User talk:Horror99fan

Use only one account

Looking through your posts at the Teahouse and other contributions it seems fairly clear that this account and Bluejay1984 are operated by the same person (or at the very least in a coordinated fashion). Per this policy you should not do it; you should disclose the relationship between accounts on their user pages and use only one of them going forward. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 07:49, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

September 2020

Hello Horror99fan. 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 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:Horror99fan. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Horror99fan|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. Template:Z159 331dot (talk) 09:11, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Response

Hi there. Yes, you are mistaken. I am not paid by anyone or being directly or indirectly compensated for my editing. I am not a professional editor. This was my favorite movie this year and I wanted to write a Wikipedia article about it. I followed the rules for this so I'm not sure why I'm being penalized. Is there a moderator that I can speak with? Bluejay1984 (talk) 14:22, 1 September 2020 (UTC)Horror99fan (talk) 12:49, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]