User talk:Ashleyashville

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:Thank you. I’ll check. I am new here and I apologise Ashleyashville (talk) 08:24, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

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331dot (talk) 23:08, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

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File:Information.svg Hello Ashleyashville. 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:Ashleyashville. The template {{tl|Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{tlc|paid|2=user=Ashleyashville|3=employer=InsertName|4=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) 11:56, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

:Greetings. Thanks for your message. On the Talk page of the draft. I did disclose that, Matthew Lani is under a PR management company which manages his image. So I am not use if the COI disclosure was posted in correctly. I’ll await your response Ashleyashville (talk) 12:02, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

::If you are Mr. Lani's PR representative, you are required by the Terms of Use to make the paid editing disclosure(per the instructions I provided above). You should do this on your user page(User:Ashleyashville). 331dot (talk) 12:09, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

:::Oh I truly do apologise. I think doing it on the talk page of the article was right. Can I do that now? Or it’s too late. Maybe I’m barred from continuing. I’ll await your response Ashleyashville (talk) 12:11, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

::::It is okay to do it on the draft talk page, but you should do it on your user page too, as that's more visible. You may continue editing the draft once you have done so. 331dot (talk) 12:15, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

:::::Thank you. I’ve done so on my user page. Thank you so much. Truly appreciated. This is my first time using Wikipedia.

:::::now sure if this is appropriate. Are you able to view my draft and give me tips. I’ve used the live help feature and got a few pointers which I’ve fixed.

:::::the draft was declined previously Ashleyashville (talk) 12:22, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

::::::You should remove any and all references to a lack of a public birthdate; articles do not state what information they lack unless independent sources extensively talk about missing information as a point of information. You need sources for the information in "Early life"; if these are things Mr. Lani has told you, that isn't acceptable as we can't verify those points.

::::::I would also suggest that the information about public accusations against him not be in the lead, they seem to form a very small portion of his life, and mere accusations shouldn't generally be given prominence. 331dot (talk) 12:27, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

:::::::okay thank you so much. And as for early life. They isn’t really information about his early life in the public domain. Only things he said on podcast. Of which podcast isn’t reliable enough as I was told. So how do I go about that part. The rest I understand Ashleyashville (talk) 12:31, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

::::::::Wikipedia articles exist to summarize what independent reliable sources say about the topic. If information about his early life isn't available in such sources, it can't be in an article about him. I assume he has told you this information- we cannot accept your personal word about something no matter how accurate it may be, because we cannot independently verify your personal word. Wikipedia is not the first place to write something- it's the last, it should only summarize what others have already said.

::::::::I certainly don't blame him for not wanting his date of birth to be public, but in that case, nothing should be said about it at all. 331dot (talk) 12:42, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

:::::::::I understand now better. So I’ll remove the early life part and once source are available in future then I’ll add it with citation. Thank you so much. You explain things so

:::::::::incredibly well. Ashleyashville (talk) 12:44, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

::::::::::Other than that. Is everything else ok? Ashleyashville (talk) 12:44, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

:::::::::::I'll let a reviewer speak to it once they review it- but I will say that awards(like the 702 South Africans Doing Great Things AVAC Young Leaders Award) do not contribute to notability unless the award itself merits an article(like Nobel Peace Prize or Academy Award). 331dot (talk) 12:47, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

::::::::::::Oh I see thank you so so much Ashleyashville (talk) 12:50, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

::::::::::::Hello. Sorry to message you. I just need quick age. Could you please check the citation I used for age and advice if it’s sufficient. Draft:Matthew Lani Ashleyashville (talk) 16:03, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

:::::::::::::I'm not clear on which reference you want me to look at. 331dot (talk) 17:48, 23 April 2025 (UTC)

::::::::::::::Greetings. I decided to remove it. Because the citation only said he was 27 which isn’t enough. But thank you so much for your response 197.184.81.149 (talk) 17:49, 23 April 2025 (UTC)