User talk:BeerAdvocacy

February 2019
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Broth. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Jeb3 Talk at me here  19:12, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Broth, you may be blocked from editing. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:28, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, BeerAdvocacy, and welcome to Wikipedia!&#32;Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article.&#32;Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk 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! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:28, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising, as you did with this edit to Broth. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:33, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Reaching out
Hi there. I need to advise you that you can't just pop stuff you "happen to know for a fact" into an encyclopaedia article. For that reason all your edits to Broth have been reverted, and I'm afraid others have seen your edits as non-constructive. Just ease up on adding uncited content until you have greater experience of how Wikipedia works. I shall add a couple more lines in a moment- but wanted you to see this before you continue and get yourself blocked. Nick Moyes (talk) 19:36, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
 * As promised, I will add that I'd like you to think for a moment how your edits came across: You inserted content related to the beer industry into the opening paragraph (we call it a lead) of a page about a type of soup. Hardly relevant at all. Even if you had added it as a minor footnote, you gave absolutely no evidence to support these statements. That's not OK - we require references, not your opinions. To quote you, "Please do your research before making changes" and by this I mean please take time to learn the ins and outs of how edits are added here, and when it's not OK to do so. You username suggests you are on a bit of a POV campaign to promote beer - maybe you're a keen CAMRA member, but you simply can't use Wikipedia to promote your cause. This is my polite way of reaching out to you, as your requested, but also warning you sternly that you will find yourself getting blocked if you act in this way again. If you need any further help, come and have a chat with us at the Teahouse. We're always keen to help new editors. Regards from the UK, Nick Moyes (talk) 20:00, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Request for discussion
Hi, you've asked me to reach out directly before reverting the edit. I have chosen not to do so, because the change was clearly violating the following policies:


 * Neutral point of view
 * Verifiability

Please also read the information message about the possible conflict of interest above, and please disclose your connection properly. Thank you very much in advance. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:36, 19 February 2019 (UTC)