User talk:102.182.166.30

January 2019
Hello 102.182.166.30. 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:102.182.166.30. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. 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. David Gerard (talk) 07:57, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits, consider creating an account for yourself or logging in with an existing account so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.


 * You are mistaken I am not being compensated in any way to edit wikipedia but do so completely voluntarily of my own free will in my own free time without any instructions orders or request to do so. Perhaps you should rather engage properly in the deletion discussion instead of attacking the messenger (102.182.166.30 (talk) 11:55, 23 January 2019 (UTC))


 * Just to clarify, this compensation could be both direct or indirect. By confirming you are not compensated in any way, you are asserting that you do not own any of the Gulden cryptocurrency, as well do not have anything to gain from the products, services or team affiliated with the cryptocurrency. If this is the case I think the COI inquiry can be closed, but I just want to clarify in case David Gerard's message was unclear. Dr-Bracket (talk) 21:18, 28 January 2019 (UTC)


 * yep. It's important to note that holding a crypto is expressly in the COI guidelines - David Gerard (talk) 23:13, 28 January 2019 (UTC)