User talk:2601:346:D81:3400:F15C:93DA:7709:C6AD

April 2023
Hello, I'm MrOllie. I noticed that you recently removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. MrOllie (talk) 15:34, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello 2601:346:D81:3400:F15C:93DA:7709:C6AD. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Paul G. Kirk, 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 serious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat search-engine optimization.

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:2601:346:D81:3400:F15C:93DA:7709:C6AD. 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. MrOllie (talk) 15:58, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, you may be blocked from editing. MrOllie (talk) 16:16, 13 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you.
 * My edits are solely related to updates of relevant info. pertaining to my personal biography and are in no way related to "Paid advocacy". I find it difficult to interpret how my edits might infer direct or indirect compensation; nothing could be more inaccurate.
 * I am simply seeking a more current update of the relevant facts and dates of my own life and career.
 * Thank you in advance for your understanding.
 * Paul Kirk
 * 4/13/2023 2601:346:D81:3400:F15C:93DA:7709:C6AD (talk) 17:04, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Please have a look at WP:COI. This isn't social media - you don't control your personal biography. You shouldn't be editing it all, and you especially should not be removing things from it, particularly not instances when you have been criticized. You can make suggestions on the article's associated talk page instead. Please cite sources when you do so - I'm sure you know a lot about your own life, but our readers need to be able to verify everything independently, and we can't have them calling you all the time to double check. MrOllie (talk) 17:12, 13 April 2023 (UTC)