User talk:Vlachopouloss

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Speedy deletion nomination of User:Vlachopouloss/sandbox

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A tag has been placed on User:Vlachopouloss/sandbox, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations for more information.
It appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, and/or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free Web hosting service. (See section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion.)

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, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 19:16, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (September 21)

Your recent article submission has been rejected and cannot be resubmitted. If you have further questions, you can ask at the Articles for creation help desk or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help. The reasons left by Timtrent were: This topic is not sufficiently notable for inclusion in Wikipedia. This submission is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia.

🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 19:16, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Vlachopouloss! 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! 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 19:16, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest

Hello, Vlachopouloss. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page User:Vlachopouloss/sandbox, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template)—don't forget to give details of reliable sources supporting your suggestions;
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicizing, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 19:23, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

September 2024

Hello Vlachopouloss. 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:Vlachopouloss. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Vlachopouloss|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. 331dot (talk) 19:47, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello 331dot,

I assure you I do not have any financial gain in posting this article. It was merely meant to be part of Thessaloniki's rich business culture. I have no employer, nor will I be compensated. In all honesty it saddens me how prejudiced one is, though I have to show understanding, as many others really did have financial gain in writing articles promoting businesses, but I am not one like them. I hope you take my message into consideration. Vlachopouloss (talk) 19:54, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You claim that you personally created the company logo and personally own the copyright to it. Either that is true, or you improperly uploaded the image and are infringing on the company's copyright. If you did not create the logo, you must immediately request deletion of the logo from Commons. Logos generally cannot be on Commons. It may be possible to upload it to this Wikipedia directly as a fair use image, but you can't have fair use images in drafts, so you would need to have it accepted. 331dot (talk) 19:59, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry I must admit I didn't create the logo myself, but I had the logo custom made for me years ago. There simply wasn't an option like that. I can remove the logo if that's what is needed for me to have my page running. Vlachopouloss (talk) 20:03, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So you are editing about your company? 331dot (talk) 20:04, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well yes but I don't do it for financial reasons, the company is quite successful as it is. I only do it for educational purposes, to let people know about Thessaloniki's business culture. Vlachopouloss (talk) 20:07, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Paid editing does not require specific payment for edits. If you are employed by or own the company, you are absolutely a paid editor and must make the Terms of Use required paid editing disclosure. 331dot (talk) 20:10, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Then how come other companies in my field do the same? Vlachopouloss (talk) 20:11, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Our articles are typically written by independent editors wholly unconnected with the subject. If a company representative is editing without disclosing their status, that violates the Terms of Use.

Wikipedia is not a place for companies to tell about themselves. Our articles summarize what independent reliable sources with significant coverage have chosen on their own to say about the organization (in this case), showing how it meets the special Wikipedia definition of a notable organization. 331dot (talk) 20:19, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I assure you I don't do this for financial gain Vlachopouloss (talk) 20:21, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your employment by or ownership of the company is sufficient to trigger the requirement to disclose. I assume that you don't work for free, or operate the company as a charity in your free time. 331dot (talk) 20:35, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose this does suffice for complete termination of my article. Sorry to have wasted your time. I will consider the article erased. Vlachopouloss (talk) 20:39, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't say you couldn't try again, only that you are required to disclose your relationship with the company. If you don't wish to do that for whatever reason and don't intend to edit again, that's your option. 331dot (talk) 20:47, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the logo, if you were personally assigned the copyright by a contract, and you want to release the logo so it can be used by anyone for any purpose, you need to make that clear on Commons. 331dot (talk) 20:05, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, I own the rights to this image and do not intend for it to be used freely. Vlachopouloss (talk) 20:08, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine, then you need to request its deletion from Commons. 331dot (talk) 20:10, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Alright I'm doing it now Vlachopouloss (talk) 20:13, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I would say that there is a strong probability that your upload in error will be removed from Wikimedia Commons very soon.

With regard to other companies that you have mentioned above, editors will be very happy to look at them carefully with a view to taking action if the articles in any way do not meet our policies. In the same way, were an article to be written on your own company we will compare it with our policies to choose to accept it or decline it.

Once you have made a formal declaration of paid editing you may create one, but it must in no way be promotional and it must show that it passes WP:NCORP 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 20:39, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You will, I think, be pleased that the logo has been deleted now. Timing is the key. Thank you for being so quick and decisive. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 21:04, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

cheers to you friend Vlachopouloss (talk) 21:32, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]