User talk:Ravindu Thimantha

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Ravindu Thimantha, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one of your contributions does not conform to Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy (NPOV). Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media.

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August 2016[edit]

Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. Thanks! 220 of ^Borg 05:01, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

June 2020[edit]

Hello Ravindu Thimantha. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Samagi Jana Balawegaya, 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.

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:Ravindu Thimantha. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Ravindu Thimantha|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. Dan arndt (talk) 08:04, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to clarify that I am in no way getting compensated by any organisation for making these edits to Wikipedia. I simply am the creator of the official logo of the political party whose Wikipedia page I edited, and was merely submitting the official logo replacing the unofficial one that was previously on the article. Ravindu Thimantha (talk) 16:10, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]