User talk:173.79.61.143

April 2021[edit]

Hello, I'm Magnolia677. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 22:25, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits referred to above, consider creating an account for yourself or logging in with an existing account so that you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

Hello 173.79.61.143. 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:173.79.61.143. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=173.79.61.143|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. Magnolia677 (talk) 09:43, 30 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits referred to above, consider creating an account for yourself or logging in with an existing account so that you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

I made the disclosure through the user jpljr77 (which also includes this IP address). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jpljr77

Why did you disclose there? Magnolia677 (talk) 19:36, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Because I had to log in to make a change to the User:173.79.61.143 page. I used that existing account to login and make the disclosure. But if the edits appear under the jpljr77 account (which includes the IP address), isn't that proper disclosure?

Paid affiliations[edit]

I am an employee of NAHB.

Please follow the instructions above if you wish to edit the article. Thank you. Magnolia677 (talk) 18:12, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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