User talk:2600:4808:2B73:5C01:F407:5D8A:D837:15AA

July 2024
Hello, I'm LakesideMiners. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Yorktel 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. Thank you.  LakesideMiners Come Talk To Me! 16:13, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Yorktel. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. AntiDionysius ( talk ) 16:27, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello 2600:4808:2B73:5C01:F407:5D8A:D837:15AA. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Yorktel, 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 employed (or being compensated in any way) by a person, group, company or organization to promote their interests. Paid advocacy on Wikipedia must be disclosed even if you have not specifically been asked to edit Wikipedia. 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 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 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:2600:4808:2B73:5C01:F407:5D8A:D837:15AA. 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. AntiDionysius ( talk ) 16:27, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Yorktel, you may be blocked from editing. AntiDionysius ( talk ) 16:50, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by inserting commentary or your personal analysis into an article, as you did at Yorktel. Frost (talk) 17:47, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

This is your only warning; if you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising again, as you did at Yorktel, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. LR.127 (talk) 17:55, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

 You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for advertising or self-promoting in violation of the conflict of interest and notability guidelines. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page:. PhilKnight (talk) 18:01, 19 July 2024 (UTC)