User talk:Stingerd

February 2020

Hello Stingerd. 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 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:Stingerd. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=Stingerd|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. Vexations (talk) 14:34, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I appreciate your concern for the Wiki community, but I do not have an affiliation with the pages I edit. :) Stingerd (talk) 14:13, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Richard F. Chambers (April 28)

Your recent article submission has been rejected. If you have further questions, you can ask at the Articles for creation help desk or use Wikipedia's real-time chat help. The reason left by Etzedek24 was: This topic is not sufficiently notable for inclusion in Wikipedia. The comment the reviewer left was: This has been declined routinely for over a year now. Big SPA/sock red flags here, and the issues do not appear to have been fixed. I don't see how this could work.

Etzedek24 ^{(I'll talk at ya) (Check my track record)} 03:29, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

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. The thread is Potential UPE farm(s). Thank you. — Blablubbs ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:07, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

Blocked as a sockpuppet

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts as a sockpuppet of User:Yoodaba per the evidence presented at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Yoodaba. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  GeneralNotability (talk) 14:26, 8 September 2020 (UTC)