User talk:MADSimd1

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Hello, MADSimd1, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see:

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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Ravensfire (talk) 07:25, 9 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

December 2019[edit]

Hello, I'm Ravensfire. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Sharad Kumar (athlete) 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. Wikipedia is not the right place to try and promote your site. If you continue to spam links to the site, it may be put on the spam black list which WILL stop your promotional edits. Just stop. Ravensfire (talk) 07:52, 9 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello MADSimd1. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, such as the edit you made to Uttam Kumar (artist), 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.

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, and if it does not, 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:MADSimd1. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=MADSimd1|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. Given that all of your edits are promoting the same website, it's obvious you're either being paid to promote the site or you work for site. Aside from the patently obvious conflict of interest, that's in violation of the paid editing restrictions that are part of the Wikipedia Terms of Use. You MUST make the required declarations and really need to stop spamming the site. If it continues, the spam black list can be used to prevent further spamming. Ravensfire (talk) 19:48, 20 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]