User talk:BenComms

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Thank you. Alexf(talk) 19:32, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

April 2023
Hello BlaineMN. The nature of your edits, such as the one you made to Blaine, Minnesota, 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:BlaineMN. 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. Magnolia677 (talk) 21:59, 20 April 2023 (UTC)


 * I am an employee of the City. A government agency employee. I’m 2601:442:4680:60C0:1DDA:931C:6867:1C8E (talk) 22:29, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Please note that "you are strongly discouraged from editing affected articles directly", per WP:COI. --Magnolia677 (talk) 10:38, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Well the page had the wrong city councilmembers listed. The wrong population listed. The wrong top employers listed. Lots of bad information that needed to be updated. 199.249.109.219 (talk) 14:30, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
 * If you are this user, remember to log in before posting. As noted, you shouldn't make edits directly, but you may propose edit requests(click for instructions) on the article talk page. 331dot (talk) 15:54, 21 April 2023 (UTC)