User talk:42isthedefiniteanswer

Welcome to the AMA!

Hello GeorgeTopouria, I see that you have decided to join the AMA. I'll be the first to say welcome! We're always in need of more advocates, especially since were backlogged most of the time. Just a few pointers for what we do. We communicate by putting a template on our talk page. The template is {{AMA alerts}}. The AMA also has it's own IRC channel which reports new cases to us, and also new alerts. If you'd like to jump right into a case, you are free to check out WP:AMARQ, which is our new request for advocacy system. The instructions for how the technical part works is on it's talk page. You can also use the AMA userboxes that appear under here. If you have anymore questions about the organization, just ping any advocates talk page, including our coordinator, Steve Caruso. Again, welcome to the AMA! -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 18:23, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your warm welcome, I've already set up an alert template on my userpage and fully ready for any case assigned to me (I've already posted a message on Steven's talkpage). --GeorgeTopouria 18:35, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Accelerated Christian Education

Hi GeorgeTopouria,

I notice that you have edited Accelerated Christian Education or Talk:Accelerated Christian Education. You may be aware that this article was tagged for clean up in September. I have started a rewrite of this article at Accelerated Christian Education/draft. Please take this opportunity to make improvements to this artlce.

Also note that material about the administration of the ACE curriculum in schools should be included in a new article at School of Tomorrow, not in the Accelerated Christian Education article.

Blarneytherinosaur talk 02:36, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Image:TopMoller2 Geogria.jpg

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Orphaned fair use image (Image:Kakheti Telav2.gif)

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Kako Topouria

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Portal:Atheism

Hello there. I have made a few changes to Portal:Atheism including adding some of the subpages. I will get back to it when time permits (after exams in a few weeks). Alan Liefting 02:51, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image copyright problem with Image:50lari.jpg

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MfD nomination of Portal:Atheism

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Nomination of Parasites Without Borders for deletion

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April 2020

Hello GeorgeTopouria. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Calvin Ross, 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 egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

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Hi Praxidicae!, thank you for the message. Could you clarify if building up a Wikipedia profile by doing free work falls under paid-contribution? I can understand if non-monetary expectations in the future are construed as qualifying as a form of payment in itself. Please advise. I am ready to put up any notice that would demonstrate to that. GeorgeTopouria (talk)

Nomination of Calvin Ross for deletion

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April 2020

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. MER-C 18:22, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Request reason:

Could someone explain in detail what this is about? Not sure how writing an article about a rapper is a bannable offense.

Decline reason:

You will need to explain your relationship with said rapper. – bradv🍁 18:31, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Request reason:

I follow underground hip-hop scene and as I've got nothing useful to do in quarantine, I offered a few artists whose tracks I've been mixing such as 2c's and Ross if they wanted me to make a Wikipedia article for them. I haven't asked for any reimbursement but I may potentially be doing so for future edits if I build a solid Wikipedia profile. It currently stands to a measly 600 edits.

Decline reason:

This appeal does not appropriately address your paid editing or conflict of interest. Wikipedia prohibits covert advertising. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 15:40, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Please read and heed wp:coi and wp:paid. --Deep fried okra User talk:Deepfriedokra 18:45, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like you've done some promotional editing. Please read User:Deepfriedokra/promo for information on how to not edit in a promotional manner. --Deep fried okra User talk:Deepfriedokra 18:49, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator note I'm inclined to remove extended confirmed status for the sake of thoroughness, though I suppose the question is moot. I'll leave it. --Deep fried okra User talk:Deepfriedokra 18:53, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Request reason:

I have never received any form of payment for any of the edits carried out with this account. After reviewing the guidelines on Conflict of Interests, I acknowledge I should have instead initiated a Draft of said articles instead of going directly to publication, and with further review I also acknowledge having inadvertently cited two obscure references. I should have known better in that regard. My intentions, as noted above, were to build up a Wikipedia profile and kill time while at home. I understand now both paid editing and conflict of interest and will follow those rules meticulously.

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