User talk:Allan McNabb

February 2016
Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. I have deleted the User page that you created, for this reason. —S MALL  JIM   17:52, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

July 2020
Hello Allan McNabb. 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 serious 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. 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:Allan McNabb. 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. Kuru  (talk)  13:30, 21 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for reaching out and for your work with Wikipedia. I created my user page with the relative information you suggested, so please let me know if you think I should add anything else. I am not compensated for the edits I made on the Email Marketing page. User:Allan McNabb

Final warning
I thought I was clear, but it looks like we're going to play the boundary probing game. Do not put links to your site or promote yourself anywhere on Wikipedia. You can contribute if you'd like - just like any of the other thousands of volunteers - but this is not a marketing vehicle for your SEO business. You will need to use reliable, independent sources - not a pitch page. I'm not sure how I can be any more clear. Stop. Kuru  (talk)  00:54, 26 July 2020 (UTC)