User talk:Cthowell

April 2020

Hello, Cthowell. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Space and Missile Systems Center, 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 organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{request edit}} template);
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 WP:Spam);
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, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Garuda28 (talk) 04:23, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

April 2020

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Space and Missile Systems Center. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Points to note:

Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. Garuda28 (talk) 04:13, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. Thank you. Garuda28 (talk) 18:20, 12 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

April 2021

Hello Cthowell. 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:Cthowell. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Cthowell|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. --- Possibly (talk) 18:45, 12 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Undisclosed paid editing (2nd notice)

As previously advised, your edits, such as the edit you made to Space and Missile Systems Center, give the impression you have a financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. You were asked to cease editing until you responded by either stating that you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits, or by complying with the mandatory requirements under the Wikimedia Terms of Use that you disclose your employer, client and affiliation. Again, you can post such a disclosure on your user page at User:Cthowell, and the template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Cthowell|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. Please respond before making any other edits to Wikipedia. --Drm310 🍁 (talk) 20:56, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

PS: Mandatory disclosure requirements mean that if you do not disclose, you won't be able to edit anymore as your account will be technically blocked form doing so. So it is in your interest and the interest of Wikipedia's neutrality that you disclose any payments for editing or any conflicts of interest.--- Possibly (talk) 21:30, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

New message from Drm310

Hello, Cthowell. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Help desk.
Message added 15:01, 18 April 2021 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:01, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Signing your posts

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Thank you. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 15:02, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]