User talk:APBrantley

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Hello, APBrantley, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! PleaseStand (talk) 23:42, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
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May 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to File:Clifford Ray.jpg, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot.
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 * The following is the log entry regarding this warning: File:Clifford Ray.jpg was changed by APBrantley (u) (t) blanking the page on 2010-05-30T23:34:03+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 23:34, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * If you want to upload a picture, you can go to Files for upload to get help. PleaseStand (talk) 23:42, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

January 2020
Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Redford High School. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. John from Idegon (talk) 08:28, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

Hello APBrantley. 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:APBrantley. 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.

As the promotional material referenced above was about a person with a name bizarrely like your username, and that stated this person (you?) is an agent, we have to ask what of the people you've edited about are clients? John from Idegon (talk) 08:33, 16 January 2020 (UTC) John from Idegon (talk) 08:33, 16 January 2020 (UTC)