your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lisa Tenner prompted this inquiry. You should also fill out and add {{connected contributor (paid)}} on the talk pages of those articles. Thank you. Jbh^Talk 02:11, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

I never edited Lisa Tenner in mainspace. I wrote the article in userspace, and an independent third party moved it to mainspace. Then I added a photo. You will see that my required disclosure is prominently listed at the top of my user page, and it has been there for years. All edits from this account can be considered paid edits, as I use a different account for my personal work. This disclosure/paid account system is outlined in the essay that is wikilinked to my disclosure and was developed with input from a member of the Wikimedia Foundation, a member of the Arbitration Committee, and a veteran administrator. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 03:05, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, however the ToU now, and for a while has required the disclosure of individual clients ie who you are working for and on whose behalf the edits are being made. In the case of being hired by an individual to work on their page the two would be the same thing however if, for instance, you were hired by an intermediary firm to work on a subject's article both the subject and intermediary would need to be disclosed.

It does not matter whether you work on the article in draft space, user space or, against WP:COI best practices in main space. (On a quick look I see you started John Lemp and edited Kenneth McPeek, United Laboratories and others in Main space without disclosure) The disclosures must be made and maintained. I understand it may be an annoyance to do so but the purpose of the WP:PAID disclosure rules are to allow other editors and interested readers to know what articles were created or "managed" by PR professionals without having to, for instance, go through your edit history.

Again, thank you for your forthright disclosure that you are a paid PR professional. Wikipedia's policies and the WMF's Terms of Use have however moved beyond that to requiring more detailed disclosure. As I see every indication that you are a good faith editor and forthright professional I look forward to your more detailed disclosures. If you disagree with or think I have misinterpreted the disclosure requirements please let me know. Jbh^Talk 12:15, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

An example of the use of {{paid}} and would be {{paid|employer=Tony Ahn & Co|Client=Lisa Tenner}} while on the article talk page you, or someone working from your user page disclosures would use {{connected contributor (paid)}} with the same parameters disclosed by you on your user page. Jbh^Talk 12:44, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

All paid edits are for the article subject. I'll add that to my disclosure template. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 17:31, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

re: RS Guidelines

I fully agree that the guidelines need more clarifications. Do ping me when you start any discussion, and I'll be happy to contribute. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:19, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

No More Reviews

Hi, while I'm generally sympathetic to PR practitioners who want to contribute to Wikipedia in a manner that respects rules and guidelines, I'm not going to be able to review any more of your work, at least not for a very long while. My objectivity is being challenged and soon they'll be calling me a meatpuppet or worse, so respectfully, ask other editors. And I recommend you spread it around so they don't end up with the same problem. Rotate your crops, so to speak. Cool? Wilipino (talk) 10:51, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

If you recall, we met because you answered a request for edit tag I put up. I generally go back to people who are willing to review my clients' articles, but okay, all good. I'm Tony Ahn (talk) 14:17, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors September 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors September 2016 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the September 2016 GOCE newsletter. >>> Sign up for the September Drive, already in progress! <<< July Drive: The July drive was a roaring success. We set out to remove April, May, and June 2015 from our backlog (our 149 oldest articles), and by 23 July, we were done with those months. We added July 2015 (66 articles) and copy-edited 37 of those. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from June 2016. Well done! Overall, we recorded copy edits to 240 articles by 20 editors, reducing our total backlog to 13 months and 1,656 articles, the second-lowest month-end total ever. August Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 21 through 27 August; the theme was sports-related articles in honor of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Of the eight editors who signed up, five editors removed 11 articles from the backlog. A quiet blitz – everyone must be on vacation. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdlsk. >>> Sign up for the September Drive! <<<

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Gastric Mind Band (September 19)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by David.moreno72 was:  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 when they have been resolved.

• If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Gastric Mind Band and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
• If you need any assistance, you can ask for help at the Articles for creation help desk or on the reviewer's talk page.
• You can also use Wikipedia's real-time chat help from experienced editors.

David.moreno72 13:10, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Hello! I'm Tony Ahn, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that 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! David.moreno72 13:10, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, I'm Tony Ahn. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News

Guild of Copy Editors December 2016 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the December 2016 GOCE newsletter. We had an October newsletter all set to go, but it looks like we never pushed the button to deliver it, so this one contains a few months of updates. We have been busy and successful! >>> Sign up for the December Blitz! <<< Coordinator elections for the first half of 2017: Nominations are open for election of Coordinators for the first half of 2017. Please visit the election page to nominate yourself or another editor, and then return after December 15 to vote. Thanks for participating! September Drive: The September drive was fruitful. We set out to remove July through October 2015 from our backlog (an ambitious 269 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of oldest articles to just 83. We reduced our overall backlog by 97 articles, even with new copyedit tags being added to articles every day. We also handled 75% of the remaining Requests from August 2016. Overall, 19 editors recorded copy edits to 233 articles (over 378,000 words). October Blitz: this one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 16 through 22 October; the theme was Requests, since the backlog was getting a bit long. Of the 16 editors who signed up, 10 editors completed 29 requests. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all editors who took part. November Drive: The November drive was a record-breaker! We set out to remove September through December 2015 from our backlog (239 articles), and by the end of the month, we had cut that pile of old articles to just 66, eliminating the two oldest months! We reduced our overall backlog by 523 articles, to a new record low of 1,414 articles, even with new tags being added to articles every day, which means we removed copy-editing tags from over 800 articles. We also handled all of the remaining Requests from October 2016. Officially, 14 editors recorded copy edits to 200 articles (over 312,000 words), but over 600 articles, usually quick fixes and short articles, were not recorded on the drive page. Housekeeping note: we do not send a newsletter before every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your Watchlist. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdslk. >>> Sign up for the December Blitz! <<<

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Guild of Copy Editors February 2017 News

Guild of Copy Editors February 2017 News Hello everyone, and welcome to the February 2017 GOCE newsletter. The Guild has been busy since the last time your coordinators sent out a newsletter! >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< December blitz: This one-week copy-editing blitz ran from 11 through 17 December; the themes were Requests and eliminating the November 2015 backlog. Of the 14 editors who signed up, nine editors completed 29 articles. Barnstars and rollover totals are located here. Thanks to all who took part. January drive: The January drive was a great success. We set out to remove December 2015 and January and February 2016 from our backlog (195 articles), and by 22 January we had cleared those and had to add a third month (March 2016). At the end of the month we had almost cleared out that last month as well, for a total of 180 old articles removed from the backlog! We reduced our overall backlog by 337 articles, to a low of 1,465 articles, our second-lowest month-end total ever. We also handled all of the remaining requests from December 2016. Officially, 19 editors recorded 337 copy edits (over 679,000 words). February blitz: The one-week February blitz, focusing on the remaining March 2016 backlog and January 2017 requests, ran from 12 to 18 February. Seven editors reduced the total in those two backlog segments from 32 to 10 articles, leaving us in good shape going in to the March drive. Coordinator elections for the first half of 2017: In December, coordinators for the first half of 2017 were elected. Jonesey95 stepped aside as lead coordinator, remaining as coordinator and allowing Miniapolis to be the lead, and Tdslk and Corinne returned as coordinators. Thanks to all who participated! Speaking of coordinators, congratulations to Jonesey95 on their well-deserved induction into the Guild of Copy Editors Hall of Fame. The plaque reads: "For dedicated service as lead coordinator (2014, 1 July – 31 December 2015 and all of 2016) and coordinator (1 January – 30 June 2015 and 1 January – 30 June 2017); exceptional template-creation work (considerably streamlining project administration), and their emphasis on keeping the GOCE a drama-free zone." Housekeeping note: We do not send a newsletter before every drive or blitz. To have a better chance of knowing when the next event will start, add the GOCE's message box to your watchlist. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators: Miniapolis, Jonesey95, Corinne and Tdslk. >>> Sign up for the March Drive! <<< To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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